Sarah is thirteen years old. She comes from Manchester in the UK; but now she is living in Geneva in Switzerland. Her father works for the UN and because of that she and her parents have to move a lot.

    Sarah has lived in five different countries: the US, Morocco, Turkey, Switzerland and the UK. But she doesn't remember the UK very well, because they moved to the US when she was only two years old. Still, she visits it often during vacation. She usually stays at her grandparents' house in Manchester. She likes visiting her grandparents, because they often take her to the Peak District National Park. It is very beautiful. Sometimes she stays with her uncle in the little town of Penzance in Cornwall. Sarah likes Penzance, too, but it's often very cold and windy. Penzance is very different from Geneva. In Geneva it is much warmer (更暖和的) in summer, but. also colder  in winter.

    Sarah likes going to new places. But every time she moves, she has to leave behind her old friends. She always needs to make new friends, and then leave them again. Luckily, they can write e-mails to tell each other about their lives.

While being abroad, I have tried to collect small things, and I have been taking lots of photos. I have my {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(自己的) map and I have circled all of my favourite restaurants, cafes, parks and other places on it. I have even coloured it to show whether it's {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(可能的) for me to have free Wi-Fi or lunch at these places. I plan to make a scrapbook {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(用……) all these things.

"Scrapbook" is an empty book. People usually take it away with them on holiday, and fill it with "scraps" of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(邮票),tickets, maps, photos, etc. You will always have the memories (记忆) of your favourite places and why you liked them so much. So it is really {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(有价值的) to have it. If you ever want to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(返回) to that place, you can get some information from it. My scrapbook started in last {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(9 月).And now, eight months later, it is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(几乎;差不多) full!

You can't {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(想象;设想) how happy you can be by just looking at an old ticket with a special {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(日期) on, or a napkin from your favourite restaurant. It's the little things that can make you smile.

Once upon a time, there was a man who kept several sheep. One morning, the man found that one of his sheep was missing. It turned out that, during the night, a wolf stole his sheep through a hole in the sheep pen (羊圈).

His neighbor suggested to him, "You should mend the hole right away." But the man said, "The sheep is already lost. So I don't need to mend it."

The next morning, he found that another sheep was missing, too. Once again, the wolf stole the sheep through the same hole. The man regretted not taking the neighbor's advice.

So he mended the hole at once.

From then on, no more sheep was stolen by the wolf. It is never too late to mend.

There are two thousand and two hundred students at Yuying Middle School. Every day they go to school in {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ways. Some students {#blank#}2{#/blank#} far from the school. Every morning they need about an{#blank#}3{#/blank#} to get to school, so they must take buses. Some students live {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the school. They often{#blank#}5{#/blank#} to school. They think walking is good for {#blank#}6{#/blank#} health. About one hundred students ride their bikes to school because they like {#blank#}7{#/blank#}bikes very much and their homes are not very far from the school. No one goes to school {#blank#}8{#/blank#} car, because it will waste parents' time. How about the teachers? Well, some teachers always drive to school {#blank#}9{#/blank#} they live about ten kilometers from school. Some teachers live near the school, so they just get to school on{#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by a German professor, Wilhelm Roentgen. People all over the world were amazed by his invention, the X-ray machine. This invention was so important that Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.

The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a doctor and speech teacher. The first phone call was made by Bell in 

1876. He got acid (酸) on his pants by accident and wanted his partner, Thomas Watson, to help him. The first words spoken on the telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here! I need you!"

Television was invented in 1926 by John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor. Baird's television certainly didn't look like a television today! Electronic televisions like the ones we have today were invented by Vladimir Zworykin in the 1920s in the United States.

The first computer was built in 1946 by two American engineers, J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly. It was developed for the army, and it was so large that it took up a whole room! Later, in 1971, the "microchip" was invented, and small home computers were first produced for personal use. Today computers are used in almost everything we do and are found almost everywhere we go.