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    Mr. and Mrs. Smith got married when he was twenty-three，and she was twenty．Twenty-five years later，they had a big party，and a photographer(摄影师) came and took some photos for them．Then the photographer gave Mrs. Smith a card and said，"They'll be ready next Wednesday．You can get them from my room．"

    "No，"Mrs. Smith said，"Please send them to us．"

    The photos arrived a week later，but Mrs. Smith was not pleased when she saw them．She got into her car and drove to the photographer's room．She went inside and said angrily，"You took some photos of me and my husband last week，but I'm not going to pay for them．"

    "Oh，why not ?"the photographer asked．

    "Because my husband looks like a monkey．"Mrs. Smith said．

    "Well，"the photographer answered，"That isn't my fault(过错)．Why didn't you think that before you married him?''

    Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wang work in the same office. They're good friends.Mr. Zhang says to Mr. Wang in the office,“I would like to have a small party in my home on Sunday evening. Would you and your wife like to come?”

    Mr. Wang says,“Thanks a lot. I'd like to. Let me tell my wife about it.”So Mr. Wang goes to the other office and calls his wife. About half an hour later, he comes back and looks very worried.

    “What's up?” asks Mr. Zhang,“Is your wife at home?”

    “No,” says Mr. Wang.“She isn't at home now , but my little daughter is in .My little daughter says her mother goes out to look for her.”

    Being able to go to a perfect university is what every high school student dreams of. However, for Jin Chengkuang, a high school senior at Shenzhen Experimental Chenghan School, his long-standing dream has been to be a film director. He has received offers from four top art schools in the United States, which means he is already on the way of making his filming dream come true.

    Although Jin is only 18 years old, he has had some experience of filming. During his three years in high school, Jin produced four more short films besides Choose and Out of Control, which were more successful.

    According to Jin, he shot Choose with an Argentinian student when he was at a summer school programme in New York. It was a short film about freedom. The film was produced in a classroom with only a fish tank as the main prop (道具). To express the opposite of freedom, the tank was empty in the beginning, but suddenly, a fish appeared and swam freely in the tank. In the end, the fish disappeared, leaving us an open ending. It took Jin and his partner one month to finish the six-minute short film.

    As a beginner, Jin has been quite lucky so far. Last winter, he got a chance to join the well-known film director Chen Kaige when they travelled to Northern China to film I Legend of the Demon Cat.

    Jin said, "A great firm takes everyone's efforts. Although the conditions were pretty poor, it was all worth it because I learned a lot."

    Mary is an American girl. She is now in Beijing with her parents. Mary doesn't know much Chinese, but she is studying it. She often speaks Chinese with her Chinese friends. Sometimes they can't understand her, because she can't speak Chinese very well.

    It's Saturday morning. She goes out. She is walking in the street. She wants to go to the zoo to see the elephants and monkeys, but she doesn't know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy the way. The boy can't understand her. Then she takes out a pen and a piece of paper. She draws an elephant on it, and shows the picture to the boy. The boy understands, and shows her the way to the zoo.

    Tom was a fat boy when he was ten. He liked watching TV very much. He watched TV at least 5 hours every day. Wherever(无论哪里) he went, he would be late.

    One day, he found a pair of special glasses in his post-box(邮箱). He also found a message saying, "With these you can see time."

    The boy decided to have a try. He put the glasses on, looked at his brother, a tall and thin boy, and saw a big box of flowers on top of his head. And it wasn't just his brother. When he looked at his parents, he also saw the flowers. The three boxes were very large and the flowers were very beautiful. Then, he looked at himself from the mirror. He saw the flowers, too. But his flowers went to the mouth of the television. Its mouth was big. His flowers became fewer and fewer.

    At last, he learned that watching TV was a waste of time. He could learn nothing from it. He decided he would never again let the television eat his time.