Cindy is my friend. She likes sports very much. She runs (跑步) every morning. Cindy is healthy and she eats well.

For breakfast, she likes eggs, bananas and milk. For lunch, she has chicken, tomatoes and vegetables. She likes fish, salad and carrots for dinner. She eats oranges, pears and apples, too. 水果和蔬菜是健康食品。She doesn't like ice-cream. And she doesn't eat hamburgers or French fries (薯条). They are not healthy food.

    Mr Green is our foreign(外国的)teacher. He is a good teacher. He likes to teach us a lot, and he is nice to every student. His lessons are very interesting. We usually have fun in his classes. We all like him.

    He is a tall and strong man. He says he is 40 years old. But he looks very young. He comes from the USA. Now he lives in Nanjing with his family. He has a daughter. She is a pretty girl. And she studies at our school too.

    Mr Green is very"in". He can sing many English songs. We all like to listen to him singing. He also likes sports. He is in the school basketball team. Mr Green likes reading. He has lots of books. We often borrow books from him.

I think we are lucky(幸运的)to have a teacher like Mr Green.

    Death Valley is a huge place. It is more than 225 kilometers across the southern part of the state of California, and across the border (边界) with the state of Nevada.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It can be dangerously cold during the winter months. The air temperature during the summer can be as high as 57℃. The heat of Death Valley has killed people in the past. It will continue to kill those who do not honor the climate. Death Valley does not forgive (原谅) those who are not careful.

    Death Valley was named by a woman in 1849. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Thousands of people from other parts of the country traveled to the gold mining (开采) areas in California. They were in a hurry to get there before other people did.

    Many people were not careful. They made bad choices or wrong decisions. One group of people had reached Death Valley by December. They avoided the terrible heat of summer, but there was not enough water. There were few plants for their work animals to eat. The people could not find a pass through the tall mountains to the west of the valley. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} They had to kill their work animals for food and began to walk out of the valley.

    As they left, one woman looked back and said, “Good-bye, death valley.” {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

A. Slowly, they ran out of food.

B. Death Valley has a long history.

C. The name has never been changed.

D. Death Valley is a beautiful but dangerous place.

E. That was the year after gold was discovered in California.

( B )

    The English language is different from any other language. Yet English words do not stay the same. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} We need new words for inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use, or older words are used in a new way.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Tomato was borrowed from Mexico. The word coffee came from Turkey, and tea came from China. Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries, too.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  Strawberry, popcorn, and grandfather are words made up of two parts.

Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. The word photo was made from photograph by cutting off the end of the longer word. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Smog was made by swing only the first two letters from the words smoke and fog.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Our sandwich was named after a man named Sandwich. Scotch Tape, Band-aid, and Jell were names made up by the companies that first made the products.

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    Lily is from New York, the U.S.A. She is twelve. She is in Shanghai NO.3 Junior High School. She is in Class Eight, Grade One. Her phone number is 66786019. Dongdong is from Kunming. His English name is Tom. He is eleven .He is in Class Seven, Grade One. His telephone number is 24524233. They are not in the same class. They are good friends.