My name is Peter. I'm from New York and I am in Qingdao with my parents and my sister Lily now. My sister is eleven and I am twelve. We are in the same school. We go to school from Monday to Friday. Our parents are busy working and they don't have time to drive us to school. So we often go to school by bus. Sometimes we also ride a bike to school. We have four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. My favorite subject is math. Science is my sister's favorite.

    I like sports. I like playing soccer and basketball very much. But I don't have much time to play them on weekdays. I help my sister with her math on Mondays, go shopping with my mother on Wednesdays, and practice Chinese on Friday afternoons. My Chinese friends help me with my Chinese. But on Saturdays and Sundays I can play sports, watch TV and surf the Internet.

Mr King is a very old man. He likes1dumplingsvery much. Every 2, he goes to a Chinese restaurant nearhis home and eats dumplings for 3. Ann is a waitress in the 4.She often talks with the5man when he is there. The old man likes6withpeople and soon they become good 7. Every time after Mr King 8hisdinner, he always puts some coins on the table. The9 is for Ann. It's her tip(小费).

This Sunday, Mr King asked Ann, "Do you10some coins or half of my lottery prize (乐透奖) as a tip?" Annthought that he was making fun of 11, so she laughed and said, "Halfof 12prize. "

The next day, Mr King won the lottery and 13six million dollars. Then he went to the restaurant14and gave Ann the15—half of his lottery prize!

What are some of the difficulties of being blind? Two hundred years ago, a little boy was born in France. He was Louis Braille, a happy and lovely baby.

Sadly, when he was three, something bad happened. While playing in his father's shop, Louis hurt his eyes on a sharp thing. Although he got the best care at that time, he was still completely blind and could not see all the lovely colours and beautiful things around him.

Louis was a kind boy. As he grew older, he wanted to help other blind people read. However, it was really hard for him. The first way he tried was to poke (戳) holes in paper and read by touching raised (凸起的) letters with his fingers. But it was too slow to read the letters and few blind people could do it well. After that, he tried many other ways.

One day, Louis heard about someone using dots to represent (代表) sounds. He immediately found its advantages and he spent three years improving upon this idea. Finally, he made a special alphabet and blind people could feel it with their fingers. Each letter was made with a number of dots and people could feel them by their fingers.

The alphabet that Louis made is called 'Braille'. Today many blind people use 'Braille' to help them to read. This is how the Braille Alphabet looks:

It is good to give friends or parents something on their birthdays. It is Bob's mother's birthday today. Bob wants to give his mother something surprising, but he doesn't have much money, "I know what I'll do," says Bob. "I'll give her something different." At last, he gives his mother a piece of article (文章) in China Daily. When his mother sees his name "Bob Smith", she smiles. Bob writes an article about his loving mother, and it comes out in China Daily! His mother says it is the best present she has received in her life.

A beautiful woman entered the plane and looked around in search of her seat. She found her seat next to a man who had no hands. She called an air hostess(女乘务员) and said unhappily, "I won't be able to travel comfortably in this seat. I want to change my seat."

The air hostess was shocked to hear this from a woman who appeared to be beautiful. She looked around for vacant seats but didn't find any. She told the woman, "There's no vacant seat in this economy class(经济舱), but it's our responsibility(责任) to take care of our passengers. I' ll go to discuss this with our leader. Please wait for a while."

 After some time, the air hostess came back to the woman and said, "I'm very sorry for the trouble caused for you. On this plane, only one seat is vacant and it's in the business class. I discussed it with the leader and we have made a great decision—a person from this economy class will be allowed to travel in the business class."

 The woman was very excited. But before she could say something, the air hostess moved towards the man and asked him, "Sir, will you please go to the business class? We don't want you to feel uncomfortable traveling with an impolite passenger." Hearing this some passengers welcomed this decision by clapping(鼓掌).

"What a shame!" The woman thought to herself.