学进去

Mr. Smith goes to a dinner party. He is wearing old clothes. He comes into the room, but people in the room don’t look at him. Mr. Smith goes home and puts on his good clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles at him. They give him very good food to eat. He said, “You give me very good food. Now I see that you give the food for my clothes, not for me.”

Look! There's a school _____ the centre of our community. It's my school. On the _____ of the school is a bookshop. On the left of the school is a big _____ centre. There's a _____ and a supermarket in it. I often go there on weekends to go shopping and see a film. I like my community. It's a _____, clean and nice place.

In the Spring and Autumn period, a man from State Chu once got an unusual pearl from a big river. He decided to sell it.

The man thought, "I will sell the pearl for more money if it has a good-looking box. So he made a wooden box at home and decorated it with precious stones and beautiful feathers. Then he put the pearl into the box and went to the market.

The beautiful box attracted a man from State Zheng. He liked the box and decided to buy it. He took out the pearl and gave it back to the man from State Chu.

“I will take the box only. The pearl is useless to me. You can keep it for yourself, “ the man from State Zheng said. He paid for the box and went away happily.

The man from State Chu could not understand this. He wondered, the man paid so much only for the box. Why didn't he take the pearl?

Some people may choose in a wrong way because they can’t make a good judgement (判断).

本单元我们继续学习如何使用一般过去时态来描述发生过的事情。重点来描述去过哪里，做了些什么以及用何种交通工具去的。下面我们就来使用一般过去时态来描述自己的一次旅行吧。

   Green is an important colour. But “green” is more than just a colour. It is the colour of grass and leaves. It is also the colour of most growing plants (植物).

Sometimes, the word “green” means young and growing. It is something that is not ripe (成熟). If a cow has no horn (触角), it is green. If you come to a new job, you are a green hand, too.

Sometimes, the word “green” means good. If you can grow plants well, we say you are a green thumb (拇指). It means you may have a magic way to make plants grow quickly and well.

Green is also the word to say about one feeling (感情), jealousy. You are good at English, but your friend Jack is not. If Jack is always not happy with you, just because he can't be as good as you (和你一样好), then Jack may be green.

Green has another wonderful meaning. If you often take a bus to go out, but not take a car, we say you are going green. Because you love the world in a better way.