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Many years ago, when I was 5 years old, my mother grew some plants on the balcony (阳台). As ________ came, some flowers came out. I enjoyed looking at them very much. They were so ________. But they didn’t give out any sweet smells (气味). How can I ________ them to smell as good as they look? After ________ about the problem for a few days, I had a good idea.

One day, when my parents were not at home, I picked a bottle of perfume (香水) from my mother’s dressing table. Then I ________ the bottle cap and poured (倾倒) some perfume onto the plants. I was very ________ that I helped to make my lovely flowers become better. But to my surprise (惊讶), a few days later, I noticed the flowers fell (凋落), before summer arrived, the plants lost their lives. I cried and I knew I did something wrong.

Later, my mother told me the ________. She said the perfume was really bad for plants. Some beautiful flowers have no smells at all. We can’t change it as we like. Everything in life follows the ways of nature (自然). We must not put our ideas into ________ before we learn about the ways of nature.

What a lesson!

Do you have a special name? What is your best friend’s name? What do you think of it.? Who gives him or her that name?

Most of the time, our parents give us the name. Sometimes, parents can spend several months looking for the best name for their baby. Some ask their friends and family members for a good idea. Others keep the name a secret, because they are afraid that the name may become “too popular”. That is to say, they don’t want their child to be one of too many in their class.

In the past, people would choose a “good old name” just because many other people chose it. But today, it is not the same. People want their children to be called something different. The reason is that when the name becomes common (普通的), people might think the person will be common, too.

We can all think of names which let us think of a beautiful girl, a lovely boy, a soldier, or a hero. We think so because of our parents or our past experiences. If you have a bad experience with someone, you will think that other person with the same name is also bad. It is true that we usually think the same of people with the same name. It is also true for famous people and people from TV shows. You may think that a boy with the same name of a famous singer is also nice and handsome.

All in all, a name sometimes can decide (决定) how people think of us. Sometimes it may decide how we live our life. Our names are in some way very important in our life. But we should know that we shouldn’t judge (评判) others by names.

根据短文内容回答问题。     

Mobile Homes

What is a mobile home? A mobile home is a new kind of house that can move easily, such as a room that trucks can pull. Often, driving along, you can see some mobile homes high on the hill.

Some stand under trees along a river or a lake. They’re wonderful homes. Sometimes they’re about 40 feet long, with two to five rooms, and you can find many things you need in them. When you park your mobile home and connect water, electricity power and telephones, you can enjoy yourselves in it.

These homes can be moved. However, sometimes their owners stay for years in one place, plant gardens, build walls and so on. Mobile homes are quite expensive. They usually cost 20,000 dollars. Why does a family choose to live in such a home? Well, it’s comfortable, easy to keep warm and there is no need to paint. What’s more, the fast increase (增长) of mobile homes in numbers has something to do with the job uncertainty (不确定性). Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. If a factory closes down, you will be very worried about the house you can’t sell. However, if you have a mobile home, you can move easily.

The greatest selling attraction (吸引) of these mobile homes is that they can be improved every year. If you are doing well, you may change a new mobile room just as you do with a car. There is a ready market for used ones, so the price of mobile homes is higher than that of cars.

Of course, there are some disadvantages (缺点) of mobile homes. The biggest one is that they will be cheaper and cheaper. If you have used your mobile home for many years, it will be very difficult to sell. Do you want to buy one mobile home?

根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于40字的文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

假如你是李华。最近和美国朋友Peter谈论各自的暑假计划，请你用英文给他写一封电子邮件，介绍你暑假将要去哪儿？怎样去？你打算在那儿做什么？

I’m glad to tell you about my summer holiday plan.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What about your summer holiday plan? I’m looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

文学经典多指具有极高的美学价值，并在漫长的历史中经受考验而获得公认地位的伟大文本。为激励同学们阅读经典，你校英语报社以“Reading classics”为话题发起征文，请结合你的阅读经历，分享你对阅读经典的感悟，并针对“读经典”给出相应的建议，以供他人借鉴学习。

As Francis Bacon said, “Reading makes a full man.” Reading classics is especially meaningful to us teenagers. ________________________________________________________________

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