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Hello! My name is Ben and I’m seven years old. (1) 我有一个幸福的大家庭。My mother’s name is Judy and she comes from Canada. My father is from America. You can call him Bob. I have a brother, too. His name is Tim and he is only four years old. And now, my family live in Shandong.

(2) 我的家人有健康的饮食习惯。My father likes eating chicken and fruit. But my mother loves vegetables like potatoes and carrots very much. What about my brother and me? Well, (3) apples and milk are our favorites.

My family have the same hobby. (4) We all like playing sports. There are two tennis bats, four tennis balls, three basketball and a soccer ball at my home. (5) 在星期六，我们的父母总是和我们一起打网球。 We can get much fun from it. We have dinner at six every evening. After that, we like to watch sports games on TV.

Susan is a nice girl. She has three dollars. She wants 1． (buy) a gift for her father. Because today is her 2． (father) thirtieth birthday. She comes to a big store and goes up to the 3． (three) floor (楼层). She looks at all the 4． (thing) in the store and thinks, “I can buy my father some clothes. He must like 5． (they).”

“Can I help you, little girl?” says the shopkeeper (店主), Mr. King. “Yes,” says Susan, “but Ⅰ 6． (not know) what to buy.” Mr. King shows her a nice shirt and says, “What about this one?”

“Thank you. But my father 7． (not like) blue. And I have only three dollars.” says Susan. Then she sees a beautiful brown tie (领带). She knows her father likes it because it’s 8． (use) for him. She 9． (real) wants to get it, but the price may be very high. Then she asks, “How much 10． (be) it?” Mr. King looks at her and then he takes off the price tag (标签) and says, “That’s just three dollars” “Oh, I’ll take it.”

It’s a Sunday morning, Mary doesn’t need to go to school. She says to her mom, “I need some clothes. Can we go to Nice Girl’s Store?”

“Well, what do you need, Mary?” Mom asks her.

“My skirt is small, so I want to buy a skirt. And I need a pair of sports shoes, too.” Mary says.

“I see. Let’s go and see now.”

In the store, Mary sees a blue skirt. It’s nice. So she asks the clerk, “How much is it?”

The clerk says, “It’s twenty dollars.”

Mary asks her mom, “What do you think of that blue skirt, Mom?”

“It’s nice, but I don’t think blue is nice on you. What about the green one, Mary?”

“Oh, it’s nice!” Mary says.

They take it at a good price. Only 12 dollars! They buy a pair of black sports shoes, too. It’s 22 dollars.

Hello, I’m George. I’m 14. I’m in No.10 Middle School. I’m in Class 8. I come to school at 7:30. I have four classes in the morning and three classes in the afternoon. My teachers and classmates are nice to me. I like them. After school, I like to play basketball with my friends. It’s relaxing. Basketball is my favorite sport. I have five basketballs. And I like to watch basketball games on CCTV-5. My favorite basketball player is Guo Ailun.

Danny is my cousin. He is in my class, too. He and I have the same hobby. He loves basketball, too. His favorite basketball player is LeBron James. He has four basketballs. They are from his father. He wants to be a basketball player one day. Danny can play volleyball, too. He has three volleyballs. He plays it with his classmates three days a week. He says it’s an easy and interesting sport.

Hello, everyone. My name is Kate. I’m 13 years old. This is a ________ of my bedroom. It’s very nice. First, you can see a ________ in the middle of the bedroom. My quilt is on it ________ my baseball is on it, too. A table is near the bed and my computer is on ________. My watch is on the table. It’s ________. I like it very much. My notebook and my pencil box ________ on the table, too. This is my ________. It’s a yellow chair. Near the chair, there is a bookcase. My ________ are in it. Oh, ________ are my keys? Are they in my schoolbag? No, they aren’t. Are they in the drawer? Yes, they are. Some CDs are in the drawer too, but they are not ________.

One morning, Emma discovered that her classroom had changed. She found that the desks were no longer in rows, but pushed together to make eight bigger desks. She was so excited about it for the first two days that she couldn't listen to the teachers carefully. But soon she and her classmates got used to this new classroom arrangement（安排）. "Now our class is quieter, "said Emma. "What's more, we can come up with our own ideas and learn more through discussion. It's a better way to study. "

David liked it, too. "Group members first discuss, "he said, "and then show to the whole class.   It encourages us greatly. "This was part of a reform （改革）at David's school. The school made this reform because they wanted to offer students easier ways to study and more chances to discuss. "Our school hopes to improve students' abilities to study by themselves and work in groups. "said Linda, an English teacher.

However, the reform has demanded（要求）more from teachers. Now they have only 15 minutes to give a lesson that would have been taught in 40 minutes before. It is difficult to teach in such a short time. The teachers have to find better ways to teach more effectively（有效地）.

"The reform demands more, but I'm sure it is helpful. "added Linda.