—What a kind girl she is!

—Congratulations!

—At 3: 30 p. m.

—Never mind.

—She needs our help.

—Ben's factory.

—Oh, we are neighbours. My home town is in Jiangsu Province.

—How to get water is a major problem for the people living in these places.

—No. It is _______ to your eyes.

—Yes. I live next to a subway station. It is very _______.

—You're right.

—I _______ Jim just now.

—And it is a good season for people to _______ mountains.

    Today is Sunday and it's Tree Planting Day. We have no 1. Our head teacher, Mr Wang 2 us to plant trees. We plant a lot of trees at the foot of the hill behind our school. It is spring now, but it is a little 3 because it is cloudy. Each of us plants three trees. Wang Hong, Zhang Jun and I are in the 4 group. I dig nine holes. Wang Hong puts the young trees into the 5 and then puts the earth back into the holes. He 6 the earth down hard with his feet several times. After that, Zhang Jun 7 nine long sticks into the earth next to the young trees and ties the young trees to the top of the sticks to 8 them straight. After planting the trees, all of us are tired. But we feel 9. We shall plant more trees to make our country more 10.

    Pets are popular. As many as 6 in 10 families in the United States have some types of pets. And lots of studies show keeping pets is good for us.

    But it is important to keep in mind that pets can carry diseases. And you may get sick. Washing your hands often is the best way to keep yourself healthy. You can also keep your health even further by wearing gloves while cleaning animal cages or cat litter boxes.

    It's not a good idea to share your food with your pet. Human food (like chocolate) can make animals sick. Never feed your pet raw (生的) meat because it can make both you and your pet sick.

    Be sure to bring your pet to see the vet regularly whenever your pet is sick or injured.

    Finally, some animals aren't pets. Don't take a wild animal as a pet because it may carry with diseases that could make you or your family sick. Instead, you can get a pet from a pet store.

    We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago, most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them knew what to do with it.

    There is a story about an English sailor. He went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party". When her friends came to the "tea party", the old woman offered (给) them brown tea-leaves. The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.

    At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, "Mother, what have you done with the tea?"

    "I boiled (煮) it, as you said."

    "And what did you do with the water?"

    "I threw it away, of course." answered the old woman.

    "Now you may throw away the leaves too." said her son.

    Today many people like growing plants at home because the plants help make the indoor environment beautiful and healthy. However, sometimes people may be too busy to remember to water their plants. If you have the same problem, don't worry. Designer Alastair Crompton can help you solve the problem with his amazing product-Plant Pod. It can water itself without any help.

    The Plant Pod is a self-watering container (容器) for small to medium-sized plants inside the house. Alastair Crompton makes it use a very simple process to provide the plant with the water it needs every day. With a Plant Pod, people no longer need to worry about how much water is perfect for their plants to grow. The water in the Plant Pod is enough to last for at least two weeks. So if people are away from home on a short holiday, they don't need to ask their relatives or neighbours to look after their plants. Won't it be great to see your plants welcome you when you are back home after one or two weeks?

    Do you know kind words and light music can help plants grow better? Many people talk and play music to their plants. And many people try very hard to protect their plants from loud noise, strong light and bad smell. That's not all. Some people are very careful about what they say or do in front of plants. They don't talk about unhappy things and won't beat a fly near their plants.

    Do plants have feelings? Many pupils think so. Even a few scientists think that plants have feelings. But most scientists don't agree. They don't think that plants call be happy, worried, angry, loving or afraid. They don't believe that a plant's feeling can be hurt.

    Professor Cleve Backster in America did an experiment and said that plants have feelings like human beings. He published an article in a magazine in 1968. People began to pay more attention to this topic since then.

    Athena was born and grew up in India. Her parents wanted        (she) to become a lawyer or a doctor.        she always knew she wanted to paint. She also found a career in painting could not be possible       she stayed in her country.

    She tried her best to do everything well. But she never really took it to the high level because few        (artist) in her country        (be) very good at painting. So she knew if she still stayed in her country, she would never be able to make money or be        (success) at all.

    So, Athena came to the United States when she was fourteen years old. Athena first worked at        food store. She began to paint on the store's menu. A customer praised her skill and        (ask) if she would help paint faces at street fairs. Athena said it was a good beginning. Then she went to FABAIC       (start) body painting.

    Body painting is quite different        other paintings. And she loved it very much. She said, "I like this kind of art. When I paint, I can't stop."

【参考词汇】人民公园 People's Park

小树苗  young trees