It was Sunday yesterday. Steve had a1 weekend.2 Sunday morning, he played computer games with his friends at home. It was pretty good. He3 happy. In the afternoon, he went shopping with his mother in the4 . They bought many kinds of food and vegetables.5 was really relaxing and exciting. In the evening, he watched a talk show with his parents and listened to some6 . The singer was popular.7 Ann had a busy weekend, too. She8 stopped working. On Sunday morning, she cleaned her bedroom and did her homework. In the afternoon. she went to visit her uncle and9 . him do some farm work. In the evening, the washed the dishes. Then she went 10 a walk with her dog.
Do you know that man？He is my uncle. His name is David Smith. He is forty﹣eight this year. He is a worker. He works in a car factory. His factory is not near his home. So he gets up early in the morning and takes a bus to work. At about seven thirty, he gets to his factory. He makes the parts （零件） of the car. He makes many parts every day. He works very hard. Everyone in the factory likes him and says he is a good worker. He has his lunch in the factory. He often plays basketball after work. In the evening, he learns Chinese at home. His Chinese is good. Sometimes he helps me with my Chinese, I like my uncle very much.
I live in a small town near Xing'an in Guilin. You can't see it on the map of China, because it is too small. The air here is fresh. There are not many tall buildings in our town. The best building is our school. There are four hundred students and twenty﹣five teachers in our school. In the front of the school, there is a playground. I often play basketball with my classmates on it. There is a little garden behind our school. And we can grow beautiful flowers and plant trees in the garden. Next to the garden, there is an orange orchard （果园） . You can hear birds singing everywhere. We study Chinese, English, math and other subjects at school. We love our school.
The cooking club is for me. I think cooking is interesting, but I don't know how to cook. I want to cook for my family. I will join the club next year.
Paul
I want to join the book club. I like reading. Miss Anderson will tell us what to read. We will read the same books and then discuss （讨论） them.
Liz
I will join the book club. Reading isn't my favorite thing. But I'm not good at writing and my friend Tony says I must read more. He loves reading and he asks me to join the book club.
Ted
My brother Peter is in the school tennis team. My parents want me to learn to play tennis, too. They ask me to go to the tennis club. But I want to learn how to dance with my cousin Lily. We're going to join the dance club.
Laura
Some boys like wearing the same kinds of clothes as girls, and some of them have long hair. So sometimes it's difficult to tell whether（是否） they are boys or girls.
Today is Sunday. I have a walk with my grandmother in the park. My grandmother is 80 years old and she can't see well. After some time, my grandmother is tired, so she sits down on a bench（长凳）. There is another person sitting on the bench, too. I stand （站） behind them.
"Hello!"my grandmother says to the person with long hair next to her. "Can you see the person with long hair under the big tree？Is it a boy or a girl？"
"Which one？"asks the person.
"The one eating under the big tree, "says my grandmother. "The boy？"says the person. "He's my brother Mark. "
"Oh, "says my grandmother, "I don't know you are his sister. ""No, I'm not his sister. I'm his brother. "
On New Year's Day, many people eat special food for good luck. In Spain, people eat twelve grapes at midnight on New Year's Eve﹣one grape for good luck in each month of the new year.
During the Spring Festival. Chinese people eat dumplings. Sometimes people put a coin（硬币） in on c of the dumplings. Everyone hopes to find the coin for luck in the new year. Of course they don't eat it. In the south of China, people make rice cakes for the Spring Festival. People call rice cakes niangao. It means "getting better year after year".
Japanese eat noodles on New Year's Eve and on their birthdays. They think noodles may bring them good luck and long life.
The food may be different in each country, but the meaning is the same. People hope the food will bring them luck and fun in the coming year.
In many countries, people have birthday cakescandles. The number of candles is the（person） age. The birthday person must make a wish and blow out the candles. If he or she（blow） out all the candles in one go, the wish will （come） true. In the UK, people sometimes put a candy in a birthday cake. The child with the candy is （luck）. In China, it is （get） popular to have cake on your birthday.many people still eat very long （noodle） for their birthday. They never （cut） up the noodles because the long noodles are a symbol of long life. In some（place）, Chinese people also eat eggs on their birthday. They are a symbol of life and good luck.
Betty is 9. She likes having food, but she can't eat much. She is very thin. Her brother Danny likes to eat ice cream. And he is fat. Their eatingh are not good. Their mother makes nice food for them every morning. She wants them to be h . Look at their breakfasts! The first one is for Betty, and it's like a rabbit. What can you find in it？Some bread,（草莓 ） and eggs. The next one is like a dog and it's for Danny. You can see rice, some eggs and（胡萝卜） in it. Betty and Danny like the food very much. Now they play sports five days every week. Betty plays tennis with her mother. Danny plays basketball with his friends. They lookr good.
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Jackie and Jerry are brothers, but they look different. Jackie is a little short and he wears. Jerry is tall and handsome. The two boys think and behave （表现）, too.
Now Jackie and Jerry are in the street. They want to go to Sunshine Hotel, they don't know the way. Jackie says to Jerry, "There is a flower shop over there. Let's go to ask the woman. "Jerry walks into the shop and says. "Hey!is Sunshine Hotel？" The womanJerry, but she doesn't say anything. Jerry walks out and says to Jackie, "The woman cannot hear. Lets go to ask someone else. "
Jackie walks into the flower shop and says, "Excuse me. Could you please tell me how I can Sunshine Hotel？"The woman says. "Sure!To get there, you need to go this street and turn right at the second crossing. Walk north and you can see a restaurant on your. The hotel is across from it. "Jackie the woman and walks out. Then he says to Jerry, "Being friendly is more important than（比） being handsome."
Hi! I'm Tina Smith and I'm thirteen years old. I live in Quebec with my parents, two little brothers, Peter and Mike, and a clever dog Blacky.
Our city is really beautiful. ①在冬天经常下雪。You can see the snow in the streets and on the houses. When the temperature（气温） is lower than thirty﹣five degrees（度数） below zero, we don't go to school but stay at home. It is very, very cold!Sometimes there are heavy snowstorms and you can't see anything. There are often very cold winds and it is difficult to stay in the streets for a long time. So we wear warm coats, hats and scarves.
I like winter when the weather isn't very cold. Then we go outdoors to make snowman, play snowballs, skate or ski. ②But sometimes I hope to live in a warm country.
