Hello! I'm in Sanya now. My parents and I arrived here 1 plane yesterday. My uncle met us at the airport (机场). We were a little2 ， so we had a rest after we arrived at my uncle's home.
Yesterday evening，we had dinner in a Chinese 3. The food was delicious there. After dinner，my cousin and I watched a(n) 4 soccer game on TV，because soccer is our favorite sport. When I 5 this morning，it was 7 o'clock. After breakfast，my family went to the beach. We swam in the sea and played volleyball on the beach6. We had a great time there. This afternoon，we 7 a walk along a busy street. There were many shops on both sides of the street. I loved this kind of street 8 shops sold all kinds of things at very good prices. I 9 some gifts for my friends.
Now we're camping by a lake. My parents are putting up 10. We will spend a good night here. How relaxing it will be!
Do you know Black Eyed Peas(黑眼豆豆)? It is a 1 group from Los Angeles, America.
There are 2 people in it. They are Apldeap, Fergie, Taboo and William. They are very 3. Many kids like to 4 their songs. In the picture, the young man with a beard(胡须) is Apldeap. He is of medium height. It makes him look 5. The 6 is Fergie. She is tall and thin. She is beautiful. 7 girls like her. Look! She is 8a funny hat. She is cool! She looks like a boy. 9 two singers are Taboo and William. William is tall and he has long curly hair. Taboo is tall, too. His hair is always 10 and straight. Because of the cap, we can't see his long hair in the picture.
A hobby is something you do to relax or have fun. It's 1 you like to do after school or on the weekend. There are many kinds of hobbies, 2 as playing games or sports, collecting things, listening to music and so on. Some people even think sleeping is a 3. Every person has different ideas of fun. Everyone 4 different hobbies.
Top five reasons to have a hobby：
A hobby is a lot of fun. You'll 5 your hobby. All hobbies are things you like.
A hobby helps you learn about6. You can learn to do something. You can also become much7 in your weak areas.
A hobby helps you be creative. Hobbies will help you think 8 new ways.
A hobby helps you learn something new. A good hobby will 9 you want to know more.
A hobby is10 at any time or place.
On a cold November afternoon, my mother and I were walking back home from a pizza store. We had bought many things. We were dressed warmly, and I was feeling a little 1 as I was carrying our shopping bag, I decided to 2something away. I was walking towards a dustbin 3 I noticed a poor man walking out of the restaurant in front of us. He headed over to the nearby dustbin and started looking through it.
I suddenly felt very 4 because I was about to throw away a new drink just because it was too heavy. I walked up to him and handed the 5 and some bread over to him, which surprised him. The man looked at me 6 and took what I gave him. A huge smile 7 on his face. I felt I couldn't be happier with 8. But then he said, "Wow, this is my son's lucky day!"
With that, he thanked me happily and started off on his bike. I 9heard him singing as he rode away. I got a warm 10 inside. I now understand what it 11 by saying "Giving is getting".
Though it was only a little action, I got and learned more in those two 12 than I did in the rest of the month. Everyone in the world 13 help. Everyone can give help and everyone can be helped.
The look of the man's happiness appears in my mind 14 I have the chance to do something nice. This is the power of 15.
Students learn their lessons in class. In class 1 teach them. Students sit in the classroom listening to the teacher. This is a way of 2. Is this the 3 way for students to learn something? Of course not. There is 4 way to learn. Students can teach 5. For example, if you can't remember something 6 you are doing your homework, you can look at your book to find the 7. This is a way to teach yourself. And it is not a 8 thing. We can do this at any place and at any time.
How do you teach yourself? The first thing you must do is 9. Read something you are 10 in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. The question is something you don't 11, or you want to know more about. You can write down these questions. A 12 student is usually good at asking questions. The 13 you must do is that you must answer the question yourself 14 thinking hard, by reading the text of other books, and 15 by asking other people. This is the way of teaching yourself. And you must do this by yourself. If you keep doing like this for a long time, you are sure to be successful in your study.
How important is music? Many people usually think that listening to music is nice,but not very 1 It is often only thought to be entertainment (娱乐), but not the first 2for education.This opinion is wrong3 music education is necessary for all students.
Music tells us who we are.Music4the musicians' thoughts and ideas,and the social environment they came from.For example, just as Mozart's music represents (代表) a lifestyle, rock music5represents a lifestyle. George Gershwin's music is another6 He introduced jazz into his music.
Music7a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores (探索) emotional (情绪的) meanings. People need every possible way to 8about our world.
Music shows people's thoughts. We can “talk” to each other in this amazing way. Through the language we9our feelings,discoveries,ideas and hopes. All of these can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive a good music education,we take 10away from the meanings that music expresses. So music education is much more necessary than people usually think.
Life in the future will be different from life today, because many changes will take place in the new century, but what will the changes be?
The population is 1fast. There will be more and more people in the world and most of them will live2than before.3will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the most important subjects at4.
People will work fewer hours than they do today, and they will have more free time for sports, 5TV and traveling. Traveling will be 6. And much more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so 7will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day, 8they eat more vegetables and fruit. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be 9, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots.10this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
Most people like tomatoes. And they think of tomatoes as a1, because they are not sweet and are used for providing flavor（口味）to food. But they are actually fruit.
Tomatoes are from Mexico. Spanish explorers who went to South America about 500 years ago,2the tomatoes to Europe. Because the tomatoes look like apples, the French called them love3, while the British called them apples of gold. So we think4is the tomato's hometown.
The first people in Europe to5tomatoes were Italians. As far back as 500 years ago, the joys of eating fried tomato6salt and pepper, was known to them.
In some7like England and Mexico, tomatoes were thought to have poison in them.
That is because tomatoes look like plants called the belladonna（颠茄）. But people grew them in their garden because of their beautiful8and look. They even thought that tomatoes caused diseases. But they soon got over the fear.
It is believed that the British brought the tomato to India. This was about 300 years ago.
Gradually, the people in9started discovering that the tomato tasted10. Today, the whole world is crazy about the tomato.
Mr. Jackson was our science teacher. On the first day of class, he gave us a talk about an animal called wampus. He told us that the wampus lived on earth millions of years ago during the Ice Age and died out because of the change of climate(气候). We all listened carefully and took 1 of everything he said. Later we had a 2.
When the exam paper was 3to me, I was surprised and sad, there was a big red "×" through each of my answers, I failed. But how come? 4, on the test paper, I had written down 5 Mr. . Jackson said in class.
Then I realized that no one 6 the exam at all. What had happened?
"Very simple," Mr. Jackson explained. "I had 7 all that story about the wampus. There had never been any such animal, so the information in your notes was not correct. Do you expect to get 8 marks for incorrect answers？"
There was no need to say we were 9. What kind of test was this? What kind of teacher was he?
How could we believe he gave us so much information about an animal that had not been there at all? How was it possible 10 us students to doubt what the teacher taught us?
"The zeroes on your papers will be 11 in your grade books," he said. And he did it.
Through this experience, Mr. Jackson hoped that we would learn something. Teachers and books are not always 12. In fact, no one is. He told us not to let our mind go to sleep. Instead, we should keep thinking all the time and speak up if we think there are13in our teachers' words or in books.
We should 14 the habit of doubting, and the ability to decide by ourselves. What a special 15 he gave us.
As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street trying to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.
Frustrated and 1, my husband gave up his attempt to flag down a taxi. I knew the feeling. Just after her first birthday, we 2that our daughter Katie had a rare brain illness. Since that moment, Doug and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept disappearing. We knew Katie was running out of 3. It had taken months before we finally 4 a name for the illness, but only a few specialists in the world knew 5 to fix it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to save our girl, we were in a strange 6in the cold rain.
Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and said, "Pardon me? May I offer you a ride?"
7 we could say anything, she continued, "It's really no trouble for8. Just get in."
It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent，which9 me up like hot soup. We 10 said, "Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please," as we got in her car for the ride.
"Are you going 11 the baby?" she asked us.
I nodded my head, holding back my tears.
At the hospital, we 12 her a dozen times for the ride, as the woman hugged me. I noticed her face was wet with tears. She promised to pray for us before she left.
After three more visits to New York and two more 13surgeries，Katie is cured. But the 14of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our15days. We would pray for her just as she did for us.
