Paul loved baseball more than (排球)or basketball. His favourite baseball team was Yankees. Every day he (练习)playing baseball a lot. At night, he even put the baseball gloves under his pillow and (睡觉)with them. He always dreamed about playing baseball for the Yankees.
Paul was in the school baseball team and his (教练)loved him a lot. He(相信)Paul would be a baseball player. But one day when he rode to school as (通常的), he had a bad accident(事故). He was too (粗心的)to notice a running car. Paul was hurt (严重地)and couldn't walk. His doctor said he would not have a (机会)of walking again. This made Paul cry (大声地).But after that, he said to his parents, "I will walk again. I will run again. I will play baseball for the Yankees."
Lao She is the pen name of Shu Qingchun. He was born in 1899. At the age of 19, he became a (校长) of a primary school. Six years later, he went to England and taught Chinese there. He wrote the famous (戏剧) Teahouse in 1957. It (描述) the lives of (普通的) people. It tells us the story of Wang Lifa and his (顾客) . Lao She's plays, (小说) and short stories are (主要地) about people's lives, so he was (给……命名) "the People's Artist". Today, you can find his books in Chinese as well as in some other (语言) . He is really one of the greatest Chinese writers in the (第二十) century.
Jim Green is from London. He is now in Beijing. He visited many interesting places in Beijing, but he was too busy to visit other parts of China before. He had a (旅行) to Mount Emei in Sichuan with his (同学) last week.
Jim thinks that travelling by train is the best (选择). It doesn't(花费) much and it is far more (令人愉快的) than taking a plane. They had a wonderful train ride to Chengdu before they went on to Mount Emei by bus.
The train was quite nice and tidy, and it wasn't (拥挤的) in their sleeping car.
They could stand up and walk (到处). It was a long way, but (没人) of them felt tired. They kept watching the beautiful things through the window. They talked, laughed and played cards. The conductor(列车员) kept coming to give them hot water and selling them newspapers. People (附近) talked with each other. A young man tried to speak with him in English. Jim thought the train was like a big moving party. He went to sleep late. He enjoyed listening to the sound of the running train and then fell(睡着的).
Australia is a country with some (岛屿).It is much smaller (比)China. It is in the (南部)of the Earth. So when it is hot summer in China, it is cold winter in Australia.
Australia is big, and it has an (区域)of 7, 682, 300square kilometres. But the population there is (小的).The population of Australia is almost the same as that of Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is famous (因为)its sheep and kangaroos. After a short drive from any town, you will find (你自己)in the middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, (处处)are sheep. Look at the photo of a kangaroo. It has a "bag" in the (袋鼠的)body. The mother kangaroo keeps (它的)baby kangaroo in the "bag". It is very interesting, isn't it？
In learning English, one should first pay attention to listening and speaking. It is the groundwork of reading and writing. You'd better(尝试)your best to speak while you do much listening. Don't be (害怕)of making mistakes. But be careful not to let them stop you from (改善)your English. While you are doing this，a good way is to write keep a (日记), write notes or letters. Then, if you can, ask some others to go through what you have written and tell you where it is wrong. Many mistakes in your speaking will be(容易地)found when you write. Through (改正)mistakes, you can do better in learning English.
If you are slow in speaking, don't(担心)about it. One of the helpful ways is reading, either (大声地)or to yourself. The important thing is to choose something interesting to read. It can't be too difficult for you. When you are reading in this way, don't stop to look up the new words if you can guess their (意思)or they have nothing to do with the (句子). You can do that later.
Lao She was(出生)in Beijing. His father died when he was young. Lao She studied at Beijing Normal(大学). After (完成) school in 1918, he was a head teacher of a primary school. From 1924 to 1929, Lao She (教)Chinese to the English in London. In 1930, Lao She returned to China and wrote many (小说)and short stories.(在…期间)the Anti-Japanese War period （1937~1945）, he united(团结)many(艺术家)and worked in the All China Art Cycle Anti-Japanese Aggression Association(中华全国文艺界抗敌协会). Teahouse, written in 1957, was one of his best(戏剧). It described the changes in Chinese (社会) over fifty years. Lao She died in 1966. He is one of the (伟大的) Chinese writers in China.
