My mum lives alone and works at a hotel. One day on her way home from work, she saw a 1 It was very small and had white and black hair. At first, she just walked by 2 it was a really windy afternoon. But the cat followed (跟随) my mum a long way. It looked very hungry and 3 At last it walked into my mum's heart (心) and life.
A week later, I went to visit my mum. She told me excitedly 4 her little cat. I saw it for the first time. The cat wasn't afraid of 5 at all. When I called its name, it looked at me with its big eyes and said "meow" to me, and then walked over slowly. It was so cute that I 6 it right away.
This cat makes my mum smile. She is always happy-with the cat around. The cat will stay in the room 7 it feels cold or just doesn't want to be outside. My mum loves it and always tries to make it feel 8 The cat loves my mum too. It 9 think of my mum as its mum. It is really attached to (依恋) her. It makes her heart full of (充满) love and happiness. It makes me happy too, because I love to 10 the smile in my mum's eyes.
Gemma Burford
Gemma was born in' 1978 in a quiet (安静的) village in England. Her mother worked in a library and her father worked in a hospital. When she was a student at Oxford University, she travelled to Tanzania and met her husband, Lesikar for the first time. They got married in 2003 and had their daughter, Lucia, two years later. Now Lucia studies in a small primary school, and Gemma and Lesikar also teach her at home.
"Judy Boehmer
Adam is Judy's first child. She now has four sons, seven daughters and a pet (宠物) dog, Bosco. Judy and her husband, Larry, live in Atlanta, Georgia, but they also have a motorhome (野营车). The Boehmers are a circus (马戏团) family and all the children are performers (演员) at the circus. The- children don't go to school, but study at home. The family travels more than 40.000 kilometres a year for their work The first show of the Boehmers was at a park in Lowa in 1989, and they now perform all over America.
I' m Susan. I love going on holiday and I do it every year.
My best holiday was staying in Maldives, at the Anantara Dhigu Maldives Resort. I had a great time doing water sports and eating in restaurants near the hotel. And my boyfriend asked me to marry him there! We were walking along the beach one evening and he suddenly asked me ... After the walk, we had a special dinner on the beach, but I was so excited that I didn't eat much. And then we sat on the beach to enjoy the beautiful night.
Last September, I went to Cornwall, England with my parents. I've been to Cornwall's beaches in the rain before, but we were lucky with the weather this time. The sun shone (照耀) every day. I decided to start surfing (冲浪) and learned it in just two days. It was fun.
One of the worst things about travelling is losing the luggage (行李). Once, I lost my luggage in Baden-Baden, Germany. I went there to sing in a show. Baden-Baden is famous for its natural hot springs (温泉), but there aren't many clothes shops there. So I had to wear a friend's clothes.
Holidays are good for a rest (休息) from work, and for learning new things. But-ten days on holiday is usually long enough for me, then I want to get back to work.
One day, I saw a boy shop alone at the shop I worked. He chose some school things he wanted and went to the checkout (付款台).
The young shop assistant (店员) told him he needed to pay $37.60. The boy became very sad and said he only had $20. He took out one thing at a time, and at last he got down to his $20. He cried and asked if he could call his mum to pick him up. He called his mum. However, his mum was too busy to pick him up in a minute.
He tried to stop crying and walked outside to wait on the chair in front of the shop. This was too much for the young assistant. She looked outside all the time to see if the boy was all right. Then she said, "I hope I can pay for the rest (剩余部分) of his things." One of the other girls said she had some money. Then two others said they could help too.
These four young girls pooled their money and found they had more than enough to pay for the boy's things. Then they chose more school things, and gave them all to the boy. The boy smiled happily~ His mum arrived much later, but he didn't just run to the car; he ran back into the shop and called out, "Thank you!"
I was so proud (骄傲的) of my team that day. They did something wonderful for that boy and also found the pleasure (快乐) of giving.
A: Hi, Chen Lin. I didn't see you for a long time. ?
B: I went to Chengdu on holiday.
A: ?
B: By plane.
A: ?
B: I stayed there for a week.
A: ?
B: It was sunny and warm.
A: Did you have a good time there?
B: . I hope to go there on holiday again.
A: Great! I hope to go with you next time.
Bao Gong was a famous and clever official (官员) in China about 1,000 years ago. One day, he (see) a boy crying on the street. He asked the boy what (happen).
"I sold meat this morning and got 100 coins (硬币). Then I had (冠词) short sleep. But when I woke up (醒来), I couldn't find my money said the boy.
Bao Gong looked the boy up and down and (think) from some time. Then he pointed at a horse and said it was the thief (小偷).he shouted at the horse （连词）asked it to give the boy's money back.
People around said, What is he (do)? Shouldn't Bao Gong clever? Bao Gong heard that and shouted, HOW could you (say) bad words about an official? You are all fined (被罚款) one coin." Then he took out a large bowl full of water and (ask) everyone to put a coin into it.
When one man put his (介词) the bowl, Bao Gong said, "This is the real thief! When he put the coin into the bowl, there was a film of oil (一层油) on the water. All the boy's coins have oil from the meat on (they)."
At last the boy got his money back. Everyone said that Bao Gong was a really clever man.
My name is Jerry Zhang, and I am a father of two young daughters -- one is about four years old and the other is only about one.我来自中国，现在住在美国。
One day, my older daughter, Madison, told me she didn't want to be Chinese. Those days she was quite interested in the book characters (角色) Madeline and Eloise. She asked me all the time why she was Chinese and they weren't, and how she could have yellow or red hair like them.
This made me look for books with Asian (亚洲的) characters for Madison to read. However, I only found a few, and they were heavily cultural (文化的) and Madison didn't connect herself with any of the characters in them. And she wash' t interested in them at all Then she told me again that she didn't want to be Chinese, and it made me sad.
In most of the books for children in the US, the characters look like Americans. There are over 17 million Asians and Asians and Americans in this count, but few of them have Asian faces. I think it's important for Asian children to see themselves in books as interesting and clever kids.
So I created (创作) a book for Madison. Pepper Zhang in the book is an Asian girl. Her imagination (想象) takes her on a trip to creativity and art I want my children to know that being Chinese or being Asian is a great thing too.
Because of this，I looked for books with Asian characters to let Madison read.
