The Jackson lives in Campton It's an old small town. Grandpa Harry is 65 years old. He likes to go fishing in the pond with Joe and play chess with his friends. The Jacksons often have grandpa's fish for supper. Volleyball is Joe's favourite sport. He often plays it after school. Joe's father, Bill, is a Maths teacher in Joe and Mary's school. He is very good at baseball He is in the baseball team of the town.
Joe has a sister. Her name is Mary. Mary likes baseball very much. Joe and Mary like to watch their father playing with other teams. Joe's mother, Diana, likes sports, too. She is good at playing tennis. She often goes shopping with marry. But there are only some small shops in the town.
All the family members like sports and they often go to the sports center on weekends in Campton. Campton is small, but they love it.
Yao Ming, the centre for Chinese National Men's Basketball Team, went to play for the NBA in 2002.
Yao Ming was born Shanghai in September 1980. His mother was the captain of the Chinese National Women's Team.
He came to be a very important basketball player in the China Basketball Association (CBA). During the 2000-2001 season,
Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in November 2002. He would do his best to learn from the NBA and improve his game.
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A. he averaged 27.1 scores for the Shanghai Oriental Sharks in every match. B. His father played basketball, too. C. He becomes the first pick（状元秀）to come from a foreign team. D. He said this was a new phase of his basketball life. E. Yao Ming is widely known in China. |
O. Henry was a great (write). His pen name was O. Henry. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North California in 1862. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, there he (try) different jobs, and then had a job as a bank assistant. When some money went missing from the bank, some people (think) he was the thief, so he was sent into prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short (story).
After he got out of the prison, he went to New York and continued the (life) of the poor there. People liked his way of (write).
