There is a big new library in our school. It is a(n) building. There are a lot of green trees around. It looks very beautiful. There are about 2,000;000 books in the library and there are reading room in it. We can read newspapers, magazines and books there. After class we often go to the library and do some reading. Every we borrow books from the library and we can keep them for
Books are our good friends. There are a lot of interesting things and in them. We love books very much, so we love our school library, too.
My mom lives alone (独自) 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 quickly – it was a really windy afternoon. But the cat 2 my mom a long way. It seemed very hungry and 3 . At last it walked into my mom's heart and life.
A week later, I went to visit my mom. 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 mom laugh. 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 mom loves it and always tries to make it feel 8 The cat loves my mom, too. It must think of my mom as its mom. It is really attached to (依恋) her. It makes her 9 full of love and happiness. It makes me happy, too, because I love to 10 the smile in my mom's eyes.
Gemma Burford
Gemma was born in 1978 in a quiet 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 traveled (旅行) to Tanzania and met her husband (丈夫), Lesikar, for the first time. They got married (结婚) 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 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 at the circus. The children don't go to school, but study at home. The family travels more than 40,000 kilometers 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.
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. With eyes full of tears, he asked if he could call his mom to pick him up. When he got through, it seemed that his morn was too busy to pick him up in a minute.
He tried to stop the tears and walked outside to wait on the chair in front of the shop. This was too much for the young assistant. She kept looking outside to see if the boy was all right. Then she said, "I wish I could pay for the rest (剩余部分) of his things." One of the other girls said she had a few dollars. 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 laughed happily. His morn 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.
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. I come from China and now live in the USA.
One day, my older daughter, Madison, told me she didn't want to be Chinese. Those days she was crazy about the book characters Madeline and Eloise. She kept asking me why she was Chinese and they weren't, and how she could have blonde 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, and Madison didn't connect (把……联系在一起) herself with any if the characters in them. And she wasn't interested in them at all. Then she told me again that she didn't want to be Chinese, and it broke my heart.
In most of the books for children in the USA, the characters look like Americans. Few of them have Asian faces, although there are over 17 million Asians and Asian Americans in this country. I think it's important for Asian children to see themselves in books as interesting and smart 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.
A. Hi ken! Are you busy now?
B: Yes I'm a little busy.
A: ?
B: I'm thinking about shopping for a birthday gift for my sister online.
A: ?
B: No. I never shop online so I don't know how to do that.
A: Oh, I shop online all the time.
B: ?
A: I think it's faster and the things online are cheaper.
B: OK. Come and help me. Let's look at my computer together.
A: ?
B: I want to buy a book.
A: OK. First, let's find a website (网站). Lots of sites sell books.
B: OK, sounds good.
A: ？
B: Books about history. My sister likes reading them.
A: OK. Let's look for history books.
B: Wow! There are lots of books. How can I choose just one?
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Bao Gong was a famous and smart official (官员) in China about 1,000 years ago. One day, he a boy crying (哭) on the street. He asked the boy what
"I sold meat this morning and got 100 coins (硬币). Then I had a short But when I woke up, I couldn't find my money," said the boy.
Bao Gong looked the boy up and down and for some time. Then he pointed at a horse and said it was the thief (小偷). He shouted at the horse and asked it to give the boy's back.
People around laughed and said quietly, "What is he doing? Shouldn't Bao Gong be Bao Gong heard that and shouted, "How could you say bad words an official? You are all .fined (被罚款) one coin" Then he took out a large bowl full of And asked everyone to put a coin into it.
When one man put his into the bowl, Bao Gong said, "This is the 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 corns have oil from the meat on
At last the boy got his money back. Everyone said that Bao Gong was a really smart man.
