These are all the messages that Helen got yesterday. Read them carefully and find the best answers to the questions.

Spring is coming! We can see another round of flowers blooming(盛开). The peach blossom(桃花) is one of those flowers. It usually blooms in March and April.

If you want to see peach blossoms, you can go to Pinggu in Beijing, Nanhui in Shanghai or Longquan in Chengdu. But the most special place to go is Nyingchi in Tibet. Under the blue sky, white snow covers green mountains, there are a lot of pink peach blossoms.

Chinese people love the peach blossom. Many people write poems (诗) about it. People often compare(把……作对比) the peach blossom with young women. As a famous sentence goes, “In this house on this day last year a pink face vied; In beauty with the pink peach blossom side by side” The peach blossom is like the flush(红晕) on a shy woman’s face.

Chinese people also say“To have peach blossom luck”. It means being lucky in love. Some people’s eyes are the shape of peach petals(花瓣). We call eyes like that“Taohuayan”. Those people may have peach blossom luck.

When you want to call a store or an office that you don’t call often, you may look the number up in a telephone book. You dial (拨) the number, and then you forget it! Your short-term (短期) memory last about 30 seconds. However, you don’t need to look in the telephone book for your best friend’s number because you already know it. This information is in your long-term memory. Your long-term memory has everything that you remember through the years.

Why do you forget things sometimes? There are several reasons. An important reason for forgetting something is that you didn’t learn it well in the beginning. For example, you meet some new people, and soon you forget their names. You hear the names but you don’t learn them, so you forget them.

You can help yourself remember better. Move information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory. You can do this if you practise the new information for more times.

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Best Learners

When your parents or teachers ask you some questions, this book can give you the answers. Read this book and learn:

►What the three problems in study are and what to do with the problems.

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►Twenty-six simple exercises to help you study easily and fast.

You will get more from this book. For young students, you can buy Learn in Study for Beginners. It is easy to read.

How to Keep Pets

A pet can be our best friend. Do you have pets in your house? Are they in good shape? This book shows you many colorful pictures of lovely pets and tells you:

►How to choose pets you like best.

►How to build houses or nests (巢穴) for your pets.

►How to feed the pets and how to clean them.

Buy this book and you will learn more.

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97. 你叫Sandy, 你想邀请你的美国的笔友Mike来你的家乡参观，请你根据以下提示，用英语写一封邀请信，并向他介绍你的家乡。

I would like to invite you to my hometown._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Sandy