It’s Jimmy’s birthday and he is 9 years old. He gets a lot of presents from his family and one of them is a big drum (鼓). His grandfather buys it for him. Jimmy likes it very much. He plays with it every day and he often makes a terrible noise (可怕的声音). His father works in the day and Jimmy is sleeping in bed when (当……时候) he gets home in the evening. So his father doesn’t hear the noise. But Mrs. Black doesn’t like the noise, so one morning she takes a sharp (锋利的) knife and goes to Jimmy’s room when he hits(击打) his drum. She says to him, “Hello! Jimmy. Do you know there is something very nice in your drum? Here is a knife. Please open the drum and let’s find it.”

One day, Mr. Smith goes to a dinner party. He is wearing very old clothes. He comes into the room. But people in the room don’t look at him. They don’t ask him to sit at the table. He isn’t happy. But he says nothing.

Mr. Smith goes home quickly and puts on his best clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and looks at him. They give him good food to eat.

Mr. Smith takes off his coat and puts it on the food and says, “Eat, coat!”

The other people are astonished and ask, “What are you doing? Why do you do that?”

Mr. Smith answers, “I am asking my coat to eat food. When I wear old clothes, you don’t look at me. You don’t ask me to sit down. Now I am wearing these nice clothes. And you give me good food. Now I see, you give the food to my coat, not to me.”

Our school is a green school. What makes it green?

First, we have a lot of trees. There are trees in front of and behind every building. Some trees are green only in spring and summer. And some are green all year round. The trees make our school look like a big forest.

And our school is a green one because we “go green”. How do we go green? We have two green days every month. On green days, no students or teachers go to school by car. And we have Clean-up Day every month. That day, students go to streets to pick up rubbish (捡垃圾). Also, we have Tree-planting Day every spring. We plant young trees on hills. We have three green clubs. The members of the clubs look after those trees well.

Green is not only a colour. It is about life. Please go green with us and make the world a more beautiful place.

I am happy to get a letter (信) from you. Today, I want to tell you about my school and my life. Every day my father drives me to school. My school is very big and beautiful. I like my school very much. The desks and chairs are new. There are lots of pictures on the walls. You can also see some flowers on the desk for our teachers. We clean the classroom every day.

I don’t go to school on Saturday or Sunday. I get up at six on Saturday. I play basketball with my father in the park near my home for half an hour. Then I eat my breakfast. I help my mother water the trees and flowers in the garden. At eight I begin to do my homework. After that, my parents and I have lunch in the KFC. In the afternoon. I have Art lessons. Sometimes I like doing some reading in the evening.

I like my weekend very much.

Yours

Nick

A     66     from Nick to Amy

David is a worker in a factory (工厂). He doesn’t have money, but he is always ready to help others. One day, on his way home, he meets a beggar (乞丐) called Ken. He gives his last money to the beggar. When he sees another (另一) one called Jim, he forgets (忘记) that he doesn’t have any money. He asks the man to have lunch with him. The beggar feels very happy and he thanks him so much. Then they go into a small restaurant and have a good meal.

After the lunch, David finds that he has no money. The beggar has to pay (付钱) for the lunch. David is so sorry about this, so he says to the beggar, “Come home with me in taxi, my friend. I will give you the money for the lunch. ”

“Oh, no! I pay for your lunch and I don’t want to pay for you again!” the beggar says and runs away quickly.

It is evening, an old cock (公鸡) sits in a tall tree. A fox comes to the tree and l    91     at the cock.

“Hello, Mr Cock. I have some g    92     news (消息) for you,” says the fox.

“Oh?” says the cock. “What is it?”

“All the animals are good f    93     now. Let’s be friends, too. Please come down and play w    94     me.”

“Fine!” says the cock. “I’m very h    95     to hear that.” Then he looks up. “Look! There is something over t    96    .” “What are you looking at?” a    97     the fox.

“Oh, I see s    98     animals. They are coming this way.” “Animals?”

“Yes. Oh, they’re dogs.” “What? Dogs!” asks the fox. “Well...well, I must go now. Goodbye.”

“Wait, Mr Fox,” says the cock. “D    99     go. They are o    100     dogs. And dogs are our friends now.”

“Yes. But they don’t know that yet.” “I see, I see,” says the cock. He smiles and goes to sleep in the tree.