Do you have a beautiful dream? I know almost everyone ________ his own dream in his life.

The dreams are very important to them. The dreams can make them ________ harder.

I am studying in a school now. I do ________ in all my subjects. All the teachers like me very much. My ________ is to be a teacher in west China. Many children there want to go to school but they can’t. Their families are poor and their parents don’t have enough ________ to send their children to school. I think that going to school and studying is the only ________ to change their life.

Teachers are greatly needed there, ________ I want to be a teacher to help them. I will be kind to my students and make with ________. All the children there will like to talk with me, too. I will give them love and teach them ________ to be a useful person. I think it is a (an) ________ job in the world. I hope my dream can come true some day!

My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watched it at night. She didn’t remember ever watching it in the morning or afternoon. When I was young we had only about 3 or 4 different channels. My bothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the same shows.

Nowadays we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t believe it! There are channels with old movies, cooking, fishing and so on. It’s amazing! There is a TV for everything. I wonder how many times my bothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set then.

These days I find families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it keeps people from arguing over which channel to choose.

There are all kinds of clubs in US middle schools, like music club, sports club, chess club, and swimming club. But do you know homework club? It is a popular club in many US middle schools. More and more students spend their afternoons at the clubs. The students need a quiet place to do their homework. But games, computers and TVs are all around kids at home. So the homework club is for them to do their homework. Some teachers are in the clubs too. They can answer students' questions and help with their homework. When the students finish their homework, they can go home. Then they can play games, watch TV or do other things.

The homework club is very helpful. But some students can finish their homework at home,so they don't go to the homework club. They think it is a waste of time.

We want some help!

Sandy: Please help me. I am a girl from America. I can’t learn Chinese well. My Chinese teacher always speaks too fast. Many of my friends think Chinese is easy. But I don’t think so! I can’t understand what the teacher says in class. How I hope I can have a Chinese pen friend!

Jim: I am too short. I am only 1.4 meters tall. I like playing basketball, but they all say I can’t be a good basketball player. How can I be as tall as all my friends? I hope someone can teach me how to be a good guard (后卫).

Joan: I want to be a slim girl. Some of my friends say I am too fat. Is it because my parents are fat too? Am I a pretty girl? When I see those slim girls, my eyes are green. I hope to know some ways to be slimmer.

Danny: I need friends. I am sad because I don’t have many good friends to chat with. I am not good at talking. And my face turns red when I am with many people. But I really want to have many friends. Can you tell me how to make friends with other children?