My dream(梦想) home is very big and clean. It is near the ________ . I can watch the beautiful beach and play volleyball there. My grandparents live with us in the big house. ________ room is on the first floor. I always talk with them and ________ them do some housework on the weekend. On the ________ floor, there is a kitchen and a dining room. All the family ________ have dinner there. My bedroom, study and bathroom are on the third floor. There is a big balcony(阳台) in my bedroom. I can play games, read books and talk with my friends there. The furniture in my house is all made of wood(木头). It is good ________my health. I like listening to music while reading books in my bedroom. I always ask my friends to ________here. My parents’ room is on the fourth floor. It’s ________ very big and clean.

There is a big and nice garden behind the big house. Behind the garden, there is a swimming pool. I can ________ freely(自由地) in it.There are many flowers and a few tall trees in the garden. In summer, I can sit under the trees with my family. I think it is ________ to live in my dream home.

Last Sunday, it was a fine day. Mum and dad took my brother Brad and me to a restaurant. Mum told us to wear our beautiful clothes. Brad wanted to wear jeans (牛仔裤) but mum said no.

When we arrived at the restaurant, a waiter took us to our table. Our table was next to the window and we could see the river. Then the waiter asked us if(是否) we wanted to drink before the dinner. Brad and I both had an orange juice. My parents drank nothing. I spent a long time looking at the menu(菜单). It was difficult to choose because there were many things on the menu. After five minutes, I decided to have chicken and a small salad. Brad had beef and mum and dad had fish. We all thought that the food was delicious, we would like to go there again next time.

Mr. White works in an office. He liked reading in bed when he was young. It was bad for his eyes and now he has short sight (近视). But he doesn’t want anybody to know about it and never wears a pair of glasses. And it often brings him some trouble (麻烦).

One winter morning he went to a school in a village on business (生意). He got off a bus at a stop in a small town. Then he had to walk there. The road to the village wasn’t smooth and there were lots of holes (坑) on it. He fell over (摔倒) some times and it made his clothes dirty.

When he got to the village, the wind suddenly began to blow. He was looking for the school when the wind blew off (刮掉) his hat. He began to run after it but he couldn’t catch it. He couldn’t understand why his hat ran into a house as if (好像) it had legs. And he ran into the house, too.

A woman stopped him and shouted angrily, “Why are you running after my hen ?”

Erhu is a kind of traditional Chinese musical instrument（乐器）. There are many English names for erhu as urheen and urhien. When I listened to the sound of erhu, I fell in love with the instrument.

I was born in a traditional Chinese family. I’m a girl from Beijing. My grandfather is a fan of Peking Opera and erhu music. When I was very young, my grandpa often sang Peking Opera as he played erhu. Sometimes the melody（曲调） was exciting, sometimes sad. I loved the sound of erhu a lot.

At the age of eight, I decided to learn to play erhu. At the beginning, I had great interest in playing it. But I found it difficult to play it soon. I wanted to stop. My grandfather encouraged（鼓励） me to hold on. Up till now（至今） I have played erhu for six years. I have passed Level 9. I even got the first prize（一等奖） in the instrument competition. Now I feel so proud（骄傲） that I can play erhu well.

My name is Jessica. I was born in a small village 25 years ago. There was only one school in the small village. And there were not many students in it. The teachers were very nice and the students all liked them. Behind the school, there were some trees. I liked reading under the trees. Next to the school, there were two houses. The small one was my friend Linda’s house. Linda and her brother Alan usually walked to school. And I often went to her home to play with her after school. The big one was Ms. Green’s house. Ms. Green was my first English teacher. She was strict but nice. And I learned a lot from her. There was a small park near my school. I liked playing with my friends there. A small shop was on the right of the park. We often bought things in it. I left there when I was fifteen. One day, I’ll go back to the village again.

Our legs are important parts of our body. We use them to walk, r    56     , kick(踢) and jump. Just t    57     what life would be like with only one leg!

Kevin had only one leg. When he was ten y    58    old, he had a cancer(癌症). The doctor had to cut off his left leg to save(拯救) his life.Kevin felt very s    59    . Life changed. Later he had a man-made leg.

With the h    60     of his parents and his friends, he learned to do many things: he could swim, play basketball and ride a bike. When he was twenty, Kevin t    61     all over the world. He stopped in every city. In each city, people learned his story and gave him m    62    . The money was not for Kevin himself. It was for a cancer society(协会). The cancer society u    63     the money for cancer research(研究).

Kevin often talked to people a    64     cancer. He said, “I want people to know that, though I had only one leg, I can do what other people can. I work not only for myself, b    65     also for my parents, and for people who helps or need other’s help.”