The captain stood on the high wall of the city of Troy. “The ________ have gone and we’ve won,” he said. “They’ve tried to ________ our city for ten years. Now they’ve given up and sailed away!”

“But look ________ there,” a soldier said. “They’ve left a huge wooden horse.”

“Ah, yes,” the captain said, “it’s ________ big. The Greeks didn’t want to take it ________ them. Get some help and pull it into the city.”

That night, in the main square of the city, ________ the Trojans celebrated. They sang and danced around the horse, and ________ about the stupid Greeks. “I haven’t laughed like this since my childhood,” the captain said. ________ the party they locked all the gates of the city and then all went to ________.

By midnight, the main square was ________ except for the huge horse. ________ a secret door opened ________ the wooden horse. The horse was full of Greek soldiers. They quietly climbed out of the horse ________. The soldiers opened the main gates. The Greek army entered the city.

For ________ years, the Greeks could not capture the city by fighting. In one night, ________, they succeeded in capturing it through a clever trick.

Gao Qiang is a 15-year-old student. He lives in a small village in Hebei Province. His father is a farmer. Every day, Gao Qiang has to walk for an hour to get to school. When school ends, he has to walk for another hour to get home. But this week is different, as Gao Qiang is staying in Beijing.

As part of an educational programme, students from the city are swapping（交换）places with students from the countryside. Many students from Beijing have left the city and are living in the countryside for a week.

Wang Wei is staying at Gao Qiang’s house. “Life in the country can be hard,” Wang Wei said. “I usually go to school by bus, but here I have to walk. When I finish school, I help the family on the farm. I often feel very tired here.”

Gao Qiang is enjoying his time in Beijing. “As I don’t have to walk to school, I have more time to read all kinds of books,” he said. “But I still miss my family.”

It looks like all the students are learning about other ways of life.

Numbers

Do you know paint-by-numbers? No? Your parents and grandparents may know it because it’s not something new.

In a paint-by-numbers picture, you can see a painting divided into different parts with different numbers. Each of these numbers is for a colour. For example, when you paint, you just colour the parts with the number ”1” in black and the parts with the number ”2” in white. This makes it easy for people to paint.

Dan Robbins is the father of paint-by-numbers pictures. He once worked for a paint company. One day in 1949, Dan’s boss asked him to sell more paintings. Then Dan had the idea of paint-by-numbers. He knew that the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci used to divide paintings into different parts and number them.

And he asked his students to colour those parts. Dan wanted to create pictures to let people paint in the same way. So he told the idea to his boss. And his boss asked him to create such pictures.

Dan created six different kinds paint-by-numbers pictures. At first, they didn’t sell well. In 1951, the company showed customers how to colour a large paint-by-numbers picture in a shopping center in New York. After that, paint-by-numbers became very popular. A paint-by-numbers picture sold for $2.50. In 1955, people spent $20 million on the company’s paint-by-numbers pictures.

Some people say that the paint-by-numbers pictures are not real art. But Dan only wanted everyone to enjoy art in an easy and happy way.

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Come to our English Week from 22 November to 26 November.

① You will find a lot of interesting English books there. Miss Li, our English teacher, will give a talk on (A) ________ to choose good English books.

(B) 一些学生将上演一部英语剧。They will act out the well-known English play Romeo and Juliet.

(C) ________ you are a good singer, you should take part in the English singing competition. ② You can sing your favourite English songs.

A lot of students like games, so we have lots of them! You can have fun with crossword puzzles. You will love them! ③

(D) Come and take part in English Week! Have fun and enjoy English!

Tomorrow I’m going to take part in an exchange programme in London. I’ll be there     60    . Over the weeks, I hope to learn about British culture and     61    . I’ll be an exchange student at a famous school in London. I’m already     62     because I don’t know anyone there. However, the British students are the same age as me, so I think we’ll     63    . They’ll introduce me to many new things. I also plan to tour around London. The next two weeks should be     64     for me.