Last term, Tom didn’t like his English class _____ his teacher spoke so quickly that he didn’t understand her most of the time. He was afraid _____ ask questions because of his poor pronunciation. He always hid behind his textbook _____ never said anything. So every class was like a bad dream. One day he watched an English movie _____ Toy Story. He fell _____ it. So he began to watch other English movies. Slowly, his pronunciation improved as well _____ listening to the conversations in English movies. He discovered that listening to _____ is the secret to language learning. He also learned useful sentences like “It’s a piece of cake.” Or “It _____ you right. ” He also _____ the new words in a dictionary in order to understand the story. Now he is good at English. He wants to learn new words and grammar _____ he can have a better understanding of English movies.

Many people believe that tea was first drunk nearly 5.000 years ago. It is said that a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink. More than 4,000 years later, Lu Yu, “the saint of tea”, mentioned Shen Nong in his book Cha Jing. The book describes how tea plants were grown and used to make tea. It also discusses where the finest tea leaves were produced and what kinds of water were used.

It is believed that tea was brought to Korea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries. In England tea didn’t appear until around 1660. But less than 100 years later, it had become the national drink. The tea trade from China to Western countries took place in the 19th century. This helped to spread the popularity of tea and the tea plant to more places around the world. Even though many people now know about tea culture, the Chinese are without doubt the ones who best understand the nature of tea.

You may know all kinds of cars’ names, but many people don’t know who the inventor of the first car was.

The first car was invented not by an Englishman, but by an American. His name was Henry Ford.

Henry was born into a poor family. He was the eldest of the six children. When he was a boy, he became interested in mending watches and machines. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. Soon he had to work in a machine shop for two dollars and fifty cents a week. In the evening, he repaired watches for another dollar a week. The hard life made him strong and able.

At that time, there was another interest in the life of the young Ford. He wished to make a machine. It could run without horses, so named “horseless carriage”. He overcome(克服) a lot of difficulties and in April 1893, the “horseless carriage” was invented at last. It was the first car.

Later Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. He was really the first inventor of the car in the world.

As a middle school student, you may have much stress at school. You may find it hard to deal with it. Here are some suggestions for you.

◆ Create a plan

This is a good way for you to deal with stress. You can write down all your class projects, after-school activities and anything else you need to do at school. It is the easiest way to stop yourself from forgetting anything important. Then you will get less stress.

Get plenty of sleep

Most teenagers get less than eight hours’ sleeping time each night. This can have a bad influence on your performance at school and give you much stress. Turn off the computer and the phone, and go to bed early at night.

◆ Have a healthy “escape(逃避)” from school

You can try to forget your schoolwork for a while and relaxed. You can go to the mall, visit the park, hang out with friends or do sports you love. These are all good ways to “escape”.

◆ Don’t procrastinate.

If you always wait until the last minute to start working, you’ll be easy to get much stress Remember not to procrastinate. When you get some work to do, just do it right away.

Dealing with stress can be hard, but not impossible.

I think April Fool’s Day is a very unusual holiday. On April Fool’s Day, you have to watch out for practical jokes. You also can’t trust everything you hear on April 1st. Even some main newspapers will put fake news to fool people. I heard a story about how on April Fool’s Day, a London newspaper printed an article about how aliens landed in England. This caused many people to be afraid and the local police were not very pleased with the newspaper.

It can be interesting to play tricks, but you’d better not to go too far. One April Fool’s Day, I called my mother from the university I attended. I told her that I failed all of my exams and because of this, I wasn’t able to graduate. She was so upset that she started to cry. I felt really bad about making her sad and tried to tell her it was just a joke. After I told her it was only an April Fool’s Day’s joke, she got angry with me that she hung up the phone. I had to call her back and apologize before she would talk to me again.

April Fool’s Day’s jokes can be funny, but you should be careful not to hurt people’s feelings by embarrassing them too much. Before you act, you should always make sure to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and think about how they might feel.

Hou Yi shot down the nine     46     and saved the people on the earth. A goddess thanked Hou Yi by giving him magic medicine. Hou Yi planned to take the medicine with his wife. Pang Meng tried to     47     the medicine. Chang’e refused to give Pang Meng the medicine and     48     it all. As a result, Chang’e became light and flew to the     49    . Hou Yi was very sad and watched the moon at night, and wished his     50     could come back.