A great family party is a fantastic way to have fun with those you love. But most family parties fail______they are not planned enough. So, what can you do to make your family party a great success?

Enough food is______to have a great party. However, you need to think about your ______．If you plan to have kids join the party，make sure you______some kids friendly food. Sandwiches and bread are usually______with kids.

Prepare some snacks. People like to have snacks such as cakes, cookies and pop corns after the meal. Put a table outside______snacks on it.

Have some fun games. You can plan group games that will make people______one another. This is important if you have guests who don't know each other______. Some fun outdoor group games are volleyball and tennis.

A successful party can have flaws. ______ help it to be a great event. Relax and______yourself.If you have enough food and fun games，your party will be a success!

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Have you ever seen a car without a driver? It sounds crazy, but these computer —driven driverless cars will soon be filling roads near you. Companies like Google and Tesla have been designing and testing these cars, and they just need to see if they value for money, work out insurance（保险）issues, and run final tests to check if they can run alongside human driven cars on the road.

So how do they work? The cars have sensors(应器）all around which can find other cars and objects in the road. Sensors on the wheels also help when parking, so the cars know how far it is from the outside of the road or other parked cars. Road signs are read by by cameras, and satellite navigation systems are used, so the cars know how to get where you want to go. All you have to do is type in the address! Finally, a central computer system takes in all the information that it receives from the sensors and cameras and works out when to speed up, stop, and turn.

Sound like your idea of heaven（天堂）? Sitting back, looking out of the windows and even watching a film or reading a book while “driving” would be possible with this new technology. You wouldn’t have to worry about remembering directions to where you are going. In addition, computers would be better drivers than humans —they would obey the speed limit and have quicker action times when in dangerous situations. However, there are many disadvantages of driverless cars. Computers would have difficulties making ethical（道德的）decisions: if a child ran into the road, would the computer choose to hit the child or change the direction suddenly and potentially kill the car’s passengers? Moreover, I personally find driving fun —I’d miss driving a car myself. There would also be many other decisions to be made —should children, or drunk people, be allowed in a driverless car by themselves? Or would there need to be a person with a driving license in the car at all times?

Although being driven around by a machine would perhaps mean that no one needs a driving license, and saving money for everyone, many people would be put out of a job when driverless cars appear. Bus, taxi and train drivers as well as driving instructors would be made unnecessary. I’m not certain if I’d want a driverless car —but it’s only a matter of time before they’ll become more affordable and common on our roads.

Twice a month, Nona Avery sits down, picks up her pen and writes a letter to her best fiend. The British woman has been doing it for 77 years. She has sent more than 1,500 letters to her penfriend in America.

The hobby started in 1942. Nona, then 12,was reading a magazine. Some ads in the magazine were asking for penfriend. One of them caught Nona’s eye. It was from Alice Powers. She lived in America and was also 12. “I was very excited,” Nona said. “I sat down at once, wrote a letter, put it in an envelope-together with a picture of myself-and posted it.”

Nona spent every day waiting for the postman. Two weeks later—which felt like a lifetime—a reply dropped through the letterbox. “I was overjoyed,” Nona said. “There was a letter and a picture of my new friend. She was on the other side of the world!”

Nona and Alice wanted to learn more about each other. They kept wring. The two found that they had a lot in common(共同点). They liked the same books and the same films.

However, both Nona and Alice were too poor to afford(承担起) a plane ticket. They didn’t meet until 1987. “I was excited to see the person I had been writing to for over forty years,’’ Nona said.

Now in their eighties, Nona and Alice are still writing to each other. And they still write by hand. “Writing is much more intimate(亲密的), so why shall we change the habit of a lifetime?” Nona said.

Everybody knows how important it is for students to get a good night’s sleep every night. You cannot do your best and keep up with all of your tasks unless (除非) you sleep well. I’m sure you already know that you should go to bed at a proper hour. Most experts (专家) agree that the best number of hours is eight, and this has been accepted as common sense. However, I was young once and I know that most of you get much less sleep than that—and in some ways it will influence your schoolwork.

I read an interesting article in a teacher’s magazine recently. They did a study of 848 students in Wales. Worryingly, the result showed that teenagers facing a new problem. They may go to bed and get up at a suitable times but a growing number are waking up in the middle of the night, not to use the bathroom or have a snack but because of a new phenomenon (现象): FOMO—Fear Of Missing Out(错过)!

According to the article, schoolchildren are suffering because of a growing trend (趋势) to during the night to check their phones. Afraid of missing a reply or chance to join in a chat, teenagers are waking at all times of the night, going online. All this happens when they should be sound asleep (酣睡).

Experts are worries about this growing trend and the report shows some worrying facts that I’d like to share with you: 23% of 12 to 15-year-old wake up nearly every night to use phones. Another 15% wake up at night once a week for the same reason.

One in three students are always tired and unable to study well. Students who use phones during the night are more possible to suffer from depression (抑郁) and anxiety. So switch off your phones at night. The world won’t end. I give you my word that you won’t miss anything important.

Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000miles to its winter home in central Mexico(墨西哥). How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don’t have an answer.

For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.

The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place? Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.

How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation(代)makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.

Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces(繁衍), and then dies. On the trip north, two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.

Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.

In earlier times people didn’t build houses. They lived in caves（洞穴）. Some travelled, carrying tents with them. About 10, 000 years ago people began to build houses. Here are some examples of different houses from all over the world.

Houses of wood and felt（毛毡）: Yurts

Today in Mongolia（蒙古）, people build their yurts in places where water is easy to get, and where there is grass for their horses and sheep. Wood and felt are common materials for yurts. The felt gives protection（保护）from the weather and keeps the cold and heat（热）away.

Houses of mud（泥）and wood: Tulou

In many parts of China, people have lived in large groups, inside the high mud walls of a tulou. Tulou means “earth building”. Inside there can be 250 rooms around a big courtyard（庭院）. The buildings are made of wood. In the courtyard people can cook, wash and dry clothes and children can play. Families also get together there for celebrations. At first, the tulou was built as safe places to protect people.

Houses of mud bricks（砖）

In hot places, people make mud bricks and build a house with them because there isn’t much wood. The roof is flat and people can sleep there. People build some houses inside a courtyard and keep the animals in the yard.

Houses of ice and snow

The Inuit（因纽特人）built igloos. An igloo is also called a snow house. Hunters stay in an igloo during the winter season. Larger igloos were built for families. They used snow to help keep out the cold.

Whenever we see something new, we wish to write it down in one form or another. We will be happier if we share our experience with others. Then how can we write better travel stories? The following may be of h    81    .

Memory（记忆）and notes

Don’t believe your memory. You may have a good memory, but you cannot remember e    82     well. You are seeing and hearing so much i    83     while you’re on a trip. When you return to write about your travel stories, you may f    84     something. So you should make notes, take photos, and take videos if possible. In this way, you can describe your travel and write it down w    85     missing anything.

Photographs and your stories

Photographs are very useful for you to remember what you have seen. As you see the photographs, you can describe your experiences e    86     by remembering how you felt when you took photos. When you are writing about your travel stories, make sure they are not too short b    87     your reader may not get the full impression（印象）of them. And you also need to make sure they are not so long that the reader may get b    88    .

Popular factors（因素）

Make sure your stories have popular factors and the reader will find your travel stories not only pleasant to read, but u    89     as well. Popular factors are food to eat, places to stay and the things to look out for while t    90    . They should also include what you’ve found useful and the things you miss so much.

91. 假设你是一个叫做张亮的男孩，请你根据下表内容做个自我介绍。