Hello, everyone! I work as a volunteer (志愿者) in our school’s lost and found office. Today I want ________ you something about the lost and found office in our school.

Some ________ in our school are careless (粗心的). They often ________ their books, schoolbags, pens, and many other things somewhere in the school. Other students find ________ and send them here.

Look! There’s ________ nice watch. It is blue-and-white. Is it yours? There’s also a black schoolbag. And there ________ some textbooks (课本) in it. Oh, Kate’s name is ________ it. Maybe the schoolbag is hers. Look at the pencil box. There is a pen, two erasers and some crayons in it. There are also two basketballs on the table. Some boys in our school like ________ basketball after class. The basketballs must ________ theirs. Look al the cute toy (玩具) dog. What’s its name? Whose dog is it? I don’t know. But students must be more ________ with their own things.

Tom is a 12-year-old boy. He ________ from Australia. But he lives in China now.

Tom has many good habits (习惯). For example, he ________ science books every night. Tom loves reading so much and he studies hard every day. So he does very well in his ________. His favourite ________ is science. And in the future he wants to be a scientist.

He likes sports, too. He exercises every morning. ________ doing morning exercise, he goes to school by bike. He likes riding bikes, because it is good for his ________. He also likes swimming. It takes him two hours to practice (练习) swimming every day after school. On weekends, he ________ at 7:00 a.m. He swims in the pool for three hours. After that, he goes home to do his homework. Each week, Tom spends at least 16 hours ________ in the pool.

Tom keeps spending ________ reading and practicing, “Knowledge (知识) can make me know more about the world. Practice can ________ me get good score in competitions (比赛).” He says.

Next Sunday is Mother’s Day. Mrs. Miller wants to buy some gifts for her family. She is in the shop now.

Mrs. Miller wants to buy a black schoolbag for her little son. Black is his favourite color. But all the schoolbags in the shop are brown. She wants to buy her daughter a yellow jacket (夹克), but the yellow jackets are all too big.

Her husband likes playing basketball. She wants to buy him a basketball, but there are only volleyballs (排球) and footballs in the shop.

Mrs. Miller wants to buy a sweater for her mother, but the sweaters are too small and the color is not beautiful. And she wants to buy her father a watch, but the price of the watches is not good. They are too expensive.

Mrs. Miller is very upset (难过的). She wants to buy special presents for all the special people in her family on Mother’s Day, but she buys nothing in the end.

In the future, a kind of little cars may take the place of (代替) today’s big ones. Let me tell you about this kind of car.

This kind of car is only as small as a bike. But it can carry two people. If everyone drives such a car in the future, there will be no pollution in the air. It will be good for environment (环境).

There will be no traffic jams in the city, because this kind of car is very small. And there will be more space for people to walk on the street. So it can save people’s time.

The little cars in the future will be cheap. Everyone can buy it. They can go only 65 kilometers an hour, so it will be safe to drive. This kind of cars will need new gasoline (汽油) and it can save a lot of money. They will go 4,500 kilometers before they stop to put gasoline in it.

I am a schoolgirl. My brother and I are twins. We are both 13 years old. My brother and I study at No. 1 Middle School.     31     Our parents are both teachers in our school. They work hard. There are twenty-five boys and eighteen girls in our class.

We go to school from Monday to Friday.    32     We usually get up at six, and have breakfast at six thirty. We go to school at seven. Class begins at eight. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We have lunch at twelve fifteen. At four p.m. we do sports. We go home at five p.m.     33     We do our homework at seven and finish it at nine every evening. And then we go to bed at half past nine. But sometimes we go to sleep at about ten.

    34     We study Chinese, math, English, geography, physics, history, politics and other lessons. What is our favourite subject?    35     We always work hard.