Hello, I’m Tom. We have some ________ in our school—the music club, the chess club and so on. Many boys want to ________ the sports club. What sports can they ________? Basketball, volleyball and tennis. They ________ basketball best. They think it’s interesting and ________. They ________ to be a basketball player like Jeremy Lin. Some girls ________ like playing basketball.

Can you play basketball? No? Then I can ________ you how to play it. I’m in the basketball club. I can play it ________. It’s not easy to be a good player. You can’t play it well ________ hard work.

Hi, I’m John. I’m thirteen and I’m in Class Two. My good friend is Sam. He is my classmate. We have many classes from Monday to Friday. For me, I like science. I think it’s useful. But Sam doesn’t like it. What is his favourite subject? He likes math very much. He thinks it is interesting. Mr. Green is our math teacher, and he is the class teacher of Class Three. He is a nice teacher. My math isn’t good and he always helps me with it.

Of all the subjects, we like P. E. best, because we like to play ball games. It’s great fun to do sports! When do we have P. E. then? Only on Wednesday and Friday. So we like these two days.

In my free time, I like watching TV and playing basketball. Sam doesn’t like watching TV. He think it’s boring and not healthy. He’s right. On Sunday, Sam always asks me to do sports. I think he’s really a good friend.

Jenny likes reading very much. She often goes to the school library to read books. Here is her library card.

As students, we should have some good ways of study and life. Here are some.

Good ways of study

We must work hard at every subject at school. In class we must listen to our teachers carefully. After school we should do our homework on time. If we meet some difficult problems in our study, we can ask our teachers or classmates for help.

Books are our good friends. So in our free time, we should read more books. They can help us open our eyes to the world.

Good ways of life

We should get up early in the morning. We can do some running or reading.

We should keep us clean every day. We had better brush our teeth twice or three times a day and wash our hands often.

It is not a good idea to have too long hair for boy students. Teachers don’t like it, right? Boy students should often have their hair cut.

Dear Maomao,

Here is some advice on listening. I hope these tips may help you.

First, relax yourself. Before you start to listen to something, you need to relax. This will help you with your listening. Don’t get nervous or excited.

Second, listen to the first sentence carefully. The first sentence tells you a lot about the whole passage, so listen to it carefully.

Third, think when you’re listening. When you’re listening, try to do some thinking. For example, you can think about the following questions: What happened? When, where and how? What is the result(结果) and what does the speaker want to tell us? In this way you may understand the passage better.

Fourth, listen to important facts. It’s important for you to remember some important facts. For example, if the passage is a science report, you should try to remember the result. This is helpful, too.

Eric

56. 校学生会策划了一个课后活动项目。假设你是学生会成员李华，请你根据以下提示和要求写一篇英语短文，介绍其中的活动内容及益处。

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