Gina is the only child of her parents and her parents love her very much. When she was a little child, her parents never _______ her anything. She believed that she could get everything she wanted from her parents. Also, she _______ shared things with her friends. That’s why nobody would like to play with her.

Gina was one of the _______ students in her class because she was smart and hard-working. But her good grades didn’t bring her any friend _______ Rita joined her class. No one else would like to talk to Gina _______ Rita because Rita was new here. One day, Gina told her mother Rita cried, because Rita couldn’t understand what the math teacher taught in class and made quite a few mistakes in her math homework.

“Why don’t you _______ her out?” asked her mother.

“Mummy, it has _______ to do with me.” said Gina.

“I don’t think so, dear. Rita is your friend, isn’t she? And if you don’t help her, who will?” said her mother.

Seeing Rita crying again, Gina decided to help with her math. In this way, Rita began to do better _______ math. Then Rita told everyone, “Gina is _______ a great friend and she is always ready to help others.” That made Gina surprised, because it was wonderful _______ a friend. From then on, Gina was happy to help others and made some more friends.

Will there be robots in our homes in the future? I think so. In fact, there are already some “family robots” in our life. Jibo, made by Americans, is such a family robot. It has a big round face and a chubby (圆嘟嘟) body. It looks like a cartoon character. It almost seems alive. When you say, “Hey, Jibo.” It dances and turns to you. When it talks, it moves its head and body. There are no eyes or mouth on its face. But it can use animated icons (动画图标) to show its feelings. Jibo can do simple things, such as taking photos and reading news. And he might learn to do more in the future.

Do you know Pretty Little Liars（《美少女的谎言》）? It’s one of the most popular American soap operas right now. It is about the life of four girls（Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily）after their best friend Alison was killed. Lucy Hale played the role of Aria quite well and won the Teen Choice Award in 2010 and 2011.

Lucy was born on June 14, 1989. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes. Lucy is afraid of flying so she doesn’t like taking the plane. It makes her happy to go shopping, dance and hang out with friends in her free time. Lucy knew from a very young age that she would be a star, and she loved singing most. At the age of eight, she started to take singing and acting lessons.

Lucy joined in a talent show for teenagers when she was 14. Although she wasn’t famous to many people at that time, she began to act in different TV shows. All of these small roles brought her the biggest role in 2010—she got a leading role in Pretty Little Liars. In 2014, her album （专辑）—Road Between came out. She often said, “Music is always my first love, although I am famous for my acting in Pretty Little Liars.”

Do you know Black Friday? It is the day following Thanksgiving Day (the fourth Thursday of November) in the United States. People think it means the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US, and most stores and shopping malls open very early. Things will be on great sale for people to buy.

Black Friday is not a holiday, but California and some other states(州) in the USA think it as a holiday just for some people who don't work in shops like officers, teachers and students. They can have holidays both on Thanksgiving and on the following Friday. In this way, they make it a four-day weekend, so more people can go shopping during these days. It is the busiest(最繁忙的) shopping day of the whole year in America. Like the Double Eleventh Day in China.

Black Friday first appeared in Philadelphia. People used the word to describe the heavy traffic jam(堵塞) and the most crowded streets on the day after Thanksgiving, because people all went into the shopping malls and shops to buy things they wanted. It brought a lot of trouble to the drivers and policemen. And also on this day, the business could move into "black", and this meant that it helped the shop owners make a lot of money. That was why people called it "Black Friday". More than twenty years later, the phrase became more and more popular.

What kind of students do you usually stay with? Do they study a lot or do they just want to play all the time?

At the age of 16, Einstein was always busy playing with a group of mischievous（顽皮捣蛋的）kids. He failed all his subjects. One morning, when Einstein was ready to go fishing with his friends, his father stopped him and said, “Einstein, you’re so interested in playing all day that you didn’t do well in all your subjects. I’m worried about your study.”

“Jack and Robert also failed, but they still go fishing.”

“My boy, you can’t think like that.” his father said. “Please listen to a fable（寓言故事）now. There were two cats playing on the top of a house. They fell down the chimney（烟囱）. When they came out of the chimney, one of the cat’s face was black with soot（烟灰）, while the other cat’s face was clean. Seeing the soot-faced cat, the clean cat thought its face must be dirty, so it quickly ran to the riverside and washed its face. The soot-faced cat saw the clean-faced cat and thought its face was also clean, so it just swaggered down the street.”

“Einstein, no one can be your ‘mirror’. You have to think for yourself. If you just follow others, you will never learn well.”

Hearing this, Einstein walked back to his room. He decided to study instead of caring about what his friends were doing. This made him successful.

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. Life today is easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. We can see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.

Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was not clean in a place any longer, people went to another place. Now human beings are slowly polluting the whole world, which makes this difficult.

There are many kinds of pollution such as noise pollution and water pollution. But air pollution is still the most serious, because it’s bad for all the living things in the world. Many countries don’t allow people to burn（燃烧）anything bad for air in houses and factories in the city. Pollution by SO₂ is now the most dangerous and the worst, because of the heavy traffic. People say it’s the best to ride bikes. If you choose to ride bikes in your daily life, the pollution will be less and less. But in fact, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not because bikes are expensive or people are tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of the cars on the road becomes larger and people even can’t ride bikes on the streets. The road is filled with so many cars with their bad air coming out. So more people put away their bikes and choose to go to work by car. Then, things are getting worse and worse.

So the government（政府）should take actions in the first place. It’s also our duty to save the earth and it’s time to protect the environment together. Everybody should play a part in making our earth a better place for people.

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