Terry often watches his mother cook. He thinks it’s interesting. One day, Terry’s mother said to him, “Terry, why don’t you ________ to cook?” “Can I?” asked Terry. “Of course,” said his mom. “Cooking is a(n) ________ skill for all of us.” “Will you teach ________ then?” Terry asked. “Sure!” his mom said.

That weekend, Terry’s mom taught him some cooking skills when she cooked a meal in the ________. She told him that cooking was not ________ at all. “You just need to know how to mix (混合) the ________ things,” she told him. “Cooking is like a science experiment (实验). If you know the skills ________ are careful enough, the results (结果) will be OK.”

She also told him about safety (安全) in the kitchen like how to ________ the knives and fire. With his mom’s ________, Terry cooked his first meal: vegetable soup. All the family ________ it because it tasted (尝起来) very good.

Four Treasures of Study is Chinese brush, ink, paper, and inkstone. It got its name in the Northern and Southern Dynasties（朝代）. In the old days, People used them for writing and drawing in their everyday life, but now they are used because of people’s interest.

It’s said that Chinese brush was first made by Meng Tian in the Qin Dynasty. So it has a history of over 2,000 years. The body of Chinese brush can be made of different kinds of materials like bamboo, wood, gold and so on because of different needs. But the materials of the head are usually animal hair. Hu Brush is the best Chinese brush that comes from Shanlian, Zhejiang.

Paper refers to Xuan paper. Xuan paper smells（闻起来）nice because it’s usually made from rice plants. And it can take in ink easily so people like to use it. Paintings on Xuan paper look more beautiful than on other kinds of paper and it can be kept well after many years. Nowadays, the Xuan paper made in Jing County of Anhui Province is People’s favorite.

In ancient China, ink is used together with inkstone. Before man-made ink came out, people used natural（天然的）ink. Inkstone is the head of the four treasures. There are many fans of Duan Inkstone. It is made in Zhaoqing, Guangdong.

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Mooncakes are a kind of special food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. They are in the shape of a full moon because people hope all their family can get together all the time.

When I was a child, my family always got together in my grandparents’ home on the Mid-Autumn Festival. We sat around a big round table and made mooncakes by hand together. We followed grandma’s ways of making mooncakes. And my grandpa told interesting stories to us. Everyone was tired but with a happy face.

As I was older, my family and I moved to different cities. We were busy working and learning, so we seldom sat together and talked with each other. But it was different on the Mid-Autumn Festival. There were different kinds of beautiful and delicious (美味的) mooncakes in the shops. However, my grandma still asked us to go back to make mooncakes together. She told us she liked doing that for it could let us get together and let us not forget those old hard days.

We all know what a mooncake brings for us. It passes (传递) our love to our family and makes Chinese virtue (美德) be passed for a long time.