Hello, everyone! My name is Jenny. I am 12 years old. Today is March 8th. It’s ________ Day. It’s also my father’s ________ birthday. He is forty years old. He is a doctor in the Children’s Hospital. He likes ________ very much. My sister, my brother and I often buy some books for him. My sister is a middle school student. She is 15 years old. Her ________ is on July 21st. She is a lovely girl. All of us like ________. Her favorite color is ________ and she has a lot of purple things. I want to buy a purple notebook for her on her birthday. My brother is only 8 years old. His birthday is in the last month of a year. It’s in ________. He can play ping-pong very well, but his ping-pong bat was lost last week. I know he ________ a new ping-pong bat now. I want to buy one for him. ________ is my mother? Oh, she is 38 years old. And it’s very ________ to remember her birthday. It’s on New Years Day, January 1st. As for me, I can only have my happy birthday party every four years because my birthday is on February 29th. We have February 29th once every four years.

How are you?

I’m in Beijing now. I like Beijing very much. I have two friends here. They are Bill and Li Ming. Bill is from Canada and Li Ming is from China. We are in the same class.

Li Ming often helps me with my Chinese. I can speak a little Chinese now. All the teachers in our school are very kind to me. I’m very happy.

I like Chinese food. I sometimes eat out with my friends. I like Guangdong food and Sichuan food. They are nice. Jiaozi is my favorite (最喜欢的) food. I often have it for dinner. I have milk and bread for breakfast.

How are you in England?

Yours,

Bob

Jessie is an eleven-year-old student in Star Primary School. It is a big school with many trees and flowers. There are 1,800 students and 220 teachers in it. There are sixty classrooms in the classroom building (楼). And every class has 30 students.

Here is a map of her school. Let’s have a look at the map!

Jessie likes her school very much. But she likes the music classroom best because it is very special. There are some desks in it, but there aren’t any chairs. Guess! Where do they sit? They sit on yoga balls. They are red, orange, blue and green. They are for students. Sitting on yoga balls is so fun. All the students like them very much. There are many pictures on the wall and there are many flowers in the front of the classroom. They make her classroom very good-looking.

Mrs. Smith buys some fruit every day.     31     Mrs. Smith likes apples. Her daughter likes strawberries and her son likes bananas.     32     He likes oranges. Mrs. Smith buys some tomatoes and eggs for dinner. Tomato and egg noodles are her favorite food.

    33     Mrs. Smith likes to make salad (制作沙拉) with them.     34     He likes chicken and hamburgers, so he is very fat.

After dinner, they always play sports.     35     Where are their daughter and son? Look! They are playing baseball over there.

Chinese schools often have     36     (parent) meetings. They help them know about their children’s (孩子们) schoolwork.

In our school, the meeting is on the     37     (two) Friday afternoon of a new school year. The next day is weekend,     38     teachers and parents have enough (足够的) time to have a good talk (谈话). The meeting     39     (start) at 6:00 p.m. and most parents can come to school after work.

Sometimes the meetings are on the evening, teachers talk with parents. These meetings are often very short. It’s about     40     hour. These face-to-face (面对面) talks are very good     41     teachers, parents and students. In our school, students can listen to the talks. They can sit near their parents. How do you feel when you hear your teachers and parents talk about you? I     42     (real) feel happy, because I am good at all my     43     (lesson). I want     44     (be) a scientist (科学家). I work hard every day.

How about     45     (you) school? Is that OK with you?

My name is Liu Yue and I have a good friend. Her name is Lisa. She is friendly and kind. We go to the same school. Her favorite subjects are math and geography. I like biology and history.

We live in the same street (街道). I have two brothers and she has two sisters, Fiona and Julie. She was born in China but her parents are both English. Her father worked in America when she was born. He is a doctor (医生). Her mom is beautiful. She has long hair and green eyes but Lisa has blue eyes.

We often have lunch together and we like watching TV after lunch. We love music. On Saturday and Sunday, we have no classes. We go shopping on weekends. Lisa likes skirts in red and I like hats in different colors. We enjoy shopping everywhere.

56. 请写一篇短文介绍你的学校生活情况。

My School Life

Hi! My name is Jack. I’m 13 years old. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________