Hello, everyone! ________ name is Wang Yaqi. Do you want to know something about my family? There ________ four people in my family. My mother, my father, my sister and I. My father is a driver. He is tall and strong. He is very kind. He likes ________ and writing. I love him very much. My mother is a farmer. She has big eyes and long ________. Everyday she does a lot of housework. She likes listening to music, ________ it can make her feel happy. My sister is ________. She is a cute and clever girl. She studies at Dongguan No. 2 Middle School. We are in ________ same school. She is good at ________ English. She often helps me with my English. I am ________ Class 3, Grade 7. My hobby is collecting stamps.

Everyone in my family is friendly. My parents love me so much and I love them, ________. This is my family—a happy and warm family!

Mr. Miller is a German. He doesn’t _________ much English. He has a good friend in America. The friend’s name is James. Mr. Miller _________ a trip to see his friend every year.

One year, Mr. Miller goes to _________. There he always goes out with James. When James can’t take him out, he just stays in James’s _________.

It’s Monday today. James is very _________ and can’t have lunch with him. Mr. Miller must _________ for lunch by himself. In a restaurant, he wants to eat some mushrooms (蘑菇). But he doesn’t know how to say “mushroom”. _________ he takes out a pencil and draws a picture of a mushroom on the paper. Then he meets a girl in the _________. “Excuse me,” he says. “I need this. Please _________ me.” The girl sees the picture and goes out __________. After some time, she comes in with an umbrella (雨伞)!

Are you an animal lover? Do you keep a pet at home? Now, some young people in China are keeping a special “pet”—the mango pit (芒果核). They keep the mango pits as “pets” and they show their new “pets” on the Internet. They did it for fun at first, but now they feel it is an enjoyable hobby.

Why do they take up the special (特殊的) hobby? Someone says that it gives them the same joy as keeping dogs and cats. Others say that they feel relaxed when they touch the washed mango pits.

19-year-old Liu Xiaomeng is a mango pit “pet owner”. She has two such pets named “Da Mao” and “Er Mao”. She shares her mango pits’ “growth (成长)” stories online and gets a lot of attention (关注). What do people think of the hobby? Some people find the hobby a waste of time, but others feel that it’s good, and that the hobby is a “great pastime”.

Would you like to keep such a lovely mango pit? What do you want to call it?

What do you do on your birthday? I think I always have boring birthdays. I want to have a     51     one. My birthday is on a Wednesday this year. I will be a 12-year-old girl. I want to have a small birthday     52    . My friends and classmates will come to my home for the party. We will read     53    , listen to music, sing, dance and eat birthday cake. I want to get some birthday gifts from my friends. I like     54     with my cousins, too. On my birthday, I will thank my parents, because they do a lot for me. I will work hard to get good grades, do well in school and at home. I     55     this will bring my parents a happy day.