In England, students start to go to middle school when they are 11 years old. There they start from Grade 7. Most students _____ to the school near their houses. King Afred’s School is a middle school in England. _____ has about 1,800 students. Students come to school _____ 8:45. Most students walk to school. Some students go to school on school buses. In this school, there _____ four lessons every day. Students stay in every lesson for one hour and 15 minutes. They have many different _____, like English, maths, PE, music and computer.

The first two lessons are over at 11:15. There is a kitchen in every classroom, _____ the students can make their food. Students eat something and talk with friends _____ for 25 minutes. When is lunch time? Lunch is at 12:55. And students can _____ a hot meal. Students can also bring something to eat from _____ homes. From 1:35 to 1:55, students listen to school news. There is only one lesson after lunch. ______ last lesson is over at 3:10. Most students can make their way home.

Song Yihong is a 12-year-old boy in Fujian. He wants to be tall, so he ______ to play basketball.

He is one of the young ______ lovers. And now he knows how to play basketball well. He is a basketball player in a basketball team (队伍). Every weekend he ______ early to learn playing in the team. He learns from ______ on TV, too. “I like watching Yao Ming playing games. I am good at shooting (投篮) and some of my ______ in the team are good at carrying the ball. We are ______ and that makes us a team!” He also says playing basketball is fun. But ______ it is difficult and sometimes it is dangerous. “I learn how to face hard time in my study and that is ______ for me.” He says with a happy face.

Sun Wei is a teacher in the basketball team. He is happy because people in China ______ basketball games. “Some of them are very young students, like Song Yihong.” He says. He would like to ______ students to play basketball games well. He is working very hard at it.

People catch fish in lakes or at sea. Usually, they catch fish on a boat or in a ship, just like what we see in our life or on TV. But in a small place in Belgium (比利时), people catch fish on horses.

Look! The man on the horse back is wearing special clothes and going into the sea. He is using a fishing net (网) behind the horse. When the horse is walking, fish go into the net.

The horse can stay and check in water. The only thing the man on the horse needs to do is to keep the horse’s head up. This can stop water from going into the nose of the horse. Horses get exhausted when they work too long in water. So every hour or every half an hour, the man and the horse stop fishing in water and go back to the shore (岸上).

Today, only a few people in Belgium keep the traditional fishing. And they think it’s good and important. Because unlike big boats or ships, it helps keep the water clean.