When you are reading something in English, you may often meet a new word. What’s the best way to know it?

You may look it up in the English-Chinese dictionary (词典). It will tell you anything about the word: the pronunciation (发音), the part of speech (词性), the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word. But how can you know where the word is in thousands of English words? How to find it in a dictionary quickly?

First, all the English words are in the alphabetical order. In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the letter A, then B, C, D, E... That means, if there are two words “do” and “put”, “do” will be certainly before “put”. Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may look at the second letter, then the third, the fourth ... for example, “pat” is before “picture”, “bald” before “balloon”. Do you understand how to look up a word in a dictionary?

The dictionary will be your good friend, we can learn better from it. I hope you’ll use it as often as possible in your English learning.

Playing a sport well may be difficult at first, but don’t worry—you can do it ! The following are some tips for you.

__________________If you don’t know what sport you like to play, try a few! The P. E. class is usually a great chance to try new sports.

Get the right equipment (装备). You can ask your parents for help. For example, you can ask your parents to buy you a pair of soccer shoes by doing housework for two months for them.

Practise, practise and practise. Practise playing your favorite sport with your friends as much as you can. If you don’t have anyone to play with, then practise by yourself. Sometimes you may get the chance (机会) to make new friends when you play.

Eat healthily. A healthy body is very important in playing sports. Stop eating hamburgers and ice-cream. Try to eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables. Stop eating high-calorie food like chocolate or cakes. Try to eat some healthy food like carrots or apples.

Watch games. Watch games to see how the players play. The more games you watch, the more you will know about the sport.

Because of the “Double Reduction” policy (“双减”政策), students don’t have much homework to do. But we still need to study hard, especially English. How to learn English well? Here are some good ideas for you.

    32     It is not the duty of your teachers or parents. You must take an active part in your classes!

    33     It’s a little difficult to learn English alone. Also, it’s difficult to learn how to speak English if you don’t have an English teacher or someone else to talk with.

    34     You need to speak English often. You should do all of your home- work, and study words after class.

    35     To make good progress, you should study at least 5 hours each week. Don’t stop for a long time even during a holiday! Make English your hobby and have fun! You can improve your English through other ways:

※Read English books you like.

※Sing your favorite English songs again and again.

※    36     It can help you with your English.

I’m Liu Qiang. I’m ________ 11-year-old boy and I come from Wuhan. It’s an old city. There are ________ people in my family: my grandparents, my parents, my sister and I. I have a big ________. My sister and I ________ students in a middle school. Our school is small. ________ is near our home.

My sister and I get up early from Monday to ________ because we must go to school before 7:40 on school days and we must go to an English club by bike ________ 7:50 on Saturday   morning. At school we have English, P. E. , Chinese, art, music and so on. Of all the subjects, art is my favorite. I can ________ very well. What about my sister? She likes P. E. She is good at playing volleyball.

My sister and I like ________ friends. Many of our friends often play with ________ after school. On Sunday morning, we don't get up ________ because we don’t go to school or clubs this day. We often play volleyball or soccer. We are ________ about doing sports. In the afternoon my sister and I usually do homework for four hours. There is always ________ homework for us to do. My sister always asks me for ________. It is difficult ________ her to learn English well.

My name is Linda Miller. Linda is my     52     name. Miller is my     53     name. Susan Green is my     54     and Jack Green is my uncle. Their     55     Sally Green is my cousin. Sally is a     56     girl. In her room, you can see her books in the bookcase. Her keys are on her desk and her     57     are in her schoolbag. I am not tidy. I always     58     Sally, “Where is my ruler? Where is my schoolbag?     59     are my keys?” My mother always says to     60    , “You must clean (打扫) your room. Don’t (不要) always ask Sally for     61    .”

I have     62     orange desk. Two books are on it. One is my English book, and the other (另一本) is my math book. You can also see some CDs on the desk. The CDs are     63    , too. My pencil box is on the desk. A pen, an eraser and a ruler     64     in it. The pen is black, the eraser is yellow, and the ruler is white.     65     is my pencil? Ah, it’s under the desk. Is my computer game on the desk, too? No, it isn’t. I can’t find     66     in my room.

72. 假如你是李明，今年13岁，有一个大家庭，房间也很大，里面有很多东西，例如床、椅子、书等。这些东西放在房间里不同的位置，请你展开想象，请根据提示和表格内容，写一篇介绍自己的文章，60—70词左右。