In England winter is not very cold and summer is not very hot. Why is this?

England is an island country. In winter the sea brings warm air to England. In summer the sea is cooler than the land. The winds from the sea bring cool air to England.

The winds blow over England all the year. They blow from the southwest. They bring rain to England all the year. England has a lot of rain all the year. There is more rain in the west of England than in the east of England.

In England four seasons are all three months long. Winter is in December, January and February. Spring is in March, April and May. Summer is in June, July and August. Autumn is in September, October and November.

People eat different things in different parts of the world. In some eastern countries, people like to eat rice as their main food.   Sometimes they eat it twice or three times a day, breakfast, lunch and supper. They usually eat it with meat, fish and vegetables.

The Japanese people eat a lot of fish, and they also eat a lot of rice.   So they make different kinds of seafood sushi.

In some western countries such as Britain and Australia, the most important food is bread or potatoes. People there cook potatoes in different ways. Some people only eat fruit and vegetables. They don't eat meat or fish or anything that comes from animals but from plants. This kind of people are called vegetarians. They think it is healthier for them to eat vegetables than meat.

It is six o'clock in the evening.   We are all ______.   My mum is a Chinese teacher.   She works very hard.   But now she is cooking the _______.   My dad has just arrived home.   He is a businessman. He ______has a lot of things to do every day. At home, he sometimes helps mum do the housework. Now, he is ready to help mum ______the vegetables. My grandpa is watching the weather report on TV in _______.   My grandma is doing some cleaning in her room.   I am, of course, doing my homework.   And our pet, Sam is sitting under my desk and watching me.

Mr. Jackson began to work in a middle school w_____he was twenty-three. He has worked there for forty years. At the beginning, he taught u_______English. He worked hard and was kind to his students.   He t________ care of his students and all the other teachers. All the students and teachers liked him very much.   Twenty years ago, he became headmaster and he worked much h_______. Although there are over thousands of students in the school, Mr. Jackson can remember almost all the students' n_______.

All the students in Mr. Wang's class are happy this morning.   They received a letter from Mr. Green who taught them English every Thursday for three months last year. He went back to the United States last summer and started teaching at a high school in New York. He told the students that all the students in his class now want to make friends with Chinese students and they are interested in China. Now the students are talking about the letter and how to become friends with Mr. Green's students.