My name is Li Hua. I am twelve years old. I am a student ______ Sunshine Middle School.

Our school isn’t very big, ______ it is very beautiful. There are about three thousand students in our school. They are ______ students and work hard. I ______ in a flat in Guangzhou ______ my parents. My home isn’t far from the school, so sometimes I walk there.

I’m in Grade One. There ______ four classes in this grade. There are forty-five students in my class. Twenty-five are girls. Twenty are boys. ______ favourite subjects are English, Chinese and Music. We usually have sports in the afternoon. I am good at ______ basketball. I think ______ is exciting to play football with my friends in my free time.

I like my school because the teachers are good. They are ______ to us and they love their work very much.

Children around the world are familiar with stories like The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea and The Emperor’s New Clothes. The colorful characters from the stories made us laugh and _________ throughout our childhood.

The stories _________ by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. He was born in a poor family in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a washerwoman. He received very _________ education.

In 1816, his father died and Andersen was forced _________ out to work. At the age of 14, Anderser moved to Copenhagen to start a job as a singer and actor. He worked there for several years _________ he had to leave the theater when his voice began to change.

Afterwards Andersen went to a school and began to publish stories. They came _________ in a larg number.

Andersen lived _________ hard life, so he tried to make people laugh in his stories. He wrote because he didn’t want children to have a _________ childhood as he did. The works made Andersen well-know all over the worid, but he was still a lonely man. He never married and his friends were the people who paid for _________ works. Andersen passed away on August 4, 1875. His home in Odense is now a museum and __________ people visit it every year.

Do you like his stories?

My name is Dale. I have a big family. This ________ my father. He likes sports. He has a sports collection(收藏品). He ________ every day and he is healthy. ________ is my mother. She ________ cooking food. She cooks lots of food for us every day. The girl ________ yellow is my sister. She likes playing sports, too. She is in a tennis club. She plays tennis every day. ________ boy is me. I like watching TV and eating ________. I don’t have a good eating habit. I like ice-cream ________ breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert (甜点), but my mother doesn’t ________ me eat too much ice-cream. She only allows (允许) me to eat it for dessert. I don’t like sports ________ they’re boring. I only watch them on TV. Do you like doing sports?

【推荐1】Leaf-cutting art is a kind of artwork, like Chinese paper cutting.

In autumn and winter, many streets ________ in fallen leaves. Most of us probably just pass over them without paying much attention. But not Kanat Nurtazin, ________ artist from Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦). He will pick up some fallen leaves and cut beautiful artworks out of them.

Kanat works at a university. He ________ drawing as a hobby to stay creative since 2013. This long-time hobby has also allowed him ________ himself through art.

In 2013, Kanat started a project called “100 Methods of Drawing”. In this project, he tries to use different materials and skills for artworks. ________ all these creative paintings, leaf-cutting art is one of his favorites.

To make leaf art, Kanat first chooses a leaf from his collection. Then, he ________ imagines a funny story or a lively moment. He draws ________ on a piece of paper and sticks the paper to the leaf. After the glue dries, Kanat uses a razor (剃须刀) to cut out the pattern (图案) on the leaf. However, this job needs ________ time of all the work. Finally, the artist finds a beautiful background to take pictures of the leaf. ________ this “leaf story” will be shared online. A ________ life is short. But if you look at it with your creative eyes, like Kanat does, you too can give the leaf a second life by making it tell an interesting story!

【推荐3】Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th century. In his short life he wrote nearly 300 songs and an opera.

Xian was born in Panyu, Guangdong, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with ________ mother. He began learning to play ________ violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was ________ cheap and badly made that he could not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop ________ and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students who studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he ________, Xian became the school’s best student and won several prizes for his talents.

In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan’an ________ music at a college. ________ there were no pianos in Yan’an at that time Xian still wrote some of his most important music there, including The Yellow River, his most famous work.

In May 1940, Xian ________ to the Soviet Union by the Chinese Communist Party to write music for movies. In the Soviet Union, life was very ________. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness ________ October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian’s music, however, lives on in the people’s hearts.