【推荐2】Hi, My name is Matt. I’m thirteen. And I’m in Year 1 in a middle school. My school is not modern. But I like it. The classrooms are big and comfortable. There are thirty students in my class. This year I have a new classmate, Pablo. He’s from Canada and his English is very good. We take P.E. class together on Mondays. I don’t like sports very much but Pablo likes. P.E. is his favorite subject. And he plays football very well.

I like dining hall best. I like 2-hour-long lunch breaks（休息）. We eat delicious food and talk to friends. We can’t use our phones in the classrooms but we can use them in the dining hall. The dining hall is a great place to be!

My teachers are nice and friendly and you can ask them any questions because they always give you an answer. My favorite teacher is Miss Biggs. She teaches photography（摄影）in one of the after-school clubs. She takes very good photos and I want to be like her in the future.

We have many subjects at school. I think math and science are difficult. But we take maths on Tuesdays and science on Thursdays. So that’s OK. Geography and history are easy for me. And we take them on Wednesdays. So that’s my favorite day.

I am a middle school student. My name is Paul. I’m fourteen years old. I have three good friends. They are Bill, Tom and Jim. I like healthy food. I like to eat vegetables, fruit and chicken. I like to drink milk, too. Tom likes hamburgers and ice-cream. He has hamburgers for dinner every day. He doesn’t like vegetables. Jim likes to eat fruit very much. He often eats apples, bananas and strawberries. But he doesn’t like carrots or tomatoes. Bill likes tomatoes, salad and bread. But he doesn’t like milk. His mother wants him to drink milk. She thinks it is good for him.

I think we should eat more healthy food. It’s good for our health.

【推荐1】The Colins live in Greenfield. It is an old small town. Grandpa Max is 70 years old. He likes going fishing in the fishing pond with Ray and playing chess with his friends. The Colins often have Grandpa's fish for dinner.

Soccer is Ray's favorite sport. He often plays it after class. Ray's father, Peter is an English teacher in Ray and Betty's school. He's very good at basketball. He's on the basketball team of the town.

Ray has a sister. Her name's Betty. She likes swimming very much. She often swims during the summer vacation. Ray and Betty like watching their father playing with other teams.

Ray's mother, Lisa, likes sports, too. She's good at playing tennis. She often goes shopping with Betty. But there're only some small shops in the town. She often buys nice clothes for Betty and food for the family. All the family members like sports and they often go to the sport center in Greenfield on weekends. Greenfield is small, but they love it.

【推荐1】People in the UK spend their free time in different ways. They usually use it to relax.

They spend a lot of their free time at home. The most popular activity is watching TV. People in the UK watch TV for about 25 hours a week. They often record (录制) programs so they can watch them later. Reading is also a popular way of spending free time. People in the UK spend a lot of time reading newspapers and magazines. Many people in the UK have pets. They like playing with their pets in their free time.

In summer, gardening (园艺) is popular. And families often have a “day out” on the weekend. They often go to a festival or see a show. Young people like to go to clubs, and people of all ages like to go to the cinema.

In winter, “do it yourself” is popular. People often spend their free time repairing (修理) houses. Some free time activities are with friends. Asking friends for a drink or a meal at home is the most usual one. Sometimes people and their friends have dinner in a restaurant.

On the weekend, people in the UK like to spend their free time doing sport. The popular kinds of sports are soccer, horse racing, swimming, tennis, skating, climbing and hill walking.

【推荐2】Many people like to collect things. Some collect stamps, some collect dolls and some collect rocks. Christa, from Germany, collects something unusual. She collects mouse-related items.

Christa’s husband is a geologist. He’s very knowledgeable about minerals(矿物). He also likes collecting postcards about mineral resources. Christa always goes with him to fairs(集市) to get new cards for his collection. However, Christa is not interested in mineral resources. She often feels bored at these fairs. Her husband advised her to collect something she likes, like something about her favorite animals. That piece of advice, however, would become his biggest regret ever.

Christa’s favorite animal is the mouse. She has had mice as pets since she was a teenager. She considers the animal lovely and clever. Two or three years after she started her collection, she went all in. Soon, she had hundreds and then thousands of mouse-related items.

Because of her collection, Christa and her husband had a problem. They need more space for her collection. They rented(租) a room particularly for that. Christa’s collection continues to grow. Now every room in her house, from the kitchen to the bathroom, is filled with mouse-related items. Sometimes, her husband complains(抱怨) about this large collection. When this happens, Christa would remind him that it was all his idea!

【推荐3】A hobby is not a job or a school subject. A hobby is something you enjoy doing in your free time. It’s not something you need to do. It’s just for fun. Some people make model ships, keep pets, plant flowers, play computer games or talk on the Internet. Some paint pictures or dance to music. Some collect everything from stamps to seashells (贝壳). People take up hobbies because they think these activities can bring them many things like happiness, friendship and knowledge (知识). Anyone, rich or poor, old or young, sick or well, can have a hobby. A hobby will make your life colorful.

【推荐1】The children often play football in the garden and sometimes break(打破) Mr. Black’s windows. One afternoon Mr. Black is at home and reads a book. In a minute he closes his eyes and goes to sleep. At that time a little boy knocks at the door. Mr. Black opens the door and asks, “Do you break my window again(再一次)?”

“Oh, no!” says the boy: “Your window is open this time and our football is in your room. May I get it please?”

【推荐3】It was a cold day in December in New York City. A little boy about 10 years old was standing in front of a shoe store on Broadway. He was looking through the windows, barefooted(赤脚的) and shivery. A lady walked to the boy and said, “My little boy, what are you looking at?” “I am asking someone to give me a pair of shoes,” the boy said.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store. She asked the clerk to get a pair of socks for the boy. Then she asked if he could give her some water and a towel. The clerk quickly brought the things to her. She washed the boy’s little feet and dried them with the towel. By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. The lady helped the boy to put on the socks, and then bought him a pair of shoes. She said, “My little boy, do you feel more comfortable now? “As she turned to go, the boy caught her by the hand and looked at her face. With tears in his eyes, he asked, “Are you an angel(天使)?” “No, I’m a mother,” said the lady.