【推荐2】One day Mr. Brown went on a trip to the countryside with his 5-year-old son Eric. He wanted to show his son how poor people lived, so they spent a day and a night on the farm of a very poor family.

When they got back from their trip, Mr. Brown asked Erie, “How was the trip?”

“Very good, Dad!” Eric said happily.

“Did you see how the poor lived?” Mr. Brown asked.

“Yeah!” Eric answered.

“And what did you learn?” Mr. Brown asked.

“We have a dog at home but they have four. We have a pool that is in the middle of the garden but they have a river that has no end. We have expensive lamps (灯) in the garden but they have the stars.” Eric answered.

When little Eric finished, Mr. Brown couldn’t say anything.

【推荐3】Mr. White works in a park. He can’t hear or speak. He looks after the chairs in the park.

Some chairs in the park look very old. Mr. White wants to paint (刷漆) them. It is cloudy today. There are not many people in the park, so Mr. White starts to paint a chair. After he paints it, he goes back to his office and brings a card with “WET PAINT” on it. He wants to put the card near the chair. He takes the card and walks to the chair.

Dave is taking a walk in the park. He feels a little tired. He wants to sit on a chair. He sees the chair. He is walking to it, too.

Mr. White finds someone behind him walking to the same chair. He walks quickly. When Dave sees this, he begins to run. Mr.White begins to run, too. Dave runs faster than (比……更快) Mr. White and he sits on the chair. He does not know the paint is wet (湿的). Mr. White is not happy to see him sitting on the chair. He shows Dave the card. Dave feels very embarrassed (尴尬的).

I’m Lin Wei. I’m a student in Sunshine Middle School. There is a library in our school. The library opens at 8 o’clock in the morning and closes at 5:00 in the afternoon. It’s not big, but it’s very nice. About 8, 000 books are in it, about 6, 000 of them are in Chinese, and about 2, 000 are in English.

I like reading books very much. I go to the library every day. Mrs. Black works there. She can always help students find the books. We have a computer room in the library. The students need their ID cards to go into the computer room. We have classes in the computer room, too. Our library has the Lost and Found, too. Miss Yang works there. My friend Lucy helps her every afternoon. Miss Yang is very happy to help the students find their things.

Do you have a library in your school?

【推荐2】This is a classroom.     1     You can see a teacher’s desk, some students’ desks and chairs. Five books are on the teacher’s desk.     2     Three pencils and one eraser are in the pencil box. A schoolbag is under a chair.     3     The girl is Lisa and she is 13. The boy is Mike and he is 12.     4     They are good friends. They like English very much.     5     He is not here.

【推荐3】The students are having an art lesson at the moment. The teacher asks her students to draw a picture to show their thanks to others. The students draw their pictures carefully, and most of them are about food. But one little boy only draws a hand in his picture. The teacher is surprised (吃惊的) at the boy’s picture. Why is there only a hand in it?

Whose hand is it? Nobody knows the answer. So the other students begin to talk about the picture. “I think it must be the hand of his mother because she makes him food,” says one of the students. “It’s a farmer’s hand,” says another (另一个) student. “Because farmers plant fruit and vegetables for us.” Finally, the teacher asks the little boy whose hand it is.

“It’s your hand, Miss Wang. You are so nice to me,” the little boy answers, “You often take my hand to play games and draw pictures. Your hand is very big and warm. Thank you very much!”

Miss Wang often takes the other students’ hands, too. But it is very important to the little boy. That is his thanksgiving (感恩).

Thanksgiving is not a thing or a word. It is a kind of feeling (感受).

2. What does the underlined word “it” refer to (指的是)?

【推荐2】The world is an interesting place. Different people like different things. Some people like loud music. Other People don't.     1    .

Many people like sports, but they do not all like the same sports. In some countries, cricket（板球运动）is a very popular sport, but in others it is not popular at all. No one plays it or watches it on TV. However, most people like soccer. The World Cup is very popular.     2    .

Different people like different foods. Some people do not like meat.     3     Some people do not like potatoes or bread. They prefer（更喜欢）rice.

    4    . Most people have their favorite colors. Some people like bright colors. Others prefer pale（暗淡的）colors.

Many people like traveling（旅行）. Different people like different places. Some people like to go to the country. They like the fresh air. Some people like to go to the cities. Because they like shopping.     5    .

What do you like? Have you got an idea?

【推荐1】Look at the following notice from the students' Union (学生会).It's a plan about students' activities in the coming summer holiday.

	The Cool Kids will come to our school on July 20th,   2020. They are going to give a concert at the school hall at 2: 00 pm. Please come to students' Union to get a free ticket to the concert before this Friday.
	Wouldn't it be great if you could join us to go hiking (去远足) around the West Hills for two days? We'll start at 7: 00 am on July 30th. Please come to students' Union to sign your name and pay fifty yuan for it.
	Who wants to be a volunteer(志愿者)? We'll go to a mountain village to give away books to the children there and work and study with them for a whole day. Please come to the school gate at 6: 00 am on August 15th,   2020. Free of charge.
	We'll hold a party for the students who come from poor families and have to stay at school during the summer holiday. Would you like to join us?   Please come to the reading room at 5: 00 pm on August 20th.