【推荐1】My name is Li Hao. I have a good friend. Her name is Emma. She is 13 years old. She has black hair and wears glasses(戴眼镜). She is a nice girl with two big eyes and a round face. She is tall and thin (苗条). She likes pink. She has five pink dresses. She has a big sister. Her name is Grace. She is a teacher. Frank is Emma’s cousin. He is often in a red and black coat and a pair of sports shoes. He likes black. He looks cool in his coat.

Emma, Frank and I are in the same grade, but in different classes. Emma is in Class Six, Grade Seven. Frank and I are in Class One. Frank does well in English and I am good at (擅长) Chinese. We often help each other.

【推荐2】After finishing my Junior 2 year in China, I went to study in a boarding school for boys in the UK. The school, located northwest of London, is about 50 acres（英亩）with several main school buildings. Living in a different culture is a completely new experience for me.

My daily schedule is very regular. At 7:30 each morning, we get up and put on our school uniforms. We wear a suit, tie and leather shoes quite different from the casual（休闲的）style of Chinese uniforms. Each house has a different-colored tie, and there are other special ties to stand for different grades in school.

Instead of morning reading time, we have tutor time when we discuss in-school problems with our tutors. We usually have five lessons in the morning; each lesson is about 40 minutes with a 20-minute break in between the third and fourth lessons. Unlike most Chinese schools where students have all the lessons in one classroom, we travel from one building to another.

For lunch, we have traditional British food such as fish and chips. During the lunch break, we can take part in clubs. There are over 30, such as drama and soccer. I joined a computer science club called Digital Creator and Chess Club.

Lessons often finish at 4:15 in the afternoon. Our school focuses on students’ physical health by having games and activities on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Students may choose different sports such as rugby（英式橄榄球）, soccer, squash（壁球）, cricket（板球）, hockey, basketball, swimming and table tennis.

After school, we usually go back to our rooms and study different subjects for about two hours. A tutor is usually on duty, and if there are any problems, they can help. Study time usually finishes at 9 p.m. Students who have finished studying for the day can go to the games area, where they can play with other boys. After that, students are required to go to bed, usually by 10:30.

【推荐3】Hi, my name is Liu Mei. I’m from Zhengzhou, Henan. I’m twelve years old. I’m a student in Zhengzhou Yuying Junior High School. I’m in Class Six, Grade Seven. I have a round face, small eyes, a big nose and a small mouth. My hair is long.

In my school, I have a good friend. Her name is Alice. She is an English girl. She is fourteen years old. She is a student, too. She is in Class Five, Grade Eight. She has a round face, a small nose and a small mouth. Her eyes are big and her hair is short. Alice is very nice to me. She is like (像) my sister.

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【推荐2】My name is Zhang Hao. My brother’s name is Zhang Qiang. We’re Chinese students at a middle school. There are three buildings in our school—an office building, a classroom building and a library building. There are 45 classrooms in the classroom building. A science lab is next to the classroom building. Behind the classroom building is a playground, and we often play basketball and table tennis on it.

Our house is next to our school. In front of the house, there is a garden. We often read in the garden. And we often sing in it, too. Our father is a manager. He works in a hotel. He has a nice car. Behind the house, there is a garage (车库). His car is in it.

The Smiths and their ten students study and live in a cave (山洞). It is a school in a cave in a small village in Guizhou. The school is not very big but there’s lots of furniture. There are two classrooms, an office, a library and a lot of desks and chairs.

There are even many windows and two front doors. But the walls of the classrooms are part (部分) of the cave, so the classrooms in the school look unusual (特别的). One of them is big and the other one is very small. The Smiths paint it white and red, so it looks nice.

The school is cool in summer and warm in winter. The students like their teachers—the Smiths very much. They like their school, too. It is very quiet (安静的), but not when the boys play basketball on the playground in front of the school.

The largest animal on Earth is the blue whale. It weighs (重量为......) about180tons - more than 24 elephants! It’s more than30 metres long. A newborn (新生的) baby blue whale weighs as much as a big elephant.

Cats can survive (幸存) falls from a very high place because they can turn themselves up the right way to keep their bodies safe. One cat fell 32 floors on to the street, but was just hurt a little.

Usually wolves do not attack (攻击) people. Wolves do not usually go together, but they may do this in winter. Why do wolves howl (嚎叫 ) at the Moon? In fact, wolves don’t howl at the Moon. And wolves do not always sit when they howl - they often stand.

【推荐2】Are you bored with your daily life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18, because after that it’s too late.

Learn to swim

Seriously(严肃点), this is so important that it can save your life. If you can’t swim well, you won’t be able to do water sports like waterskiing, surfing and diving. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous for you. Make sure you do it.

Try at least one kind of team sports

Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can’t just think of yourself, but have to work well with other people. Other advantages of team sports like basketball, football and baseball are that they keep you fit and healthy, and they are also great fun. Teams usually have a good social life too – you’ll go to lots of parties and make many friends.

Collect（收集） something

One of the best hobbies（爱好） for under – 18s is collecting things. You could collect kinds of stamps, or you could collect things that make you remember what you have done, like cinema tickets for films you have seen or e-mails from friends. The best way to collect is to have a special album to put your collection in and to write what each thing means to you. That way you won’t forget.

Do you know the two lovely mascots （吉祥物）? You may know the five “Fuwa” dolls from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. On September 17 of this year, the two lovely mascots first showed on TV. Now, let’s see who they are.

Look at the panda! It looks like an astronaut （宇航员）. It wears an ice shell （冰壳） and looks fat, so we call it “Bing Dwen Dwen”. White is the color of ice and snow. “Bing Dwen Dwen”likes ice sports very much and is good at them. That’s why it is the mascot of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Do you think the red mascot looks like a lantern? The lantern’s name is “Shuey Rhon Rhon”. When the Chinese New Year comes, people always make or buy red lanterns. Red is the color of hope and good luck.“Shuey Rhon Rhon” can give players hope and help them do well in the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games（残奥会）. Many people in different countries like the two mascots very much, and they show their love for them on the Internet.