Paul is     1     middle school student. He goes to school from Monday     2     Friday. He is busy on school days.

Paul has breakfast at about 7 o’clock in the morning. He goes to school at 7:30. His     3     (one) class is at 8:00. He     4     (eat) lunch at school. After that he can play     5    (game) with his classmates. The last class is at 5:00 in the afternoon. What does he do after school? He likes     6     (play) basketball with his friends. Then he goes home. Dinner is always at 6:00. For dinner, he likes salad and chicken with his parents. He doesn’t     7       (watch) TV on school days.

Paul always reads     8     (he) favorite books in the evening. He thinks it’s     9     (use) to read books. On Saturday     10     Sunday he doesn’t need to go to school. The two-day weekend is nice. He likes his free time.

I am an American girl. My name is Alice Green. I am a middle school s    1    . I am fifteen. I have two b    2    . They are middle school students, too. We go to school from M    3     to Friday. We don’t h    4     any classes on Saturdays or Sundays. My father and mother are teachers. They always say China is great. I like reading. I am reading a Chinese storybook. I t    5     it’s very i    6    . My brothers and I like p    7     football and basketball. What s    8     do you like? Let’s b    9     good pen pals, OK? Please w    10     to me soon.

Andy and Ken are classmates. Now Andy and Ken are talking with each other in the school library. Ken is reading a book     1     Hemingway now. It is     2     favorite book—The Old Man and the Sea. The book talks about     3     old man and his fight against the sea. Andy finds out the     4     why Ken does well in writing stories. Ken is going to be a writer when he     5     up. He often has great ideas about writing. To be a great writer, Ken is going to keep on     6     stories. Then he is sure he can make it one day. Andy’s parents want him to be a doctor,     7     he is not sure about that, because he is not interested in medicine. Ken tells him not to     8    . Not everyone knows what they want to be when they are     9    —just a teenager. Just make sure that you try your best. Then you can be anything you want! Andy     10     agrees with Ken.

Li Mei is a 13-year-old girl from China. She is     1     cute girl with beautiful big eyes. She lives in a poor village with her grandparents     2     her parents are working in Beijing. She can only see her parents once a year. She misses them very much. Last winter vacation, a volunteer group helped her get together with her parents in Beijing. She was really excited when she got there. Her parents also took her to many places of interest. She enjoyed     3    （her）during the five-day trip.

Now she spends much more time     4    （study）hard. She wants to go out of her village. She thinks she     5     （never, give up）her dream, though there are lots of difficulties along the way.