【推荐1】Hello, everyone. I am Jenny Green. I have a sister, Alice. Look! This is     1    （我们的）room. There     2    （be）a bookcase, two beds and a desk in the room. My notebook a    3     my pen are on the desk. I have a clock. It’s on the desk, t    4    . The photo on the desk is not mine. It’s a photo of Alice. She is not     5    （整洁的）. You can     6    （/si:/）her books in the bookcase, on the bed and under the desk. She always can’t find her     7    （key）. I think     8    （it）are in her schoolbag. What’s that i    9     English? It’s a hat. What     10    （/ˈkʌlə(r)/） is the hat? Oh, it’s red. She likes red.

Mum and I were just going out when it began to rain. We had to stay at home, and I felt quite bored. Mum got     1     idea. She suggested teaching me to make dumplings. I thought it could be fun, so I said OK. Mum cut the meat and cabbages into small pieces quickly. Then she showed me     2     to mix them with salt and oil. “Mixing     3     the most important of all the steps,” she said. I also made some other preparations with her help. When everything was ready, my dad came back home     4     his office. Together the three of us wrapped (包) dumplings. At last, we cooked them. They were so delicious that I ate     5     than twenty. That was the first time I had learnt to make dumplings. It was enjoyable!

Only mother love is true love. It     1     everybody everything all her life. When you’re still a baby, mother always tries her best to     2     good care of you. In your walking hours she always holds you in     3     arms.

When you are ill, she looks after you day and night and forgets about herself.    4     you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy. When you are     5     enough to go to school, mother still tries to look after you all the time.    6     cold winter days, she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands in the wind to     7     for you to come back from school. When you hurry to school with little     8     in the morning, she always feels worried about you at home. She usually knows about your study and spends much money on your school things. When you do     9     at school, she will be very happy and you will see the brightest smile on her face.

How great is     10     mother love! We’ll remember mother love forever!

Love,

Mom

It’s Sunday morning. Mary wants to do some     1     (shop). She wants to     2     a new skirt and some school things(东西). She     3     (come) to a shop. “What do you have in the shop?”

Mary asks(问). “A lot of things.” says the girl in the shop. “You can buy food, drink,     4     /fruit/, clothes in our shop and school things, too. Mary goes in and has a look. “How     5     is the skirt?” Mary asks the girl. “It’s     6     /ˈeɪti/ yuan.” “Oh, it’s too dear. Can I have a look at a cheap(便宜的) one?” “How     7     this green one? It’s just thirty yuan, “OK Can I     8     it on?” “Sure.”

“Look! It looks nice     9     you, right?” “Yes, thanks a lot. I’ll     10     it.” Mary is very happy. And she buys some school things in the shop, too.

Instead of taking the chance to buy as much as possible on Black Friday, you could do the     1     and buy completely nothing. Since 1997, Buy Nothing Day has been celebrated on the same day as Black Friday. The rules are     2    . Just don’t buy anything at all for 24 hours. Many people are surprised how difficult this     3     is. The aim is to make people think more about their spending and to make better     4     about what they buy and where they buy it from.