【推荐1】Tom and Jim are brothers. They are from Ottawa (渥太华). Tom is 14 years old and Jim is 13 years old. They can speak both English and French. Now, they are in China. They are studying Chinese in No.4 Middle School in Beijing. Their family are all in China. There are five people in their family. They are their parents, their sister and them. Their mother is a teacher. Their father is a doctor. Their sister is very young. She is only 4 years old. She doesn’t go to school. She goes to a kindergarten. They say China is a very interesting country. They like Chinese friendly people, Chinese delicious food and Chinese long history. They say they like China very much.

Jane takes some photos, and she is introducing (介绍) them to us.

    1     The boy in the photo is Erc Miller. He is in England. His e-mail is ericmiller@hotmail.com. He writes an e-mail to me every week.

    2     Look! His grandparents are in the photo. His parents are in it. My friend is in it. Their dog Max is in it, too.

    3     This is a photo of his room. Look! His schoolbag is under the bed. His jackets are on the desk. His books are everywhere—on his sofa, under the chair and on the floor (地板).

    4     You can know it from his photo. Look! His room is blue. His schoolbags is blue. His watch is blue. His cup is blue, too.

    5     He likes his watch very much, but he lost it yesterday. He must find it. That is a photo of the watch. It's blue and black. He asks me to help him find it.

【推荐3】It’s 8:30 now. The first lesson begins. Mr. Smith, the English teacher, walks in with a boy. “Class, this is Joe,” he says. “Joe’s from China. And he will be with us for a year.”

That day at lunch, Julie, Danny, Emma, and Mike sit together（坐在一起）. When they see Joe, they ask him to come to their table. They ask Joe about his family and his hobbies（业余爱好）.

They know that Joe’s mother is a doctor and his father is a math teacher. He has no brothers or sisters. He likes singing, just like（像）Emma. He likes making models, just like Mike. He plays baseball well, just like Julie.

“Do you like skating（滑冰）?” asks Danny.

“Yes, but I can’t skate,” says Joe. “Can you teach me?”

“OK!” says Danny.

【推荐2】Hi, I'm Ben. Here are three photos of mine. In the first photo, there are two boys. They are my friends Mike and John. We often play basketball together.

In the next photo, there is an old man and a boy. The old man is my grandpa and the boy is me. My grandpa likes Beijing Opera. He often listens to the radio.

What's in the last photo? It's my dog Lucky. It's a white dog. I like it very much.

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【推荐3】Mr. Black is from England. He and his wife(妻子) are teachers. They teach English in Shanghai. They have a boy and a girl. They are John and Lucy. John is a middle school student, but Lucy is not. She is only six.

They have two bikes. One is big, and the other(另一个) is small. The big one is for John. The small one is for Lucy. On Sundays(周日) , sometimes(有时) they are at home, sometimes they go to the parks. They like China. They have some Chinese friends.

【推荐3】What do astronauts eat in space? Do they eat special food? What will astronauts eat when a space trip takes years?

“Lots of fresh vegetables,” says Dr. Janet Williams, whose team have spent the last 10 years learning how to grow plants in a space station. And it’s a good thing that she has already started her work, because space gardening can be really hard.

As usual, astronaut George White looked into the closed plant room. He had planted Dr. Williams’s quick-growing seedlings in it, but none of the stems were growing. He opened the room to check and found the problem. The stems weren’t growing upward and the roots

weren’t growing downward. On Earth, gravity helps a plant’s stems and roots to find “up” and “down”. However, in the space station, there was no gravity.

Dr. Williams suggested a solution: give the plants more light, as plants also use sunlight to find their way. And it worked. When the plants had more light, the stems turned up and the roots went down.

Now Dr. Williams was free to worry about the next problem: Would her baby   plants live to flower? Can we grow food on a space journey?

Many plants died in the space station. Dr. Williams thought she knew the reason: the space plants were hungry for air. Plants live by taking up CO2 from the air. Since a plant uses it up in the air around, the plant needs moving air to bring more CO2 close to its surface. On Earth, the air is always moving. Gravity pulls down cold air, and warm air rises. And with these air movements, plants get enough CO2.

Many earlier experiments with plants in space had used closed rooms. Dr. Williams tried a new greenhouse that had a fan to keep the air move. The plants loved it. They flowered and even produced more seeds. Using Dr. Williams’s method, astronaut George completed the first seed-to-seed experiment in space, and moved one plant closer to a garden in space.

“And this,” says Dr. Williams, “is good news for long-term space travel.”