【推荐1】When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking in the kitchen and my younger brother was playing near the window. I ran to my mother and said, “ My brother has fallen from the open window!” She was very worried about my brother and then I said, “Don’t worry. I’m just joking.” And my mother shouted at me, “ If you do it again, I’ll punish you.”

   One day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on my friends. At the beginning, I went swimming alone, and I called to my friends, “Help me!” All my friends came to help me, only to find out that I was joking. But the next time I wasn’t joking. I swam in deep water and I was so careless that I was almost drowned. I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to saved my life. Finally, they took me to the emergency center. From then on, I haven’t joked on anyone. I think this is the best lesson in my life.

【推荐2】My best friend, David, is one year older than me. We spend a lot of time together. He has short brown hair and his eyes are big and round. People say he is lovely and looks like Teddy Bear. When we go out, people often think that I am older than him because he is a little bit short and thin.

His hobbies are listening to music and playing football. He also enjoys reading books in his free time. And he does really well in playing chess. He has chess lessons on Sundays. He works hard on it and would like to be a famous chess player when he grows up.

David is optimistic even when things go wrong. Last week he had some difficult tests and he didn’t do them well. I thought he was going to be sorry. However, he just decided to do better next time. From then on, every day after class, if the teachers are free in their offices, he will ask them for help.

【推荐3】A young girl named Malala, born in 1997 in the northwest of Pakistan, is famous for supporting children and women’s education.

In 2012, she was shot and seriously injured when she returned home on the school bus. Luckily, she was sent to the hospital in time and saved. After that, she went back to school and began to fight for children and women to receive education.

On October 10, 2014, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Malala. She became the youngest winner in the history of Nobel Prize. However, Malala missed the most important event of being announced to be the winner of the prize. At that moment, she was taking chemistry lessons in the classroom! After hearing the news, Malala chose to take her history and physics lessons as usual. She said calmly to the reporter, “I’m proud of getting this prize. Although the unforgettable date itself means something to me, it’s more important to finish the rest lessons today. After all, it’s a normal school day.”

One year later, Amy Mainzer, an astronomical scientist of NASA, found a new planet. She named it “Malala”. When Amy Mainzer was interviewed by Times, she explained, “I think Malala has set an example for us. She is fearless and insists on helping children and women get the right of being educated. Nothing can stop her.”

Last year, Malala passed the entrance examination of Oxford University through her hard work. Before she finished her high school, she had written a book I am Malala in 2013. She said, “I hope the readers around the world have chances to read my book. My dream is that more and more people will realize it is very difficult for children and women in some areas to get education. Actually, my story is also the story of 61 million children. Every boy and every girl should have the right to go to school.”

【推荐1】Two months after returning to England, Gulliver sets sail on a ship, travelling to the Cape of Good Hope（好望角）.On the way, a strong storm draws the ship off course（航向）and the ship finally arrives at an unknown land. Gulliver sees a giant（巨人）following the boat. He runs away, and when he stops, he is on a hill. He is greatly surprised to see that the grass around is about twenty feet high.

He walks down a path through a field but cannot see anything over a crop because it is forty feet high. He tries to climb a set of steps into the next field, but he cannot climb over them because they are too high. When he sees another giant, Gulliver hides from him, but the giant calls for more people to come, and they begin to cut the crop with scythes. Gulliver lies down and feels sad about his situation, thinking about how unimportant he must be to these giant men.

A giant finally noticed him, and picked him up between his fingers to get a closer look. Finally the giant puts him in his pocket and begins to walk towards his master.

The giant’s master, the farmer of these fields, takes Gulliver from his man and watches him more closely. He asks the other men if they have ever seen anything like Gulliver, then puts him onto the ground. They sit around him. Gulliver begins to speak as loudly as he can. He gives a lot of gold to the farmer, but the farmer cannot understand what it is.

Jane Austen(1775—1817), an English novelist, started writing young and finished six novels in her life. Today Austen’s books are more popular than ever. In the last 10 years, five of her six novels have been made into Hollywood films, while her books continue to be best-sellers.

Richard Jenkyns, a professor of English at Oxford University, says that her novels are about marriage, friendships and the family, which are still with us today. “The stories are timeless,” Jenkyns said.

Pride and Prejudice(偏见)(1813) is Austen’s most famous work. It is a love story about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. At first, these two dislike each other. Elizabeth is pretty, smart and lively. She is proud because Darcy doesn’t know about her family. Mr. Darcy is handsome, rich and has a better family background. So, he is proud as well. At the same time, Darcy holds a prejudice against the Bennet family. He has no understanding of why the family, especially its mother and daughters should try so hard to find wealthy and powerful husbands. He thinks they are vulgar. Anyway, Elizabeth and Darcy finally fall in love and become a romantic couple but their families don’t want them to.

In Pride and Prejudice, some of the main things that Jane Austen wants to teach people are as follows. Opposites can attract each other. Lovers should not only make each other feel relaxed or comfortable, but also educate and improve each other.

Austen is often called the greatest romantic writer, so it is surprising she remained unmarried. “Maybe she was too romantic, waiting for the perfect man,” Jenkyns says.