【推荐1】I’m Dale. There are always rules in our life. Are rules terrible? No, I get up at six thirty every morning, so I have a lot of time to eat breakfast. I wear the uniform at school, so I don’t need time to choose the clothes to wear. I don’t take my mobile phone to school, so I can’t play games on it and I study hard. After school, I play sports an hour a day and it helps me have a strong body (身体). I help my mother do housework. She says I’m a good boy. I only play computer games on the weekend. It’s bad for my eyes if I play computer games too much. I can do lots of other things. I go to bed early in the evening, so I am always active (积极的) in class. I think rules are really helpful.

【推荐2】Starting from my second year of primary school, there was one event I hated every year: the piano concert. I didn’t want to practice a boring piece of music and was scared to perform in front of strangers. Each year I would ask my father if I could miss the concert "just this once". And he would say something about building self-confidence and working towards a goal.

So I was very proud when I stood in church (教堂) and watched my father play the piano during his very first concert. My father wanted to play music when he was small. But his mother couldn't afford lessons.

Three years ago, when he retired (退休), he asked the church music director, Charles, to take him as a student. Just before the concert, Charles told me my dad was playing "The best I’ve ever seen him". For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he simply stared down at his fingers. I wondered whether he would even begin.

But then Aram Khachaturian's melody began. It seemed that my father took the music so seriously that he didn't realize we were there. My dad made it through melody and then through another song. Although he didn't have much skill, he made up for it in feeling.

My 11-year-old son Jeff was there, "So what did you think about your grandfather?" I asked Jeff later. "He was great," Jeff replied.

My father may not have reached his top musically, but in his grandson's eyes, he's at the top of the mountain.

【推荐3】Hello! My name is Tony. There are many festivals in our school. This month is October. In the first week of October, there is a Sports Festival. We have a basketball game and a volleyball game during（在……之间）the festival. Our class and Class 2 have a soccer game, too. In the middle of this month, we have an English test during the English Festival. October the nineteenth is the day for the Book Festival. I can get my favorite books on that day. On the last day of this month, there is a Music Festival. On that day, we can enjoy beautiful songs, dances and piano music. It’s really great. Next month, there is an Art Festival. Students often show their pictures on that day.

【推荐2】Dr Mortimer shows Holmes a newspaper. “Now, Mr Holmes. This newspaper is the Devon Country Chronicle of May 14th. It has a short report of the death of Sir Charles Baskerville.” He reads: “On the night of the 4th of May, Sir Charles Baskerville goes out for a walk as usual. But he does not return. At twelve o’clock his butler（男管家）Barrymore, goes to look for Sir Charles. Barrymore finds the dead body of Sir Charles near a small gate which opens to the moor. There are no sign（痕迹）of violence（暴力）. Sir Charles’s closest relative is Mr Henry, he lives in America.”

“Thank you,” says Sherlock Holmes. “Is that all?” Dr Mortimer looks worried. “Listen, Mr Holmes. I have got a secret that nobody else knows.” Sir Charles was my friend and he was very worried about the Hound of the Baskervilles. He was afraid to walk on the moor at night. He was sure that there were strange noises on the moor at night.

“When Barrymore the butler finds Sir Charles’s body, he calls me to Baskerville Hall. There are footprints（脚印）on Sir Charles’s body.” “A man’s or a woman’s?” asks Holmes. Dr Mortimer looks strangely at us, and he answers: “Mr Holmes, they are the footprints of a giant hound!”