【推荐2】Tom     1    （live）near the sea. Their house is not very big     2     it is beautiful. There     3    （be）big trees and a small garden in front of     4    （they）house. They plant flowers in the garden, some are red,     5    （other）are blue. Tom and his family love their garden very much.

Both Tom and his sister go to school     6     bus. The bus is comfortable. There are air conditioners in the bus. And it is a double-decker bus. After school, they sometimes help their mom     7    （do）some shopping at     8     Shopping Center, and sometimes help their dad in the garden. On weekends, they often take some     9    （photo）by the sea. In summer, they often go     10    （swim）with their parents.

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Dear Laura,

Thanks for your message. I’m having a great time on my student exchange program in France. I was a bit nervous b    1     I arrived here, but there was no reason to be. My host family is really nice. They try their best to make me f    2     relaxed. The grandmother knows that I m    3     Chinese food a lot. So she even learns how to make Chinese food! She also has a teenage granddaughter of my age who is really kind. She always talks to me in French to help me practice. You wouldn’t believe how q    4     my French has improved because of that. I’m very comfortable speaking French now. Although I still make lots of m    5     , it doesn’t worry me as it used to.

My b    6     challenge is learning how to behave at the dinner table. As you can imagine, things are very different from the way they are at home. For example, you’re not supposed to put your bread on your plate. You’re supposed to put it on the table! I thought that was quite s    7     at first, but now I’m used to it. Another example is that you’re not supposed to eat anything with your hands e    8     bread, not even fruit. You have to cut it up and eat it with a fork. Another thing is that it is i    9     to say you’re full. If you don’t want any more food, you should just say “That was delicious.” Also, you’re not supposed to put your elbows（肘部）on the table. I have to say that I find it difficult to remember e    10     but I’m gradually getting used to it. I don’t find French customs so strange any more.

I’ll write again soon and tell you more about my life in France. Hope you’re having a good school year.

Yours,

Lin Yue

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Once my mom told me a story. Ten years ago when she and my dad were newly married (结婚), suddenly one day, she got phone calls from an elderly lady. The lady wanted to speak to someone named Donna. My mom     1     with great care that she was not Donna, but the lady would s    2     say my mom was Donna.

At least once a week, this old lady would continue to call for Donna—sometimes more! Every call s    3    with, “Hello, Donna! How are you?” She never cared     4     it was the wrong number. She talked about her daily life, her cat, her garden, and the newspaper. From her stories, my mom guessed that Donna was a childhood friend of the lady. She could only spent 10 or 15 minutes on the phone before getting tired and ending the     5     (communicate) with goodbye.

The whole thing l    6     for about a year. Then the calls just stopped. Why didn’t she call? Did anything unexpected happen? At first my mom felt worried and had trouble     7     (fall) asleep. Now she still thinks of that lady sometimes and     8       (wonder) about her. Perhaps that woman knew there was no Donna and was just l    9     at that time. She had nobody else to talk to.

So my mom’s small act of k    10     might make a difference to someone in need.

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A group of boys were playing a game around a tall tree. They decided to see who could get to the top of the tree first. Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they play.

One of the climbers was     1     8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group.     2     thought he would win this game. Then the game started. All of the boys     3     their best to climb as high as they could. They all made it halfway up the tree before David did, but he reached the top of the tree fastest in the     4    .

His mother was     5     of her son. She asked her son, “David, how did you manage to reach the top of the tree so     6    ?”

“It was easy.” David said. “The other children kept looking down as they climbed. When they came to realize how high they were, they got scared（害怕的）and were afraid of     7     down. I,     8    , looked only up. When I saw     9     close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top.”

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward     10     looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals.

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       First of all, I want to wish myself and everyone else born today—March 21—a happy birthday.
       I still r    1     my first birthday at primary school. I celebrated at home with many of my new classmates. It was one of my biggest birthday celebrations. But after that year, I preferred to celebrate it with my family so that it would not be noisy. This year, I am e    2     that I can celebrate it in a special way: by submitting (投稿) a story to TEENS!
       Fourteen years may not seem very long, but it has not been s    3     to me. It is enough for me to experience many changes of the seasons, t    4     around the world, and making and breaking friendships. All these things happen so fast that I don’t have time to say goodbye. In my 14 years, I’ve developed a special love for English. The a    5     to use this language has brought me a lot of joy. It helps me e    6     English songs and movies.
       It has been with me in Dubai, Phuket, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It helps me to talk with people from other countries and learn different c    7    . Years ago, my family lived near a university. I sometimes met overseas students there and s    8     a day with them. From these experiences I found that what makes English attractive (有魅力的) is not the language itself but the bigger world it has opened for me.
       And of course, it led me to TEENS, where I met other outstanding young w    9    , and found a passion (热情) for writing. I believe my passion will c    10     to grow over the next 14 years, or even longer.

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When I was 15, I told my class that I was going to write my own book. Half the students laughed and said, “Don’t be silly. Only geniuses (天才) can become writers.” My English teacher said to me, “It is an i    1     dream.” I was very sad and cried. That night I wrote a poem about broken dreams and sent it to a newspaper. To my surprise, they published it, and sent me two d    2    . How e    3     I was! I sent it to my teacher and friends. “Just luck,” they said. However, I never gave up. I c    4     writing. By the time I f    5     high school, I had published a number of articles. Years later, I d    6     to write a book, Crying Wind. It took nine months. Then I sent it to a publishing house. L    7    , a month later, they called me and said they would publish it. Crying Wind became a best-seller and it made me f    8    . Now I have w    9     several books. Many people asked me what made me a writer. I didn’t know how to answer that. I’m not a genius, but I will never give up my dreams. Writing is easy and fun and I think a    10     can do it.

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Zhang Huichun, 65, is a master（大师）of making Wuyi Rock Tea. The smell of this tea has never left him in his life.

Since his parents worked in a tea factory in Wuyi Mountain, he     1     (love) drinking tea at a young age. After     2     (finish) high school, he planted tea trees and picked tea leaves for the factory. In 1980, he learned to make the tea and opened his own factory.

To     3     (he) surprise, the techniques were very complex（复杂的）. After 10 years of learning, he could     4     (final) make the tea by himself.

Zhang said 13 steps     5     (need) to make it, including drying, shaking, frying and roasting. The most difficult for him was shaking. It takes     6     (strong) and patience to shake the tea leaves by holding the round bamboo trays（竹盘）. “You have to decide when the best time is to stop according to the color,” Zhang said. “Sometimes you stop after shaking several times, while sometimes it can be     7     (hundred) of times. Only years of experience can help you make the decision.”

Although he’s already a master, Zhang said he is still learning. “The     8     (wonderful) of all the parts is that every step is filled with changes — different tea trees, weather and temperatures. Every time is an adventure（冒险）.”

Over the recent years, Zhang     9     (work) with schools to train tea makers, “ It’s my duty     10     (pass) on the traditional skills,” he said.