【推荐1】Family traditions are special habits or customs that your family have. For example, in the family of Bill Gates, his parents keep the tradition of reading with children. And what`s the tradition in your family?

【推荐1】“Where do we put the waste?” asked Sue. “That’s not the waste,” replied Dad laughing. “It’s paperwork, Sue.” Sue and her family were helping their neighbors pack up for another city. Her dad always asked her to do volunteer services without asking for her agreement. However, Sue was getting used to it.

“Help!” shouted Cindy when she was helping. Sue ran to help her sister who was carrying a very heavy mirror. “Why do we have to deal with the ‘big trouble’?” Sue said impatiently. “It’s too heavy to carry. They have too much rubbish.”

“How can you say that?” asked Cindy. “Can’t people get to decide their lifestyles that they want to live? There are people who think raising lizards (蜥蜴) as pets is crazy and you have three of them.” “You can’t compare my lizards with the rubbish,” shouted Sue loudly. “They are my favourite pets.”

“My point is that everyone has different likes and dislikes. You can’t complain (抱怨) about others just because you have different tastes and interests. This is why I take your lizards as an example.” said Cindy.

Sue kept silent for a long time. ▲ She walked towards her sister and said, “I can help with this.”

In fact, we shouldn’t make comments (评论) on the rights and wrongs of others according to our own preferences. We should look at problems from different points and respect others’ choices.

Tom is an English boy. He is a good student. He has（有）a red pen and a white ruler. But his jacket is yellow. He has a dog and the dog is black. He likes his dog. Its（它的）name is Huanhuan. Huanhuan is his good friend.

【推荐3】Johnson is a young soldier(士兵) in a big camp. On weekdays he and the other soldiers are always very busy. They can only have a good rest on weekends. It is Sunday. All the young soldiers are free, and their officer says to them, "You can go to the town this afternoon, but first I want to check(检查) all of you."

When Johnson comes to the officer, the officer says to him, "Your hair is too long. Go to the barber's shop(理发店) and then come back to let me have a look."

Johnson runs to the barber's shop, but it isn't open. Then he remembers it's Sunday. Johnson is very sad, but a moment later he gets happy and goes back to the officer.

"______" Johnson asks when he comes in front of the officer.

The officer doesn't look at John's hair. He looks at his shoes and says, "Yes, they are better now. You can go out. Remember, next week clean your shoes before coming to me."

【推荐1】Mrs Brown is an English teacher. She is from America. She is 24 years old. Her English is very good. There are twenty boys and eighteen girls in her class. Jim is from England. The twins (双胞胎) —Lucy and Lily are from America. But the other (其他的) students are Chinese. Mrs. Brown loves her students very much. She often helps them learn (学习) English. She is a good teacher and she is her students' good friend, too. All the students love her.

【推荐2】A spider (蜘蛛) was looking for a place to make his web (网). He wanted to live there eating, drinking and relaxing with pleasure.

Soon, he found a corner of a house and started making his web there. A cat passing by started laughing loudly after seeing him. When the spider saw the cat laughing, he asked, “Why are you laughing?” The cat replied, “Can’t you see how clean this place is? No insects will come here. Who will fall in your web?”

After listening to the cat, the spider stopped and started looking for another place. Then he saw a window and started making his web by it. Then a bird came, and started making fun of him, saying, “How silly of you! A strong wind will blow your web away.”

Hearing the bird’s words, the spider started searching for another place. But the whole day passed quickly. He was tired and hungry.

A dog saw all this and said, “I have been watching you since morning. You just listened to the advice of others and didn’t think on your own, so you didn’t finish your web.” Hearing the dog, the spider realized his problem.

Ronald Reagan was the only actor to become president of the United States, but other movie stars have also been successful in public office. One of them was Shirley Temple, who is remembered throughout the world as a little girl. She dance and sang in many movies.

Shirley began to make movies at the age of five, and she was only nine years old when she played the role of Heidi. In almost every part of the world where movies are seen on television, children and their parents still enjoy Heidi and the other movies of Shirley Temple. Although she has not appeared in a film for over thirty years, her name is still familiar to old and young alike.

When Shirley Temple was twenty-one years old, she was already retired from her career as an actress. Twenty years later, many people still thought her as a little girl that Americans had always loved in the movies, but others knew her as an intelligent woman with the knowledge of world problems. One of the people who recognized these important abilities was President Richard M. Nixon. In 1969, he appointed（委派）her as a representative to the United Nations, and this marked the beginning of a new career for the former child star of the movies.

One of Shirley's most popular dancing and singing partners was George Murphy, who was twenty-six years older than Shirley. He stopped making movies at about the same time as his young partner. In 1969, he was elected United States senator from California, and he served in this office for six years.

【推荐3】Trees are useful to man in three very important ways.

The first important way is that they provide man with wood and other products. Trees provide not only man with food, but also many animals with food. Without trees, many animals could not live on the earth. It’s not easy for man to live on the earth, either.

The second important way is that trees give us shade（阴凉）. On a hot summer day, people are eager (渴望) to have a rest under the tree after they have a long walk. You can imagine how important the shade of a tree is to man and animals.

The third important way is that trees help to prevent drought and floods. However, in many parts of the world, man has not realized the third way. They cut trees down in large numbers. In the end, they find that they have lost the best friends they had.