【推荐1】My favourite sport is basketball because it is very exciting. I like basketball because the NBA stars play very well. Basketball is very cheap and it is a good sport for our health. We can grow taller if we play basketball often. Also it keeps me fit. I play basketball three times a week. I often play it in my school. I often play it with my friends or I may play it myself. I feel very happy when I play basketball at school with my classmates. Sometimes I play basketball in the playground near my home. Basketball is very easy to play. If you play basketball very well, you can form (组建) a basketball team to take part in the competition (比赛). If you win the basketball competition, you will have the prize. You may become a famous basketball star.

【推荐3】A recent survey shows over 60% of the Chinese people now spend up to four hours of spare time in front of a screen every day. Just as TV watching has been connected to higher risk of being fat and getting diseases, this extra sedentary (久坐的) time is bad for our health.     1    

Choose outdoor activities instead of technology. We have a lot of time for outdoor sports now.     2     Instead, you have to go for a walk, ride a bike or take part in other outdoor activities for at least an hour before you can pull out your phone or use the computer. This will not only relax yourselves, but also make you feel pleased.

    3     Social networks have changed computer and mobile use for people of all ages. Whether it’s Facebook or WeChat, so I think it is important for us to limit (限制) the time you spend on social media.

Save time for reading. Reading itself is a good thing for our body and mind. Read at least 30 pages of a great book every day before you cheek your computer or mobile phone.    4    

Create projects for yourself. It’s amazing how much you can achieve when you’re not addicted to (沉迷于) a screen. Therefore, you should do something to protect your health.     5     For example, you can tidy up your bedroom and clean your house. Then try to do one each evening.

【推荐1】Welcome to New Times Square Theater! As you know, our theater has a long history, about 90 years old! You can enjoy yourself here because we have the latest films, the largest screens and the most comfortable seats. The theater is open from 7:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It's usually very crowded on Saturday and Sunday, though the ticket prices are a bit higher. If you want to avoid (避开) the crowd, come on weekdays and you can buy the tickets at half price on Wednesday! Look at the following movies for this week. Come and watch your favorite film!

【推荐2】Hello, I’m Peter. I am an English boy. I’m twelve. I have a good friend. His name is Liu Gang. He is a Chinese student.

Now Liu Gang studies in No. 2 Middle School. He is twelve years old, too. He is in Class Two, Grade Seven. He likes English very much and he is good at it. This is his cat. I don’t know its name. I think it is three. That is his schoolbag. You can see his school ID card, a pencil box, an English notebook, two Chinese notebooks, some exercise books and an English-Chinese dictionary in it.

I can help him with English. And he can help me with Chinese. I like to play soccer ball. Liu Gang likes to play soccer, too. We often play soccer after school every day.

【推荐3】Today, most countries use coins（硬币）and paper money to buy things. But before the metal coins and paper money, people used a lot of unusual things for money. In one part of the world, for example, people used shark’s teeth for money. On the Pacific island of Santa Cruz, people used feathers（羽毛）as their money, and they were the lightest money ever used. Stones were the money of the people from the Pacific island of Yap, and they were the heaviest money ever had. In addition, people in one area even used the hairs from elephants’ tails for money.

Although the oldest coins are over 2500 years old, no one knows when people started using metal coins for money. People first used very valuable metals, such as gold and silver, to make coins. They stamped （压印上）the shape（形状）of a person or an animal on each coin to show its value. But in China people used iron coins as money. Because these coins weren’t worth very much, people had to use many of them to buy things. It was not convenient to make them everywhere, so the government started making paper receipts. People took these receipts to banks and changed them for coins. This was the first example of paper money.