How is it going? I haven’t see you for a long time. Sue and I really miss you. Now we are middle school students and I would like to share our daily life with you.

I usually get up at 6:00 in the morning. Then I have an egg, some bread and a cup of milk for breakfast. Sue often gets up a little later than me.1. 她通常六点半刷牙。After that we leave home at 7:00 together. It is one kilometer from our home to school. So we walk to school every day.2. It only takes us 10 minutes on foot. I can see many things and people on my way to school.3. I can also think about how to plan things well at school. I have seven classes from Monday to Friday. My class starts at 8:00 and I like English best.4. 我的英语老师与我们相处得好。My classes finish at 4:30 p.m. Then, I go home with my best friend, Jack. He often helps me when I get into trouble.5. I think a good friend is like a second self.

What about you, Grandma? Tell me something about your life in the US. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Love,

Tony

Do you feel nervous before and during exams? Are you afraid of taking the test?1.学会应对压力很重要且必要. Here are five steps to follow.

Arrive on time. Arriving late will make you feel nervous. 2. Arriving too early will give you time to sit there and worry about things.

Plan your time. You should know how many questions to answer in the exam. Then plan your time to answer all the questions.

Don't waste time. 3.当你遇到不会做的题目时，你应该怎么做呢? Don't waste too much time on them and remember you have to answer all the questions in the exam.

Use all your time.4. If you finish the exam before time is up, you'd better make full use of the time to check your answers instead of just sitting there. It can help you make as few mistakes as possible.

Move on. 5. Once an exam is over, forget about it. The best thing you can do is to go home and study for the next one.

(1) A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper about 2,000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.

Now paper still comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. Every day, people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting nearly 48,000 trees every day. Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper from now on. (2) If we don't, we will not have enough time to grow more trees.

So how can we save paper? (3) Some people suggest we should use both sides of every piece of paper. We can also choose drinks in bottles instead of those in paper. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs (手帕) and not paper ones. (4)当我们逛街时，我们可以使用更少的纸袋子。If the shop assistant gives use paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.

Everyone can help to save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. (5)让我们现在采取行动节约用纸。