Great to     1     from (收到来信) you! Yes, we had a fantastic holiday. Mum, Dad and I went camping in Beidaihe. In fact, we stayed at the same     2     (露营地) as we did ten years ago. Dad showed me a photo we had taken then — just see how time flies!

Dad has changed quite a bit! In his thirties, he was quite thin and     3     (脸色苍白的), and he had red, bushy hair.     4     (现今), he’s    5     (体型匀称的) and tanned. He’s always had a square jaw, but now he’s grown a beard. Strangely, his beard is still red even though his hair is turning grey!

Mum looks almost the same, though. She still has     6     (表面光滑的) skin and straight black hair, and     7     (慢跑锻炼) has kept her     8     (苗条的) and fit.

I still have light skin and black hair, of course. But I usually     9     my hair in a ponytail (扎着马尾) these days as it has got a lot longer. Mum says I had cute rosy     10     (脸颊), but now I have freckles. I think they are kind of cute too, right?

Can’t wait to see you back in school!

Posts of     1     (事故，灾难) in English

I went to a summer school in Manchester and my English teacher was called Maggie. One day, a different teacher took our class. He told us that Maggie couldn’t teach that day COZ she had a frog in her     2     (咽喉). Poor Maggie — but why did she try to eat such a big frog?

When I first visited New York, I went to a     3     (市中心) shopping centre to buy some winter boots. At the information desk at the     4     (入口), I asked a lady where the shoe section was. She said that it was on the first floor. So I went up to the first floor, but couldn’t find any shoes. I decided to leave. When I was looking for the exit, I saw that shoes were     5     (事实上) sold downstairs on the ground floor, not the first floor. Why did she give me the wrong information?

I’ve got an English penfriend, who I finally got to meet in London this summer. He had told me that his grandfather was “really     6     (缺德的，邪恶的)”. But when I met his grandfather, I like him a lot. I found it very odd. Why did my friend use a     7     (消极的) word about such a nice man?

I was part of a student     8     (兑换，交换) programme between a university in England and my university in China. I spent days preparing and writing my first English paper. I knew I had done a good job and was looking forward to getting a positive     9     (评论). When I got the paper back, I found my teacher had written the comment “Not bad!” Not bad? But there weren’t any     10     (错误) in my paper.