—Yes. I want to be a player like Yao Ming.

— No, it isn't.         is behind the tree.

— Oh, I        take a taxi, but it is raining heavily.

— I like him very much. He is        kind         hard-working.

— I use it to write a letter.

—You can         the word in your dictionary.

— Yes,        , but I'm too busy.

— Perhaps next weekend.

    Some foreigners choose to visit China. As we know, 1 are one of the most common ways to travel in China. Some foreigners don't know2 to buy train tickets in China. Here is some useful3 for them.

    The selling period of China train tickets are usually 20 days before the departure(启程)day for bookings on the Internet and 4 telephone, and 18 days in advance (提前) for train ticket windows at train stations and local train ticket offices.

    China train tickets are often sold out, especially during 5 such as summer vacations, National Day and the Spring Festival. You should make a plan and 6 a train ticket in advance if you want to travel to some places. You'd better do it as 7 as you can.

    Besides, foreigners 8 show their passports when they buy a train ticket. 9, don't forget to take your passport when you buy train tickets.

    If you 10 these suggestions, you won't have problems buying train tickets in China.

    In Junior High School in America, kids study English, writing, math, science, biology, music and art.

    At 12 o'clock, the students eat lunch at school. They have meat, vegetables, fruit, bread and a drink, but they like hot dogs and hamburgers best. American kids like sugar, and after the meal they can have a small piece of cake.

    Students sleep for a short time after lunch. They begin classes at 1:30 in the afternoon. They go to school on weekdays and have classes for six hours every day and then return home.

    Parents let their kids play or watch TV until dinner at 6:00 p.m. After dinner, they do their homework. Sometimes kids and their parents have a family activity after dinner.

    Mrs. King is an American doctor. She is now in China. She works in a children's hospital in Beijing. She is also learning Chinese medicine (中医) there. She likes Chinese medicine very much. She loves working for children. She works hard in the day and reads English books on Chinese medicine at night. She learns Chinese from the Chinese doctors and her Chinese friends. Now she can speak some Chinese. She can read some Chinese books, too.

    Her husband Mr. King is a teacher. He teaches English in a junior high school in Beijing. He works hard, too. He works from Monday to Friday. He teaches three classes every day. Sometimes, on Saturdays and Sundays, he teaches other English classes. He wants to make more money.

    Mr. Smith works in New York. Last month he had a fifteen-day holiday, but he didn't know where to spend it.

    He spoke to his friend Bill, "I hate the hot weather, but I can't find a cool place in America. How should I spend my holiday?"

    "That's easy, "said Bill, "You'd better go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground now."

    Mt. Smith agreed with his friend. He bought an air ticket and soon arrived in Moscow. He had a happy trip there, but one day he got into trouble. After lunch he went outside the city, he saw a dog following him while he was walking past a house. The dog was hungry and wished him to give it some food to eat. Bad luck! He had no piece of bread or cake in his pockets. He tried to drive it away. But it began to bark at (对……大叫) him. He wanted to look for a stick but he couldn't find anything except snow and ice. Suddenly he saw a stone on the ground. He hurried to pick it up but failed.

    "How strange Russians are!" Mr. Smith said to himself, "They don't tie dogs. but firmly(紧紧地) tie the stones. My God!"

    Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate their birthdays in different ways. Now here are four people from different countries. They will tell us how they celebrate their birthdays in their countries.

    Sandy comes from Madrid. She says happily. "My 21st birthday is on Saturday, and I'm going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull on my ear 21 times, once for each year. It's an old custom. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional."

    Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be 60 tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki(花甲)—the beginning of a new life. The color red is for a new life, so we always give something red for a sixtieth birthday.

    Liu Mei from Beijing feels very excited and tells us, "Tomorrow is my 16th birthday. I's a special birthday, so we're going to have a family party. Maybe I will get some lucky money from my relatives(亲戚). My mother is going to cook noodles for a long life."

    Phillip, from Paris, smiles to us. "I'm going to be thirty next week, so I'm going to invite three very good friends out for dinner. In France, when you have a birthday, you often invite people out."

    How do you usually celebrate your birthday?

    These days many people are interested in losing weight. It is very popular among people, especially young people.        Some people even take medicine. Do you know how to control weight? Well... diet and exercise are the right answers. Please read and remember the following tips.

    Tip 1   You should eat only when you are hungry        

    Tip 2   You should eat only food that is good for your health. Don't eat junk food such as hamburgers and French fries.

    Tip 3         When you eat out, you may eat too much. That can make you become fatter.

    Tip 4    Don't forget to think about changing your lifestyle. Healthy lifestyle is good for losing weight.       Don't stay up to play your mobile phones.

          Give yourself some free time to find the best way to control your weight.

    Wu Yishu is a student in Shanghai. She became the subject of hot discussion on the Chinese Internet during the Spring Festival holidays. She beat the others in the        (two) season of the Chinese Poetry Conference on China Central Television        Feb 7th.

    This 16-ycear-old girl has        (win) the Chinese poetry competition because she has much knowledge of the country's ancient        ['kʌltʃə] and works. "I get feelings from ancient poetry that modern people cannot give me. I pay little attention       the competition result, but I love poetry, and it is enough as long as I enjoy the       (happy) brought by the poetry." Wu said. In the final, Wu performed strongly in many sections, such       competitors recalling poems by looking at        [sænd] paintings and reciting poems as many as they could think of.

    Wu's strong performance in the Chinese ancient rhythm works earned her lots of        [fænz] and encouraged others to learn ancient works. She is        (know) among her classmates and teachers as she loves reading poems and wearing ancient Chinese clothes.

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To Make Our Hometown Better

    Hello, everyone. I'm Lin Hua. It's my honor to talk about how to make our hometown better.

    Thank you for listening!