Why is it important for Lee to study English? After Chinese, the language that is most        in the world is English. It is said that 300,000,000 people speak English as a first language and another 500,000,000 people speak it as a        language. English is used by almost a 1 ,000,000，000 people in the world and 83% of the world's        are written in English. But people think that there will be        emails in Chinese than in English.

     Lee is studying English because he wants to be a       , and he knows most scientists write in English. Lee's father, a scientist, is going to an important science meeting in Shanghai. All the         will be in English.

      Lee's cousin Wei wants to work for an airport        she leaves school. Wei is going on an English course this summer to improve        English.

       Michael lived in the USA. His family came back to live in China last year, and he is        Lee's school now. Michael speaks English perfectly, but his Chinese isn't very good. In the summer holidays，Michael and Lee are planning to spend time        speaking English on Monday, Chinese on Tuesday, and so on.

Our school held an English speech contest each year. Han Meimei won the first prize in last year. Everyone was sure that she was going to the champion again this year. Yet, to our surprise, she, instead getting the first prize, coming out second in the end. When the judge at the contest announced the results, Han Meimei felt so sadly that she almost cried. Therefore, she was not discouraged. When the second prize was given to her, she said to her, “The prize is not of important. I am going to work still hard to improve my English speaking ability.

  “It's raining cats and dogs!” Grandpa shouted.

     Little Richie came running to the window. He wanted to see the 1 falling from the sky. He looked out of the window, but it was 2 that there were no cats or dogs. He only saw small pools of water on the ground.

  “Man, it's really coming down out there!” Uncle Bob agreed 3 he looked out of the window, too. Richie scratched his head(挠头). What was coming down? First they talked about cats and dogs that 4 be seen. Now someone said “it”. What was going on with these 5?

  “Wow!” Aunt Susie shouted as she looked out of the window. “It's raining really hard.”

    Richie 6 his aunt. “It's raining hard,” he agreed, “but 7 are the cats and dogs?”

    Grandpa laughed. “ Richie, that just 8 it's raining really hard.”

  “So why didn't you just say that?” Richie 9. It was irritating(恼人的) when people spoke like they were not speaking English at all.

  “We did. You just didn't understand these 10.” Richie's cousin said with a big smile.

  “Well, now I do.” Richie said.

        I am studying at Sydney Russell School, a s       but very famous school in Australia. All the lessons there are taught in English. I have f       subjects this term. What a big challenge!

        Last w      , Mr. Brown, my science t       asked us to do a project on trees. Ming and I were in the same group. B       of us were from China. We spent several hours s       the library every day, reading and surfing the Internet. We even planted two trees in the school garden and took many p       of them.

        The most e       part was the presentation. We introduced many things about trees, for example, the t       and oldest tree in the school. Everyone enjoyed the presentation.

        Learning by doing helps me a lot. I'm sure everything will g       better.