Wang Ying didn't understand such sentences as "He is blue today", "He has a green thumb", "He has told a little white lie" and so on. And she went to her teacher for help.

Wang Ying: Mrs.  Smith, there is a colour in each of these sentences. What do they mean?

Mrs. Smith: In everyday English, "blue" sometimes means "sad", "yellow"一"afraid".  A person with a green thumb grows plants well.  And a white lie is not a bad one.

Wang Ying: Would you give me an example for "a white lie"?

Mrs. Smith: Certainly. Now I give you some cakes. In fact you don't like it, but you won't say it.  Instead, you say, "No, thanks.  I'm not hungry. " That's a white lie.

Wang Ying: Oh, I see. Thank you very much.

   Why does the earth have four seasons, while the moon does not? The answer is -weather.

Clouds, winds, rain and snow-these are all _______ of weather. They are a part of the weather picture just as your _______ is a part of you, Three things make these signs of weather. When you know what they are, you will always_______them in every kind of weather. Without them you would have no weather.

The first thing is the _______. It gives us light and heat, too.

The second thing is air. There is air around us. You move around in the air just as a _______   moves around in the ocean.

The third thing is water-water in the streams and rivers, water in the lakes, seas and oceans, and water in you.

   One day my wife and I went to the supermarket. We took the car as we had a lot of t_____ to buy because my brother and his family were going to spend the weekend with us. We p______ the car in the supermarket car park. An hour later we came back to the car and each of us pushed a h______ trolley. Then the trouble started. We could not open the car door and it is closed.

We found a p______ and he helped us to get the door open. Just then an angry man came up and shouted, "What are you doing with my car?" We looked at the n_______of the car and our faces turned red.

   Larry lived in a small town near the sea. Last December his grandfather and grandmother came to see them. They were happy to see each other. But soon both his grandmother and his grandfather got sick. They had very bad colds. They felt cold all the time.  They had to take a lot of medicine. Larry's wife got the cold too. And she gave the cold to the neighbours. The neighbours are the Turners. Mr. Turner is a postman. He gave the cold to everybody in the town. It was very sad, but there was one thing good. Larry is a doctor.  He is the only doctor in the town.  He got a lot of business and made a lot of money.  He was sad but he was also happy. He got his grandparents two plane tickets, so they can visit them again next year.

   I have a happy family. In the morning, my dad goes to work and we go to school. My dad takes us to school every day. We have lunch at school, My mum is at home every day. She does the housework(家务). She always has lunch at home, and meets her friends in the afternoon, In the evening,  all the children come back home from school. We have supper together(一起). We often have fish, vegetables(蔬菜) and rice for supper. At night my two brothers and I always do our homework. We go to bed at 9:30. We watch TV on Saturdays.

I have a _____,so I ________your help. Usually I was _______at school.  But recently(近来) I _______out that my friends were not _____ to me like before. They even didn't go to school or go home with me. It seemed they didn't want to talk with me. I'm very upset (焦躁) and I don't know_______ to do. Can you help me?

Liu Ming