It's 1st February. The Blacks are cleaning their house because tomorrow is the Spring Festival. Look! Peter is carrying water with his brother Paul. Sam is cleaning the windows. Sally is sweeping the floor. Mr and Mrs Black are cleaning the kitchen. They will make delicious food for the family.

Two hours later, the house is nice and tidy.

My Family

I have a happy family. My father is a police officer. He is tall. He likes to play basketball and checkers. My mother is a teacher. She likes to watch TV and read books. I am a student. I am a boy. I like to play on the computer. I am shorter than my father and my mother.

We like to eat noodles. We like to go for a walk after supper. We are a happy family.

Do you think you can communicate (交流) without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you raise your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask questions. You shake your head, and people know you are saying "No". You nod and people know you are saying "Yes".

People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, about the blue sea and many other things.

 Books can tell you about all the wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas. Books, magazines, TV and films all help us to communicate with each other. They all help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.

A．movies

B．radios

C．animals

Here is a letter from Jim to his friend in the USA 

I am in China now. I go to school five days a week. The school and the food are good here. I have some Chinese friends. They are all very friendly to me. On Saturdays and Sundays we stay at home.In the afternoon we play games. My Chinese friends like English very much. They ask me to teach them English and they teach me Chinese. I like staying here.

Please write soon!

Run Away From Fire

If there is a big fire in your flat, what should you do? What mustn't you do?

Make a towel(毛巾)wet and cover your mouth with it. Make your clothes wet with water. Try to get out of the house at once(立刻). Don't take too many things with you. Don't come back for your money or other things. Don't take the lift(电梯) when you get out of your flat. Walk down the stairs. If your clothes catch fire, don't run. Roll(滚)on the ground to make the fire die down(熄灭). If there is a lot of smoke, crawl(爬行)on the ground. Smoke is always high in the air. If your flat is on a tall building, don't jump down. Stay by the window and people may come to help you soon.

Where does rain come from? Rain always comes from clouds. But where do clouds come from? How does water get into the sky?

Think about your bathroom. There is hot water in your bath. Steam(蒸汽)goes up from the hot water. The steam makes small clouds in the bathroom. These warm clouds meet the cold walls and windows, and then we see small drops of water on the walls and windows.

The world is like your bathroom. The sun shines on the ocean. The water in the ocean becomes warm. Some of the water goes up into the sky and makes clouds. The wind carries the clouds for hundreds of kilometers(千米). Then the clouds meet cold air in the sky, and we see drops of water. The drops of water are rain.

The rain falls and runs into rivers. Rivers run into the ocean. And the water from the ocean makes clouds and more rain. So water is always moving from the ocean to clouds, then to rivers and again to the ocean.

The sun and the wind are arguing(争执).

The sun says, “I can make people take off their jackets. I am stronger than you.”The wind says, “No, I am stronger than you. I can blow. I can make people take off their jackets, too.”

A man goes out for a walk. He asks a tree, “How is the weather today? Is it hot outside?” “No. It is cold. It is windy,” the tree answers. The wind sees the man. He tries to blow the man's jacket off. “It's cold,” the man says. No matter(无论)how hard the wind blows, the man holds his jacket tightly(紧紧地).

The man goes out for a walk, again. He asks the tree, “How is the weather outside? Is it cold?” “No, It is sunny.” the tree answers. The sun sees the man. He shines strongly. “Oh. Its hot today.” the man says. He takes off his jacket.

The sun says to the wind, “Haha. I win. See! I am stronger than you.”