It's spring. One day, Mother Duck finds four eggs at her home. Three are small and one is big. She sits on the eggs. Three small eggs open. The ducklings are small and yellow. The big egg opens later. It's big and gray. It's ugly. Mother Duck doesn't like the ugly duckling. He is sad and swims away. In winter, it's cold. He has no home. It's spring again. The ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan.

Thank you for your letter and the beautiful stamps. I like them very much.

Now I’m going to answer some of your questions. You ask me about the weather in Beijing in winter. It’s quite cold and it often snows. After snow, the ground is white. And I can skate on real ice. I like winter best.

You ask me when the best time is to come to China. I think the best time to come to China is in spring or autumn. It’s often too hot in summer and too cold in winter. I have to finish this letter now. ask your brother to come to China with you. Welcome to Beijing soon.

Jenny gets up early in the morning. She has her breakfast at home and then goes to school. She walks to the bus stop and takes a bus. She gets to school at about half past seven.

Jenny is never late for school. She likes school and works hard. Classes begin at 8:00. She has six classes every day. Jenny is good at all her lessons, and she likes English best.

Jenny usually has lunch at school. Jenny goes home at five in the afternoon. Sometimes, she helps her friends with their lessons. After supper she usually watches TV news. Then she does her homework. She goes to bed at about 9:30. Jenny is a good girl.

My mother and I do some shopping on Sundays. We often go to the supermarket（超市）on Sunday morning in a car. Father likes apples very much. We buy some red apples for him. Mother likes yellow bananas, but the bananas in the supermarket are green. "Look! The strawberries are very nice. Mum. Do you like them?" I say. "Yes, I do." Mother buys some for herself. The oranges are very nice. Mother buys some for me. I like oranges very much.

We need some vegetables. We buy some tomatoes, carrots and broccoli（花椰菜）. I don't like broccoli, but my parents like it. After shopping, mother and I have some French fries, milk and ice cream. And then we go back home with the fruit and vegetables.

On Sunday morning, Mr Baker takes Mike and Joan to a plane. He opens the door of the plane and lets the children in. Soon the plane begins to up. Joan looks out of the window, "Oh, we’re like birds in the sky!" She says. She looks at the houses, but they are like toy houses. Mike looks out of the window, too. He sees some buses. They look like toy buses. The people on the ground look very, very small, too. Then the plane comes down and down, and stops on the ground. Mike and Joan are very happy.

Which Skirt to Wear?

Tina is 8 years old, and follows her own ideas. When her parents tell her to do something, she always doesn’t do it. Today, she will go to a friend’s birthday party. She is now choosing skirt to wear. She has three skirts: a blue skirt, a white one and a yellow one. She asks her father, “Which one is the best?” her father says, “I think the blue one is the best.” Then she asks her mother, “Which one do you think is the best?” Her mother answers, “The white one, of course!” Tina says, “Thank you.” Then she puts on the yellow skirt and goes out.

This is my friend, Jim. He is an English boy. He is twelve. He is in Class Three, Grade One. He is Number Two in Row Five. My name is Dong Cheng. I am a Chinese boy. I am twelve, too. I am in Class One. I am Number One in Row One.

There is a big fruit shop near Kitty’s home. Kitty is at the fruit shop now. There are many kinds of fruits. There are big apples, yellow pears, fresh bananas, juicy oranges, and so on. Kitty wants to buy some apples and bananas. They are expensive. The apples cost ten yuan. The bananas cost twenty yuan.