Lisa is the youngest child in the family. When Lisa was a little girl, she loved to play games with her brother and sister.

One day, after a heavy snow, their father was reading in the living room, and their mother was cleaning the house. Lisa and her brother and sister were playing in the backyard. They decided to make a snowman. So Lisa and her sister went back to the house, and they took a carrot, a long red scarf, a hat, and some colourful buttons. The carrot was for the nose, and two buttons were for the eyes. At last, they made a big round snowman. It was very cute.

Little Robert’s mother gave him two cents the day before yesterday, and two cents yesterday. But now he is asking his mother for two cents more. His mother is very confused, because Little Robert always asks her to give him money these days.

“What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?” his mum asks.

“I gave it to a poor old woman,” he answers.

“You are a good boy,” says his mother proudly. “Here are two cents. But why are you so interested in the poor old woman?”

“She is the one who sells the candy.” says Little Robert.

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

It is early in the morning. Mr White is cutting the grass in the yard. Suddenly, his neighbour Mr Black runs out and helps him.

Mr White is very happy and he asks Mr Black, “Do you often help people cut grass?”

“No!”

“So why do you get up and help me?”

Mr Black says, “I help you cut the grass so that I can go back to sleep again.”

It is Friday evening. Liu Ying and Wang Lin go home from school. They are good friends. On the way, an old woman with a bag in her hand comes up and asks, “Can you help me?” “Of course, granny. What can we do for you? " Liu Ying and Wang Lin ask. The old woman says, “I'm coming to see my daughter, but I don't know how I can get to her home. Here is her address .” “We can take you to see her.” say the two girls. Then they help the woman find her daughter. How happy they are!

They say goodbye to the granny and her daughter. “Could you tell me your names, girls?” asks her daughter. “We are young pioneers.”

Mark is a student. He gets up at 6:20. He runs in the park for an hour. Then he has breakfast at 7:35. Before breakfast, he brushes his teeth and then washes his face. After breakfast, he goes to school at 7:50. Next, he has a math class at 8:00. After class, he often plays sports with his friends. He often does his homework after dinner. In the evening, he reads books and sleeps at 9:00.

Fred likes fish very much. One day, he buys a fish. His son sees the fish and says to himself, "Very good! I can ask my friends to have it for lunch. "

The next day(第二天), Fred comes home in the evening. The fish isn't there. His son says, "Oh, Dad, your cat eats the fish." Fred gets angry (生气). He takes the cat and his son to the shop and weighs (称)the cat. Then he says, "Little boy, my fish weighs one kilo, and the cat weighs one kilo too. My fish is here, and then where is my cat?"

John lives in a tall building in the city of Beijing. There are eighteen floors in the building, and he lives on the fifteenth floor. He uses a lift（电梯）to go up and down.

John works very hard. He goes to work early. Every day he gets out of the lift. Then he walks to a bus stop. It is about two hundred meters from his home.

He usually catches the number 11 bus to work. John works in a factory about ten kilometers from his home. He starts working at 8:30, and finishes at 4:30. He gets back home at 5:15. He gets into the lift, and he goes up to the twelfth floor. Then he gets out of the lift and climbs up to the fifteenth floor on foot.