Mary is an American school girl. Now she ______ in Beijing ______ her parents. Mary doesn’t know Chinese, ______she likes learning Chinese. She often ______Chinese to her Chinese friends. Usually they _______understand her because she can’t speak Chinese ______. It’s Sunday morning. She goes out. She ______ in the street. She ______ the zoo to see elephants and monkeys, but she doesn’t know how to ______. She asks a Chinese boy. The boy can’t understand her. Then she takes out a pen and a piece of paper. She draws an elephant ______ it, and shows the picture to the boy. The boy understands now, he shows Mary the way to the zoo.

Your parents go to work and you are at home alone (独自). Do you _______ it's great?

Cao Fan says, "_______, I can do my favorite things, like _______ TV and playing computer games." "But who makes the _______ for me?" the fourteen-year-old boy says.  "I can have instant noodles (方便面), but that's not healthy（健康的）. I think many _______ my classmates are the same. Our _______ do all the things for us at home."

 Students _______ to learn some life skills (生活技能). Making chicken is _______ for you, but cooking tomato and egg soup is easy. Sweaters are big for you to wash, _______ socks and T-shirts are small. You can't clean the big house. So, how about your room? You see, there are lots of _______ we can learn to do.

The summer holiday（暑假） is a good time to start. Come on! And try to learn to do something.

各位同学，你们一定做过有趣的梦吧，请以“What a dream!”为题，写一写你梦到了什么？梦里都有谁？做了什么？梦有趣吗？

Everyone has some special experiences which make his life more meaningful. Today I’d like to share one to you all.

Last summer vocation, I flew to England with my mother. All the way I was very ______ to look forward to seeing the country. When we arrived and got out of the airport, we were so greatly attracted by the amazing view that we began to enjoy and _____. Suddenly, a beautiful house with lots of flowers in the front garden caught my _____. And a kind old man happened to get out. He invited us to have tea in his house. After entering his house, we saw his wife, a smiling woman.

Then, the couple showed us some paintings which the old man drew himself, and even some books he _______ himself. What an amazing man! But what ______ us most was a gold medal he won after taking part in the marathon!

That afternoon, we talked a lot and we had a good time. When it was time to say ____, I knew that I would never forget the couple. What a special experience! What lovely people!