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.”

An old woman lived in the country. She had three sons. They were Kim, Mike and John. They left home to make money and became rich soon. This year they came back together on Mother's Day. Each of them had a gift for their mother.

Kim bought a big and beautiful house for mum. Mike sent her a car. John's gift was a parrot that could speak to mum.

Several days later, mum sent them letters of thanks:

 “Kim,” she wrote to one son, “the house you bought is so large. I live in one room, but I have to clean the whole house.”

 “Mike,” she wrote to another, “I am too old to travel. I spend most of the time at home, so I don't use the car.”

 “Dearest John,” she wrote to her third son, “you really know what I like. The chick was delicious. Thanks.”

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.

We have twenty minutes’ rest between classes. Look! Most of us are playing during the rest time. Some students are on the playground. They are having a basketball game. Oh! A boy is running with a ball. And another is trying to stop him. They are so cool. And there are some girls watching the game. Some students are in the classroom. They are talking. A few of them are reading or doing homework. Look! A girl is looking at the birds in a tree in front of the classroom. She must be thinking of something interesting because she is smiling.What are the teachers doing? Do you know? Some of them are working in the office, and some are talking with students. Everyone is busy with his or her things. Busy and happy!

Alice lives in Shenzhen. She had a wonderful and busy summer holiday. She went to a lot of places and did a lot of things. At the beginning of the summer holiday, she finished her homework at home. Then she went to Hong Kong and bought many things with her family. After that she went to her hometown. Hunan and visited her grandparents. She helped her grandparents do a lot of housework. She watered the plants, set the table, made the bed and cleaned the room. Then, Alice went to Guilin with her family. They ate a lot of delicious food and took the bamboo raft. At the end of the summer holiday, she went to Yunnan. She climbed the Yulong Snow Mountain. She felt very excited!