Mr. White lives in the countryside with his wife, Mrs. White. From Monday to Friday he works in a small office near his house. He is free on Saturdays and Sundays. He has a nice garden near his house. He likes growing flowers and he usually works in the garden on Saturdays and Sundays. The flowers are colourful and beautiful. Mrs. White likes them very much. She often helps Mr. White. They live happily together.

    It is Sunday afternoon. Mary goes to do the shopping with her mother. Her mother wants to buy some food for supper. Mary wants to buy a new skirt and some school things. They come to a shop.
   “What does your shop sell?” Mary asks, “A lot of things.” The girl in the shop says. “You can buy food, drinks, clothes in our shop and school things, too.”
   Mary and her mother go in. There are many people in the shop. Mary looks at a nice white skirt.
   “How much is the skirt?” Mary asks the girl in the shop.
   “It’s eighty yuan.”
   “That’s too dear.”
   “What about the green one? It looks nice. And it’s only thirty yuan.”
   “OK, thanks a lot.”
   “You are welcome.”
    After that, Mary buys some school things, too. Here mother buys a lot of food, like bread, cakes, meat and fish. They get home very late.

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“儿子，在干什么？天气冷了，要多加点衣服。”文盲母亲16字短信需要儿子用一生解读。一条仅有16字的短信，让扬州大学大一学生朱猛飞看得泪流满面，因为这是他收到母亲的第一条短信。“母亲小学没念完，拼音都不会读，这16个字，不知道她花了多长时间才写出来的。”深受感动，朱猛飞写下千字“感恩书”，回忆母亲一路来照顾自己的点点滴滴，也打动了不少网友。