We can’t eat in the classroom.

Li Peng is a good student.  (1)  He has breakfast at home. Then he reads English from 6:30 to 7:00.He goes to school at seven.  (2)  He has lunch at school,  (3)  He has three classes in the afternoon.  (4)  He often has dinner at home.

In the evening he sometimes watches TV.  (5)  He goes to bed at ten oˈclock every night.

A: Hi, Lily. Where did you go this Spring Festival?

B: I went to Xiamen.

A:   (1)  

B: I went there with my friend, Liu Ying.

A: Did you go to Xiamen University?

B:   (2)   It was really nice.

A: What was the weather like there?

B:   (3)  

A: Did you try any sea food there?

B: Yes. And I even bought some for my family.

A:   (4)  

B: It's a beautiful seaside city and it's worth traveling around.

A problem is only a problem until there is a solution. We find solutions by thinking creatively.  (1)   In other words, we think outside the box. Sometimes thinking outside the box solves not just one, but two problems.

Amsterdam is one of the most crowded cities in Europe. As a result, housing is very expensive, especially for students.   (2)   However, finding this type of apartments was almost impossible until recently.

While the colleges in Amsterdam were trying to solve the housing problem, thousands of shipping containers (集装箱) were lying quietly in ports around the world. These huge steel containers carry products from one counry to another. The life of each container is about 10 years.   (3)   Yet they can’t recycle all of them because there are so many.

Back in Amsterdam, a company came up with an amazing idea. Why not reuse these shipping containers as student apartments?   (4)   They are all the same size and fit together perfectly. The steel is strong. Moreover, these containers are so widely available that they are quite cheap to buy. For all these reasons, they can be used to build apartments quickly andvcheaply. Building began in 2005, and after only a few weeks, hundreds of Amsterdam students had new homes.

When students hears about this idea, they thought the container apartment would be small, noisy and cold.   (5)   Each container apartment has a kitchen, a bedroom with a study area, and a bathroom. The apartments are warm and quiet. They even have a high-speed Internet connection. Living in a shipping container has become popular. Today, over 3000 Amsterdam students live in the container village.

A:Hello, what are you doing here?

 B:   (1)   

A: What is it for?   (2)   

B: Oh, no it’s not for that. It’s about “ A Student Volunteer Project.”

 A: That’s a good idea.   (3)   

B: Some students think the old should be looked after often.   (4)   And others care about the disabled.

A: I think many students must hope to take part in the activity.   (5)   We all can help you.

B: I am so glad to hear that. Let’s do it together. 

How do you turn your interests into a business? Mohammed Ali, 15, a ten gamer from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, UK, is a good example.

 At the age of 12, he learned how to code by using You Tube and even made his own video game. He put his video game on the Internet.   (1)   He has already made $30000. He also makes websites and is working on an app, which will be open to the public in August.

  (2)   “When I fist started making money, I thought I’d just spend it all.   (3)   I save most of it in the bank, because I want to do more in the future,” he told the Daily Mail.

He became interested in computer when his parents bought him one at the age of 6.   (4)  

But after playing so many games, he decided to make his own.

Then, Ali learned how to code using You Tube video and by reading books in the subject. In 2012, he made his own game called Project 2006 after working on it for seven months. It was a role—playing game and more than 300 people are members.   (5)   

In the future, he wants to go to university and study the computer science, “I’m looking forward to studying computer science, not business because I’ve got a lot of experience in business already.” He told the Daily Star.

Teenage life — better now，or in the past?

Does this situation sound familiar (熟悉)？

You are complaining (抱怨)to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn't powerful enough to play the latest games.   (1)  Then you hear...

When I was your age, there weren’t any computers or video games. And I didn’t get a bike until I was sixteen. And it was second-hand.   (2)   ”

So, is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays.  (2)   So parents have got more money to spend on each child. And many things are cheaper than they were when our parents were children.

  (3)  Forty years ago, no one could imagine a world with tiny computers and amazing smartphones. And now these things are necessary — we can’t imagine living without them!

However, technology often means we spend more time at home. And often it，s just us, with our computer or television. Teenagers don’t do enough exercise.   (4)  And, although young people still get on well with their friends，some people think teenagers today don’t have so many social activities as they did in the past.

What do you think? How is teenage life better these days?

Encourage Exercises

Entrance Examination (中考)，said Li Liangjing, 15, a junior 3 student from Xiamen.

I and many other people in Britain love charity (慈善) shops because we can find them on every street.   (1)  .

Oxford opened the first charity shop in 1947. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK.  (2)  .I always find children’s books there, all 10 to 20 pence each. They are really cheap.

   (3)  , but each shop has a manager and he gets some money. Every morning you will see bags of things outside the shops.  (4)  . In fact, over 90% of the things in charity shops are from kind people.

All the money the shops get goes to charity work.  (5)  . The money is for sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and many others. In a charity shop you can get cheap but nice things. You might even feel special while shopping.

If possible, let’s do something for charity together!