Hi, I am James. I am from London, England. CHRISTMAS DAY is the most important festival in many Western countries. Families get together and get Christmas trees with colorful lights. They also put gifts under the trees.

But now I live in Beijing, China. I am not with my family. So we have to use different ways to send our wishes. Two weeks before Christmas, my family posted (邮寄) Christmas cards to me. I will also talk with my family by video. With an 8-hour time difference, they’ll sit down to have a big lunch at 11:30 am, and I’ll be with friends to eat dinner at 7:30 pm. (103)Although I’ll spend Christmas without my family, I am not alone (孤单的). Here in Beijing, there are large trees and Christmas big sales in shopping centers. Kids like to take photos with Santa Clause. I have to go to work on Christmas Day, and my students have to go to school. (104)They are so nic e bec ause they dec orate(装饰) the classroom and w ant to have a party for me.  

Icanfeelthespirit(气息)ofChristmas.

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Under the new rules, local governments    64   (make) sure that students go to nearby school or boarding (寄宿的) schools to reduce traffic risks  (风险). Also, local governments must help kids in the countryside reach their school buses.Every day in China, about 200 million children go to school. Many of them    61   (take) school buses. What should we do    62   (keep) these students safe on the road? On April 5, the State Council(国务院)    63   (publish) new rules about school bus safety. These new rules are stricter than the old ones.

From now on, school buses have a speed limit (限制) of 80 km/h on highways and 60 km/h on normal roads. While    65   (drive) on the road, other cars must let school buses    66   (go) first. The new rules also say that school buses must never be overloaded (超载的).

There are many other rules as well. A school bus must have more than seven seats. On each bus, there must be at least one adult to keep    67   (look) after the kids. Each school bus must have a fire extinguisher (灭火器), a first aid kit (急救箱) and a GPS.

Last year, a series of school bus accidents happened in China. As we all know many kids    68   (kill) in the accidents. To stop such accidents, Since years ago ,the Central Government    69   (decide) to make the rules for school buses. The most serious accident happened in November in Gansu, When a nine-seat minibus crashed(碰撞). There    70   (be) 62 children inside, and 21 of them died.

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Alice is my pen friend. She is a 16-year-old girl from the UK, but now she lives in China. She is a middle school student in Beijing.

She likes going to school, but there are some things she doesn’t like, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn’t like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring!

In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friend there. She is getting better at understanding boys,but she dislikes listening to hours of talk about football.“It is not interesting at all !”She once said to me.

Her favorite subject is science. It seems that the amazing (令人惊叹的)and useful science attracts(吸引) her. She thinks she is on the way to being a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more and more beautiful.

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Young people are perhaps better-known for spending money than saving it. But some new banking websites are trying to change that. These websites offer young people the information and tools they need to watch over(管理) their money. The websites also let the users share their financial（理财） experiences with other young people.

Nineteen-year-old Alix Scott has been working at a store this summer. She is saving money to pay for college next year. “I have to save for all my college money because my parents can’t offer me enough. So, I have to depend on my own savings,” She said. But she didn’t put her money in a local bank, she began using SmartyPig, a web-based banking service. She said, “When I do that, it reminds me to save the money.”

Michael Ferrari developed SmartyPig with a friend in 2007. SmartyPig is really all about helping people save for very specific financial goals. So that could be a wedding, a vacation, an I-phone. Mr. Ferrari says SmartyPig opened after he started a college savings account(账户) for his new baby. He says that experience helped him realize the power of saving for a specific goal. Helping other savers pay attention to their goals is the idea behind his online company.

Michael Ferrari said, “For example, I’m saving up for a vacation. I want to save 5,000 dollars. I want to meet this goal in three years. SmartyPig will in fact help you know how much money you need to save every month.

Twenty-two-year-old Khang Nguyen is studying engineering in college. He likes being able to share his saving goals with his online community. He said, “I think it's actually a good thing that they are able to see it. Like, a group of my friends after they found out, you know, about what I do, they always come ask me for financial advice.”

A growing number of young people are interested in online banking websites like SmartyPig. They like their operation and services online.

The weather in China

In the (A) _______ of China, it is very cold and dry in winter. There is sometimes heavy snow. Summer is different. It is sometimes very hot during the day, (B)_______ it is often cool in the evening. Spring and autumn are the nicest seasons.

The weather in the middle and east of China is (C) quite different. It is hot and dry in summer and very cold and wet in winter.

In the south of China, winter is (D) usually short and cool. (E It sometimes rains. In summer, the weather is often hot and wet.

The weather (F) (在中国的西南）is very special. It is comfortable to live there because summer is cool and winter is warm.

Healthy Eating

Healthy eating is important to us. What and how can we eat to keep healthy?

First, we must have enough food, never too much or too little. The food must be clean and we should cook it properly.

Second, it’s very important for us to keep a balanced diet. We have to eat Different kinds of foods such as rice, bread, meat, fish, eggs, milk, fruit and vegetables. Rice and bread give us energy. Meat, fish, eggs and milk help our bones grow. Fruit and vegetables make us healthy.

Third, we should eat regularly. It’s said that half of the students don’t have a regular breakfast or don’t eat anything in the morning. It is bad for their health. In fact, a good breakfast keeps us strong.

In short, we should not only eat enough food and healthy food but also eat regularly.

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