— About one hour.

    It was yard sale time again, and everyone in Mr Jones' family was getting ready.

    Billy, the youngest, was clearing out his old toys. He put several old robots and games in his yard sale box. He also found some clothes that didn't fit.

    Suzy, the middle child, decided to part with some stuffed animals from her collection. She also found some old books.

    Regina, the eldest, had music CDs and some clothes to sell. She had the most clothes of the children to sell.

    Dad had many things he could part with: some tools, some records he didn't listen to, some computer parts and a few old jackets and suits. Mom had a few things to sell. She chose some handbags, some shoes and some clothes. She also found some old dishes.

    Together, the five of them set up their tables and the sale began at 7:30 a.m. People came early and the buying and selling was fierce. They hardly had time to take a rest. Many people brought young children, so Billy did well. He sold out his toys quickly. Girls liked Suzy's stuffed animals, and a few teenagers bought most of Regina's music CDs. Mom and Dad had the most things, so it took them longer to sell them. But they also made more money.

    In the end, Billy made $22; Suzy made $18 and Regina made $43.Mom and Dad made a bit more. Dad made $143 and Mom made $97. It was quite a good day.

We look at the world around us every day, but somehow we don't manage to see it until what we've become used to suddenly disappeared. That's to say that you may get used to some places and some1around you. For example, the neatly﹣dressed woman I used to see or look at on my way to work each2 .

For three years, no matter what the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8：00 a.m. On3days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime turn out clean cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. 4, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I remembered all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how much I expected to see her each morning. You might say I5her.

"Did she have an accident？Something6？" I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had lost her. I began to realize that part of our7life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar strangers：the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who always walks her dog along the street ever morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are8markers in our lives. They add weight to our9of places and belongings.

Think about it, while walking to work, 10we mark where we are by passing a certain building, why not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though unnamed

You can    .

    David is a young boy. He is only ten years old. He is 1.40 meters tall, but he is over 150 kg. His parents talk with him. They hope that David can lose weight(减肥). They help David make a plan for losing weight.

    1 Run for half an hour in the morning every day.

    2 Go climbing twice a week.

    3 Join the school football team and play football twice a week.

    4 Take a walk after supper every day.

    5 Have more vegetables and less(更少的)meat.

    6 Don't eat junk food.(垃圾食品).

I think he will .

    My best friend Tina likes watching TV. She doesn't game shows though they are interesting. She only watches them when she is tired. Tina likes sports shows. She sports very much, such as volleyball and tennis. She wants a successful tennis player one day. She doesn't like soap operas. She thinks they are . Many people like sitcoms, but she can't them. She thinks they are really boring. Her favorite shows are talk shows. "They are really . Though they're not very , you can expect a lot from them," she says. Sometimes, she also news because she hopes to find out what's going on around the world. There is a volleyball game on TV tonight. She plans to watch it with her brother, Jack.