亲爱的同学，初中生活很快就要结束了。回顾三年的生活，你一定有很多收获吧。假如你叫李明，你的美国笔友Mike对中国学生的生活非常感兴趣。请你根据以下提示，写一封信谈一谈你自己在初中三年里的美好回忆与收获。
1.学校生活（喜欢的老师，喜欢的学科，取得的进步等）
2.课外生活（兴趣，爱好，交友等）
3.……
注意：1.字数80—100；2.请结合实际增加细节，适当发挥；3.不能出现真实的校名、姓名或透露与个人身份相关的其他信息；4.信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Mike，
Thanks for your last letter.I'm very happy to tell you something about my middle school life.
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Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Ming

The earth is our home and we must take good care of it. That is to say we must   1   the land, air and water clean. But man    2  a lot of pollution on earth since he first made fire, washed his clothes in the river and threw rubbish on the ground. Many years ago, pollution was not so serious   3    there were not so many people.
There were enough    4   air, land and water. When the land or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to    5   place. Man is    6   the whole world now. So there is   7    enough clean air, nor clean land, nor clean water now. The more people there are in one place,    8    environment they maybe have.
Perhaps you are afraid     9   is endless(无休止的) for people to produce pollution.
    10  , we are glad to tell you that people have come to know the danger of pollution. And you can find more and more people are working hard to protect our earth.

阅读下面短文，根据短文大意和语境选择方框内的单词，并用其正确的形式填入空白处，使补全后的短文意思通顺，语法正确，结构完整。

Dear headmaster,

I’m a student of Grade 9. I want to tell you something. In our school, many students have mobile phones. They think it’s   1   to have a mobile phone. Yes, the phones let students talk with their parents and friends at any time. But I don’t think it’s good for students to use them at school. Many students spend lots of time in  2   messages by mobile phone, some students even use them to play games in class or cheat (作弊) in the exams. Some students

always hope to buy the new or   3   mobile phones and this will   4   their

parents’ money. And my father tells me that most mobile phones can cause (引起)

many health   5   . Could you do something to stop it?

Yours,

                                                            Sophia

你给英国的笔友写了一封信，信中介绍了你的家乡，并邀请他来玩。
它不大，但是一个美丽的城市。
没有太多的空气污染。从我家乘公交到市中心只要15分钟。
有三个美丽的公园。我最喜欢的是中山公园。
在公园里可以看到青山，绿树和湖水还有一座古老的寺庙(temple)。
它是个居住的好地方。希望你能来。我将带你游览。
Dear Jim,
Thank you for sending me the postcard. I’m glad to tell you about my hometown.
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Yours,
Li lei

You want to know about my staying in America, right? Well, to tell you the truth, it is really an eye-opening experience to study here.
In China, I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade. However, I didn’t know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School, Connecticut.
When I first studied English, I was told to say,” I am fine” when people say “How are you?” But in the US, I found that people say, “I am good” or “I’m tired”.
One day, someone greeted me with “What’s up?” It made me confused . I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didn’t know what to say.
Since then, I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures.
To my surprise, US girls spend a lot of time in the burning sun to get a tan(晒黑). However, in China, girls try every possible way to get their skin paler, or “whiter”.
I was also surprised by how hardworking US students are.  In China, schoolwork is almost everything, so we study hard and that’s it. But here, a “good” student gets good grades, does a lot for the public and plays sports or music.
The kids here are so talented, I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at an early age and that I have never thought about sports.
【小题1】 What does the word “confused” in the fourth paragraph mean in Chinese ?