My name is Grace.Look! This is a 1 of my family.A boy is in it. 2 is my brother, Tommy.Tommy is 3 the sofa.A woman(妇女)is in the picture, too.She is my 4 .She is at the table.My father 5 in the picture.He is at 6 with his students.A plant and a backpack 7 on the table.The backpack is my brother's.Two 8 are under the chair.They are also my 9 .You can see some 10 .They are on the bookcase.
Tom and Mary are brother and sister.They live in a big house.The house 1 at the foot of a hill.Near the hill 2 a big lake.
There are four 3 in their family.They’re Tom, Mary and their 4 .Their father is a farmer.He has a big farm and 5 on it all day.Their mother is at home.Tom is a student.He goes to school 6 bike every day, but little Mary doesn’t.She is only four.
Tom 7 sport.He swims 8 and he often plays 9 with his friends after school.Mary likes 10 , too.She often swims in the lake.
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him had dropped all of the books he was carrying.Mark helped the boy pick them up. 1 they were going the same way, he carried them for the boy.As they walked, Mark knew the boy’s name was Bill.Mark 2 discovered that he loved computer games, baseball and history and that he was having a lot of 3 with his other subjects.
They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was invited in 4 Coke and to watch some television.The afternoon passed 5 with a few laughs and some shared small talk, and then Mark went home.They 6 to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice and then 7 ended up from the same high school.Just three weeks before they finished school, Bill asked Mark if they could have a talk.
Bill 8 him of the day years ago when they had first met.‘Do you 9 wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?’ asked Bill.‘You see, I 10 out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a mess for anyone else.I had planned to 11 from home and I was going home to pack my things.But after we spent some time together 12 and laughing, I realized that 13 I had done that, I would have 14 a new friend and missed all the fun we would have together.So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more.You 15 my life.’
Different people have different names.But many people have the same name in the world.People have lots of reasons for changing their names.Film stars, sportsmen, singers and some other 1 people often change their names because they don't want to have ordinary(普通的)names, sometimes they want their names to have special sound(声音).They 2 the “new name” for themselves.When they were born, their parents 3 them their names.But they don't use them often.
Some people have another 4 for changing their names.They have moved to a new country and they want to use a name that is useful there.For example, Li Kangyu changed his name to Ken Lee when he moved to the United States.He 5 the name Ken both at his job and at school. 6 with his family and Chinese friends, he uses Li Kangyu.For some people, it makes life 7 in their new country to use different names.
In many countries, a woman changes her family name to her husband's after she 8 married.However today, many women 9 their own family name.They don't use their husband's.And some use both 10 own name and husband's name.