Dear Linda,
I’m glad to hear from you and I would like to be your pen friend. In your letter, you said you wanted to know something about my school life(生活).
I walk to school at 7:30 every morning because the school is near our house. When I get to school at about 7:45, I often do the cleaning with my classmates. After that we do some reading for half an hour. We have four lessons in the morning. I often have my lunch at 12:00 at school. We usually have two lessons in the afternoon. The school is over at about 5:00 and then I go home.
My favorite subject is Chinese. I like all the teachers because they are friendly. I am keen on sports and I enjoy playing football best. I’m a member of our school football team. What about your school life?
Best wishes!
Dick
【小题1】It often takes Dick about _____ to walk to school every morning.

One day Mozart saw an old blind street-performer playing the violin in the street corner  26  a hat in front of him . He found out the old man was  27  one of his compositions . The old man played for  28  but still nobody put any money into his hat . Mozart asked the old man , “Do you often play compositions by Mozart ?” “Yes,  29 _ ,” answered the old man . “now, everybody knows Mozart and likes his music .” “Do you  30  a living by playing the violin ?” The old man said he  31 . Mozart took over the violin from the old man and began to play .
He played so well  32  all the passerby stopped to listen to the wonderful music and soon the old man felt very  33  that the man could play so well . He asked Mozart , “Who are you , sir ?” “Your colleague（同行） , a poor  34  like you .”
Then Mozart gave the  35  back to the old man and went away .

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Here is an examination notice（考试通知）. Mrs. Dickson gave it to her students last week.
To the students of Class 3
◇  Examinations start on January 22 and end on June 23.
◇  The time for each of the subject is:
English       June 22        9:30 A.M.- 10:30 A.M.
Math           June 22           11:00 A.M.- 12:00 A.M.
History           June 22        2:30 P.M.-3:30 P.M.
PE           June 23           8:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Music          June 23        1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
◇  For the PE test? go to the playground. For the music test, go to the Piano Room. All else are written（书面）tests. They will be held in Classroom 3.
◇  No student can get into the examination room more than 15 minutes after the exam starts.
◇  No food or drink during ANY test.
◇  No dictionaries during the English exam.
◇  Wear pants and sports shoes for the PE exam.
◇  If you have questions, go to the Teacher's Office before the tests.
【小题1】Who could not take the English exam?

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   Jiang Wen is at the top of the world - the world of Chinese cinema. His Let the Bullets Fly has just broken the box-office record for a Chinese film with some 700 million yuan ($107 million). It is s  1.  a big success that wherever you go, you can hear p 2.  talking about Bullets.

This time, he is not o  3. the leading actor in the film, but also the director himself. Young people believe he was playing himself because to them, he h  4.  is a true man. And experts (专家) also think highly of his way of t  5. stories. It seems that he does not need others to tell him h 6.  great he is ––– not any more.

    That does not mean he is not p  7.  of Bullets. It’s just that Bullets, for him, is fun. He has heard of all the political interpretations（政治隐喻的解读）of his story that have appeared across the Internet.

    The m  8.  wonderful scenes in his movies all seem to have something to do with reality (现实), for example, in Bullets it opens with a train pulled by white horses.

“I did not i  9. this set-up. For 30 years in the early 20th century, there was a part of rail line in Northeast China that was powered by h  10. ,” he explains, “You may come up with the most unlikely scenes, and you’ll find that fact is stranger than fiction.