1. How to Keep Ourselves SafeDuring an Earthquake?As we know, how dangerous the earthquake is! We don’t know when and where it happens, but we can do something about it. What do you do can save your life?The most important thing is to stay calm. If you are indoors during an earthquake, you should hide under a strong table or a desk and protect your head with arms. You shouldn’t try to run out of the room. You should also keep away from windows and things which can fall on you.If you are outdoors, you should keep away from buildings and tall trees, because they may hurt you, and you should run to clear areas. Stay in a safe area until you are sure you can leave. Some aftershocks may follow an earthquake. These are more dangerous than the earthquake. You should be more careful of them. When you’re safe you should check the people near you and help them.2. How Can We KeepHealthy?A Healthy body is very important for all of us. As the saying goes, “Health is more important than wealth.”How can we keep healthy? Here is some advice:First, we should have a healthy lifestyle. For example, we should go to bed early and get up early; we should wash our hands and have a bath often.Second, we should eat healthy eating habits. Healthy food can give us energy for life. We should eat more vegetables and less meat. We should drink enough water every day.Third, we should play sportsevery day. It is a good way to keephealthy.Last but not least, you shouldsay no to smoking or drinking. It’snot cool. Instead, it’s quite bad forus.If you take the advice, I’m sureyou will have a healthy body.3. My WeekendLast Sunday I was very busy. Igot up at 7:00 a.m. When Lai Lincalled me after breakfast, I wasdoing my homework. He wanted meto play with him. We were playingbasketball happily from 10:00 to12:00.In the afternoon, I was washingmy clothes from 2:00 to 2:30. ThenI had a short rest. I was readingcomics(漫画) from 3:00 to 4:00. At4:30 I went to see my grandparentswith my parents. After supper, wewent home. Then I was watchingTV from 8:00 to 9:00.When I went to bed, I felt alittle tired. But I was very happy.4. The InternetThe Internet is becoming animportant part of our lives.Many students like surfing onthe Internet a lot. They can learnmuch more knowledge from theInternet. And people can find outmuch useful information. Peoplecan also listen to music, watchmovies, do some shopping, chattingwith friends and so on. And it canmake people clever by playingdifferent kinds of games.But some young people spendtoo much time playing games. Sothey do worse in their lessons andjobs. Some even hurt others or getmoney by cheating others. Also,watching the computer is bad forour eyes and health.I think they mustn’t spend toomuch time on it when they’restudying at school. We can do it insummer or winter holidays.5. Studying English on theInternetThe Internet is becoming moreand more imp ortant in our lives. It’salso good for my study. It makes mystudy much easier.I often listen to the Englishsongs and stories online to improvemy listening skills. My spokenEnglish isn’t good. So I often chatwith my pen pals from Englandonline. They help me a lot. When Ican’t understand some grammars, Ialways ask for help at onlinegrammar website. I like readingsome articles on the Internet andthey help me improve my readingskills. If I meet some new wordsthat I can’t understand I can lookthem up in an online dictionary.Thanks to the Internet, Iimprove my English a lot.6.My Favorite SportDear Tony，How are you these days？I doa lot of exercise this term. I thinkdoing exercise can make me activein class.I spend an hour doing sportsevery day. I play table tennis,basketball and football with myclassmates after class. Basketball ismy favorite sport and I can play itpretty well now. It’s good for mylegs, lungs and heart. I think it’s agreat game to make me not onlyhappy but also healthy.What’s your favorite sport?Please write back soon.Yours,Li Ming 7. My Favorite Sports and StarMy n ame is Lin Hong. I’m a 14-year-old boy. I like sports very much and basketball is my favorite.I often play basketball with my friends in my free time. Playing basketball makes me healthy and strong, and it also brings me a lot of fun.Yao Ming is my favorite basketball player. He is 2.26 meters tall and he does well in basketball. My dream is to be a basketball player like Yao Ming when I grow up. To make my dream come true, I’m practicing playing basketball harder from now on. I believe that practice makes perfect.8. I Had a Bad ColdLast week, I felt bad. My parents took me the hospital. The doctor took my temperature and listened to my heart. He said I had a bad cold and I must stay in bed for a week. In the evening, some friends of mine came to see me. They brought me some beautiful flowers. And they helped me with my lessons, too. I felt very happy.9. A Sick LeaveDear Mr. Chen,I’m afraid I can’t go to school today. I have a headache and a cough. I went to see the doctor this morning. He said I had the flu. He asked me to take the medicine on time and have a good test. So I have to ask for two days’ sick leave. I hope I’ll get well and go back to school soon.Thank you.Yours,Li Ping10. How to Prevent the FluThe flu is a kind of commondisease. It spreads easily in the air.If you get the flu, you usually havea high fever and your body hurts. Itbrings trouble to your life. How tofight against it? Here are somesuggestions.First, you must take enoughexercise and drink more boiledwater every day. Second, you hadbetter keep your hands clean and therooms clean. Third, you shouldopen the windows often to let theair fresh come in. Fourth, youshould have enough sleep. Finally,y ou shouldn’t go to c rowed places.It’s not so difficult to preventthe flu if you follow my advice.11. My HobbiesDo you want to share myhobbies?Different people have differenthobbies. I used to ride a bike andread story books. They could giveme lots of knowledge. I keep catsand dogs. I thought pets were veryfriendly and lovely, but now I likelistening to music and chatting onthe Internet, because music canrelax me after the daily work andchatting can bring me happiness andfriendship.I have different hobbies indifferent seasons. In spring, I likeflying kites. In summer, I goswimming. I often climb hills in fall.I like making snowmen best inwinter.Can you tell me somethingyour hobbies?12. MusicI have many friends in myclass. Some of them enjoy musicvery much, but they like differentkinds of music. Jenny likes popmusic best because she thinkslistening to it can bring herhappiness. Paul prefers piano music.He thinks piano music makes hislife more colorful. Amy’s favorite iscounty music. It makes her think ofher hometown. Do you like music?What kind of music do you prefer?13. How to Make Our WorldMore BeautifulIt’s our duty to make our worldmore beautiful. As a middle schoolstudent, I think we should dosomething to make the worldbecome more beautiful. First, weshould protect our environment.Don’t throw litter about. We alsoshould plant more trees to make theair fresher, the sky bluer and therivers cleaner. Second, we shouldcare for animals. Animals are ourfriends, we should share the worldwith animals. If everyone workshard, our world will become moreand more beautiful.14. Smoking and HealthEveryone knows smoking isbad for health. People who smoketoo much may not live long. Manypeople die from smoking each year.Smoking causes many illnesses.Smokers have bad and black teeth.A lot of people always coughbecause of smoking. Smoking caneasily cause lung cancer.Smoking is bad for not onlysmokers but also bad for womenand children, too. It’s calledsecond-hand smoke. Scientists saidthat it was more dangerous.In a word, I hope all the smokers can give up smoking for themselves and also for the people around them. Let’s enjoy clean air.。