Carly is my friend. She has a big ________. Come and see Carly’s ________. One, two, three, four, five... In this photo is her family of ________. And her ________ is in it, too.

This is Carly’s dad. His ________ is David and he is 39. ________ a teacher. He teaches in a middle school. Next to(紧挨着) her dad is her ________. Her name is Lora and she is 36. She is an English teacher. Carly has two ________. Jack is 14. Scott is only 2. Diego is a big, brown dog. ________ is this girl? Oh, she is Carly. All her family are ________ to me.

A letter to myself in the future

Do you still remember writing this letter? It was 2023 and you were only 13 years old then. When you open and _______ this letter, perhaps it’s already 2035. As your younger self, I am curious as to what job you are doing.

When you were 13 years old, you were changing your dream job almost every week. Just last week, you dreamed of _______ a live streamer(在线主播). You wanted to make _______ while playing computer games. But this week, you changed your _______. You developed a crush(迷恋) on football. You said you wanted to become a _______. Many of your friends said you really had a gift for playing football. You were also very interested _______ astronomy(天文学) at that time. Your dad supported you to be an astronomer. Your mom, however, said the dream was unrealistic(不切实际的). I don’t know who’s right. Perhaps you know the answer.

I am now working very hard at school, so I believe you should have found a good job by now. Maybe in the future, _______ will not be so important because Elon Musk, the world-famous engineer, said he had already invented a chip that is able to input knowledge directly into _______ brains. For the time being, however, I believe learning is still important. If you are now enjoying lots of success, you should _______ thank me for having worked so hard to get you there!

Has anybody invented a time machine yet? If so, I hope you will travel back and chat with me face-to-face. I want to know if there __________ any more disasters in the future. If there are, I could prepare myself for them and also warn everybody around me.

Best wishes.                                                                                                                        

Wang Mei

I am in a big office at school with other ten teachers. Sometimes the office is a _______ place. Some students are coming in and going out with their notebooks, and _______ are waiting to recite (背诵) the text. But _______ students enjoy staying here.

In students’ mind, teachers are strict. Sometimes they are like cold parents. In fact (事实上), students want to have _______ teachers. They also want to make friends with teachers. Linda is a teacher _______ my office. She is a warm person and her students love her. They enjoy playing table tennis and _______ with her after school.

There is friendship between teachers and students. _______ it doesn’t mean you can act badly in class. It also doesn’t mean you can get good grades without working hard. The _______ of a teacher is to teach and the job of a student is to _______. And the most important thing is that students and teachers ________ respect (尊重) each other.