How are you? I’m at a new school in China this term. My new school is big _____ nice. There are one thousand (千) _____ and ninety-three teachers at my school. I like the teachers. They are very _____ to me. My Chinese classmates are very friendly, too. They teach me _____ and I teach them English after class.

There are trees, flowers and green grass at my school. _____ are very beautiful. Behind my school there is a small _____. The water in it is quite clean. Across from our school there is a primary school (小学). We often _____ the children play games on the playground from our classroom building.

We have no _____ on Saturdays and Sundays. Sometimes I go to play football or basketball with my classmates. Sometimes I stay at home and _____ TV. Sometimes I go to ______ with my father and mother to buy things. We all like China.

Please write to me soon!

Yours,

Jim

How are you? Do you know _______ I am? I am in the school computer room. Look at the   _______ ! Yes, it's a school! This is my _______ school—Hope (希望) Middle School. It's _______ big, isn't it?

The school has a big classroom building   _______ five floors (楼层). Each (每一) floor has ten classrooms. All the _______ have classes in the building. A red building is next to the classroom building. It is our _______. How many books are there in the library? I'm _______ I don't know. The computer rooms _______ on the first floor. There is a playground ________ the classroom building. It's not big, ________ I like it very much. You can always ________ me play basketball there after school.

There are two school ________ in our school. The school drivers are very nice. They take (带) ________ to school every day.

I ________ my school. What about your school? Do you like it?

Do you like textbooks or computers when you are studying at school or home? The debate ( 辩论) on “textbooks vs.computers” has been going _______for years. How much technology is enough in the classroom? ________textbooks be replaced by computers?

There is no doubt __________ computers are powerful tools. Computer-based lesson plans are updated ( 最新的) in real time. New information can be added________ changes take place, so students can find the _______ information for the subjects they are studying.   With computers,     students can learn how to use them for the rest of their lives. Today, computers are used in almost all ________. Students can prepare themselves ______ for the future if they have computers.

________ there are many advantages, I think textbooks must stay.

Textbooks are professionally edited ( 编写). All the facts have been ______. They are put together in the best way. Each chapter builds on what a student has already learned. On the Internet, however, not all the information is _______ or well organized. With textbooks, it   is   easier for students to   get the key points and write them down. Scientists have found that __________notes   by hand helps students learn more. Textbooks are also __________   expensive   than   computers.     While most families can afford textbooks, not all of them can afford a computer. Every student should be   allowed to ______what he needs to learn. It’s wrong to rob (剥夺) a student of his _____ to learn just because he can’t afford the learning material.

Computers are playing an important role in education. They allow students to learn more. However, I don’t think they can _______   textbooks. If students want to learn effectively, they must use textbooks.