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Most schools are trying hard to improve their lunch programs and they want to offer the best food they can.

Even if your school provides healthy options(选择)，you may still want to have something delicious outside.

How do you take control? Take a packed lunch to school!

Here are the four reasons to pack your lunch and snacks at least twice a week.

Control  Have you ever waited in the lunch line only to find when you get to the front that you don't like what they're serving?

Variety  If you're eating the same food all the time , your body probably feels ready for a change. Packing lunch a couple of times a week means you can enjoy some favorites that you might not find at every school.

Money Serving Packing healthy snacks so that you needn’t go out for a fast-food lunch, chocolate or a soda! If so, you will save much money. And you can buy something you need.

Warm Feeling   Remember when your mom or dad used to pack your lunch? Pack a lunch for yourself, maybe that is your favorite healthy food.

Whether you pack or eat in the cafeteria(自助食堂)，what's important is that you make right choices. If you are worried that cafeteria doesn't offer enough healthy choices, try to make changes. Ask a teacher or someone in food service for advice on hoe to get started.

Take a packed lunch to school

八年级的学习不知不觉已过半，这是成长中很重要的一个阶段，你的父母想了解你过往的学习表现及对将来的打算，给他们写封信，内容要包括一下要点：
1. How was your school life this semester? What did your teacher say about you?
2. What should you do now?
3. What do you want to be in the future?
（参考词汇：be good at; can do better; hard-working; lazy …）
要求：语言规范，字迹工整，表达流畅、完整，80字左右。文中不得出现真实姓名和校名。开头已给出。
Dear mom and dad,
How time flies! I have been studying in the middle school for about two years…
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Yours,
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When people communicate, they need words to express themselves. People living in different countries made different kinds of words.
Today there are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand of words. But we do not need all these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
Vocabulary means a lot of words. The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your own vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are a lot of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful book.
【小题1】The number of different languages spoken is about _______.

What-------your school life will be like?

HOW DO YOU GET A LIBRARY CARD?

* Anyone who lives, works or studies in the city can borrow books from the library free of charge.

* You need to show proof (证明) of your name and address.

* You need to complete application form.

* If you are under 18, you must ask a parent to fill in the form.

* You will receive a library card, which you can use immediately.

* You can use it at all Happy City public libraries in the city.

USING YOUR LIBRARY CARD

* You must always have your card to borrow books from the library.

* Please tell the library immediately if you lose your card. You are responsible for any books that are borrowed on your card until you report it to the library. You must pay to get a new card.

HOW DO YOU RETURN BOOKS?

* You can return books to any one of our libraries no matter where you

Notice: You can borrow no more that 4 books on any one subject.

HOW DO YOU RENEW BOOKS? 

You can renew (续借) books in person, by telephone or by using the Internet. You can go to any Happy City Public Library to renew books, no matter where you borrowed them.

1.If your brother, who is in Junior 1 of a middle school, wants to get a card, __________.

A．he can fill in the form himself              B．You can fill in the form for him.

C．Your parents must fill in the form.           D．He has to pay for the books.

2.If you want to renew the book, you ___________.

A．have to go to the library again for it.         B．You can make it on the computer.

C．You have to pay for the second time.         D．You can only call the library.

3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．If you don’t live in the city, you can also be able to borrow books by using the card.

B．If you lose the card, you can get a new one for free.

C．You can borrow books from any of the Happy City public libraries if you have the library card

D．You can use the card to borrow books in any library in the country.

4.You can return the book to _________.

A．the library where you borrowed the book

B．Your school library

C．The biggest library in the city

D．any one of the libraries in the city