Can he himself?

I told Mom I to play basketball this afternoon.

    This is my new friend Gina. She is a girl. She used to be so shy that her face turned red when she talked in . She even didn't to speak in front of her classmates sometimes. In class, she always kept . At home, she talked with her parents. She felt very lonely and unhappy and often exams. Her parents were very worried. In order to with her shyness, she joined the English speech club. With the help of her teachers and classmates, she has changed a lot. She has made of friends there. She is much more outgoing now. She even took part in the school competition and won first prize last week. We are all of her.

Dear Joe,

    I wrote you the letter to tell you about what the world used to be like when I was young. Life used to be very different then. We didn't have cell phones when we wanted to talk to our friends. We didn't have e mails either, so we had to write letters.

    When we traveled from town to town, we used to walk or ride horses or take a cart(马车). Later we had buses and very few people had cars. Air travel was a luxury and we used to dream of riding on an airplane but now everyone does. It's so common.

    Food is another big difference. There weren't any supermarkets so we used to grow our own food. We would exchange some with people from other towns to buy the things we didn't have. We didn't have a refrigerator(冰箱)so we kept things cool in a special room downstairs.

    But the biggest difference is electricity. We didn't have any in our town! At night, we used to light candles when we wanted light and we burned coal(煤)or wood to keep warm. We didn't have television. In summer, we used to go swimming in the river.

    Life used to be very different, but we were happy.

Love,

Grandpa