He his phone and then dialled a number.

    I'm Ted. I have a cousin (call) John. He is six (year) old now and he is very cute. One day, his mother asked him to (draw) a picture. She put three oranges the table and told him to finish picture before she came back. Then she went out. Little john (think) it was too hard to draw so many oranges. Then he had idea. He ate one orange, and there were two oranges on the table. He thought he still had two oranges to draw. If there was only one, it would be much (easy) to draw. So he ate another orange, and there was only one orange. Finally, he drew one orange on the paper. When his mother (come) home, John gave the picture to her. a clever boy!

    Once there were two mice: They were friends. One mouse lived in the country;1mouse lived in the city. After many years the country mouse saw the city mouse. He said, "Come and see me at my house in the2." So the city mouse went. The city mouse said, "This food is not good,3your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field? You4come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house5stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city."

    The country mouse went to the house of the city mouse. It was a very6house. Nice food was set ready7them to eat. But just as they began to eat, they heard a great noise. The city mouse cried, "Run! Run! The cat is coming!" They ran away quickly and8. After some time they came out. The country mouse said, "I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is9to be poor and happy10to be rich and afraid."

    An American woman living in Wisconsin (威斯康星州) offered to teach English to a Japanese woman who had moved into the same community. "Before each lesson, and on each and every visit," the American reported, "the Japanese lady brought me a gift-a book, some paper sculpture, flowers, or candy. It was embarrassing."

    Unknowingly, this American was experiencing a part of protocol (礼仪) rooted centuries deep in the Japanese culture.

    In America, valuable gifts are surely out. A proper (适宜的) behaviour on a gift is to take the person to dinner, or to an entertainment or a sporting event. On the contrary, gift-giving is a custom in Japan. According to Business Tokyo magazine, among the Japanese "gift-giving is a necessity, not only a small thing as in the West". In Japan the proper gift is thought to express the giver's true friendship, gratitude, and respect far better than words can, So if you plan to visit Japan or to have Japanese visit you here, be prepared.

    So you know nowadays gift-giving plays a very important role in society. Now let's see what happens in other countries.

    Australia is known for its kindness and honesty. So proper gifts, such as a business diary, a paperweight, or a coffee cup might be presented as a memento (纪念品) of a business meeting. At a trade show, T-shirts, ties, baseball caps, or a pin may be proper mementos. Anything more than these types of gifts could cause embarrassment.

    What is the happiest thing for children? Of course, getting gifts from their parents is one of the happiest things for them. But what gifts do children like to get most and what gifts do parents like to give most?

    As Senior Three students, we are not children any more. So we don't have Children's Day. But we can still remember what gifts we got in our memories and what gifts made us excited on Children's Day in our childhood.

    Recently, a survey on Children's Day showed the results that 30.3% of the children wanted to get toys most while 28.8% of the parents wanted to give books most as gifts for their children.