Dear baby:

    How are you? How do you feel in your mother's belly? Don't worry, you will be f in the next month. We haven't seen each other, I want to tell you something here.

Baby, I will tell you how eI was when I knew you appeared in the world, at that time, your mother cried, not for the exciting news, but for she didn't know wtodo in the next days.

    I will tell you how cheerful I was when you kicked your mother by your little f or hand.

    I will tell you how much love yougain I from your grandfathers, grandmothers and many other relatives, so you will not feel l in the world. I want you to know how much I wanted you, and prayed for you. How I worked to make sure that our family would have the best life together.

    Actually, like any new father, I don't have the experience to r a child, and I don't know how to educate you, I don't know how to talk with you. I don't know whether I'll be the best father in your eyes, but I'll t my best to be the best one.

Your father

    When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good at it and made his plane do ①all kinds of tricks.

    George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George wanted to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, "I've traveled in a big plane several times, but I've never been in a small one. So I'll do."

    They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kind sof tricks in the air.

    When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ②safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking (颤抖的)voice ,"Well ,George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane."

    George was very surprised and said, "Two trips?"

    "Yes, my first and my last," answered Mark.

    There is a National Health Servicein Britain. People usually call it "the NHS". When people are ill, they can get free treatment (治疗).①The government pays for the treatment. In Britain everyone has a local doctor. The local doctor is a general practitioner(全科医生)(GP). A GP is a doctor who treats patients with all kinds of illness. He may not have specialists (专家) usually work in hospitals.

    If a man is ill and wants to see his doctor, he calls to make an appointment first. If he is too ill and he can't go out, his doctor will come to his house. If the patient has to take medicine, the doctor gives him a prescription(处方).②The patient has to pay some money for the prescription. He goes to the chemist's shop and buys the medicine there. The price is the same as any kind of medicine. ③But children, students, old people or people without work don't have to pay for their medicine.