A computer can do more than one thing at a time. A modern computer uses windows. It has more than one window open at a time. You can do a different thing on each window.

    In the future, computers will get smaller and work faster. There are already computers that you can hold in your hand. Mobile phones have computers in them and you can use them to send e-mails on the internet. Keyboards will disappear from computers. In the future, you will be able to talk to a computer. It will understand your voice and do what you tell it to do.

    Computer will get cheaper and will be used more widely than they are used today.

    Look at this photo(照片). This woman is my mother. She is 34. This man is my father. He is 35. This girl is my sister. She is 11. The little boy is me. I am 8. I love them. And they love me very much.

Questions:

Mike: Hi, Helen. This is my study (书房)。

Helen: How nice! What's this?

Mike: It's a pencil case.

Helen: Is that a crayon in the pencil case?

Mike: No, it isn't. It's a pencil.

Helen: Is that a rubber in the desk?

Mike: Yes, it is.

Helen: Can I have a look?

Mike: Sure. Here you are.

I'm Li Fang. Here are the photos of my family. This is my grandmother. She was a singer. So she wore beautiful clothes. My grandfather was a doctor. And my father and my mother are teachers. They teach in different schools. My father teaches Chinese. And my mother teaches English. Now, my grandmother is learning English. My mother teaches her. She is a good student.

One day a young man went to his hometown by train. On the train, there were a lot of people. He sat by the window. After the train started to go, he went to the toilet. When he came out from the toilet, one of his shoes fell onto the ground, out of the train. But the train was moving so fast. He had no ideas how to get it back. Then he took off the other one and threw it out of the train. A boy was surprised to see that. He asked the man，" Why did you do that?" He said, "If someone picks them up, he may get a pair of shoes, not just only one."

    Next week is a holiday. My family will do many things. I will play football on Monday. My father will play basketball on Wednesday. My sister will fly a kite on Thursday. My brother will visit my grandma on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, we will go to the park. We also will take some food and some toys.

Hello, I'm Lucy. I'm nine years old. I go to school on Mondays with my sister Lily. I like playing table tennis with my friends at the park(公园). I don't like basketball. But Lily likes it. I have a brother. His name is John. He doesn't go to school. He is only two years old. He is at home. He likes playing with the toy train.

John is an old man. He has a big house. He likes dogs very much. He has three dogs. One dog is from the UK. Her name is Cote. One dog is from the US. Her name is Dot. One dog is from China. Her name is Potty. John loves his dogs very much. He buys many toys for his dogs. Cote has a red cat. It is small and fun. Dot has a blue toy monkey. It can jump and run. Potty has a white toy rabbit. It has long ears. The dogs like their toys and they like John, too. They like playing with John very much.

    I think the most important modern (现代的) invention is . the Internet(互联网). With the Internet, we can do many things. For example, we can shop, learn knowledge (知识), listen to music, and watch movies online. The Internet makes the world smaller. We can meet and talk to friends and relatives far away without spending a lot of money. We can also post our blogs (博客) online so our friends can know what we are doing by visiting our websites (网址) like QQ Space. Internet makes our life more exciting and easier.