In every little girl's toy box,there might be a Barbie Doll. Barbie is 50 years old this year. It wasdesigned(设计) in 1959 by an Americanbusinesswoman named Ruth Handler. She and her husband Elliott started the toycompany Mattel. She named the new doll after their daughter Barbara. The firstBarbie Doll appeared at the toy fair（交易会）New York on March 9th, 1959. Thisdate is used as Barbie's birthday.
Mattel soldthree hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price ofthree dollars. Today, a fifty-year-old Barbie in good condition might cost morethan twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the UnitedStates aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll. And girls aged threeto six own an average（平均）of about twelve.
When Mattel created Barbie Dolls half acentury ago, they never thought this doll would become a legend. NowBarbie Dolls are famous all over the world. They are sold in one hundred andfifty countries, and every second three Barbie Dolls are sold around the world.
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be good at; go there; look beautiful; say hello to; tell…about |
— He is his friends his son.
— Millie is.
I'd like to our school.
—The woman with long hair.
My school is not big but beautiful. There is a garden in the school. There are many flowers in the garden. The flowers are colourful. In the centre(中心) of the garden, there is a pool. The fish swim in it. They look very happy and free.
There are two teaching buildings around the garden. There are 18 classrooms in them. And there are also many other rooms in them—a music room, a reading room, a language lab and a library. There are all kinds of books in the library, such as storybooks, cartoon books and magazines. We can read them after class. The playground is behind one of the teaching buildings. We do morning exercises on the playground every day. On the playground, you can play sports—running, playing basketball and playing badminton. I like my school very much.
What grade can an 11-year-old boy be in? In Grade 5 or 6, right?
1 11-year-old Carson Huey-You is in a university(大学) now. And he is doing well in his 2. He surprises (让…吃惊) all his classmates and teachers. Many people are 3 about him in the university now. But Carson doesn't think much of their surprised(感到吃惊的) 4.
Carson hopes to 5 new things and make new friends in the university. His mother goes to classes with him because he is too 6.
Carson is very clever. His mother, Claretta Huey-You, says numbers and Maths are 7 so difficult for him. He 8 Chinese at home, but English at school. Carson is not a bookworm(书虫). Sometimes he is just a 9. Like many other children, he has many 10, such as playing computer games and playing the piano.
Now all the teachers and students like this young student.
—Yes, we are.
