1. Cinema near home, opened one month ago, spacious chairs, quiet during films, no eating allowed, upcoming Chinese film online ticket booking 2. Voluntary jobs: Ma Tian teaches drawing at children’s centre, finds stressful; Yueyue writes articles from home for language school, finds easy; Bingbing teaches singing and dancing at nursing home, finds fun 3. Stories of Dawei living in suburbs with grandma, parents in city factory; Beibei’s mother works in UK, lives with aunt, visits London in summer; Lin Ding stays at school weekdays, many extracurricular activities, no games allowed 4. Literary passage: lunch outside Beijing University, quiet restaurant, friendly waitress recognizing writer and son, ordered potato soup, fish, vegetables; son studies abroad, likes chicken, time away two months 5. Wang Xin’s family business: parents own orchard, Wang Xin started fruit selling company three years ago; business struggles with unsold and spoiled fruit, anxious Wang Xin; grandmother helps online promotion by introducing and tasting fruit via phone; sold 40 boxes in one week; grandmother happy with sales and online popularity 6. Writing tasks: Chinese class description with specified characters (60–75 words); email about online activity, article on traditional festival, or blog on environmental protection (125–150 characters); translation of doctor visit sentences into Chinese; total exam marks 80, with sections for reading, writing, and translation