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Mrs. Anderson

This is Mrs. Anderson. She is sixty years old and she is from

England; she lives with her daughter in a beautiful house. Mrs.

Anderson is unemployed and she does not work. She is

divorced, but she is a happy person. Mrs. Anderson has a

sister, Karina. Mrs. Anderson went to visit her sister Karina in

the summer of 2012, Karina is 72 years old, her husband died

two years ago; when he died, she felt very depressed and was

sick for almost two months. Karina lives with her son, he is 42

years old and her daughter who is 48 years old, they are very happy and they like

to live together.

The Chinese Panda

Shi-Shu is a Chinese panda in Walden Zoo. She is very young

only one year old. Shi-Shu has a brother. His name is An-

An, and a sister, her mane is Wa-Wa. An-An is four years old

and Wa-Wa is six years old. Shi-Shu, is not a pet. She is awild animal. Mark Fords pet is eight years old. He is an

English sheep dog. His name is Donald, but it is called Don.

The Fords have two pets: A cat and a dog, but Don is Marks

favorite.

The house in Washington

There is a very small house on Washington D.C., the capital of

the United States. It has two small rooms and some stairs. It is 5feet high and 12 feet wide. There is a big house in California. It

is Williams Randolph Hearst`s house. His house is fantastic.

The house is worth $30 million. It has 40 rooms. It has a 100

feet long swimming pool. The house has a large ballroom, and a

garage for 25 cars. There are 10 servants in the house.

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on 28th October, 1955 in Seattle. When the

day has come and gone. Bill Gates takes the kids to bed, and,

done this, he reads his e-mail. The average day in the life of Bill

Gates consists of attending meetings and reading e-mail. He has

three monitors in his office that contain his inbox, the current e-mail

that he always reads respectively.