Never _______ a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or nobler thing than you.
A. did I see B. have I seen
C. I saw D. I have seen
All children should get access to a high-quality education _______ their race, zip code or family income.
A. due to B. regardless of
C. apart from D. depending on
_______ her before, he didn’t know she was his daughter.
A. Not having seen B. Having not seen
C. Not seeing D. Not to see
It was nearly a week _______ the rescue team located the crashed plane.
A. since B. before
C. until D. after
假定你是高二·10班的张华。你所在学校的联谊学校、美国费城(Philadelphia)某中学的学生访问团将于下周来你校访问。学校将从英语能力优秀的学生中选拔接待人员，所有参加者都要进行英文演讲。请你写一篇英文演讲稿，参加选拔。
演讲内容须包括以下要点:
(1)简要自我介绍；
(2)你参加选拔的目的；
(3)你应征此工作的优势(至少两点)。
注意:
(1)词数不少于100；
(2)可适当增加细节，以使内容充实，行文连贯；不得透露实个人信息。
(3)演讲稿开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Good morning, dear teachers and fellow students.
I’m greatly honored to be here to compete for the opportunity.
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阅读下面材料，按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
It’s important that parents talk with their kids. But some kids hardly talk to their parents. How can parents get their kids to talk to them more? Here is how I do it.
From the time my boys were little, we had strict rules about screen time in the car. We did not watch movies unless we were going to be in the car for more than an hour. Now that they are older, we have the same rule about earphones, let alone phones.
I have watched about 11 billion YouTube videos featuring everything from stupid kid stunts (特技) to stupid professional stunts and sports highlights. These are not interesting to me but they are interesting to my kids, so I watched them all. I also try to find funny things in the news to use as conversation starters.
Listening is the key to more talking, right? But sometimes kids just need to talk instead of having a two-way exchange. Or there are other kids in s the car who have somehow forgotten that the driver is an actual mom, and they talk about some serious news. I just listen to them quietly. Make note of things to circle back to if necessary. Just let the words flow when what they really need is your listening.
My kids love stories about the older days. They want stories about me falling in the dining hall, getting in trouble at school or crashing my car, but not the, “I walked 10 miles to school in the snow”. Luckily I have plenty of examples and provide just enough information to cause questions for more details.
1.What aren’t her kids allowed to do if the author has a very short trip with them in the car? (no more than 10 words)
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2.Why has the author watched so many YouTube videos? (no more than 15 words)
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3.How do you understand the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4? (no more than 10 words)
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4.What do the author’s kids want to know about her? (no more than 15 words)
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5.What can you learn from the text? (no more than 25 words)
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