Years ago, we celebrated our oldest son’s first birthday by holding a super party. I spent months ______, cutting out handmade banners（横幅）and making all kinds of decorations. I kept
____ my husband’s work as he built a cardboard city background. And I would lose ______ of my emotions when it didn’t progress exactly as I _____.
I didn’t know exactly why I stuck to ______ a party like that, but I felt this unspoken ______. It was a feeling that my ______ as a mom and my love for my son were tied to how ______ this party was. Actually my son was turning one year old, and he had no idea what was going on. ______, this clearly meant nothing to him.
I tried to ______ other people and maybe even prove something to myself, only to find it made me ______. On his birthday, I put on a ton of makeup（化妆品） to _____ my stress and smiled to our ______ even though I nearly broke down. It was the ______ party because of the memories attached to it! I ruined a ______ memory for me as a mother and decided to make a ____.
Last weekend, we celebrated my other son Hudson’s sixth birthday. He asked a Ninjago theme, so a week before the party, I searched Amazon (a shopping website) and ______ a banner and some basic party materials as he ______. On that day, we ordered a big meal and used disposable（一次性的）plates to avoid hours of cleaning up. The party was ______ but perfect. As Hudson went to bed that night, he told me it was his best birthday ever.
Parents’______ for kids does not lie in the complexity of celebrating kids’ birthday.
1.A. researching B. preparing C. thinking D. studying
2.A. ignoring B. doubting C. finding D. checking
3.A. control B. count C. sight D. track
4.A. learned B. explained C. expected D. promised
5.A. damaging B. arranging C. attending D. leaving
6.A. fears B. concern C. questions D. pressure
7.A. dream B. job C. identity D. post
8.A. personal B. difficult C. familiar D. brilliant
9.A. However B. Therefore C. Anyhow D. Besides
10.A. persuade B. remind C. inspire D. impress
11.A. delighted B. annoyed C. tired D. astonished
12.A. create B. cover C. express D. experience
13.A. neighbors B. relatives C. colleagues D. guests
14.A. worst B. newest C. best D. biggest
15.A. clear B. bitter C. precious D. accurate
16.A. mess B. deal C. joke D. change
17.A. designed B. purchased C. made D. wanted
18.A. taught B. did C. demanded D. commanded
19.A. splendid B. complicated C. plain D. boring
20.A. affection B. praise C. sympathy D. advice
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Beijing was once a city of bikes, the capital of a country 1. (know) as the Bicycle Kingdom, where cars were reserved for official and political business. 2. , decades of remarkable economic growth led to a huge flowing of cars in the city. Owning one became not just a marker of reaching the middle class but also a 3. (require) for marriage. As the economy boomed, autos pushed bikes off the roads, 4. (create) heavy pollution and miserable traffic.
Fortunately, now Beijing may be returning to its roots with a modem twist. Thanks to about 20 technology companies, brightly coloured shared bikes5. (flood) Beijing since last year. Many local residents welcome the shared bikes6. the flexibility and freedom they offer. They pick up the bikes and then ride and drop7. off anywhere they like, locking the back wheel, with no need to find a fixed place.
Analysis in China say there are three factors8. contribute to the sudden increase of bikes: a lot of cash looking for a home, a good idea and government support. “As the city’s population grew, traffic jams got9. (bad).” Cai, the Ofo spokeswoman, said, “Shared bikes could solve the ‘last mile’ problem in10. environmentally friendly way.”
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，给校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文，介绍上周你与外国朋友Tom在颐和园的经历。
注意：词数不少于60。
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你得知故宫正在招聘暑期义务英文讲解员，请你给相关部门负责人写一封申请信，内容包括：
1. 介绍你的基本信息；
2. 说明你的优势；
3. 表示你希望被录用。
注意：
1. 词数不少于50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam，
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Sincerely，
Li Hua
Chuck was in my high-school English class.1.So, when he told me he had been accepted into the journalism program at the University of Missouri, I wasn’t surprised.
During the first year at college, Chuck stopped by school a few times. We talked about our work together several years before. We had raised money together for twenty-three sick and abandoned babies.2.. It was an activity that in some ways changed our formal relationship into a friendship.
In his second year in college, it was discovered that Chuck had lung cancer and had only a short while to live. So he left school and came home to be near to his loved ones.
About six weeks later, Chuck died.3.The youngest of nine children, Chuck was talented and full of promise. More importantly, he was a good person, a just man.
When I went to his funeral, his father asked to speak with me. He told me that before Chuck’s death, he chose six items to bury with him.4.He told me that Chuck had always kept the piece because he liked the message I had written to him at the bottom of the last page. In that little note, I affirmed his talent as a writer and I encouraged him to be responsible for the gift.
5.His taking my note with him forever offered me a great opportunity for influencing students’ lives. I felt inspired with a sense of purpose that was greater than ever: teachers have the power to affect hearts and minds for a long time.
A. It was a great loss for everyone, especially for his family.
B. Chuck helped to raise several thousand dollars.
C. Whenever I forget my purpose, I think of Chuck.
D. He was a writer of great promise.
E. My spirits were lifted up as Chuck was filled with the joy of life.
F. One of them was an essay he had written in my class some years before.
G. I was touched and grateful to Chuck who gave me a special gift that would change my life.
Inside a secured room in a beautiful castle near Paris, a small metal cylinder (圆柱体) rests on a shelf beneath a double set of bell jars. It has lain there for more than a century, its rest only occasionally disturbed when the room’s three key holders perform a coordinated opening ceremony to let technicians enter and clean this precious piece of metal.
First, the cylinder is rubbed with a piece of soft, alcohol-soaked cloth. Then it is steamed with pure water. Finally, the 1kg cylinder is returned, carefully, to its resting place.
Such attention to a lump of metal is unusual, but has a purpose. The castle houses the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and that piece of shining, circular metal is its holiest relic. It is the defining mass (质量)against which all other kilograms are measured. This is the international prototype, or standard, of the kilogram. The IPK, in short.
Dozens of carefully weighted copies of the original have been made. They are stored around the world and used to standardise individual nations’ weights and measures systems.
But the days of the IPK, in its current form, are numbered. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has decided to replace this single physical specimen with a more fundamental measurement – based on electric current – in order to define the mass of an object. The king of kilograms is about to be dethroned.
“One key reason for doing this work is to provide international security,” says Bureau spokesman Paul Robinson. “If the castle burned down tomorrow and the kilogram was destroyed, we would have no reference left for the world’s metric weights system. There would be chaos. The current definition of the kilogram is the weight of that cylinder in Paris, after all.”
Another major motivation for the replacement of the IPK is the growing need to be able to carry out more and more precise measurements. “Drug companies will soon be wanting to use ingredients that will have to be measured in terms of a few millionths or even billionths of a gram,” says Robinson. “We need to be prepared to weigh substances with that kind of accuracy.”
1.What do we know about the IPK from the first two paragraphs?
A. It’s cared for with great devotion.
B. It’s used in religious ceremonies.
C. It’s beautifully designed and decorated.
D. It’s the most valuable metal in the world.
2.Which of the following best explains “dethroned” underlined in paragraph 5?
A. rebuilt B. removed
C. destroyed D. upgraded
3.What is a reason for replacing the current IPK?
A. To protect the metal cylinder from damage.
B. To make taking measurements more economical.
C. To provide all countries with the same standard.
D. To satisfy the increasing demand for exactness.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. No more kilos
B. A heavy technology
C. The future of the kilo
D. The history of measures
