Short Story Competition
●The competition begins at June 30 and ends at December 15.
●It is open to all local citizens of Ontario who are at 16 or over, except the employees and judges. and anyone living with any employee of the sponsors or judges.
●The author's name. address, phone number and a 25-50-word self-introduction must be included with each entry on a separate sheet of paper. The name of the author should not appear in the story itself.
●Stories must be original and unpublished up to the time the winners are declared on December 25.
●Stories must be written on a computer, be double-spaced and no more than 2,500 words. Total word count should be printed on the front page of the story,
●No changes to a story are allowed once the Star receives your entry. Typescripts （文稿）will not be returned.
●A $ 5 entry fee must accompany each entry. Cheques or money orders should be made out to the Star Short Story Competition. Please do not send coins,
●Winners will be informed by telephone between 9 am and 5 pm on December 25.
●Professors from the Writing Centre at Ryerson University will complete the first round of judging. Another group of professional writers will select the final three.
More Information：
Send your story to：the Star Short Story Competition, the Star Street, Ontario M5E1E6. Full contest rules are available at www. the star, com/contests
Tel： 416-367-2000
1.Who can join in the competition?
A.A daughter of the judge.
B.A salesman living in The Star Street.
C.A visitor coming from another city.
D.A student in the local primary school.
2.Which of the following stories may be accepted by the competition?
A.A true story written on a piece of paper.
B.A famous story copied from the Internet.
C.A newly created story printed by its author.
D.An original story with its author's name in it.
3.What can you do if you want to join in the competition?
A.Change the story at any time.
B.Take the typescripts back.
C.Pay the fee by credit card.
D.Surf the website for information.
假定你是李华，你的叔叔想找一个喜欢晨跑且英语好的人陪他练习英语口语，请你就此事给在你校就读的英国交换生Jack写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 写信目的；
2. 时间安排和报酬；
3. 期待回复。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
On the five floor of my building lives an active elderly lady. She treats others kind and often makes quilts for them. She once makes one for me because my back problems. When she is free, she collects plastic bottle as well as waste paper and metal along the nearby streets, where she sells for money. When she walks, she looks as if she is in a great pain. It hurts me to watch her walk, but I always try to help her. I often send her some food cook by myself in the morning. It is a little thing I do to helping out.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡。
Developing table manners 1. (be) one of the earliest steps parents can take in teaching and showing good behavior to their children. Compared with families that seldom eat together, families that eat together most days of the week tend to be 2. (healthy).
Experts hold the belief 3. teaching table manners can start when the child is eating independently out of the high chair or old enough to sit at the table. Table manners 4. (teach) in the early stages include teaching kids to avoid reaching across the table, eat from their own plate, and say please and thank you.
Family meals provide good chances 5. (show) and teach good manners. Kids can be taught to politely say it when they don’t like something. Also, young kids often can’t sit the whole meal, but can learn to properly dismiss 6. (they), rather than interrupt the meal. Besides, never correct manners in 7. inappropriate way and explain to kids why you practice manners, such as why we chew 8. our mouth closed. In 9. (add), everyone at the table should be allowed to be part of a positive conversation. Keep it lighthearted and 10. (interest) and talk about positive things at the table.
Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That ________ nearly ended one night in 2010.Hill, then a 17-year-old high school student in California ________ a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the waist down. For most people, that would have ________ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. Far from being a(n) ________ , her wheelchair encouraged her. “I wanted to ________ to my community-and to myself-that I was still ‘normal’,” she said. “Whatever normal meant.”
Normal for her meant dancing. ________, Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her non-disabled high school dance team. “Half of my body was ________ me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “It ________ took a lot of learning and patience.” After graduation, Hill wanted to expand her dance network to ________ women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord (脊髓) injuries but shared her ________, and she invited them to dance with her. ________ to reach more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and ________ a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes.
Hill has ________ what many of us never will: her childhood dream. And for many of her ________, it was the first time they’d felt a sense of ________. They say that being part of the Rollettes team has made them more ________.
The dancers aren’t the only ones feeling ________. One woman saw a YouTube video of the team competing and commented, “You are so ________! To be in a wheelchair and still be so beautiful ________ that I can be beautiful too! I’m really very ________ to you!”
1.A.choice B.interest C.ambition D.experience
2.A.avoided B.reported C.suffered D.witnessed
3.A.stolen B.started C.changed D.broken
4.A.barrier B.excuse C.failure D.embarrassment
5.A.stick B.mention C.relate D.prove
6.A.However B.Therefore C.Instead D.Meanwhile
7.A.held on to B.taken away from C.given back to D.knocked out of
8.A.certainly B.strangely C.deliberately D.approximately
9.A.satisfy B.include C.comfort D.acknowledge
10.A.determination B.wisdom C.freedom D.value
11.A.Agreeing B.Offering C.Hoping D.Managing
12.A.knew B.joined C.formed D.expected
13.A.sought B.attained C.recognized D.discovered
14.A.fans B.doctors C.teachers D.teammates
15.A.emergency B.duty C.honor D.belonging
16.A.confident B.generous C.famous D.considerate
17.A.inspired B.shocked C.influential D.rewarded
18.A.stubborn B.successful C.grateful D.awesome
19.A.guarantees B.convinces C.relieved D.challenges
20.A.close B.faithful C.grateful D.similar
The eating habits your children pick up when they’re young will help them keep a healthy lifestyle when they’re adults. Here are some approaches parents can take to develop healthy eating habits in their children.
Guide your family’s choices rather than dictate foods. Make a wide variety of healthful foods available in the house. 1. Leave the unhealthy choices like chips, soda, and juice at the grocery store.
2. A child can feel hunger and fullness better when they eat at a slow pace. Before offering a second serving, ask your child to wait at least 15 minutes to see if they’re truly still hungry. This will give the brain time to register fullness. Also, that second serving should he much smaller than the first.
Eat meals together as a family as often as possible. Try to make mealtimes pleasant with conversation and sharing, not a time for scolding or arguing. If mealtimes are unpleasant, children may try to eat faster to leave the table as soon as possible. 3.
Try not to use food to punish or reward your children. Withholding (不给) food as a punishment may lead children to worry that they won’t get enough food. For example, sending children to bed without any dinner may cause them to worry that they’ll go hungry. 4. Similarly, when foods, such as sweets, are used as a reward, children may assume that these foods are better or more valuable than other foods.
Discourage eating meals while watching TV. Try to eat only in a fixed area of your home, such as the dining room or kitchen. Eating in front of the TV may make it difficult to pay attention to feelings of fullness. 5.
A. Pay attention to serving size.
B. And that may lead to overeating.
C. Encourage your children to eat slowly.
D. They then may learn to associate eating with stress.
E. Children are more willing to eat or try foods they help prepare.
F. As a result，children may try to eat whenever they get a chance.
G. This practice will help your children learn how to make healthy food choices.
