Letter One
Dear Editor,
After I finish my homework, I often go online and chat with my friends. Sometimes I play computer games. But my parents hate to see me playing games on the computer. Maybe they have heard too much news about how QQ and computer games harm children. Once I went to a net bar(网吧) to play games after school. But after that I told my parents that I was playing basketball at school. I said so because I didn't want to make them unhappy. I feel bad about it. However, I need to rest for a while by playing computer games after studying for a long time. I really want my parents to understand that. Do foreign parents do the same to their children? Please help me.
Li Ping, Beijing
Letter Two
Dear Li Ping,
I don't think it's strange for parents to keep their children away from anything bad. Foreign parents will do the same as your parents! They may not let their children watch TV for too long a time,or like your parents,they don't want their children to play computer games.
Talk to your parents and be honest to them, I think. Tell them what you are doing and why you are doing so to make them understand you. It's never good to do things behind your parents. They aren't fools as you think sometimes! Our parents seem to know what is the best for us.
Remember: to be honest is the best way.
Good luck,
Rebecca
1.From the passage we can learn that Li Ping often ________.
A. talks with his friends on the Internet
B. plays basketball after school
C. plays computer games at home
D. chats online before homework
2.The boy goes online ________.
A. to get news on QQ B. just to have a rest
C. to show he hates study D. to make new friends
3.The underlined sentence in Letter Two means “________”.
A. You must do everything in front of your parents
B. You must always listen to your parents carefully
C. You should not do anything that makes your parents worry about you
D. You should tell your parents what you do before or after doing it
4.The editor thinks ________.
A. children should play computer games in the net bar secretly.
B. playing computer game can be very helpful to children’s studies
C. children should be honest and try to make their parents understand them
D. foreign parents don’t care for their children as much as Chinese parents
假设你是某高中学生李华，你的美国笔友Tom 来信询问你校学生最喜爱的运动，请你根据下列信息给与回复。
要点包括：
1.运动项目简介，(至少两项)
2.效果或影响，（至少两点）
3.希望了解美国高中生喜爱的运动。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头已给出，不计入总数。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
句子运用
1.Mary always behaves well when visitors come. That’s why everyone loves her and says she has good ______________ (礼貌).
2.She______________ (乐于分享) her sorrow and happiness with her close friends.
3.The police ______________ (呼吁) the audience not to panic, saying that there was no immediate danger.
4.这些话不是为了伤害你，而是为了鼓励你。
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5.多吃蔬菜和水果，良好的饮食对你的健康很重要。
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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。
Most of today’s Chinese Americans are the descendants（后代）of some of the early miners and railroad workers. From the start, the Chinese had lived apart in their own separate neighborhoods. Later those came to 1.（know）as “Chinatowns”. In each of them the residents organized 2. unofficial government to make rules for the community and to settle disagreements. Chinese Americans keep many aspects of their ancient culture, even after having lived here for several generations. For example, their family ties continue to be 3. (considerable) strong. Members of the family lend each other moral support and also 4.(practice) help when necessary. From a very young age, the old values and attitudes, 5.(include) respect for their elders and a feeling of 6.(responsible) to the family, are passed from the older generation to the young. Saving money and passing down their fortune to their young is always the custom. The high regard for education, 7.is deeply rooted in Chinese culture, and the willingness to work very hard to gain advancement, are other important characteristics of 8.(they).
Chinese Americans make 9.only a tiny part of American population; there are fewer than a million, living chiefly in California, New York, and Hawaii. As American attitudes toward minorities and ethnic differences 10.(change)in recent years, the Chinese Americans have gained wide acceptance.
On a hot summer day in America, a little boy decided to swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. He ______ into the cool water, not realizing that as he swam towards the middle of the lake, a ______ was swimming towards him.
His ______ in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer. In great ______, she ran out, shouting to her son as ______ as possible. Hearing her voice, the little boy became ______ and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too ______. Just as he reached her, the crocodile reached him. From the shore, the mother ______ her little boy by the arms as the crocodile snatched his legs. That began a(an) ______ tug-of-war ( 拔河比赛) between the two. The crocodile was much _____ than the mother, but the mother was too committed to ______. A farmer happened to drive by, heard the screams, raced from his truck, took ______ and shot the crocodile.
______, after weeks in the hospital, the little boy _____. His legs were extremely scarred by the attack of the animal. And, on his ______ were deep scratches where his mother’s fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to _____the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy, asked if he would show his ______. The boy ______his legs. And then, with obvious ______, he said to the reporter, “ But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my Mum wouldn’t let go.”
Never ______ another person’s scars, because you don’t know how they were made.
1.A.dived B.walked C.dropped D.dashed
2.A.snake B.crocodile C.fish D.whale
3.A.friend B.father C.mother D.coach
4.A.surprise B.shock C.anger D.terror
5.A.quickly B.confidently C.anxiously D.loudly
6.A.guilty B.eager C.alarmed D.awkward
7.A.early B.late C.fast D.dangerous
8.A.pulled B.inserted C.transformed D.tied
9.A.hopeless B.unbelievable C.final D.absurd
10.A.hungrier B.bigger C.stronger D.crueler
11.A.let go B.let alone C.let off D.let out
12.A.arrow B.bow C.claw D.aim
13.A.Originally B.Exactly C.Remarkably D.Cautiously
14.A.survived B.awoke C.yelled D.expanded
15.A.legs B.arms C.head D.feet
16.A.make room for B.have power over C.get hold of D.hang on to
17.A.scars B.marks C.symbols D.signs
18.A.confirmed B.operated C.lifted D.measured
19.A.appreciation B.apology C.mercy D.pride
20.A.pretend B.judge C.blame D.forgive
Chopsticks Taboos: Unholy Ways to Pick Up Your Food
The use of chopsticks to pick food up from the plate will earn you several complements from Chinese people. But over time, once in a while your close friends might remind you about some basic chopsticks etiquette(礼节) such as never insert chopsticks vertically(垂直地) into a bowl of rice. 1., here are several rules to keep in mind.
※. Do not use chopsticks of different lengths. This will remind people of a Chinese idiom “three long and two short”, 2., because a coffin without a lid is composed of five boards, three long, and two short.
※. Don’t use chopsticks to poke at each dish without knowing what you want or only one chopstick to fetch the food in the plate.
※. 3.. Chinese people believe that their ancestors are resting underneath the earth, and dropping chopsticks would disturb them.
※. Don’t make noise with chopsticks by hitting the side of your bowl, 4. .
※. While passing someone a bowl of rice or noodles, never insert the chopsticks vertically in the middle of the food for convenience. 5..
A. Do not drop your chopstick on the floor.
B. because only beggars do that to get attention.
C. In Chinese culture, the sign of crossing is negative.
D. which is used as another name for coffin,
E. If you want to master the art of using this old tool
F. Do not drop food and liquid from your chopsticks to the table.
G. The action would remind people of burning certain sticks in the pot in memory of the dead.
