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If you take the Amazon Rainforest Tour, you can spend three days 1.(explore) the rainforest with a local guide. During your tour, you will enjoy the plants and animals unique to the rainforest. You will also live in the tree house 2. (build) by the locals.
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A deadly earthquake hit Tangshan 1. 28 July 1976. It seemed as if the world were coming to 2. end. The number of people who were killed or badly injured was over 400,00. Nearly everything in the city 3. (destroy). Luckily, with joint efforts, a new Tangshan was built. Tangshan has proved that people must unify and show the wisdom 4. (stay) positive in times of disasters.
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China is 1. (wide) known for its ancient civilization, 2. has lasted thousands of years. There are many reasons why this has been possible, but one of the main factors has been the Chinese 3. (write) system. It has helped connect China’s present with its past and unite people in such a large country 4. many dialects are spoken.
Two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. It really put me into deep ____because my grandfather held a unique position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a ____ family member but a tutor (导师) who encouraged me to work hard and ____ well.
I’ll never forget the first time I read a long piece of his writing. It was when I ____ for Princeton and he offered to write to the university on my behalf. He wrote in beautiful ____ and used poetic language, unafraid of sounding too “flowery”. I read the ____ out loud so I could hear the rhyming sounds.
My grandfather ____ hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would ____ my brothers and me for our good performance, which made me feel inspired. I knew he had worked hard to ____ the big family during the Great Depression. He was awarded many military ____ for winning many battles in the Navy in World War II.
At the funeral, a friend of my grandfather walked to me and said that my grandfather had told him about a small ____ I had written. After it came out, I sent it to my grandfather ____ received no reply. This man told me that my book hit my grandfather’s ____ and brought tears to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so ____ of me.
Now I feel even more deserved to write well because I know my grandfather ____ it. I know he lives in my heart forever.
1.A.excitement B.sorrow C.disappointment D.fun
2.A.beloved B.strict C.strange D.common
3.A.read B.study C.behave D.write
4.A.registered B.went C.applied D.turned
5.A.symbols B.envelopes C.characters D.pages
6.A.letter B.word C.language D.poem
7.A.demanded B.valued C.ignored D.deserved
8.A.instruct B.blame C.lecture D.praise
9.A.survive B.raise C.affect D.grow
10.A.medals B.champions C.rewards D.prizes
11.A.story B.poem C.article D.book
12.A.so B.but C.and D.or
13.A.brain B.heart C.eye D.ear
14.A.confident B.frightened C.proud D.amazed
15.A.remembered B.demanded C.appreciated D.realized
Walk Out of the Comfort Zone and Try New Things
For most high school students, free periods (课，节) are useless. From what I have seen, few do homework. 1.. This makes it impossible for those who actually want to do work to complete any. As a senior next year, I think extra periods should be used to take optional subjects.
2.. Now is the time for us students to choose a suitable one. We will experiment in different fields of study. We will never know if we are interested or talented in a subject if we don’t try it.
In my 8th grade, I was told that I had to take an art class as a graduation requirement; so in the 9th grade I took Studio and Art. One of the projects was to build a clay pot, but I built mine incorrectly, so it broke in the kiln (窑). 3.. Now I know for sure that I do not want to be an artist. However, the class was one of my favorites that year. I was able to try new activities and test my ability.
4.! College is when we should focus on a specific major, but high school is when we have to figure it out.
Half of all college students change their major at some point. By doing that hundreds of dollars are wasted on classes that they would have never needed to take. So use our extra periods to find out what we want to do in college. 5..
A. Our school offers many classes
B. We should find out what we are good at
C. I’ve avoided anything related to art since then
D. Instead, many are on their phones and talking
E. I found out that I have no artistic ability at all
F. Walk out of our comfort zone and try new things
G. The classes we choose can influence us in the future
In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, “No, thanks. I’ve got a good horse under me.”
The city planner decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system, but there simply wasn’t enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city. An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city’s streets by as much as 12 feet.
This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements or lift the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?
That’s where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (千斤顶) beneath the building’s foundation and turn the jackscrews the same amount at the same time, thus raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn’t even notice anything was happening.
Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago’s early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem.
1.Why was the joke about Chicago mentioned in Paragraph 1?
A.To explain why horses were widely used.
B.To show the terrible road condition.
C.To prove Chicagoan were humorous.
D.To describe the lifestyle in the past.
2.What did Ellis advise to do?
A.Lower the Chicago River.
B.Build pipes above ground.
C.Fight against heavy floods.
D.Raise the level of streets.
3.What was the problem in moving Tremont Hotel?
A.It was hard to move its basement.
B.It was mainly made of wood.
C.It was too heavy to move easily.
D.There was no equipment to use.
4.What can be inferred from the text?
A.Tremont Hotel was the biggest building in Chicago.
B.George became famous for moving Tremont Hotel.
C.It took great efforts to move Tremont Hotel.
D.Guests left Tremont Hotel before the move.
