We knew Sylvia and Jack had problems with their flats, but we hadn’t been told the details. Not until they came for a weekend in October, that is.
At dinner on the Friday evening Kitty said, “You wrote that the flat wasn’t quite what you expected. Of course it could be too small. You’re sharing with another couple, aren’t you?”
“Were sharing, Mother,” Slyvia replied.
“It really wasn’t necessary,” Jack explained proudly, “I’ve had a big rise, and we can easily manage. It’s much better to be independent.”
“Oh, much,” I agreed.
“What was the trouble?” Kitty asked, impatient and unwilling to let her go.
“Nothing much,” Sylvia said, “The flat is fine. It was the other couple, Sally and Tom Ford. You’ve never seen such an untidy pair. We shared the sitting room and the kitchen and the bathroom anfd got fed up with the mess of it all.”
“And what made it worse,” Jack put in, “was that they accused us of the same sort of thing. Tom and I nearly came to blows when he locked up some of their wedding presents we were all using, as they used ours, naturally.”
“You take a chance when you make a sharing arrangement.” Kitty said.
“I am in my own flat,” Sylvia said, “Sally and Tom left a month ago.”
“We could have left instead,” Jack said, “But why we should leave? After all, the flat was in our names, not theirs. We were glad to see the back of them.”
Two weeks later Kitty and I returned their visit for lunch on Sunday. It was the first time we had been to their flat. To say that we were shocked is not true, because we know our daughter extremely well. The flat had fairly recently been in quite good condition; it was now a chaos. I did not know how anyone could possibly live there. But Sylvia noticed nothing.
1.Who was Kitty?
A.The owner of the flat.
B.Jack’s mother in law.
C.Sylvia’s mother in law.
D.The author’s good friend.
2.Sylvia’s response to Kitty shows that ________.
A.she was not getting along well with the other couple
B.she was really expecting to live in her own flat
C.she felt tired of cleaning and tidying up their rooms
D.she managed to drive Sally and Tom out of the flat
3.What did Kitty mean by saying “You take a chance … sharing arrangement.”?
A.Sylvia and Jack would take steps to deal with the problems.
B.Syliva and Jack were lucky to learn to share with others.
C.Sylvia and Jack might have problems when living with others.
D.Sylvia and Jack loved to manage their own affairs.
4.From the passage we can learn that ________.
A.Sylvia and Jack were spoiled by their parents
B.Sylvia and Jack were a pair of great ability
C.Sylvia and Jack had fights with Sally and Tom
D.Sylvia and Jack were in fact an untidy pair
假定你是李华，计划和同学去敬老院（nursing home）陪老人们过端午节（Dragon Boat Festival）。请给外教Lucy写封邮件，邀她一同前往。
内容包括：1. 出发及返回时间；2. 活动：包粽子、表演节目、看龙舟赛视频等。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 结束语已为你写好。
Dear Lucy,
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Looking forward to your reply.
Li Hua
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处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My dream school starts at 9 am ends at 4 pm. There were three lessons in the morning and two on the afternoon. We don’t need to do so many homework. Therefore, we have more time for after-school activity. My dream school look like a big garden and all kinds of flowers and trees are around them. After class, we walk on campus and enjoy the flowers as well as. The teachers here are friendly and helpfully. They are not only our teachers and also our friends.
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。
After being a migrant(移民) worker for over 10 years, Wu Lizhu, jokingly 1. (call) Zhuzhu, returned to her hometown and set up a library free of charge for local kids.
Zhuzhu had nothing in her pocket except two credit cards, so how 2. she manage to establish the library? Initially, she posted a message on her Wechat Moments and soon afterwards, some of her friends started 3. (donate) books. Some children in the village came to her and helped make some regulations for the library’s 4. (operate). Gradually, more and more children started to show up.
The library can accommodate around 100 children, some of 5. come to do their homework after school or to read in the evenings. There are always friends coming to visit her. Every time they come she 6. (arrange) a salon for her friends to share their different experiences of the outside world with local parents and children.
“As well as reading and doing their homework, I also hope that they can come to me 7. they are wronged by their parents at home and look for a quiet place 8. (calm) down,” Zhuzhu said. “If they want to sit 9. (silent), we won’t disturb them, but if they want to chat with me, then I’d be very happy. This is what I want to provide them 10.: a free space.”
I grew up in Trenton, a west Tennessee town of only 5 thousand people. I have _________ memories of those first eighteen years, and many people in Trenton influenced my life in very _________ ways. My football coach, Walter Kilzer, taught me the _________ of hard work. My history teacher, Fred Culp, taught me that a sense of humor was one of life’s greatest _________.
But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the _________ of the list, he taught me to treat people with love and _________. I remember one particular example of him _________ this “life lesson” as if it were yesterday. Dad owned a furniture store, and I used to _________ the furniture after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I _________ my Dad talking to all the customers as they came in. At the end of the day, just as Dad was __________, the rubbish collector came in.
I was __________ to go home, and I thought it __________ that Dad wouldn’t spend much time with him, but I was __________. Dad greeted him with a big hug and talked with him for nearly half an hour. I kept looking at the __________, and when the man left, I asked, “Dad, why did you spend so much time with a rubbish collector?” Dad looked at me __________ and said, “Son, I tell you lots of thing __________ if you remember nothing else, remember this: treat every human being just the way that you would __________ to be treated. If you live the Golden Rule, everything in life will __________ work out well and your life will be happy and __________.”
Many years have passed, but my father’s words are still __________ with me.
1.A.early B.bitter C.wonderful D.vague
2.A.annoying B.interesting C.simple D.positive
3.A.importance B.fun C.pain D.result
4.A.blessings B.differences C.inventions D.valuables
5.A.bottom B.top C.edge D.foot
6.A.attention B.hope C.soul D.respect
7.A.teaching B.getting C.showing D.understanding
8.A.see B.push C.dust D.remove
9.A.kept B.suggested C.observed D.left
10.A.closing B.sleeping C.cooking D.speaking
11.A.happy B.late C.ready D.likely
12.A.again B.carefully C.hard D.surely
13.A.hopeless B.wrong C.confident D.disappointed
14.A.collector B.clock C.furniture D.stranger
15.A.angrily B.coldly C.kindly D.calmly
16.A.but B.so C.as D.or
17.A.agree B.manage C.leave D.like
18.A.only B.usually C.possibly D.slightly
19.A.useful B.realistic C.meaningful D.challenging
20.A.doing B.meeting C.going D.living
How to be Cool on Instagram（抓拍神器）
Instagram is a game. Gaining likes and followers is no easy task unless you’re a beauty. But your social media luck is about to change, because a social media talent can help you to step up your Instagram game.
1.. My teenage sister, Grace, routinely breaks 150 likes on Instagram, no sweat, because she just gets it. 2..
1. Timing is everything
You can’t post photos willy-nilly. So when do you actually post? Sunday evening is “prime time” for likes, because everyone is bored and not doing homework. And it also implies to the real world.
2. 3.
People don’t care how much you’re feeling your look. No one needs to see eight pictures from your date night out. Remember, as my sister recommends, “You can’t give the people too much or they will be over it very quickly.”
3. Selfies（自拍）have strict rules
Basically, don’t just go around throwing up random selfies like the world is ending tomorrow. It’s not a cute look. Here’s what my sister had to say about selfies: Be spontaneous（自然率真）and fun. TBTs (Throwback Thursday) have to actually be TBTs. 4.. Instead, use TBTs for cute baby pictures and awkward middle school photos. It’s funny, according to the resident teens.
4. Putting your account on private is unnecessary
You should set your profile to public because you should have nothing to hide. Also, it gets you more followers, which is what you’re after. 5.. For it’s Instagram, after all. In the wise words of the teen, “Life is too short. Eat dessert first.”
A.Here’s what to do and, more importantly, what not to do
B.Most importantly, have fun and don’t take it too seriously
C.Gaining likes and followers is very interesting
D.Teenagers are tastemakers
E.Don’t post too much
F.Don’t be selfish
G.You aren’t fooling anyone if you TBT a recent photo
