假如你叫大明，收到了你的英国朋友Tony的来信，信中他很关心四川雅安地震后学生的情况。请你根据他的来信内容写一封回信，感谢他对灾区学生的关心，回答他的问题，并谈谈你的感受。
提示词语：thank you, care to， go on， government ，offer，encourage， brave
Dear Daming,
I’m sorry to hear that a big earthquake happened in Ya’an, Sichuan. Some school buildings broke down in the earthquake and many students couldn’t go to school. But I know the government is trying their best to help them. And Chinese people are so strong and brave that they aren’t afraid of anything difficult. Can the students go on studying now? Please tell me more about them.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours,
Tony
Dear Tony,
I’m glad to hear from you.
Best wishes.
Yours
Daming
根据中文意思完成句子。
1.你看上去很累，最好早点睡。
You look very tired go to bed earlier.
2.别躺在床上上看书，这对你眼睛不好。
Don’t read in bed. your eyes.
3.我一到上海就给你打电话。
I’ll call you I arrive in Shanghai.
4.我的电脑坏了,你能帮我修一下吗？
___________________________ my computer. Could you help me mend it?
5.王雪不仅对自己严格要求，还经常告诉同学们要努力学习。
Wang Xue _____________________________________________.
When he was teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a special hospital for people with mental health problems. When he left hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, in America. But when he was there, he did things in different ways. For example, he didn’t like the doctors’ white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients, and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams very much because he was too different.
Adams believed that people in hospital need more than just medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them, not just as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in hospital, and often put a special red nose on his face so he looked like a clown and made the children laugh.
When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called The Gesundheit Institute, with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, “Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who’s a friend. I enjoyed playing him”
1.Was Hunter Adams a doctor?
2.Where was the medical school?
3.How did Hunter Adams make children in the hospital laugh?
4.What did Hunter Adams do after he finished medical school and became a doctor?
5.In Hunter Adams’ opinion, what was a good doctor like?
Victor’s hobby was collecting stamps. He had stamps from many countries，like England，Canada and China. Can you guess what people gave him as gifts? That’s right—stamps. Victor’s favorite stamps came from France. 1. .He only needed one. That was a 1974 special edition(版). It was very hard to find.
He looked for it everywhere. He asked his friends and relatives to help him.
2. . It made Victor very sad.
“Don’t worry,” his father said to him. “If you have enough patience, you’ll find it one day.”
“I hope so,” Victor said.
Victor also liked wring. He had a pen friend in France. 3. .Victor’s pen friend, Phillip, usually used new stamps to send letters. Sometimes, his mother gave him stamps to use. Once Phillip’s mother gave him a big， green stamp. It looked old. When Victor received the letter， he was very surprised. On the envelope， he looked carefully at the stamp. 4. .Victor was so happy. He told his sister，his mother and his father.
“You see,” his father said. “You did find you stamp. So，it’s good to have to things in life.” “ What are they?” Victor asked.
“Friends and patience.” He answered.
A. They wrote to each other every month
B. But nobody could find the stamp
C. It was the 1974 special edition stamp
D. His mother helped him to collect stamps.
E. He had almost every stamp from 1954 to 2004
Have you ever heard someone use the phrase” once in a blue moon”? People use this expression to describe something that they do not do very often. For example, someone might say that he tries to avoid eating sweets because they are unhealthy, but will eat chocolate” once in a blue moon”. Or someone who does not usually like to go to the beach might say “I visit the shore once in a blue moon.”While many people use this phrase, not everyone knows the meaning behind it.
The first thing to know is that the moon itself is never really blue. This is just an expression. In fact, the phrase” blue moon” has to do with the shape of the moon, not the color.
As the moon travels around the earth, it appears to change shape. We associate certain names with certain shapes of the moon. For example, when we can see a small part of the moon it is called a crescent moon. A crescent is a shape that looks like the tip of a fingernail when we cannot see the moon at all; it is called a new moon.
When we can see the whole moon is called a full moon. Usually, there is only one full moon every month. Sometimes, however there will be two full moons in one month. When this happens, the second full moon is called a blue moon”.
Over the next 20 years, there will only be 15 blue moons. As you can see, a blue moon is a very rare (稀有的)event. This fact has led people to use the expression” once in a blue moon” to describe other very rare events in their lives.
1.Which of the following would be a good example of using the phrase” once in a blue moon”.
A．Simon often tells jokes. Simon tells jokes once in a blue moon.
B．Tom rarely remembers to do exercise. Tom does exercise once in a blue moon.
C．Mary likes to go shopping every weekend. Mary goes shopping once in a blue moon.
D．Cindy hates to stay up, but she stays up every day. Cindy stays up once in a blue moon.
2.When does a blue moon happen in nature?
A．When the moon has a blue moon.
B．When we cannot see the moon at all.
C．When there are two full moons in one month.
D．When we can only see a small part of the color.
3.How often will a blue moon happen over the next twenty years?
A．Once a year. B．Less than once a year.
C．More than once a year. D．At least twice a year.
4.What does the underlined part “This fact” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．A blue moon is a very rare event.
B．The moon appears to change shape.
C．The moon itself is never really bluee.
D．A blue moon has to do with the shape of the moon.
If you have failed in the past to try to make big changes in life，try again now，one tiny step at a time．
Every year it’s the same．As December comes to an end，you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year，you think about the last year．You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make，but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life．
Here’s a suggestion：Forget the too big，hard-to-achieve goals(目标) and just think about the small ones．“We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it’s so hard for us to reach it．” said Robert Maurer，who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life．“What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it．”
“Kaizen”，a Japanese word，is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes（态度）．During World War Il，American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes．After the war，the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan．It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “kaizen”, which means “improvement”．
Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything
1.Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us .
A．we should do everything in big steps
B．how to change one’s life with one small step
C．we should try a lot of sudden changes
D．how to find a small step without any excuse
2.The writer of the passage suggests we should .
A．make changes at the end of the year
B．do few experiments with “kaizen”
C．do things with hard-to-achieve goals
D．take a tiny step to achieve big goals
3.Which of the following is TRUE from the passage?
A．Robert Maurer studied “kaizen” and found it helpful.
B．You can achieve your goals if you are not too busy.
C．You can’t find any excuse not to reach a big goal.
D．“Kaizen” was brought to Japan during World WarⅡ.
