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假如你是李华，3月18日你校举行了“科技节”展示活动，请你根据以下要点用英语给你的笔友Mike写一封邮件，介绍本次活动的情况。词数：90-100词。
活动目的 | 提高实践技能、培养团队精神 |
活动准备 | 学生们结成小组、选择活动项目、进行实验研究 |
展示内容 | 1. 从高处扔鸡蛋，鸡蛋仍完好无损；2. 纸做的桥上能站人；3. …… |
活动感受 | …… |
Dear Mike,
In your last e-mail, you asked me about the Science and Technology Festival in our school. I’m glad to tell you about it.________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
I’m looking forward to learning about your school life.
Yours,
Li Hua
Tom brought a box of biscuits to a summer camp. He ate a few and placed the r 1. under his bed. After lunch, he found the 
box was m 2.. He went to tell his camp coach(教练) about it.
The next day, the coach saw a boy eating Tom’s biscuits behind a tree. He came up with an i 3. to solve the problem. He found Tom and said to him, “I know who t 4. away your biscuits. Will you help me to teach him a lesson?”
“Well, yes…are you going to p 5. him, sir?” Tom asked. “No, I am not,” the coach explained patiently. “That would only make him hate you. I want you to write to your mother and ask f 6. more biscuits.”
Tom received another box of biscuits by mail from his mother a few days later. “Now,” said the coach, “go and s 7. them with the boy who stole your biscuits.” Tom didn’t understand the coach’s meaning. H 8. , he still followed his advice.
Half an hour later the coach saw the two b 9. come up the hill, arm in arm. The boy was trying to ask Tom to accept his toy robot in payment for(赔偿) the stolen biscuits. And Tom was r10. the gift from his new friend. He said that a few biscuits were not so important.
In some situations, forgiveness is better than punishment.
In classes, your teachers will talk about topic that you are studying. (1)It will be important for you to know the information they provide when you take tests. So you must be able to take good written notes from what your teachers say.
Here are the three stages(阶段) of taking notes and what you should do during each stage.
1. Before Class
Review your notes you have taken before you come to class. This will be good for remembering what was covered. Get you ready to understand new information your teacher will provide.
2. During Class
Keep your attention on what your teacher is saying and “the signal words” that tell you what your teacher is going to say and it is important to write in your notes. Examples of signal words are “The most important point…” and “Remember that…” Be sure to include in your notes information that your teacher repeats or writes 
on the blackboard. Write quickly so that you can include all the important information in your notes. (2)Do this by writing abbreviations such as “km” for _______, using symbols such as “%” for ________, and writing short sentences.
3. After Class
Rewrite your notes to make them more complete and accurate (准确的) by changing abbreviations into whole words, symbols into words, and shortened sentences into longer sentences. Use them to answer your questions. If necessary, ask your teacher for help.
1.将（1）句译成中文：_________________________________________________________
2.在（2）处填入两个合适的词，使句意完整，上下文通顺：__________；____________
3.回答问题：Why do you need to review your notes you have taken before class?
__________________________________________________________________________
4.在文中找出此句的同义句：When your teacher say something more than once or write something on the blackboard, you must take notes of that.________________________________
5.在文中找出主题句：__________________________________________________________
You’re on the school bus. But as soon as you turn the corner, you find yourself at the end of a very long queue. It’s another traffic jam! It is stop-start for the rest of your journey. Meanwhile, at the same time in Antarctica(南极洲), snow covers the land. A group of emperor penguins crowd together to keep warm, using stop-and-go movements to protect themselves from the winds. Can you see the connection?
Emperor penguins move like cars in traffic ja
ms to keep warm, that’s according to new research by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marina Research in Germany. A penguin only needs to move 2cm in any direction for its neighbor to do the same thing. These movements then flow(流动) through the whole group of penguins like a “traveling wave”.
These waves also help smaller crowds join bigger groups, keeping more and more of their friends warm. A single Antarctic “traffic jam” has thousands of penguins. Interestingly, the technology used for studying road traffic jams was used to study the penguins. This included studying time-lapse(延时) videos. Scientists also discovered that unlike on the road, these waves can be made by any penguin and in any direction.
With temperatures usually dropping below –50℃, and winds reaching speeds of up to 200km/h, these traveling waves are very important for penguins to keep warm.
These penguins can also teach us a lesson. In big groups, they learn to be orderly and patient, and to never crash into each other. These are skills we should all learn from them when we are on the road!
1.Emperor penguins get together to _____.
A. keep warm B. play games C. learn from each other D. cross the road
2.In a traffic jam on the road, __________.
A. drivers can drive fast B. drivers can drive carelessly
C. cars are not moving fast D. cars will stop working
3.From the passage, we learn that a “traveling wave” _____.
A. is caused by a traffic jam on the road
B. is caused by the strong wind in Antarctica
C. is formed by the movement of the penguins
D. is made by just one or two penguins
4.If a penguin is in a group, it _____.
A. needs to move orderly B. can move as fast as it likes
C. will not leave others behind D. should move as slowly as it can
5.The last paragraph wants to tell us that _____.
A. penguins won’t move together if it is not very cold
B. traffic jams happen probably because people are impatient
C. penguins learn their skills from human beings
D. penguins are likely to crash into each other in a group
What is the hottest English word of 2013? It’s “selfie”, according to Oxford dictionaries. Selfie is a photo that one takes of oneself, according to the Oxford online dictionary. People usuall
y take selfies with a smartphone(智能手机) and send them to a social media website.
The word was first used in 2002. In the past 12 months, its frequency (出现频率) in the English language has increased by 17,000 percent, said Oxford dictionaries. Now, almost everybody knows it.
“Almost every day, I take a photo of myself at school, and save it in my Qzone (QQ空间),” said Huang Xu, 13, from Hunan. These photos record her happy and sad moments.
Pop stars also take a lot of selfies. Li Chunping, 14, from Harbin, is a big fan of Yang Mi. “She has used many selfies to tell us what’s going on in her personal life,” said Li.
What makes people love selfies? Some people say it’s narcissism (自恋). “The rise of the selfie is a perfect symbol for our narcissistic culture. We’re crying out: Look at me!” said US psychiatrist(精神科医生) Carole Lieberman.
Young people are using selfies to make friends online, Jonathan Freedland wrote in The Guardian. “The usual purpose of taking a selfie is to share online. They express a human need to connect with others,” wrote Freedland.
Huang Xu agrees with that. “During summer vacation, my classmates and I shared many selfies online. Hair or clothes were not our interests. Through these photos, we got to know each other’s holidays and feelings,” said Huang Xu.
1.According to the story, a “selfie” is _____.
A. a person with a smartphone
B. a smartphone which can take photos
C. a photo taken by oneself
D. an English dictionary
2.When was the word “selfie” first used?
A. More than ten years ago B. In 2013
C. When smartphones appeared D. Nobody knows
3.We can tell from the story that _____.
A. only famous people enjoy taking selfies
B. all people love selfies because of narcissism
C. people love to share selfies online
D. US psychiatrist Carole Lieberman hates selfies
4.We put the sentence “But some people don’t see it that way” at the beginning of _______.
A. Paragraph 4 B. Paragraph 5 C. Paragraph 6 D. Paragraph 7
5.What is the best title of this passage ?
A. Selfies and narcissism B. Selfies and sharing
C. Selfies and smartphones D. Selfies, the hottest word in 2013
