Recently, more and more people are reported dead from drowning(溺水) accidents. Here are two reports from www.sinhuanet.com.
Seven People Drowned in a Reservoir(水库)
Reporter Tang got the news from Guangdong Provincial Government that people died in a drowning accident on April 5th, 2015. A 17-year-old girl , Xiao Yi, fell into a reservoir while washing hands after a tomb(墓) sweeping with her family. Her sister, her parents , her brother and some of her relatives jumped into the water one after one to save her, although they didn’t have good swimming skills. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. As a result, Xiao Yi ans six of her family members lost their lives.
Three People Lost Their Lives in the Dongjiang River
On May 1st, 2015, seven middle school students went swimming in the Dongjiang River. At first, they had a great time playing in the water. Suddenly one of the boys had a cramp(抽筋) . He went up and down in the water and shouted for help. Two of them tried to save him, but got drowned. At that time, a man called Li Jinlin was fishing nearby. When he heard the shout, he jumped into the water without a second thought. He tried his best to save the second one, he ran out of energy and couldn’t go up again. Two students and he lost their loves.
Information Card
1.The website for the readers to get the news reports
2.The time of the first accident
3.The thing Xiao Yi was doing when she fell into the reservoir
4.The person who saved a student in the Dongjiang River
5.The number of the people who lost lives in the two accidents
The Great Wall is known as the eighth wonder of the world. Every year thousands of tourists from all over the world come to visit this place of1._____ in China.
Last Saturday I went to the Great Wall 2._______ some of my friends. It was a sunny day. On our way up, we saw many volunteers(志愿者) keeping working in the sun. They helped the elders with their bags., 3.______ photos for some tourists and answered people’s questions. Though they are very 4._______ , they didn’t stop to have a rest. We were deeply moved when we saw this.
Just at the moment, we saw 5.______ little boy standing alone and crying. We went over and asked what6._______ to him. From his answer we knew that he couldn’t find his mother. We told him not to 7._____ about it and then we tried to get to touch with his mother with the phone number he gave us. Twenty minutes 8._______ , his mother turned up. When she saw her son, she was very excited and thanked 9.______ with tears in her eyes.
That day we not only enjoyed the beauty of the Great Wall, but also felt the warmth of the society. 10._______ everyone can reach out a helping hand to others, the world will be more and more harmonious(和谐的).
配对阅读。 左栏是对五位学生英语技能情况的描述，右栏是马丁英语培训中心七个课程的简介， 请为左栏的每位学生选择一个合适的课程。
1. Ann is a midddle school student. As she is poor in English reading, she hopes to improve her reading ability through training classes. But she is free only on Tuesdays and Thursday. 2.Listening understanding is the biggest problem for Kevin. He often gets low score for listening tests. Now he would like to take a course to develop his listening skills on Fridays. 3.Tom is planing to go to a British university. But he has difficulty in communicating with others in English. He wants to improve his spoken English under the guidance of a British teacher. 4. May likes reading English short stories. She wants to translate these stories into Chinese and tell them to her classmates. So she hopes to learn translating skills by going to a night class. 5.English is Sarah’s favorite subject. She does well in listening, speaking, and reading, but she is weak in writing. She wants to take some lessons so as to write better.
| A. This course can help you improve your listening skills. You can take Mr. Lin’s course at Room 407 at night from Monday to Friday. It will surely help you a lot. B. Spoken English plays an important part in communication. Miss Chen, an experienced teacher from Singapore, will help you improve your communicating skills at Room 302. C. Reading is a must in English learning . On Mondays and Wednesdays, Mr. Yang will give you hes suggestions about how to read more quickly at Room 405. D. Writing is the most difficult skill for many students. In Miss Li’s writing course, you will learn how to write in a proper way. The lessons will be given at Room 207 on Saturdays. E. If you are poor in spoken English, why don’t you come to the English speaking class given by Mr. Smith from Britain? He will be waiting for you at Room 202 on Wednesdays and Fridays. F. Miss Zhang has some suggestions on how to do better in reading. If you want to master necessary reading skills, come to Room 308 on Tuesdays and Thursdays evenings. G. Do you find it difficult to translate English into Chinese? We can help you. Come to Mr. Ge’s translating class at Room 406 on Friday nights.
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It is reported that some developed counties have shipped broken parts of computes to China.Such a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones send from Japan.
Things like these are called electronic waste, or e-waste. Dealing with is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞)and lead (铅)can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be deal with safely. But at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth.
Many places in China are polluted by e-waste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as”the e-waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5mllion kilograms of e-waste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e-waste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.
The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn;t do harm to the environment and people’s life. This year,China presents a new protection law, the strictest one we have ever had. Computer complies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. This is because the complies that make computers know best to deal with them safely. Hopefully, the problem with e-waste will be solved in near future.
1.The e-waste found in Hong Kong last month was from________.
A.France B.Japan C.Germany D. Australia
2.The underlined word buried probably means ______in the passage.
A.焚烧 B.障碍 C.回收 D.掩埋
3.The town of Guiya in Guangdong Province_________.
A.is the e-capital of the world
B.has serious e-waste pollution
C. Deals with e-waste safely
D.speeds much money on e-waste
4.This year,the Chinese government__________.
A.tried to change people’s life
B.closed some computer complies
C.make a new environment protection law
D.asked people to hand in their old computers
5.The passage is mainly about________.
A.the way in deal with e-waste
B.the cost of burning e-waste
C.the e-waste problem in China
D.the need to pass a law against e-waste
Garden Tour & Cooking Class 909 North Cumbre Road. Santa Barara, CA
Saturday, October 24, 2015. 9:30am-1:00pm
Cook with Suzzane Traditionally, American Indians’ dishes were made with corn,beans,potatoes and pumpkin. Takea tour around Trinity Garden, pick some of these foods and returns in the kitchen. There you can watch Suzzane prepare delicious dishes with them.It is surely a new experience! Suzzane will make an introduction of three traditional foods and tell you what they meant to the American Indians hundreds of years ago. At the same time,you can learn how to cook with these autumn harvest(收获) vegetables.
The means includes the following:
Hot Potato Pie with Cornbread Topping
Thanksgiving Soup
Fresh Vegetable Salad
Trinity Fruit Ice-cream
★$35 per person,including printed recipes (菜谱), the four dishes above and a book by Suzzane, Children under 8 can come for free.
★Booking by email by Oct 15; Suzzane landry @ alt. Net
About Suzzane Landry: She is the writer of Healthy Eating and Fresh Food Matters. To look for new ideas to add to her cooking, she traveled a lot,working in kitchen all over the world.This brought her the idea of “fresh food cooking”. Then she set up the website below to get people’s attention to healthy eating. She is excited to share her knowledge through cooking chooses, cookbooks and DVDs. Her teaching is popular with people from different countries. Learn More: Visit WWW.freshfoodcooking.com Follow Suzzane on FACEBOOK and TWTTER.
1.The cooking class in advertisement will be given______.
A. In spring B.in summer
C.in autumn D.in winter
2.In this class ,you can watch Suzzane cook dishes with the foods______.
A.brought from home B.picked in Trinity Garden
C.bought from the market D.onbooked from the Internet
3.The menu offered by the cooking class including the following EXCEPT______.
A.cake B.soup C. Salad D.ice-cream
4.If Mr.Green goes to the class with his parents and his 6-year-old son, be should pay____.
A. $35 B. $70 C.$105 D.$140
5.According to the advertisement, we know that__________.
A.we can book the cooking class on the phone
B.only American Indians enjoy Suzzane’s teaching
C.Suzzane got her cooking ideas from different DVDs
D.Suzzane Landry wrote two books about eating and food
Once upon a time, there was a lazy poor living in a small house with spider webs(蜘蛛网) on the walls and mice running around. People ______ coming into such a dirty place and the poor man was lonely and sad every day. He thought it was poverty(贫困) that______ his unhappy life. One day, the poor man dropped in on a wise old man and asked him for ______ about changing his life. The old man gave him a beautiful vase(花瓶) and said, “This is a magic vase that will bring you _______.” The poor man looked at the vase ______ . Why would he need a vase in his poor house? However , he didn’t want to ______ such a beautiful vase, so he brought it home on the table. “It.s not right for something so beautiful to be ______.” the poor man looked at the vase and thought. Then he picked some wild flowers and put them into it, making it even more beautiful. ______ he was still not satisfied . “It is not good for such a beautiful thing to stand next to a spider web.” At this, he started to do some cleaning in the house and paint the walls. His house turned into _______ place immediately. The poor man _______ . He suddenly realized that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy. From then on, he worked hard and his life got better and better.
1.A.enjoyed B.avoided C.forgot D.considered
2.A.led to B.connected to C.made up D.set up
3.A.service B.knowledge C.advice D.care
4.A.peace B.happiness C.mess D.regret
5.A.sadly B.nervously C.proudly D.surprisedly
6.A.throw away B.give out C.pay for D.keep off
7.A.ugly B. Full C.empty D.dirty
8.A.Although B.But C.So D.Because
9.A.large B.dark C.strange D.comfortable
10.A.cheered up B.rang up C.sped up D. stayed up
