Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we say to ourselves, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words. A confident person will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we won’t achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first try at something new, so we should not feel disappointed and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.
Another reason is that we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us get good results in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident. What’s more, if we give up, we have no chance of reaching our goals any more, but if we keep making great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.
Topic: Never Give Up
Possible meanings and the writer’s opinions | ● The words “Never give up” can 1. others or oneself and express one’s determination. ● A person who wants to be 2. should own the quality. So we should never give up. |
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| ● If we give up too easily, maybe we will achieve 4. , so when we fail in our first try at something new, we should not disappoint ourselves but try again. ● To reach our goals and develop the confidence which can help us 5. ourselves, we must not give up but challenge ourselves. |
Conclusions | ● If you give up, you will have no chance of reaching your goals. Never give up and you will reach your goals sooner or later. |
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SUMMER SKIN CARE —RIGHT OR WRONG?
In summer everybody needs to be careful with the sun. Do you know how to spend time in the sun without burning your skin? Read the six rules below. Some of them are RIGHT and the others are WRONG.
1. Always wear a baseball cap. It protects you from the sun and looks cool, too.
WRONG You need to wear a hat, but choose your hat carefully. Baseball caps protect your eyes, but they don’t protect your ears or your neck. Use a proper sun hat.
2. Use sun cream. You need to put it on at least twenty minutes before you go out.
RIGHT Sun cream starts to work twenty minutes after you put it on.
3. You need to use sun cream even on a cloudy day in summer.
RIGHT The sun can hurt your skin even on a cloudy day.
4. On a hot sunny day, wear light-colored clothes are best.
WRONG Light-colored clothes don’t protect you from the sun. The best way is to wear dark-colored clothes.
5. You need to spend time in the sun for healthy skin.
RIGHT You need to spend time in the sun to get enough vitamin D for healthy skin and bones, but don’t forget to use sun cream. Without sun cream you have a bigger risk of skin cancer.
6. In summer, people who have dark skin can also get burnt.
RIGHT People with fair skin and blonde or red hair need to be extra careful and use a high factor sun cream. People with fair skin, but they do need to protect their skin from the sun, too.
阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的短文。
When we do sports or travel in summer, we should always remember to wear a proper sun hat 1. of a baseball cap so that it can 2. the sunlight from hurting your skin. And we should put sun cream on at least twenty minutes before 3. out. Of course, it is also 4. to use sun cream on a cloudy day in summer. Maybe you don’t know people 5. dark skin can also get burnt.
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根据短文内容及首字母提示写出所缺单词, 并将完整单词写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。
The 688 Beef Bowl restaurant in Taiwan has the most expensive beef noodles in the market. Do you know how h 1. the price of a bowl of noodles can be? Customers (顾客) who want to taste their noodles must pay up to 2,000 yuan and e 2. make an order beforehand (提前).
The 688 Beef Bowl restaurant is not quite big. It o 3. seven different tastes of beef noodles, priced from 100 yuan to 2,000 yuan.
About five years a 4. Wang Congyuan founded (创建) the restaurant in 1990, it started to become very p 5. . Wang began to do research about how to make beef noodles far more delicious. From the beef itself to the china (瓷器) in which he serves it, Wang has d 6. most of his life to making the very best beef noodles.
Now, all the beef Wang uses is f 7. Japan, Australia, the USA, and Brazil. Each cut of beef gets trimmed (整齐的) in a certain way, and the soup Wang uses has different tastes.
Wang's beef noodles are now c 8. as a wonder in the food industry. Many customers w 9. come to Taiwan want to try the beef noodles from 688 Beef Bowl.
"At the age of 40, all I’m t 10. about is how to make the most delicious beef noodles. My dream now is to make the best beef noodles in the world." Wang said.
根据句意及汉语提示，写出各单词的正确形式，每空一词。
1. I didn’t see him for several years. His sudden coming (使惊奇) me a lot this morning.
2. Microsoft company developed its latest artificial intelligence (AI) bot named Tay on March
(二十三), 2016.
3. Let us (假定, 料想) another planet with conditions similar to those on the earth.
4. Our government has carried out the second-child policy in order to increase the (人口) of our country.
5.—Would you please write an (介绍) to the lecture for me? —With pleasure.
根据句意，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空，每空一词。
1.—How beautiful! Whose flowers are these?
—Today is Mary’s birthday. They are for (she).
2. When Hangzhou was (confirm) to host a G20 Summit this year, we really felt very proud.
3.Shanghai Disneyland Theme Park will open its gate to (travel) from all over the world.
4.—Who is the (wealth) person in China? —Ma Yun, the chairperson of Alibaba. [来源:学.
5.Tina’s bedroom is (tidy). She should put away all these things right now.
Have you ever heard of the expression “birdbrain”? People use it to talk about someone who is stupid, but crows(乌鸦) show that this is unfair. Now it has been discovered that crows may understand analogies (类推法).
It was once thought that only humans could understand analogies, which help us to solve problems creatively.
To test this ability in animals, scientists do RMTS tests. If a pair was AA, for example, picking BB to match it would be correct. If the pair was CD, however, then EF would be correct.
Monkeys have learned RMTS, but scientists wanted to know if crows could do it, too. An international team led by Edward Wasserman from the US first trained two crows to match things by color, shape and number in what is called IMTS, then moved onto RMTS.
For the IMTS test, the birds were put in a cage with a plate that had three cards and two cups in it. The card in the middle was the sample (样本), while the other wasn’t. The cup with the card that matched the sample card had some food to eat.
In the second part of the experiment, the birds were tested with RMTS tests. A card with two same-sized circles, for example, meant they should pick the test card with two same-sized squares and not two different-sized circles (圆). The birds did well in the more difficult test and picked the correct card more than three quarters of the time, Science News reports.
Wasserman was surprised that crows were able to solve the problem without any training in RMTS. “What the crows have done is surprising,” he said.
So perhaps it’s time to stop saying “birdbrain” for good.
1.In the opening paragraph, the writer used “birdbrain” to .
A. teach people how to use this expression
B. introduce a famous scientist Edward Wasserman
C. introduce recent findings about crows’ intelligence (智力)
D. get readers interested in the background of the expression
2.The underlined phrase “this ability” in the 3rd paragraph refers to .
A. the ability to play cards
B. the ability to find food to eat
C. the ability to understand analogies
D. the ability to pick the test card
3.In the RMTS test, if the birds were given the sample like this
, which card should they pick?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
4.Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
A. Monkeys understand analogies.
B. Crows show how clever they are.
C. Crows did well in RMTS.
D. Monkeys are cleverer than crows.
