友谊是焦渴时的甘泉， 黑暗中的明灯； 友谊是快乐时的分享， 忧伤时的抚慰……
某英文网站正在开展“ Friendship”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈你最珍视的一段友谊，主要内容包括：你最好的朋友是谁，你们如何成为好朋友的，以及你为什么珍视你们之间的友谊。
提示词语：in trouble, help, encourage, together, treasure, happy
提示问题：Who is your best friend?
How did you become best friends?
Why do you treasure the friendship between you?
As teenagers, I believe that everyone needs friends.__________________
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（题文）假如你是李华，正在英国参加一个交换生项目。今天下午你应邀去参加朋友Kate 的生日聚会，请用英语给接待家庭的妈妈 Mrs. Green 写一个留言条，告诉她你要去哪里,和谁一起去，以及你回家的时间和方式。
提示词语： party, celebrate, bus
提示问题： ·Where are you going?
Who are you going with?
When and how will you get home?
Dear Mrs. Green,
My friend Kate asks me to go to her birthday party this afternoon. _
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Li Hua
Students Inc.
Do you want to have your own company? Do you know how to set up a company? Here’re the three steps before you set up a company. Now read and follow it and maybe you can realize your dream!
Doing Research
Think about a product that you can make and sell. Your first job is to choose something that people might want. Choose something that is easy to make. Look at the products for sale in stores. Look at magazine ads. Think about the things that you buy. Brainstorm ideas with your classmates.
Your second job is to price your product. You want your product to be in high demand (需求). People should want your product. But they should also be able to buy it. Check store prices on products that are like yours.
Collecting Information
List three products that you could make. People must want the product. Each product must also be simple enough to make easily.
Ask your friends if they would buy any of these products. Ask how much they might pay for them. Take notes on another piece of paper.
Use what you found out to decide which product to make.
Analyzing (分析) Information
How much should you charge for your product? Remember, people should be able to buy your product. Also, you must be able to make a profit (利润). How much does it cost to make your product?
List the materials that you will need to make a sample of your product. Also list the cost of those materials.
Figure (计算) labor costs.Example: It takes Marco 1.5 hours to make one bag. He thinks his time is worth $ 5.00 per hour.(hours) 1.5 hrs. × (labor cost per hour) $ 5.00= (cost of labor) $ 7.50
Work out the production costs by adding the material costs and the labor costs. (material)_______+ (labor)_______ = (production costs)_______
.Now you know what it will cost to make this item. How much do you want to charge for the item? Think about how much profit you want to make. Look back at the notes of your survey. How much will students spend for your product? Put together what you find out. What will you charge? (production costs) _______+ (profit) _______= (product price) _______
Now it’s time to show what you know. Good luck!
1.How many steps are there before you set up a company?
2.What is your second job in the step of doing research?
3.Must each product be simple enough to make easily?
4.How do we work out the production costs?
5.What is the passage mainly about?
What does your face say?
How many different emotions do you think you can communicate to people with your face? Do you have the same facial expressions as people from different cultures?
New research suggests that there are only four basic facial expressions of emotion.However, how these expressions are understood might depend on where you are from.
Research by scientists from the University of Glasgow has challenged the traditional view of how the face expresses emotions. Until now, it was widely believed that six basic emotions — happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust (厌恶), were expressed and recognized across different cultures. However, the University of Glasgow’s work now suggests that the human face only has four basic expressions of emotion. This is because some pairs of emotions are impossible to distinguish, especially when they are first expressing on the face. Fear and surprise, for example,both share wide-open eyes. The facial expressions for anger and disgust also look the
same.
So if our faces are only able to express four basic emotions, how do we communicate more complex (复杂的) feelings? The study found that the way expressions are explained is different in different cultures. Lead researcher Dr Rachael Jack was studying this because “facial expressions were considered to be general”, she explains. However, while looking at how people from the East and West look at different parts of the face during facial expression recognition, they found that although there are some common characteristics across cultures, the six basic facial expressions of emotion are not recognized by everyone.
“We said we don’t know what a disgust face looks like in China, so the best way to go about that is to make all combinations (组合) of facial movements and show to Chinese researchers and ask them to choose the ones they think are disgust faces.”
With the software they developed, they discovered that in the early stages of signaling emotion, fear and surprise, and anger and disgust, were often confused. Jack explains that these facial expressions have developed both from biology and social evolution(进化).
What interests people about the cross-cultural aspect of the research? “This work leads to understanding which emotions we share, realizing our differences and calling attention to our multicultural experiences.” This research could advise new ways of social communication that improve cross-cultural interactions.
1.What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To show interest in different cultures.
B. To express the worries about emotions.
C. To lead in the topic of facial expressions.
D. To give an example of facial expressions.
2.The word “distinguish” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.
A. express B. explain C. differentiate D. develop
3.According to the passage, Dr Rachael agrees that ______.
A. facial expressions are easy to understand in Japan
B. the way expressions are understood is different in China
C. new ways of social communication can improve movements
D. it’s difficult to understand all the facial expressions of emotion
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. We can express our emotions in four different ways.
B. Facial expressions of emotion can be discovered easily.
C. Facial expressions of emotion are from different countries.
D. Facial expressions are explained differently in different cultures.
One day, I took an underground to work, I saw something that made me very sad.On the tube (underground in London), a mother kept looking at her phone screen and playing a game with her daughter sitting beside her. The little girl, about 5 years old,was talking to her mother about her day, repeating the next stop’s name cheerfully,praising her mother’s long nails — trying to catch her mother’s attention. Her mother just nodded and answered “Mm, hm” with her eyes glued to the screen, busy passing the levels of the game. I watched the girl give a final try to at least get her mum to look at her, but it was no use. Then the little girl turned silent. It was a shame the mother
didn’t notice that.
It broke my heart and got me wondering — what kind of game would make the mother forget she has the most beautiful thing in the world, the human she created, the person she loves with all her heart? What it meant when she couldn’t look into her daughter’s eyes and even stop to listen to the girl?
Some parents are almost like the teenagers, always on their phones with mindless games or going through WeChat. Perhaps parents have many things to deal with, but sometimes they are everything to their kids.
This is not an only example. I’ve seen too many such examples. I might not be a parent myself, and probably still have a long way before becoming one, but I know what I saw isn’t right.
The scene used to be seen among teenagers very often when parents complained how their children were crazy about their mobile phones. Look how the situation has changed! The parents have become “technology slaves (奴隶)”, that is to say, they can’t control themselves while using mobile phones. Now some middle-aged parents hold the best iPhones or Samsung phones, which are probably the only two brands they know. They are playing the simple games with so expensive mobile phones. I’m uncertain whether to laugh or to cry. But my hope is that this storm passes.
1.The little girl turned silent because she failed to _____.
A. stop to listen to her mum
B. catch her mother’s attention
C. know the brand of her mobile phone
D. control herself while using mobile phone
2.In the passage, the writer mainly wants to express _____.
A. the hope that parents use new technology properly
B. the happiness that parents can use modern technology
C. the sadness that parents have many things to deal with
D. the worries that children are crazy about mobile phones
3.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Technology Slaves B. Middle-aged Parents
C. A Scene on the Tube D. Mindless Phone Games
Maria Keller — Teenager Wants Every Kid to Read Indeed!
Books have huge power. Between their pages, readers can be transported to
anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone…or anything. Unluckily, many
children all over the world don’t have chances to read books!
For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from America, has been changing
that fact.
When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that
some of her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. When she asked her mother
why that could be, her mother said that they might have no money to buy books. Maria
had never thought of this. She could not believe that some children might not have
bedtime stories read to them. She decided to change this.
With her mother’s help, Maria set up Read Indeed. Read Indeed is a non-profit (非
营利的) organization that is to collect and share books to children in need. During the
early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal to collect and share 1 million books by
the time she was 18. It didn’t take long to reach that goal!
So far, she has collected over 2.4 million books and has sent them to many states
and countries like India, China…She says, “I cannot live without books. As I continue
my task, I have learned that the number of kids who have no books are in the hundreds
of millions. So I just can’t give up, even after reaching my goal of 1 million books.”
She recently set a new goal: to give donations (捐赠) to kids in need in every state
in the United States, and every country in the world. She always pays attention to her
progress on a large map at the warehouse (仓库) where they store and sort books.
1.Where does Maria Keller come from?
A. America. B. India. C. China. D. The UK.
2.With her mother’s help, Maria set up _____ to collect and share books.
A. a bookstore B. a school C. a warehouse D. an organization
3.After reaching her goal of 1 million books, she will _____.
A. stop giving books B. go on with her study
C. read bedtime stories D. go on donating books
