These days, it is found that school students hardly have any sports. Is it because they have no interest in sports? It may not be true. They often say they have _____ more important things to do.
What are these important things? Exams! They have to get _____ ready(准备) for all kinds of exams and tests in school. So many of them almost become bookworms(书呆子). In the past, in the summer holidays,they could do ___ they liked, but now they have to ______ all their time preparing(准备) . So______have kept them away from going in for sports.
Because of the pressure from _____ parents and teachers, they_______to work harder and spend most of their time _______books. As for the students themselves, they don't want to fail the lessons because they want to further their studies(深造). So it is necessary to give_______of their spare(空闲的) time to their studies and give up their school sports.
It's true a good education cannot go without physical training, the same is true, a quick mind hardly goes along with a ______ body. Without a strong body, you can never do anything well, how can you make great success in life?
1.A. a little B. still C. much D. rather
2.A. himself B. themself C. themselves D. you
3.A. some thing B. something C. everything D. nothing
4.A. give B. spend C. take D. cost
5.A. teachers B. parents C. studies D. holidays
6.A. his B. one's C. their D. other's
7.A. try B. hope C. have D. enjoy
8.A. in B. at C. to D. on
9.A. few B. any C. all D. none
10.A. strong B. heavy C. weak D. ill
These days computer games have become more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy streets have _______ into computer game houses in order to get more _______. These places are always crowded with people.
In the computer game houses, people _______ a lot of money matching on the machines. It’s _______ for one to beat a computer, but one can get ahead after trying again and again. People want to win when they play computer games. The more they _______, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t live _______ it.
They result is that some people don’t want to _______ and take days off to play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are _______. They couldn’t set their mind on their lessons. When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their schools. Some of them can get enough money from their parents. Some of them are not ________to get the money. So they steal others’ money and become bad.
Computer game addiction (上瘾) is a serous problem in our life. Something has to be done to ________ it.
1.A. got B. became C. changed D. gone
2.A. boys B. money C. computers D. houses
3.A. take B. spend C. cost D. pay
4.A. time B. easy C. good D. hard
5.A. lose B. make C. pay D. miss
6.A. with B. for C. without D. by
7.A. live B. play C. win D. work
8.A. even worse B. changed C. better D. well
9.A. happy enough B. enough lucky C. enough happy D. lucky enough
10.A. close B. keep C. develop D. stop
现 在 ,某 英 文 网 站 正 在 开 展 以 “成 就 ”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 一 谈 你 经 历 的 让 你 很 有 成 就 感 的 一 件 事 情 ,主 要 内 容 包 括 :你 取 得 了 什 么 成
就 ,你 是 如 何 做 到 的 ,以 及 你 在 取 得 成 就 的 过 程 中 学 到 了 什 么 。
提 示 词 语 :write,translate,friend,help,teamwork,better
提 示 问 题 :1. What achievement have you made?
2. How did you make it?
3. What have you learnt from the experience?
假 如 你 是 李 华 ,为 庆 祝 6月 5日 世 界 环 境 日 ,你 们 学 校 组 织 主 题 为 “我 们 的 地 球 我 们 的 家园 ( One Earth One Family)”的 志 愿 者 活 动 。请 你 写 一 封 电 子 邮 件 给 外 教 Peter,邀 请 他 来 参 加活 动 。主 要 内 容 包 括 :活 动 的 时 间 和 地 点 ,你 们 准 备 做 些 什 么 ,以 及 你 们 做 这 些 事 情 的 原 因 。
提 示 词 语 :plant,recycle,speech,clean,beautiful
提 示 问 题 :1. When and where will the activity be held?
2. What will you do for it?
3. Why will you do that?
Dear Peter,
I'm writing to invite you to take part in our celebration of Environment Protection Day.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours,
Li Hua
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Mom's Recipe for Life
I have a lot of Mom's recipes in a blue box where all my special ones were put,like the
pumpkin pie she made during my growing up years. Even so,the recipe I treasure most is not on any index card, nor did she send it to me in a letter. Instead,she lived this recipe all of her life.
My mother grew up in a small coal mining town in southwest Iowa. My grandfather once told me that she knew no stranger;she considered everyone in that community her friend. That attitude
continued wherever she lived for the rest of her life.
As a teen,I was embarrassed(尴尬的 )every time my mother talked to strangers and offered a smile to everyone in the store or on the city bus. Almost all of them responded(回 应 )with a bright smile of their own. Some spoke,others nodded their heads at this elderly woman who brought a little light into their day.
What really sold me on Mom's approach to life was her experience on the senior bus. The weeks I could not be there, she used this low cost transportation to the grocery store. After her first trip, I asked her how it went.
“ Ha!”she said,“ I got on that bus and what did I see?Thirteen little old ladies and one old
man,and not one word was spoken.”
I wondered how long it would be until the silence on that bus would change. On my next visit,Mom mentioned the 13 little old ladies on the bus and something one of them had told her.
“ Oh,are you talking with them now?”I asked.
“ Of course,”she said. “ One day I climbed up the steps of the bus and before I looked for a
seat,I gave them a big smile and I said,‘ Isn't it a wonderful day? I noticed a few shy smiles.”
Mom didn't give up. She greeted them all each time she got on the bus and before long,the
whole group was laughing and talking to one another. The bus became more than just transportation.
When we went to the various stores,I watched as she smiled and chatted with perfect strangers. Some of them looked like the poorest person you'd ever met,but once Mom smiled at them and started a conversation, most responded favorably. My mother didn't embarrass me any longer. I found myself admiring her.
She's been gone for ten years but I've carried on her recipe for life. It was me who had done the
smiling first and all those people had responded. My mother didn't lecture but taught me by example. She'd given me a recipe for life.
1.Where did the writer's mom grow up?
2.Did the people talk on the bus on Mom's first trip?
3.What did Mom do to make the bus more than transportation?
4.How did the writer feel about Mom in the end?
5.What is Mom's recipe for life?
A research study has looked into what happens inside your brain while you read and listen to music. You know that thrill(兴 奋 )you get when listening to your favorite music?That exciting feeling when you hear your favorite songs?According to a recent study,it seems the same thing can happen while you are reading,but not with every kind of text. This opens up interesting questions around how music,reading and emotions are connected in the brain.
The study
“ We decided we would do a comparison between four or five different kinds of texts to see how the brain reacted,”explains Adam Zeman,a scientist. “ The participants (参 与 者 )lay in an MRI scanner reading the texts,and then we compared brain activity for those five texts.”The texts ranged (涉 及 )from deadly boring ones to highly exciting ones,including the Highway Code,parts from novels,and poems.
So what happened in the participants brains while they were reading?
Emotional reaction
As the researchers observed,participants found some texts more emotional than others. When reading these emotional texts,there was higher activity in brain areas related to pleasure and reward—the same areas related to the thrill we get when we listen to music. As Zeman says,“ it perfectly shows that the emotional reaction to literature(文 学 )and to music has quite a bit in common. So it doesn't seem to matter whether you are listening or reading if you get a thrill. That was one quite strong finding.”
Introspection(内 省 )
There were more interesting findings. Reading poetry is often considered an activity that requires us to use the brain,but did the study find any truth of this?When the participants were reading poems,the team found there was more activity in a particular group of brain areas called the Default Network. “ These areas seem to be related to things we do with our minds when we are resting,like thinking about what's happened to us recently,thinking about what's going to happen in the near future,about other people,and that network seems to be more strongly related to poetry than with other texts,”explains Zeman. This connection between poetry and introspection could be the subject of further research.
Conclusions
The study shows that the different texts activate different areas of our brains when we read. Zeman says,“ the study did support what we thought:reaction to literature was going to be a bit like the one to music in terms of emotion. We felt that we ended up with a great deal of unanswered questions which we hope somebody will continue to ask.”
1.What did the research try to find out?
A. How music helps us read different kinds of texts.
B. What kind of texts most people like while listening to music.
C. Why reading different texts causes different reactions in emotion.
D. Whether reading can cause similar emotional reaction like music does.
2.What did the participants do in the study?
A. They listened to music. B. They read different texts.
C. They answered many questions. D. They compared brain activities.
3.What can we learn from the study?
A. The emotional texts work better for the research.
B. Poetry reading can activate the Default Network.
C. Music helps to bring pleasure and reward.
D. People think about the past when resting.