My sister likes travelling. ________likes beautiful mountains and lakes.
A.She B.He C.They D.I
"与人为善"是中华民族的传统美德。与人为善就是以善意的态度对待他人, 帮助他人。善待他人,乐于助人也能让自己的心情保持愉悦。
某英文网站正在开展以"与人为善"为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华,请用英文写一篇短文投稿,谈谈你对与人为善的看法,曾经与人为善的经历以及你的感受。
提示词语:virtue(美德）,kind, important, help, improve, happy
提示问题:
●What do you think of being kind to others?
●What did you do?
●How did you feel?
Being kind to others is a traditional virtue of Chinese people.
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假如你是李华,正在参加一个美国交换生的项目，这个项目负责人Sam正在招募儿童之家的志愿者，请你用英文给负责人写一封自荐信，内容包括：你的基本信息，想做志愿者的理由以及具体打算为他们做什么。
提示词语：like, help, play, sing, happy
提示问题：
●What's your name and how old are you?
●Why do you want to be a volunteer?
● What will you do for them?
Dear Sam,
I am writing to apply for a volunteer in Children’s Home.
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I'm looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
A new rubbish sorting system has been put into use in Fangchengyuan Community in Beijing. Local people not only sort their rubbish, but also put QR codes(二维码）on it.
"When the rubbish is collected and the codes are seen, I will get small gifts and even some money," one of the local people told reporters.
"It's really creative and encouraging. "
About 350 communities have carried out this smart system in Beijing. The capital of China has joined a list of cities in the country that take action to support rubbish sorting. For example, Shenzhen and Shanghai have made laws to punish people and organizations for not sorting rubbish correctly.
China produces quite a lot of rubbish every year. Much of the rubbish is buried（填埋)in soil or burned without being sorted. Landfills（填埋场）take up a lot of land and have a risk of polluting the soil and water nearby. And burning rubbish can produce harmful gases.
Through rubbish sorting, we can reduce（减少）the use of landfills and air pollution. What's more, rubbish sorting saves resources, which could bring economic(经济的) benefits. For example, a ton of waste paper can be reused to make about 850 kg of paper, saving 17 trees and 50% of water. Because of their benefits, some countries have developed successful sorting systems.
Japan has a strict and detailed system. When people throw away a water bottle, the cap, the waste paper and the bottle itself have to go into three different bins(垃圾箱).
Every year, families receive special rubbish sorting timetables and directions from their local governments. They are advised to follow the timetables and directions when they throw away rubbish.
In Australia, every family is provided with three rubbish bins—the red lid(盖子)bin for "general waste" like food and plastic bags, the yellow lid bin for "recycling" like steel are glass, and the green lid bin for "green waste "such as grass and leaves. On the streets, the bins are printed with pictures of the things that are allowed inside. It makes recycling quite easy.
1.What will people get if they sort their rubbish in Fangchengyuan Community?
2.How many communities have carried out this smart system in Beijing?
3.What do families in Japan receive from their local governments every year?
4.What is the green lid bin for in Australia?
5.What are the benefits of rubbish sorting?
SHANGHAI——Health researchers in Shanghai are calling for more protection for young children as the latest research shows about half of the children are suffering（受折磨）from secondhand smoke.
About 45% of children suffer passive（被动的）smoking in families, 50% in public places, and almost 6% on public transportation, shows a research reported by the Shanghai Children's Medical Center (SCMC)on Tuesday.
"Not only adults but also children and newborn babies are at risk for the bad effects of passive smoking," said Tang Jingyan, a doctor. Research has shown that children who are living in a secondhand smoke situation will suffer from more colds, coughs and sore throats, and they are more likely to suffer from pneumonia(肺炎）and will have a higher risk of developing cancer. Doctors even suggested that children suffering passive smoking are more likely to have behavioral problems and may not develop mentally(智力上) as quickly as other children.
Other research by the SCMC has found that more than 80% of child patients in the center live in a smoke-filled household, where one or both parents smoke. "Though doctors have stressed the harm of passive smoking over and over, it is still hard to reach a totally smoke-free home," said a doctor named Zhang Yiwen. Parents often want to smoke even though the have learned the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
China has 540 million people suffering from passive smoke,180 million of the younger than 15, the age of smokers is also getting lower, "earlier reports said. "There are more young smokers than before. You can see young people wearing a school uniform(校服）and carrying a schoolbag light a cigarette(香烟）on the street. Some of them are even girl students," said Jing Xingming, a professor. "Children like to copy adults, especially their parents. If parents often smoke at home, it is very likely children will develop a smoking habit which can cause a bad circle," Jin said.
Reports from the Ministry of Health said China has about 350 million smokers, of whom 15 million are underage smokers. Also, around 40 million of the country's 130 million children aged between 13 and 18 had tried smoking, and 15 million had become addicted to(上瘾) smoking.
1.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A.The bad effects of passive smoking. B.The influences of adults to children.
C.The bad living situations of children. D.The attitude towards children smoking.
2.What can we learn from the passage?
A.About 45% of children suffer passive smoking in public places.
B.About 40 million children aged between 13 to 18 tried smoking.
C.About 350 million children are heavy smokers in China.
D.About 80% of the children in the SCMC smoke heavily.
3.What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?
A.To question about the behaviors of the children smokers.
B.To show the reasons why children like learning smoking.
C.To call on people to protect children from secondhand smoke.
D.To encourage children to give up smoking as soon as possible.
If you see a group of people dancing and singing on the street or in the railway station, you don't need to feel surprised. They are a flash mob（快闪族）. A flash mob, organized with the help of the Internet or other communications networks, is a group of people who come together suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as coming together to look at the sky, shouting something at the top of their voices for 30 seconds, and then quickly disappear before the police can arrive.
Using mobile phones, the flash mob can change its place if the first one has been replaced for any reason. Bill Wasik, a senior editor, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May,2003 and the first successful flash mob came together on June 3,2003—after the first try was foiled at Macy's department store. Following this, about 200 people crowded into the hall of the Hyatt hotel, applauding(鼓掌）in one voice for fifteen seconds, and next the mob pretending（假装）to be tourists on a bus trip entered a shoe shop in Soho. Wasik said that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to make fun of hipsters(时尚潮人）.
Though flash mobs were firstly regarded as pointless, the idea has already developed for the benefit of political（政治的）and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the effect of communicating information on Websites and by email, and protesters(抗议者）can similarly use it to be involved in political events.
Flash mob gatherings can sometimes surprise people. Such an activity might seem amusing and fantastic, but it also might frighten people who are not clear about what is taking place. Undoubtedly, flash mobs can serve as good political tools in any direction. They also have big economic potential（经济潜力）, such as using flash mobs to advertise a product.
The flash mob is now becoming more and more popular. People use it to do many things.
Flash mobs give people an opportunity to come together to create a memory.
1.The word "foiled" in Paragraph 2 probably means "__________".
A.praised B.prevented C.confused D.succeeded
2.Why did Bill Wasik create the flash mob?
A.To help people make friends. B.To advertise some products.
C.To create some memories. D.To make fun of hipsters.
3.What can we infer about the flash mob from the passage?
A.It can be made use of in many fields just for fun.
B.It usually breaks up quickly for not having enough time.
C.If the place for the activity is decided, it can't be changed.
D.It gives people the chance to do something unusual together.
4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A.Flash Mob: the Popular Culture
B.Flash Mob: the Political Potential
C.Flash Mob: the Short-term Memory
D.Flash Mob: the Beginning of Information
