温暖是春日的一缕春风,温暖是困境中的那一双手,温暖是失落时的一个微笑, 温暖是挫折时的一句鼓励,温暖存在于我们每个人的心中。
某英文网站正在开展以"温暖"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,谈谈生活中曾经让你感到温暖的事情,它是什么时候发生的,以及发生了什么让你感到温暖。
提示词语: last Friday, upset, smile, hand, be moved
提示问题:
●When did it happen?
● What happened to make you feel warm?
As we know, we may feel warm at anytime and anywhere. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
假如你是李华,下周一你们班即将召开一次主题班会（class meeting),请同学们将复课后自己的心情和学习近况写成报告(report)进行交流和分享。你们班的交换生Peter也要参加,所以发来邮件询问你相关事宜,请用英语回复一封邮件,告诉他报告上交的方式,并分享你对报告内容的一些想法。
提示词语: email, happiness, different ways, listen carefully
提示问题:
●How can you hand in the report?
●What are you going to write in the report?
Dear Peter,
I'm glad to receive your email. We are going to hold the class meeting next Monday. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If there is anything more that I can help you with, please let me know.
Yours,
Li Hua
The Rules of British Roads
British roads are some of the safest in the world. A study in 2018 compared more than 30 countries and found that 3.8 out of 100,000 died in traffic accidents in the UK.
This number was lower than any other country. So, what did British drivers do to achieve this? What are they doing differently? Here are some pieces of advice for drivers who are planning a trip to the UK.
◆People in Britain drive on the left side of the road. In fact, a long time ago people drove on the left in most countries, but now only a few countries have this. Don't forget that this also means you must drive the other way around roundabouts (环岛).
◆British people feel that waiting should be fair for everybody. If you are in a line of traffic, then don't try to push past the cars in front of yours. This is called "jumping the line". You must wait for your turn; or people may get angry with you.
◆You must stop at the traffic lights when they are red. In many countries, it is OK to go past the red lights if you are turning a corner or if there isn't any other traffic around. In the UK you could have a lot of trouble if you do this.
◆If another driver flashes (闪烁) his car's lights at you, he is probably trying to tell you that he will wait for you to go first. British people don't like to use their car horn (喇叭) much because they think people who do so are rude.
◆If you get in an accident, don't try to pay the police. The police in the UK never take money, and if you try to offer them some, you could end your holiday visiting British prison（监狱).
1.How many pieces of advice are mentioned in the passage?
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2.Which side do British people drive on?
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3.If a driver jump the line, how will other drivers feel?
____________________
4.Why don't British people like to use their car horn much?
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5.What's the main idea of the last paragraph?
____________________
Smarter than We Thought
It's a popular belief that fish can't remember anything for longer than seven seconds.
It may seem sad to think that they don't remember what they've eaten or where they've been, and they don't recognize you or any of their friends—every moment in their lives would be like seeing the world for the first time.
But don't be so quick to feel sorry for them. A recent study has found that fish have much better memories than we used to think. In fact, certain kinds of fish can even remember events from as long as 12 days ago, BBC reported.
In the study, researchers from MacEwan University in Canada trained a kind of fish called African cichlids to go to a certain area of their tank to get food. They then waited for 12 days before putting them back in the tank again.
Researchers used computer software (软件) to monitor the fish's movements. They found that after such a long break the fish still went to the same place where they first got food. This suggested that they could remember their past experiences.
In fact, scientists had been thinking for a long time that African cichlids might have a good memory.
An earlier study showed that they behaved aggressively (攻击性地) in front of certain fish, perhaps because they remembered their past fights. But until the latest findings, there was no clear evidence (证据).
Just as a good memory can make our lives easier, it also plays an important part when a fish is trying to live in the wild.
"If fish are able to remember that a certain area has safe food, they will be able to go back to that area without putting their lives in danger," lead researcher Trevor Hamilton told Live Science.
For a long time, fish were placed far below chimpanzees (黑猩猩), dolphins and mice on the list of smart animals. But this study has given scientists a new understanding of their intelligence（智力).
So next time you are watching your pet fish from outside the tank, perhaps you should feel closer to them—they may remember who you are.
1.What is a popular belief about fish?
A.Fish can remember things for a very short time.
B.Fish can only remember part of their experiences.
C.Fish can remember things that happened 12 days ago.
D.Fish can remember things for longer than three minutes.
2.According to the passage, fish can ________with a good memory.
A.know where to escape and keep safe
B.find their enemies and fight with them
C.remember where to get food and stay alive
D.recognize their friends and help each other
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Our pet fish can surely remember who we are.
B.Fish are as clever as chimpanzees, dolphins and mice.
C.Clear evidence has shown certain fish can remember their past fights.
D.African cichlids can even remember events from as long as 12 days ago.
Each year on Feb 21,UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day (IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.
What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost—not just sounds and words but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Killing a language means all these are killed too.
Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it. Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload (上传) texts, audios (音频) and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes (部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.
These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep languages alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and use social media (媒体) to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the world.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother languages. This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart."
1.What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?
A.They provided books on communication skills.
B.They discussed how to make good use of the Internet.
C.They shared materials about endangered languages online.
D.They translated endangered languages into mother languages.
2.The word "revive" in Paragraph 4 probably means "________."
A.start reusing B.remember choosing
C.try creating D.continue experimenting
3.What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A.The disappearance of languages has already stopped.
B.It's impossible for young people to protect languages.
C.Fewer and fewer people work to keep languages alive.
D.Young people have creative ways to protect languages.
4.The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to ________.
A.express his thought of language protection
B.stress the importance of one's mother language
C.tell the trouble in learning endangered languages
D.remind us of the problem of disappearing languages
My First Marathon (马拉松)
A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was hurt and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I decided to go ahead.
I remember back to my 7th year in school. After my first PE class, the teacher told me that I was "not athletic (运动型的)". The idea that I was "not athletic" stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a fight against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the fight against my own body and mind. A test of wills!
The night before my marathon, I dreamed that I couldn't even find the finish line.
I woke up, being helpless and nervous but ready to prove something to myself. Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe lace became untied. So I stopped to tie it. Not the start I wanted! I had been left behind others at the beginning.
At mile 3, I passed a sign: "GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!"
By mile 17, I became out of breath and the once-hurt-ankle hurt badly, but I still stayed the course, walking a bit and then running again.
As I came near to mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a. m. or questioned my expenses on running.
I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the person who came in first place had. I can now call myself a "marathon winner".
1.What happened to the writer a month before his marathon?
A.He hurt his knees. B.He got hurt in one ankle.
C.He wanted to give up. D.He went back to his school.
2.According to the PE teacher in the 7th year in school, the writer________.
A.didn't train hard B.could finish the marathon
C.wasn't good at sports D.would get support from many fans
3.What does the story mainly tell us?
A.One is never too old to learn.
B.Failure is the mother of success.
C.A man can make success with the help of family.
D.A winner is the one with great effort and a strong will.
