—Did you listen to Tom’s speech yesterday?
—Yes. His words moved everyone _____.
A.present B.progress C.praise
—Do you think we should share our problems with our parents?
—Sure! _____ we talk to them, we’ll feel worse.
A.Because B.Although C.Unless
—I haven’t finished the book report of Journey to the West. It’s so difficult.
—You should hurry up. We’ll hand in the report _____ three days.
A.in B.on C.for
4月23日是“世界读书日”。为了让同学们共享阅读的快乐，你们班将在周五下午三点举行“Share the Happiness of Reading”的主题活动，你是班长李明，请你写一份通知，告知大家本次活动的事宜。
时间：本周五下午三点
地点：本班教室
活动内容：
1.号召大家捐赠书籍，建立班级图书角。
2.分享读书体会。
3. 倡议同学们多读书，读好书。
要求：
（1）80-100字；
（2）可围绕主题作适当发挥。
Dear classmates,
April 23 is World Book Day, reading makes us happy and knowledgeable._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
阅读下面的短文，将画线的句子译成英文或中文。
“What would have happened if I hadn’t lost that necklace? Who knows? ” Mathilde’s heart is filled with sadness and regret...This is the tragedy and ironic（讽刺的） ending of “The Necklace”written by Guy de Maupassant（居伊.德.莫泊桑）.
The story takes place in Paris. One day, Pierre gets an invitation to a palace ball. He thinks it important to him, and decides to go to the party with his wife Mathilde, a young woman who admires upper-class lifestyle very much.
65.Hearing the news, she gets worried and nervous instead of excitement and happiness, She is so poor that she has no new dress and no jewelry（珠宝） to wear, 66.她甚至可以想象她会被别人嘲笑。
Her husband spends 400 francs on a new dress and she herself borrows a diamond（钻石） necklace from her good friend Jeanne .67.这对夫妇在宫廷舞会上感到非常成功。But on their way home, she finds the necklace is no longer around her neck. They rush back to look for it. But they can’t find it .The young couple borrow a great deal of money and buy a necklace that is exactly like Jeanne’s. It costs them 36,000 francs.68.So they have to work day and night to pay back the money they have borrowed. After ten years of hard work to pay back all the money, Mathilde looks so old that Jeanne even can’t recognize her when they meet. When Jeanne hears the story, she tells Mathilde the necklace isn’t a real diamond necklace. It is worth 500 francs at most.
Vanity (虚荣)may lead to the loss of ourselves. Accept who we are ! 69. Be true to ourselves or others, and it will lead us to get happiness.
1.___________________________________________
2.___________________________________________
3.___________________________________________
4.___________________________________________
5.___________________________________________
阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。
The Forbidden City is also called “Zijincheng (purple forbidden city)”. It is the largest and greatest palace in China today. Under Ming Emperor ,people began to build the Forbidden City in 1406,and it took 14 years to finish it.
The palace is 960 meters long from north to south and 750 meters wide from east to west. It has 9,900 rooms under a total roof area 150,000 square meters. A 52-meter-wide-moat（护城河） encircles a 9.9 –meter- high wall which encloses the complex(综合设施).
The Forbidden City in Beijing was the emperors’ palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Though its walls are red and its roofs are yellow, the palace’s name mentions the color purple. How did it get this name? In fact, this has more to do with what the palace stands for than what it looks like.
The character “ zi ” refers to (指代) the Ziwei star. According to ancient Chinese astronomy (天文学), the Ziwei star was surrounded (包围) by 28 other stars, meaning it was the heart of the sky. People believed that the palace of the God Emperor, which is called Ziweigong, or Ziwei palace, was located on this star.
Chinese emperors were believed to be the sons of the God Emperor. It was believed that their palace on the earth should be like the Ziweigong in the sky. That’s how the Forbidden City got its name.
In Chinese culture, the color purple stands for good luck. This belief began with Laozi, the founder of Taoism (道教) who lived around 2,500 years ago. One day, when Laozi was traveling through the Hangu Pass (函谷关) in Henan from the east, a purple mist suddenly appeared in the air. This “purple air from the east” (紫气东来) story led people to connect the color to great sages (圣人), and it also stands for nobility (高贵).
1.When did people finish building The Forbidden City?
2.Does the name of “Zijincheng” have more to do with what it looks like?
3.How wide is the moat which encircles the high wall?
4.Where was the God Emperor’s palace located according to ancient Chinese belief?
5.What does the color “purple” stand for in Chinese culture?
