Mrs Wang looks excited because many students have already come to her ________(九十) birthday party.
Running is an ________(极好的) way to burn off excess energy. Everyone should stand from your seat and take action!
We should manage our time________(明智地) so that we can make great progress.
Doctors and nurses who help to treat the patients in Hubei are all _____(英雄).
No matter how carefully we check a composition(作品), it seems there’s always one more little mistake waiting to be discovered. The following tips may help you find your mistakes before anyone else does.
First of all, give it a rest. If time is allowed, set your composition aside for a few hours after you’ve finished it, and then read it carefully to correct mistakes with fresh eyes.
Secondly, look for one type of problem at a time. Read through your composition a few times, concentrating first on sentence structures, then word choice, then spelling, and at last punctuation. As the saying goes, if you look for trouble, you’re likely to find it.
If you don’t believe in yourself, you can ask a friend for help. Read your composition to him aloud. You can also ask him to read it aloud. You may hear a problem that you can’t see. Your friend can also help you find some mistakes.
Then, try to read your composition backward. Another way to catch spelling mistakes is to read backward, from right to left, starting with the last word in your composition.
Another method that helps writers a lot is to keep a list of the types of mistakes they commonly make, and then use the list each time they correct their works.
1. for checking a composition | |
If time is allowed | Give it a rest. Put your composition aside and read it several hours 2.. So that you can read it with fresh eyes. And read it 3.. |
If you look for trouble, it’s very possible for you to 4. it. | It’s a great idea to read your composition a few times and pay 5. to the following aspects one by one. ※sentence structures ※word choice ※spelling ※punctuation |
If you are not 6.enough | You can ask a friend to 7. you. Read your composition aloud to your friend or ask your friend to read aloud to you. 8. you can hear a problem that you can’t see. |
More tips | Read the composition backward to catch 9. mistakes. Keep a list of the types of 10. mistakes. |
Antarctica (南极洲) is the fifth largest continent on Earth. It is also the coldest, windiest, driest and highest. It is an ice-covered place where no large plants grow, and no land animals live there. Antarctica covers an area of more than 13.6 million square kilometres. It is nearly twice the size of Australia, or one-and-a-half times the size of the United States of America.
Antarctica does not belong to one country, and it has no government. People visit Antarctica – usually as tourists, or to do scientific research – but no one lives there all the time.
Antarctica was the last place to be discovered. It is not certain who first saw Antarctica, but sailors began to map Antarctica’s coast from their ships in the 1800s. The first proved landing was in the mid-1890s.
Over the next few years, several men tried but failed to reach the South Pole, which is the Earth’s southernmost point.
Finally, a team led by Norwegian Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911. By then, countries around the world were becoming more and more interested in the frozen place, and soon Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom had laid claim（声称）to parts of Antarctica.
As so many nations had made a claim to govern in Antarctica, it was clear that fighting might break out. Diplomats(外交官) from different countries wanted to stop a war from starting, so they began talking about a treaty for Antarctica. A treaty is a written agreement signed by two or more nations.
Several countries had already set up research stations in Antarctica where scientists could live and work. Most scientists worked during the summer months when it was not as cold as in winter. Scientists hoped a treaty would allow them to continue their work and to exchange information with scientists from other countries.
Answer the following questions. (No more than six words)
1.What’s the area of Antarctica?
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2.When did sailors begin to map Antarctica’s coast from their ships?
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3.What do we call the Earth’s northernmost point?
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4.How many nations had laid claim to parts of Antarctica?
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5.Why did diplomats from different countries begin talking about a treaty for Antarctica?
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