Each of us shares this planet with seven billion others． People and products need to move from city to city and country to country． However， most cars， motorcycles， boats and planes cause air pollution1.This is a serious problem． So inventors are coming up with creative ideas to reduce the pollution and noise．
Motorcycles are a faster and cheaper way to get around a city than cars．2.To solve this problem， a company designed an environmentally friendly motorcycle． It uses electricity so there is no pollution．
3.There are no cars in the city center． Instead of cars， water taxis and buses carry people around the city． However， they cause pollution． English engineers Dick and Jem designed a solar﹣powered water taxi．
Planes also cause air and noise pollution．4.Some airplane companies have started to solve the problems． Swiss engineers have gone one step further．5. This plane holds the world record for the longest solar﹣powered flight﹣1，541 kilometers．
A.They developed a solar airplane．
B.Designing an environmentally friendly airplane is a real challenge．
C.Yet air pollution is a growing problem．
D.They are also noisy．
E.The Italian city of Venice is a city with only a few roads．
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There are some skills for students to listen to the teacher in class, which means you're going to have to practice it. Just as you would have to practice basketball to be a better player, you also have to practice listening. How to listen in school? 1.
One of the things you need to do is to make sure that your mind doesn't wander (漫游). It's easy to start thinking about other things, especially when you're not interested in the subject. 2.
Next, listen for the main ideas. If you want to catch every little piece of information, you'll feel tired and bored.
3. Not only does this show respect (尊敬) to the teacher, it also helps prevent your mind from wandering. 4. Or it could just be someone talking to their neighbors who shouldn't be. It can even be some birds outside the classroom window, or a group of kids who are talking loudly as they pass the door to your room.
Finally, you need to take notes because you will not remember everything the teacher said. You'll have to take down the notes so that you can study it after class. 5.
Listening isn't always easy, but if you follow these simple steps, you’ll be much more successful in your classes.
A.Here are some suggestions.
B.You'll also need to look at the teacher.
C.So make yourself pay attention to what the teacher is saying.
D.Taking notes also makes you pay attention to the class.
E.It might be a friend who is trying to pass you a note.
Joan and Kate were neighbors. 1. Joan fussed over (过分担心) her plants and looked after them all day. Kate did what was required but left leaves of plants to grow as they pleased.
2. The next morning, Joan found the storm made her plants fall down. Her garden was in a mess. However, Kate found the storm did something bad to her plants, but they were still firmly rooted.
The plants of Kate’s had learnt to do things on their own. 3. They had grown deep roots, and made a place for themselves in the soil. As a result, they had stood firmly even in the storm. 4. She got used to caring for the plants day and night, but not teaching them how to sustain (维持) on their own.
Children are just like the plants. 5. Unless parents stop making so much fuss over the children, nothing will work on its own.
A.So they had done their bit of work.
B.One night, there was a heavy rainstorm.
C.They grew the same plants in the gardens.
D.Sooner or later, they have to become independent.
E.However, Joan thought it was her job to do everything.
A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was happy when he saw the sky filled with colorful kites. He wanted to fly a kite, too 1.
The son started to fly the kite. 2..After a while，the son said, “Father，it seems that the string(线）is stopping the kite from flying higher. If we cut it, it will be free and fly even higher. Can we cut it?” The father cut the string off of the reel (线轴).3..This made the little boy happy.
4. It soon fell to the ground. The son was surprised to see this. He asked his father, “I thought that after cutting the string, the kite would fly higher. Why did it fall down?”
The father explained, “5. ，but it was helping it stay in the sky. You helped the kite go up in the right direction using the string. But when you cut the string, it could no longer support the kite.”
We may sometimes feel like there are certain things that are holding us back and stopping us from growing. But in fact, these might be the things that support us the most.
A.The kite started to. go higher.
B.The string was not stopping the kite from going higher.
C.Soon it was high up in the sky.
D.The father then bought a kite for his son.
E.But then the kite started to come down slowly.
请根择校刊English Garden中Have Your Say栏目的征稿要求,以"Love around me"为题,用英语一篇短文,发表你的想法。
Welcome to Have Your Say
As everybody knows, love makes the world go around. So this week, I want your voice about the topic "Love around me"。
What do you think of love in your daily life? Can you give us some examples about love around you? What are you going to show you your love to others? I'm sure that you have a lot to say.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
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1. 对所有要点逐一陈述,适当发挥;
2. 词数80左右,文章开头已经给出,不计入总词数;
3. 文中不得提及有关考生的个人身份的任何信息,如校名、人名等。
I'm glad to share my ideas about the topic "Love around me". As everybody knows, love makes the world go around. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Smile Train is a charity that helps the children around the world, who suffer from a facial defect (缺陷) .The defect h1. when a baby's top lip or mouth doesn't form properly before birth. Eating and drinking is very difficult for these babies. The charity p2. free operations, which give these children a new smile, and with it, new hope and a new beginning.
Children with the defect need all the help. A3. many of them are accepted by their families, sadly, others are not. In some countries, children with this defect are often abandoned (遗弃) at birth because their parents feel ashamed (羞愧的) of them or cannot a4. the operations. The good news is that the operation is not difficult. It takes less than an hour and c5. the family nothing. The charity raises money and finds the right medical volunteers to perform the operations.
A Smile Train doctor from the UK said, “Each child who has the operation is given a second c6. at life. After years of staying at home, the children can finally go to school and be happy. Every year I do hundreds of operations free of cost through Smile Train. Some of the stories I have heard are quite s7. . One newborn baby girl was found abandoned on a train. L8. for her, she was found and adopted (收养) by a passenger. This lady then heard about Smile Train and brought the baby to our hospital. I did the operation and brought h9. to the family. Experienced doctors like me share our s10. with local doctors. In this way we make sure that these operations will always be available.
