My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden, I remember Dad pushing the tiller ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow corns, and our favorite—red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn't get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids grew up and had started families of our own, Dad turned to gardening like ever before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was leaving us was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after his leave, I couldn't even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
1.________ are not mentioned in the second paragraph.
A.Green beans B.Yellow corns C.Red tomatoes D.Yellow onions
2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the third paragraph?
A.The writer was tired of gardening when he grew up.
B.As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared.
C.When Dad was diagnosed with cancer, he never took care of his garden.
D.Dad was used to gardening although his children started their own families.
3.What does the underlined word "invaded" mean in Chinese?
A.滋养 B.侵害 C.包围 D.吞并
4.How can the writer convince that his father was leaving?
A.His father was still able to weed corns.
B.His father only planted watermelons.
C.His father liked eating his favorite food.
D.Various vegetables were gone.
5.What can we know from the last paragraph?
A.The writer's son liked playing in the garden.
B.The writer's son will continue gardening as well.
C.The writer's son reminded him of his own father.
D.The writer's son will be happy to be a gardener.
每年的6月6日是我国的“爱眼日(Sight Day)”，可见保护中小学生的视力非常重要。请以“My ideas on protecting eyes”为题并根据以下要点和要求用英语写一篇短文，谈谈你对保护视力重要性的认识和建议。
1. 要点：1)保护视力的重要性；
2)对保护视力的建议；
3)呼吁大家保护视力。
2. 要求：1)文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；
2)词数100左右。
My ideas on protecting eyes
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Do you know how we can keep healthy? 1. is some advice for you.
First, remember that illness is from our mouths. We 2. get stomachache when we eat dirty food. Eating too much meat is also bad for our health while eating lots of vegetables is good. So we should eat less meat but more vegetables.
Second, we should have a good rest when we feel tired. As students, we study for a long time at school, so we must go to bed early 3. night. Sleeping well is good for our health.
Third, we should go to see a doctor when we are sick. Besides, 4. also important to lie down on the bed to take a rest and take the medicine on time.
Finally, we should know 5. importance of doing sports. We should go out to exercise and breathe fresh air every day.
[素材选自English in Mind Book 1]
野外求生
On 24 December, 1971, 17yearold Juliane KÖpcke got on a plane with her mother in Lima, Peru, to fly to another city to meet her father.
Over the Amazon jungle, there was a heavy rain. The rain fell heavily and there was a strong wind. And then lightning hit the_____ at 3,000 metres, and it exploded. Juliane fell _____ through the air in her seat and hit the trees hard. For three hours, she was unconscious. When she woke up, her right arm was cut, her shoulder hurt badly and she couldn't see in one _____. She was alone. But she was alive.
Juliane's father was a biologist. When she was small, he_____ her how to survive in the jungle. She found a small _____ and walked slowly along it. "If I follow the river," she thought, "I'll find people." The river also gave her clean water to _____. It was very hot, but the river water kept her _____. Sometimes she had to swim in the river _____ it was too deep to walk in. There were crocodiles in the water but they didn't attack her! There was fruit on some trees but she didn't eat it—she knew it was too _____.
Juliane_____ for ten days. At night she stopped to sleep because it was too _____ to walk. Ten days after the _____, she found a small house by the river. There were some woodcutters in the house. They gave her hot food to eat. The next day, a plane took her safely back to the city of Pucallpa.
Juliane was the only person_____ survived the accident. The other 91 people, _____ her mother, all died.
The film director, Werner Herzog, had a plan _____ on the plane but missed it. Thirty years later, he made a film called Wings of Hope about Juliane and her unbelievable story.
1.A.bus B.plane C.bike D.car
2.A.luckily B.safely C.quickly D.kindly
3.A.mouth B.ear C.nose D.eye
4.A.taught B.ordered C.allowed D.refused
5.A.river B.mountain C.beach D.forest
6.A.eat B.drink C.cook D.boil
7.A.dry B.warm C.cool D.thirsty
8.A.because B.unless C.although D.until
9.A.believable B.convenient C.dangerous D.difficult
10.A.slept B.cheered C.remained D.walked
11.A.dark B.dirty C.harmful D.boring
12.A.journey B.accident C.result D.failure
13.A.what B.which C.who D.whom
14.A.between B.behind C.including D.about
15.A.travel B.to travel C.travelled D.travelling
No matter who you are, you need sleep. 1. While sleeping, the body recovers and rests. Throughout the day, we push our bodies to work as much as we need. At night, sleep allows our bodies to return to usual state. Our organs take turns resting, and our bodies fight off illness. In addition, our brains create dreams so that we can let go of mental stress. However, not everyone is able to sleep soundly.
2. They can be caused by physical problems. Some sleeping disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal body functioning. The most common one is snoring. In fact, everyone at some point in their lives snores.3. Therefore, when air passes through the smaller opening, it causes the throat to vibrate, which in turn leads to snoring. Snoring is not a serious problem, but it can disrupt the sleep of the snorers and their bed partners.
Other sleeping disorders that are often mentioned are sleep without breathing, sleep-loving and being sleepless.4. It occurs when the brain fails to tell the body to breathe or something gets in the way of the throat.
Sleep-loving is a nervous system disorder that causes extreme sleepiness during the day. As a result, the person can suddenly go from being fine to being very weak, dreaming while awake, or even falling asleep.5. Like snoring, it is very common, but seriously being sleepless may even stop a person from sleeping completely and it is always dangerous. Reasons for being sleepless can be different, but whatever the causes are, learning to relax helps people sleep better.
A.Sleeping disorders are common.
B.Trouble falling or staying asleep is called being sleepless.
C.It happens when the throat is not kept open enough while sleeping.
D.It is something that all animals and humans must get in order to be alive.
E.Sleep without breathing is when someone stops breathing while sleeping.
Sore necks are very common these days. How to avoid a sore neck? Here are the things you should know.
Take precautions after an unusual activity. Many people report having a pain in their necks after doing something that they don't often do, such as a new exercise or packing and moving.
If you know you've done something that puts you a risk, massage your neck, do it with different exercises and take a warm bath before bed.
Make sure your workstation is correct. If you work long hours at a desk, you may want to make sure that your work environment is set up to be the most relaxing. Make sure that your body is being treated right.
Keep your feet on the floor. This will often depend on how high your chair is, so adjust it in time to achieve good results.
Change your posture often. Sitting in one position for long periods of time is not healthy. Sit with your back straight for most of the time. Take a 5minute break if you can and walk around every hour.
Exercise. Find something like swimming, running or climbing that makes you excited and feel alive. Make it into a usual way. Your body will feel better and your mind will feel more relaxed.
1.After doing something unusual, you may do the following things except ________.
A.doing it with different exercises B.massaging your neck
C.taking a warm bath before bed D.looking at your phone for too long
2.What does the underlined word "it" refer to?
A.The desk. B.The chair. C.Your neck. D.Your body.
3.What does the underlined word "posture" mean in Chinese?
A.姿势 B.方向 C.方式 D.状态
4.Which of the following can avoid a sore back according to the text?
A.Making your work environment quiet.
B.Sitting with back straight for a moment.
C.Packing and moving for a long time.
D.Exercising often like swimming or running.
5.What does the text mainly tell us?
A.How to do exercise well. B.Exercising often is good for people.
C.How to avoid a sore neck. D.Being healthy is the most important.
