Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia(栀子花)was sent to my house. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped trying to find out the sender's name and was just pleased with the beautiful flower, in soft pink paper.
I couldn't stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming(幻想)about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She'd ask me if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates. Perhaps it was the old man who I once helped. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met.
A month before my high school graduation(毕业),my father died. I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my coming graduation dance, and I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.
My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
1.The writer received ________ on her birthday since she was 11.
A.a white gardenia B.a card C.a card and soft pink paper
2.The writer was very ________when she was imagining who sent the flower.
A.happy B.sad C.worried
3.It can be inferred(推断)from the passage that ________.
A.the writer didn't get a new dress for the dance
B.the writer probably joined in the graduation dance
C.the writer's father died ten years earlier than her mother
4.The writer got the gardenias from ________ on her birthdays.
A.the old man B.the boy C.her mother
5.The passage mainly talks about ________.
A.what a gardenia meant
B.what a girl dreamed about
C.how a mother loved her children
I'm sure you all know how important recycling is. Recycling is that you take old things and turn them into new things. It sounds like magic. But it's actually very scientific.
Material | The first thing you have to do is to collect items(物品) that can be recycled. Only certain materials can be recycled. These include things made out of paper, metal, glass and plastic. |
Daily things | Can you think of everyday items made of these materials? Soda cans are good example. They are made out of metal. Magazines and newspaper are made out of paper. So are milk boxes. Some bottles of juice are made out of glass. Bags and yogurt containers are made out of plastic. There are many things that can be recycled. |
Loop(循环) | These things are usually stamped with the recycling loop. It has 3 arrows that go in a triangular(三角形)circle. This shows that cycle(循环)continues. Items are thrown away but continue their lives as something else. |
Process(过程) | Let's go back to the process of recycling. ①The items are put in a recycling bin. ②A truck carries the items to a recycling plant. ③The materials are separated and squashed (被压扁成)into square cubes. ④Companies buy and turn them into new products. |
1.What is "recycling" according to the passage?
A.It's a scientific research.
B.It's a way of burning old things.
C.It's a way to make old things useful.
2.Which material is not mentioned in the passage?
A.Rubber. B.Glass. C.Plastic.
3.You can put your old things into a recycling bin except ________.
A.soda cans B.magazines C.all bottles
4.The"3 arrows" shows that the items ________.
A.have some valuable stamps B.are recycled and reused C.are in a triangle circle
5.The passage is mainly about ________.
A.recyclable materials B.recyclable daily things C.recycling in a scientific way
Thanksgiving Day was coming. A teacher gave her class an interesting task一to draw a picture of something to express their ______.
The teacher thought most of her ______ would draw turkey or some other traditional food of the festival. And so they did. But Douglas made a ______ kind of picture.
Douglas was a child of unhappiness. ______ other children played together, Douglas always stood close by his teacher's side.
His picture was special. When he was asked to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a hand! ______ else. Just an empty hand.
His work caught the attention of his classmates. Whose hand could it be? Some guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers raised turkeys, others guessed it was the hand of God, because God helped everyone. The discussions ______, and they even forgot to ask the artist himself.
When the discussion stopped, the teacher asked Douglas whose hand it was. The little boy said in a low voice, "It's ______, teacher."
She got surprised at his words. Then she ______ that she often took his hand. Sometimes she said, "Douglas, take my hand, we'll go outside." Sometimes she said, "Let me show you how to hold your pencil." And she ______ said, "Let's do this together."
Her eyes were full of tears. She had done these to all her students. She didn't know these were so ______ to him. She hugged Douglas and decided to give him more love.
1.A.requests B.thanks C.opinions
2.A.friends B.neighbors C.students
3.A.different B.bright C.modern
4.A.After B.When C.Until
5.A.Nothing B.Anything C.Everything
6.A.went away B.went on C.went up
7.A.hers B.mine C.yours
8.A.remembered B.forgot C.agreed
9.A.never B.hardly C.usually
10.A.important B.polite C.difficult
When you see the sign"________", you can't take photos.
A. B. C.
Your hair is too long. You'd better ________it________.
A.have; cut B.have; cutting C.have; to cut
The shape of the computer looks very ________and of course sells ________.
A.good; nice B.nice; well C.well; good