Hi, Daisy,
I am wandering why you haven’t showed up online for such a long time.
I’m sorry to know that your mother is ______（严重地） 1.___________
ill in hospital. ______________ is no doubt that this affects 2.___________
your life greatly. I understand ____________ you are feeling 3.________
at the moment and I truly wish that I could be _____ any help. 4._____
Life can be hard at times. We had no c______ but to meet it. 5.______
No matter what h_________, you need to remain optimistic 6.______
and t_______________ what you can to help your parents. 7.______
It is by meeting ___________(困难) and overcoming them 8._____
that one learns how to survive. Besides, be k_____ to yourself. 9._________
I believe your mother will be all right ___________ long. 10._____
Hope we can talk soon.
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1.___________ her mother came to help her for the first few months _____ she _____ to begin her project.
她母亲头几个月来帮她的忙，这才使她得以开始自己的计划。
2.For forty years Jane Goodall has been _________ about making the rest of the world understand and _______ the life of these animals.
40年来，简·古道尔一直在呼吁世人了解并尊重这些动物的生活。
3.She has ______ that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for ______________ or advertisements.
她主张应该让野生动物留在野外生活，而不能用于娱乐或广告。
4.___________ his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to _____ the world ______ hunger.
多亏了他的研究，联合国在消除世界饥饿的战斗中又多了些方法。
5.Yuan Longping is quite ________ with his life. However, he doesn’t care about ______________.
袁隆平很满意自己的生活。但他对自己的成名并不关心。
6.This ________ was a social _______ but was loved for his optimism and determination to ________ all difficulties.
这个角色是个社会中的失败者，但是他的乐观精神和战胜困难的决心使得他深受（观众的）喜爱。
7.Charlie Chaplin worte, _________, and produced the ilms he _________ in.
卓别林自编、自导、自制他主演的电影。
1.You didn’t tell me you could sing so well—you’re very m .
2.C is difficult when two people don’t speak the same language.
3.She has a big family to （赡养）.
4.Please be more （考虑周到的）and don’t play loud music late at night.
5.The business has (扩展) a big one.
6.Each classroom in our school is e______ with a computer, which is good for our study.
7.Would you mind writing a s of the passage? About 200 words are OK.
8.At that time the British pound can e ＄2.80.
9.She (耳语) a warning to me and then disappeared.
10.Can the o scientist win the national prize for science?
Students who date (约会）in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
"Romantic relationships are a trademark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships," said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior.
Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from 6th to 12th grade.
Each year, the group of students completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires (调查表）about the students* academic efforts. He found some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school.
"At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills,” according to the journal article. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit，being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters.
"Dating a classmate may have the same emotional complications of dating a co-worker," Orpinas said, "when the couple break up. they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps witness the ex-partner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this could be linked to depression and divert (转移）attention from studying.”
Dating should not be considered a ceremony of growth in middle school，”Orpinas concluded.
1.When doing his study, Orpinas_____.
A．followed a group of students of 6th and 12th grade
B．completed a survey and a report each year
C．completed questionnaires about the students’ academic efforts
D．found that the students’ study skills have connection with their frequency of dating
2.Study skills may include the following behaviors and qualities Except_____
A．being diligent B．being well organized
C．being kind and helpful D．finishing assigned schoolwork
3.What can possibly happen to the school couples after they break up?
A．They don’t want to see each other any longer.
B．Their attention to studying will be affected.
C．They will miss their ex-partners sometimes
D．They will think it’s reasonable to get depressed.
4.Orpinas’attitude towards dating in middle school is_____
A．supportive B．positive C．negative D．indifferent
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught in school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.
1.Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?
A．She couldn’t get admitted to medical school
B．She decided to further her education in Paris
C．A serious eye problem stopped her
D．It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States
2.What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming for a doctor?
A．She was a woman.
B．She wrote too many letters.
C．She couldn’t graduate from medical school.
D．She couldn’t set up her hospital.
3.According to the passage, all of the following are “firsts” in the life of Elizabeth Blacekwell,except that she ______.
A．became the first woman physician
B．was the first woman doctor
C．and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children
D．set up the first medical school for women
4.Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her lift in _______.
A．England B．Paris C．the United States D．New York City
Check out all the new releases (发布) in the next four weeks.
Wednesday 16 march
Chalet Girl (12A )Watch the Trailer (预告片)
A British comedy about a girl who decides to give up her job at a fried chicken fast food place to try out being a chalet (木屋) girl in the Alps. Starring Bill Nighy and Ed Westwick.
Friday 18 March
Submarine (15)
A comedy following a teenager who wants to lose his virginity and stop his father from leaving his mother. Directed by Richard Ayoade.
Friday 25 March
Country Strong (12A) Watch the Trailer
Rising country music songwriter (Garrett Hedlund) falls in love with a fallen star (Gwyneth Paltrow), and together they plan his rising and her comeback.
A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures (3D) (U)
A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years travelling the world as it changes through global warming.
Friday 1 April
Killing Bono (15) Watch the Trailer
Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest hand in the world.
Passenger Side (D)
Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on whom you believe.
Friday 8 April
The Silent House
A horror movie based on a true story about a small house in a village in Uruguay which holds some dark secrets
Rio (3D) Watch the trailer
An animated film about a domesticated (家养的) macaw (金刚鹦鹉) from Minnesota who sets off on an adventure.
1.If you like seeing the 3D films, you can choose to see ______.
A．The Silent House and Rio B．Submarine and Passenger Side
C．A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures and Rio D．Killing Bono and Country Strong
2.If you want to see a horrible film, you can see _______.
A．The Silent House B．Country Strong C．Killing Bono D．Rio
3.Which of the following films is a love film?
A．A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures B．Passenger Side
C．Killing Bono D．Country strong
4.The common point of all the films is that ______.
A．they are all set in Britain B．they will all be released in March
C．they are all new films D．they are all produced in Hollywood
