“目标”在人们成长的路上发挥着重要的作用，在高三尤为重要。请你结合自身实际，按以下提示，准备一篇英语发言稿，在英语课上与同学们作交流。
目标的重要性；
如何设立目标；
谈谈你的近期目标；
如何实现你的目标。
注意：
1. 词数120左右，开头语已为你写好；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear classmates,
It’s a great honor to have a chance to speak here. Today I’d like to share my thought about goals with you.
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Wish you to realize your dreams. That’s all. Thank you!
Chengdu is a famous city with long history. Locating in the southwest of China, it is the capital city of Sichuan Province, it is called “the Land of Abundance”. It is said that Chengdu got its name over 2000 years ago and it had never changed since then. There is a large number of famous cultural sites and delicious snacks there, which have always been attraction to tourists from around the world. Tourists go not only to see the historical sites and to taste the snacks, but also because that it has beautiful scenery. A walk at the sides of the beautiful Jinjiang River will offer a feast for anyone’s eyes. In a word, Chengdu, as a famous saying goes, is a city where you don’t want to leave once you have come.
They say that "seeing is believing", but when it comes to TV commercials, this is not always the case.
The world's leading mobile phone maker, Nokia, released its latest model Lumia 920 on Sept. 5. The smart phone was supposed to possess an advanced camera, which let customers shoot better pictures at night and record stabilized videos. To show how well these features work, the Finnish company released an ad showing a man and a woman riding bicycles side by side, with the man taking a video of the woman on the phone. However, several hours later, technology website The Verge uncovered that the video was neither shot with the new product, nor shot from someone riding a bicycle. Instead, someone in a lorry next to the woman took the video using a professional video camera.
The next day Nokia apologized, "In an effort to demonstrate the benefits of visual image stabilization, we produced a video that simulates（看起来像）what we will be able to deliver." Indeed, what we have seen in ads is more or less a simulation——a practice called "advertising photography".
McDonald's video in June explained the "art". It showed how its burgers get dolled up（装扮）before going on camera. Like models preparing for a magazine cover shoot, burgers also get designed in a photography studio. They are prepared for hours and put together with absolute precision so they look their best before photo shoots. Each ingredient, such as onions and sauce, is carefully put into place to make the burger look much juicier, bigger and tastier. Computer software Photoshop is also used to add visual effects.
So don't feel ____________________when you get a burger that never looks like what you see in ads.
1. What do the underlined words "the case" in Paragraph l refer to? （within 5 words）
2. For what purpose did Nokia create the video? （within 8 words）
3.Why did Nokia apologize based on the text? （within 10 words）
4.Why does the author give the example of McDonald's video in Paragraph 4? （within 10 words）
5.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words.（within 2 words）
--- Good evening. Grandma’s Restaurant. May I help you?
--- Good evening. ___1.___.
--- Thank you. May I have your name, Miss?
--- Mary Brown.
--- ____2.____.
--- I’d like to order the “Free Matching Dinner for 2”.
--- Yes, you may choose two soups, two drinks and four main courses from the menu.
--- ____3.____.
--- Are you ready? What Kind of soup do you want?
--- Chicken soup and tomato soup.
--- ____4.____
--- I’d like a plate of noodles, two chicken wings. Some beef and a bowl of rice.
--- ____5.____
--- A coke and some green tea, please.
--- May I have your address, please?
--- Sure, Kingston Court, Belair Cardens, Shatin.
--- Okay, let me see.
A. May I book a table in your restaurant for tonight?
B. I would like to order some food for dinner.
C. Miss Brown, please tell me your order.
D. How about your main courses?
E. Would you like some drinks?
F. Okay. Let me see.
G. And your drinks?
Summer school is something a kid will never forget. For some, it's a way to advance past their classmates. For most, summer school is a requirement in order to graduate with their classmates. I can remember being forced into taking a summer school course. It was not the school that forced me into this awkward situation, it was my mother.
I was a 16-year-old kid in a new school. My school did not offer summer courses so I had to take my course at an alternative school in the city. It was an experience I will never forget. I was not concerned with making friends. I was there to get credit（学分）for a course that I should have received for the previous semester. It was my doing that landed me in the situation and it was important that I understood this.
The fees were the lowest but the experience was amazing. I enjoyed I didn’t miss the day. The course was from Monday to Friday for an entire month. I passed the course with an A. I was thrown into an awkward situation but actually enjoyed it. My friends didn't even know I took the course. Most of them were still sleeping by the time my course ended each day.
Awkward situations are so important for personal growth. This situation made me feel more independent. I made friends. I finally understood what sacrifice and hard work were all about. While attending college, I remembered how much I enjoyed summer school and I chose to take summer school in my first three years of college. Some kids get pushed too much but some don't get pushed enough. I was never pushed enough.
Enable your children to struggle for success. If your child needs summer school you explain to them why it's important. Some parents are surprised by the situation and may want to be more involved in their children’s education. Follow through and follow up.
1.Most students go to the summer school in order to ____.
A. find good jobs
B. become top students in their class
C. have a chance to make more friends
D. graduate successfully on time
2.What made the author go to summer school for the first time?
A. What he had done. B. His mother's wish.
C. His own requirement. D. Study competition.
3.Which of the following was NOT the benefit got by the author through attending summer school?
A. It helped him get rid of bad habits.
B. It helped him make new friends.
C. It helped him understand what sacrifice and hard work were.
D. It increased his independence.
4.From the last paragraph we can learn that the author _______.
A. does not like summer school at all even though it is useful
B. thinks summer school is unnecessary for children
C. encourages parents to make their children attend summer school
D. is against forcing children to attend summer school
Face masks are commonly used in ceremonies and performances. They not only hide the real face of the mask wearer but they often evoke powerful emotions in the audience—danger, fear, sadness, joy. You might think, because so many things vary cross-culturally, that the ways in which emotions are displayed and recognized in the face vary too. Apparently they do not. Recent research on masks from different cultures supports the conclusion that masks, like faces, tend to represent certain emotions in the same ways. We now have some evidence that the symbolism used in masks is often universal.
The research on masks builds on work done by anthropologists, who used photographs of individuals experiencing various emotions. These photographs were shown to members of different cultural groups who were asked to identify the emotions displayed in the photographs. Emotions were identified correctly by most viewers, whatever the viewer’s native culture.
Coding schemes were developed to enable researchers to compare the detailed facial positions of individual portions of die face (eyebrows, mouth, etc.) for different emotions. What exactly do we do when we scowl? We contract the eyebrows and lower the corners of the mouth; in geometric terms, we make angles and diagonals (斜线) on our faces. When we smile, we raise the corners of the mouth; we make it curved.
Psychologist Joel Arnoff and his colleagues compared two types of wooden face masks from many different societies—masks described as threatening versus masks associated with nonthreatening functions. As suspected, the two sets of masks had significant differences in certain facial elements. The threatening masks had eyebrows and eyes facing inward and downward and a downward-facing mouth. In more abstract or geometrical terms, threatening features generally tend to be angular or diagonal and nonthreatening features tend to be curved or rounded, a face with a pointed beard is threatening; a baby's face is not. The theory is that humans express and recognize basic emotions in uniform (一致的) ways because all human faces are quite similar, skeletally and muscularly.
1.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The techniques for comparing facial expressions across cultures.
B. The photography of faces.
C. Cultural variations in mask.
D. The uniformity of facial expressions in revealing emotions.
2.According to the passage, masks are used in performances to _______.
A. disguise the real emotions of the performers
B. cause members of the audience to have strong emotions
C. remind the audience that an illusion is being created
D. identify the cultural background of the performers
3.What does the author mean by stating, "the symbolism used in masks is often universal"?
A. Masks are sometimes used to hide emotions.
B. Performers often need help conveying emotions to an audience.
C. Not all societies use masks in their rituals.
D. People from different cultures generally express certain emotions in similar ways.
4.The passage mentions "baby’s face" in the last paragraph as an example of a _______.
A. typical human face
B. source of inspiration in the creation of masks
C. nonthreatening face
D. face that expresses few emotions
