I am disappointed because I ______________my favourite writer yet.
A. didn’t see B. haven’t seen C. don’t see D. have not been seeing
请根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
Failure is the mother of success. What failure to us is what sunshine to the trees.
注意：①无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
④词数为120左右。
阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
1._________________ most was that there were so many kinds of rare species. （amaze）
最让我惊叹的是有这么多种珍稀物种。
2.It was the first time that I ___________ the movie, and I fell in love with it at once. (watch)
那是我第一次看这部电影，我一下子就爱上了它。
3.Animals rights fighters demand that animals_______________ in the same way as human beings.(treat)
动物权利斗士们要求，动物要像人一样被对待。
4.Jack went to school on foot this morning, because his bike ______________. (repair)
杰克今天早上步行到校，因为他的自行车在被修理。
5.This is ___________________that nobody can move it. (so)
这是如此沉重的箱子没人能挪动它。
6.What’s the name of the tall man ____________?(come)
刚才进来的高个男人叫什么名字？
7.It was my sister ____________________ to cycle along the Mekong River. (idea)
是我的姐姐最先有沿着湄公河骑行的想法。
8.To be honest, a lot of people _____________________being rich and famous.(attach)
老实说，许多人认为成名变富很重要。
9.Only then ______________________ answer violence with violence. (decide)
仅仅那时我们才决定以暴制暴。
10.Later, they gave performances in pubs or clubs, for ______________ in cash.(pay)
后来，他们到酒馆或俱乐部去表演，这样他们获得了现金收入。
Chinese parents are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize, though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them,tying to fix them ,your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
1.Parents in China according to this passage .
A. are too strict with their children
B. are too rich to educate their children
C. have some problems in educating their children correctly
D. have no problems in educating their children strictly
2.The writer of the passage does not seem to be satisfied with .
A. the parents’ ideas of educating their children
B. the education system of the school
C. children’s skills in cooking at home
D. children’s hobbies in the classroom
3.Doing some cooking at home helps children .
A. learn how to serve their parents
B. learn how to become strong and fat
C. get a lot from it and prepare themselves for the future
D. make their parents believe that they are clever
4.According to the last paragraph we can conclude that .
A. broken radios and television sets are useful
B. one’s interest and curiosity may be useful for his later life
C. an engineer must fix many broken radios
D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios
Britons Learn to Forgive
LEEDS, England—A Leeds University psychology(心理学) professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Britons forgive their enemies.
“The hatred (仇恨) we hold within us is a cancer,” Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
More than 70 people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London—a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.
These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian-born Hart.
The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.
The course ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. “People have lots of negative attitudes towards forgiveness,” he said. “People confuse（混淆） forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one.” Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.
“The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with, ”said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.
Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people “want to get free of the past”.
1.From this passage we know that .
A. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred
B. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors
C. without hatred, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart
D. people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies
2.In Hart’s first 20-week workshop, people there can .
A. meet their enemies
B. change their minds
C. enjoy the professor’s speech
D. learn how to quarrel with others
3.If you are a member in Hart’s workshop, you’ll .
A. pay much money to Hart
B. go to the workshop every night
C. attend a gathering every fortnight
D. pour out everything stored in your mind
4.The author wrote this passage in order to .
A. persuade us to go to Hart’s workshop
B. tell us the news about Hart’s workshop
C. tell us how to run a workshop like Hart’s
D. help us to look at various kinds of angers
If you do not use your arm or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault(过错). But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame(受责备), and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: Practice remembering.
1.The main reason for one’s poor memory is that _______.
A. his memory is not often used
B. he does not use his name or legs for some time
C. his father or mother may have a poor memory
D. he can’t read or write
2.If you do not use your arms or legs for some time _______.
A. you can’t use them any more
B. they will become stronger
C. they will become neither stronger nor weaker
D. they become weak and won’t become strong until you use them again
3.Some people can’t read or write, but they usually have better memories, because _______.
A. they have saved much trouble
B. they have saved much time to remember things
C. they have to use their memories all the time
D. they can’t write everything in a little notebook
4.Which is the best title for this passage?
A. Don’t Stop Using Your Arms or Legs
B. How to Have a Good Memory
C. Strong Arms and Good Memories
D. Learn From the People
