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I am a student and part-time waitress in Chicago. 1. (grow) up ,I was used to words such as ”Don't talk to strangers". As 2. result, I don't talk to unknown people at work except taking orders.
One night ,a little old man, probably in his eighties, came in. I took his order and went on my way. But I noticed that he came in week after week. Slowly, I began having short conversations with my new guest, 3. name was Mr. Rodgers, but he insisted that I 4. him Don. learned that he and his wife 5. ( go) to dinner and a movie every Saturday. Since she had died, he carried on the tradition a lone. l began looking forward to him 6.( come) in and telling me his movie reviews
As the 7. (week) went on I began to sit and really talk with Don. We talked about his wife, his days and his son. _8. ( eventual),we began to talk about my dreams and studies.
Since meeting Don ,I have learned that strangers can become friends and that life can he 9. ( much) enjoyable if I make friendly conversations. After all, I became more than just his waitress. I became 10. (he) friend, to。
I'm one of the fortunate ones without much flood impact on my home. Today, I went over to a friend's house to help with the there. The flash flood broke a basement window, the basement up to eight feet A crew of her friends had been pulling up the carpet and moving all morning when I arrived. She asked me to help move _ items out of a back room where the carpet was _ pulled out
There was a three-foot square of in front of a door, and on it sat a tall cactus(仙人掌)in a blue Our friend had asked us to be with that plant .it had been her mother's.
The woman helping me had been there all morning, and she was getting tired and I was ，at one point she asked me to just tell her what to do. I thought, if we could get the floor on that little under the cactus cleaned up, it would make our friend feel So, together we _ the cactus enough to get the mud out from under it ,and I the floor. Then I asked my helper to get some water and get that little square of floor _ . It was small job that I thought would he for her, since she'd worked so much already.
When our friend came back in to us, she was really affected by what we had _ ,andI think our taking so much care with her mom's plant did what I hoped. She shouted , and smiled, and put her hand to her heart. I think n was a for her, just to see one little space so clear of mud
1.A. repair B. decoration C. cleanup D. painting
2.A. filled B. separated C. enlarged D. lifted
3.A. clothing B pictures C. desks D. furniture
4.A. used B. mended C. damaged D. recycled
5.A. still B. already C. even D. ever
6.A. floor B. grass C. blanket D. step
7.A. cup B. pool C. pot D. cupboard
8.A. concerned B. ashamed C. guilty D. careful
9.A. although B. since C. unless D. until
10.A. fresh B. tall C. intelligent D. handsome
11.A. plant B. carpet C. section D. wood
12.A. sadder B. better C. dirtier D. calmer
13.A. planted B. watered C. straightened D. moved
14.A. cleared B. dug C. fulfilled D. covered
15.A. hardly B. nervously C. really D. occasionally
16.A. colorful B. clean C. crowded D. exact
17.A. easy B. accessible C. important D. possible
18.A. call on B. care for C. check on D. turn t
19.A. expected B. offered C. sent D. accomplished
20.A. experience B. relief C. belief D. duty
A strong vocabulary helps develop understanding, communication, and reading ability. _1. Consider the following tips on helping your child develop an impressive vocabulary
Let Your Child Tell the Story
Perhaps you read nightly to your child or take turns doing so. Of course, this is an excellent way to expand reading and vocabulary skills. 2. Then, let your child charge the end of the rope of his imagination wherever his imagination leads
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In short, you need to take an active role. If you want your children's language skills to improve, take their vocabulary questions seriously. When they express curiosity about a word, be sure to teach the correct definition and pronunciation
Correct Mistakes with Care
4. However. it's essential not to scold them when they make such mistakes. Rather, point out what they got right, and then review the proper way to use and or speak the word. The more fun and positive an experience, the more interested and able your children will be in expanding their vocabulary
Do Be Patient
You may need to repeat words and meanings many times before your child fully grasps the concept .This is completely normal 5. Children develop at their own paces .The most important thing is to honor and balance their needs so that learning doesn't become struggle. While you want them to get ahead, you don't want them to develop pressure with trying to do so
A. Try Your Best to Correct Them B. Pay More Attention to Your Kid’s Vocabulary C. It’s natural for children to mispronounce or misuse new words. D. It’s important for children to mispronounce new words while learning. E. That’s why parents should do what they can to help kids learn new words. F. Further, if your neighbor’s child has twice the vocabulary yours does, it’s not worth stressing over. G. However, on occasion, feel free to put the book down and ask your child to create a story to tell you. |
Fort Scott High School English teacher Emily Rountree has been working this semester to raise money for Charity Water, a nonprofit organization , which uses 100 percent of public donations to help fund water projects in places without access to clean drinking water. Her goal was to motivate her students to use their writing in class to make a real world difference. Twelve students got top grades on the project and their articles will be published in the Tribune and online. The money from their writing is of great help.
"Did you know that there are many countries around the world that don't have access to safe drinking water? Just think, that could be your someone in your family. in my English three classes, we are trying to .raise money for Charity Water. Charity 'Water is 3n organization that helps people get water in countries where there is no safe drinking water" , said Tanner Johnson, a student attending Fort Scott High School. clean drinking water. In Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hour every year just walking for water .Women and children are the ones that mainly do the walking. They could he attacked, or get hurt. Whenever they get home the water that they have brought home is unsafe water that. 'has been in swamps, ponds, or rivers .if they had safe drinking water they wouldn’t have that to worry about and they wouldn't be wasting hours of their day. Unsafe drinking water causes many different kinds of diseases that could lead to death.
You could help save someone's life by donating $ 20 so you could help get them some safe drinking water. You can easily donate online at, mycharitywater. org/fshsenglish, or you can send a check payable to Fort Scott High School to Emily Rountree .if you don't help these people then who will?
1.Emily Rountree is working for Charity water ____
A. to set up a nonprofit organization about water
B. to help discover where clean drinking water is
C. to find access to using the public donations
D. to encourage her students to help those in need
2.How can the students bring differences to the world?
A. By donating all their pocket money.
B. By collecting money in their spare time.
C. By giving away their money from writing.
D. By conducting themselves well in class.
3.What does the third paragraph imply?
A. Africa is lacking in water resources.
B. Women do nothing but getting water.
C. People in Africa live a hard life.
D. Rivers in Africa have been polluted.
4.1t can he inferred from the last paragraph that _
A. only a few people participate in the donation
B. it is easy to lend a hand to those in need
C. staff at the website will collect money
D. it is convenient to pay off your check
You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. Doubleday then went on to become a Civil War hero, while baseball became America's beloved national pastime. Not only is that story untrue, it's not even in the ballpark( place for baseball).Doubleday was still at West Point in 1839, and he never claimed to have anything to do with baseball.
In 1907, a special commission(委员会) created by the sporting goods merchant and former major league player A. J. Spalding used weak evidence-namely the claims of one man, mining engineer Abner Graves-to come up with the Doubleday origin story. Cooperstown businessmen and major league officials would rely on the myth's lasting power in the 1930s, when they established the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in the village.
As it turns out, the real history of baseball is a little more complicated than the Doubleday legend. References to games resembling(相似) baseball in the United States date hack to the 18th century .its most direct ancestors appear to be two English games: rounder a( a children's game brought to New England by the earliest colonists) and cricket. By the time of the American Revolution, variations(演变) of such games were being played on schoolyards and college campuses across the country. They became even more popular in newly industrialized cities where men sought work in the mid-19th century-.In September 1845, a group of New York City men founded the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club .One of them would make a new set of rules that would form the basis for modern baseball.
Cartwright's changes made the game faster-paced and more challenging from older games like cricket. In 1846, the Knickerbockers : played the first official game of baseball against a team of cricket players, beginning a new, uniquely American tradition.
1.What can we know according to the first paragraph?
A. Baseball was really invented by Abner Doubleday.
B, Abner Doubleday fought against slaves in the Civil War.
C. Doubleday stayed at West Point for some reason.
D. Doubleday said he had much to do with baseball.
2.Why did the Doubleday origin story come up?
A. Because a special commission was founded.
B. Because Doubleday provided false evidence.
C. Because Abner Craves told a Doubleday story.
D. Because Abner Craves worked with Doubleday.
3.The real history of baseball is _____
A. much simpler than the Doubleday legend
B. that baseball comes from two English games
C. that a children’s game came from New England
D. more interesting than rounder and cricket
4.It can be inferred from the passage that____
A. Doubleday is the most respected in the USA
B. Doubleday must have been an army officer
C. Doubleday in fact came from Britain
D. Doubleday invented rounder and cricket
For years, I thought that my mother would become a Centenarian (百岁老人) , but after 98 years and eight months, she recently died of old age. As it was with my father, her funeral took place in the most peaceful setting of the countryside of rural Washington County. Even after my father died, we continued to think of our parents as one. They were a team in the traditional sense. Church and family were their life- lines. They worked hard, never complaining. They expected to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow.
Once during a conversation with Tom Brokaw, who wrote the best- selling hook The Greatest Generation, I told him, "You left out my parents." They didn’t go off to war, but they belonged to the Greatest Generation. They, too, were part of the foundation that made America truly great. They kept the home fires burning.
Our mother gloried in being a housewife and mother. Having been a teacher in her early adult years, when education was more important than anything else, she gave up her job to raise a family .She was an excellent cook, but she had to cook on a wood stove. There was no refrigerator, nothing electric. But nobody was ever better at making do. In addition to all the household chores and responsibilities, she went to the fields every day to help produce a crop to pay the rent and to provide for the family. She and my dad worked hard to save every penny possible.
They saved ever7 penny to buy a farm late in life. They also saved enough money to live out their respective live with home care without taking up residency in a nursing home. They were fiercely independent. If you had suggested they accept a government transfer payment, they would have spit in your eye.
1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Mother played a great pan in the family.
B. Mother died at the age of 98 years old.
C. Mother was buried by the side of father.
D. Mother survived father by many years.
2.The underlined part "one" in the passage means____ .
A. parent B. Centenarian
C. hero D. entirety
3.What do we know about Tom Brokaw?
A. He is one of the author's parents' friends.
B. He likes talking with the author's parents.
C. He takes up a position as a writer.
D. He is good at managing a home.
4.How does the author find his parents?
A. Brave and hardworking.
B. Modest and warmhearted.
C. Economical and independent.
D. Respective and satisfied.
