假设你是李华，你远在美国的笔友Jack对中国的春节很感兴趣，他来信询问有关情况。请你给他回一封电子邮件，简单介绍春节及中国人是如何过春节的。内容应包括如下要点：
1春节在中国的地位；
2春节的时间、春节来临前及期间人们的活动；
3你对春节的感受。
注意：1可适当发挥使行文连贯，词数100左右；
2开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：春节联欢晚会the Spring Festival Gala
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1. Tracy: Guess what... I’ve found a summer job!
Mark: That’s great! Anything interesting?
Tracy: Yes, working at an ______ park.
Mark: Wow, that sounds _____ !
Tracy: So, have you found anything?
Mark; Nothing yet, but I have a ______ of leads. One is working as an intern for a record company-mostly answering phones. Or I can get a landscaping job again.
Tracy:______ an intern sounds more interesting than landscaping. You’d have better hours, and it’s probably not as much work.
Mark: Yeah, but a landscaper earns more than an intern. And you get a great tan!
2. Workforce cutbacks are ______ in today’s economy.
3. So how can you distinguish yourself and avoid ______ your job?
4. Volunteer for new ______, push your ideas and make sure everyone knows you.
5. He is now retiring from _____ life and has gone abroad.
6. Though a little ______ this time, the policeman gave him the same answer.
7. This time, the policeman lost his ______.
The first foreign language I studied was French, and I learnt it at a secondary school between the ages of 11 and 18. It was a compulsory subject for the first three years and I 1. (choose) to continue studying it afterwards because I enjoyed it, found it 2. (interest) and was quite good at it. Outside class I practiced 3. (listen) to the French language radio and reading French books.
Before going to university, I spent three months working on 4. farm in southern France. This helped me become pretty fluent5. French and acquire a rich farming-related vocabulary.
My French has also been 6. (help) on holiday on Morocco and Portugal. French 7. (use) as a second language in Morocco and in other countries quite a few people speak French in places 8. a lot of tourists visit.
In September 2009 I joined a couple of French conversation 9. (group) in Bangor and I have been going to them ever since. It has resulted in my 10. (improve) in my spoken French.
Now I can still speak French fluently and can also read it well, but my written French is not so good.
When I was young at school, I loved to talk, a characteristic not always appreciated by Miss Jordan, my tenth-grade English teacher.
She was a teacher no one wanted because she was so ______. She stood about five-foot-five, was very thin and wore her hair pulled back in a way that gave her a horsy ______. She wore those half-circular reading glasses. Whenever she got upset, she would lower her head and look at you over the top of her glasses.
One day in her class I was busy talking. I didn’t ______ she had stopped teaching and was ______ straight at me. “Young lady, I would like to see you after school.”
Later Miss Jordan ______ in a low, but very firm voice that showed she expected me to listen when she was talking. For ______ she told me to write a thousand-word essay on education and its effect on the economy. She wanted it in by the following Wednesday.
Well, I met my deadline. I was ______. It was a good paper. And I expected a sign of ______ from her. The next day in class,______, she was looking at me over her glasses. She called me forward and ______ my paper. “Go back and rewrite,” she said. “Remember, each paragraph is supposed to begin with a topic sentence.” When she gave my paper back a second time, she ______ the grammar. The third time, the spelling. The fourth time, it was punctuation. The fifth, it wasn’t neat enough. I was ______!
The sixth time, I rewrote the whole paper ______, in ink, leaving generous space. When she saw it, she removed her glasses and smiled She finally ______ the paper. After that, I put the whole thing out of my ______.
Two or three months passed. One day Miss Jordan came into the class and said to us: Class, do you still ______ an essay contest held citywide? They’ve announced the ______. I am happy to inform you that Mary has won third prize in the essay contest ‘On the Impact of Education on the Economy’.”
I was amazed and ______. It was the first time I had ever won a prize. Years later, I told a reporter that story, and my comments — including my unfriendly ______ of Miss Jordan’s appearance. Miss Jordan wrote me, and said that her appearance wasn’t what was important. What was important was the ______ I had learnt. When I wrote and rewrote that paper for her, I began to learn how to discipline myself.
1.A. open-minded B. strict C. careful D. cold-hearted
2.A. look B. shape C. style D. character
3.A. guess B. believe C. imagine D. realize
4.A. waving B. laughing C. staring D. running
5.A. complained B. whispered C. explained D. apologized
6.A. objection B. motivation C. punishment D. encouragement
7.A. confident B. concerned C. nervous D. helpful
8.A. suggestion B. praise C. comment D. respect
9.A. otherwise B. moreover C. however D. therefore
10.A. changed B. tore C. opened D. returned
11.A. mastered B. corrected C. taught D. identified
12.A. relieved B. grateful C. relaxed D. sick
13.A. carelessly B. eagerly C. quickly D. slowly
14.A. published B. accepted C. finished D. studied
15.A. mind B. list C. question D. sight
16.A. remember B. enter C. expect D. organize
17.A. plans B. winners C. participants D. names
18.A. curious B. anxious C. thrilled D. enthusiastic
19.A. conclusion B. reaction C. recommendation D. description
20.A. lesson B. meaning C. skill D. result
Confidence is a skill that many folks want to master, but have a hard time acquiring. Have you ever wondered why? Possibly you were born confident. You were talked to negatively as a child or maybe you were rejected many times. Whatever the case is, 1. But how to boost your confidence?
Begin to act as if you are confident. Act as the person you would want to be like.2. Surround yourself with people who you think are confident and have high value. You will learn so much from observing other confident folks.
3. One of the most areas that you need to pay attention to is your self-talk. Your thoughts about your capabilities and self-worth need to be positive and encouraging. Whenever you notice you think negatively, pause and take a moment, and shift your focus to something that can help you feel better about yourself.
Go after your goals. If you are really serious about building self-confidence, you need to identify your goals and go after them. The more you add to your accomplishments, the more confident you will feel about your abilities and skills.4..
By using these steps to boost your confidence,5..
A. Always stay positive.
B. Improve your self-talk.
C. Begin to think and behave like them.
D. This requires you to know what a confident person looks like.
E. you will be on the path to improving your self-esteem (自尊) and self-worth.
F. You’ll begin to trust your inner self more and appreciate yourself more.
G. you should know you can improve your self-esteem and build confidence.
For thousands of years, we have looked for ways to measure time. Early humans found that the regular movements of the sun, the earth> the moon, and the stars made good ways to measure time. The rising and setting of the sun were used to distinguish (辨别) day from night.
But, eventually, people needed to tell time more accurately, or exactly. So, by using the sun’s position in the sky, they divided the day into dawn, morning, midday and evening.
Then it was noted that the sun cast a changing shadow as it moved across the sky. Time could be told more accurately by setting up a stick and marking the positions of the sun’s shadow. It was the ancient Greeks who divided each position of this “sundial (日晷)” into hours.
But the sun doesn’t always shine. So, for the past 6,000 years, many other ways of keeping time have been tried. Slow-burning candles were divided into hours, and the hourglass was invented. When all the sand in the top of an hourglass has shifted to the bottom, an hour has passed.
Later, the pendulum (摆钟), with its regular back-and-forth movement of weights, was used to move the hands on a clock. Pendulums are still used in grandfather clocks.
Today, even more accurate clocks are in use, such as battery-operated quartz clocks (石英钟), digital clocks, and clocks run by electrical tuning forks and tiny atoms. These atomic clocks are the most accurate clocks ever invented. The exact time can be kept to within 1 second a century.
1.Humans in the old days used to tell day from night.
A. the rising and setting of the sun
B. battery-operated quartz clocks
C. atomic clocks
D. digital clocks
2.A sundial works by .
A. tracking the movement of the stars around the sun
B. marking a shadow cast by the moving sun
C. burning candles in the sunlight
D. watching the stars
3.Which of the following was NOT used in the past to measure time?
A. An hourglass. B. A sundial.
C. Digital clocks. D. A pendulum.
4.Which of the following ways of measuring time is ordered from the least accurate to the most accurate?
A. Sundial, pendulum, sun.
B. Atomic clock, quartz clock, sundial.
C. Sun, pendulum, atomic clock.
D. Digital clock, hourglass, slow-burning candles.
