Explore the possibility of using the iPad App Store in the classroom.
App Name: Bridge Constructor/Cost: $1.99
Bridge Constructor lets players build increasingly challenging bridges over deep valleys, canals and rivers. Stress tests reveal whether the bridge kids build can withstand continual use from cars, trucks, and more recently, super-heavy tank trucks. Players can choose from among a range of bridge-building materials such as wood, steel, cables and concrete pillars (混凝土柱). Each bridge also has a budget, and there are numerous ways to successfully complete each challenge.
App Name: Pyramid Adventure 3-D/Cost: $13.99
The interface allows users to fly around the plateau where the pyramids and the Sphinx are located at Giza near Cairo. Interactive, three-dimensional maps let students wander around the labyrinthine tombs and passageways. Uses can examine wall paintings in detail, or view royal statues and objects with a 360-degree feature. To help explain the world of ancient Egyptians, the app offers an accompanying interactive book, specially written by world-famous Egyptologist Zahi Hawass.
App Name: Grammar Up/Cost: $4.99
Grammar Up is a multiple-choice quiz system for English grammar. Kids and adults can learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error feedback, which Grammar Up provides. The app also offers students practice tests so they can see how much they’ve leaned. A summary is presented at the end of each test, showing the time spent, a score, and the questions answered correctly and incorrectly. The results are also e-mailable.
1.By playing Bridge Constructor, you can .
A. learn how to drive
B. improve your ability of building
C. save a large amount of money
D. try many ways to become successful
2.Playing Grammar Up means .
A. answering some grammar questions
B. making some grammar mistakes
C. talking with your friends online
D. listening to a grammar expert carefully
3.The text is meant to .
A. show the development of modem technology
B. show the differences among the iPad apps
C. offer some tips to buy some cheap apps
D. introduce some practical apps to students
为了号召大家多读书，你校于7月25日组织了一次“亲子共读（parent-child reading) ”活动。假设你是校英文报的记者，请根据以下要点用英语写一篇短文，报道此次活动。
地点：学校图书馆；
参加者：高二年级学生和家长
活动内容：亲子共读一本书：分享读书体会；互相推荐优秀书籍；
简短评论。
注意：1、词数100左右；2、可以适当增减细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Every time my mother and I started to have a conversation, it turns into an argument. We talk about something so simple as dinner plans. Sudden, my mother will push the conversation into the topic of her best friend’s son, that graduated from Tsinghua University last year. He is now earning 100,000 yuan a year as the engineer. In fact, I don’t want to do any job related science like him. I don’t know what to explain my plan to my mother. I’m the type of person who love to help out in the community. I even want to make a career of it because of I love it so much. I’d rather following my dreams and create my own future.
Hi! Welcome to my webpage. My name’s Tom Wood and I’m an English teacher. I 1. (design) this webpage last week so that my students can learn more about me. I think it is important 2. (know) my students well. And it is only fair 3. my students know me well, too.
I was born in London, England, but I’ve lived and worked in China for the past 15 years and I really like living here.
I can speak Putonghua and even a little bit of Cantonese,4. is my wife’s dialect (方言). I practice 5. (speak) Chinese every day and I am improving.6. (fortunate), there are one or two million people in my town who are ready to help me with my Chinese! I particularly enjoy talking to my neighbors.
My favourite sport is football. I play football once a week with some of the other teachers at the school. We’re going to organize a(n)7. (compete) with teams of teachers from other schools this summer.
My other great love is my motorbike. I love getting on my motorbike and riding out to the countryside. But my wife thinks it’s too 8. (noise )and dangerous. If anyone wants to send me an email, just 9. (do) as you like. I’d love to hear 10. you.
When you live in a seasonal environment, you can learn that both outdoor and indoor activities have their place. As the seasons ______, so does your mood. Certain activities become more or less attractive,______ the weather and the length of the day.
Spring is a time of the year when the world starts to ______ from its winter sleep. During this season, I enjoy going on long walks through parks and watching the world come ______.
Many consider summer to be the top of the year. The city comes into full swing ______ the weather becomes warmer and warmer. During the summer, I prefer to spend the daytime anywhere that is air-conditioned. This ______ include the library, a shopping center or a movie theater. I often enjoy spending the ______ evenings sitting on the wide balcony of my house and having drinks with my friends.
Fall, with the,______ of the leaves and the summer heat gradually ______, is probably another ______ time to go on long walks during the day. I love to be ______ during fall and see the life of the city returning to its hibernation (冬眠). Another ______ to go outside during autumn is to ______ the last days of warmth until the next year.
Winter ______ the shortening of days and cooler weather. Outdoor activities tend to become less ______ and sinking down on the sofa with a good book becomes my ______ activity. It is not enjoyable to spend time outside if it is too ______. I only choose to go outside when I want to go skiing.
So, my ______ to spend time indoors or outdoors is vastly dependent on the ______. Different seasons ______ different activities and therefore it is Impossible to choose whether I would spend all of my spare time indoors or outdoors.
1.A. end B. change C. begin D. arrive
2.A. resulting in B. consisting of C. referring to D. depending on
3.A. shake B. circle C. awaken D. wave
4.A. open B. alive C. still D. real
5.A. as B. if C. or D. unless
6.A. should B. need C. can D. must
7.A. dry B. rainy C. warm D. freezing
8.A. growing B. turning C. existing D. darkening
9.A. increasing B. burning C. developing D. disappearing
10.A. busy B. extra C. informal D. excellent
11.A. back B. alone C. outside D. ahead
12.A. rule B. reason C. excuse D. question
13.A. enjoy B. share C. count D. miss
14.A. loses B. finds C. brings D. begs
15.A. helpful B. normal C. expensive D. attractive
16.A. social B. favorite C. last D. creative
17.A. hot B. cold C. wet D. bright
18.A. dream B. duty C. decision D. secret
19.A. life B. feelings C. season D. activities
20.A. give up B. believe in C. come to D. call for
Painting
The art of creating pictures using colors, shapes and lines is called painting. Museums and galleries show the paintings of professional (专业的) artists. But painting is also a popular form of entertainment and creative expression.
1.. Experienced painters usually use a brush to apply oil paints to a canvas cloth surface. Young painters usually use watercolors on pieces of paper. Very young children may use finger paints to create paintings.
Painters can use their art to express devotion to a religion, to tell a story, to express feelings and ideas, or simply to present a pleasing picture. Religious paintings often show a god or a scene from a sacred text (圣典). Other common subjects have been famous legends and events in history, as well as scenes from daily life. Artists also paint portraits (画像), or pictures of people.2.. All of these types of paintings show the human figure in some way.
Some kinds of paintings do not focus on people. In landscape (风景) painting the focus is on scenes from nature. Artists also paint still objects such as fruits and vegetables.3.. Some artists communicate their ideas through pictures that do not represent any object.
4.. Paintings dating back 15,000 years have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.5. Samples of painted pottery (陶器) from at least 5,000 years ago have been found in China and Iran. The ancient Egyptians decorated their temples with beautiful paintings. People in ancient Greece painted decorative objects such as vases in addition to the walls of temples.
A. These works are called still-life paintings.
B. These works can communicate a special feeling.
C. Humans have been making paintings for thousands of years.
D. People of all ages create pictures using a variety of materials.
E. Cave paintings generally show animals that early humans hunted.
F. The design of a painting is the plan of its lines, shapes and colors.
G. Sometimes artists make portraits of themselves, which are called self-portraits.
