Our school planned a trip for us to study English in another country this holiday. I was excited for it was my first time1. (travel) abroad. I2. (pack) everything I thought I would need into my backpack. I knew I was going to have so much fun. After boarding the bus to the airport, I said goodbye to my parents. I looked out the window of the bus and dreamed about3. we would do while on our trip.
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，写一篇英文周记，记述你与父母共度周末的全过程。
注意：词数不少于 60。 提示词：攀岩 rock climbing
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的英国朋友 Jim 希望了解你在过去一年中的最大收获。 请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1.简述你的最大收获；
2.谈谈该收获对你的影响；
3.表达对新一年的期待。
注意：1. 词数不少于 50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
People worldwide are living longer. Today, most people can expect to live into their sixties and beyond. By 2050, the world’s population aged 60 and older is expected to total 2 billion, up from 900 million in 2015.
While this shift in proportion (比例) of a country’s population towards older ages---known as ageing---started in high-income countries, for example in Japan, 30% of the population are already over 60 years old, it is now low- and middle-income countries that are experiencing the greatest change. 1.At the biological level, ageing results from molecular (分子的) and cellular damage over time.
This leads to a growing risk of disease and eventually death. 2. That’s why we say there is no “typical” older person. While some 70 year-olds enjoy extremely good health, other 70 year-olds are weak and require a lot of help from others.
3. Retirement, relocation and the death of friends and partners are some of the possible reasons. For example, moving older people to a better house, which seems an admirable behavior, may do harm to their health eventually.
4. Some people believe older people can be active and productive. A longer life brings opportunities, both for older people themselves and for society. They can pursue new activities such as further education or a new career. They also contribute in many ways to communities. 5. This can lead to discrimination against older people. Therefore, society as a whole needs to address the ageist attitude by developing sound policies and offering various opportunities so that older people can experience fulfilling ageing.
A. Nobody can ever escape from the ageing process.
B. But these changes are only loosely linked to a person’s age.
C. Yet the extent of their contribution depends heavily on their health.
D. Beyond biological changes, ageing is also related to other life changes.
E. Although ageing is a universal trend, views towards older people divide.
F. However, to others, older people are weak, dependent, and a burden to society.
G. By 2050, many countries like Chile and China will have a similar rate of older people to Japan.
Understanding Chinese Culture: The Challenge to the West
Late last year, a New Zealand newspaper reported that China was sending 120 doctors to a Pacific island to assist with their community health. A positive action, one might think, but the focus of the story was to ask what China was doing in the Pacific, and how we have failed to the extent that we have allowed this to happen. What are the Chinese doing on “our patch”?
In fact, the rise of China is to a certain degree promoted as a threat. The challenge to the West, then, is to improve an appreciation of what China is. How does China’s cultural heritage present a positive advantage to the world?
To understand this, it is important to consider the foundations of Chinese culture and society. China has more than 5,000 years of uninterrupted cultural development. We at least need to go back 2,500 years to study Taoism, for its cultural and philosophical roots, and Confucius for his social philosophy and influence on society.
Taoism provides us with many aspects of the special nature of Chinese culture and philosophy. The concept of yin and yang in Taoism, which brings us balance through the integration of opposites, is well-known but not fully understood in the West. Chinese medicine, which tends to take a longer time to take effect, with a focus to work in harmony with the body, is to restore imbalance causing diseases rather than targeting only the specific symptom or problem area.
Confucius’ contribution to Chinese society also provides a difference to Western society. Eastern society places the community as the most important component of society. In Western society, it is the individual that is considered to be the unit of society, compatible with an objective analysis of issues.
Considering a monkey, cow and banana, which is the odd one out? The vast majority of Chinese will choose the cow because the monkey eats the banana, which gives food to the monkey. Western people invariably choose the banana because they see the objective classification of the monkey and cow. The consideration of these two responses, and extension into deeper philosophical understanding, presents a major difference between Chinese and Western thought.
Therefore, the challenge to the West is to embrace an alternative perspective on issues. It is time for Western media to seek a balance in reporting affairs, and critiqu（e It is time for a Chinese voice to be heard in the West. 评判）the Western perspective.
1.The news report in the first paragraph _.
A. tells a story of Chinese doctors
B. demonstrates the concern of the West
C. stresses the decline of Western culture
D. shows the medical development of China
2.Why is Chinese medicine mentioned in the passage?
A. To help better understand Taoism.
B. To define the concept of yin and yang.
C. To emphasize the contributions of Taoism.
D. To express the author’s pride in Chinese culture.
3.We can learn from the passage that .
A. Taoism has a greater influence than Confucianism
B. Confucianism finds balance in integrating opposites
C. the West takes China’s cultural heritage as an advantage
D. Eastern society considers community the essential unit of society
4.The author’s purpose of writing the passage is to .
A. warn the West of the threat of China
B. introduce to the West what China really is
C. recommend the West to accept the rise of China
D. appeal to the West to have an objective attitude to China
How to Make Friends, According to Science
Friendship is one of life’s most important features, and one too often taken for granted.
The human desire for companionship may feel boundless, but research suggests that our social capital is finite—we can only handle a certain number of relationships at one time. Social scientists have used some creative approaches to measure the size of people’s social networks; these have returned estimates ranging from about 250 to about 5,500 people. Looking more specifically at friendship, a study using the exchange of Christmas cards to test closeness put the average person’s friend group at about 121 people. However vast our networks may be, our inner circle tends to be much smaller. The average American trusts only 10 to 20 people. Moreover, that number may be shrinking: From 1998 to 2017, the average number of trusted friends decreased from three to two. This is both sad and of important consequence, because people who have strong social relationships tend to live longer than those who don’t.
So what should you do if your social life is lacking? Here the research is instructive. To begin with, don’t refuse to consider the humble acquaintance（交情）. Even interacting with people with whom one has weak social ties has a meaningful influence on well-being. Beyond that, building deeper friendships may be largely a matter of putting in time. A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend.
If that sounds like too much effort, renewing inactive social ties can be especially rewarding. Reconnected friends can quickly recapture the trust they previously built, while offering each other a dash of novelty（新奇）drawn from whatever they’ve been up to in the meantime. And if all else fails, you could start randomly to tell secrets to people you don’t know that well. Self-disclosure makes us more likable, and as a bonus, we are more likely to favor those to whom we have revealed our soul.
Longing for closeness and connection is common and everywhere, which suggests that most of us are stumbling（跌跌撞撞）through the world, expecting companionship that could be easily provided by the lonesome stumblers all around us. So set aside this article, turn to someone nearby, and try to make a friend.
1.From Paragraph 2, we can know that .
A. a strong social relationship can guarantee a long life
B. real friendships are based on the exchange of presents
C. people’s inner circle is decreasing despite large social networks
D. people’s social networks depend on their desire for companionship
2.What does the author suggest to improve one’s social life?
A. Sharing secrets with close friends.
B. Choosing likable people as friends.
C. Avoiding the humble acquaintance.
D. Spending time for deeper friendships.
3.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The tips on how to develop friendship.
B. The reasons for seeking companionship.
C. The benefits brought by a good social life.
D. The relationship between friendship and happiness.
4.The author helps readers better understand his idea mainly by .
A. using research results
B. making comparisons
C. giving some examples
D. telling personal stories
