Winter break was fast approaching. All Scott wanted to do was to go snowboarding. 1. (fortunately), Scott’s parents had different plans. They had booked a weeklong trip to Hawaii. Scott hated warm weather and asked 2. he could just stay at his best friend’s house so that he could snowboard every day. His parents didn’t want to hear anything of it. He kept 3. (debate) with them about the topic, but they would not change their minds. Family time was important to them, and it was a tradition that they spent winter break together.
The Warwick Cheese Festival takes place in June every year. This annual event is the biggest cheese festival in North America, 1. (attract) tens of thousands of Canadians and 2. (visitor) from all over the world. They can try over 100 kinds of cheese made all over Quebec at the festival. And they 3. (invite) to vote for the People’s Choice Prize of the year.
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，记述你们上周参与以“Building a Civilized City District”为主题的班级活动的全过程。 注意：词数不少于 60。 提示词：敬老院 geracomium
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你在某英文网站看到一则告示，内容是关于向全 球中学生征集 2019 年他们对自己国家的祝福语。请你用英文给该网站发邮件向其推荐你 的祝福语。
内容包括：1. 推荐的祝福语;
2. 推荐的理由。
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 Sir/Madam,
I am Li Hua, a student from China.
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Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
How to Treat Hoarding Disorder(囤积症)
Many of us struggle to part with treasured belongings, but for years Stephanie Evans felt too hard to leave everything she‟d ever bought. 1. Her bedroom, meanwhile, was so full of piles of clothes that, until recently, she had to sleep on the sofa in the living room.
Stephanie suffers from hoarding disorder, thought to affect an estimated 3.4 million people in the UK to some degree. But, like many, she didn‟t think it was something doctors would treat. 2. In fact, hoarding is recognized as a psychiatric disorder(精神疾病) by the World Health Organization. It can be associated with other mental health conditions such as depression and social anxiety, etc. Those affected people will collect anything, such as clothes, newspapers, photos, even printouts of emails.
3. If a person lost something important in the childhood, he or she would resist any further losses. That‟s why hoarders refuse to part with things. Hoarding can have far-reaching effects on a person‟s life. People can lose their children and their homes due to hoarding.
Hoarding disorder, like many other illnesses, can never really be “cured”. 4. Clearing out someone‟s overcrowded house is rarely effective on its own, because he or she will just fill it up again. If and when hoarding disorder is diagnosed, the mental health professional, the patient‟s primary care physician, and any specialists or other professionals involved will work together to develop a coordinated treatment. For most people with hoarding disorder, cognitive behavioral therapy(认知行为治疗) with a mental health professional is the first choice treatment. It can often help the hoarders accept that there is a problem, and then possibly develop solutions.
Because hoarding disorder is still relatively new as a distinct condition, treatment plans may be somewhat less standardized. For instance, there is still disagreement regarding if and how to use medicine to treat hoarding disorder. 5.
A.So she didn‟t seek any help.
B.Hoarders may also have problems planning and organizing.
C.However, it can be successfully treated with the right mix of treatment methods.
D.The common time for it to come is when people are middle-aged or older and living alone.
E.Hopefully, some people with the condition do seem to respond well to certain kind of medicine.
F.As a result, her hallway and living room were packed with towering stacks of books and magazines.
G.One theory is that having experienced loss in the past can make people suffer from hoarding disorder.
The Truth About the Environment
For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hit-list of our main fears: that natural resources are running out, that the population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat, that species are becoming disappeared in huge numbers, and that the planet‟s air and water are becoming ever more polluted.
But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not less so. Second, more food is now produced per head of the world‟s population than at any time in history. Fewer people are starving. Third, although species are indeed becoming disappeared, only about 0.7% of them are dying out in the next 50 years, not 25-50%, as has so often been predicted. And finally, most forms of environmental pollution either appear to have been best cured not by limiting economic growth, but by accelerating it.
Yet public opinion surveys suggest that many people hold the belief that environmental standards are declining and four factors seem to cause this gap between what they know and what the reality is.
One is the unbalanced budget for scientific research. Scientific funding goes mainly to areas with many problems. That may be wise policy, but it will also create an impression that many more potential problems exist than is the case.
Secondly, environmental groups need to be noticed by the mass media. They also need to keep the money rolling in. Understandably, perhaps, they sometimes overstate their arguments. In 1997, for example, the World Wide Fund for Nature issued a press release entitled: „Two thirds of the world‟s forests lost forever‟. The truth turns out to be nearer 20%.
A third source of confusion is the attitude of the media. People are extremely more curious about bad news than good. Newspapers and broadcasters are there to provide what the public wants: That, however, can lead to significant misunderstanding. An example was that America came across EI Nino(厄尔尼诺) in 1997 and 1998. This climatic phenomenon was accused of breaking tourism, causing allergies, melting the ski-slopes, and causing 22 deaths. However, according to an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the damage was estimated at $4 billion but the benefits amounted to some $19 billion.
The fourth factor is poor individual knowledge. People worry that the endless rise in the amount of things everyone throws away will cause the world to run out of places to dispose of waste. Yet, even if America‟s trash output continues to rise as it has done in the past, and even if the American population doubles by 2100, all the rubbish America produces through the entire 21st century will still take up only one 12,000th of the area of the entire United States.
It is extremely important that we look at the facts if we want to make the best possible decisions for the future. It may be costly to be overly optimistic, but more costly still to be too pessimistic.
1.What aspect of scientific research does the writer express concern about in Paragraph 4?
A. The need to produce results.
B. The lack of financial support.
C. The selection of areas to research.
D. The desire to solve every research problem.
2.The writer suggests that newspapers and broadcasters are intended to_______.
A. educate readers B. meet readers‟ expectations
C. mislead readers D. encourage readers‟ feedback
3.What does the writer say about America‟s waste problem?
A. It will increase in line with population growth.
B. It is not as serious as we have been led to believe.
C. It is only effective in certain areas of the country.
D. It has been reduced through public awareness of the facts.
4.What is the author‟s attitude to the truth about the global environment?
A. Unconcerned. B. Optimistic.
C. Objective. D. Puzzled.
