假如你叫王平，根据图表提示，给你的加拿大网友Smith 写一封信，介绍你的寒假生活（共20天），可根据自己的实际情况添加细节。
注意：1．词数：100左右； 2．开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Smith,
How are you? How time flies! Now the winter vacation was over and I have come back to school again.
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Many moved stories remain deep in people’s heart to this day. In 2008 a terrible earthquake strike Wenchuan, there many people lost their lives and homes. After the earthquake under a fallen building, a mother as well as her baby were found by some soldiers. When the soldiers were ready to take them away, they surprised to find the baby in the mother’s arms still alive. The baby was sleeping but wasn’t hurt at all. Between the dead mother and the living baby, there was a cell phone with a short message on the screen. It read, “Don’t worry, my baby. Mom is for you. If you can survive, don’t forget that I love you.”
The story moved many people deep, including me. I couldn’t hold back my tears when I read these word. One is great if he loves others when he is in the danger.
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As of Tuesday, Chinese box office hit “Wolf Warrior 2” has earned more than 3.4 billion yuan ($507 million),1.（break）China’s all-time box office record，which 2.(set) last year by Hong Kong comedy “The Mermaid.”
The leading character is Leng Feng, played by Wu Jing, the film’s writer and director. Leng is a 3.(fear) former special forces soldier of the People’s Liberation Army. During a military rebellion(反叛) in4.African country, Leng almost single-handedly helps Chinese workers and African locals escape the war-torn nation. But the fighting scenes alone don’t explain the movie’s 5.(succeed)--it’s also the patriotism（爱国主义）and spirit of the film projects 6. have impressed Chinese audiences.
Tong Yemeng, a 32-year-old office worker from Beijing, “I felt so proud of7. ( I )country when I saw Wu Jing waving the national flag in the war zone,” she said. “It showed our8.(increase) national power.”
The movie’s patriotic reaction can be attributed to its timing. “Wolf Warrior 2” hit cinemas as India and China were involved 9. a border dispute, as the central government is promoting its international Belt and Road Initiative(倡议), 10. as the People’s Liberation Army celebrated its 90th anniversary.
About two weeks before Christmas of 2014 my wife bought me an early Christmas present. It was a beautiful three-month-old cockatiel(鸡尾鹦鹉).
I had always ______ for a bird but as my wife had objected to the very idea of getting one, I was really _______ when she brought her home. I immediately fell in love with her and named her Bleng.
From the beginning I was ______ by the owner of the pet shop not to put a _______ in her cage, as she would think that the reflection was another bird. This could cause Bleng to become ______as the reflection wouldn’t react to her.
____ , my little Bleng _______reflective surfaces around the house all on her own: in the kitchen, against the refrigerator, etc, She spread her wings out slightly every time she _____ her reflection and she spent a lot of time around these ______.
But it wasn’t until last July when we bought a mirrored bedside table for my mother-in-law’s room, that things really became _____ .
Bleng _____ spending time around this bedside table and around her new “______ “!
One day, my mother-in-law went to her room and noticed a real ______ . Seeds were scattered all around the bedside table. She ______ Bleng running to her cage, which was in another room, and _____ carrying seeds to the bedside table and setting them down on the ____. Bleng had noticed that her reflection _____ went to the seed bowl to eat, _____ she brought the seeds over to her “friend!”
We had always known that Bleng was a _____ creature, but it was at that moment that we all learned just how ______ her heart really was!
1.A. prepared B. longed C. waited D. looked
2.A. frightened B. relaxed C. worried D. surprised
3.A. advised B. allowed C. invited D. urged
4.A. bowl B. bird C. mirror D. seed
5.A. satisfied B. proud C. afraid D. disappointed
6.A. Besides B. However C. Instead D. Therefore
7.A. spotted B. collected C. checked D. made
8.A. ignored B. remembered C. saw D. doubted
9.A. animals B. areas C. rooms D. people
10.A. amusing B. confusing C. complex D. annoying
11.A. avoided B. regretted C. missed D. enjoyed
12.A. master B. friend C. cage D. tool
13.A. mess B. trend C. chance D. crowd
14.A. imagined B. stopped C. observed D. kept
15.A. escaping B. hiding C. considering D. returning
16.A. ground B. bed C. mirror D. paper
17.A. already B. also C. never D. still
18.A. or B. so C. for D. but
19.A. huge B. dangerous C. poor D. loving
20.A. cold B. heavy C. big D. weak
A Bristol teacher has proved that you don't have to earn a fortune to be able to make ends meet. Kath Kelly spent a year living on just one pound per day. This money did not include the rent of her room on a shared flat or the utility bills(水电费), which were all paid in advance. 1.
The motivation for the experiment came from her concern about buying a wedding present for her brother and his fiancée. At the time she had an income of $10,000a year, which meant that she was fairly hard up most of the time.
2.If she spent less than $1 a day, she could not carry the money over. She also decided not to borrow from friends.
Kath was often attending free events, from book launches to gallery openings... 3. Buses were out, so every journey had to be made on foot or by bicycle, and as she couldn't afford phone calls, she would visit friends or leave them notes if she had anything to tell them.4. "Instead of meeting for lunch in a cafe as we used to, we'd take sandwiches and eat them on a bench in the park," she explains.
At the end of the year, Kath was able to buy her brother and his new wife a $1,300 life membership of the National Trust as a wedding present with her savings. 5.While helping out on a farm she met her current boyfriend and found true love at last.
A. She would attend any event that might have free snacks.
B. She made soups from whatever vegetables she could find
C. From the beginning she set some very strict rules for herself.
D. Kath's promise of poverty actually meant she went out more
E. Kath says her friends were great about the change in her lifestyle
F. However, it did have to cover everything else, including clothing and food
G. Besides achieving what she'd set out to do , Kath's experiment also had an unexpected result.
As a professor at a large American university,there is a phrase that I hear often from students:“I’m only a 1050.”The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT),which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice,or even if they have a chance to get a higher education at all.The SAT score,whether it is 800,1100 or 1550,has become the focus at this time of their life.
It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores,then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number.Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over.The low test score,they think,will make it impossible for them to get into a good college.And without a degree from a prestigious university,they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed.
According to a study done in the 1990s,the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases.Interestingly,it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators-like a student’s high school grades.Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student’s academic proficiency(学业水平)，they will never be able to test things like confidence,efforts and willpower,and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities(潜力).This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process.The SAT is an excellent test in many ways,and the score is still a useful means of testing students.However,it should be only one of many methods used.
1.The purpose of the SAT is to test students’ ______.
A.strong will
B.academic ability
C.full potentialities
D.confidence in school work
2.Students’ self-respect is influenced by their ______.
A.scores in the SAT
B.achievements in mathematics
C.job opportunities
D.money spent on education
3.“A prestigious university” is most probably ______.
A.a famous university
B.a technical university
C.a traditional university
D.an expensive university
4.This passage is mainly about ______.
A.how to prepare for the SAT
B.stress caused by the SAT
C.American higher education
D.the SAT and its effects
