What’s the weather like today?
A. Rainy. B. Sunny. C. Windy.
假设你是新华中学高二学生李津，得知校英语社团拟招募英语主持人，你有意应聘。请根据以下内容要点，用英语给该组织负责人写一封申请信。内容包括:
1.介绍个人情况； 2. 陈述个人优势(英语水平，知识面等)；
3. 表达期望。
注意: 1. 词数不少于100词；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 书信格式已经给出，不计入总词数。
词汇:社团:Society 主持人:host
Dear Sir or Madam,
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Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours,
Li Jin
There is a woman named Tao Porchon-Lynch. She was born in India in 1918. So, if you do the math, she is 99. And at the age of 99, she has been recognized as the oldest yoga teacher in the world. She has been teaching yoga in a gym in her hometown, full-time, since1967.
But that’s not all she’s done. She has also been a model, actress and dancer. She became a model after she graduated from high school. She acted in more than ten fields. She won a lot of medals as a dancer in many competitions. She once said, “If you try your best and never give up, nothing is impossible.” And she is a firm believer in positive thinking. She dreams the impossible dreams, and she is also well known as a thinker.
Tao Porchon-Lynch is not the person who talks the talk; she is the person who walks the walk. When she makes up her mind to do something, she takes action to do it without delay. At the age of 85, she learned how to dance and even won several dance competitions. She offers this piece of advice to others, “Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Don’t delay. Tomorrow never comes.”
So, what about retirement? At 98, she is well past the age when many people make retirement plans. Retiring, it turns out, is not Tao’s style. “A little girl, who is only 6 years old and is now learning yoga with me, once asked me, ‘Dear granny, what are you going to do when you retire?’ ” Tao Porchon-Lynch told the little girl that she had no plans to retire but instead would continue to teach yoga and dance her way to next planet.
1.What is Tao Porchon-Lynch’s job now? (No more than 5 words)
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2.What is Tao Porchon-Lynch’s secret of success in so many fields? (No more than 8 words)
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3.How do you understand the underlined sentence in Paragraph3? (No more than 10 words)
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4.What is Tao Porchon-Lynch’s following plan now? (No more than 10 words)
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5.Do you agree with Tao Porchon-Lynch’s attitude toward life? Give reasons in your own words. (No more than 20 words)
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1.Tom was late again. It made the teacher annoyed. (用非限制性定语从句改写)
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2.He works so hard that he always takes the first place in the class. (用倒装句改写)
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3.To help people out of trouble is his lifelong mission.(用it做形式主语改写)
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4.As the National Day is approaching, children get more and more exited. (用with复合结构改写)
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5.We are given two more hours. We will reach the top of the mountain. (用非谓语动词改写)
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1.Lucy has a very _____________(与众不同的) way of walking.
2.The girl had difficulty _______________(简化) the sentence.
3.She went for a trip to Changbai Mountain with his four ____________(同伴) in the summer vacation.
4.Tom r____________ his father in appearance and nature.
5.At school, it is e_____________ that every child be treated equally regardless of family background.
What makes us happy?
There has long been an opinion that money buys happiness. However, although “we really, really tired that for a couple of generations, it didn’t work,” said Francine Jay, author of The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life.
Thanks to a travel- inspired revelation (启发), Jay has been happily living a simpler life for 12 years. “I always packed as lightly as possible, and found it exhilarating (令人高兴的) to get by with just a small carry-on bag,” she told CNN. “I thought if it feels this great to travel lightly, how amazing would it be to live this way? I wanted to have that same feeling of freedom in my everyday life.”
Jay decided to get rid of all her excess(额外的) possessions and live with just the essentials. “I wanted to spend my time and energy on experiences, rather than things.”
Jay is a follower of a movement called “minimalism(极简主义)”. Growing numbers of people have been attracted to this lifestyle all over the world. They share the same feeling of disappointment with modern life and a desire to live more simply. Minimalists are typically progressive and concerned about the environment, Leah Watkins, a lead researcher at Otago University in New Zealand, told Stuff magazine in March.
But many simply experienced unhappiness caused by owning too many possessions. Depression with the materialism of our world isn’t new. English romantic poet Willian Wordsworth summed up how dispiriting this was back in 1802, at the beginning of the industrial age, when he wrote: “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”. His preference was to go back to nature. Closer to our own times, the hippies(嬉皮士)of the 1960s also sought to “drop out ”of modern life.
And for many minimalists, their key is to unload. Without objects, they “believe people are forced more and more into the present moment and that’s where life happens,” wrote Stuff. But does simplicity ever feel like a sacrifice?
“It’s eliminating the excess—unused items, unnecessary purchases—from your life. Well, I may have fewer possessions, but I have more space…Minimalism is making room for what matters most,” said Jay.
And “the real questions”, according to Duane Elgin, US social scientist, are “what do you care about?” and “What do you value?” He told CNN: “It is important for people to realize minimalism isn’t simply the amount of stuff we consume. It is about our families, our work, our connection with the larger world, our spiritual dimension. It is about how we touch the whole world. It is a way of life.”
1.What inspired Francine Jay to live a simple life？
A. A book she came across.
B. A follower of minimalism she met on a trip.
C. The pleasure she enjoyed from traveling lightly.
D. Her desire to keep up with modern life.
2.According to Leah Watkins，a typical minimalist tends to________.
a. be fed up with materialism
b. like saving and visiting nature often
c. be disappointed with his or her current life
d. be environmentally friendly and live with fewer things
A. a, b B. a, d C. a, b ,c D. b, c, d
3.The underlined word"eliminating"in the second-to-last paragraph probably means_______.
A. removing B. distinguishing C. accepting D. improving
4.Which of the following would Duane Elgin probably agree with？
A. Minimalism is a healthy lifestyle that is in conflict with modern life.
B. Minimalism means people have to sacrifice some pleasure to live simply.
C. Minimalism limits people's freedom to enjoy their lives to the fullest.
D. Minimalism enables people to reflect on what truly counts in their lives.
5.What was the author's main purpose in writing the text？
A. To argue whether money buys happiness.
B. To recommend one of Francine Jay's books.
C. To explore the trend of minimalism.
D. To give tips on how to lead a happy life.
