Summer Programs for Teens
University of Maryland: TERP Young Scholars
This program is the perfect summer camp for academically talented teenagers who want to pursue academic interests, explore career opportunities, and discover college life at the University of Maryland.
During three weeks of intellectual exploration, teens can study with students who share similar interests, and communicate with some of the university’s best teachers. Upon successful completion, students can earn three college credits.
Carpe Diem: The University-bound Adventure
Carpe Diem supports both American and international students in applying to a university by providing private consultation. This 2-week experience also includes tours of famous East Const universities Students will also have the opportunity to build their resumes (简历) by working with writing experts.
Great Books Summer Program
This is a lively, warm and welcoming summer camp community of outstanding teens, who love literature and ideas In the past eleven years, it has gathered middle and high school students from across the world to read selections from the greatest works of literature, experience heated discussions and enjoy summer camp fun with other literary-minded students. Participants can gain confidence in their ability to read a text closely and express their ideas clearly both verbally and in writing.
Zeal Travel
We offer our teens two week and three- week long trips to Hawaii, Alaska, Australia and Spain. All trips include 15-25 hours of community service activities.
Depending on your trip of choice, you’ll be helping Hawaiians protect their forest ecosystem, caring for dogs in Spain, working with Habitat for Humanity, and much more. Every trip also includes exciting outdoor activities like surfing, driving, ice-climbing, hiking and more. The possibilities are endless and there is a zeal trip for every interest.
1.Which program offers students the opportunity to develop academic interests?
A. Carpt Diem. B. Zeal Travel.
C. University of Maryland. D. Great Books Summer Program.
2.What can students do in Great Books Summer Program?
A. Learn how to write stories.
B. Attend a campus cultural event.
C. Make friends with famous writers.
D. Read and discuss the great works of literature.
3.What is special about Zeal Travel?
A. It includes a lot of thrilling outdoor activities.
B. It provides community service for students.
C. It offers students exciting free trips.
D. It will last 3 weeks.
假定你是李华， 你的英国笔友Andrew不久前去美国留学，他给你写信说很不适应那里的生活。请你根据以下提示用英语给他写一封回信，鼓励他勇敢面对。
1 尊重当地的风俗习惯；
2 与美国学生多交流；
3 积极参加户外活动；
4 注意与人交往的礼仪。
注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加内容，以使行文连贯。
Dear Andrew,
How nice to hear from you again!
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Yours,
Li Hua
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（Λ），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。
This year, our school call on us students to make good use of our time and do socially practice in the holiday. I found a job in the small restaurant. I thought it would be easy, so actually it turned out to be hard. I spent on the whole morning washing dishes and setting tables. I didn't have lunch until 2：00 pm. After lunch, I immediately set to work again, do the same things until 11：00 pm. I worked more than ten hour every day! However, after days of work, you have come to understand the value of hard work. I've also realized what difficult it is for my parents to support our family. Therefore, I am now determined study hard to repay my parents.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Mobile payments have made our life more convenient and1.(enjoy) by freeing us from the trouble of having to take our wallets out with us. But a supermarket has gone one step further, allowing customers to pay2. (instant) using just a finger tip.Shoppers at one store at Brunel University can pay for items3.(use) the unique vein pattern in their fingertips and it's4. first store to adopt such technology. This new method of payment means that customers can pay for items in just a few5.(second). Sthaler, the company behind the technology, 6.(explain) that it uses infrared scanners 7.(read) the pattern of veins in the finger. It links this to the customer's bank details, which8.(keep) safe by payment provider Worldpay. The firm is also responsible9.millions of online shoppers' details around the globe. “There are no known cases10.this security has been violated and dozens of Brunel students are already using the technology,” Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told the reporter.
根据汉语提示写出英语对应的短语
41 至关重要 1.
42 使自己适应…… 2.
43 提醒某人某事 3.
44 有助于；为……做贡献4.
45 接通电话；通过5.
46 出故障；不整齐6.
47 献身于……；专心致志于……7.
48 充分利用 8.
49 处于下降，衰退中 9.
50 进入，到达，踏上 10.
My life wouldn't be so wonderful without my parents. Every time I look at them or even think of them, I am very ______.
Our native country was Vietnam, but, to ______ the war, we had to leave our home and all our ______ and go on a long boat journey to America. I was two years old and the youngest of seven children.
This journey was not ______ for my parents, but throughout they thought of their children first. I was even told that they once ate only apple peels to ______ the fruit part for me. This was special because at that time many children were ______ by their parents because of the war.
Our journey to America was not the last of our ______. We were also faced with starting a life in America with nothing. My parents' strong ______ to give their children a good life was what has taken us where we are today. Of course, our beginning years were hard. We lived on just enough food bought with food stamps, wore old clothes and played with toys bought at secondhand shops. ______ almost everything we had was bought at secondhand shops, we were ______ because our life was really peaceful.
My parents ______ very hard to build a better life. I will always ______ how early they got up in the morning. After a few years my dad got a degree in business and then he got a(n) ______. Slowly, our living status began to ______. My parents bought a car and ______ they saved up enough money to buy a house; this was the true sign of my parents' ______.
Today we moved out of the apartment, ______ all the hard times and starting our new ______. We really live very ______ and my parents' greatest achievement is that they have ______ that nothing is impossible.
1.A. honorable B. admirable C. grateful D. powerful
2.A. prevent B. escape C. end D. stop
3.A. memories B. friends C. colleagues D. belongings
4.A. easy B. possible C. long D. dangerous
5.A. demand B. spare C. store D. find
6.A. adopted B. abandoned C. raised D. protected
7.A. struggles B. worry C. burdens D. pain
8.A. decision B. ability C. determination D. patience
9.A. Because B. Since C. Unless D. While
10.A. cautious B. happy C. nervous D. crazy
11.A. thought B. expected C. fought D. worked
12.A. cherish B. remember C. enjoy D. understand
13.A. promotion B. substitute C. status D. partner
14.A. follow B. appear C. continue D. rise
15.A. immediately B. obviously C. gradually D. suddenly
16.A. challenge B. success C. hope D. cooperation
17.A. falling B. carrying C. leaving D. forgetting
18.A. education B. family C. life D. career
19.A. confidently B. lonely C. independently D. comfortably
20.A. proven B. described C. declared D. realized
