阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
Gold and brown leaves crunched (嘎吱响) under Dora’s boots as she made her way down the sidewalk. She couldn’t wait to be home. The autumn cold wind was bad, but it was not nearly as hard to bear as the cold she felt in her heart.
She couldn’t forget the way she had frozen in front of the class today. Mr. Roberts divided the class into groups to do presentations. Each person in the group would speak for five minutes in front of the class. Today was Dora’s turn. Her legs trembled all the way to the front of the classroom. Her hands shook so badly that she couldn’t read her notes. As Dora spoke, her voice became softer. Mr. Roberts kindly ended Dora’s part of the presentation even though she had clearly not finished. He also asked Dora to stay for a moment after class.
“Dora, I know you’re shy, but you worked hard on this project. I’d hate to see you give up on yourself.” Mr. Roberts suggested, “If I give you another chance tomorrow, do you think you can find your courage?”
Dora nodded. She went as quickly as she could to her next class. She kept her head down and hoped the school day would end soon.
Arriving home, she found Mom baking in the kitchen. When Mom baked, Dora always watched and chatted with her. Mom always said it was Dora’s company that made her baked goods taste so sweet. Mom studied Dora’s face as she came into the kitchen. “What’s wrong, Dora?”
Tears shone in Dora’s eyes. She told the whole story. Mom was silent for a moment. “Why is it that you can talk to me about anything and everything, but you can’t talk to your classmates?” Mom asked, sliding the round cake pans into the oven. She set the timer and then said, “Let me show you something.”
注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；
2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
Dora followed Mom to her room.
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Paragraph 2:
The next day Dora again walked to the front of the classroom to give her presentation.
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假定你是李华，留学生Sophia发来邮件说她下个月参加普通话水平测试 (Putonghua Proficiency Test)，希望你能给予辅导。请用英语给她回一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 说明意愿；
2. 说明辅导安排(时间，内容等)。
注意: 1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
We are all aware of the threats our planet is facing. Experts agree that it’s mainly humans 1. are responsible for the destruction of the environment. Activities such as mass farming and burning 2. (harm) our climate now-and we are suffering too through natural 3. (disaster) such as flooding and droughts.
One of the most destructive activities we are carrying out is deforestation (砍伐森林). This has been most noticeable in Brazil, which is home to the world’s 4. (large) rainforest. Deforestation there 5. (hit) its highest rate in the past decade, according to official data. The result of widespread deforestation has threatened 6. centuries-old way of life. The future of the rainforest could be 7. danger of being damaged.
The amount of deforestation in the Amazon has 8. (actual) seen a decline but the figures are still large. Brazil has taken some steps to try and decrease deforestation by 9.(introduce) government policies including fines for breaking land use regulations. While humans are largely 10. (blame) for the destruction of the rainforest, it seems only humans will tackle this problem and save planet Earth.
I was very fortunate to be chosen by Kindspring to receive $100 for the monthly kindness competition. This past October I ______ some Inspiration Trees and they have helped to make a ______ in people’s lives.
The idea is simple. I took a lot of fallen branches that I had been ______ on walks and hung them from the ceiling with the help of volunteers and friends. Then we ______ strings with pins (大头针) attached to them from the branches. I got a lot of art supplies and as people came in for the art exhibit, they were ______ to create a piece of art or a ______ message to hang from the branches.
The tree changed into this really funny way of ______ positive messages. If you hung a message up, you had to take one down for you to ______. The experience was really ______. People of all ages and from all walks of life were sharing art and inspiration through the ______.
With the $100 I ______ from Kindspring, I made more Inspiration Trees. I’m ______ them all over our community, such as classrooms and youth shelters for homeless teens. The act is to create communication that is positive and can ______ people’s lives by just doing a ______ act of kindness. The message people receive can be kept with them as a reminder of the ______ in the world.
1.A.showed B.bought C.found D.made
2.A.difference B.mark C.rule D.promise
3.A.counting B.collecting C.accepting D.placing
4.A.hung B.bought C.removed D.threw
5.A.ordered B.allowed C.encouraged D.chosen
6.A.short B.hidden C.positive D.important
7.A.carrying B.sending C.leaving D.exchanging
8.A.remember B.keep C.deliver D.rewrite
9.A.amazing B.strange C.direct D.painful
10.A.room B.tree C.card D.pen
11.A.raised B.earned C.borrowed D.received
12.A.running B.organizing C.putting D.storing
13.A.limit B.expand C.influence D.replace
14.A.private B.simple C.creative D.brave
15.A.good B.honesty C.politeness D.richness
Heart disease is the leading cause of disability and death worldwide. 1. With that in mind, if you knew that you could help keep your heart healthy by eating just a little bit less every day- about six standard-size Oreos’ worth of calories-would you?
Researchers have found evidence that just a modest reduction in our daily caloric intake (摄入) could have protective benefits for our hearts. They drew on data from the Long term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (ERIE) study. According to the study, the experiment began with 218 participants, all of whom were normal weight or just slightly overweight and between the ages of 21 and 50. Researchers started 143 participants on a diet that reduced their caloric intake by 25%. 2.. In the end, 188 participants completed the study-117 with caloric restriction and 71 without. Over two years, people in the calorie-cutting group reduced their caloric intake by an average of about 12%.
3.. They lost about 16.5 pounds on average and saw improvements, including lowered cholesterol (胆固醇) and blood pressure, on all six primary factors associated with risks to heart health. “We expected there to be some improvement on cardiometabolic (心血管代谢) factors,” says William Kraus, the study’s lead author. “4..”
Though the weight loss was relatively impressive, it wasn’t responsible for a majority of the heart benefits. After conducting further analysis, researchers determined that caloric restriction can have health benefits above and beyond those normally associated with weight loss. “5..”
A. We need to do exercise to benefit heart.
B. The others were assigned to a normal diet.
C. It can hold back negative effects of aging.
D. But we didn’t expect the degree of improvement we saw.
E. About 2,200 people in the U.S. die per day due to heart problems.
F. The experiment was carried out by comparing two different groups.
G. This reduction in calories had significant effects on the participants who ate less.
If you watched TV in the 1980s, you probably remember the Head &Shoulders advertisement warning, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
Now new research suggests that this isn’t totally true. For a paper called “The Tipping Point of Moral Change: When Do Good and Bad Acts Make Good and Bad Actors? “ published in Social Cognition, Nadav Klein and Ed O’ Brien, psychological scientists at the University of Chicago, ran several experiments designed to discover how quickly people are willing to change impressions.
In one online study of 201 participants, an office worker known as “Barbara” started off, but occasionally committed (做) a series of positive or negative actions. Sometimes she held doors for people. Other times she would cut in line. Subjects answered how long such behavior had to go on for their view of Barbara to tip in various directions.
The result? Barbara had to do nice things for more weeks to become regarded as a good person than the number of weeks she had to do bad things to become bad. Another online experiment involving 200 female participants also found that people were quick to judge when Barbara was doing wrong and much slower to believe she’d changed for the better.
“People only need to commit just a few bad actions to appear greatly changed for the worse, but need to commit many good actions to appear greatly changed for the better,” the authors write.
If you’ve made a good first impression on a group of people, don’t get too comfortable. Flub something, and they’ll quickly change their impression for the worse. But if you made a bad first impression? Then the Head & Shoulders advertisement is on to something because, as Heather Huhman, president of Come Recommended, puts it, “People are always quick to judge, and we like our opinions-we don’t like to change our minds.”
“It is difficult to change a bad first impression, but not impossible. Don’t try to force new relationships. Let relationships develop naturally and don’t do things just to make people like you. Be yourself, “ Huhman advises.
1.What did the Head & Shoulders advertisement show?
A.First impressions are lasting.
B.First impressions are not reliable.
C.First impressions can work wonders.
D.First impressions are the most natural.
2.What are the findings of the studies?
A.People are quick to judge.
B.It takes more time to become bad.
C.It’s hard to change bad impressions.
D.People always focus on bad actions.
3.What does the underlined part “Flub something” in Paragraph 6 refer to?
A.Show something. B.Do something bad.
C.Try something new. D.Keep on doing something.
4.What’s Huhman’s advice?
A.Be the real you. B.Make people like you.
C.Create a good impression. D.Ignore people’s judgements.
