Do you want to go out to eat with your kids? Here are some restaurants that are good for kids in downtown Los Angeles.
Grand Café
Tel: (213) 356-4155
Do you need a place that opens as early as your kids wake up? Then go to Grand Café. Families can order breakfast off the menu or enjoy the buffet. Because of the variety, buffets seem to be an easy option for families with picky eaters. There are many options for the different moods of all family members.
Tel: (213) 623-8301
Nickel Diner was listed in Los Angeles Magazines as one of “LA’s Best New Restaurants”. The space is small, but the menu is wonderfully large. The atmosphere is quiet and relaxed, which makes it easy to bring the kids. One of the most attractive things about Nickel Diner is its unique menu of breakfast foods.
Lucky Strike Bowl
Tel: (213) 542-4880
There’s nothing like a good game of bowling to add some happiness to the family outing. Why not take the family to a place where you can bowl while eating? Try their homemade Belgium fries, the mini burgers, flatbread pizza, or crispy tacos. Downtown LA’s Lucky Strike Bowl will never make you and your kids disappointed.
Kula
Tel: (213) 290-9631
Kula is an exciting sushi bar and is a big hit for little sushi eaters. Kula’s concept includes providing “a high standard of natural organic foods” and they use 100% organic rice. If your child is not a sushi eater, there are also many other options.
1.Who would most probably go to eat at Grand Café?
A.People who love organic foods.
B.People who want to play while eating.
C.People who love a quiet eating environment.
D.People who want to serve themselves in a restaurant.
2.Which of the following aspects of Kula most attractive to eaters?
A.It has many other options. B.It offers very healthy foods.
C.It allows kids to run around. D.It offers different kinds of rice.
3.What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To encourage people to go to Los Angeles.
B.To compare some kid-friendly restaurants.
C.To recommend some nice foods in the city.
D.To recommend some kid-friendly restaurants.
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this ________.
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and ________. All the students were working on a ________. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no ________ of stopping. I walked down the row and found everyone was writing sentences, ________ things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my ________, so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on but I noticed she too was ________ in writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” ……I felt it best not to ________.
After another ten minutes, the students were ________ to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoe box. Then Donna _____ hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked(塞进) it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel(铁铲) from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to ________. The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the ________ of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and ________ your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave(墓地).
Donna delivered the eulogy(悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to ________ the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is ________ by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in ________.”
She turned the students ________ and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the ________ of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone(墓碑) from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student ________ and said, “I Can’t,” Donna ________ pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
1.A.job B.project C.observation D.course
2.A.checked B.watched C.noticed D.waited
3.A.task B.computer C.problem D.farm
4.A.scenes B.senses C.marks D.signs
5.A.discussing B.doing C.describing D.drawing
6.A.curiosity B.suspect C.sympathy D.worry
7.A.trapped B.strict C.busy D.successful
8.A.insert B.interrupt C.talk D.request
9.A.taught B.shown C.forced D.instructed
10.A.added B.wrote C.made D.folded
11.A.cry B.pray C.dig D.play
12.A.back B.bottom C.top D.edge
13.A.drop B.raise C.fall D.lift
14.A.keep B.thank C.forgive D.honor
15.A.remembered B.punished C.removed D.replaced
16.A.silence B.heart C.peace D.memory
17.A.down B.up C.off D.around
18.A.birth B.passing C.loss D.starting
19.A.awoke B.reminded C.forgot D.apologized
20.A.simply B.hardly C.seriously D.angrily
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“Poor but honest.” “The deserving poor.” These words always come to my mind 1. I think of “the poor”. But I also think of people 2., perhaps through alcohol or drugs,have ruined not only their own lives but also the lives of others in order to give way to their own pleasure. Perhaps alcoholism and drug addiction really are “diseases”, as many people say, but my own feeling-based, of course, not on any serious study, is that most alcoholics and drug addicts belong to the “undeserving poor”. And that is largely 3. I don’t give spare change to beggars.
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The animals 1. (keep) together in small spaces, with no privacy and little opportunity2. mental and physical exercise. This results in unusual and self-destructive behavior 3. (call) zoochosis. A worldwide study of zoos found that zoochosis is common among animals kept in small spaces or cages. Another study showed that elephants spend 22 percent of their time making repeated head movements or biting cage bars, and bears spend 30 percent of their time 4. (walk) back and forth, a sign of unhappiness and pain.
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Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something 1. (make) their neighborhood a trouble-free area. Tim 2. (belong) to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group meets on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s when Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community safety. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police keep their homes, streets, and 3. (family) safe.
假如你是李华,你的美国笔友Jackson打算近期来中国作为交流生学习汉语和和中国文化,但不确定去哪个大学,所以来信征求你的建议,请你给他回信,内容包括:
1. 你所推荐的大学;
2. 推荐理由(至少两条)。
注意:
1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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