A campaign is being launched to encourage children to surrender 30 minutes of screen time a day to head for the great outdoors.
The newly formed Wild Network—a collaboration of nearly 400 organizations—is attempting to attract youngsters away from television and computer screens to fields, woods and parks. Members of the network include the National Trust, RSPB, Play England and the NHS. Organizers say it is the UK’s biggest ever campaign to reconnect children with nature and outdoor play, and claim it could help improve fitness, mental alertness and general well-being.
A documentary film, Project Wild Thing, will forecast the launch at more than 50 cinemas across the UK from Friday. It looks at the increasing link between children and nature.
Andy Simpson, chairman of the Wild Network, said, “The tragic truth is that kids have lost touch with nature and the outdoors in just one generation. Time spent outdoors is decreasing, roaming (漫步) ranges have fallen largely, activity levels are declining and the ability to identify common species has been lost.”
Suggestions on how to get more time in nature include collecting conkers (七叶树果),camping, snail racing, and observing autumn colour on trees.
From January, the network will aim to make suggestions on how the government can do more to get children muddy and bright-eyed.
This is not the first time the message of less screen time, more play has been brought up. Children in the 1980s were requested to do the same by the BBC TV series Why Don’t You, which somewhat confusingly called on its viewers to “switch off the TV set and go to do something less boring instead”.
1.What does the underlined word “surrender” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A.Get around. B.Give up.
C.Take up. D.Run away.
2.For what purpose is the Wild Network organized?
A.To make children read more books.
B.To help children distinguish (辨别) the natural world.
C.To get children out of too much homework from school.
D.To encourage children to participate in outdoor activities.
3.Which of the following shows that kids have lost touch with nature and the outdoors?
A.Time spent on study is decreasing.
B.Chances of traveling abroad are fewer and fewer.
C.Time spent outdoors is less and activity levels are down.
D.The ability to identify common species has been improved.
假定你是李华,你的英国笔友Mike发来邮件说他对中国的传统节日很感兴趣。请你回一 封邮件，向他介绍你喜欢的中秋节，内容包括：
1. 中国人如何庆祝中秋节；
2. 你喜欢这个节日的原因。
Dear Mike,
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.Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
I'd like to share with you my progresses on study these three years. To be honest, I was not so good at my study when I came to high school, often feel tired out and at loss. Sometimes, I was even on the point of giving up. Therefore , things began to change when my teachers and my classmates came to encourage myself one day in Grade Two. It was for their encouragement and my own thinking that resulted in my achievements in study final.
Though I am still not a top student now I have found myself filled with greatly confidence to face any difficult and challenge. There is no doubt that I am bound to fighting for my dream to the end in the coming months!
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。
I am the director of an organization in India. Without putting our hands out and1.(ask) for money from people, we give clothes, warm2.(blanket), medicine, and educational support to poor kids. Most of the time, we as a family suffer with wants and needs, but the smile we bring in the face of suffering is rewarding.
Recently, a lady in a village had a very seriously wounded foot due to injuries. The foot3.(infect) and the doctor proposed immediate surgery4.(cut) off the foot. Her husband and her four young children,5.were in school，were helpless. It might be in the middle of the night
6.I collected money from my 89-year-old mother, my daughter, and from my uncle. I added to this donation and went to the woman's house 15 kilometers away from our campus.
We handed over the donation for the7.(operate). The doctor changed his mind overnight and, 8. next day, he decided to dress the deep wound every other day for three months. The treatment continued and finally the deep, bloody wound9.(be) healed. We congratulated10. her recovery and the family of the woman is now doing well. We are so happy.
Lost & Found
That night, when I arrived at the door of my building, I noticed a man walking behind me. I thought he was a neighbor I hadn’t met. I did a _______ neighborly thing and held the door for him. But when I turned, he took away everything I had and ran away. I was _______. From then on, I looked over my _______, never fully at ease. It cost me my sense of trust in my _______.
A year passed, I got home one night and found an envelope under my door. Inside was a _______ weather-beaten driver’s license. I could _______ make it out because the address was nearly worn away. But the face on that _______ was mine. And the note in it said; Sarah Sweeney, if you still live here, call us at this _______.
Feeling _______, I walked up and down in my living room trying to think of ________ someone would contact (联系) me like this. If there’s a Mugger Playbook (抢劫犯剧本) this was the final long game! Now he’s checking my ________ to get more money?
But I called the number.
Then a(n) ________ voice of a little girl got on, “Hello! Are you Sarah Sweeney? My sister and I found your purse in the woods!”
I could ________ she was jumping up and down as she spoke. She and her younger sister carefully ________ bits of paper, pieced together the clues to find me and ________ my wallet and everything inside. I was completely ________. They were giving me a sense of relief.
I asked her, “How can I ________ you?”
“Hang on!” She pulled the phone away and ________ with her sister; then I heard “ICE CREAM!"
Twenty minutes later, I was at their door. I ________ a box of ice cream. And these two little girls gave my wallet and a renewed sense of ________.
1.A. meaningful B. smart C. polite D. necessary
2.A. robbed B. cheated C. suspected D. caught
3.A. head B. shoulder C. door D. neck
4.A. colleagues B. friends C. neighbors D. family
5.A. rotted B. new C. useful D. cheap
6.A. easily B. merely C. probably D. hardly
7.A. envelope B. license C. wallet D. note
8.A. point B. time C. number D. place
9.A. worried B. sad C. satisfied D. disappointed
10.A. why B. whether C. how D. when
11.A. room B. wallet C. address D. account
12.A. angry B. sweet C. rough D. cold
13.A. see B. notice C. understand D. tell
14.A. replaced B. unfolded C. counted D. selected
15.A. return B. check C. repair D. clean
16.A. confused B. lost C. discouraged D. moved
17.A. treat B. find C. reward D. inform
18.A. discussed B. agreed C. argued D. competed
19.A. contributed to B. handed over C. paid for D. packed up
20.A. loss B. duty C. trust D. direction
Living in a culture that is different from your own can be both an exciting and challenging experience. You have to learn different cultural practices and try to adapt to them.
1.. They talk about topics such as ages, income or marital status, which Americans think are annoying.
In China, elders are traditionally treated with enormous respect and dignity while the young are cherished and nurtured. In America, the goal of the family is to encourage independence, particularly that of the children. 2.
Chinese people have different meanings to define friends.3.. Friendship means lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other whatever help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends and drinking friends.
As is well known, Chinese like to save.4.. It is different in the USA, where far fewer families are saving money for emergencies and education than Chinese people.
5. If you achieve something in the US, it's because you are great. While in China, if you achieve something it's because the team, or family, or company is great. Everything you do gets attributed to the greater whole, while in America individual virtues are celebrated.
A.Just hanging out together from time to time is not friendship
B.American people put more emphasis on business and virtues
C.Chinese people value education and career more than Americans
D.Unlike Chinese, older Americans seldom live with their children
E.They are always conservative when they are planning to spend money
F.Basically China values the community and the US values the individual
G.Chinese people do not have the same concept of privacy as Americans do
