Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her _________ was to go to the post office every day and _________ the company mail. One day in December, she _________ a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus _________ on the corner of the street. Each day she _________ her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and _________ her a Merry Christmas.
At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Claus _________ stood in the cold wind. _________ she dropped her coins into his bowl. she handed him a pair of gloves.
A week later, a(n) _________ Santa Claus was standing there. ''What happened to the other Santa Claus? '' she asked. He told her, ''He's very __________ today. '' She prayed for his health.
Later that day, a colleague came into her office __________. ''I don't know what I’m going to do. '' ''What's wrong? '' she asked. ''It's my ex-husband, '' her colleague __________. ''I don't have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, __________ my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year. '' The lady __________ her colleague. ''I'm sure everything will __________. It's Christmas. Believe in miracles (奇迹). ''
That evening, she told her husband about her colleague's __________. ''I know we don't have much money to __________, but I'd like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We'll just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldn't afford to buy anything for __________ but we still had a wonderful Christmas. '' Her husband smiled. ''Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do. ''
She reached up and held him. Warmth spread __________ her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus — and he had __________ her!
1.A.family B.life C.job D.religion
2.A.receive B.pick up C.answer D.go through
3.A.noticed B.watched C.sensed D.followed
4.A.performing B.waiting C.playing D.standing
5.A.earned B.counted C.saved D.threw
6.A.wish B.send C.offer D.tell
7.A.even B.still C.just D.yet
8.A.Although B.If C.Since D.After
9.A.honest B.new C.considerate D.strong
10.A.sick B.poor C.cold D.sad
11.A.in fright B.in shock C.in tears D.in trouble
12.A.concluded B.decided C.commented D.continued
13.A.or B.so C.but D.otherwise
14.A.argued with B.amused C.laughed at D.comforted
15.A.work out B.come back C.run out D.open up
16.A.message B.situation C.suggestion D.example
17.A.lend B.lose C.help D.pay
18.A.ourselves B.themselves C.us D.others
19.A.off B.to C.among D.through
20.A.relaxed B.married C.doubted D.shaped
You don’t have to break your back to create a yard that’s both beautiful and kind to Mother Nature. These environmentally smart ideas will turn your home turf (草地) into a small garden. 1.
Let the grass grow.
Cut grass less often, 2.. It will help grass survive dry periods of time in warmer months. That’s because roots will grow deeper and grass thicker, which means fewer pests, less disease, and a decreased need for chemical intervention.
3..
You can act before 10 a.m, when the air is cool. Watering in late afternoon is the next good choice. Water near the base of plants, slowly delivering the good stuff right to the roots. For lawns, water long and deep once a week.
Get keen on composting（肥料）.
Compost isn’t called gardener’s gold for nothing. It keeps kitchen leftover out of landfills and enriched soil with much-needed nutrients. 4. Vegetables and tea bags, eggshells, dry leaves are all fair game.
Give bees the green-carpet treatment
Honeybees help pollinate（授粉）75 percent of the flowering plants and nearly 75 percent of food crops. Scientists say many important pollinators are disappearing. Creating a garden with plants which flower at different times of the year will benefit pollinators throughout the growing season.5..
A.Water the right way.
B.Many will save your money too.
C.Dry leaves add nutrients to the soil.
D.Make the backyard as beautiful as possible.
E.so it gets a few inches longer than you’re used to.
F.It also reduces dependency on chemical fertilizers.
G.Whenever possible, choose native plants with a variety of flower colors and shapes.
Stress under the novel coronavirus
The first national survey of the psychological impact of the novel coronavirus (新型冠状病毒) collected data between Jan 31 and Feb 10. It found that 35 percent of people suffer psychological stress, and the level of the stress was to do with various factors.
According to the research, the stress level was associated with sex, age and education. Female showed higher psychological stress than male. People aged between 18 and 30 showed the highest level of stress. They can get much information from social media, which can easily cause stress. The elderly have also been psychologically impacted, since this widespread disease is most likely to kill older patients. Furthermore, people with higher education tended to have more stress for their knowledge of health.
Further, people may have higher stress due to their jobs. It is evident that migrant workers (外来务工人员) have the highest level of stress among all workers because they worry about the virus carried in public transports when returning to their jobs, about work delays and loss of income as they stop working, and about job opportunities that may dry up before the cities they work in return to full operations.
In addition, stress levels have something to do with region for its local medical resources, efficiency of public health system, prevention and control measures. For example, Shanghai is at high risk because of the large population of migrant workers, but the stress level is not in the high level. This may be because Shanghai has one of the best public health systems in China, according to the research.
Ultimately, the prevention and control measures taken by the Chinese government have made people’s stress decrease. Still, based on the research, psychologists suggested more attention be paid to young adults and migrant workers who have higher stress.
1.What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A.Stress level was related to sex, age and education.
B.Young adults showed the highest level of stress.
C.Old people showed high level of stress.
D.Educated people tended to have more stress.
2.According to the survey, which kind of people may suffer higher stress?
A.Well-educated people. B.Migrant workers.
C.The elderly. D.All above.
3.According to the research, why isn't Shanghai in the high level of stress?
A.Shanghai is a beautiful place with fresh air.
B.Shanghai has large population of migrant workers.
C.Shanghai has much more healthy persons than other cities.
D.Shanghai enjoys one of the best public health systems in China.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.A large percentage of people suffered psychological stress.
B.Chinese government's control measures lowered people's stress.
C.Shanghai has the largest population of migrant workers.
D.Male tended to have more stress.
It’s a common belief that the roles actors play might somehow reflect their true personalities. It’s usually not true, but British actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 34, is an exception.
In September, 2019 Waller-Bridge took home three Emmy awards for her work on Fleabag — best writing in a comedy series, best lead actress, and best comedy series.
Her success is partly because of her family. Descended (遗传) from British nobility, Waller-Bridge was brought up in a free environment. Her mother always told her, “You can be whatever you want if you imagine it.” So Waller-Bridge broke all the rules about what a “good” girl should do. “Our laws and moral codes don’t apply — she lives ... without fear of consequence,” The Sun noted.
That fearlessness extends to being authentic (真实的) in her writing and acting. Unlike the can-do heroines and strong, successful women in many TV dramas, Waller-Bridge shows an imperfect but real character. Just like the character Fleabag, who always found a way to say or do the wrong thing, Waller-Bridge feels her life is a mess. “It resonated (共鸣) with the lives of stressed-out women everywhere in reality — doing their best to find balance in their lives,” a viewer wrote on US movie website IMDb. Variety magazine even calls her an “all-around icon”.
Villanelle in Killing Eve, another hit TV series developed by Waller-Bridge, was a little bit violent but showed no interest for the rules others created, which made many people see themselves in her.
“People have been scared to write characters like these. But I think, now, women are so relieved to have this new template (样板，人设). And, aren’t we all a bit of everything?”Waller-Bridge said in an interview with Indian Express.
With such courage and sincerity, Waller-Bridge is, without a doubt, a “golden girl” in Hollywood, Australian news website The New Daily commented.
1.What is Waller-Bridge good at?
A.designing B.writing reports
C.directing films D.performing
2.Who definitely interviewed Waller-Bridge according to the passage?
A.The Sun B.Variety magazine
C.Indian Express D.The New Daily
3.Which is the most impressive characteristic of Waller-Bridge according to the media?
A.Staying true B.Being talented
C.Being hardworking D.Being brave
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
