There are plenty of things to do while at home, from watching heartwarming TV to indoor fitness, but if you want to do something with the whole family, a board game is the perfect activity.
Telestrations
It is like a combination of the whisper game Telephone and Pictionary. Players draw a word and pass their sketch to the player next to them, who writes down the word they think the first player draws. The next player draws the word the previous player writes down, and the game continues in this way until the final drawing or description comes out wildly different from the original one. It is most popular among kids.
Catan
A slightly more involved game than Risk or Monopoly, Catan, previouly known as Settlers of Catan or Settlers, has become popular in the past decade or so beyond board game enthusiasts. In the game, which has many expansions available if you get bored with the original, players become “settlers”, each trying to build up individual settlements while trading resources. The bigger your settlement, the more points, and the first to a set number wins.
Ticket to Ride
It is an easy-to-understand game that is about something as simple as trains. Players use colored train cars that they are able to obtain by collecting cards of the same color to create train routes across a map of the U. S. Expansion packs have many other maps to choose from. Bigger train routes give you more points, as do building the routes shown on the secret ticket cards you draw at the beginning of the game.
Lords of Waterdeep
This board game from the makers of Dungeons Dragons is definitely more complex but is one of the most enjoyable games once you understand all the rules. Beautifully designed in fantasy style, Waterdeep is a “worker placement game”, in which players use agents to gather resources to complete quests, which generate victory points. Whoever has the most at the end of the game wins.
1.In which of the following board games is drawing needed?
A.Telestrations.
B.Catan.
C.Ticket to Ride.
D.Lords of Waterdeep.
2.Who will be the winner in Catan?
A.The one becoming the first settler.
B.The one getting needed points first.
C.The one gathering the most resources.
D.The one creating the most train routes.
3.What do the four board games have in common?
A.They have many expansions.
B.They ask players to get points.
C.They involve more than one player.
D.They are easy to understand and play.
假定你是李华，在得知东京奥运会推迟至明年的消息后，需要将之前在Airbnb上预订的房间取消，并希望退回订金，请给你的房东Abe先生写一封邮件，要点如下:
1. 写信目的；
2. 表达歉意,解释原因；
3. 期待明年造访东京。
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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Dear Mr. Abe,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
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I used to go fishing with my father. Initially, I consider fishing is a piece of cake—sitting or waiting for fish to bite. I sat in there for almost one hour, yet I got nothing. Impatiently and annoyed, I intended to quit. “Be focused and wait.” said my father. Have nothing else to do, I followed his advise. I calmed down and concentrated on the fishing pole. Another two hour passed and I finally gained his reward. The experience has taught me what all things are difficult at beginning. As long as you make efforts and hang on, you'll succeed.
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In the ongoing fight against COVID-19, gritting one’s teeth and carrying on has characterized much about life in Wuhan these past months. “Wuhan people experienced it first-hand.” said Hui Yan, a Wuhan native 1. recovered from the coronavirus. “Our friends got sick. Our friends and relatives died. Right before our eyes, one 2. one, they left us. They have a deeper understanding of this disaster in 3. (compare) with people in other cities.” In February, Ms. Yan 4. (spend) 15 days fighting the virus in Huoshenshan, one of the city's newly built coronavirus hospitals.
During the past two months, with the lockdown lifted, growing numbers of families 5. (be) out to take in the sunshine and fresh air in parks along the Yangtze River. Older residents have started gathering again in small groups 6. (chat) or play chess. Children are a rare sight and always appear to be under the careful watch of parents. More shops have reopened, often 7. (set) up street-front counters so that customers can buy vegetables, alcohol, and other goods without entering. Companies in Wuhan have been 8. (caution) about calling their 9. (employ) back to work, contributing to the revival of the city life. Yet there still remains 10. tough test for the city to balance pandemic (疫情) control and economic growth.
My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing the household chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner(真空吸尘器) bag and ___________ things the machine did not suck up.
Twenty years later, in 1978, I was doing chores at home alongside my ___________. One day the vacuum cleaner was screaming away, and I had to ___________ the bag because I could not find a new one to replace it. With this lifelong hatred of the way the machine worked, I decided to make a ___________ vacuum cleaner.
Easier said than done, of course. I didn't ___________ that l would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a ___________ that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes(设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our ___________. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into ___________. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to ___________ the problem.
I just had a passion for the vacuum cleaner as a product, but I ____________ thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980 s, I started trying to ____________ licensing agreements for my technology. The reality was very different, ____________. The major vacuum makers had built a business model based on the ____________ from bags. No one would license my idea, not because it was a (an) ____________ one, but because it was bad for business.
That gave me the courage to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines ____________ mine. I had to fight legal battles to protect the patents on my vacuum cleaner. However, I was still in ____________ difficulties until 1993, when my bank manager personally ____________ Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million. Then I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a ____________ in Britain.
Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing ____________ the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. You are not ____________ to any rules-in fact, the stranger and riskier your idea, the better.
1.A.making out B.picking up C.holding onto D.noting down
2.A.porter B.designer C.dad D.wife
3.A.desert B.empty C.fill D.pack
4.A.waterproof B.silent C.cheap D.bagless
5.A.realize B.regret C.doubt D.recall
6.A.compromise B.process C.bargain D.choice
7.A.babies B.bags C.sheep D.pennies
8.A.debt B.success C.quarrel D.wealth
9.A.facing B.settling C.raising D.avoiding
10.A.also B.occasionally C.nearly D.never
11.A.sell B.break C.get D.conclude
12.A.though B.instead C.as usual D.in theory
13.A.information B.sufferings C.profits D.lesson
14.A.new B.realistic C.illegal D.bad
15.A.above B.like C.without D.beside
16.A.financial B.household C.technological D.moral
17.A.forbade B.ordered C.helped D.persuaded
18.A.failure B.joke C.hit D.patent
19.A.recovers B.beats C.arouses D.adds
20.A.open B.accustomed C.bound D.opposed
Are you a bookworm? Is your head permanently stuck in a book? 1. There are many benefits to reading. Getting into a good novel improves our literacy. But who or what encourages us to pick up a book and start reading?
Of course, when we are young, our parents and teachers inspire us by introducing us to characters that we love or hate. As a child, I loved books written by Roald Dahl, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Twits. 2. They are popular with children even today, despite competition from contemporary authors.
One modern-day children's author is J. K. Rowling, who's known for her books about the wizard, Harry Potter. 3. The UK's National Literacy Trust awarded her the title for “turning a generation of children into readers”.
4. It can also help people in difficult circumstances. The author Pat Winslow worked as a writer in prisons and found reading and discussing stories helped prisoners reflect on their patterns of behavior. She says, “very often we would have discussions about the moral compass of a character. What was the motivation of somebody? Why did they behave that way?”
Today I like to read factual books such as biographies, where you get an insight into the lives of important and well-known people. I also enjoy looking at travel books and learning about journeys and new destinations. 5.
But the main benefit of reading is the improvement it brings to our literacy. The more we do it, the better we get and who knows—one day you may become the next Tolstoy, Jackie Collins or even William Shakespeare.
A.If so, that's a good thing for you.
B.It's a good substitute if you can't visit in person.
C.Good writing can really capture our imagination.
D.Reading books is more than an enjoyable leisure time.
E.These fictional stories were funny, twisted and slightly evil.
F.Who are your favorite authors and which are your favorite books?
G.She was named as a “literacy hero” for improving people's love of reading.
