假定你是李华，你的英国笔友John非常关心你，来信询问你在这个“史上最长”的寒假中，除了学习之外，还做了什么有意义的事情或学会了什么新技能，希望你能分享一下。请你结合自己防疫期间的实际情况给他回信，内容包括：
1. 表示感谢；
2. 简单介绍这件事情或技能及其意义。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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单词拼写
1.There are flights to Dalian, and the city has good air connections with most large cities in China, but you need to make r___________ in advance.
2.Thousands are ___________(不顾一切地) trying to leave their battered homes
3.The ______________(纪念碑) to the hero was set up last year.
4.The setting sun c _____ an orange glow over the mountains.
5.There is ____________(共同的，普遍的) agreement as to who should become chairman.
6.At times this balance in nature is d__________(打扰，扰乱), resulting in a number of possibly unforeseen effects.
7.A wealthy man came to their r________(援救) with a generous donation.
8.Those people’s r____________ (抵制，反抗)to change has nearly destroyed the industry.
9.The company has u___________(承担)a full investigation into the accident but found nothing so far.
10.They were accused of a____________ their power to keep prices artificially high.
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。
Person of the Year in the Category of Cultural Influence
Picture a young Chinese woman, 1. (dress) in traditional clothing, picking flowers in a field to create make-up for her cheeks, making a sofa from bamboo and cooking up all sorts of delicious Chinese food by herself. It may sound unreal, 2. such a person does exist in real life.
Li Ziqi, 30, has become one of China’s most popular 3. (celebrity) with 9 million followers on YouTube, 34 million on Douyin and 22 million on Weibo.
Li Ziqi’s videos 4. (feature) her cooking and creating DIY products greatly attract people living in big cities. To our 5. (amaze), she does it all without using any modern technology or electricity.
6. dominate her videos are scenes of picking seasonal ingredients (原料) from her own garden and sometimes in the mountains and turning them into tasty dishes on her wood-fired pot. Li stresses the seasons in her cooking, 7. China’s traditional 24 Solar Terms (节气) also do, and makes food suitable for the particular climate.
There came an intense debate about the image of China and its culture she presented. She 8. (accuse) of presenting 9. outdated image of the country by some critics. Nevertheless, state broadcaster CCTV and Peoples Daily praised her for her initiative (首创) to help rural youth become rich.
Li ziqi, by telling an 10. (inspire) China story, is promoting traditional Chinese culture to an international audience.
As is known to all, most stories of kindness do not begin with formerly drug-addicted celebrity (名人) bad boys. Mine does.
When this ___took place, I was accompanying my grandmother at a huge garden party. Suddenly, Robert Downey Jr., in a nice cream-colored suit, came in. I pointed out this big movie star to Grandma ____, but she was far more interested in piling her paper plate with cheese.
As my 80-year-old grandmother rose for the _______after the party, she fell into a wheelchair ramp (坡道) nearby. The sharp ramp ______her leg open and it was bleeding.
I should have quickly taken control of the situation— but due to my blood faint, I didn’t. Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. _______.
He called an ambulance immediately, and asked someone to ____a blanket. He took off his suit and _____his suit around her leg. The cream color turned dark red. Robert surely knew how to speak to her, _____, distract her. He stayed with my grandmother until the ambulance came, _____her hand and telling her she was breaking his heart by leaving so early. I hurried into the ambulance without a word, feeling too shy to thank him.
Some 15 years after that garden party, and five years since he’d been set free from prison for possession of drugs in his car, I came across Robert in a fancy restaurant. I was ____to respect people’s privacy and never ______someone having a meal. But on this day, I decided to _______the code.
“I don’t have any ____if you remember this...” and I told him the story. “I just wanted to tell you that it was simply the kindest act I’ve ever ______.”
It’s never too late to express our appreciation for kindness which lies in everyone, even a celebrity bad boy. ______, appreciation itself is a sort of kindness.
1.A.party B.kindness C.accident D.story
2.A.excitedly B.surprisingly C.fortunately D.successfully
3.A.garden B.wheelchair C.star D.exit
4.A.tore B.broke C.cut D.pushed
5.A.got across B.turned up C.got ready D.calmed down
6.A.buy B.rent C.lend D.fetch
7.A.tied B.covered C.placed D.pulled
8.A.instead B.for example C.otherwise D.or rather
9.A.shaking B.waving C.holding D.pressing
10.A.persuaded B.born C.raised D.forced
11.A.bother B.talk to C.stare at D.upset
12.A.abandon B.set C.follow D.improve
13.A.idea B.trouble C.doubt D.interest
14.A.called for B.witnessed C.heard of D.performed
15.A.However B.After all C.Therefore D.On the contrary
Imagine an area 34 times the size of Manhattan. Now imagine it covered ankle-deep in plastic waste—a total of about 19 billion pounds of garbage. 1..
“We’re being overwhelmed(淹没) by our waste,”said Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer who led the 2015 study that determined this astonishing number. 2., unless something is done to stop the tide of garbage.
Plastic—a widely-used material—has in many ways been a benefit to humans but it has also caused a growing problem. Today, plastics are the No.1 type of garbage found in the sea. Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit that organizes an annual coastal cleanup event worldwide, said plastic waste makes up around 85 percent of the garbage collected from beaches and oceans.
Ocean Conservancy says plastics are believed to threaten(威胁)at least 600 different wildlife species(物种). 3.; a growing body of evidence suggests humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat. A research suggests some plastics could be poisonous to humans, and could potentially increase the risk of health problems.
4.. At the Economist World Ocean Summit this week, ten nations announced to reduce plastic sea liter as part of UN Environment's CleanSeas campaign. 5.Corporations also have a role, as do individuals. We can start by thinking twice before using single-use plastic products—and when we do use them, we should take care to properly throw them off or recycle.
A.The following is what we should do
B.And it’s not just wildlife that’s threatened
C.And this figure is likely to double by 2025
D.But it’s not just countries that need to do their part
E.By 2050,that figure is expected to rise to 1000 pieces
F.That’s how much plastic waste ends up in our oceans every year
G.All of us have an important role to play in dealing with the problems
For grown-ups, an afternoon snooze (打盹) is often easier said than done. But many of us have probably experienced just how simple it can be to catch some sleep in a gently rocking hammock (吊床). By examining brain waves in sleeping adults, researchers reported in the June 21 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that they now have evidence to explain why that is.
“It is a common belief that rocking causes sleep: we fall asleep in a rocking chair soon and, since ancient times, we cradle our babies to sleep,” said Sophie Schwartz of the University of Geneva. “Yet, how this works had remained a mystery. The goal of our study was made up of two parts: to test whether rocking does indeed improve sleep, and to understand how this might work at the brain level.”
Schwartz, Michel Mühlethaler, and their colleagues Laurence Bayer and Irina Constantinescu asked twelve adult volunteers to nap on a custommade bed or “experimental hammock” that could either remain still or rock gently. All participants were good sleepers who didn’t typically nap and did not suffer from excessive sleepiness during the day. Each participant took two 45•minute afternoon naps, one with the bed still and one with the bed in motion, while their brain activity was monitored.
“We observed a faster transition to sleep in each and every subject in the swinging condition,” Mühlethaler said. “Surprisingly, we also observed a dramatic boosting of certain types of sleeprelated brain waves.”
More specifically, rocking increased the length of stage N2 sleep, a form of non•rapid eye movement sleep that normally occupies about half of a good night’s sleep. The rocking bed also had a lasting effect on brain activity, increasing slow brain waves and bursts of activity known as sleep spindles (纺锤体).
Schwartz and Mühlethaler say the next step is to find out whether rocking can improve longer periods of sleep and to find out whether it may be useful for the treatment of sleep disorders, such as insomnia (失眠).
1.What does the June 21 issue of Current Biology tell us according to Paragraph 1?
A.It is more difficult for grown•ups to fall asleep.
B.People today like to sleep in a rocking hammock.
C.Many people nowadays suffer from excessive sleepiness.
D.There comes the evidence for why rocking benefits people’s sleep.
2.What can we learn from Sophie Schwartz’s words?
A.Her team aimed to answer two questions.
B.The study is going to benefit babies a lot.
C.The study had been kept secret before being finished.
D.People used to believe rocking was bad for sleep.
3.What finding was beyond the researchers’ expectation?
A.The rocking seemed to improve participants’ sleep quality.
B.All the participants fell asleep faster in the swinging condition.
C.Some participants couldn’t fall asleep in the swinging condition.
D.Participants had a tendency to sleep excessively in the swinging bed.
4.What is the best title?
A.Take a Snooze Easier Said than Done
B.Want a Faster Sleep? Change Your Sleeping Habits
C.Need a Nap? Find Yourself a Hammock
D.Suffer from Sleep Disorder? New Treatment Found
