I'm Robin Woods. I'm always the first to make a good joke and _______ my work away at the end of the day. But somehow, I'm _______ the first to be picked for teams and plays. I have always been the outcast,_______ and alone.
“This year our play will be the story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men,” our teacher, Miss Goody, ___________ the whole class. “Who would like to be Robin Hood?” I ___________ my hand up into the air. Of course, everybody wanted the biggest and best part, especially bossy Bradley.
“_________ for a part and I’ll test you on Monday and decide who will be best for each part,” said Miss Goody, handing out pages of the script. “… And of course, we’ll need lots of trees to be the forest.”
“You’ll be a little baby bush…,” Bradley_______ me. “Or a teeny-tiny leaf.”
I_______ him and took a copy of the Robin Hood words and began my practicing on the way home.
On Monday I did some brilliant acting and I remembered all my _________. I got the part. Bradley got the part of Little John. Becky was one of the ladies-in-waiting. Jordan was the minstrel(吟游艺人), who told the________ in song with a little strum of the guitar every now and then.
We had three weeks to learn our parts. Becky offered to________ with me. She played Little John's part and gave me ________ on fighting. Bradley, who still really wanted to be Robin Hood, often came over to watch. He seemed to be waiting for me to make mistakes. I felt________, with knocking knees and cold feet. But I was determined to be the best Robin Hood ever. I had got the part of a hero and a hero I shall be.
At home, Granddad came to help me. He could play the guitar and even made up a minstrel dance. He was really getting into the minstrel’s________, which cheered me up and made learning my part much easier and funny.
In the final dress rehearsal that afternoon, Bradley was really getting carried away in that fighting-to-get-across-the-river________. He was shouting louder and louder and pushing harder and harder until he lost his ________ and fell off the bridge. He had hurt his ankle! Worse still, Jordan had got a flu. Probably we had to ________ that night’s performance for it was just impossible to find two new actors who could learn the parts before________ and, most importantly, could play the guitar. Girls wailed and sobbed. Boys sighed and shuffled their feet.
It was I that put forward a________:Granddad could play the part of the minstrel; Becky did the part of Little John and Carly could have her part as lady-in-waiting. Miss Goody sighed with relief. Everybody burst into tears of joy.
The performance that night was a great success. I felt like a________.
1.A.tidy B.throw C.push D.drag
2.A.sometimes B.frequently C.always D.never
3.A.unattended B.unassisted C.unwanted D.unmoved
4.A.taught B.gathered C.dismissed D.lectured
5.A.seized B.trembled C.shot D.shook
6.A.Look out B.Try out C.Stand out D.Speak out
7.A.blamed B.threatened C.teased D.cheated
8.A.admired B.abused C.respected D.ignored
9.A.stories B.texts C.passages D.lines
10.A.tale B.truth C.result D.difference
11.A.dance B.sing C.perform D.practice
12.A.knives B.tips C.guns D.signals
13.A.nervous B.disappointed C.important D.honored
14.A.part B.team C.band D.house
15.A.accident B.incident C.scene D.event
16.A.sword B.stick C.position D.balance
17.A.cancel B.give C.improve D.evaluate
18.A.dawn B.dusk C.midday D.midnight
19.A.theory B.solution C.budget D.principle
20.A.director B.composer C.hero D.teacher
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The shadow puppet play Monkey King and Coronavirus (冠状病毒), 1. (create) by the Beijing Longzaitian Shadow Puppet Theater, has been broadcast (broadcast) online since February 14 with nearly 5 million hits on the internet. In the show, the Monkey King hears about the novel coronavirus outbreak, so 2.(him) goes to Wuhan, the capital city of Central China's Hubei province 3. (fight) the disease.
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Then I began to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled. It smelled like...sunshine. Like sunshine and wild grass and pomegranates and rain! I couldn’t stop breathing it in, filling my lungs again and again with the1.(sweet) smell I’d ever known.
Bryce called up, “Are you stuck?” 2.brought me down to earth. Carefully I backed up, prized strips in hand, and as I worked my way down, I could see Bryce circling the tree, 3.(watch)me to make sure I was okay.
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Then one day, Anne took Helen out to the well. Anne put Helen’s hand 1.the water. As the water flowed over one hand, Anne 2.(spell) “w-a-t-e-r” into the other hand. Then 3.(sudden), Helen had a burst of understanding; the movement of the 4.(finger) meant the cool water flowing over her hand. This precious knowledge gave her hope and joy. Finally, the world of words was opening up to her.
Directions: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
请以下列词语为关键词写一篇英语短文。
confidence role believe success
内容:
1.自己或他人的一次经历;
2.你的感受。
注意:
1.必须使用所给4个关键词;
2.文中不得使用真实姓名和学校名称;
3.词数为120个左右。
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Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
How we look and how we appear to others probably worry us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment.
Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy’s hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats; more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical pattern in fashion. In the 1920’s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War II, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter and the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the “unity” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion of the top fashion houses.
1.What do the fashion magazines or TV advertisements claim to bring us?(No more than 1 word)
2.Why does the writer take President Kennedy as an example?(No more than 12 words)
3.What does the writer try to explain by talking about short skirts? (No more than 7 words)
4.Why are jeans so popular according to the writer? (No more than 10 words)