罗斯四月份就要返回学校了。
Rose is ________ __________come back to school in April.
我有得出来她极力躲避我的目光。
I can see she's trying hard to __________ ___________my eyes.
Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are in the shape of a full moon on the Mid-Autumn night. They carry people's wishes to the families they love and miss.
There are many traditional folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang'e is the most touching. Chang'e was Hou Yi's beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him magic medicine to thank him. Whoever took this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to take it with Chang'e. However, a bad man, Pang Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not at home. Chang'e refused to give it to him and took it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang'e could come back.
After this, people started the traditional of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families.
1.The food people usually enjoy on Mid-Autumn night: __________________
2.The most touching story about the Mid-Autumn Festival: _________________
3.Adjective that describes Hou Yi's feeling when he didn't see his wife: ____________
4.The activities to celebrate this festival: __________________
5.Please find the sentence in the passage that has the same meaning as "He put the fruits and desserts that she likes best in the garden quickly"（请在本文中找与划线句子意思相同的句子) __________________________________________________
During the summer vacation, 1. exchange student named Wang Ying 2.(get)to Washington, the capital of America. Before that she had learned the basic customs of the USA. For example, Americans greet each other by shaking hands instead of bowing 3. kissing.
It's good manners to knock 4.the door before entering others' homes. Table manners are important, for example, putting elbows on the table is 5.(polite). She realized that good manners and customs are of value and worth learning.
When she got there, her host family went out of their way 6.(make) her feel at home. After all she is Chinese, and she had trouble communicating with them. She got upset. 7. their help, she made a good effort to practice spoken English. Gradually, she was used to 8.(talk) with them in English. Now she 9.(feel) relaxed communicating with 10.(foreigner).
A young poor couple bought a big house from two elderly sisters. 1. The house was quite nice and the couple bought it at a low price. So they were very happy.
2. The couple were a little worried how they could keep the old house warm. The house didn't have any fireplaces(壁炉) or heaters.
At first, they planned to buy some heaters for the long cold winter. But later, they thought that if the elderly sisters could stay warm and comfortable in the old house during the winter in the past years, so could they. 3.
Winter arrived and temperatures soon dropped below zero. 4. Frost(霜)covered the insides of its walls. Life inside the house became so hard.
5. He called the elderly sisters to ask them how they managed to keep the house warm during the winter.
After speaking to them on the phone, the husband told his wife, "For the last 30 years, the sisters have spent every winter on vacation in Thailand. "
A.However, winter was not far away at the time.
B.Finally, the husband couldn't stand it anymore.
C.They lived there for 30 years.
D.But they couldn't afford those expensive machines.
E.The large house became very cold.
F.So they just decided to wait for winter to come and did not make any preparations.
G.The wife managed to make the house warm.
Do you try to save electricity(电)and magazines at home? Do you make your bed every day? Read about the home habits of Americans. Are they the same as yours?
Lights out | Saving magazines |
Are you careful about saving electricity? 25% of people turn off the lights when they leave a room. 8% never do. 80% leave the lights on When they go out in the evening. | How long do you save magazines? About half the population throws away old ones after six months. But 20% keep them for years and years. |
Clean and tidy | Making beds and doing dishes |
Are you an organized person?13% of people like to keep the rooms clean and tidy. The common home has fourteen cleaning products around the house. | 74% of people make their beds every morning. 5% never do. And 3% actually change their sheets(床单)every day. Do you wash the dishes right after eating? 58% of Americans do, but 5%let theirs sit for several days. |
1.80% of Americans go out in the evening with the lights on.______
2.One fifth of Americans keep magazines for years and years. ______
3.Most Americans like to keep the rooms clean and tidy. _______
4.The people who make the beds are as many as those who wash the dishes every day. ______
