Camping is a fun way to get family and friends together to enjoy the outdoors. Follow these tips to make sure your camping trip is safe and healthy. Bring safe and healthy food along on your camping trip. Eating some food may increase the risk of developing certain illnesses. Camping is a great way to get physical activity. Do things such as walking, hiking, biking and swimming to stay active during your camping trip. Be sure to bring protective equipment and take steps to avoid getting hurt during activities. Never hike or swim alone. Watch kids closely. Some wild animals carry illnesses that are dangerous for people. Avoid touching, feeding and getting near wild animals. Enjoy watching them from a safe place in their natural surroundings. Mosquitoes and other insects can cause certain illnesses. To help fight the bite, apply （敷） the drug over exposed skin. Be sure to follow directions on the package. Wear long sleeves, pants and light-colored clothing. Always prepare for the unexpected. Before you leave, check the weather report, learn about safety at your camp location, and tell family and friends your plans. Be sure to bring along a first-aid kit, a map, blankets, batteries, food, water and clothes. Know who to contact at the camp. When you return home, check your sunburn and other problems. |
Tommy loved ice cream. It was his favorite dessert. His parents let him have a small dish each night after dinner, if he ate all of his vegetables. Tommy loved eating ice cream at home. He always tried a new kind of ice cream each time. When he turned eight, he had a checkup at the doctor's office. Dr. Katz said, "It's fine to have a little ice cream once in a while, but not every night."
That night at supper, Tommy ate all his vegetables. But there was no ice cream for dessert. Instead, Mom came up with a new rule.
"If we want to eat ice cream, we'll have to earn it by walking to the ice cream stand," she said. Tommy would like to give it a try, so they decided to take their walk on Saturday afternoon. According to the map, the ice cream stand was a mile away.
Saturday was a sunny day. The sun was so bright that he had to almost close his eyes. Tommy asked, "How much farther is it?" Mom checked the map on her phone and then said, "We're not even halfway yet. Do you want to turn around?" Tommy did want to turn around, but he also wanted ice cream. Walking was the only way to get it.
The sun beat down so strongly that even Mom was sweating （流汗）. Tommy's legs felt heavy. He wanted to sit down, but there were no chairs. He wanted to give up. He looked up to tell Mom he was ready to turn around. But when he did, he could see the purple flag at the top of the ice cream stand. They were almost there! Tommy started to walk faster. He could almost taste the cool, creamy ice cream already. It was a long walk, but it was certainly worth the effort.
A foreign girl named Kris posted a sad photo online. It looked like her boyfriend made her cry. Some nice Chinese people tried to cheer her up. They asked her to find someone better. Some made funny Chinglish to make her feel happy, such as "You swan（天鹅）, he frog（青蛙）."
This became a hit with foreigners. Many found it cool, shared it a lot online and made funny pictures with it.
"I need Chinese netizens（网友） in my life who call the people that have hurt me frogs," said a foreign internet user, showing her love for the expression. Some of them wanted to know why Chinese people use "swan" and "frog" to describe this couple. After looking into it, they learned that it came from the famous old Chinese story of the beautiful swan and the ugly toad （癞蛤蟆）, and got interested in the Chinese stories behind Chinglish.
In the past, people often corrected those who spoke Chinglish because it was full of grammar mistakes. However, with globalization（全球化）, people from different countries can now share their ideas more often. Different styles of speaking English are becoming common and even accepted. English with local features can also be popular. For example, the well-known "add oil" has now appeared in the Oxford dictionary and people use it widely. The phrase shows Chinese culture.
"Once I understood the full meaning, it became much funnier," said Cody, a young man from New Zealand, when asked about "you swan, he frog". "It's great that more Chinese culture is being shared with the rest of the world," he told China Daily.
Zhongshan Eye Center at the Sun Yat-sen University has achieved a milestone in the field of eye surgery （手术）. Doctors there completed the world's first remote （远程的）, micron（纳米的） operation on animals by using an independently developed 5G robot. The operation, which took place on June 23 at the center in Guangzhou, was done by a medical team operating the robot from the Zhongshan Eye Center in Haikou.
The main part of the robot is a special arm that makes accurate （精准的） remote control possible. When doctors' hands come to treating eye problems, the common way is to put medicine directly into the eye area. But their hands shake naturally, making it difficult to be very accurate. The robot can copy tasks usually done by hand, and itperforms them smoothly and accurately.
Another advantage is that even young doctors can perform eye surgery with 5G robot's help. According to Professor Lin, the leader of the medical team, becoming a skilled eye doctor takes at least 10 years of practice. However, with the help of the robot, young doctors can achieve a high level of accuracy comparable to experienced doctors.
The third important point is that using 5G makes it possible for doctors to treat patients far away. Eye doctors can get clear and timely pictures, which makes remote operations dependable.
Still, it's important to remember that while this technology is promising, more research and tests are needed to make sure it's safe and works well for patients. "If everything goes well, 5G remote micro n eye surgery will be available to humans within half a year, "Lin said. The team will keep working hard to help develop remote medicine in China and increase national medical levels.
From April 12 to 17 this year, the Dai people celebrated their biggest event: the Water Splashing Festival.
There are more than one million Dai people in China. Most of them live in Yunnan Province. They hold the festival every year for three to seven days in mid-April. ___
The tradition of water splashing began in Persia the fifth century. ___Later, it gradually became a folk tradition of the Dai people. The festival is also widely celebrated in Thailand, Laos and some other Asian countries.
___They also hold activities of celebration. Many people send out burning lanterns into the sky. They sing and dance in the streets. And colorful dragon boat races take place on the Lancang River.
The most exciting moment of the festival is, of course, water splashing. People first go to temples and wash Buddha statues（佛像） with clean water. After that, the joyful and messy water splashing begins. People use all kinds of containers（容器） to hold water. They flood the streets to chase and play with each other. ___Splashing water expresses wishes to wash away illness and disaster. The wetter one gets, the more wishes they receive.
A. Dai people clean their houses and get haircuts. B. Everyone gets wet from head to toe. C. It also carries the wish of a happy life. D. It is part of the Dai New Year celebrations. E. It spread to China at the end of the twelfth century. |
Do you like the Water Splashing Festival? Why?（不超过15词）___
I was at the grocery（食品杂货） shop picking up last-minute thing for dinner. When I was about to leave, I 1 noticed from the corner of my eye some flowers. They were the most 2 flowers I had ever seen. They were, as I later learned, peonies（牡丹）.
I was going to buy myself flowers that I'd never done this before. On the way home, I wondered 3 I had never really been attracted （吸引） by any flowers before.
Growing up in England, my immigrant（移民） family never regarded flowers as 4 since being alive was the most important to us. Our small garden was filled with 5 , as Mom and Dad often said, "These will keep us alive if we can't get them from the shop, 6 flowers won't."
Though Mum was badly ill, she would also make flatbread. The 7 of the bread really comforted us. The taste of the flatbread 8 the pressure of our life. All these let us live in England 9 .
When Mother's Day came, Mom would say, "Why not avoid 10 money on flowers? They'll just die. Buy shoes or coats instead." So, we kids made food for her at home.
My mother passed away years ago after a long 11 . I was trapped in great pain. If she were still alive today, she'd probably 12 her head when she saw me buying flowers. She wouldn't come back. But still, I wish I'd had the chance to 13 her this beautiful flower and buy it for her on Mother's Day.
"Look, Mom," I raised my voice. "I bought myself a peony. Thank you 14 giving up your home and life to come to this country. Because of that, I could have chances that 15 never had, and so I could give myself these unnecessary but beautiful flowers."
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Over 700 years ago, Marco Polo travelled to China along the old Silk Road. Today, another___ has done the same. And she's 74 years old! Meet this cool grandmother, Vienna Cammarota.
She set out ___ the birthplace of Polo, Venice in April 2022. She ___ Marco Polo. She walked a long way— over 20,000 kilometers. She did this ___ with a backpack and two walking sticks. She also ___ out a copy of Marco Polo' s diaries to read. Finally, in August2024, she arrived in China.
China's TV show To the Wonder has made Altay in Xinjiang very popular for the ___ （民众）. They like the beautiful views and ___ （风俗） of the people there.
The TV show tells the story of Li Wenxiu, a young woman who returns to her hometown, Altay for the ___（第二） time. Then she stayed living with her mother after___ （失败） to become a writer and facing many difficulties at work.
___（它） beautiful lakes, and free lifestyle in the TV show quickly made Altay one of many young people's dream places. Flight bookings have ___（增加） by 20% and hotel bookings have doubled.
Wei Changren, the founder of a website about travel, said that it would take a long time to get to Altay and the hotels ___ （在······旁边） that place were expensive. "Many big cities don' t have ___（直接的） flights to Altay." he said. "However, visitors can enjoy Altay' s views in summer and winter ___（不同）. I think the government in Altay can take the show as a chance to make it more famous. They can also do something to speak ___（大声） for visitors to enjoy their time there."
Xue Qingqing is a student at Zhejiang University. As she moved into another dormitory（宿舍）, she found ___ note from 23 years ago, which read "study hard and make progress every day". The information on it showed that it ___（write） by a student called Fang Qin on January 21,2001.
Xue guessed that Fang was trying to encourage herself to study and wondered ___ Fang realized her dreams. "The note must be ___（help）, and she must have achieved her goals, right?" Xue wrote on the school's forum.
___（lucky）, Xue finally got in touch with Fang. "It's unbelievable that the note has been kept well for 23 years," Fang told Xue.
Now, Fang becomes the CEO of a platform and ___（study） technology. When she was18 years old, Fang felt that she had trouble dealing ___her studies. To push herself harder in the new term, she wrote a note of encouragement. Later, she became___ （hard-working） classmate in her school. "Every day I saw it as soon as I woke up, and it helped ___push myself," Fang said.
The story has warmed many people's ___ （heart） online. They say it is wonderful to see that Fang's hard work bears fruit.
□a radio host □a reporter □a music director
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（1）短文必须包括以上所有内容，可适当发挥；
（2）文中不得出现真实姓名、学校等信息；
（3）词数80~100左右：信件首尾句已给出，不计入总词数。
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Dear Mr. Smith, I'm very interested in working at the school radio station. I hope you can offer me the chance, and I am looking forward to your reply. Li Hua |
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