—No, I'll walk. Thanks, ____ .
—I don't know whether he is ____ to. He sometimes makes things worse.
—____ . I enjoy talking with them face to face.
— Yes. The bus started to move ______ I got on it.
— She is fine . She used to ____TV at home after supper . But now she is used to ____ out for a walk
Tom Costello was once afraid of homeless Americans. That changed seven years ago1 his wife, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, asked him to help with a holiday dinner for shelter residents ( 居 民 ). Costello remembers going to a2 and buying socks for the residents. He knew many of them were in3 of clothing. At the shelter, Costello said, he dropped a pair of4 into a bag for a woman. She asked him5 she could have socks for a friend who wasn't with her that day. He gave6 another pair. "She started to cry and told me that7 had ever given her socks before." Costello said.
That8 at the shelter helped Costello end his fear of the homeless. It also led him to set up a group called The Joy of Sox. The Joy of Sox collects socks from donators and gives them mostly to9 people. It has been expanding its reach. The10 now provides socks to shelters in 21 states and three countries.
11 socks? Costello explained that some Americans gave food, coats and other clothing to shelters. But donating socks was not something12 people thought about. And, he said, socks were very13 at keeping people warm, in cold weather. A man named Kiwi, who has lived in homeless shelters, explained that socks were important to people who spend a lot of time14 . Kiwi said most of the time he could find enough food through shelters and soup kitchens15 socks were much more difficult to get, he noted.
Costello said his hope for "The Joy of Sox" was for it to be the best sock charity in the world.
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When I was in the first year of high school, I began to do some part-time jobs. But I quickly got tired of my first job and decided ___ a change.
Then, a close friend of mine ___ me with a job at a sandwich shop in my town. It paid better and had better working hours. But I ___ it, too. However, I got to work to make money, so I kept working there ___a year.
Then at my last high school year, my best friend brought me to a farm. At that time, the farm ___ needed some people to help with farm chores. So I took this job ___ I still worked at the sandwich shop.
After a few days of working on the farm, I could do many chores by ___ and I really enjoyed the job! Anyway, I had ___ doing two jobs as well as studying at school. So I ___ made the decision to give up experiences of my life on the farm.
The flu is a common illness. Children easily catch the flu in winter months. It can pass from one person to another very quickly. Sometimes the flu is just like a common cold. In fact, it can cause serious illnesses. But don't worry. Most people can be all right without any problems. Symptoms: ◆a fever ◆a cough ◆a headache ◆a sore throat ◆feeling tired What to do: If your child gets the flu: ●Make him/her have a rest. ●Ask him/her to drink more hot water. ●Take his/her temperature often. Don't give medicine to children under 6 years old. Go to the doctor first. When the following happen to your child, you must take him/her to the hospital right away. ▲His/Her illness gets worse. ▲He/She has a severe (严重的) cough or a bad headache. ▲He/She has trouble breathing. ▲He/She has a fever and is 3 months old or younger. |
Have you tried to run or walk for exercise and then given up? If you answered yes, you should try a new kind of exercise: aquatic (水中的) exercise. Aquatic exercise is like exercise on land, but you do it in a swimming pool. More and more people are trying aquatic exercise.
Aquatic exercise feels easier than exercising on land. Why? You weigh about 90% less in the pool. It is better for your knees than running or walking. Water is about 1,000 times thicker and heavier than air. To move through the water, your body has to work four times as hard. So you can burn (燃烧) more calories (卡路里).
In fact, most people say they feel more relaxed in the water. They stop thinking about the worrying things. The cool, quiet environment makes them feel good.
But what if you are afraid of the water? No problem! There is nothing to worry about. Aquatic exercise is safe and easy to learn. It doesn't need any special skills. You don't even need to know how to swim. Aquatic exercise is for everyone.
①Animal behavior (行为) is an interesting and attractive study. Scientists research the ways animals use to look for food. They study how animals protect themselves from their predators, and which animals kill other animals for food. All of these help us understand how useful animals can be.
②Each country or culture raises some animals for food. In the United States, people mainly eat meat from cows and chickens. In other countries, people might raise sheep or buffalo for meat. These differences come in part from weather and other environmental conditions. People around the world eat all kinds of fish and shellfish from oceans and rivers. In some countries, people don't always choose some animal groups, such as dogs, for food while in other countries such animals may become people's favorite food.
③In West Africa, animals provide humans with more than food. They have been helping people do daily work for thousands of years. Horses, oxen, and other work animals pull heavy things. Elephants, camels, and other animals carry people and things from place to place. Carrier pigeons (信鸽) have been used to send messages.
④People also receive health benefits (利益) from animals. For example, dogs and cats can help calm people down. This is helpful for people in fighting illnesses. Animals can also reduce stress, helping people to draw their attention to learning new information, such as reading. When people are walking their dogs,it encourages exercise.
⑤Animals and humans share space on Earth, so keeping a healthy relationship with animals around us is in our best interest.
You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic (诗意的) Chinese?
Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions (《红楼梦》), written by Cao Xueqin(1715- 1763). Some artists made the book into an English-language opera. They first put the opera on the stage in September, 2016 in San Francisco, US. And the next year it came to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.
Many of the opera's creators have backgrounds ( 背 景 ) in both Chinese and American cultures. Their understanding of both cultures helped them to change a Chinese classic into a foreign-language opera.
The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang, a Chinese-American, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbroken tragedy ( 悲剧) so that everyone would understand it.
The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreigners understand the characters by using costumes and stage settings (布景). He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin shows up on stage, there is usually water around her on the stage.
The creators consider it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to western audience ( 观众 ). Hwang told China Daily, "I am happy to have made a contribution to the land where my parents were born."
Let's face it — all of us have our own bad habits. We may bite our nails (咬指甲). Others might break into others ' words often. Young people always stay up at night.___ Have no fear (害怕)! Today I will teach you to beat your bad habits.
___ Those bad habits would produce bad influences and would finally lead to bad results. So pay attention to yourself on personal development and build your social circle.
Recognize (辨认) the bad habit you want to break.___ If you don't believe you have a bad habit or you don't know why some things just keep happening to you over and over, get answers from the people around you. They may help recognize whether (是否) your habit is bad or not.
Decide how serious you are about breaking the habit. If you know it clearly, you will be able to achieve your goal. You can write down when, where and why you do the habit. ___ Think about what you wrote.
Think about a healthy habit that could take the place of your bad habit.___ Catch yourself doing the bad habit and stop yourself. Practice the healthy habit instead. Practice this as often as you want.The more you practice a behavior, the sooner it will become a habit.
A. All these bad habits are hard to break. B. Create as many great habits as possible. C. Habit changing always takes a long time. D. Realize bad habits have influences and results. E. Writing makes you know more about the habit. F. Knowing your bad habit will help you control it. G. Choose the good habit you would like to practice. |
A. What about you? B. What else did you do there? C. Have you sent books to them? D. It was a wonderful experience! E. She raised some money for them. F. Can you tell me something about it? G. Is it your first time to join in such activities? |
A: Hello, Li Ming. What's your plan for this summer holiday?
B: I have no idea.___
A: I'll take part in a social activity with my sister.
B: It sounds exciting.___
A: No. I have been a volunteer in a poor village. The children there don't have money to buy books.
B: ___
A: Yes. I bought them 30 books with my pocket money.
B:___
A: I helped them with their lessons. And now we are good friends.
B: Wow!___ I'd like to join you.
A: Great! I'm sure we'll have a meaningful holiday.
写作要点：1. What sports do you and your parent(s) often do together?2. When and where do you and your parent(s) exercise? 3. What benefits have you got from doing so?
要求：1．短文应包括所有的写作要点，条理清晰，行文连贯， 可适当发挥；2 ．文中不能出现自己的姓名和所在班级的名称；3．词数 80 左右。
A person who takes exercise regularly will have a healthy body and be full of energy.