A rich man had a lazy son. He wanted his son to be1and responsible(负责的).One day, the man told his son to go out and make some money.2he couldn't, he would not have his meal at night.
The boy was afraid and he cried in front of his mother. Her heart melted at the sight of3in her son's eyes. At last, she gave him a gold coin. In the evening, the son showed his father the coin. The father then asked him to throw it into a well. The son did as his father told him4.
The father was a wise man and guessed that the coin was from his5The next day he sent his wife to her parents' town and asked his son to go out and make money again.
With6helping him, the son had to go to the market to look for a job. Finally, a shopkeeper told him that he could7him a gold coin if he carried the heavy boxes to his house. The son couldn't refuse and after a long time, he succeeded in carrying the boxes to the man's house and got the money. He was wet all over and8. As he returned home and showed the money to his father, his father asked him to throw it into the well.
The son almost9out, "Father, my body is aching and my back has rashes(皮疹). It's not10for me to earn the money!
The father smiled. One feels the pain only when the fruits of hard work are wasted.
A man cut a lot of firewood in the hills and put it on his cart. He was smoking his pipe on his way home.
The sparks from the pipe set fire to the firewood. When he looked back, the man was shocked to find that the firewood was on fire. He jumped off the cart at once.
"What can I do?" "the man asked himself. Just then, he saw a cup on the ground and picked it up. He quickly ran down the hill and soon came back with a cup of water. He poured the water on the fire.
However, the fire was getting stronger and stronger. At last, all the firewood was burned out. The man was very sad. A passer-by heard his story and said, "How can you put out the fire with a cup of water? You were just making useless efforts. You should choose a right way to deal with a problem."
2020 national drama tour to kick off in Beijing
The 2020 national drama tour kicked off on Dec. 12 in Beijing. The opening drama was Shangganling, also known as The Battle of Triangle Hill. It came to the stage at the Beijing Poly Theatre on Dec. 12 and 13.
A total of 22 dramas will be performed in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Nanjing and Shenzhen till the end of January.
During the tour, a forum (论坛) discussing topics including challenges under the COVID-19 pandemic for drama development will be held in early January.
The tour was co-hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Dongcheng district Party committee and Dongcheng district government. Started in 2017, the tour has to date seen 70 dramas performed in total.
In 1987, a small company named Huawei was started in Shenzhen. After more than 30 years' development, the company has now beaten Apple and become the world's second-largest maker of smartphones behind Korea's Samsung. It has also become the world's largest supplier(供应商) of 5G.
But recently, Huawei faced some difficulties. The U.S. government ordered a ban (禁令) on its sales in America. American officials said Huawei gave information that it collected to the Chinese government. At the same time, the U. S. government planned to stop selling parts and services to Huawei, which was believed that Huawei's business would be hurt.
"We have never received such a request(要求) from the Chinese government and we have never tried to get into other systems to collect information." Ren Zhengfei, Huawei's founder and president said. "This ban from the U.S. would do little to our company. Huawei has enough ability to deal with the problems." Ren added.
In an interview several years ago, Ren Zhengfei said, "I started Huawei with only 4,000 at the beginning, but now it has become a $100 billion company. The experience was not as romantic as you think."
Facing the ban of the U.S., Huawei is growing. Huawei's smartphone sales around the world rose50 percent compared to a year earlier. At the same time, sales from both Samsung and Apple fell. So far, Huawei has grown into the world's largest telecommunications equipment (电信设备) supplier, selling in 170 countries! It may beat Samsung as the largest smartphone maker in the near future.
As school kids, we have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small.
Once you have found a dream, what do you do with it? Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that realizing our dreams is life's biggest challenge.
You may think you're not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer.
In fact, everyone can realize their dream. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don't let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want, and you will realize your dream faster. Do this step by step. A dream cannot be realized in one day. There must be difficulties on the road to realize it. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will lead to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book. This is good as long as you have the chance to learn more skills and find new interests.
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A. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dream, the book says. B. You may just want to become one of the good students in your class. C. Have you ever tried to make your dream come true? D. As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. E. Then it may help them to be confident to face challenges. F. A big dream is, in fact, many small dreams. |
A. Runtastic PRO can do much more than just follow your favorite running routes. This excellent fitness app keeps going with all kinds of useful data and can return information to help you plan fu-ture outings. Use it for cycling, hiking, and walking, too.
B. Bandcamp is one of the most exciting music market places. The app is a one-stop-shop for digital and physical band march. If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of music, this is a wonderful app.
C. Calibre is the giant of e-book management. With just a few clicks, you can add any book from your computer to your e-Reader over USB or Wi-Fi. You can also store your e-books on the cloud for easy access from wherever you are. If you've got a lot of e-books, this is the app for you.
D. Duolingo is your guide for learning a new language. The more you use the app, the more you unlock and--with practice-the more you learn. This free app now supports Danish，Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
E. Overdrop is a weather app to give an accurate forecast. The app includes helpful timeline—based graphs of temperature, wind and rain predictions (预测).
F. DroidAdmin provides an easy way of downloading some files from a computer to your smartphone in just one step.
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passenger; expensive; invent; success; memory |
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work as; find out; keep in touch with; make jokes about; put on |
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Jingwei fills up the sea
This is a Chinese myth about the fantastic bird Jingwei. People (talk)about it for many, many years.
The Yan Emperor has a younger daughter (name) Nüwa. She is a lively girl and she loves (play) in the sea. One day, she goes to Eastern Sea to have some fun. As she goes further away from the shore, the water becomes more and more violent. Big (wave) come one after another. After a serious fight against the angry sea, the little girl loses all of her (strong) and drowns.
After she dies, her spirit turns into a bird called "Jingwei" "Unlike usual birds, Jingwei looks like a crow a white beak and red feet. It makes the sad sound:"Jingwei" and gets its name from the sound. The little bird has a strange habit. It (regular) carries small branches and stones from the Western Mountains to fill up the Eastern Sea. Why (do) Jingwei do that? There are many ideas, no one knows the real answer.
要点：
1）列举演讲时可能遇到的问题如因害羞而怯场、忘记演讲内容等（至少2条);
2）根据列举的问题提出建议;
3）预祝他演讲成功;
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1）至少70词，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数;
2）文中不得出现真实姓名和校名;
3）可适当增加细节，以使条理清楚、行文连贯;
4）标点正确，书面整洁。
Dear Paul,
How are you? It is great to hear from you.
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Yours,
Li Hua
