A: You look upset. What's up?
B: Well, Rob. I had lunch today with some people from sales (销售部).
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B: No. The food was good.
A: Was the waiter impolite?
B: No. He was polite.
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B: The people from sales kept answering their phones.
A: Well, they are busy people.
B: I understand that. They are supposed to say, "Excuse me, I have to take this call"
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B: No. They just answered their phones at the table. Then they had long conversations. A: That's not right. They should leave the table for long calls.
B: He ignored(不予理睬)everyone.
A: I know. Some people do have bad phone habits. They should learn to change them.
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A. Was the food bad? B. And they didn't do that? C. Then what was wrong? D. But they should be polite. E. We aren't supposed to have good phone habits. F. They shouldn't use their phones in public places. G. And one man played games on his phone for the whole meal. |
Canadian girl Capri loves to sing. She1loves to help others. Years ago after she read stories about homeless children, she felt the need to do something. Her father, Tom, came up with a way for her to help them. He 2 her to use her voice to raise money for a children's charity (慈善团体), SOS Children's Villages. Capri 3it. She visited and sang in 80 different countries around the world in nine months.
In each country (from Thailand to Turkey and the Netherlands to New Zealand), Capri learned and 4 the country's anthem(国歌). She sang in 41 languages! "I had to make sure to learn the correct5 of each national anthem." she says. 6 she couldn't go to school during the nine-month trip, she also juggled(尽力同时应付) homework.
Along the way, Capri met some of the children she was trying to7. She met girls in Cambodia who 8 go to school and a homeless girl in South Africa.
"Meeting them made me 9 how lucky I am to have so much in my life," Capri says. "The whole trip gave me a better10of my life and the world.
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Day 1 Now I'm here! My mom sent me here as she said I had nothing to do at home during the summer holidays. My dad worried that I might have trouble sleeping away from home. But I decided to have a try. I lived in a room with a girl called Catherine. I asked her why she joined this camp. She said that she wanted to give herself a break from the boring school life, and she heard about this camp at school and thought it would be interesting. She didn't worry about herself much, since she believed that our instructor(指导员) would look after us. That's why she is here. Looking at her, I hope we could become good friends. Day 2 The instructor woke us up at 6 o'clock and asked us to get together in the playground in15 minutes. Catherine and I rushed to get out of bed and wash up. When we got to the playground in time, several kids were standing in line already. Suddenly the fire bell rang. We were scared, and just then the instructor appeared. She told us that what we heard was a false alarm(假警报)and we needed to keep calm (镇静的). At about 6: 30, we left the camp and took a long walk near a lake. We were all very tired. When we went back to the camp, it was already 12 o'clock. In the dining hall, there was some bread on the table. Everyone ran to reach for it. I think it was the most delicious lunch I had ever had. |
Do you know how many kinds of plants and animals there are in the world? Experts(专家)believe there are over 8 million, but right now we only know about 1. 8 million. Scientists are finding new kinds all the time.
In 2019, a team of researchers led by a university professor(教授) named Austin discovered a new kind of animal. They were in
Papua, studying the wide kinds of life of the island country. One day, the researchers were listening to the sounds of frogs(青蛙) at night. Suddenly, they started to hear some very unusual sounds. At first, they couldn't tell where the sounds were coming from, but after some time they realized they were coming from the ground. They started to look carefully among the leaves. They were expecting to find an insect, but what they found surprised them. It was a really tiny frog —just 7 mm long!" This frog has a sound that doesn't sound like a frog at all. It sounds like an insect," said Austin. The frog they discovered was the smallest frog in the world.
Researchers believe that frogs and insects are very important. They help to keep our environment clean. We can also use them to make new medicines.
Researchers all over the world are working very hard to find new plants and animals every day. However, their jobs are getting more and more difficuIt. This 1s because forests where these animals live are quickly disappearing, and the animals are, too.
Joe moved to Canada with his family at the age of 41. There were many stressful days for them in the beginning. Since Joe had no job, the savings(存款) they brought with them were diminishing quickly.
One day, Joe went out to look for a job. As he walked, he saw many things on the street that people threw away on Garbage(垃圾)Day— TVs, washing machines and fridges. Joe could not believe his eyes. "Why would people throw away such things?" he asked himself. Joe saw a "new" television and decided to take it home to see what the problem was. Since he was twelve years old, Joe's main hobby has been electronics. As a teenage boy, he began to repair radios, TVs and so on.
Joe brought the television home and turned it on. There were pictures on the screen, but there was no sound. He opened the back cover. Before long, Joe found the problem. The
loudspeaker (扬声器) was broken. He went out again. Among the garbage on the street, he found a toy piano. He carried the piano home. Luckily its loudspeaker worked. Fifteen minutes later, Joe had a TV with both pictures and sound.
Joe began to question people about why they were throwing away electronics. The answer was the same from everyone: getting them repaired was too expensive. People would rather buy new products. Then Joe came up with an idea to begin his new life.
Andrea is an American writer. She has written more than 20 books, including her latest collection of poems, Martin Rising: Requiem for a King.
Reporter: What inspired(激励)you to become a writer?
Andrea: When I was in second grade, my dad got me a notebook. He said if I had a thought, l could just write it down. He said it didn't have to be perfect. So that's where it started. Then, when I was in sixth grade, there was a writing competition at my school. My teacher entered me for the competition. I wrote a story about a man made of fire. It was a mess, but my story won. I felt good, and I thanked my teacher for that.
Reporter: What were some of your favorite books when you were a kid?
Andrea: One was The Snowy Day. That was really the first mainstream(主流的) book to have an African-American kid as the main character. I loved Peter, and this kid looked just like me. I loved that book.
Reporter: You're both a writer and an editor (编辑). What's the difference between the two jobs?
Andrea: When I write, I'm creating what's going to go in the book. When I'm editing, I'm helping other writers say what they want to say. As an editor, I also pass messages between the writer and the illustrator(插图画家), who typically do not meet each other.
Reporter:
Andrea: Write about things that are important to you. Believe that you can do it, and don't let anybody tell you that you can't.
B: Yes, I'd like to buy a dress, please.
A: Oh, good! We've got lots of new dresses in different styles. They were all produced in Shanghai and their quality(质量) is very good.
B: Oh, they touch soft. . ?
A: The blue ones are made of cotton, and those green ones are made of silk.
B: But I don't like the colors.
A: Well, this way please! Please look at this one. I think this one is for your age.
B: Oh, it's brown. I like brown. Is it made of silk, too?
A: Yes. It feels very cool in summer.
B: It's good. ?
A:Of course. Hmm, it fits you very well and you really look beautiful in it.
B: How much is it?
A: $ 78.
B: OK.
Do you like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(侏儒)?Nearly half of the villagers in Mingyangsi, a small village in Sichuan Province are dwarfs People with a height of less than 1 meter are seen everywhere.
According to the elderly people in the village, they used to enjoy a peaceful life until one summer night in 1951. A mysterious illness came by and mainly struck children between the ages of five and seven. They stopped growing and their heights have never changed for the rest of their lives.
Many scientists and experts have visited the village to study the water, soil and grain(土壤和谷物) in the area. They've also examined the villagers to collect a few clues(线索). Hope to find out the answers in the future!
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Five most influential sports in China
●Women's national volleyball
The China women's national volleyball team is one of the leading volleyball teams in the world. The team won the Olympic titles(冠军) in 1984 and in 2004. Though with as low in the late 2000s, the team rose again and won the Olympic title a third time in2016.
●Ping-pong
Ping-pong, or table tennis, is an unfailing national sport in China, Chinese ping-pong players have won 60% of the Men's World Championships 1959 and almost all of Women's World Championships. The sport plays an important. in China's history. In1971, the USA table tennis team was by China and played with the Chinese team, which became the well-known "Ping-pong diplomacy(外交). "
●Bicycling
You can find people riding bieycles everywhere in China. The country owned about500 million bicycles in the late 1980s, bicycles are used to travel in the country.
●Diving(跳水)
Chinese diving started to the world from the 1980s. all the sports in China, the Chinese diving" dream team" has won more Olympic titles than any other sport in the country.
●Badminton (羽毛球)
Badminton is one of the most popular in China. You can find people playing badminton in communities, parks, gyms…Badminton lets the Chinese people have an easy Sport to choose after the meal.
Bao, an eight-minute film, is the winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film(奥斯卡最佳动画短片).
The story starts when a lovely baozi comes to life in an old Chinese woman's house. The woman is a lonely mother. Because of the lovely baozi, she gets to revisit the joy of being a parent. As the cute baozi boy grows into a teenager and finally an adult, the mother realizes that her child will not stay cute, and by her side forever.
The director of the short film is Domee Shi, a Chinese-Canadian woman. She got the idea for the film from her own life. "I'm an only child with Chinese parents, so I was very protected. I'd always been my mom's 'little dumpling'," Shi said. "It was a challenge to put myself in my mom's shoes and try to understand things from her point of view (视角). "Through making the film, she understood her mom better.
Many Asians were touched by the film. They are so familiar(熟悉的) with the mother's way of showing her love.
"Bao is very similar to me because lam a daughter of a Korean mom and I grew up like this, " someone said online.
"I cried watching Bao. It's so beautiful," another said.
Even though something is small, it can be used to do big things. Clearly, Domee Shi knows it. She wanted to tell a great parent-child story with the food of baozi. She made it.
Some of us have little difficulty in falling asleep anywhere. But there are also quite a few of us who find it's really hard to fall asleep when we need rest. It often makes us crazy.
So, how to get a better night's sleep? Here are the 3 things that I've found to be the most useful for helping me fall asleep faster and finally get a better night's sleep:
Put down your phone
The first decision that I've found to be really helpful in getting me to sleep faster at night is not to end my night by being on my phone. Every day I try to put my phone away at least one hour before bed. Of course, it's of great help.
Meditate(冥想)
I've heard that some people say when they try meditation, they can't seem to focus (集中注意力) and as a result they fall asleep. But, don't we want to have a good sleep? I often choose to guide myself through my bedtime meditation and it helps me sleep. Write it out
The last tool I'd like to suggest is keeping your diary. I personally love to just let my mind say everything it wants to, so that it feels heard. After writing out what happened in the day, you simply end your day with ease(缓解).
Not only is sleep quite comfortable, it's also a very important activity that can help us to recharge and reset(恢复体力和调整).
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面对"双减"背景下的九年级学习生活，你考虑过怎样做才能取得好成绩吗?2022年的中考，你准备好了吗?请以 How to get good grades?为题写一篇作文，在下周五的
班会上与同学们交流一下。
要求：1）语言流畅，书写规范;
2）字数：80词左右(开头已给出，不计入总词数)。
How to get good grades
Now I have less homework than before and I also don't need to go to after-school classes on weekends. In order to improve my grades
