International Children's Day is coming up on June 1st. Here we have chosen some films from around the world that are most worthy for children to see.
E, T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Country: United States of America
Storyline: A group of aliens are visiting the Earth at night. But one of the visitors from space is left behind and finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, he meets Elliot, a lonely boy himself, and slowly makes friends with Elliot's older brother Michael, his sister Gertie. Meanwhile government officers work day and night to track down the little alien. Elliot and others try their best to help the alien go home.
Children of Heaven (1997)
Director: Majid Majidi
Country: Iran
Storyline: Ali takes his little sister Zahra's shoes to the shoemaker to be repaired but loses them on the way home. There is no money to buy another pair. Ali makes a plan to share his shoes: Zahra will wear them in the morning and hand them to Ali at midday so he can attend school classes. Ali then enters a children's racing competition in hopes of receiving the third prize, a new pair of shoes.
Kes (1969)
Director: Ken Loach
Country: United Kingdom
Storyline: Bullied (欺凌) at school and getting little attention at home by his mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old boy from a working-class family, finds peace in his pet falcon (猎隼), Kes. With encouragement from his English teacher, Billy eventually discovers a positive purpose to his unfortunate life, until some bad thing comes.
Are you so sure your mistakes are just mistakes? Or could they be building blocks to a success beyond any you imagined?
When my friend Dorothy goes home to visit her family each Thanksgiving, her mother serves the traditional “mistake salad”. The dish was born many years ago, Dorothy explains, when mother was using a cookbook to make a salad. In the process, by mistake, mother included half the salad ingredients (原料) from a recipe (食谱) on the left side of the open cookbook, and half the ingredients from a different salad recipe on the opposite page. Everyone enjoyed the salad so much that she continued to serve it every year. So it was really not a mistake at all.
Then there was the man named Alfred, who invented dynamite (炸药). When Alfred's brother died, the city newspaper mistook his brother for him, saying in the news that the dead's most famous act was the creation of bombs (炸弹). Surprised to consider that his name would forever be connected with destruction, Alfred wanted to leave a more positive impression on people. So he set a prize for people who made contributions to world peace. Now the Nobel Prize, set up by Alfred Nobel, is the most respected prize in the world.
Everything is part of something bigger, and so are mistakes. In his brilliant book Illusions, Richard Bach explains that every problem comes to you with a gift. If you only fix your attention on what went wrong, you miss the gift. If you are willing to look deeper and ask for the bright, the problem will disappear. You are left only with the learning, and you go forward on your path.
When it comes to generation gap (代沟), we usually think of different tastes in music, or pastimes. But now the generation gap is handwriting. After one teacher in Tennessee discovered that she had students who couldn't read what she was writing on the board, she posted it on the Internet saying that handwriting should be taught in schools.
Others who are against it claim that handwriting has become out of time in our modern world. Typed words have become a main form of communication. Once a practical skill, handwriting is no longer used by most of Americans. It is no longer taught in schools, and some claim that the time that it would take to teach it could be put to better use, for example, by teaching the technical skills.
But even in today's world there are still plenty of reasons to pick up a pen and write on the paper. In America, signatures (签字) by hand are still often required, for example, signing for a registered letter and buying a house. And original signatures are much more difficult to fake (伪造).
There is also strong evidence that writing by hand is good for the mind. It makes a different part of the brain active and improves fine moving skills in young children. People are also more likely to remember what they write by hand than what they type, and the process of writing by hand has been shown to stimulate ideas. Not only those, studies have shown that kids who write by hand learn to read and spell earlier than those who don't.
Yes, we live in a modern world, but we live in a modern world of basic and important values.
Many young people want to be a driver. Fortunately, there are things that you can do to help your teen become a more confident driver.
Teach your teen the rules of the road
Before your teen gets behind the wheel of a car, he or she should know well the rules of the road. If your teen understands the basic rules and how the car works, then he or she will feel a little better about getting on the road.
Actions speak louder than words. Many people will tell you that they learned how to drive by watching one of their close family members drive. You should show good driving skills with examples.
Practice
Practice makes perfect. The more your teen practices, the more confident he or she will become. Your teen should start off by driving in a place that is free of barriers (障碍). After your teen has gotten comfortable about this, he or she can start practicing on the road.
Drive in different conditions
In order for your teen to become a good driver, he or she has to practice driving in different conditions.
Get car insurance (保险)
Many teens are worried about how much their parents would have to pay if an accident occurs. You should explain to your teen that car insurance can help one save a lot of money.
A. Model good driving
B. Teach your teen by yourself
C. Then he or she can start to drive on the road.
D. An empty parking lot is a good place for a new driver to practice.
E. This includes things such as heavy traffic, bad weather and freeways.
F. However, some of them are nervous about actually getting out on the road.
G. You should have your teen review the driver's handbook and the vehicle's instructions.
I always felt sorry for people in wheelchairs. Some of them, old and weak, cannot 1 by themselves. Others seem perfectly healthy,2 in business suits, and wheel themselves around with strong determination (意志). But whenever I saw someone in a wheelchair, I only saw a 3, not a person.
Then I fainted (晕倒) at Euro Disney 4 low blood pressure. This was the first time I had ever fainted, and my parents said that I must 5 for a while after First Aid.
I agreed to take it easy, but 6 I stepped toward the door, I saw my dad pushing a (n)7 in my direction! Feeling the colour burn my cheeks, I asked him to wheel that thing right back to 8 he found it.
I could not believe this was happening to me. Wheelchairs were 9 for other people but not for me. As my father wheeled me out into the main street, people 10 began to treat me differently.
Little kids ran in front of me,11 my father to stop the wheelchair suddenly. Bitterness (痛苦) set in as I was 12 back and forth. “Stupid kids—they have perfectly good 13. Why can't they watch where they're going?” I thought. People 14 at me, pity in their eyes. Then they would look away, maybe because they thought the 15 they forgot me, the better. “I am just like you!” I wanted to shout out. “The only 16 is that you've got legs, and I have wheels.”
People in wheelchairs are not 17. They can see every look and hear each word. Looking out at the faces, I finally 18: I was once just like them. I treated people in wheelchairs exactly the way they did not 19 to be treated. I realized it is some of us with two healthy legs who are 20 disabled.
Once there lived a rich man, wanted to do something for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out they were worth his help or not.
In the center of the main road into the town, he placed a very large stone. Then he (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow. “Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone., with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. Another man came along and did same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained the stone but none tried to remove it.
Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, (say) to himself, “The night will be very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone. ” Then pushing and pulling with all his (strong), the young man began to move the stone ... How (surprise) he was! There was a bag of money under.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last week, our teacher offered us an answer to a difficulty maths problem in class. Though an answer seemed a little strange, but nobody doubted it except me. Thinking that his answer might wrong, I carefully studied the problem and tried to work them out in a different way. Half an hour late, I managed to find the correct answer. When I show my answer to him, my teacher praised me of my independent thinking.
From this experiences I have learnt that questioning can serve as a bridge that help us to find the truth.
[选答题一]
根据必修二 Module 2的课文内容，简要介绍吸食可卡因的危害，以及Adam Rouse是如何因吸食可卡因而走上犯罪道路的。
注意：词数100左右。
[选答题二]
根据必修三Module 5的课文内容，简要介绍中国古代思想家孔子、孟子和墨子所处的时代背景以及他们的主要思想。
注意：词数100左右。
[选答题三]
根据必修四Module 3的课文内容，举例介绍在不同的文化中问候陌生人时所使用的不同身体语言及所表达的意思。
注意：词数100左右。
[选答题四]
假如你是李明，去年暑假参加了社会实践活动，在一家快餐店打工。请你根据下面的提示用英语写一篇短文“My Unforgettable Experience”，发表在校报上。
内容要点：
1）工作时间：每天8小时，共4周；
2）工作情况：当保洁员（cleaner)，工作辛苦枯燥，起早贪黑，中途差点放弃；
3）你的体会：遇到没预料到的困难，认识到劳动(labor)的意义。
注意：
1）必须使用第一人称；
2）不要逐句翻译，但可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3）词数100左右。
My Unforgettable Experience
