It was a Friday evening. I was waiting at the bus stop after school when a car stopped and the driver opened the door. It was my 1. “Quick, get in!” he told me. I was very 2, but I did as he said.
At first, I was worried that something 3 happened. Then, I noticed my mother. She was also 4 the car and on the back seat. There were some bags of clothes and 5 food. My father was driving the car, but he was not driving 6. He was driving out of the town. “Where are we going?” I asked.
It was a warm evening and lots of people were walking along the road. It was the 7 day of term. Did my parents have a big surprise for me? We were going somewhere special — 8 where? The next thing I can remember is falling 9. When I woke up, I saw the sea. We were at the beach. My father was smiling. “Here we are,” he said, “the summer holiday 10 now!”
①You look lovely, Alice!
②Would you like something to drink?
③It's getting late! How is your homework?
④I'm going to visit Jiuzhaigou tomorrow!
⑤Do you think they'll win?
A. Have a nice trip! B. What's happening? C. That's no excuse. D. Thanks, you look great, too. E. I'll have some tea and apple juice. F. No way! G. Nearly finished, Mom |
Isaac Newton, the great British scientist, is often so deep in his thoughts that he will forget to eat his dinner.
One day his friend came to have dinner with him. Dinner was put on the table but Newton didn't come out of his study（书房）. His friend sat down and waited for him. After waiting for quite a long time, he decided that Newton must be so deep in some new theory that he forgot all about the dinner. So he began to eat the chicken without Newton.
When he finished, he thought he would play a joke on his friend. He put all the chicken bones（骨头）back on the dish and covered them with the dish over. Then he left Newton's house. He was quite certain that his joke would work.
Several hours later, Newton came out of his study, feeling very hungry. He saw the table was ready for dinner and so he sat down. When he lifted the cover and saw the bones of the chicken, he was greatly surprised. He turned, looked at the clock, and saw that it was long past his usual time for dinner.
"Well, well," he said to himself, "I thought I ate nothing, but I am wrong." He got up from table and went back to his study and began to work again.
Jack Green is 75 years old. He is not in good condition. "I think I'm ill," he tells his wife, "I feel awful. I've got a headache and I don't feel like eating."
"You've put on a lot of weight recently. You should see the doctor," his wife says, "ask him how to lose weight. It's not good for your health."
"OK," says Jack. He goes to see a doctor.
The doctor checks his heart and weighs him. Then he says, "You are too heavy. You need to do some excercise to lose about 30 kilograms. Run two miles a day for the next 100 days. Then call and tell me your weight."
A week later, the doctor receives a call from Jack. "Doctor, I ran two miles every day and I feel much better. But I have a new problem."
"What's that?" asks the doctor.
"I'm 14 miles away from home, and I can't find my way back."
| Passage A Yuan Longping was born in Beijing in 1930. He developed his new kind of rice in 1974, which helped many countries grow more rice than ever before. So he is called "the Father of Rice." | Passage B Dear Diana, Last week, we had a history exam but I didn't study for it. I was really worried. In the exam, Tom sat next to me and I copied his answers. Will the teacher give me zero marks if I tell her the truth? Should I tell her? Yours, Maggy | |||||||||||||||||
| Passage C An Italian marathon runner, Dorando Pietri, entered the stadium and took a wrong turn during the race. He fell down. He was treated by a doctor and he was helped across the finishing line. | Passage D Sometimes a birthday party can be a surprise party. It is planned by friends but it is a secret. One friend of the birthday boy/girl invites him/her to do something at their house. All their friends arrive early and hide until he/she arrives, and then jump out and shout "Surprise!" | |||||||||||||||||
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American schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select their subjects and teachers first
Selecting is very important for your grades in America. So at the first term, don't select too many subjects, or you'll feel very nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, timetables, marks and textbooks. At the same time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him. Because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.
There is another thing after you select the subjects and the teacher. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each one is about $30-50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library.
In class, discussing is very important. The teacher encourages you to ask questions or show your own opinions. They don't usually ask you to sit well. Instead they allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like.
—Ben, a friend of （I）.
—Because I'm late for school.
Many wild animals, such as pandas, are in d. Often there is not e land or forests, so the animals do not have a safe place to live.
There are only about 1,600 pandas in the wild today. Pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often d. The situation is getting more and more difficult. We need to p them.
The government is s up nature parks and the pandas live in peace there.
Apple's first watch can not only tell you the right time, the smart watch also has a set of technology that can collect a lot of health data（数据）. When you have been sitting for too long, it will "hit" you on the wrist（手腕）10 minutes before the top of the hour.
"A lot of doctors believe that sitting is the new illness." Apple's CEO Tim Cook said.
Many workers used the Apple Watch first. Then, Apple started selling the Apple Watch in April 2015. "We have a lot of meetings and a lot of workers," Cook said, "and ten minutes before the hour, the watch will hit you and everybody will start standing up."
"It took some time to get used to, but it's actually really excellent." he said.
Users have the chance to share their health data with doctors. And people believe it makes them healthier.
