Every morning, Haze Mabry is seen busy cleaning up the teaching building. He 1 as a school keeper for thirteen years.
Last Friday, after he arrived at the school, instead of finding rubbish to clean up, he found almost 800 students lining the hallways 2 handmade cards and singing Happy Birthday to him. It was his 80th. As he walked the long hallway, some jumped out of line 3 him. The students handed him so many 4 that they filled several large boxes.
Mabry 5 by their warm greetings and thanked them all. "They're like my children," Mabry said.
He knows most of the kids at 6 school. Students sometimes come up to him to say they're not feeling well or other times to share 7 that happened to them at break.
"No matter what he's doing or where he is, he will always stop 8 to cheer up a child if that child is having a bad day. He's the most loved one in this building," said Lori Gilreath, a reading teacher.
Mabry said he hadn't planned to do much for his milestone (里程碑) birthday, 9 he was happy the students prepared the surprise celebration.
Over the weekend, he went through the boxes of handmade cards at his house. One card from a student stood out to him. It read, "Mr. Haze, you are my sunshine." He did feel the 10 of sunshine on the cold winter morning.
Eileen Gu, a Chinese-American skier, is already dreaming of gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. However, she won't receive her 1 under US flag. Gu will compete for China.
Gu was born to an American father and a Chinese mother. She was 2 in San Francisco. She lived there for over ten years. The girl, however, has always been 3 that she has a Chinese root (根). She speaks Chinese well and calls herself a "Beijing girl".
Gu 4 skiing when she was only three. She got her first 5 at the age of nine. Gu competed for the United States in that competition. Hoping to 6 tens of millions of Chinese children to love skiing, last June, the girl joined Team China.
Gu has already brought China medals. In August, she 7 the Australian New Zealand Cup. The young skier won two gold medals in the competition. Her 8 congratulated her online. After the competition, the number of them even increased to 200, 000. People called 9 a "born skier".
Gu says she is only getting started. How many gold medals will she win for China at the 2022 Games? The 10may surprise us all! She's won two gold medals and one silver medal. Let's congratulate her and wish her a good future!
Alex is reading a book about AI, artificial intelligence (人工智能). He finds the book a little difficult but very interesting. Though the word AI is very popular now, he enjoys reading it very much. He has learned a new idea about AI from the book.
When people ask AI a question, it answers the question in a very short time. So people may feel that AI can think and answer questions as human beings do. Before Alex read this book, he believed this, too. However, this book says it will never happen. Actually, AI only uses a lot of information to get the best answer. So when it has more information, the answer will be much closer to the perfect one. AI technologies will be clever tools for human beings to use. This book also says almost half of our jobs will be done by AI technologies in the near future. People will soon find more AI technologies in our lives, such as checking the tickets, the price, people's faces and fingers.
So, we believe that we will have much happier lives with these AI technologies around us.
Cathy Cluck teaches history at Westlake High School in Texas, the US. Because of COVID-19, Cathy had to find a new way of teaching.
"I teach American history," she told a news reporter. "One day, I thought, ‘What if I go to some historical places?'" So in May, Cathy took a road trip called the Great American Road Trip. Each day, she met her students over the video chat and taught them online from a historical place. In this way, Cathy's students learnt a lot about American history.
The trip was fun. However, it was full of difficulties, too. For example, Cathy planned to go to Boston. When she was in New York, she got the news: the situation of COVID-19 was severe in Boston. People in other cities couldn't go into the city, so Cathy had to change the plan.
Cathy's road trip took 15 days. "This is not a normal school year," she said. "I was trying to make it interesting for my students." Cathy's students enjoyed the way of learning.
"I just love it." Julia Franco, one of Cathy's students said. "The distance learning gave me a different feeling about the historical places. It made me very excited."
Now Cathy and her students all come back to school. Since COVID-19 still goes on, they may return to distance teaching and learning.
A young koala climbs up a eucalyptus (桉树) tree. But it's not trying to eat one of the tasty leaves it loves—it's trying to get away from the flames and smoke in the forest under it.
In 2019-2020, a large number of wildfires happened in Australia, destroying many of the trees koalas live in and feed on. Reports show that more than 25, 000 koalas might have been killed in these fires, as well as hundreds of millions of other animals.
After the wildfires, Koalas face many other dangers. Starvation (饥饿), dog attacks, car accidents and diseases also put them in danger. Luckily, brave people step up every day to help them.
After a big fire, a koala in Queensland carefully climbs down a eucalyptus tree towards the ground. But the lower part of the tree is till hot after fire, and she burns her paws. Luckily she is discovered by wildlife rescue organization Wildcare Australia, who've sent a team to find animals injured in the bushfire. They saw and saved the koala—now named Maddie—and sent her to Currumbin Wildlife Hospital.
Maddie also has burns on her nose and ears, so her caregivers put a cooling ointment (药膏) on her injuries. She's hungry, too. When a koala's in pain, it won't eat. Less than a week later, Maddie is ready for a meal. But as there are hundreds of different types of eucalyptus leaves, they must choose her meal carefully. Koalas all have their favourite. Leaves that they're not used to eating are harder for them to digest (消化), or just taste terrible. But Maddie finishes off all the leaves she's been given.
The cute koala is still at the hospital, but it won't be long before she's taking naps (打盹) in a forest instead of a hospital.
Too many people want others to be their friends, but they don't give friendship back. That is why some friendships don't last very long. You must learn to treat your friend the way you want your friend to treat you. Learning to be a good friend means learning three rules: be honest; be generous (慷慨的); be understanding.
Honesty is where a good friendship starts. Friends must be able to trust one another. If a friend finds out that you haven't been honest, you may lose your friend's trust.
Generosity means sharing and sharing makes a friendship grow. You don't have to give your lunch money or your clothes, of course. Instead you have to learn how to share things you enjoy, your hobbies and interests. Naturally you will want to share your ideas and feelings. They tell your friend what is important to you. By sharing them, you help your friend know better.
Sooner or later, everyone needs understanding and help with a problem. Something may go wrong at school. Talking about the problem can make it easier to solve. So to be a friend, you must listen and understand. You must try to put yourself in your friend's place so you can understand the problem better.
But all true friendships have three things in common. If you plan to keep your friendships, you must practice honesty, generosity and understanding.
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My life is always filled with sadness and little joy. However, no matter what happens, I can face it . Last year, I was to enter the only key high school in my hometown. I couldn't believe the news!
Then I rushed to my home and told my parents. But my father didn't seem as as I was. He just smoking without saying a word and my mother put her head down and couldn't help crying.
I knew very well what my family like. My mother had been ill in bed for two years. We lived a hard life and I couldn't go on my schooling. I felt so upset but I could say nothing to my parents. I decided to my father with his work to support my family.
To surprise, things completely changed before the beginning of the new term. My head teacher came to my family with some money which had been raised by my schoolmates. He encouraged me, "Always a dream." With tears in my , I stepped into the school.
I have been studying hard since I entered the school. Whenever I meet difficulties, I always think of my teacher and schoolmates. I have a college dream and I must work hard for it, no matter how hard the life is. Just as a great man says, "When one door shuts, another in life."
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To: Tom |
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From: Lucy |
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Dear Tom, Last time you told me that you didn't know what to do in the free time. Here I would like to tell you some new hobby ideas. Art. Adding hobbies about art to your life can help relax yourself after study. There are many art hobbies to start with, such as painting, model building, or postcard making. You can join a class to learn some of the skills connected with the hobby. Instrument or dance. Playing an instrument or learning a kind of dance can also be good ideas. And there are plenty of instruments that you can learn, such as guitar, piano, and so on. For dancing, you can ask the school teachers for advice to find out what kind of dance fits you most. Team sports. One good thing of a new hobby is meeting new people and making friends. So how about joining a team? You can play football, basketball, tennis, table tennis or volleyball. There might be more in the sports center. You can even start a group through your class and encourage other classmates to play together. Do you want to try any of these hobbies? Go ahead! I'm sure you will have fun. Best wishes. Lucy |
A: Hello, Li Qiang. ?
B: I'm from a small village of Shaanxi Province.
A: How long have you been here?
B: .
A: Wow, ten years is a long time. Do you like living here?
B: At first, I didn't like living here. But now I enjoy living here.
A: How is the life in your hometown?
B: It used to be hard. But now great changes have taken place.
A: Can you tell me more?
B: . For example, traveling is much easier than before. There are new roads in every village.
A: ?
B: Oh, the air is much fresher than that in cities.
A: ?
B: Yes, once a month. I go to visit my grandparents there.
1）活动内容（如：做作业，参加体育、艺术等活动）；
2）你最喜欢的活动及原因；
3）你的收获或感受。
要求：1）参考提示内容，可适当发挥；
2）语句通顺，意思连贯，书写工整；
3）文中不得出现任何真实信息（姓名、校名和地名等）；
4）词数：不少于70词。（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。）
Dear classmates,
I am very glad to stand here. The topic of my duty report is "After-class services in our school".
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Thank you for listening!
