My cousin 1 a good friend. Her name is Liu Li. She lost her arms in a car accident when she was a child. What was worse, she lost her parents 2 the age of twenty. Her elder sister, who was ten years older than her, wanted to 3 her. However, Liu Li refused 4 with her elder sister, saying that she would like to look after herself. She managed to enter college and studied very hard. Four years later, she graduated and found a job. Once she wrote in her diary, "Facing hard lives, I am very 5 . I lost my arms, 6 I still have my legs. Give me 7 more sunshine, my world will be even warmer. "
Liu Li chose to face her misfortune (不幸) in a hopeful (乐观的) way. Instead of 8 sad every day, she decided not to let it hold her back. While she 9 difficulties, she was brave. She has taught us a good lesson. Whenever something bad happens to us, we have two choices. One is to complain (抱怨), and the other is to face it wisely. We must 10 it.
Li Jun: Hi, Wu Jin.
Wu Jin: Hi, Li Jun. ?
Li Jun: Because three astronauts have been carried into space successfully.
Wu Jin: ?
Li Jun: They are Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe. They are our heroes. Chinese take pride in them.
Wu Jin: . We should learn from them.
Li Jun: By the way, a new student is coming to our class. Do you know him?
Wu Jin: . He is my good friend.
Li Jun: Really? ?
Wu Jin: He is good at swimming.
Li Jun: Great! We can swim together. We will be good friends, too. Let me know him, OK?
Wu Jin: No problem.
Li Jun: Thank you very much.
Wu Jin: You are welcome.
Dear Robert,
Thank you or your last e-mail! You know that we have learned a lot of knowledge here for four years. We are leaving our school in two weeks. It is time for us to say goodbye to our school, our teachers and schoolmates. You didn't go to school last week. We had the graduation party in the school hall last Tuesday. It was a pity that you didn't come to the graduation party. Let me tell you something about it.
All the student couldn't wait to come to the school hall at 3: 00 p. m. Our teachers and parents were invited to the party, too. First, our monitor(班长) made a speech. He thanked our teachers and parents. Next, all the students exchanged presents. The most exciting moment was the show time. We sang, danced and played games. Our English teacher told a story which made us all. How is it going with you now? Please write soon.
Yours,
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Hello, I'm Tom. I come from Cuba (古巴), but (recent) I moved to China. I started a new school life here. It was a big change for me because the school life in China is quite different from that in Cuba.
School in China starts at 8: 00 a. m. and (end) at 4: 50 p. m. The new school is much better than my old school in Cuba, such as it is (big) and more beautiful than my old one. I thought that I might be lost in the first week. Luckily my new classmate Zhang Bin is very friendly. He (offer) to show me around the school when we were available.
In China, we don't have so much homework (do) every day. If I listen to the teachers carefully, I can finish my homework quickly. To keep (healthily), our school provides us with sports instruments to exercise, so we can spend (we) free time playing ping-pong, basketball or running. Sometimes we like to listen to pop music and watch (movie) at the cinema.
Time flies so quickly and I (be) in the new school for two months. I get many (student) help. I start enjoying my school life here. I am always having so much fun!
Jenny was a nurse in a children's hospital. One evening there was a big dance in the hospital. Most of the doctors and nurses would be there, but of course some had to look after the children. Jenny was not among the fortunate(幸运的) ones who were free to go to the dance, she enjoyed dancing very much, so when she had to start working that evening while her friends were getting ready to go to the dance, she felt very sorry for herself. She went to each sick child one by one and said good night. She came to a little boy called Tommy in the end. Tommy was only 11 years old, but he already talked like an adult. Poor Tommy had a very serious illness, and now he could hardly move any part of his body except his hands. But he was happy and thought about others instead of himself all the time.
When Jenny came up to his bed, he said, "I'm sorry that you have to miss the dance because of us. But we are going to have a pay for you. If you look in my drawer, you'll find a piece of cake. I saved it from my supper today, so it's pretty fresh. " "I'd get up and dance with you if I could," he added.
Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not at all important to Jenny.
What is the life in the desert like? You may think there is only sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the desert, there is a little rain, but it is not enough for most plants. Still we can see some plants live in the desert.
There is water in some places in the desert. We call these places oases (绿洲). In the oases, there are villages and towns. People grow all kinds of crops in the fields there. People also lie outside the oases. They have camels (骆驼), sheep and other animals. These animals depend on the desert plants for their food and do not need much water.
The animals are useful to the desert people in many aspects (方面). They eat the meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use the camels for carrying water, food, tents and something else.
The desert people have to keep moving from place to place. They must always look for grass or desert plants for the animals. When there is no more food for their animals, they move to other places. The desert people are friendly. People in the desert are glad to help the people in trouble and give them food and water.
Different colors have different effects on us
We use colors which make us feel safe and comfortable to decorate our homes. We dress ourselves and show ourselves to the world in our favorite colors. Colors' influence over all of us is powerful and the following are some of fun facts about colors that may surprise you.
Studies have found that babies as young as two weeks old can tell (辨别) the color red from other colors. As they grow up, the number of colors they can tell continues to increase until they can tell all the colors by the age about five months.
Studies of accidents and colors have found that white is the color of cars least likely to cause an accident resulting in death. Black. It is found that deadly accidents are 12 percent more likely to happen among cars of that color.
Scientists suggest that if you are on a diet, remember not to use these two colors in your kitchen! It is found that people eat 24 percent more food when seeing red with yellow. Fast food companies found this out years ago and started using these two colors in their logos (标识；标志), advertisements and restaurant designs (设计).
A. Red is the first color a baby sees.
B. Green is the color of nature and represents (代表) new life and growth.
C. We are surrounded (环绕) by colors and we use them every day.
D. Blue can make people feel peaceful and calm.
E. White is the color of safety.
F. Yellow and red together make you hungry.
G. What is the least safe color?
Hello, everyone! I'd like to tell you something about a famous scientist named Qian Xuesen. He was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in December 1911. After he graduated from Shanghai jiao Tong University in 1934, he got a chance to study in the USA. After he graduated, he became a teacher as well as a researcher that studies rockets and missile(导弹) theories(理论).
When he was 44, he returned to our country and the county space research was almost a blank(空白). In 1956, he set up the first research institute(研究所) of rockets and missiles. He made such important contributions to the missile and space programs that he was honored as "The Father of China's Missiles". The Chinese people are proud of him.
He passed away in October, 2009, but all the Chinese will remember him forever. His devotion to our country was expressed in his saying, "My career(事业) is in China, my success is in China and my destination(终点) is in China!" When someone said he could make much more money if he stayed in the United States, he laughed and said, "My family name is Qian, but I don't like qian. " His spirit encourages us to love our country and devote ourselves to science.
There are many great stories in Chinese history. This is one of the most educational stories.
Kuang Heng was a very famous ____ /pɜ: sn/ in the Western Han Dynasty(西汉), and he was born in a poor family. He liked reading very much. He needed to work in the daytime, so he had to read books during the night (A)He was so poor that he couldn't buy a candle. One day, he found his neighbor had candles, but the light couldn't go through the wall. After thinking for a while, he had a good i____.
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a, hole, he, dug, wall, in, the. Then he could use the light from his neighbor's house to read books. From that day on, he read books every night until the light went out.
After some days, in his house there were no books for him to read. Then he went to a rich man's house and worked for him without asking for any money. Hearing this, the rich man thought Kuang Heng was stupid but still asked "You meant you would work for me for free. But why?" Kuang Heng replied, "Well, I only want to borrow your books to read. That's enough".
(C)那个富人被深深地感动了. Kung Heng read all the books in the rich man's house. Finally, he became a great scholar (学者). If you are also worried about reading books, it's necessary to learn from Kuang Heng.
You may know about "junk food" like French fries. But do you know about "junk sleep"?
A British survey shows that there are many electronic products in teenagers' bedrooms. They are influencing teenagers' sleep badly.
The survey was done among 1,000 British kids from 12 to 16. It is found that 50% of them got just 4 to 7 hours' sleep every day. But doctors say they need 8 to 9 hours.
Almost 25% of the kids said they often fell asleep while they were watching TV, listening to music or using other electronic products.
"This is very worrying," said Dr. Chris, a British professor (教授), "We call it ‘junk sleep'. It means you don't get enough sleep and the quality (质量) of the sleep is low, too. " The survey found that quite a few of the kids felt tired each day because of the junk sleep, especially girls between 13 and 16. Nearly all the teenagers have a phone, music player or TV in their bedrooms. And lots of them even have all the three.
Dr. Chris suggested that parents should help their children keep away from electronic products, and that teenagers should spend less time on the electronic products.
