International Wild Bird Photo Competition
Every year, as part of the Bird and Nature Festival, an international photo competition is organized. All the photos should be about wild birds. And the best photos will be presented (呈现) on the last day of the festival.
Who may take part in:
The competition is open to all photography lovers and professional(专业的)photographers from all over the world.
Themes:
There are 3 themes open to photographers over 18 years old.
★Bird in its environment
★Bird in danger
★Amazing moment
A special theme is open to young photographers under 18 years old.
★Wild bird
Note: You may submit(提交) no more than 10 photos.
Entry fees (报名费):
Photographers over 18 years old:$2 per photo
Photographers under 18 years old: free
Prizes:
★Grand Prize:$1,500
★1st prize in each theme:$800
★2nd prize in each theme:$300
★3rd prize in each theme:$200
For more information:
Please visit www. festival-oiseau-nature. com/concours/ enconcours-photo / to learn more about the competition.
Conflict (冲突) happens when two people disagree because of their own opinions, or beliefs(信仰). It's not always as simple as an argument.
Parents and teenagers have many chances to have conflict with one another. Adolescence (青春期) is a time when independence and parental influence fight, since teens are able to think on their own but still live with parents who have rules and expectations for them. When kids don't show up at home late at night, their parents get worried. A worried parent becomes a scolding parent. When the teen does come home, he/she will get punishment(惩罚).
Sometimes, teens want to have noisy fun while their parents want to sleep. This is a common conflict that happens every day. Parents might use the teenager's grades to judge (判断) him/her every time the grades are reported. The conflict happens when the parents' expectations aren't met. Finding the causes of conflicts is the first step to solve the conflict. Here are a few tips for parents and teenagers to use.
View each other as friends in the common goals(目标)you agree on, which usually include keeping teens safe and seeing them be successful.
List(列举)possible solutions to the conflict together. Just start listing creative ideas, whether they seem reasonable or not. Creativity is your friend when you're solving any problems in life, including conflicts with others.
Kenya, a country in East Africa, is a land of natural beauty.
Kenya is along the equator on Africa's east coast (海岸). The Indian Ocean is to the east of Kenya. Highlands rise in the western part of Kenya. Mount Kenya, at 5,199 meters, is Kenya's highest mountain. In the east of the highlands, the land goes down toward the coast.
Kenya's most important river, the Tana, starts from the highlands to the Indian Ocean. Most of the country's other rivers are short and shallow(窄的). They sometimes dry up when there is little rainfall.
Kenya has two wet seasons and two dry seasons. Rainfall is usually heavy from April to May and from November to December, while some areas are more cloudy without much rain between July and August and from January to March. It is warmer in the north and cooler in the highlands.
Kenya is home to many national parks. Green trees and bamboo grow in the highlands. The country has many animals, such as elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras and many other rare(稀有的)animals. Kenya has more than 50 national parks. Inside the parks, the wild animals are protected from shooting. They can live a happy life there. Natural beauty and wild animals make the parks excellent places to take a journey. So many tourists take a journey there every year.
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In the past 10 years, recreational vehicles, or RVs(房车), have become more and more popular in China.
Research shows that more than 65 percent of RV owners are parents in the 30 to 45 age group living in big cities. Because they can use their vehicles as mobile(可移动的)homes for relaxing family trips to different areas of the country. Another reason is that they can enjoy different lifestyles.
In July 2020, Sun Lin, 30, and his wife decided to give up their jobs and bought an RV for a road trip. " The RV allows us to get close to nature anytime and anywhere we want to," said Sun.
Lu Yinuo, 33, from Hangzhou, bought an RV last year for her family to enjoy camping holidays.
After buying the RV, she no longer needed to prepare sleeping bags for trips. "Life on the road is always full of surprises, difficulties and joy. Children can see plants they learn about from picture books, and become braver in trying new things," Lu said.
There are not enough camp sites(露营地) for RVs. It limits(限制) the development of RVs in China. It is necessary to take action to change the situation.
A. Why do they like RVs?
B. However, there are still problems to be solved.
C. To be honest, an RV is not expensive for most families.
D. We left our jobs because we wanted to live a freer and more comfortable life.
E. She thinks a mobile home is convenient (方便的) for camping and traveling.
A. sad B. sell C. until D. cleared out E. happy F. have owned |
My mother told me we would have a yard sale this weekend. Yesterday morning I lots of old things from my bedroom. I had to five things I no longer use. At first, I was quite . Because I found many toys that I don't play anymore, but I still wanted to keep. For example, I the toy car since my sixth birthday. I played with the toy car almost every day I was ten.
A. keep B. need C. lose my toy bear D. happily E. throw F. bring joy to the kids |
I didn't want to, either. Because it was one of my favorite toys. It came from my grandmother. I have had it for five years. I wanted to them because they brought back many sweet memories. "Maybe some kids the toys more than you. They don't fit you anymore. But they can ,"my mother said. In the end, I gave away the toys to those kids in need. I hope the toys would bring happiness to them, too.
Treasure Island is one of the most famous novels（小说）by Robert Louis Stevenson from the West. The novel is so interesting that (million) of children are reading it. So we can say that, if Chinese children are reading Journey to the West to grow up, and then （west）children also have their own——Treasure Island to grow up. The hero of the story, Jim, was a 10-year-old boy. His parents had a hotel and they wanted Jim to be the future (own) of this hotel, but Jim didn't want to live like that.
One day, an old seaman came to his (parent) hotel with a treasure map that everyone was looking for. Blind Pew, Black Dog and other pirates（海盗）followed him，because they all wanted to get the map. Jim was lucky enough (get) the map and began to look for the treasure with his friends. But another pirate, one-legged Silver wanted all the treasure，too，so he (hide) in Jim's group.
When they got to the Treasure Island, Silver killed（杀害）some of Jim's friends who they didn't listen to him. Jim found it (danger) to stay with the pirate, so he and his friends left the group (quiet ). Luckily, they met Ben Gunn, who had lived on the treasure island for a long time. the help of Ben Gunn, Jim and his friends found the treasure, and at last they came back home with plenty of treasure.
In a word, Treasure Island can be regarded as one of the (good) pirate novels in history.
Late last year, 11-year-old Jude Kofie got an unexpected gift, a 15,000-dollar piano from a stranger. It sounds unbelievable, right? This is how the story began.
One day, Jude's father, Isaiah, heard a noise coming from the basement(地下室). Then he found Jude playing the old electronic keyboard(电子琴) there. And to Isaiah's surprise, the boy played it well. "It's a miracle(奇迹) because no one taught Jude how to play," Isaiah thought. After checking many times, he found that Jude could play any song he heard. Then he realized that Jude was talented in music. The happy father shared a video of Jude playing the keyboard on the Internet. Soon it became popular.
Bill Magnusson , a piano tuner (调音师), read the story about Jude online and heard him play. He learned that Jude's parents came from Ghana and were raising four children. They lived a hard life, so they couldn't buy a piano for Jude.
"This boy is a talent. I need to do something to help him," Magnusson thought. Then Magnusson bought the piano for Jude and promised to tune it once a month for the rest of his life. He's also paying for Jude to get piano lessons.
Jude was very excited when he saw the piano in his house. The Kofie family was very thankful for Bill's help.
Kim: Hi, Steve. The book report is due tomorrow. ?
Steve: No, I haven't. I'm only on page 88. I'm too weak to read it now.
Kim: ?
Steve: I had a car accident last Friday afternoon.
Kim: A car accident? Did you go to the hospital?
Steve: . A little girl and her mother helped me.
Kim: It's so kind of them. ?
Steve: They made me lie down at first and then called 120 for me. And then my parents came to pick me up from the hospital. It's not very serious.
Kim: We must be careful. And you should get some rest before you come back to class.
Steve: Thank you.
提示：(1) What has changed you? (2) What change(s) did it bring to you? (3) How do you like the change(s)?
注意：(1) 表达正确，语句通顺；短文须包括所有提示内容，可适当发挥； (3) 80词左右，不得出现真实姓名等。
_______has really changed me
