Many kids help out around the house with chores(家庭杂务) such as emptying the dishwasher, putting laundry away, and taking out the trash. In exchange, some kids get allowances(补贴) or other rewards such as extra computer time.
But some people do not think that kids should get rewards for doing chores. Susie Walton, a parenting educator and family coach, believes that by rewarding kids, parents are sending a message that work isn't worth doing unless you get something in return. "Running any kind of household is a team effort," Susie said, "a home is a living space for everyone in the family. It's important for kids to see that we all have responsibilities in the house, and that families decide together how they want their home to look, and how they are going to keep it looking like everyone wants it to look."
Other people believe that getting a cash allowance or other rewards motivates kids to do chores, and it also teaches them real world lessons about how we need to work to earn money. There are also new applications that give kids points and digital gifts that can be redeemed(兑取) either online or in the real world. With the Chore Monster app kids earn digital points by completing chores that they can turn in for real-life rewards such as extra Xbox time or a trip to the mall. "Our goal is to encourage kids to earn rewards" says Chris Bergman, founder of Chore Monster, "Kids need positive reinforcement(强化) to help motivate them."
What do you think? Should kids be rewarded for doing chores? Or should kids help out around their homes without getting anything in return? Write a 200-word response. Send it to tfkasks4you@timeforkids.com. Your response may be published in a future issue of Time For Kids. Please include your grade and contact information of your parent or teacher if you want your response to be published. The deadline for responding is February 18.
内容包括：
1）. 每个同学准备一个才艺节目；
2）. 积极参加游戏；
3）. 做文明观众„„
注意：
1）. 词数100左右；
2）. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总次数。
Boys and girls,
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That's all. Thank you.
Planning a trip to Italy is half about the history and beauty and half about the food. Enjoying everything that Italian cuisine has to offer can be daunting, especially since most of the really exciting options are outside the big cities.
Alba
Alba's greatest culinary(烹饪的) offering is the Festa dei Tartufi - the White Truffle Fair - which takes place across every weekend in October and November. It offers world-famous truffles from the local area, as well as the Truffle Show. The fair also features folk traditions as well as the food and drink, particularly aiming at educating children and thus making the event fun for all the family.
Minori
Minori is known for its handmade pasta - particularly scialatielli, a thick and short pasta similar to linguine, which features heavily on local menus, along with pastries made from the local lemons as with other towns on the Amalfi Coast.
Procida
The main attraction, however, is the food - the local lemons, often called limoni pane or "bread lemons", thanks to their large amounts of pith, are the main ingredient in a popular local dish: lemon salad, in which the lemons are flavored and garnished with garlic and mint.
Naples
Naples made its stamp on culinary history with the invention of the pizza and has maintained it to the modern-day by having more stars from the Michelin Guide than any other Italian city. It's appropriate, then, that it plays host to numerous food festivals, including the Marco Island Seafood and Music Festival, and the Mercato Spring Fling and Food Festival. The former, founded to raise money for charity, takes place in March each year over the course of three days. The latter is only a month later, in April, with Mercato restaurants providing a range of food and bar options.
Do you love holidays but hate the increase in weight that follows? You are not alone.
Holidays are happy days with pleasure and delicious foods. Many people, however, are worried about the weight that comes along with these delicious foods.
With proper planning，though, it is possible to control your weight. The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much. You don't have to turn away from the foods that you enjoy. The following suggestions may be of some help to you.
Don't miss meals. Before you leave home for a feast (宴会)，have a small, lowfat snack. This may help to keep you from getting too excited before delicious foods.
Begin with clear soup and fruit or vegetables.
A large glass of water before you eat may help you feel full.
Use a small plate; a large plate will encourage you to have more than enough.
Better not have highfat foods. Dishes that look oily or creamy have much fat in them.
Choose lean meat. Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables.
If you have a sweet tooth，try mints (薄荷) and fruit. They don't have fat content as cream and chocolate.
Don't let exercise take a break during the holidays. A 20minute walk after a meal can help burn off excess calories (多余的热量).
改错：At that time, I was having a trouble studying English and my scores fell.
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76.作为回报，沙皇把他最好的士兵派给了他。
________ return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers.
77. 我对自己的未来更怀有希望。
I became more ________ about my future.
78. 事实上，我不喜欢暴力。
________ a matter of fact, I do not like violence.
79. 奥林匹克的口号是更快、更高、更强。
The motto of the Olympics is “________, Higher and Stronger”.
80.现今所有国家都可以参加奥运会。
________ all countries can take part in the Olympic Games.
(2019·山东师范大学附中高三第二次模拟考试)If you ask most people what water tastes like, they'll probably tell you that water has no taste and they may give you a funny look. But if you were a fruit fly, asking another fruit fly, that question might have a different answer.
To a fruit fly, water has a taste. Scientists want to know how the fruit fly knows water because this information may help in learning how other animals—or even individual cells—manage to use water in the right way. Water is vital to life, but too much or too little can be deadly to a living creature. So by understanding how the fruit fly tastes water, researchers may learn more about other living things.
According to the new study, a protein (蛋白质) called PPK28 makes it possible for a fly to taste water. Proteins build cells and tissues, fight disease and carry messages between cells. It's not surprising that a protein is responsible for the fruit fly's ability to taste water.
The PPK28 protein is part of a larger family of similar proteins. One of these related proteins is used by mammals (including humans) to taste salt. Scientists have not found a protein that enables humans to “taste” water.
In the experiment, Cameron and his team compared normal fruit flies with fruit flies whose taste cells had been disabled. The fruit flies were given a special chemical that would glow (发光) when the fly used the PPK28 protein. Then the scientists led the flies to water. When the normal flies tasted the water, the PPK28 protein lit up—showing that it was in use.
The fruit fly in particular is so interesting that some scientists are hard at work creating a complete map of the fruit fly brain. This map will show all of a fly's neurons and help scientists understand how the neurons work together.
篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文，讲述了科学家研究果蝇可以分辨水有滋味的原因。获取这些信息有助于人类对其他生物甚至是单个细胞的研究和了解。
17．How do most people feel when asked the taste of water?
A．Amused. B．Frightened.
C．Disappointed. D．Disgusted.
18．Why do scientists want to know how the fruit fly knows water?
A．To decrease the number of the fruit fly.
B．To know more about other creatures.
C．To manage to use water correctly.
D．To describe the taste of water.
19．What do we know about the PPK28 protein?
A．It can make humans taste salt.
B．The fruit fly can't live without it.
C．It enables the fruit fly to taste water.
D．The fruit fly uses it to avoid illnesses.
20．What will the scientists continue to work at?
A．Studying the fruit fly's neuron systems.
B．Telling more information about cells.
C．Creating maps of human brains.
D．Making the PPK28 protein.
---- Wow, you have a really good voice. I you were good at singing.
---- Thank you.
A. didn’t know B. don’t know C. haven’t known D. hadn’t known
Thanks to Dr Yuan’s research, the UN is trying to ___79______the world of _____80______. Using his hydrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.
You might guess that Dr Yuan is ____81_____with his life. However, he cares little about ____82____the money on himself or ___83____ a comfortable life. Indeed, he believes that a person with too much money has more troubles. So he gives millions of yuan to ___84____ others for their research. And he ____85_____(宁愿）keep time for his hobbies. Although he can no longer play his violin, he still listens to violin music. His other hobbies ____86___ playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. He ____87____to walk to his rice fields twice a day, but now he prefers to ride his ____88_____.
Many of us were raised with the saying “Waste not, want not.” None of us, however, can 41 (complete) avoid waste in our lives.
Any kind of waste is thoughtless. Whether we waste our potential talents, our own time, our limited 42 (nature) resource, our money, 43 other people’s time, each of us can become more aware and careful. The smallest good habits can make a big 44 (differ). It’s a good feeling to know in our hearts we are doing our best in a world 45 is in serious trouble. By being devoted to 46 (save) oil, water, paper, food, and clothing, we are playing 47 part in cutting down on waste.
We must keep reminding 48 (we)that it is easier to get into something than it is to get out of it. Actually, severe damage 49 (do) to our land is fairly recent in the history of our evolution. It’s time for us to say no to waste so that our grandchildren’s children 50 (be)able to develop well. We can’t solve all the problems of waste, but we can encourage mindfulness.
The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, _____ all practical value by time they were finished.
A. could lose B. would have lost C. might lose D. ought to have lost
假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Lucy下个月将来你所在的城市学习，她来信想请你给她推荐一家健身馆。请你给她写封回信，介绍你所推荐的健身馆的情况（名称、位置、官方网址等）以及你推荐它的理由等。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 文章的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Lucy,
I am very glad to hear from you. In your letter, you asked me about gyms in our city.
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Yours,
Li Hua
______ everybody is here, let’s begin our meeting.
A. Now that B. Even though C. As if D. As long as
