Seven years ago, Joyce Akinpe moved to Australia to start a new life, finding an exciting job in Sydney. After the outbreak (爆发) of COVID-19, she suddenly lost her job.
Seeing that there were many others like herself in trouble from the outbreak, Akinpe and her two roommates, Michele Gomez and Maureen Lee, brainstormed ideas for how to help their local community. They came up with a street pantry (储藏柜). Gomez said the idea was very simple, "Take what you need and leave what you can."
With the help of Gomez's father, they built the Blessing –Box – a a street pantry, with shelves and hanging baskets and two doors made from old furniture.
It sits just at the back of the three girls' home, so they can look after it. They put some information notices into their neighbors' mailboxes, and the Blessing Box was quickly filled with the donations (捐赠)from the community, "It is the community's strong support that keeps the project alive, " Akinpe said.
We now have hundreds of people visiting our box every day. It might only a hours for the box to be full and next hour it might become empty again. We are now h others to carry out similar projects in their own communities, too, "Gomez said.
Lee said things in the box were mostly convenience foods. as well as some necessary life things such as spaghetti and toilet paper. "Few people take everything at once. They think there are other people who need them more. "Lee added.
There were many people rushing there for donations. The three girls needed to sanitize (消毒)all the donations and make sure all food packages were not broken. Gomez said that they had no time for rest, but what they did was well worth.
a. The three girls thought up a good idea.
b. The three girls received and sanitized the donations.
c. The three girls put information notices into their neighbors' mailboxes.
d. The three girls built the Blessing Box with the help of Gomez's father
要求:70词左右
—Never, but I am going there this summer.
Jack thought himself a basketball fan. He watched quite a lot of American NBA basketball games. Not only did he watch them, he spent much of his free time playing on the court too. Then came the final year of his middle school. All of his regular teammates stopped showing up on the court because they were simply too busy preparing for the high school entrance exam to play. He was, of course, under much stress himself, like everyone else. A good exam result meant a good high school; a mediocre(平庸的) score meant a mediocre school. Much was at stake. However, he loved basketball so much that he still found time to play, this time with a group of guys who were said to have skipped classes(逃课) before.
Some of his teachers started worrying about him. They asked his mother to go to school to let her know that Jack was hanging out with problem kids. When his mother returned home that day, she wanted to talk to Jack. Knowing the purpose of her visit to the school, Jack thought his mother would punish him for befriending those bad guys. To his surprise, his mother was not angry with him at all. She wanted to hear her son's side of the story. So Jack told his mother about what he knew of Simon and Peter. Simon's parents were badly ill; Peter's father had lost his job. They both seemed to Jack to be normal kids. Jack's mother thought for a moment, then went on to say that she was OK with her son playing with them and that she and her son should think of ways to help these kids. Soon Jack's mum introduced some part-time jobs to Simon and Peter, which they accepted. She believed in her son and cared about those who were less lucky.
Jack's basketball friends and he have left for different places, but they still keep in touch. He knows Peter is now a manager of a local bank. Simon is currently a freshman at a university. Sadly, it is impossible to get together to play basketball again, but whenever they get on the phone, they talk about it all the time.
— Oh, I'm sorry. I (have) a bath.
Twenty-two-year-old Timothy Doner from New York City has been able to speak 23 different languages, including some rare African ones.
Timothy began his foreign language education at the age of 13. Attracted by in Israeli(以色列) musical band. Timothy listened to their album every morning. A month Later, he kept about 20 of their songs in his mind, though he didn't know what the Hebrew(希伯来语) words mean. But once he learned the translation. it was like he had a dictionary in his head.
Then Timothy moved on to Arabic (阿拉伯语) which he studied every morning by reading newspapers with a dictionary and by talking to street vendors (小贩). After that he learned Persian, then Russian, then Mandarin... and about twenty others and developed a crazy low for languages.
Now, Timothy is still teaching himself new languages. With the help of language books and word-learning Apps on his iPhone. He can master a language in a few weeks or months.
What has Timothy got from learning so many languages? "By learning languages, you are learning a lot more. You are learning about culture, everything from cooking to TV,poetry and whatever it may be. That helps you better understand the language,” he said.
①reading news papers ② joining in language clubs ③listening to foreign music
④using apps and dictionaries ⑤ travelling around the world ⑥keeping diaries in different languages
1)你觉得有必要举行实验操作考试吗?为什么?
2)对即将来到的物理和化学科实验考试,你心情如何?又是如何准备的?
作文要求∶
1)不得照抄原文,不得在作文中出现学校的真实名称和学生的真实姓名。
2)语句连贯,词数80个左右。作文的开头已经给出,不必抄写在试卷上,也不计入总词数。
Dear Tommy,
Sorry that I didn't write back to you in time.
I've been busy preparing for the coming experiment operation test.
Yours,
Li Ming
I’m happy ________ a friend of mine .
A. visit B. to visit C. visiting D. for visiting
My father often in the morning.
A. on foot B. walk C. walks D. foot
----- Why not go to Lao She Teahouse(老舍茶馆) tonight?.
----- .
A. Thank you B. Sounds great C. It doesn’t matter D. Sorry to hear that.