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Our LearnEnglish website is designed for adult learners of English. Improve your English through videos，podcasts (播客)and games. You can also interact with other learners.

LearnEnglish Kids website

LearnEnglish Kids is for children who are learning English as a second or foreign language. Children can have fun learning English through games, songs, stories and other activities. Teachers can use many of the resources from the site in the classroom. There is also a support section for parents looking to help their children learn English outside of the classroom.

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Our LearnEnglish Teens website is designed for 13-to-17-year olds.You can find top tips to pass your exams, practise your English grammar and improve your vocabulary through interactive videos, games and exercises. Read about life in the UK and share your opinions with other teens.

LearnEnglish with Timmy

Children aged 6 years and younger can now play exciting games and listen to English words to learn about numbers, colors, shapes and food with Timmy and his friends. The app is developed by the British Council in collaboration with Aardman Animations, the creators of Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time.

1. （1） If a man aged 30 wants to find a partner to learn English together, which website is suitable?

   A . LearnEnglish website. B . LearnEnglish Kids website C . LearnEnglish Teens website. D . LearnEnglish with Timmy.
3. （2） What can a child do with Timmy?

   A . Learning how to make videos. B . Learning how to pass exams. C . Learning about shapes. D . Learning English outside the classroom.
5. （3） What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?

   A . To express his love of some websites. B . To persuade people to buy his courses online. C . To introduce some websites to learn English. D . To prove the websites are helpful only for children.

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Some American states are making money available for high school graduates so they can learn skills to help them get technology jobs without a college degree.

One example is the northeastern state of Connecticut. It has invested $70 million to put young people and adults through short-term training programs that can lead to good paying technology jobs.

The programs are known as "non-degree skills training." They have helped people like Mohameth Seck, who left college after two years. Seck said he wanted to work in technology but the classes he was offered in a traditional college program "weren't really interesting"to him. He also said traditional college takes too long to finish.

So Seck decided to enter a one-year computer training program run by a nonprofit organization. Today, the 25-year-old teaches computer coding at a skills training center, or academy, in Stamford, Connecticut. Eck said friends who finished the program also have good jobs.

Research carried out by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce showed that people who do get a college degree earn about 84 percent more over their lifetimes. But not everyone can get into, pay for or do well in college.

David Soo leads an organization called Jobs for the Future. He said the college model that has been in place for the last 40 years does not work for everyone. And this is especially true for students who are Black, Hispanic (拉美裔美国人) or whose families do not make a lot of money. "We need to find a better way to serve those students." Soo said.

Anthony Carnevale is the leader of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce. He said that while job training is good, it is not 100 percent correct to tell people they cannot benefit from a college degree.

One reason companies might hire college graduates is because they think they might have better communication and teamwork skills.

1. （1） What did Seck think of the training program?

   A . Boring. B . Time-consuming. C . Rewarding. D . Demanding.
3. （2） Which statement is Not true?

   A . Some students can't afford to go to college. B . Some students are incapable of getting into college. C . The programs offer more choices to lead to a good job. D . People cannot benefit from a college degree.
5. （3） Who will most benefit from the short-term training programs according to David Soo?

   A . Minority and poor families. B . Everyone in America. C . African-American students. D . College graduates.
7. （4） What can be improved for the short-term training programs according to the last paragraph?

   A . Expanding in size. B . Being given more financial support. C . Including interpersonal skills in the programs. D . Teaching how to write code or design websites.

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After eight years of construction, the Padma Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh opened to the public on June 26, reducing travel time from parts of the southwest of the country to the capital Dhaka from seven to eight hours to as little as just 10 minutes.

The 21.5-meter-wide, 6.15-kilometer-long bridge built over the Padma River, the main branch of the Ganges, has two levels with the upper tier having a four-lane highway and the lower tier a single-track railway, according to Wuhan-based China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group, or MBEC, one of China's biggest bridge makers. Before that, travelers and goods were transported via boat or ship because of the vast width and fast-flowing nature of the river, and the tendency of the area to flood.

In 2014, the Bangladeshi government awarded MBEC a $1.54-billion contract to build the core structure of the bridge, making it the country's largest infrastructure(基础建设) project as well as the largest foreign bridge project undertaken by Chinese companies in terms of total cost.

"The construction was much harder than expected as the complex geological conditions brought multiple challenges to us," said Shen Tao, deputy general manager of the project. "The bridge is located above a river with banks on loose soil, and downpours in the rainy season often caused flooding, bringing us numerous difficulties we had never experienced before." "During the construction, we had to adjust the design plan to adapt to environmental changes whenever necessary," he added.

"However, through continuous learning and adaptation, construction teams have greatly improved their abilities including technology, communication and adaptability." said Wen Wusong, chairman of MBEC. "They demonstrated the strength of China's road bridge construction to the whole world and the bridge is a model of international cooperation."

Over the past eight years, the project has created over 50,000 jobs for local residents, according to MBEC.

1. （1） What do we know about the bridge?

   A . It is over the Ganges. B . It is across the Padma River. C . The upper tier has a single-track railway. D . The lower tier has a four-lane highway.
3. （2） What did Shen Tao mainly express in paragraph 4?

   A . Costs of building the bridge. B . Features of the newly-built bridge. C . Benefits the bridge can bring about. D . Difficulties in constructing the bridge.
5. （3） Which can replace the underlined word "demonstrated" in paragraph 5?

   A . Measured B . Adapted. C . Showed. D . Preserved.
7. （4） What can be the best title for the news report?

   A . China-made bridge opens in Bangladesh B . Eight years of China's constructing a bridge in Bangladesh C . Constructing a bridge creates over 50,000 jobs in Bangladesh D . Bangladeshi government awards MBEC $1.54-billion contract

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Before you walked down the aisle—if you even did—did you first agree to take your partner's name? had you agreed to the bank for updated credit cards, changed your email address, and updated your Facebook?

I didn't; and I know plenty of women out there didn't, either. So I was pretty shocked to learn that in a recent survey, over 50 percent of U.S. citizens believe a wife should take her husband's name—and she should be required to do so by law.

Author Emily Schafer, a sociology professor at Portland State University, surveyed a representative national sample of 1,200 people tar the study, which found that a larger number of American adults think there needs to actually be a law in place to prevent women from keeping their own name.

The most common reason given? The general belief is that women should prioritize（优先）their marriage and their family ahead of themselves. To this, I admit I'm a bit confused, because I don't understand how exactly riot taking your husband's last name means you aren't prioritizing your marriage.

Now, I didn't take my husband's name for a variety of reasons: I didn't feel like the name was "mine" and professionally I had built up a reputation as a writer under my maiden（未婚的）name, so I didn't want to lose that. His surname wasn't easy to spell, either; everyone gets it wrong (including my mother—still—and we've been married 13 years).But most of all, I felt like in taking my husband's last name, I was losing a huge sense of self. And while yes, we are a family, I don't want his surname to define me. I'm not his possession.

Just like every aspect of motherhood, each woman should be respected for the choices she makes—without having to do anything by law. And we should all be grateful to Lucy Stone—the first American woman to legally maintain her last name after marriage in 1856.Just imagine how difficult that must have been to forego tradition in that time?

1. （1） What can be learned about the tradition of taking a husband's name from the survey?

   A . A law should be there to break the tradition. B . The majority of American adults support the tradition. C . The majority of American women go against the tradition. D . The law requires wives to take their husbands' names in America.
3. （2） Why does an American woman generally take her husband's name?

   A . To value her marriage and family. B . To show honesty to her husband. C . To join in the family of her husband. D . To unite a new family under the same name.
5. （3） What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?

   A . Why the author didn't use her husband's name. B . Why the author's mother didn't like her husband. C . How worthy the author's own maiden name was. D . How bored the author became with her husband's name.
7. （4） What does the author think of the tradition?

   A . It's reasonable B . It isn't worth caring C . Every coin has two sides D . It's out of date and confusing.

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How to Welcome Change in Your Life

Do you embrace (欣然接受) the road you are now on or resist and avoid change at all costs when a recent event has shaken you greatly?

Don't react.

What do we do when we don't know what to do? First, stop, take a deep breath and don't do anything. It is having faith and trusting what you do know in the unknown.

Reflect on the past.

Another activity is to recall times in your life when you were faced with an unknown. Then, think about how you handled the situation. Use your past experiences to bring you strength, and to remind you what you are capable of.

Make conscious decisions.

However, more possibilities open up when we are at peace. Go over you list of what ifs and make a more balanced list of the best and worst situations possible. Then talk to loved ones about what you would do in each situation and the choices you do have.

We often see fears as our greatest enemy, yet they provide us with an enormous opportunity for self-growth. What if we were to see them as friends who want to help us become a better person? Let your fears help you instead of hurting you. Then, write down what comes to you. You may be surprised by the answers.

A. Don't panic. B. Befriend your fears. C. When we are fearful, our options seem limited. D. Then try to feel at ease with the state of "not knowing". E. Learning from past failures helps you make better decisions. F. Remembering these incidents will remind you that you've gone through difficult situations. G. Here are things you can do in the midst of uncertainty to choose differently to change the track of your life.

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When 72-year-old Randy Long was cleaning out his garage not long ago, he came across some practice baseballs he used to throw around with his son and grandson.

Thinking some kids might get 1 of them, he took them to a local baseball cage, where he 2 them along with a touching note that might just bring even the strongest men to tears:

"Hope someone can use these baseballs. I found them when 3 my garage. I pitched (投球) them to my son and grandson for countless 4 . My son is now 46 years old and my grandson is 23 years old. I am 72. They have both 5 away. If you are a father, 6these times. You won't believe how quickly they will be gone."

7, Long's grandson, Ethan Anderson, tweeted about his grandpa's generous gesture. He never expected the post to go viral. The impact of the story finally hit home when the family 8 by the media, but Anderson says while his grandfather is amazed by all the attention he's getting, he really doesn't have much use for social media.

Anderson may be grown-up, but he fondly remembers his grandpa as a thoughtful coach who helped him 9 his true athletic potential. "When I was a kid, we would usually go a few times a week to practice in the cages," he recalled. "Many times, I didn't even want to go, but he always wanted me to be the best 10 I could be."

After the story was shown on the news, Anderson was nearly swept away by the wave of 11 feedback. There are a lot of kids younger than me telling me they'll cherish the times they have with their dads or granddads," he told CNN, "And they won't 12 it for granted anymore."

"I get to go back and 13 every now and then," he said. "I just didn't realize that he missed 14 in the cages. Although he's moved to Birmingham, about a two-hour drive from Long, Anderson has decided it's time to team back up with his grandpa on a more 15 basis.

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In the near future, the world's top chefs may be using knives made from wood. This may seem impossible, but materials scientists (create) a wooden knife that is three times sharper than the stainless steel knives we use for dinner. Researcher Teng Li said wooden knives would enter the list of wooden utensils items currently (find) in kitchens across the world. He said: "In our kitchen, we have many wooden things that we use for a very long time, like a cutting board, chopsticks,  a rolling pin. These new knives can also  (use) many times if you sharpen them and perform the same regular upkeep."

 (tradition), knives have been made of steel. The scientists improved the strength of the wood in their knives  increasing the cellulose (纤维素) it contains. Cellulose is the most important part of wood. It has a  (high) ratio of strength to density (密度) than most steel materials. Teng Li said the new cutting material is hardened to the extent that it can effortlessly slice through the toughest steak. There is an  (add) advantage of wooden knives - they are environmentally friendly. They could end our (depend) on plastic materials. The scientists have also developed wooden nails, which could be a great help to the building industry as they will not rust and weaken like conventional nails.

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1）活动名称及意图；

2)活动具体安排；

3)邀请他参加。

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The Comeback

Laurie sat quietly in the empty dressing room at the ice-skating rink(溜冰场). She had not been skating in any competition since her left knee was badly injured in an accident six months ago. As she waited for her turn to skate, Laurie was very nervous. She knew that today was a very important day in her comeback.

"If I can win today," she thought, "I can skate in the World Cup next year and then maybe I can make it to the Olympics."

Laurie was told that she had a tough competition this year, and a girl from Connecticut named Jinny Jordan who was really strong in everything. "She is the one you have to beat this year," the coach said.

Minutes later, the door opened and Laurie saw a young woman who was about her own age. The young woman dumped some of her belongings onto a chair. The bag fell to the floor with a sound.

Laurie felt uncomfortable as she looked at Jinny. "So this is my competitor," thought Laurie, "Because of her, I may lose tonight."

"This costume(服装) was my mom's idea," Jinny started the conversation, looking down at her red, white, and blue skating dress. " looks like a flag."

Laurie couldn't keep from smiling. She pointed to Jinny's skating bag. "Something fell out of your bag," Laurie said.

Jinny looked at the clothing and equipment that lay scattered on the floor. As she began to gather her belongings, the door opened.

"Jinny," called someone, "You'd better give the tape of your music to the sound engineer right away."

"I thought I gave him my music tape an hour ago," said Jinny, "Tell him it's the green box with my initials written in white in the right-hand corner."

"He said you never gave it to him. and he's getting angry."

"Then I don't know what I did with it," said Jinny, hurrying out.

Laurie knew that music was nearly as important to the program as skating itself. If she lost her music tape, she might as well forget about skating. Laurie stood up and walked to the chair to do a few more knee bends.

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Suddenly she saw something small and dark green behind the leg of the dressing table.

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Feeling relaxed, Laurie skated quickly to the center of the rink after the announcer finally called her name.