My father (work) in an office. There two large windows in it. One day, a woman in a (pass) car looks up and sees my father. My father waves his hands, the woman waves back. This gives my father an idea.
Later, he changes his way of (greet) people. He writes signs, like "Hello" or "Be happy". Every afternoon when people go home from work, my father will greet them with the signs. Then they （give）my father big smiles.
The day when I came into the world, my father put a sign the window, "I'm a new father!" To his surprise, a sign (hold) by some people, saying, "Congratulations!"
My father learns the (true) in the saying, "You smile, and the whole world smiles with you." And he becomes first one who greets strangers with signs every day.
The government in China plans to end its one-child policy(政策) and let families have two children instead.
The plan was given on Thursday after political meetings in Beijing. There are a number of reasons for the change in policy. The change is meant to balance population development, stop a falling birth rate and strengthen the country's labor(劳动力) force.
China, with the largest population in the world, started the one-child policy in 1980. But the government allowed only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some families in the countryside could have two children, if the first-born child is a girl.
In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children if one of them was an only child.
Jiang Quanbao, a teacher and population expert, explained how Chinese families react（反应） to the newest policy. "Too many young people in the cities are no longer interested in having a second child," he said. "People in the countryside are more interested. But some of them are already allowed to have two children."
At the end of 2014, China had 1. 37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them have jobs. But the labor market population will drop in 35 years. That is to say, the country will be in great need of labor by the year 2050. With the two-child policy, an increase in births can solve this problem.
Boys and girls, what do you think of the two-child policy? Do you want to have a new-born brother or a sister?
① It's on the fourth Thursday of November. And it is also a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.
② It is on the first Sunday after the full moon which falls on or after March 21st. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to life. But now for most people, it is a spring holiday, while for children, it means, more than anything else, Easter eggs or chocolate eggs!
③ It's also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the most important Chinese festivals with a history of more than 2,000years. It was originally designed in memory of ancient poet called Qu Yuan.
④ It is a very important Chinese festival. There will be a big family dinner. People who work far away from home will try to come back. At night, people can enjoy the moon while eating moon cakes. They are the special food for this festival.
⑤ It falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar in China. The aim is to promote respect for the elderly. According to centuries-old customs, people climb mountains to admire the view.
A. The Double Ninth Festival
B. The Mid-autumn Festival C. Easter Day
D. The Dragon Boat Festival
E. Thanksgiving Day
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unnecessary | a waste of time, not helpful for lessons, … |
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Recently some schools offer their students some special classes, such as cooking classes, handicraft classes, traditional opera and so on.……
Compared with other European countries, lifestyle in Italy is slower and more relaxing in its own way. Italians love to chat over a cup of coffee, go out for a walk in the middle of the day, and enjoy long lunches and dinners.
The family is important to Italians. They can't think of spending a day without talking about their parents and children, or a weekend without a family lunch or dinner. Italians living outside their country miss their family a lot.
Italians like simple life. Their days start and end with a cup of coffee. A cup of coffee after every meal is a must. Italians love to spend time over a hot cup of coffee and even hotter conversation with friends. Topics are usually about family, football and politics(政治).
Sport is a very important part in lives of many Italians. Football is their favorite sport. There are hundreds of football clubs with top football teams in Italy. Also, many top players from all over the world play in Italy. Volleyball is also popular and so is rugby, with the top rugby team playing for the European Challenge Cup.
Every Italian province, city, town and street has a historical event that took place there and the Italian calendar is filled with national holidays that they love to celebrate.
A. The Double Ninth Festival
B. The Mid-autumn Festival
C. Easter Day
D. The Dragon Boat Festival
E. Thanksgiving Day
⑴It's on the fourth Thursday of November. And it is also a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.
⑵It is on the first Sunday after the full moon which falls on or after March 21st. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to life. But now for most people, it is a spring holiday, while for children, it means, more than anything else, Easter eggs or chocolate eggs!
⑶It's also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the most important Chinese festivals with a history of more than 2,000years. It was originally designed in memory of ancient poet called Qu Yuan.
⑷It is a very important Chinese festival. There will be a big family dinner. People who work far away from home will try to come back. At night, people can enjoy the moon while eating moon cakes. They are the special food for this festival.
⑸It falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar in China. The aim is to promote respect for the elderly. According to centuries-old customs, people climb mountains to admire the view.
Having Fun “Growing” and “Stealing(偷)”？
Recently, an Internet game has become a new fashion among young office workers and students．People can “farm” on a piece of “land” and “grow”, “sell” or even “steal” “vegetables”.“flowers”．And “fruits” on the Net , They can earn（攒） some e-money and buy more“seeds”.“pets”and even “houses"．
Joyce interviewed some young people．Here are their opinions．
Harold：I don't quite understand why they are so mad about the childish game, Maybe they are just not confident enough to face the real world.
Allan：I enjoy putting some “bugs（小虫子）” in my friends' gardens and we've become closer because of the game．Having fun together is the most exciting thing about it．
Laura: You know, people in the city are longing for(渴望) the life in the countryside．It reduces my work pressure(压力)；besides, it gives me the exciting experience of being a “thief”.
Ivy: Well. It's just a waste of time．Teenagers playing the game spend so many hours on it that they can not focus on (专注于)their study.
C
Life is full of surprises and you never know how things will turn out. Sir John Gurdon. Is a good example of this. As a boy, he was told he was hopeless at science and finished bottom of his class. Now, aged 79, the very same Gurdon shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Japanese stem cell (干细胞) researcher Shinya Yamanaka.
Like so many scientists, Gurdon shows us where the power of curiosity and perseverance （坚持） can lead.
At the age of 15 in 1948, Gurdon ranked last out of the 250 boys at his high school in biology and every other science subject. Gurdon's high school science teacher even said that his dream of becoming a scientist was quite "ridiculous".
In spite of his teacher's criticisms, Gurdon followed his curiosity and kept working hard. He went to the laboratory earlier and left later than anyone else. He experienced thousands of failures.
"I believe that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work." Gurdon said.
In 1962, Gurdon took a sell from an adult frog and moved its genetic （基因的） information i nto an egg cell. The egg cell then grown into a clone of the adult frog. This technique later helped to create Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first cloned mammal in the world.
In 2006, Gurdon's work was developed by Yamanaka to show that a sample (样本) of a person's skin can be used to create stem cells. Using the technique, doctors can repair a patient's heart after a heart attack.
"Luck prefers the prepared mind." Gurdon told the Nobel Prize organization. "Ninety percent of the time things don't work, but when they do, you have to catch the chance."
a. create the sheep Dolly
b. take a cell from an adult frog
c. use a person's skin to create stem cells
d. move the frog's genetic information into an egg cell
e. grown into a clone of a frog
Nick is a 14-year-old school boy. His life is full of exams and studies on weekdays. He has little free time. He thinks playing computer games is the best way to make him relax. When he has free time, he sits in front of the computer. Just like that way, he neither eats nor drinks for several hours.
Last weekend, he played games on the computer again. He was too excited and didn't want to move. He didn't have anything for six hours. When he had to go the bathroom, he found he could not move. He was taken to the hospital. The doctor told him he should do some different kinds of activities.
After coming back from the hospital, Nick follows the doctor's advice. He often plays soccer with his friends. Sometimes he still plays computer games on weekends, but he never does it for long. Now, he lives a happy and healthy life.
Do you know what is special about November and June in the UK? They are, possibly, the only two (month) with no school holidays. A newspaper recently did a survey among a group of students. In survey, 68 percent of the students said that their parents were at work in the school holidays. 73 percent said that they were bored during the school holidays and 35 percent said they were happy to go back to school! The results of the survey show that not everybody (want) to have many holidays.
If you don't want to stay at home, go out and take part some interesting activities. A lot of schools organize different kinds of trips during the holidays, especially when they have a one-week holiday. You have many (choose) to make.
Many schools take groups of students to some (train) centers. There, students can learn how to do things by (they). For example, students learn how to make a camp in the forest. They also learn a lot (many) about animals and plants. At the same time, they are (teach) how to find their way back to the centers.
In most towns, some other centers offer students different courses, as computer game design, film-making and painting. Students can also go abroad for school trips. They can practice their foreign languages and experience everyday life in different cultures.
Stitch after stitch, Amy is embroidering(刺绣) her hand-made napkin.
"Well, Amy, how are you getting on?" asked Lizzy, whose 1 seemed to fly over her work.
"Not very fast," replied Amy. At the same time, she didn't 2 her eyes, "I have finished one side."
"One side?" said Lizzy, "I'm now at the fourth side!
"I know that I am 3but, I'll try my best." said Amy.
"As I sew(缝) so fast," said Lizzy, "I'm sure to have finished my napkin 4 the bell rings for dinner. I'll run to see if the roses are out in the garden." Lizzy 5 went out of the room, leaving her work on a chair.
Amy also longed for the flowers, but she kept on sewing and finished the 6 side of her napkin before her sister came back.
"Ah, you slow little thing!" cried Lizzy "You will never 7 I'll have time to go to my room to put up my picture.
Off went joyful Lizzy. Amy went on with her work. Before her sister 8 the room again, the third side of her napkin was done.
"Why not finish your sewing first?" said Amy. "It must be near the time for 9.
"Oh! I can finish it in two minutes. I want to read that funny storybook." "What if 10 can't?"
"No fear of that!" cried Lizzy, "No one is so likely to be as a slow little thing like you!"
Poor Amy made no 11. Quietly she worked on. Lizzy was soon deep in her story and she forgot all about her 12, till suddenly the sound of the bell woke her up.
"Can it be dinner time?" she cried. "My napkin is not hemmed! And yours..."
"It is just 13" said Amy, as she quietly put it away.
"This is like 'The Rabbit and the Turtle(龟)', the faster, but not the winner, "thought Lizzy, who, though 14, had enough sense to take lesson: The quick may have the start, but the slow may 15 in the end.
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Chinese brands |
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参考词汇：fashionable时尚的
短文首句：Recently, we had a discussion about whether we like to wear clothes with Chinese brands or foreign brands.
Bertie knew there was something in the wind. His mother had been sad in recent days, not sick, just strangely sad. The lion had just lain down beside him, his head warm on Bertie's feet when Father cleared his throat and began, "You'll soon be eight, Bertie. A boy needs a proper education. We've found the right place for you, a school near Salisbury in England."
His heat filled with a terrible fear. All Bertie could think of was his white lion "But the lion," he cried, "What about the lion?'
"I'm afraid there's something else I have to tell you," his father said. Looking across at Bertie's mother, he took a deep breath. Then he told Bertie he had met a circus(马戏团)owner from France, who was now in Africa looking for lions to buy. He would come to their farm in a few days.
"No! You can't send him to a circus!"" said Bertie." People will come to see him. He'll be shut in a cage. I promised him he never would be. And they will laugh at him. He'd rather die if he loses his pride?" But as Bertie looked across the table at them, he knew their minds were quite made up.
Bertie felt completely hurt. He waited until he head his father's deep breathing next door. With his white lion, he walked downstairs quietly in his pajamas, took down his father's gun from the case and stepped out into the night. He ran and ran till his lags could run no more. As the sum came up over the grassland, he climbed to the top of a hill and sat down, his arms round the lion's neck. The time had come.
"Be wild now," he whispered" "You've got to be wild. Don't ever come home. All my life I'II think of you. I promise I will. "Ha put his head down in the lion's neck. Then, Bertie climbed down the hill and walked away.
When he looked back the lion was still sitting there watching him; but then the lion stood up, yawned, ran down after him. Bertie shouted at him, but he kept coming. He threw sticks. He threw stones. Nothing worked.
There was only one thing left to do. With tears filling his eyes and his mouth, he lifted the gun and fired over the lion's head.
