1. After the UK left the European Union, British people hope to see ________even stronger country.

2. It’s a pity that quite a few girls found ________ a bit hard to sing the song well.

4. ________ they get to that age, they will realize the importance of health.

6. —Doctor Li, I cannot stop smoking.

—But for your health, I’m afraid you ________.

9. —We should give the elderly as much help as we can to make our city more civilized.

—I agree. ________, we should keep in touch with them as often as we can.

10. —He never changes his mind. If he wants to do something, nothing or nobody can stand ________.

—I agree.

11. It’s not ________ to be friendly. You have to be a friend. Go and talk to Sam now.

12. You don’t know what great trouble I had ________ my broken watch work again.

14. The scientists are searching for another planet with conditions ________ on the Earth.

A boy was walking home from the school. Suddenly, he saw a large, red apple ________ on an apple tree. The boy didn’t like fruit very much, but this time he had a ________ will to have this one. And the more he looked at it, the ________ he felt and the more he wanted that apple.

He stood on tiptoe (脚尖), stretching as high as he could, but he was unable to ________ it. He began to jump up and down, as high as he could, but the apple was still out of ________.

“I can’t ________!” he thought “________ I can have something to stand on.” But his schoolbag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to ________ the things inside, either. Looking around, he hoped he could find an old box, a rock, or, with luck, even a ladder, ________ it was a tidy neighbourhood and there was nothing he could use.

Without seeing any other choices, he felt quite ________ and had to walk away. At first, he got a little angry when ________ about how hungry he had become and how he really wanted that apple. Then the more he thought like this, the unhappier he became.

However, the boy was always a pretty ________ guy. He thought for a while and said to himself, “I can do nothing to get the apple now, and the result is unchangeable for me. Being upset (沮丧的) isn’t ________ because it can’t change anything. So I must change my ________ and be joyful. I should go home earlier and ________ something else, and then I may not be hungry and I may not be angry, either.”

The next day, I wanted to take a boat across the river to see what was going on over there. Jim came up with a good idea.

“Here, Huck,” he said. “Put it on.” He took out one of the dresses that they got from that old house.

“Why would I wear this?” I asked.

“Because nobody will know you if you wear this.”

That seemed like a good idea to me. Jim pulled that dress over my head and buttoned (扣扣子) it up, and I rolled(卷) my trouser legs up to my knees. Then Jim put a sunbonnet (太阳帽) on my head. Then looked me over carefully.

“Huck, you look just like a girl. Nobody can know you even in the daylight.”

I practiced walking around to get used of it. Jim said I didn’t walk like a girl, and that I should stop lifting my dress up to get to my trouser pockets. I practiced hard. Then when it got dark, I jumped onto the boat.

I crossed over to the side of town. I saw a light burning in an old house. I slipped up and peeked in the window. There was a woman inside, knitting(织毛线) by candlelight.

She was a stranger, which was lucky for me. Although(尽管) I was dressed like a girl, I didn’t want anyone to know my voice. I knocked on the door.

“Come in,” the woman said. So I did.

“Take a chair,” she told me. I sat down next to her.

She looked me over with her shiny eyes. “And what might your name be?”

Time flies when you play on your smartphone. But when you get down to the real business of work and study, one hour feels like a year. Why are we so attracted by smartphones but easily bored by studying?

It all boils down to something small and hard to see: dopamine (多巴胺). Dopamine is a “pleasure chemical” that makes people feel good. Our brains give it out when we eat yummy food, after we exercise or when we get a prize.

Compared with studying, playing on smartphones causes our brains to give out more dopamine. For example, checking your phone for a text leads to a 400 percent increase in dopamine. But why?

When we visit social media, we don’t know what we’ll see next, or who will give opinions about things we post. This “magic of maybe”, makes the dopamine system active. We get excited wondering if we have messages from our friends. When our expectations are met, dopamine is given out.

And to find more dopamine, we continue checking our phones. Studying doesn’t provide such magic. Without this excitement, we get bored much more easily.

Can we do something to change that? According to scientists, apps can become less attractive if we turn off notifications or change the screen colors to black and white. We can also set time limits on apps to avoid overusing them.

“As for studying, you could check your progress daily or weekly and reward yourself for it”, said Daniel Wong, writer of The Happy Student, “You could also search for interesting topics connected with your textbook. Use what you’ve learned to make an influence in the real world. This will make knowledge much more interesting to learn”.

For middle and primary school students, being able to cook has become a must. They will also need to learn how to plant vegetables, raise poultry(家禽) and fix up household appliances(家电) under new requirements for labor education.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) brought out a new standard for labor education in schools last year. Starting from the 2022 fall semester, students in primary and middle schools have to take courses on labor skills at least once a week.

Labor education helps students value hard work. Students should learn basic life skills and form good working habits through such education. It includes things like household chores, on-campus labor and community volunteer services.

The new standards include three types of labor tasks. The first is for things like everyday chores, including washing clothes, tidying rooms, cooking meals, and using household appliances, etc. Next is productive labor, including agriculture, making traditional handicrafts, and applying (应用) new technologies such as 3D printing and laser(激光) cutting. The third type is service work, which includes volunteer work.

According to the MOE, labor education must be built up to help students cultivate (培养) social values and develop an interest in labor. But this has been overlooked(忽略) in recent years. A study of nearly 3,000 students that was done by Evening News, shows only 22 percent of primary and middle school students help with everyday housework.

Online, people have been busy discussing the new standards on social media. Liu Fang, a mother of -year-old twins in Beijing, strongly supports labor education. For the past year, she has trained her daughters to do household chores and make simple dishes for the family. “The main idea is to let them share responsibility as family members and become independent as early as they can,” said Liu. “Through doing housework, their hand-eye coordination(协调), time management and organization skills can be trained and it’s also good to help them relax.” Liu is satisfied that her daughters have found fun in doing chores and are more independent.

56. What an exciting ________ (经历) they had during their trip to the capital of China!

57. Volunteers can even go on working for 12 hours with an empty ________. (胃)

58. I __________ (want, hope or wish) to receive your emails every day.

59. I was too excited to find proper words to _________ (show or make known a feeling or opinion by words, looks or actions) myself clearly when hearing the great news.

60. Tom should have walked to the south to get to the camping site, but he lost his way and was walking in the _________ direction—to the north.

My heart is filled with love. Recently, I’m so thankful for the support from a very dear friend of mine. With his help, I can realize my dream of making a kind act. It can b    81     me more power in my life.

We live in a small African city. As you know, many people there live a p    82     life and it’s hard for them to find jobs. I’ve hoped to o    83     a soup kitchen for many years. I’d like to help the l    84     people in need. My friend helps me create a web page c    85     Sunshine. On it, we usually share our kind activities. These days, I’m making hearty food w    86     my friend is handing out hearty clothes. You know there are always so many h    87     people living on the streets, which shocks me a lot.

We want to invite more people to j    88     us. The act of love by giving has touched my heart greatly. Sometimes I feel very t    89     after working hard for a whole day, but I still go on with the love activities. B    90     of the project, my life becomes so meaningful. I know what I’m doing now can make a difference to some people’s life.

It was a very sunny Saturday, and the zoo was crowded with families. Harry Potter’s uncle and aunt bought their son Dudley a large chocolate ice-cream for his birthday. Harry Potter didn’t get it, and no one remembers his 11th birthday was also coming soon.

After lunch they went to the reptile(爬行动物) house. It was cool and dark in here, with glass windows all along the walls. All kinds of lizards(蜥蜴) and snakes were behind the glass window. Dudley quickly found the largest snakes there. It was sleeping now. Dudley stood with his nose pressed against the glass staring at the snake. Dudley ordered his father to make the snake move, but the snake just took his sleep.

“This is boring.” Dudley said. He went away quickly.

Harry Potter moved in front of the window and looked at the snake. He wouldn’t be surprised if the snake had died of boredom—since it had no friends except stupid people trying to disturb it all day long. The snake suddenly opened its big eyes. Slowly, very slowly, it raised its head.

It winked(眨眼). Harry Potter was surprised. No one noticed it. He winked, too. The snake gave Harry Potter a look that said quietly: “I get that all the time.” “I know,” Harry Potter says in a low voice, though he wasn’t sure the snake could hear him. “It must be really annoying.” The snake nodded in agreement.

Then Harry Potter and the snake began to talk...

“DAD! MUM! COME AND LOOK AT THIS SNAKE! YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT IT’S DOING!” Dudley jumped towards the snake as fast as he could.

“Out of the way, you!” he cried, pushing Harry Potter away. Caught by surprise, Harry fell hard on the floor, angrily. Next, no one saw how it happened—one second, Dudley was falling through the glass window as if the window was never there! He was so afraid that he cried loudly. The large snake was moving slowly to the gate. As the snake moved past Harry Potter, he heard a low voice said “Brazil, here I come...Thanks, amigo.”

—from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

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96. 八（1）班将举行一次主题班会，要求同学们谈谈最近一段时间自己的收获与变化。请为Simon准备一份90字左右的英语演讲稿，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。具体内容如下：

注意：1.语言规范，信息完整，结构连贯，书写工整。

2.内容必须包括表格中所有信息，并作适当的发挥。

3.不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息。

Hello, everyone. I’m Simon. Back to the life in the last year, I think I have changed a lot and achieved much in some ways.

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