Hi! My name is Adam and I’m a freshman at senior high school. Going from junior high school to senior high school is a really big     1    . The first week was a little     2    .

First, I had to think very carefully about which courses I wanted to take. The school adviser helped me choose the     3    ones: maths, English, chemistry, world history, and Chinese. I know that Chinese is a very difficult language, but I hope to be     4    when I graduate. My adviser     5    that I should     6    for advanced literature because I like English and I’m good at it.

I had to choose extra-curricular activities, too. I tried to join the school football team, but the coach told me that I didn’t play well enough.     7    , I was unhappy, but I won’t quit. I’ll find a way to improve on my own so that I can make the team next year. I joined a     8    club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out food to     9    people in the community.

I believe I would be       1         2         3         4     your team. My English is at an intermediate level, and I have travelled to several English-speaking countries. I have also helped to organize a three-day tour of my city for     5         6         7    .

Posts of     1     (事故，灾难) in English

I went to a summer school in Manchester and my English teacher was called Maggie. One day, a different teacher took our class. He told us that Maggie couldn’t teach that day COZ she had a frog in her     2     (咽喉). Poor Maggie — but why did she try to eat such a big frog?

When I first visited New York, I went to a     3     (市中心) shopping centre to buy some winter boots. At the information desk at the     4     (入口), I asked a lady where the shoe section was. She said that it was on the first floor. So I went up to the first floor, but couldn’t find any shoes. I decided to leave. When I was looking for the exit, I saw that shoes were     5     (事实上) sold downstairs on the ground floor, not the first floor. Why did she give me the wrong information?

I’ve got an English penfriend, who I finally got to meet in London this summer. He had told me that his grandfather was “really     6     (缺德的，邪恶的)”. But when I met his grandfather, I like him a lot. I found it very odd. Why did my friend use a     7     (消极的) word about such a nice man?

I was part of a student     8     (兑换，交换) programme between a university in England and my university in China. I spent days preparing and writing my first English paper. I knew I had done a good job and was looking forward to getting a positive     9     (评论). When I got the paper back, I found my teacher had written the comment “Not bad!” Not bad? But there weren’t any     10     (错误) in my paper.