The Double (两倍的) Seven Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story ______ it.

Long, long ago, there was a young man named Niulang. One day, he ______ a beautiful girl — Zhinu, the Goddess’s seventh daughter. She had just run away from the boring heaven (天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhinu soon ______ Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. They lived a happy life on Earth and gave birth to two children. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and ______ Zhinu to return to heaven. With the help of his magic cow, Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very ______. Taking out her hairpin (发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate (分开) the two ______. From then on, Niulang and Zhinu had to live ______ on the two sides of the river. However, their true love touched all the magpies (喜鹊) in the world, ______ once a year tens of thousands of magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge “the bridge of magpies” for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed ______ to meet each year on the 7th day of the 7th lunar (农历) month.

That’s ______ the Double Seventh Festival started. Today, it is a great day for Chinese young people to express their love.

Please join us for our Walk for Charity（慈善）. Starting in Weldown, you and your friends can choose to walk 10, 20 or 30 kilometers.

The money raised will provide support for people in our town. Start getting sponsors（赞助者）now and then just come along on the day. Please read the instructions below carefully.

See you on Sunday 16, May.

P.S. Well done to last year’s walkers for helping to raise a total of £21, 000. The money has already been used to build a children’s school.

CLOTHES should be right for the weather. If it is rainy, bring some protections. It is better to wear shoes that have been worn in, rather than new ones.

MAPS will be available. If you need help along the way, please tell the volunteers.

A bus will be waiting at Fenton to take walkers back to Weldown. The bus will leave every 30 minutes starting from 12 p.m. The service is free.

Should we be afraid of sharks? Maybe not. Some scientists do some research about the causes of shark attacks（袭击）and say that sharks don’t like the taste of humans! In fact, most people who were attacked didn’t die. They usually received only one bite（咬伤）. Why is this?

There are many explanations（解释）of why sharks sometimes attack people. One is that sharks are just curious.

We know that sharks are the strongest animals in their environment, so they are not afraid of anything. It means they are curious when they see something unusual. Because they don’t have hands or feet, the only way they can learn about an object is to bite it. It is thought that sharks sometimes bite humans for this reason, and then swim away.

Scientists also say that sharks don’t want to waste energy trying to eat a human, because we have a lot of bones（骨头）. It is hard for a shark to eat us because sharks don’t have hands, and they can’t pull the meat off our bones. Maybe that’s why they only bite us once.

Another guess is that sharks attack humans by mistake. Some sharks, such as the great white sharks, may sometimes mistake humans for a seal（海豹）. People lying on the sea looks like seals when seen from below. Sharks like seals because they are fat and delicious.

No matter why shark attacks on humans, sharks should be afraid of us. Sadly, we kill almost 40 million of them each year.

“I spent my whole life doing one thing,” Gu Fangzhou once said. Known as “the father of sugar pills (糖丸)”, Gu died at age 92 on January 2, 2019. He was also “the People’s Scientist” for his polio (脊髓灰质炎) research.

Gu Fangzhou, a famous medical scientist, was born in June, 1926. Gu’s family faced a difficult time with the sudden death of his father. He studied hard and finally entered Peking University as a medical student in 1944. After graduating from university, Gu made the decision to work to help improve public health.

In 1955, polio broke out in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. It made 1,680 people disable, mostly children aged below seven. It spread to neighboring areas and made 466 people die. Gu was asked to lead polio research in 1957. “At that time the only way to prevent polio was to invent a vaccine (疫苗),” said Gu.

In 1959 Gu succeeded in developing the first polio live vaccine. Later, he developed the “sugar pill” vaccine in the early 1960s. It not only tasted better but was more affordable (买得起的) and easier to keep. In order to test the vaccine, Gu himself tried the vaccine and later his one-month-old son was vaccinated (接种疫苗). This encouraged his team to try the vaccine on their kids. They became the first group of people in China to try a polio vaccine. “If we don’t believe in what we produce, how can others believe in it?” said Gu.

Gradually, the sugar polio vaccine was made available in China. It saved millions of people, especially kids, from being disabled. In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that China was already a polio-free (无脊髓灰质炎) country. “We feel satisfied. I can tell people that I tried my best, and your kids will no longer get polio,” said Gu. “That’s all we hoped for.”

The first Chinese actor captured (征服) the hearts of many Chinese in the USA. He read a letter by Zhu Geliang (181~ 234) to the emperor of Shuhan during the Three Kingdoms (220~280) period in the new season of Growling Tiger and Roaring Dragon (《虎啸龙吟》).

The letter has been read by so many students. We would never have thought that the text written in old Chinese could be so beautifully read in another language. As a result, foreigners begin to show interest in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translated by C. H. Brewitt-Tailor and Robert E. Hegel.

Earlier in November, 1979, pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey. Most of them were hearing the story for the first time. However, the story of the Monkey King isn’t new to Chinese children in the traditional Chinese book Journey to the West.

As soon as the TV programme came out more than 30 years ago, western children became interested in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up.

Chinese scholars (学者) should do a better job of introducing Chinese literature (文学) to the rest of the world. At the same time, we could encourage western schools to try something different.　

Reading international literature is an effective way of understanding other people in the world. And the more we understand each other, the more beautiful the world will be.

Have you been to Wuhan? Wuhan is the capital city     62     Hubei. It is a beautiful, large and very important city in China. During last Spring Festival, the city received tons of attention     63     a novel coronavirus（新型冠状病毒）appeared there and spread around the country.

Several days before the Spring Festival, Wuhan     64     (lock) and the city became quiet. However,     65     big fight was going on there. It was the fight against the novel coronavirus. The doctors and nurses there became brave warriors（勇士）in masks（口罩）, glasses and protective suits. They were racing against the clock. Lots of     66     (they) had to work over ten hours every day, drinking little or no water. They risked their     67    (healthy) and even lives to treat the patients. In such cases, almost no one stepped back or gave up. Thousands of doctors and nurses from other cities and provinces in China went to Wuhan     68     (support) them. There is no doubt that they were all     69     (hero) in the fight.

Besides doctors and nurses, everyone in our country was doing their own part in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

Last Spring Festival was not as fun as it     70     (usual) is. It even brought us tears many times. However, we will never forget those     71     (difficulty) days. Not only for the awful virus, but also for the efforts we made together and the lessons we learned.

I’m Stan and I’m a 18-year-old student. Summer vacation is coming.                        72    

82. 假如你是李明，你的英国笔友John对你们学校最近开展的“感谢恩师”主题活动很感兴趣。请用英语给他写一封信，介绍此项活动。

2.活动内容：①合唱《感恩的心》 ②分享故事   ③写感恩卡片

3.活动意义

4.活动参与者：全体师生

1.包括所有内容要点，不要逐句翻译，可适当发挥；

2.80词左右，语法正确。（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）

3.文中不能出现考生真实的姓名、地点和所在的学校名称。

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Looking forward to your reply.

                                                                                               Yours,

                                                                                                                Li Ming