I felt coming steps. She was coming to teach all things to me, and to love me.

1 still remember the morning my teacher came. She _________ me into her room and gave me a doll (玩偶). When l played with it, Miss Sullivan slowly _________ into my hand the word “d-o-l-l”. I was very interested in this finger play and _________ to copy it. When I succeeded in making the letters _________, I was so excited and proud. I did not know I was spelling, even didn’t _________ everything has a name.

Once as I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my old doll _________ my leg, spelled “d-o-l-l” and tried to make me understand they were _________ dolls. Another time, she tried to tell me that “m-u-g” is mug and that “w-a-t-e-r” is water, but I still _________ them up. In despair (绝望), she had to teach me from the beginning. I became _________ at her repeated actions, so I threw the new doll upon the floor.

I was quite happy when I __________ the pieces of the doll at my feet. I was neither sad nor __________. In my still, dark world, there was no warmth or love. I felt my teacher sweep the pieces away, and it seemed that my trouble __________ away.

Later, we walked down the path to a well-house. She put my __________ under the spout (出水) when someone was taking water. As the cool stream __________ over one hand, she spelled the word “w-a-t-e-r” into the other, first slowly, then quickly. I stood still and paid my whole __________ on her fingers. Suddenly I knew “w-a-t-e-r” meant the wonderful thing flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, and set it free!

That night, I was for the first time hoped for a new day to come.

We often talk about global warming. Do you know how does global warming happens? This experiment (实验) helps you learn how a greenhouse works, and how greenhouse gases influence the earth’s atmosphere.

What You Need:

·Two thermometers

·A notebook

·A pencil or pen

·A clear bottle

·A watch or clock

·A sunny area

What You Do:

(1)Put the thermometers in direct sunlight. Let them sit in the sun for three minutes.

(2)Draw two columns (栏), “Thermometer A” and “Thermometer B”, in the notebook.

(3)After the three minutes, read and record the time and temperatures in the notebook.

(4) Place one of the thermometers in the bottle and close it.

(5)Record the temperatures of the thermometers every ten minutes.

(6)Discuss how the bottle influences the temperature.

What’s Going On?

The temperature outside the bottle is changing, as the warm air mixes with the passing cooler air. The air inside the bottle can’t mix with the air outside—it just gets warmer as the sunlight heats it up. A greenhouse works in a similar way: sunlight creates heat that can’t get out of the glass.

The Tang dynasty ruled China for almost three hundred years. During the Tang dynasty, China was the biggest and richest country in the world. It ruled other lands, including Korea, Iran, and a large part of Vietnam. The Japanese admired China and its culture so much that they copied much of it, even the written language.

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The Tang emperors loved the arts, and especially poetry. Twenty-seven-year-old Xuanzong became emperor He was skilled in music, poetry and the art of beautiful writing. He liked poets. including two of the most famous poets in Chinese history Li Bat and Du Fu. Li Bai took life easier while Du Fu was a very serious and hardworking young man who always wanted to be a government official

A Period of Glory (荣耀)

During the Tang dynasty the country was full of creative energy. Foreigners were more welcome than ever before, and the mix of cultures and ideas made China an exciting place.

Tea became very popular during the Tang dynasty. Everyone loved to drink it. Tea was grown in China, and the traders who sold it became extremely rich. So much money was being used that China was running out of coins. The traders invented a kind of paper money that they called “flying money”. perhaps because the money flew so fast from one person to the next. This was the first type of paper money in the world.

A number of other inventions also took hold. At the end of the Tang dynasty, the invention of printing led to the creation of books. Hundreds of years would pass before printing was invented in Europe.

An Explosive (炸药) Discovery

An even more explosive discovery took place in China during the Tang dynasty. For many centuries, Chinese scientists had tried to create gold and find the secret to living forever. The results of their experiments surprised them—the mixture exploded! The Chinese scientists had discovered gunpowder. Later, they used the gunpowder for creating fireworks.

Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents’ house. On each visit, their grandpa would give them a few coins. Then all the children would run off to buy sweets. One day, he gathered the children together. He said, “Let’s have a competition to see who can manage money wisely. At the end of this year, tell me how you’ve used your money.”

Ruben and Nico, the two smallest kids, continued spending their money all on sweets. Every time, they would show off their sweets in front of the other children. This made Clara and Joe so angry that these two could no longer keep saving their money. They soon joined Ruben and Nico.

Monty was a clever boy. He decided to manage his money by buying and selling things. Soon he made a lot of money with little effort. The way he was going, he would end up almost a rich man. However, he began to spend his money on more and more expensive things for himself. A few months later, he hadn’t a single penny（便士）left.

Alex saved and saved all the coins he was given, and at the end of the year he had collected more money than anyone. He was the clear winner.

There was also Julia. Poor Julia hadn’t a penny on the day of the competition. She had spent all her coins on her secret plan. Julia knew a poor violinist who played in the park, and she offered him all the coins for his violin lessons. Although it wasn’t much money, on seeing Julia’s excitement, the violinist agreed. A little after a year the violinist loaned her a violin so they two could play together in the park. They were so successful that she managed to buy her own violin. Even better, she later became a very famous violinist.

Beer and eggs are commonly seen in the kitchen. However, scientists recently found that they were used in historic paintings, too.

To preserve (保存) Danish paintings, a group of researchers studied what ancient paint was made of. They did experiments on small pieces of paintings that had already been cut off from the original artwork.

According to their paper published in Science Advances, grains (谷物) and yeast (醇母) were found on the base of the paintings. Beer was the most common drink in the 19th century in Denmark, and its by-products were spent grains and yeast.

The study showed that they were used to provide a stable painting surface. Researchers also pointed out that beer by-product was used as a “glue” because it had a lot of sugar. With beer added, the paint can also dry faster.

Apart from beer, egg has long been found in oil-based paints used by artists in the 15th century, such as Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have “cracked” the secret of how eggs can help preserve artworks.

The researchers re-created the ancient paint by adding egg yolks (蛋黄) to oil paint. They then looked into how it changed over time. The findings showed that the yolk’s proteins helped slow the oxidation (氧化) of the paint. It could also reduce wrinkling (皱褶) as the egg makes the paint more smooth.

However, the oil paint with added egg usually takes longer to dry. It seemed fine for artists—they were willing to accept to have their work preserved for longer.

“The more we understand how artists choose and use their materials, the more we can appreciate (欣赏) what they’re doing”, Ken Sutherland, an expert at the Art Institute of Chicago, US, told Science News. Sutherland added that research like this could help people have a deeper understanding of the artworks.

There was magic in the secret garden in spring. First everything turned green. Then the green changed to colors-blue, purple and red. There were f    61     everywhere. The roses-the roses! From small buds they grew into large flowers and f    62     the air with pleasant smell.

Colin was sick and thought that he would die soon. But he watched all the c    63     as they happened in spring. Dickon, Colin’s friend, pushed Colin on wheelchair to the garden every morning and Colin s    64     the day there. Sometimes he sat on the grass watching the insects. He once watched a mouse digging a hole.

One morning Dickon p    65     Colin to the secret garden as usual. Mary, Colin’s cousin, and Ben Weatherstaff, were there too. Colin said, “I want to tell you something very i    66     . ”

“I believe that there is magic in e    67     , ” continued Colin. “Dickon knows some magic. He charms (迷住)animals and people. Mary also knows a bit of magic because she was born in India. There’s magic in the garden, too. I’m going to try and put some in me because I want to be well and s    68     . Please sing ‘Magic is in me! ’with me. ”

“Magic is in me. Magic is in me. Magic is in all of us. ”They started singing.

Then Colin t    69     to walk on his own. His first step was shaky(摇晃的)and he even fell to the ground. But as he took further steps forward, he soon got used to it and was able to walk steadily.

Although he was slow, he did not fall a    70     .

“I can walk! The magic worked! ”he cried.

—Taken from The Secret Garden

76. 假如你是李华，你们学校整理出一块空地，将用于拓宽学生活动和实践的空间。校英语报刊登了校方初拟的两种方案，建文化角或者菜园，向同学们征求意见。请根据提示给校报写一封信，谈谈你的想法和建议。

I’m happy to hear that there is an empty area in our school for building a Culture Comer or a Vegetable Garden. In my opinion, it’s better to _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua