Most people have ambitions. An ambition is something we want to do, want to be or want to have. A student’s ambition, for example, might be to pass his or her exams and then get a good job. An athlete’s ambition could be to win an important competition. A businessman’s ambition is usually to make a lot of money.
Not all ambitions are about success at work, however. Some people just want to be good people, have a family or help others.
Ben’s ambition is to be a sports writer. He writes the sports reports for his class newspaper. He likes most sports, and swimming and football are his favorites.
Trudy’s ambition is to be a concert pianist. She is very serious about it and practices every day with her best friend Lily. It is very important to her.
Harry’s ambition changes every day! One day he wants to be an astronaut. The next day he wants to be a pop singer. The next day he wants to drive a racing car. His mother would be happy his ambition was to get up in time for school every day!
1. What’s an ambition?2. What’s a student’s ambition?
3. Does Ben want to be a music writer?
4. Are all the ambitions about success at work?
5. Does Harry get up in time for school every day?
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【推荐1】We want some help!
Sandy: Please help me. I am a girl from America. I can’t learn Chinese well. My Chinese teacher always speaks too fast. Many of my friends think Chinese is easy. But I don’t think so! I can’t understand what the teacher says in class. How I hope I can have a Chinese pen friend!
Jim: I am too short. I am only 1.4 meters tall. I like playing basketball, but they all say I can’t be a good basketball player. How can I be as tall as all my friends? I hope someone can teach me how to be a good guard (后卫).
Joan: I want to be a slim girl. Some of my friends say I am too fat. Is it because my parents are fat too? Am I a pretty girl? When I see those slim girls, my eyes are green. I hope to know some ways to be slimmer.
Danny: I need friends. I am sad because I don’t have many good friends to chat with. I am not good at talking. And my face turns red when I am with many people. But I really want to have many friends. Can you tell me how to make friends with other children?
| Problem (问题) | Dream | |
Sandy | Not being Thinking Chinese is | To |
Jim | Not very | To be taller To play |
| Joan | Being too | To be slimmer |
Danny | Not doing Not having | To know |
【推荐2】As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, ________, or they can be small, ________. Once you have a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?
Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams real is life's biggest challenge. You may think you're not very good at some school subjects or it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dream. In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. ________. Don't let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is made up of many small dreams. ________. There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important.
Without dreams, you won't make up your mind to learn more skills and find new interests.
A. you may just want to be the best student in your class
B. You must also never give up your dream
C. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is
D. such as winning the Nobel Prize
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【推荐3】阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。
Do you have a beautiful dream? What are you going to be when you grow up? Almost everyone has their own dreams in their life. The dreams are very important to them. The dreams can make them work harder.
Wu Jun is studying in a school now. His dream is to be a teacher in West China. Many children there want to go to school but they can’t. Their families are very poor and their parents don’t have enough money to send their children to school. But going to school and studying is the only way to change their life. Teachers are greatly needed there, so he wants to be a teacher to help them. He will be kind to his students and make friends with them. He will give them love and teach them how to be a useful person. He thinks it is the greatest job in the world.
1. Is Wu Jun a student now?______________________________________________________________________________
2. Where does Wu Jun want to teach in the future?
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3. Why can’t many children go to school there?
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4. How does Wu Jun like the job of being a teacher?
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5. What’s your dream?
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It is a school day. Kids around the world go to school. Most of them will have lunch there. The Associated Press (美联社) wanted to know what the kids eat. So it sent reporters to visit schools around the world. What did the reporters find?
In some countries, students bring lunches from home. This is true in Pakistan. A meal might include eggs, chicken and bread. There’s rice or noodles, too. In Ecuador, a country in South America, kids also bring lunches. They often have a sandwich, yogurt, fruit, and cookies.
In some countries, students eat lunches made at school. France is an example. Schools serve hot lunches. They have many dishes, including vegetables. In the USA, many kids also eat school lunches. A lunch might be a cheese sandwich, corn salad, fresh carrots and milk. Dessert is fruit.
In the USA, school lunches used to be different. They started changing in 2010. That’s when a law was passed. It said school lunches had to be healthier. So some food came off school menus. Like what? Greasy pizza and potato chips.
1. What do kids in Ecuador often have for lunch? (不超过15个词)2. Why don’t schools in the USA offer potato chips now? (不超过15个词)
3. What’s the text mainly about? (不超过15个词)
【推荐2】In our daily life, robots are often found to do work that is too dangerous, boring, difficult, or dirty. And we often see kids play with toy robots.
But what exactly is a robot? There are some important characteristics (特征) that a robot must have. These characteristics might help you to decide what is and what is not a robot. It will also help you to decide what you will need to build into a machine before it can be considered as a robot. A robot has these important characteristics.
Sensing
First of all, your robot would have to be able to sense the environment around it. Give your robot sensors (传感器): light sensors (eyes), touch sensors (hands), chemical sensors (nose), hearing sensors (ears) and taste sensors (tongue).
Movement
A robot needs to be able to move around its environment. It can move on wheels, walk on legs or be driven by small engines (发动机). A robot can move either the whole body or just parts of it.
Energy
A robot needs to be able to power itself. Some robots might power itself with sunlight, some might with electricity, while others with the battery (电池). The way your robot gets its energy will depend on what your robot needs to do.
Intelligence
A robot needs some kinds of “smarts”. A programmer is the person who gives the robot its “smarts”. The robot will have to have a certain way to receive the program so that it knows what it is to do.
A Robot’s Characteristics | |
Sensing | Give |
| A robot needs to be able to move around its environment. It can move on wheels, walk on legs or be | |
Energy | A robot might power |
Intelligence | A robot needs some kinds of “smarts”. A |
【推荐3】You might think the largest library in the world would be in Europe. But it isn’t. It’s in Washington, D.C. It’s called the Library of Congress.
President John Adams started the library in 1800 for members of Congress. He wanted them to be able to read books about law. The first 740 books were bought in England. They were simply set up in the room where Congress met. Then Thomas Jefferson sold Congress many of his own books. He felt Congress should have books on all subjects, not just on law. This idea changed the library fundamentally.
The library grew and grew. Now it covers acres of land. It has about 20 million books as well as scores of pictures, movies, globes and machines. Experts in every field work there. Hundreds of people call every day with all kinds of questions. Many of them get answers right over the phone.
The library is a huge storehouse. Thomas Edison’s first movie and Harry Houdini’s magic books reside there. And it is the proud owner of the world’s best collection of comic books.
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The largest library in the world | |
| Location of the 1ibrary | The library is not in |
| Purpose of the library | The library was started by President John Adams in the year |
| Area of the library | The library has grown larger and larger. Now it covers |
| It has about 20 million books as well as scores of pictures, movies, globes and machines. Thomas Edison’s first movie and Harry Houdini’s magic books are also collected there. | |
