Christmas is coming! There is no greater time of the year! It’s so exciting to think about Christmas.
Christmas is about snow, Santa Claus, and many wonderful gifts, of course! But there are also other good reasons to love Christmas. Christmas is more than just fun, new toys, colorful decorations. It brings people lots of happiness and peace. You have time to spend with the people you love most —friends and family! What more could you want? When you build a snowman outside or sing beautiful Christmas carols, remember that Christmas allows you to do these things. If you think the best part about Christmas is the gifts you receive, remember that Christmas is much better when you open those gifts with the people you love.
1. Which holiday is the greatest time of the year?2. Are there any good reasons to love Christmas?
3. Who will you spend with at Christmas?
4. What should you do if you receive gifts you love?
5. Do you like Christmas? Why or Why not?
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October 31st is Halloween. Where does Halloween come from? The Celts (居尔特人) think October 31st is the last day of their year and they think ghosts (鬼魂) come back to Earth on this day. So people treat the ghosts and then lead them away by wearing strange costurnes. Today a lot of people around the world celebrate this old festival. They usually dress up, have parties and tell stories about ghosts. Children play games at Halloween parties.
The following games are for children:
1. Ask your friends to bring a pumpkin lantern to the party. Give a present to the best one.
2. Hide some small pumpkins in the garden and play “find the pumpkin”.
3. Get apples out. Put lots of apples in the water and then try to get them out! Remember: Don’t use your hands.
4. Tell ghost stories. Sit around on the floor and share exciting ghost stories with your friends.
1. Halloween is on2. The Celts think ghosts
3. Halloween is an
4. People usually dress up,
5. The passage introduces
My name is Alice. My family and I are all at home now. My father is reading, and my mother is cleaning. What am I doing? I am having a party in my room with my friends. Tony sings very well. He is singing an English song, who is playing the piano? Oh, it is Linda. She has a piano class every Monday evening. What is Tina doing? She is dancing to the music. Who is sitting on the bed? That is my brother, Dave. He is eating ice-cream. It is his favorite food. Why are we having a party today? It’s Tina’s birthday. Her parents are working in another (另一个) city. We don’t want Tina to feel lonely (孤独).
1. What’s the name of the writer?2. Where are the writer’s family?
3. Who is having a party?
4. What is Tina doing?
5. Whose birthday is it today?
There are many holidays and festivals in China. One of them is International Labor Day. It’s on May 1st. People enjoy a one-day holiday. They often go shopping or traveling.
The Dragon Boat Festival is on lunar May 5th. On this day. people have dragon boat races in many places and eat zongzi to remember Qu Yuan. People can enjoy a one-day holiday, too. 、
October 1st is National Day of the PRC. It is a very important holiday. All the people in the country celebrate the birthday of China on this day. In Beijing, many people go to Tian’anmen Square to watch the national flag rise.
Festival | Date | Activities |
Labor Day | On | Go shopping or |
Dragon | On | Have dragon boat races． |
National Day | On October 1st. | Watch the national flag |
【推荐1】Hi, I’m Lily. Welcome to my school! It is new and modern. I learn lots of things here.
I usually go to school by bus. I think it is fun to take the bus and always listen to music on the way to school. Sometimes my father drives me to school. It takes us about 20 minutes.
I have many classes at school. I like Chinese and math a lot. The kind and beautiful Chinese teacher knows a lot. She often tells us stories. My math teacher is fun. She often helps me a lot. And my favorite subject is English. My English teacher is very humorous. Students all like his lessons.
There are a lot of after-school clubs in my school. They have activities twice a week. I am in the Sports Club because I like running, football and volleyball. I’m good at running. I have many new friends there.
I like my school very much. I have a great time at school.
1题完成句子，2—3题简略回答问题，4题找出并写下第四段主题句，5题将文中划线句子译成汉语。
1. Lily’s father drives her about
2. What’s Lily’s favorite subject in school?
3. Why is Lily in the Sports Club?
4.
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Schooldays should be some of the best and happiest days of you life. How can you have a good school life?
Be active (积极的) at school. Don’t say things are difficult or boring. Be interested in school life and your school subjects. Join lots of activities and don’t be unhappy every day.
Keep healthy. If you don’t eat a good breakfast, you will be thinking about food in class. If you go to bed late, you’ll be sleepy in class. Play sports every day to keep healthy.
Face the problem. Do not say you will do things tomorrow. Remember to ask for help. You are young, and no one thinks you must do everything quite well!
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| Be active at school | |
| Join lots of activities. | |
| Make yourself | |
| Keep healthy | Have |
| Go to bed early. | |
| Take a lot of exercise daily. | |
| Face the problem | Don’t |
After school, it’s very difficult for Vishal Singh to make a choice. He knows he should really go on with his homework, but the Internet is so attractive that he can’t really pay much attention to his study.
“Students have always faced distractions(分心) and time-wasters,” writes Matt Richtel in the New York Times. He says that computers are a real challenge for students. They need to pay more attention to their learning.
Students say that their parents are worried about the distractions and try to control their computer time. But it is still difficult to manage the time of using computers.
Teachers at Woodside commonly think technology makes students difficult to concentrate(集中精力) in class, but they are divided over whether computer and the Internet are the solutions.
In Richtel’s article, English teacher Marcia Blondel feels disappointed with her students. She isn’t able to get them to read 30 pages of a book for homework. In order to solve this problem, she asks them to take part in a read-aloud of the book in class.
But as some teachers express their worries over students’ digital diets, seeing it as a way, they are trying to use technology in the classroom to draw the attention of these 21st-century students. The headmaster of Woodside High School, David Reilly, asks teachers to build websites to communicate with students. The students are allowed to use computers., smart phones or other new technology to interact(互动) with their teachers. It’s convenient for them to search for some useful materials that they need before class. With the help of the new technology, the students have more chances to share their ideas with each other and spend less time on video games. So, they pay more attention to their study and they don’t show up with bleary-eyes(睡眼朦胧的) any more. Mr. Reilly also spends a large amount of money building up a multimedia(多媒体) centre and introduce new courses like the digital audio recording(数码录像) class.
“We try our best to take back their attention and make them concentrate on their study,” he says. “To a degree, we’re using technology to do it.”
Some schools are looking to use the Internet to encourage students to study.
1. What’s the trouble with Vishal Singh?2. How do the teachers feel about their students?
3. Why are the teachers trying to use new technology?
4. What may happen to you if you spend too much time on the Internet? How would you like to deal with it?
