Dear Emma,
Your problem is like a circle. The harder you study, the less time you have to make friends and the less friendly you look to your classmates. The fewer friends you have, the harder you study to make yourself feel better.
Try to break this bad circle. Perhaps you are afraid of meeting new people, because you are too shy or too serious. You are not. Everyone has a fun side to his character. Push your shy side away and show your classmates how fun you can be.
Look at your classmates. Are there any people with whom you feel you have a lot in common?
First, smile at your classmates. Do this as often as you can, until your classmates become used to your smile and smile in return.
Next, talk to your classmates. Do this between classes or during your lunch break. You may find it easier to start by talking to people when they are alone.
Perhaps you could ask a classmate about your studies. They are likely to respond (回答) in a very positive (积极乐观的) way. People like to feel important and helpful.
There must be someone else in your class who is also quiet. It might be easier to try to talk with him or her. Your problem is mainly about confidence. Smile first, talk next and slowly you will make friends. Once you have more confidence, you can make as many friends as you want.
Editor
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| The cause of Emma’s problem | |
| Why the editor suggests Emma should talk to someone else in her class who is also quiet | Because |
| What the editor mainly tells Emma about | How to |
| The first thing to do | |
| What you may find easier to do when they are alone | Start |
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Reading is a good habit. There are hundreds of skills to helpyou read much in a short time. Here are two skills that I think are very good.
If it's long and hard, you can preview(预览).
Previewing is helpful to know the ideas of long and heavy articles. Here's how to preview.
Read the first two paragraphs(段落) and the last two paragraphs carefully.
Then read only the first sentence(句子) of the other paragraphs.
Previewing doesn't give you everything. It can help you cancel(避免) the parts you don't need to read.
If it's short and easy, you can skim(略读).
Skimming is a good way to get the idea of a short or easy reading, like news. Here's how to skim.
Move your eyes fast. Look across each line.
Find only a few important words in each line.
Everybody skims differently. You and I may not find the same words, but we'll get the main idea of the news quickly.
How to read | ||
Previewing | A long and | |
| How to preview | Read the first two and the Read the first sentence of the | |
| How can previewing help you in reading | You needn't | |
Skimming | What to skim | Some |
| Make your eyes | ||
| How can skimming help you in reading | It can help us | |
Everyone needs friends. There is an old saying: Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. But how do you find real friendship and keep it?
First, you should choose a friend. What makes a good friend? It is not because a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be kind and patient. For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should listen to your complaints(抱怨) and do their best to help. Second, To make a friend, you cannot be too shy. You should make each other happy and share your lives.
But things cannot always be happy. Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a fight with your friend? You have to talk to them. When there is no one around, have an honest talk. If he or she doesn't want to talk, you could write a letter.
there are three steps to being friends again: Tell him or her how you are feeling; say what
your friend has done wrong, and explain why you did this or that.
Finding friendship is just like planting a tree. You plant the seed and take care of it to make it grow. So remember friendship is the most important thing in your life.
| The care and keeping of | ||
| Reason | Everyone needs friends because friends are God's way of taking care of us. | |
| Choose a person with Be | ||
| How to | Talk with your friend How you are feeling what your friend has done | |
| Friendship is the most | ||
【推荐3】Lots of people get money from ATMs (自动取款机) before going shopping. If you don’t know how to use an ATM, read the following instructions (说明) carefully.
●Put your card into the machine.
●Look at the screen. Input (输入) your password into the machine.
●Input how much money you want on the screen of the machine. Then press OK.
●Get the money from the machine. If you want, you can also get a receipt (收据).
●Take back your card.
Remember these rules
●Don’t write your password on your card.
●Don’t let other people know your password.
●If you lose your card, tell the bank at once.
根据短文内容，完成下面任务。
1. What does the underlined word “password” mean in Chinese?
2. What will you do if you can’t find your card everywhere?
3. 请把上文第一段中划线的句子译成汉语。
4. How many rules should you remember?
5. 给短文拟一个英文标题（不超过5个词）。
Mobile phone history
Not long ago, mobile phones were used mainly by business people and government officers in society. In the US, mobile phone users were about 340, 000 in 1985. Now there are 205 million mobile phone users in the US. Studies also show that over 50 percent of children in the US own their own personal mobile phones. The mobile phone explosion(激增) has led to a huge number of waste phones. The number of mobile phones users has also increased throughout the world. In the middle of 2005, the number of total users jumped to 2.4 billion worldwide.
Mobile phone waste
When people throw their mobile phones away, they usually end up in the open air. Mobile phones include some materials like lead, mercury and cadmium. They can go into public drinking water and food and do harm to people’s health. About 75 percent of mobile phone users don’t throw their phones away. Instead, they prefer to keep the waste ones sitting around the house as they are not worth very much. People are also afraid that others may know their information if they sell their waste phones. Less than 20 percent of them are recycled each year.
Benefits(益处) of recycling mobile phones
Mobile phones have valuable materials inside. The most valuable material is gold, which is used in the phone circuit boards. Recycling can reduce greenhouse gas emissions (排放物) and keep natural resources like gold. If all of the waste phones in the US are recycled, it will save enough energy to offer over 194, 000 U.S. families electricity(电力) for one year.
How mobile phone recycling works
Many people do not know how mobile phone recycling works. One method of recycling mobile phones is to take the working parts of broken phones, then combine(使结合) them with the working parts of other used mobile phones to make one ready-to-use mobile phone. Another method of mobile phone recycling is to melt(熔化) down and separate parts of the phone, getting the valuable natural resources, such as gold and platinum. Plastic and glass can also be recycled from used mobile phones.
| The used mobile phones | |
| Mobile phone history | ·Compared with the condition in 1985, there are ·More than ·It has |
| Mobile phone waste | ·Some materials, such as lead, mercury and cadmium in the mobile phones are ·Three-quarters of the users would rather |
| Benefits of recycling | ·Some materials are of great ·It can |
| How recycling | ·One way is to join working parts of ·We can also melt down and separate parts of the phone to |
【推荐2】Today, the bully(欺凌;欺凌者) fight have moved to a new field—cyberspace. Using emails, instant messages, websites, and cell phones, cyberbullies harm or threaten others on purpose. With their identities(身份) hidden behind computer screens, cyberbullies can be harder to catch.
Bullying by the Numbers
Criminal-justice professors Justin Patchin and Sameer Hinduja surveyed 1,500 kids aged 10 to 17. They reported that about one-third of the kids claimed to have been cyberbullied. Sue Limber and Robin Kowalski, researchers and teachers at Clemson University in South Carolina, recently finished a study of 3,767 students in grades six through eight. They found the most popular method of cyberbullying is instant messaging. Unkind messages in chat rooms, emails, and on websites were close behind. Limber and Kowalski also found that girls were twice as likely as boys to be the target(目标) of attacks.
That’s enough!
Several states either have laws or are working on laws that require school districts to stop cyberbullying and punish students who are involved.
Finding out the identity of the bully and getting kids to report a problem cause additional problems. “It is difficult for someone who is being cyberbullied to know who is doing it because identities can often be hidden or wrong,” Limber says. If you are a victim(受害者), she advises, ask an adult for help.
Ways to avoid bullies
Here are the top three skills kids need to develop in order to avoid school bullies. First, appear confident. Bullies look for kids that show fear and low self-esteem. How victims reply, how they hold their head, whether they stand tall, even the tone of their voice can signal that a kid might make an easy target. Second, develop friendships. Bullies look for kids who lack connections or who are alone and target them. Even one good friend at school can greatly help you out. Third, Be away from bullying places. Make sure you know that there are some areas at school where bullying is more likely to happen.
1. How many kids were surveyed by Justin Patchin and Sameer Hinduja?2. According to Limber and Kowalski, who is more likely to be the target of cyberbullying?
3. Why is it difficult to find the cyberbullies?
4. One of your friends has been bullied recently, what advice can you’ give him? (at least two pieces)
Good morning, boys and girls. Today I’ll talk about going online.
We know that there are too many net bars around us. The Internet can make our lives interesting and enjoyable. Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer. We can learn English and read some newspapers and magazines to know more information around us. It can make us clever in playing computer games. Also we can send emails to our friends quickly. It can help us contact (联系) people from all over the world.
But some students spend too much time in playing computer games and some stay in the net bars all day and night. Some girls even get to have boyfriends or some boys get to have girlfriends online. They write too many letters to each other. It takes them too much time to chat online so they do worse in their lessons and they don’t study well any more.
I think we mustn’t get online when it is time for us to study. We can do it in summer or winter holidays. I think we should get online with our teachers or parents.
At the same time, if we have lots of free time, we can do some activities after school. We usually have activities from 4: 50 to 5: 50 in the afternoon. We can play basketball or football. We also have some interest groups in school, such as drawing, sing and dancing. We can go to the English corner on Monday afternoon. We can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and less time on the Internet.
Title: A | |
| Advantages | ●Make our lives interesting and make us ●Learn how to use the computer and get more ●Send emails to our friends ●Help us keep in |
| Disadvantages | ●It ●Some students make friends online and write too |
| Do it in summer or winter holidays, do some activities and join some | |
Animals play so many important roles in our lives. Some, like cows and sheep, provide us with food; pets are our friends; other animals work for us. Above all, every animal—big or small—can fill us with a sense of the wonder of the natural world.
Unluckily, we don’t always value this. Many animals are endangered because of our actions, and millions of animals in the world are badly treated. World Animal Day reminds us, at least for one day a year, “to celebrate animal life in all its forms” and “to be thankful for the way in which animals enrich（使丰富）our lives.”
World Animal Day was started in 1931 in Florence, Italy. It made us pay attention to the problem of endangered animals around the world. It is now celebrated in most countries around the world. The day falls on October 4th every year.
All over the world on this day, volunteers raise money for animal centers and social organizations. Museums and zoos organize special events. Schools have also joined animal projects. No matter what is done, the idea is to remind us of the importance of animals and to show us how we could improve our relationship with animals.
If you want to take part, you could help an animal or organize a money-raising event for a local charity. The important thing is just taking an active part. We should offer animals as much as they offer us.
Animals are important in our lives. They offer us |
The Dolphin 1 is a kind of intelligent water rescue (救援) robot. It is independently (独立地) developed by Yunzhou Technology, a company from Guangdong Province.
The rescue robot became famous for its successful rescue of a boy who was washed away by waves in Weihai, Shandong Province on Aug. 9,2022. The Dolphin 1 has many advantages. For example, it has high floatage (浮力) and its direction can be controlled. The Dolphin 1 can overturn to adjust its position even in dangerous water conditions by itself. It is easy to remote controlled (遥控) with one hand and the person who uses it does not need to have professional training before using it. If one accident happens, only one to two people are required to operate the robot for rapid rescue.
Since it was put into use, the Dolphin 1 has saved several people’s lives in Zhuhai’s Wans-han Island and coastal areas of Weihai. It has been put into operation in rescue tasks in Jiangxi and Henan Provinces.
At present, the intelligent water rescue robot has been widely used in China. And more than 40 countries, including the United States of America, Spain, Italy, and Australia, have introduced the Dolphin l for rapid water rescue operations.
1.2. The Dolphin 1
3. High floatage is
4. The Dolphin 1 has been applied in
5. What can we know about Dolphin 1 from the last paragraph?
【推荐3】Music touches our hearts and shortens (缩短) the distance between people of different countries. The super star Jay Chou has cooperated with the American NBA star Kobe Bryant to create a song named The Heaven and Earth Challenge. That’s a song written by Jay Chou whose favorite sport is basketball. It expresses the love for basketball. And it encourages young people to be more confident. Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit. In the song, Jay Chou does most of the singing part while Kobe plays a part of a rapper (说唱者). People can download the ring tone(铃声) of the song from the Internet. All the money from the downloads will go to Project Hope, which aims to improve the educational environment in poor areas in China.
1. 根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。①d
②e
2. 同义句转换,每空一词。
Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit.
Jay Chou has learned
3. 简要回答问题。
What does the song express?
You are going to a senior high school, aren’t you? Maybe you are a common student. You probably think you will never be a top student. But anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s some advice on how to be a good student.
Manage your time carefully. It’s good to keep a habit of planning your time every day. It’s very helpful to know what you will do. When you plan your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do. Then you should make a schedule (行程安排）of your time for eating, sleeping, studying and even amusements.
Make good use of your time. Listen to everything the teachers say in class. Listening carefully in class means less work later. And don’t forget to take notes. It will help you remember what the teacher says. Be sure to put your heart into the book, and you will get more from it. If you read absent-mindedly (心不在焉地）, you'll get nothing from the book.
Develop good attitudes. You should build up friendship. Try to make more friends. And you can meet new people, find new friends and even talk to people you don't like. You never know what will happen in the future. Have a healthy eating habit. Try different kinds of food and get enough fruits and vegetables. If not, you won't get nutrients (营养）you need to grow each day.
阅读上面短文，根据短文内容，完成表格中的信息。
Title: Advice on how to | ||
Solutions | How to... | Advantage |
| Manage your time carefully | Make a list and a schedule of your time. | |
| Make good use of your time | 1. Listen carefully and 2. Remember to | 1. Listening carefully in class means less work later. 2. You will get more from the book. |
| Develop good attitudes | 1. 2. Have a healthy eating habit. | 1. You’ll get more help in the future. 2. You can get nutrients you need to grow. |
【推荐2】America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they ①pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand. Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become ②lifelong feelings, extending(延伸) deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand. Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous(慷慨) with our _______. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America. Americans cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there and the visitors can have a short rest. ③Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.
For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. ④ accept their hospitality(好客) at home and enjoy your visit in America.
任务一 选择填空
1. 文中①pick up的英语解释_______.
| A．put down | B．give up | C．pay no attention to | D．continue |
| A．曾经 | B．一旦 | C．一次 | D．突然 |
| A．When | B．Why | C．How | D．So |
任务二 英译汉
4. ②lifelong feelings
任务三 填空（一个词）
5. we are usually generous with our
Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often make it difficult to make and keep friends.
Be cheerful. Here are some helpful suggestions.
Connect with others
The first step to make friends is connecting with other people. You can go to public places to meet new people. Besides, you should make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.
Do things together
Choosing friends with common interests is important because these interests would always bring you and your friend together. Hanging out together will always be a pleasant experience.
Let it grow
It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to press your new friend with calls or messages and finally you may lose your friend. So you will need to give your friends time to react(反应) to you. The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.
Enjoy your friendship
The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves. Try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be.
| Title: | |
| | You should meet new people and make yourself known in public places. |
| Do things together | It’s important to choose friends who have |
| Let it grow | It is a good thing to stay in touch. If your new friends |
| Enjoy your friendship | You’d better allow your friends to be themselves |
