Sometimes it may seem that what you are learning at school will be of no use in the future. It may seem that you’re wasting your life away. But you will be surprised to find how much of what you learnt at school is helpful to you one day. Three people were asked what they found useful at school, and their thoughts are shared below.
When I used to ask my teacher how to spell something, she often said. I don’t know. Then she would take out the dictionary and look it up. She was not ashamed to say that she didn’t know the answer. I learnt two things. You don’t have to know______; and if you don’t know how to spell something, just get the dictionary out. Both are very useful lessons! John Ring Bicester, United Kingdom |
In school, you also learn to deal with life in general. Little mistakes can seem to be very serious. Wear the wrong clothes and it seems that everyone is laughing at you. Get too close to a boy too fast and everyone talks about you. You want to go into a hole and die! But the truth is that life goes on. You might feel that what you did "wrong" will never ever be forgotten. However, if you can be brave and keep on, you will find that whatever happened will pass and you will start to enjoy life again. Lindsey Smith Boston, United States |
We bad a class called Guidance and in it we learnt about making good decisions in life. I found it pretty boring and didn't pay much attention. One day the teacher made us guess which appliance(家电)we should buy first once we had our own homes. The answer was a fridge. I learnt that it was true once I had my own place. The first day I bought some chicken meat. By dinner time it smelled and I couldn't even eat it! My housemate and I started saving to buy a fridge right away. Robert Knight Cape Town, South Africa |
1. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.(请将文中划线句子翻译成汉语)
2. Fill in the blank with one proper word to complete the sentence in John's thought.(请在John的文段空白处填人一个恰当的词，使句意完整)
3. Find out the two little "serious" mistakes mentioned by Lindsey.(no more than 15 words)
(请找出Lindsey 提到的两个“严重”的小错误，15词以内)
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4. Why is a fridge considered the first choice of appliance by Robert and his teacher?(请根据短文内容回答问题)
5. What is the text mainly about?(no more than 15 words)(请根据短文内容回答问题，15词以内)
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1. 将（1）句翻译成英语。2. 将（2）处画线部分译成中文。
3. 在（3）句空白处填上合适的词，使句子完整。
4. 在文中找出“Some classmates are better than you, don’t be afraid of them．”的同义句。
5. 在文中找出本文的主题句。
【推荐2】Tommy White has been rowing across the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat since he left California on July 10 ,2007. He has been heading for Australia with only birds, fish, and sharks ever since.
Crossing the Pacific is only part of his journey. Tommy has decided to go all the way around the world using his own energy. He will row, bike, walk, and climb the world without help from any motor (马达) at all. His plan includes climbing the tallest peak on six of the continents (大陆) along the way.
For the first part of his trip, he bicycled 5,546 miles from Seattle, Washington to Mount Mckinley in Alaska and back, walked 67 miles to base camp, and climbed 20,320 feet to Mckinley's top. Now in the second part of his dangerous trip, he is rowing to Australia.
Why would he try to go around the world this way? He explains that he wants to encourage kids to dream their dreams and get to their own goals. He wants to show kids that there might be hard parts along the way, and sometimes they might not even get to that final goal. But they can have great adventures and learn a lot along the way.
Tommy has already faced some difficulties. For example, wind and waves keep pushing him westward when he wants to go south toward the Solomon Islands. If his luck doesn’t change, he will cheerfully change his plan, and aim to land at Papua New Guinea. One way or another, he's sure he’ll get to his next goal： Australia.
When his trip around the world takes him across land, he enjoys meeting people — especially children. He has already visited many schools and shared his story.
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2. Which part of his trip is he in now?
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3. If his luck doesn’t change, where does he aim to land?
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4. What does he enjoy on his trip across land?
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5. To Tommy, does life mean struggling for (为… 而奋斗)the goals?
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Once there was a famine (饥荒). A rich cook sent for twenty of the poorest children in the town and said to them, “In this basket there is a piece of bread for each of you. Take it and come back to me every day at this hour for more.”
In a hurry the hungry children got together around the basket，and fought over the bread because each wanted the largest piece. At last they went away without even thanking the good cook. Mary, a poorly - dressed girl, did not fight with the other children, 72.①________ stood quietly in distance. 76. When the badly - behaved children had left, Mary took the smallest piece, which was all left in the basket. She kissed the cook’s hand and went home.
The next day the children were as badly - behaved as before. Mary got a piece of bread almost half the72. ②_________ of the one she got the first day. When she came home, her mother cut the bread open. Many new, shining pieces of silver fell out of it.
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1. What did Mary do while the others fought over the bread? (no more than 5 words)2. Fill in the blanks in Paragraphs 2&3 with proper words.
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3. Why did the cook put the silver pieces into the bread? (no more than 15 words)
4. What do you think of Mary’s mother? (no more than 5 words)
5. What have you learned from the passage? (No more than 10 words)
6. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
