Peru is
A short flight from Cusco will take you to the Amazon rainforest. You can spend three days
A four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After
1. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
| A．Visiting their parents. |
| B．Seeing a play together. |
| C．Booking tickets. |
| A．The man. | B．The man’s parents. | C．The woman?s husband. |
Dear Laura,
I want to thank you for your last letter.
I met Monica when I joined the school badminton team.
Yours,
Sally
4 . One year, a college in the United States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold (金盏花). The high reward attracted so many people, but in nature, besides golden, the marigold is brown, and it is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement.
One normal day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds of pure white marigold. It was an old woman of over 70 years old. Some experts in the college doubted it, but in order not to let her down, those seeds finally took root (根) in the earth. The miracle appeared after one year; the field was covered by pure white marigold.
Therefore, the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a new focus.
The old woman was a flower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago, she got very excited like others. But her eight children were totally against her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics (遗传学) couldn’t complete what the experts could never do, so her thought was only a day dream.
Still, the old woman didn’t change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigold came out, she chose one faintest (最暗淡的) from those golden and brown flowers and got the best seed. The next year, she again grew them and chose...Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, the old woman’s husband died, her children flew far, a lot of things happened in her life, but only the wish to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart.
Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a marigold, which was nearly white, but as white as silver or snow.
A problem even experts couldn’t deal with was solved by an old woman who didn’t understand genetics. Was it a miracle (奇迹)?
To take root in the heart, even the most common seed can grow into a miracle!
1. According to the passage,________ marigold is unusual.| A．white | B．purple |
| C．brown | D．golden |
| A．the children didn’t agree on their mother’s decision |
| B．the woman needed the great reward for her big family |
| C．the experts also succeeded in growing the white marigold |
| D．the woman took good care of the flowers instead of her family |
| A．was luckier than experts |
| B．put her heart into flowers |
| C．got support from her family |
| D．studied the seed genetics well |
| A．the difficulties of getting the white marigold |
| B．the possibility of going beyond experts |
| C．the unforgettable development of marigolds |
| D．the importance of holding on to dreams |
Summer Solstice(夏至),
In ancient China, Summer Solstice was not only a solar term,
As the proverb
Ancient Chinese had the custom
perform, performance, talented, affect, failure, let out a scream, master, compose, faithfully
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We often hear of people talking about Karaoke. But what on earth it is about, it r
Shortly after its invention, Karaoke was s
Litter is everywhere, doing great harm to the environment and life on our planet. Jeff Kirschner, who wants to build a litter-free world, started a global community named Litterati
The story began with his 6-year-old daughter. One day they were going on a hike
Jeff started to take action. He created Litterati, an app that makes it fun to pick up litter. The idea is
Litterati is more than an app,
1. What did the man do last weekend?
| A．He saw a movie. | B．He lay in bed. | C．He went to see a doctor. |
| A．Play tennis. | B．Do some exercise. | C．Climb a hill. |
| A．Summer. | B．Winter. | C．Spring. |
A Polite Request
If you park your car in the wrong place,
