1. 发出邀请;
2. 介绍中秋节的时间和主要的庆祝活动。
注意:1. 词数120左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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2 . People all need friends because nobody wants to be lonely. A friend can help you in good and bad times. You’ve made friends since childhood.
Always be honest
Honesty is important to keep your friendship alive. A true friend always tells you the truth. It may be hard sometimes but lying can destroy your friendship.
Always be there for you
There are always times in your life when you have problems or difficulties. A true friend will always have time to listen to your problems and give advice.
A true friend will always show respect to your ideas whether he agrees or not. Your true friend may say no to you but never insists that he is correct. A true friend sets limits with you because he cares for you and your relationship with him. These limits are also a symbol of respect for you as it can help maintain your friendship.
Always be understanding
A.Always be respectful |
B.Always be supportive |
C.However, you may still not know who your true friends are. |
D.He may not be able to offer a way of solving your problems. |
E.He can always help you solve your problems as quickly as possible. |
F.It is possible that some problems will come up between you and your friend. |
G.It is important that your friend speaks honestly and never tells lies or makes up stories. |
3 . Last weekend, my husband and I drove a dog to her new home. Typically, when we have a new dog in the backseat, it’s a young dog. But this passenger was a much different story. Magdalen is a 13-year old dog. Her owner gave her up temporarily when he was sick, but when he fully recovered several months later, he said he didn’t want her back. He had her since she was young but now had no place for her.
The family who had given her a temporary home had children and other dogs and was unable to give her a forever home. When Speak St, Louis, the rescue team I work with, was contacted about the dog, they offered to take her in. She went to a vet (兽医) for a basic health check. But the vet didn’t have great news. Her mouth was swollen (肿胀的) with all sorts of problems. Two teeth fell out during cleaning and eleven more had to be pulled out.
Luckily, a good friend of mine, a dog trainer with a soft heart for seniors, had agreed to adopt Magdalen. On the trip to the trainer’s home, the sweet senior looked so relaxed in our backseat. I felt a great sense of relief and pleasure.
Her owner needed some temporary help when he was sick. But I can’t imagine why he wouldn’t have wanted her back. I think of my own dog and dogs we lost to old age in the past. We’re family and we stay that way forever. She’d be able to live a good life. I hoped, in her new home!
1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?A.The former owners of the dog. |
B.Where the dog was treated. |
C.What the dog needed most. |
D.The problems the dog met. |
A.Training old dogs. |
B.Treating sick dogs. |
C.Looking for homes for dogs. |
D.Looking for lost dogs’ owners. |
A.Relieved and happy. | B.Nervous and grateful. |
C.Surprised and curious. | D.Hopeful and proud. |
A.She didn’t understand his behaviour. |
B.She believed it was painful for him. |
C.She was certain he would regret. |
D.She thought he made a wise decision. |
A 150-year-old shipwreck (遇难船) believed
The merchant ship,
Recovery of the merchant vessel—about 38.1 meters long and 9.9 meters across at its widest point—was one of the most important and challenging underwater archaeological excavation (挖掘)
“The retrieval (取回) of the vessel marks the perfect
“The project has provided a Chinese example, Chinese model, and Chinese experience for the global protection of underwater cultural relics,” he said.
In the coming days, another ship will take the shipwreck to the former site of Shanghai Shipyard in Yangpu district, where it will be examined and studied. The ship has been described by the heritage administration as “the largest and best-preserved sunken wooden sailboat in China’s underwater archaeological findings, with
Fang Shizhong,
5 . For the past three weeks, students across India’s capital have been attending a new course: happiness. The Delhi government introduced “happiness classes”.
“We have given best-of-the-best talents to the world,” Sisodai said, according to The Washington Post. “
The Washington Post says children came out of their first happiness class with some excitement. “We should work happily,” 11-year-old Aayush Jha, a seventh grader at a public school in Delhi, told the paper. “When you work sadly, your work will not be good.”
Sisodai hopes to deliver these tools to help students live more happily inside and outside of the classroom, whether or not they’re achieving their academic standards. “I don’t know if happiness can be learned, but yes, it can be practised,” he says. “
One in four Indian children aged 13 to 15 struggles with low spirits, the World Health Organization reported last year. As journalist Susan Brink reported, “The government has made changes after noticing that some young people under great stress to do well in school tended to commit suicide (自杀) if they felt they did poorly.” “In South India, they observed higher suicide rates after exam periods among schoolchildren who failed,” Alexandra Fleischmannn, a project coordinator for the WHO’s Preventing Suicide report, told Brink. “
A.Many Indian students are facing a very tough life |
B.We have given best-of-the-best professionals to industry |
C.Then they introduced the possibility of taking the exams again |
D.It is used to decide whether an Indian student is excellent or not |
E.Delhi’s Education Minister Manish Sisodai is in charge of making the changes |
F.Once you start practising living with happiness, then it can become part of your life |
G.It tried to change the country’s academic focus from student achievement to emotional well-being |
6 . Humanitarian(人道主义的)groups and lawmakers have criticized Italian authorities for preventing migrants who were not considered to be“vulnerable(脆弱的)”from disembarking(登陆)from rescue ships in Sicily on Sunday.
Charities and politicians blamed the selection process as illegal and regarded the actions of the Italian government as inhumane, reported the Associated Press news service, or AP. Italy’s new government is reportedly targeting foreign-flagged rescue ships in a new procedure that is part of a regulation brought about by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi.
Italy allowed a rescue ship carrying 179 refugees and migrants to enter a port in Sicily on Sunday and then later begin disembarking children and sick or“vulnerable”people, but 35 men on board were blocked from getting off the ship, reported the Reuters news agency. Later, agencies reported that 144 people had been allowed to disembark the Humanity 1 rescue ship,which sailed under a German flag. In the afternoon,357 people were allowed off the Geo Barents ship operated by Doctors Without Borders, which sails under a Norwegian flag, but 215 people remained blocked on board.
Authorities continued to refuse safe harbor for hundreds of migrants onboard two other ships in nearby waters, said the AP. Humanity 1’s captain refused to leave the port of Catania “until all survivors rescued from great suffering at sea have been disembarked”, said SOS Humanity, the German-run charity that operates the ship. The charity strongly criticized Piantedosi’s decision to only allow vulnerable people to disembark and on Monday said it would launch legal action against the Italian government,claiming Italy’s actions violate European law and the Geneva Refugee Convention.
The BBC noted that Italy is one of the main entry points into Europe, and, according to the United Nations, 85,000 migrants have arrived there on small,overcrowded boats since the start of the year. Italy’s new prime minister,Giorgia Meloni,has promised to take action to stop those making the hazardous journeys across the Mediterranean.
Nongovernmental organizations say coastal nations are responsible by the law of the sea to rescue people who are suffering and that they are responsible to provide a safe port as soon as possible.
Till Rummenhohl,head of operations at SOS Humanity,said people were being “held hostage (人质)”onboard the Humanity 1 vessel.”“We had health authorities onboard who decided who’s weak enough, who is basically in urgent medical case and who’s not,”Rummenhohl told DW News.“The people are not really sure what’s happening to them. They have an uncertain future. They are afraid of being pushed back from Italy, into international waters or even to Libya. That’s their greatest fear,” he said.
1. Why were 35 of the 179 refugees not allowed to leave the ship to enter Italy in the beginning?A.They were not weak people. | B.They had no certifications. |
C.The ship was in good condition. | D.The ship sailed under a German flag. |
A.Comfortable. | B.Thrilling. |
C.Long. | D.Dangerous. |
A.Italy’s actions agreed with European law and the Geneva Refugee Convention. |
B.Illegal migrants should be pushed back into international waters. |
C.Coastal countries should save people who are suffering at sea. |
D.Illegal migrants were supposed to be held hostage onboard. |
A.Italy provides safe shelters for refugees |
B.Italy prevents migrants from leaving ships |
C.Humanity 1’s captain refuses to leave the port of Catania |
D.Many migrants arrive in Italy on small, overcrowded boats |
7 . Along Route 1, in Thomas-tomatines a store filled with handicrafts—birdhouses and dollhouses, salad bowls and sailing ships — all made in Maine state prisons. Ted and Barbara Waylayer have been shopping here for decades. “We found the quality to be excellent,” said Ted.
Prisoners have been making things in Maine since the 1800s. Charlie Jones came here when he was 20, sentenced to 75 years in a state where there is no parole(假释). In the workshops, he discovered he had a talent for carving. One of Jones’ earlier projects was a golden eagle, which he learned to carve from a book.
“It’s amazing to see the amount of talent that the residents have here,”said Randall Liberty, commissioner(局长)of Maine’s Department of Corrections.“We have more than 100 residents working here daily. They do about US $1.6 million worth of work. “One of Maine’s programs allows residents to earn a college degree. The money for it was donated by Doris Buffet, who lived in Dockland, Maine. “She gave us an initial US $2 million donation,” said Liberty. “And that’s the best money I’ve ever seen invested in anyone.”
Charlie Jones is one of the graduates. “The college program is incredible,” Jones laughed. “When we used to walk to dinner, we could hear people talking about their former crimes. But now when going to dinner, you’ll hear somebody talking about their philosophy class or their history class.”
Liberty said, “The individuals that graduate have about a 5% recidivism(再犯) rate, as opposed to a 60-65% nationally. That means 95% of the people who go through this program don’t go back.”
When Doris Buffet died in 2020, Charlie Jones made a table, with legs made of books, to honor her. It’s also carved with the names of courses open to prison residents, and the professors who teach them. On the table was a book telling Daris Buffet’s story, and a thank you note.
1. What does paragraph 2 tell us about Charlie Jones?A.He has a gift for carving. | B.He has earned a master degree. |
C.He is only expert in carving eagles. | D.He has been in prison for about 20 years. |
A.To show how the prisoners tried to reform. |
B.To reveal what led those like Charlie Jones to prison. |
C.To list some courses included in the college program. |
D.To highlight the positive effect of the college program. |
A.Prisoners in Maine create little value. |
B.Few prisoners in Maine are hardworking. |
C.The handicrafts made in Maine state prisons are of high quality. |
D.Prisoners graduating from college have a lower recidivism rate. |
A.How Doris Buffet died in 2020. |
B.What the table made by Charlie Jones is like. |
C.Charlie Jones’ sorrow over the death of Doris Buffet. |
D.Why there was a book telling Doris Buffet’s story on the table. |
In a world that is full of different kinds of colors, red quite stands out. In China, people call this color China Red,
This expression fully shows Chinese people’s special love for red. So why are the Chinese really fond of it? One reason
In a word, red is popular in China and it’s more than just a color. It carries the rich culture of this nation. And you’re welcome
9 . Born in New York in 1918, scientist Gertrude B. Elion had an impressive career, during which she developed medicines to cure many major diseases. Elion spent her early youth in Manhattan. She attended senior high school and had, in her words, an unbelievable thirst for knowledge.
Influenced by the death of her grandfather, who died of cancer, Elion entered Hunter College at the age of 15 and graduated in chemistry at the age of 19. She had difficulty finding employment after graduation because many laboratories refused to hire women chemists. She found a part-time job as a lab assistant and went back to school at New York University. Elion worked as a high school teacher for a few years after finishing work on her master’s degree.
The start of World War II created more opportunities for women. At the age of 26, Elion was able to get a job at Burroughs Welcome, where she began a 40-year partnership with Dr. George H. Hitchings. Her thirst for knowledge impressed Dr. Hitchings, and he permitted her to take on more responsibility.
Elion and Hitchings set out on a course of creating medicines by studying the chemical composition of diseased cells. Rather than relying on old trial-and-error methods, they used the differences in biochemistry between normal human cells and pathogens(病原体)to design medicines. In all, Elion obtained 45 patents on medicine and was awarded 23 honorary degrees.
In 1988, Elion received the Nobel Prize for Medicine, together with George H. Hlitchings and Sir James Black. She received other awards for her work, including the National Medal of Science in 1991, and that same year, she became the first woman to be absorbed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award.
1. What can we say about Elion as a high school student?A.She had a satisfying part-time job. |
B.She had a strong desire for learning. |
C.She had a gift for chemistry at high school. |
D.She made great achievements in chemistry. |
A.To meet her grandfather’s wish. |
B.To find a good job after graduation. |
C.To create medicines to cure diseases. |
D.To be a chemistry teacher in the future. |
A.In 1944. | B.In 1937. | C.In 1933. | D.In 1984. |
A.Her later life. | B.Her contributions. |
C.Her interest in chemistry. | D.Her honors. |
10 . The effect of climate change extends beyond ruining Earth’s environment and our physical safety. A report published this week suggests that climate change has a negative effect on our mental health, too.
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States(PNAS), links an increase in monthly temperatures to a rise in mental health issues. The experimental evidence stems from meteorological (气象的) data paired with information collected from nearly 2 million randomly sampled residents in the United States. The data was collected over the span (跨度) of a decade.
“We find that experiences with hotter temperatures and added rainfall each worsen mental health, that long-lasting warming associates with an increased popularity of mental health issues, and that exposure to tropical cyclones(热带气旋), likely to increase in frequency in the future, is linked to worsened mental health,” authors of the study stated. “These results provide added large-scale evidence to the growing link between climate change and mental health.”
The report specifically focused on mental health outcomes due to the effects of environmental stress - such as temperature, rainfall, and tropical cyclones - but other climate change-related issues are likely to affect mental health as well - specifically, the stress and anxiety of knowing natural disasters could be more frequent as temperatures rise.
1. From the newly-published report, we learn that the climate change may _________.A.save a lot of people’s lives |
B.cause unbelievable disasters |
C.influence people’s mental health |
D.greatly change people’s life styles |
A.To stress the importance of the study. |
B.To show that the study cost too much money. |
C.To explain the difficulties and hardships of the study. |
D.to indicate that the study is objective and believable. |
A.In Paragraph 1 | B.In Paragraph 2 |
C.In Paragraph 3 | D.In Paragraph 4 |
A.The study has its limits. |
B.The results of the study aren’t satisfactory. |
C.The environmental problems can’t be solved. |
D.Mental health is determined by climate change. |