After graduation, Jason went to work in a big business. The schedule was very tight and he was so busy working, travelling from one place to another, that he was always on business for weeks without going to his mother’s home. And this year, he hadn’t seen his mother for months. Mother’s Day was coming up, and he would have managed to go back home, but this year he was just too busy and too tired. One day, when he was driving in a small town, he saw a flower shop. He said to himself, “I know what I will do. I’ll send my mother some flowers,“
He stopped and went into the flower shop and saw a boy talking to a girl in it. “How many roses can I get for five dollars?”, the boy asked. The girl was trying to explain that roses were expensive. Maybe the boy would be happy with something else.
“No, I have to have roses,” he said. “It has to be red roses, because my mum likes them best. It’s Mother’s Day. I want to get something special.” He was stubborn.
The girl in the shop looked at the boy and was just shaking her head. Something inside Jason was touched by the boy’s voice. It seemed that he wanted to get those roses very much. Jason looked at the boy and said to the girl that he would pay for the boy’s roses.
The girl looked at the boy and said, “Okay, I will give you ‘a dozen red roses for your dollars." The boy almost jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran out. It was worth more than fifty dollars just to see that kind of excitement.
Jason ordered his own flowers and asked the girl to have them taken to his mother. After that, with relief, he drove down the road.
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Not long after his driving, he saw the boy...
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Jason stood there in silence.
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1. 活动目的及安排；
2. 注意事项。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
3 . According to a Chinese saying，“One who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a hero. ”Growing up in Beijing，I
As
As I stood there，I began to
I don’t know if I have become a
| A．show | B．know | C．imagine | D．accept |
| A．still | B．also | C．never | D．already |
| A．waited | B．allowed | C．searched | D．aimed |
| A．expensive | B．interesting | C．difficult | D．important |
| A．wake up | B．give up | C．keep up | D．look up |
| A．reach | B．understand | C．clean | D．head |
| A．shook | B．stood | C．walked | D．lay |
| A．children | B．strangers | C．people | D．foreigners |
| A．book | B．photo | C．future | D．scene |
| A．dangerously | B．slowly | C．worriedly | D．naturally |
| A．break | B．tip | C．step | D．note |
| A．care about | B．make up | C．tell about | D．think of |
| A．healthy | B．tall | C．fat | D．scary |
| A．thoughts | B．emotions | C．rules | D．plans |
| A．tired | B．normal | C．strong | D．lazy |
| A．expected | B．argued | C．included | D．realized |
| A．dreams | B．qualities | C．concerns | D．experiences |
| A．boring | B．humorous | C．great | D．serious |
| A．trip | B．country | C．adventure | D．experiment |
| A．but | B．as | C．unless | D．so |
4 . A team of engineers at Harvard University in trying to create the first robotic fly. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
"The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of its components is off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own’ said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies (相互依赖）on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it d connected to,” said Wood.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites，in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. "Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around，” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.“You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animal，but using these robots instead” he said. "So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”
1. What is the typical characteristic of the robotic fly?| A．It's automatic. | B．It's very small. |
| C．It's controllable. | D．It's quite powerful. |
| A．act as a spy plane | B．help do farm work |
| C．fly at a very high speed | D．answer many scientific questions |
| A．It is highly questionable. |
| B．It has wide practical applications. |
| C．It gives scientists interest in flying machines. |
| D．It points to a new direction in studying biology. |
| A．Harvand's Study in the Field of Insects. |
| B．A Breakthrough in Engineering Science |
| C．An Interesting Invention 一 Robotic Fly |
| D．Robotic Fly 一 a Copy of Real Life Insect |
Media is known to be the most
The best thing about the mass media is that it immediately provides us with the latest information about the things
Though mass media has many positive effects, there are some
1. Which competition is suitable for the listeners?
| A．The high level. |
| B．The middle level. |
| C．The low level. |
| A．Weather | B．Change . | C．Travel. |
| A．Ask Maria for help. | B．Read the poem called Rain. | C．Borrow books from the library. |
| A．The library. | B．The computers. | C．The lab. |
1. 高科技产品;国内外广泛使用;
2. 主要功能:通话、发短信、上网、照相、玩游戏等;
3. 体积小、重量轻、易携带,适用于各年龄段人群。
注意:
1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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8 . Imagine putting a seed in a freezer,waiting 30,000 years,and then taking the seed out and planting it. Do you think a flower would grow?
Amazingly, scientists have just managed to do something very similar. They found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia—a region covering central and eastern Russia—for about 31,800 years. Using pieces of the fruit,the scientists grew plants in a lab. The new blooms have delicate white petals. They are also the oldest flowering plants that researchers have ever revived from a deep freeze.
“This is like regenerating a dinosaur from tissues of an ancient egg,’’said Jane Shen-Miller,a biologist of University of California,Los Angeles.
The plant has a long history. Back when mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses walked on the land, an Arctic ground squirrel buried seeds and fruits in an underground chamber near the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. The ground became pennafrost, a layer of soil that stays frozen for a long time.
Recently, Russian scientists dug out the old squirrel hole and found the plant remains 38 meters below the surface. Back at the lab, the team fed nutrients to tissue from three of the fruits to grow shoots. Then the scientists transferred the shoots to pots filled with soil. The plants produced seeds that could be used to grow even more of them.
It’s important for scientists to know that plant tissues can still be revived after being frozen for a long time. That’s because many researchers are trying to preserve the seeds of modern plants by freezing them and then storing them in giant lockers at various spots around the globe. One such endeavor,an underground facility in Norway,is called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It stores hundreds of thousands of frozen seeds. If a plant ever goes extinct, scientists could bring it back by taking its seeds from the Svalbard or other storage lockers.
“No one knows how longtheyare able to live for,but freezing is basically the format for many plant conservation attempts nowadays,’’Jane Shen-Miller said. It’s a good thing that at least some plants are tough enough to survive in the experience.
1. Which of the following was NOT used to recreate the ancient plant?| A．Modem nutrients. |
| B．Parts of the fruits. |
| C．Its frozen seeds. |
| D．Plant pots with soil. |
| A．It helps them learn how plant life has changed in the past 30,000 years. |
| B．It can help guide future efforts to protect endangered plants’ life. |
| C．It can provide directions for where to look for other ancient plants. |
| D．It proves that all plant life can survive for thousands of years when frozen. |
| A．plants |
| B．seeds |
| C．scientists |
| D．storage lockers |
| A．discuss a plant conservation effort |
| B．introduce some ancient plants |
| C．outline some causes of global warming |
| D．describe a scientific research project |
9 . How do you enter a room full of strangers? Do you walk right in full of confidence? Or do you try to slip in without being noticed?
In life,we admire those who do their tasks confidently.We prefer people who appear to know what they are doing.But where does that confidence begin?
Developing self-confidence starts very early.If parents’ role to get kids on the right track toward becoming confident people.
With most things in life,practice makes perfect,and that is true of confidence skills.
Always hold your head high and look people in the eye.Answer questions clearly and confidently.
Focus on the things that you do well,and look for opportunities to use those abilities.
Prepare thoroughly for every project.You’ll approach the task more confidently knowing that you are ready.
However,all humans fail at times,and you will too.Even with efforts to try all the above,you will never be perfect.But you can learn to love and accept yourself and live your life with confidence.
| A．Keep in mind an item that reminds you of a recent success. |
| B．The more you practice them,the easier they will become. |
| C．The way you go into new situations show your level of self-confidence. |
| D．Our goal is to prepare students to go into the world with confidence. |
| E．To help that process,parents should always offer more praise than criticism. |
| F．Learning from mistakes helps you face the same situation later without fear. |
| G．.But self-confidence still doesn’t come easily. |
