In a small village called Brightville, there lived three friends: Kimberley, John and Alicia. They were all students at Brightville High School. Kimberley was a hardworking and determined girl; John was a curious and creative boy; and Alicia was a kind and helpful girl. They shared a common dream of achieving their goals through education.
On a sunny day, the three friends gathered at their favorite spot near the village river. They often met there to discuss their dreams and motivate each other. Kimberley always emphasized (强调) the importance of studying and setting goals. John loved exploring new things and finding creative ways to learn. Alicia, with her caring nature, always supported and encouraged her friends.
One day, they came across an old abandoned library in the heart of Brightville. The library was filled with dust-covered books. Kimberley saw this as an opportunity for their dreams to come true. She suggested turning the library into a learning center for the village.
The three friends spent months cleaning, organizing and renewing the library. They reached out to the villagers, and soon, volunteers joined them to set up the learning center. They created a friendly and welcome environment where students could come to study, read books, and seek help.
Word about the learning center spread throughout the village. Students from all ages and backgrounds started attending. Kimberley, John and Alicia devoted their after-school hours to tutoring (指导) the students. They understood that education was not just about memorizing facts but also about nurturing curiosity and passion for learning.
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As days turned into months, they saw the effect of their hard work.
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2.袁隆平的贡献；
3.袁隆平对你的影响。
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1.词数100左右；开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
参考词汇与句型：
1……我的荣幸 It is such a great honor for me to...
2.发表我的演讲 deliver my speech
3.我的主题是…… My topic is that...
4.袁隆平是我心目中真正的英雄 Yuan Longping is a true hero in my eyes.
5.被视为“杂交水稻之父” is regarded as “Father of Hybrid Rice”
6.1930年9月出生于北京 was born in September，1930 in Bejjing
7.1973年培育出第一批杂交水稻 cultivated the first hybrid rice in 1973
8.成功养活世界1/5的人口 managed to feed one-fifth of the world’s population
9.2004年被授予世界粮食奖 was awarded the World Food Prize in 2004
10.2019年被授予共和国勋章 was awarded the Medal of the Republic in 2019
11.因为他对……的贡献 for his contributions to...
12.中国农业科学发展 China’s scientific development of agriculture
13.从他身上，我学到…… From him, I have learned that...
14.只有通过我不断的努力 only through my constant efforts
15.更好地为社会和国家服务 serve our society and country better
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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That’s all for my presentation. Thanks for your listening!
3 . Transition. It’s a pleasant word and a calming concept. It means going surely and sweetly from somewhere present to somewhere future. Unless, that is, it is newspapers’ ‘transition’ to the
Just look at the latest print circulation figures. The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and many of the rest are down overall between 8% and 10% year-on-year, but their websites go ever higher.
All of that may well be true, depending on timing, geography and more.
One is the magazine world, both in the UK and in the US. It ought to be
As for news and current affairs magazines — which you’d expect to find in the eye of the digital storm — they had a 8.4% increase to report. In short, on both sides of the Atlantic, although some magazine areas went down, many showed rapid growth.
You can discover a
So if sales in that area have fallen so little, perhaps the
Already 360 US papers—including most of the biggest and best — have built paywalls around their products. However, the best way of attracting a paying readership appears to be a deal that offers the print copy and digital access as some kind of
Of course this huge difference isn’t
| A．publishing | B．online | C．ideal | D．unknown |
| A．On the other hand | B．After all | C．To begin with | D．For instance |
| A．stop | B．exist | C．emerge | D．fit |
| A．regulated | B．advancing | C．collapsing | D．minimized |
| A．solid | B．simple | C．creative | D．changeable |
| A．cultural | B．common | C．scientific | D．similar |
| A．later | B．harder | C．clearer | D．slower |
| A．all | B．neither | C．both | D．either |
| A．service | B．system | C．crisis | D．figure |
| A．right | B．vague | C．designed | D．mixed |
| A．made up | B．told apart | C．took over | D．held on |
| A．joint | B．mysterious | C．modern | D．complex |
| A．In other words | B．On the contrary | C．What’s more | D．Even so |
| A．new | B．sad | C．big | D．good |
| A．spared | B．updated | C．noticed | D．edited |
I often go to a certain cafe when I wish to work away from home, where I face many of my self-created distractions.
Once when I stood in line at the cafe, I looked at a large number of pastries (油酥点心) that attracted me, and was thinking which pastry I was going to choose with my cup of tea. At that time, I realized the line wasn’t moving as smoothly as I had wished it would. I was in no particular rush, but noticed this thought surface. When I became aware of this, it promoted me to look at the two individuals before me.
One was an elderly woman perhaps in her 70s. She seemed to fumble (摸索) in her change purse and inquired in detail about the prices. It was then evident that she ordered iced tea as well as a pastry, but did not have enough money for both. She decided on the pastry and left the iced tea behind. Seeing this made my heart sink. I watched her walk away and sit down at a table nearby.
At that time I found myself deeply involved in the scene. I found myself confused as I had originally thought the woman behind the elderly woman was her friend. I kept observing.
The woman behind the elderly lady, then placed her order. And my eyes did not follow her to where she sat.
I smiled at the person at the counter and then proceeded to buy my cup of tea, along with the pastry. But then I gazed over the person’s shoulder to where the iced tea was standing. So, I asked if it could be added to my order. My request was met with slight confusion, but I did not feel inspired to share at the time what my next move would be.
As I walked over to the table where the elderly woman had sat down, I noticed she was no longer there, but the pastry was uneaten on her plate. I took a quick look around and saw her coming back. I very quickly placed the iced tea on the table and then made my way to the rest room.
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Upon my return, to my surprise I noticed both the women were sitting together.
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However, the other thought that surfaced in my mind was that of judgment.
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My grandfather had started experiencing major problems with his left eye due to his old age. He had visited the hospital on many occasions to seek treatment, but his condition was not getting any better. Finally, his doctor told him the only way left was to go for eye surgery as a way of trying to correct the abnormality with the eyes.
Since it was a weekend and I had no classes on that day, I thought it would be a good idea to accompany my grandfather to the hospital rather than to stay home and be bored despite the fear I had of surgeries and hospitals in general.
My uncle drove us to the hospital. After ensuring that my grandfather bad checked in, he had to leave for an important appointment. Luckily, there were several helpful nurses available to offer any assistance that my grandfather required, and the doctors were very friendly. Even though things were taking their natural course, the situation was tearing me apart. I guessed the nurses sensed the high level of nervousness that both my grandfather and I had at that moment. They talked to us nicely so that we ended up relaxing and seeing the surgery as something normal and nothing to worry much about.
Before long, both my grandfather and I felt relaxed and ready for the surgery, as we forgot the high degree of nervousness we had felt just a few moments earlier. I have always had this fear of doctors and injections so even as I began to relax, thoughts of the upcoming surgery were drilling my mind. I knew the surgery would be more serious than the injections that I feared so much as well. In an hour or so, I was just sitting on the couch and waiting while the nurses were preparing my grandfather for the surgery.
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2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
All of a sudden, a cup of coffee appeared before my eyes.
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After only an hour, my grandfather was wheeled out with a bandage on the operated eye.
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6 . The Hardest Novel I’ve Ever Read
For the last three months, I have glared at its fat heavy form on my floor with a vague sense of personal failure. I have opened Ulysses twice, determined to finish it, and managed to get all the way to page 46. I have read so little both times that I have never bothered using a bookmark.
Why do I get stuck?
There are a few other “worthy” works of literature I have yet to read, including Infinite Jest and War and Peace.
The English writer Virginia Woolf thought Ulysses was nonsense as she complained in her diaries about the pressure to finish reading it. By contrast, Vladimir Nabokov, the author who wrote Lolita expressed deep love for it.
Some people love Ulysses, so where am I getting wrong? My ultimate hope is that the struggle will be worth the effort and I can proceed victorious onto page 800 or so, on my third fourth, eighteenth try. Something tells me I will get there in the end.
| A．I’m not entirely sure myself |
| B．A lot of them are weighty tomes (巨著), but I like big books |
| C．It seems that reading Ulysses is a big different experience for everyone. |
| D．Even when staring at pages without absorbing a word, I thought nice thoughts about it |
| E．They, however, only cause me a slight sense of shame that I have not read or enjoyed them |
| F．I have been amused and charmed by the first two or three chapters, and then puzzled and bored. |
1.分析手机支付的利与弊；
2.提出你的观点或建议。
注意：
1.词数100左右。
2.可以适当增加情节，以使行文连贯。（参考词汇：扫二维码 scan QR codes）
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My mouth felt dry as I followed my mother into the doctor’s office and sank into a chair next to hers. This doctor had a room full of gadgets (小装置) and gizmos (小物件) to analyze the learning abilities of failing students. That day he had analyzed (分析) me. “I’m sorry to tell you this, Mrs. Dow, but Peter has dyslexia (阅读障碍). A fairly serious case.”
I swallowed and tried to breathe. The doctor went on. “He’ll never read above the fourth-grade level. Since he won’t be able to complete high school requirements,I suggest you enroll (使登记) him in a trade school where he can learn to work with his hands.” I didn’t want to go to trade school (职校). I wanted to apply at Bible College in our town to be a preacher (牧师), like my dad. I forced my tears back. A twelve-year-old was too big to cry. “Thank you, Doctor.” We drove home.
Dyslexia? I’d never heard it before. Sure, I was always the slowest kid in my class. I had a special hiding place where I would cry because I couldn’t do my lessons however hard I tried. Of course, I never told my mom about that. I was too ashamed. I didn’t want to worry her, either. She had enough on her mind with teaching school full-time and taking care of Dad and me.
On reaching home, my mom looked into my eyes with tears running down her cheeks. Seeing her cry was too much for me. Before I knew what was happening, I was in her arms crying. A few minutes later she said, “Honey. I want to talk to you.”I waited,sniffling (抽泣).“You heard what the doctor said about your not finishing school. I don’t believe him.”
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1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右：
2.至少使用5个短文中划有下划线的关键词语：
3.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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I stopped sniffling and looked at her.
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A ray (线) of hope shone through the uncertain future.
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Human memory is notoriously (众所周知地) unreliable. Even people with the sharpest facial recognition skills can only remember so much.
It’s tough to quantify how good a person is
Machines aren’t limited this way. Give the right computer a massive database of faces, and it can process what it sees – then recognize a face it
The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition. And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.
As the databases grew, machine accuracy dipped across the board. Algorithms
Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike –either doppelgangers (长相极相似的人), whom the machine would have trouble
