Volunteer Wanted
Our English Festival, which is to be held on 20-23 December,is now looking for 20 volunteers to provide service for Talent Show and English Speech Contest.If you are interested, please send an application email at your earliest convenience to Miss Zhao at zhaolaoshi@sina.com.
阅读启事并写一封应征邮件。内容要点如下:
1. 表明意图;
2. 陈述应征目的;
3. 说明应征条件(性格、能力等)。
注意:1.词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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1.要交朋友首先要对别人友好,和他们坦诚相处;
2.其次,要和朋友同甘共苦,患难见真情;
3.而且,有误解时,只要是你的错,就应该向朋友道歉;
4.要设身处地地为朋友着想,友谊需要时间和投入。
Dear Su Ru,
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Yours,
Li Hua
A cactus (仙人掌) stood all alone in the desert, wondering why it was stuck in the middle of the desert. “I do nothing but stand here all day,” it sighed. “What use do I have? I am the ugliest plant in the desert. My spines (刺) are thick, my leaves are tough, and my skin is uneven. I can’t offer shade or juice to the passing travellers. I don’t see that I am of any use at all.” All it did was stand in the sun day after day, growing taller and fatter. Its spines grew longer and its leaves grew tougher. It truly was strange-looking.
“I wish I could do something useful,” it signed. By day, hawks (鹰) circled high overhead, and the cactus called, “What can I do with my life?” Whether they heard or not, the hawks flew away. At night the moon floated into the sky and cast its pale light on the desert floor. “What can I do with my life?” the cactus called. The moon only stared coldly as it continued its course.
A lizard (蜥蜴) passed by, leaving a little trail in the sand with its tail. “What worthy deed can I do?” the cactus called. “You?” the lizard smiled, pausing a moment. “You can do something. Just wait for the right moment. The hawks circle their ways overhead, making beautiful patterns for us all to admire. The moon hangs high like a lantern at night, so we can see our ways home to our loved ones. Even I, the lowly lizard, have something to do. I decorate the sands with these beautiful trails as I pull my tail along. And you, you will show us your beauty some day.”
Paragraph 1:
It went on year after year, and the cactus grew old.
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Paragraph 2:
The desert hadn’t known such a flower of it.
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注意:
1. 词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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1. 周日上午八点在校门口集合;
2. 乘坐公共汽车去公园;
3. 穿运动鞋,带相机;
4. 感兴趣的人星期四前把名字报给班长。
注意:
1. 词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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注意:词数100左右。
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注意:1.词数80左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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One day Bryan Anderson noticed an old lady stuck on the side of the road. He could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. He left his motor still running when he approached her.
Even with a big smile on his face, she was worried. He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. After reading her mind, he introduced himself as Bryan Anderson and began to help her.
Learning that she had a flat tire, without a second thought, Bryan set out to work and took hours to get it right, dirty and tired. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid.
With everything done, the lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined anxiously all the awful things that could have happened. Bryan never thought about being paid. This was helping someone in need. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.
Bryan told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the help the way he had given her, and he added, “And think of me to let the chain of love pass on.”
Hearing that she owed him nothing, the old lady was touched and then she drove off with a deep “Thank you”, with tears rolling down her cheeks.
A few miles down the road the lady saw a small café. She went in to grab a bite to eat and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. In the dirty-looking restaurant, the whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn’t erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. Then she remembered Bryan.
注意:续写词数应为150左右。
After the lady finished her meal, she paid a $100 bill.
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That night when she got home from work, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written.
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10 . Group-Centered Societies Have Just as Much Creativity
What does culture have to do with creativity? The answer could be “a lot”. For decades, psychologists trying to understand the roots of creative imaginations have looked at the ways in which two different types of cultures can come to have an effect over its artistic and
Individualism has long been thought to have a creative
The new work comes from comparing communities in different parts of China. Though it scores high, as a nation, on measures of cultural
In the new creativity study, researchers investigated innovation with these two groups in mind. The team used a drawing test that had been created by psychologists. They gave kids a sheet of paper with just a few basic elements printed on it: some dots here, squiggles (弯曲的线条) there, and a rectangle that suggested a drawing frame. The children got 15 minutes to use the elements already on the page to draw whatever they wanted. They could get “adaptive creativity” points for doodling in ways that connected the squiggles and lines into an original and
The researchers gave the test to 683 middle school students from north and south of the Yangtze River. When the scientists got the scores back, they discovered that there were no differences in the children’s overall creativity. When they broke down the results into components, they found that students from collectivistic regions scored
The findings are also a warning against cultural chauvinism (极端民族主义). Western countries have tended to lead the way in innovation — at least as defined by the metrics (指标) we Westerners have created. Perhaps we have been
A.theoretical | B.inventive | C.productive | D.regular |
A.prioritize | B.deprive | C.tolerate | D.abandon |
A.satisfy | B.stimulate | C.cherish | D.sacrifice |
A.shelter | B.edge | C.border | D.alternative |
A.embrace | B.propose | C.resist | D.create |
A.However | B.Therefore | C.Meanwhile | D.Moreover |
A.broadly | B.objectively | C.seriously | D.narrowly |
A.individualism | B.identity | C.collectivism | D.flexibility |
A.selfish | B.collective | C.individualistic | D.realistic |
A.fall apart | B.fit in | C.give in | D.show off |
A.separate | B.ugly | C.unified | D.tiny |
A.catch | B.miss | C.target | D.misuse |
A.higher | B.averagely | C.lower | D.vaguely |
A.capturing | B.approaching | C.imitating | D.overlooking |
A.improvements | B.drawbacks | C.insights | D.attempts |