1.说明目的；
2.提出建议；
3.解释原因。
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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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
The Chinese war film The Battle at Lake Changjin
The film tells the story about how Chinese People’s Volunteer soldiers held their ground during fierce cold and the enemy’s more
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4 . Everyone wants to perform well at school. Add these tips to your life and you should be on your way to being a top student!
Taking notes is important. You don’t need to write down every single word your teacher says but write down what he or she writes on the blackboard, or any special fact you think you might need for a test.
Don’t skip school. You will be missing courses.
Keep a good attitude (态度) towards things. If you have an “ I don’t care about school or this class” attitude, then teachers will be less willing to help you with problems. The same goes for lazy attitude. Have a respectful attitude to the teacher and other students.
Always ask questions.
| A．Be prepared. |
| B．Write in your own words. |
| C．Staying organized will be helpful. |
| D．Pay attention to what the teacher says. |
| E．It is true that you could make up the work. |
| F．There is no shame (羞愧)in needing some help. |
| G．Try not to laugh when other students make mistakes. |
5 . My father loves his garden. He planted some seeds in it. But at that time, I didn’t understand why working in the dirt excited him so much.
Unfortunately, in early May, my father was seriously injured in an accident. He had to stay in bed for a while. My mother had several business trips, so she couldn’t take care of the garden. I didn’t want my father to worry, so I said that I would take care of his garden until he recovered. I assumed that the little plants would continue to grow as long as they had water, and luckily it rained fairly often, so I didn’t think much about the garden.
One Saturday morning, my father said to me, “Christine, the vegetables should be about ready to be picked. Let’s have a salad today!” I went out to the garden and was upset to see that many of the lettuce leaves and carrots had been half eaten by bugs. There were hundreds of bugs all over them!
I panicked for a moment but then I quietly went to the nearest store to buy some vegetables. When I gave the salad to him, he said, “Oh, Christine, what a beautiful salad! I can’t believe the carrots are this big already. You must be taking very good care of my garden.” I felt a little bit guilty.
Coming home, my mother saw the bag from the supermarket in the kitchen. I was embarrassed, and I admitted Dad wanted a salad but the garden was a disaster. I didn’t want to disappoint him so I went to the store. She laughed but promised to help me in the garden and weeks later I was finally able to pick some vegetables.
I carefully made a salad and took it to my father. He looked at it with a hint of a smile, “Christine, the carrots are smaller in this salad, but they taste better.”
Now, I better understand how putting a lot of effort into caring for something can help you appreciate the results more, however small they may be. Perhaps this was one of the reasons for my father’s love of gardening.
1. Why did Christine originally promise she would do the gardening?| A．She was asked by her father to do it. | B．She was interested in growing vegetables. |
| C．She knew it was important to her father. | D．She wanted to improve her gardening skills. |
| A．Insects destroyed the lettuce and carrots. | B．Animals often dug holes in the garden. |
| C．The plants were given too much water. | D．The vegetables were marked incorrectly. |
| A．Her mother helped her to buy the vegetables. |
| B．Her mother regularly helped her to make a salad. |
| C．Her father couldn’t see the progress of the vegetables in his garden. |
| D．Her father went on a business trip at that time. |
| A．Always get ready for a rainy day. | B．Don’t be disappointed by bugs. |
| C．Working alone produces results. | D．Hard work can often be rewarding. |
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2. 踢毽子 shuttlecock kicking；
3. 跳绳 rope skipping；
4. 抖音 Douyin。
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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7 . The transition from high school to college is a major one, and successful adjustment to college has lifelong influences. Maybe you are about to make this transition yourself or have children who are about to leave the nest.
Don’t be afraid to talk to your professors or teaching assistants. Successful adjustment is about reaching out for help when you need it. This means trying to find the answers on your own first, but then contacting those who can help you when you can’t.
Lean on your family. Family support can give you comfort when classes are hard or you are stressed about finals.
Be confident. Feeling anxiety about communicating with fellows, professors, and speaking up in class is associated with lower adaptation during the transition to college.
| A．That is what they are there for! |
| B．This list is exactly what you need. |
| C．Joining clubs is also linked to feelings of belonging at college. |
| D．Be open to making new friends as soon as you set foot on campus. |
| E．Family members can give you advice and help solve problems if you need it. |
| F．One of the best ways to increase your confidence in communication is to practice! |
| G．Your professors and teaching assistants want to see you succeed in their classes. |
8 . A man in Laruns, southwestern France, whistling as a form of speech. Like others in the Canary Islands and elsewhere, local people have learned to whistle their language to communicate across long distances. Linguists are studying whistled speech to help understand which sound elements are essential to comprehension.
Whistled speech has arisen in at least 80 languages around the world, especially in rugged, mountainous terrain or dense forest, where ordinary speech doesn't carry far enough.
Whistled speech can be understood up to 10 times as far away as ordinary shouting can, Meyer and others have found. That lets people communicate even when they cannot easily approach close enough to shout. On La Gomera, for example, a few traditional shepherds still whistle to one another across mountain valleys that could take hours to cross.
Whistled languages work because many of the key elements of speech can be mimicked in a whistle, says Meyer.
Learning to whistle a language you already speak is relatively straightforward. Diaz Reyes's Spanish-language whistling students spend the first two or three months of the course learning to make a loud whistle with different pitch. "In the fourth or fifth month, they can make some words," he says. "After eight months, they can speak it properly and understand every message."
In essence, people listening to whistled speech are piecing together its meaning from fragments of the full speech signal. Linguists know surprisingly few details about how the brain does this.
Despite their interest to both linguists and casual observers, whistled languages are disappearing rapidly all over the world, and some have already vanished. Modernization is largely to blame, says Meyer, who points to roads as the biggest factor. “That’s why you still find whistled speech only in places that are very, very remote, that have had less contact with modernity, less access to roads,” he says.
1. Why are the linguists studying whistled speech?| A．To think of it as a special language. |
| B．To have a knowledge of how to use it. |
| C．To know how people understand it well. |
| D．To know the sound elements. |
| A．By giving examples. | B．By making comparison. |
| C．By analyzing facts. | D．By introducing a topic. |
| A．It’s a developed language. | B．It’s a widely-used language. |
| C．Linguists are still studying it. | D．Linguists find it easy to learn. |
| A．Existed. | B．Arisen. |
| C．Disappeared. | D．Improved. |
9 . With three million residents, the Ajegunle district in Lagos, Nigeria is one of the country’s most densely populated slums (贫民窟). Its residents struggle to obtain clean water and sanitation (卫生设备), resulting in rubbish that litters the streets. Access to education is also an issue for many families, and they are unable to afford the fees to send their children to school. But with the help of a new grassroots project, these problems are being settled all at once. Known as the Recycle Pay project, plastic waste acts as money to allow parents to pay a portion of their kid's school fees.
The organizations, African Clean Up Initiative and WeCyclers, created the Recycle Pay project and partnered with the Morit International School in Ajegunle to make it happen. They’ve made it easy for parents to take advantage of this project. They simply need to bring a bag of plastic waste to a fixed spot and have it weighed. The weight is then translated into a value of money and deducted (扣除) from the fees owed to the school. It’s a positive outcome for everyone—the environment is a little bit cleaner and there’s less financial hardship on the family.
Parents are thrilled with the arrangement as it ensures that their children can continue their education. “I struggle to pay for school fees, sometimes I pay half the price and later pay the remaining balance,” explains parent Sherifat Okunowo to the BBC. “But with the introduction of this project, the plastic has made it easy for me to pay school fees.”
The school’s principal says, “It has really reduced the burden on parents. We now collect fees faster—the school wins, the children win, the parents win, everybody wins.”
1. The living situation in this area is bad except ________ .| A．it is hard to walk safely at night | B．it is hard to get a healthy environment |
| C．it is difficult to have clean water | D．it is difficult to have complete education |
| A．Sell the plastic rubbish to get money. |
| B．Take a bag of plastic rubbish to a fixed place. |
| C．Pay all the school fees by selling plastic waste. |
| D．Ask their children to take a bag of waste to school. |
| A．The locals can get clean water. | B．The environment can become tidy. |
| C．People can earn some extra money. | D．The school can get enough plastic. |
| A．The project is worth supporting. |
| B．The students can hand in their fees on time. |
| C．The school needs money to go on running. |
| D．The school will win more matches in the future. |
10 . Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now，there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.
Open Table app
Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurants available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations(预定) ，which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.
Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app
Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max Me Calman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine
Pairing app is free.
HappyCow app
Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The HappyCow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.
LocalEats app
Restaurant chains, like McDonalds，can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The LocalEats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.
Where Chefs Eat app
“Where Chefs Eat” is a 975-page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just$15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3,000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.
1. What do the first two apps have in common?| A．They are both free of charge. |
| B．Discounts are provided on both. |
| C．Best wines can be reserved on both. |
| D．They tell you where to have the best food. |
| A．Friends drinking wines together. | B．Chefs enjoying meat very much. |
| C．People who don’t like eating meat. | D．Those often eating in a restaurant. |
| A．On a tourism guide. |
| B．In a cellphone application introduction. |
| C．In a students' textbook. |
| D．On a scientific discovery TV program. |
