3 . The Best Photography Contests to Enter

Moscow International Foto Awards

Deadline: April 30,2023

Prize: The Photographer of the Year title along with a $ 3,000 prize

There are nine: categories for you to enter. The entry expenses vary according to the level of proficiency, and students can enter at a reduced price. Here you can hand in up to twenty images. which can be individual images or photo series in either category.

Monochrome Photography Awards

Deadline: November 13,2022

There’re thirteen categories to enter, ranging across landscapes, fashion and abstract photography. If you’re in the top three of any of them, you will get a certificate and an exhibition of-your work. Each image costs $15.The only rule is that the image has to be black and white.

Prize:$ 2,000,certificate and exhibition

World Press Photography Awards

Deadline: January 13,2023

Prize:$ 5,000 for each category

There’re eight categories for you to enter. Each of these is aiming to find the best visual journalist in that particular field. Every category is judged by three photographers specializing in that area. The competition definitely captures the reality of our world. If you’re a press photographer and feel like you’re excellent at capturing important contemporary topics, this contest is for you.

BigPicture Natural World Photography Awards

Deadline: March 3,2023

Prize: Each category winner receives $1,000

The contest accepts nature, wildlife and protection images from all around the world, organized into seven categories. Sea life, wild animals, and humans’ interaction with nature are especially welcome. You can hand in up to 10 single images for $ 25,or 4-6 images in the Photo Story category for $ 10.

4 . Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new________in high school.

________, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders (拉拉队队员)．She was________against very talented (有才能的) girls, and she knew it would be________for her to be chosen . Two hours later, the________read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart sank as the list ended without her name. Feeling ________, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving home, she started with maths. She had always been a good maths student, but now she was________. She moved on to English and history, and was surprised to find that she didn’t have any________with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to________maths for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school________. Mrs. Biden wasn’t as enthusiastic(热情的) as Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enough________for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.”Jenna smiled________and left.“Why is high school so________? ” she sighed.

Later in maths class, Jenna applied herself to solving the problems that had given her so much trouble and got them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d________to try to get used to her new school. She wasn’t sure whether she’d succeed, but she knew she had to________.

6 . The story of how I got my job was a funny one.

One day, I was________along a street to an interview________a yellow car suddenly cut in front of me.________another car coming in the other ________, I had to brake (刹车) hard and________into another cyclist. We both fell, but________neither of us was hurt. I became angry and cycled as fast as possible to the driver of the yellow car to tell him________I considered him. I told him what a bad ________I thought he was and he was a(n) ________to other people on the road. His face turned________.I warned him not to drive ________in the future so that everyone else could enjoy a long life.

I was in time for the ________. Having walked into the room, to my________, I found one of the three interviewers________to be the driver of the yellow car. We looked at each other for a while, keeping ________. Then I decided to look ________the whole matter as a great joke! I laughed and told him that I talked________the last time we met and this time it was his turn to talk a great deal. Lost in thought for a while, he________that I was not going to say anything about his bad driving. The interview went ________. Two days later, I received a letter offering me the job. I was pleased that the manager—the driver of the yellow car, didn’t________my rudeness to him.

Through the experience, I find something that seems impossible at first sometimes turns out to be good.

9 . The Taj Mahal(泰姬陵)is a love story, a sad and beautiful one. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale. Three hundred years ago, there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan. His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly. Her title was Mumtazl

Mahal: its shortened form Taj Mahal, means “pride of the palace”. In the year 1630 this beloved wife of the emperor died. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne(王位). He decided out of his love for his wife, to build her the most beautiful tomb that he had ever seen.

He summoned the best artists and architects from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was completed. It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6—7 meters high. Towers rise from each of the four comers. The Taj Mahal itself soars another 61 meters into the air. It is an eight-sided building made of white marble.

The emperor planned to build an identical(相同的)tomb of black marble for himself on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge. However, his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife.

10 . When my father was getting ready for work, our house was ruled by _________ and words. He used to come downstairs to _________ .

The morning paper lay beside his plate. He always read the “Deaths” first, and then he knocked _________ on the table. One of my sisters brought his bread, already _________ for him. Usually he said nothing,   _________ once I heard him say, “I love you very much, Edith. I would love _________ if you buttered my bread on both sides.” He read the paper all through breakfast.

Two knocks on the table meant “I am ready for my tea.” If a single knock followed, that meant, “More _________ , please.”

_________ a breakfast he said, “Boots.” The paper was spread (展开) for him over the _________ of an arm chair. Yesterday’s paper was put on the chair for his feet, and his boots were brought to him,   __________ cleaned. He read standing at the same time putting on his boots. With one boot __________ he said, “Bus.” At that point one of the girls went outside to the garden gate and __________ there. Her job was to __________ a bus when it came. It came __________ sometimes and it had to wait for my father. “Overcoat, hat.” One of my sisters had already brushed his overcoat. Now she held it __________ for him. __________ girl came with his hat, nicely brushed. “Handkerchief, pipe (烟斗).” They were brought and put, with his tobacco (烟草), into his pocket. He looked out of the window and said __________ “Walking stick” or “Umbrella”. It was handed to him. Ready now, he was __________ reading the paper. He didn’t put it down __________ he heard the shout “Bus coming!” Then he kissed my mother and went out. The girls breathed freely.

How lucky a man was to have a wife and five __________ .