以 The Changes in My Hometown为题，写一篇80字左右的短文。
过去 | 1.生活贫困，房屋破旧； 2.污染严重，垃圾遍地； 3.家庭成员多，父母负担不起孩子的教育； |
现在 | 1.生活改善，住房宽敞、明亮； 2.人人保护环境，城市干净、现代 3.政府实行计划生育来控制人口，孩子都能接受教育； |
将来 | 请你展望家乡的未来 |
The Changes in My Hometown
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短文填词。
The common Chinese greeting of “Ni chi le ma” may soon be replaced (代替) by a new 1.: “Have you 2. your plate”
The Clean Your Plate Campaign (光盘运动) began on the Internet in 2016. It calls on people to reduce (减少) food waste. China in 3. (recently) years has experienced serious problems with wasted food. CCTV reported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough to feed 200 4.(hundred) people for a year.
Chinese people are well-known for their friendly behavior (举止) towards guests. Many even feel that they lose face if their 5. have eaten all the food.
It’s 6. for everyone to reduce food waste. However, wasting food is still a serious problem in China. We still have a long 7. to go.
President Xi Jinping is 8. (encourage) people to be less wasteful, and he told Party members to cut back on wasteful holiday banquets (宴会) . He said they should be more careful when spending the people’s money.
Wasting food certainly goes 9. [ə'ɡenst] what Xi Jinping calls, “the Chinese tradition of being hardworking and thrifty (节俭).” Having a “clean plate” is just a 10. [trə'dɪʃənl] and important thing to do.
Have you cleaned your plate?
根据中文提示，完成下列各题。
1.你觉得住在这里怎么样________________________________________________________
2.你会很快适应它的____________________________________________________________
3.事实上，它是个居住的好地方____________________________________________
4.你一定要来参观哦____________________________________________________________
5.世界已经变的更好了________________________________________________________
A Special Delivery (快递)
Ben and Sally lived in California with their two daughters. Ben liked traveling. 1., but sally stayed home with the girls. Ben and his friends owned a company. People at the company liked to play jokes on each other. One day, Ben’s friends wanted to play a joke on Ben and Sally. 2. The letter said,
Dear Sally.
I’m having a great time here in Africa. I’m sending a special gift to you.
I hope you like it. Please take good care of it until I get home.
Love to you and the kids,
Ben
On the same day, Sally also got a phone call. The caller told her that a delivery was coming. At one o’clock, a truck stopped in front of Sally’s house. The truck driver gave Sally a rope. An animal was tied to the rope. It was a baby elephant! 3., and it began eating grass.Then the driver drove away. Sally stood there and held the rope to the elephant. She asked herself, “What can I feed an elephant with? Bananas?”4. He said, “It’s illegal (非法的) to have wild animal here.” Then the policeman gave Sally a ticket.
Ben’s friends were hiding in the backyard and laughing. 5. They had rented (租借) the elephant from a zoo and asked the policeman to write the ticket! Ben’s friends also made a film of everything. They wanted Ben to watch the film.
When Sally learned about the truth, she couldn’t help laughing.
A.So they sent a letter to Sally
B.After a while, a policeman came
C.The elephant ran into Sally’s yard
D.One summer, he went to Africa on a trip
E.They had planned everything perfectly.
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案。
If you watch the sky for about an hour after the sun goes down, you may see some “moving stars”. But they’re not real stars. They’re man-made satellites(人造卫星). And the biggest of all is the International Space Station (ISS). From May to July is the best season to watch the ISS flying over the earth. And people can see it with their eyes.
The ISS is the biggest satellite and scientists want to live on it. They think that the best way to learn more about space is to live there.
When the space station is finished, it will be like a city in space. People will stay and study there with many of the things they have at home. Laboratories, living rooms and power stations are being built. The ISS is the most expensive space program. Billions of dollars are being spent on it every year.
Scientists hope that the ISS will be a stepping stone for future space exploration(探测). “The ISS will help us understand the human body better, explore space and study the earth. It can help us make life on the earth better,” said Kathryn Clark, an ISS scientist.
Sixteen countries are part of the program: the US, Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and 11 European countries. China isn’t an ISS country, but it has helped with some of the experiments. In 2003, China sent some rice up to the ISS to find out what space would do to it.
1.The International Space Station_____________.
A.is really a big city in space B.is the biggest man-made satellite
C.can only help us explore space D.is mainly built by the USA and Russia
2.From the passage we know that_____________.
A.building the ISS is only for scientists to live there
B.scientists can do anything they like there
C.people can see the Space Station at any time
D.sixteen countries are members of the space program
3.The phrase “a stepping stone” probably means“_____________”.
A.滑梯 B.巅峰 C.垫脚石 D.走廊
4.China sent some rice up to the ISS is probably to_____________.
A.be used as astronauts’ food B.sell it to aliens
C.do some science experiments D.make it grow better in space
5.Which of the following isn’t mentioned ?
A.China will join the ISS in the future.
B.The scientists are building living rooms for them in the ISS.
C.The ISS will be more useful in the future.
D.The ISS costs the members of 16 countries plenty of money every year.
Once there was a piano player in a bar (酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
“I don’t sing,” said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, “I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!”
The waiter shouted across the room, “Hey, friend! If you want to get your money, sing a song!”
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent (天赋) he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
1.The lady asked the player to sing a song because ________.
A.she had paid him for this B.she knew him very well
C.she wanted to have a change D.she enjoyed his singing
2.Nat King Cole succeeded because ________.
A.the lady helped him a lot B.he caught the chance
C.he continued to play in the bar D.he stopped playing the piano
3.The words “sit on” in the passage probably mean________.
A.fail to realize (实现) B.forget to use
C.try to develop D.manage to show
4.From the story we know if you have some talent, you should ________.
A.hide it and wait B.ask others for help
C.pay no attention to it D.work hard to improve yourself
5.Which could be the best title for the passage?
A.Sing in the Bar B.A Successful Piano Player
C.Never Lose Heart D.Find Your Hidden Talent
