The students didn’t find much about the topic on that website.
A. report B. article
C. information D. story
–-Have you seen film The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
--- Yes, it is ________ interesting film.
A. a, the B. the, an C. a, an D. the, a
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根据中文和英文提示，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于50词的回信。信的开头和结尾已给出，其词数不计入所完成的回信内。所给英文提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的真实校名和姓名。
假如你叫Liu Ying，你的好朋友Jane考试前总是紧张。尽管她刻苦学习，但一开始考试，她就忘了所有东西。她感觉自己好笨，也为此而感到苦恼。于是她通过邮件向你寻求帮助，请根据她的问题回复邮件。
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To Jane From Liu Ying Subject I believe you can do it Hi! Jane, I’m sorry to hear about your problem and hope I can help. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Yours, Liu Ying |
One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were lucky that they were not blind. There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story. The first is: Treasure what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help. The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
1.Did the boy need help?
2.What did the man write on the sign?
3.What happened after the man wrote something on the sign?
4.Why did the man come back that afternoon?
5. How did people probably feel when they saw the second sign?
Chinese love to eat because food is thought to be the most important way to communicate. So some people often order so many dishes that they can’t eat them up. Chinese government asks the public not to waste food anytime. 1. .
The managers of some restaurants are doing what they can to help people to reduce (减少) food waste. 2. , the waiters should remind them to reduce the number of dishes kindly, or the waiters should ask them to take the leftover with them.
Zhong Li, a famous woman, said,“ 3. , even sometimes we can order a half so that we won’t waste.” Once Zhong Li ordered half a Beijing Duck and some vegetables. She believed that saving food didn’t mean losing face.
4. . We call it “cleaning the plates”. Xu Jun has done it for years. He said, “ 5. . However, many people have thrown away a whole chicken or fish.” Cleaning the plates is not only to save food, but also to protect the environment and our health.
A. If customers order more than they can eat B. There are still a lot of people who don’t have enough to eat C. Restaurants have also joined the action D. Some people like eating up everything on their plates E. I think we should order enough food we like |
Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One of this year’s studies found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 to 15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day — which really for handwriting is pretty much.
Many adults remember learning that way — by copying letters over and over again. Today’s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts(专家) also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.
Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency(流畅) — writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.
But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.
But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is seldom done in primary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board(大学委员会). More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay(article) on the test rather than write in cursive.
1.From Paragraph 1 we can learn .
A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in the teaching job
B. most teachers prefer to teach handwriting
C. teachers spend little time in teaching handwriting
D. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting
2.Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA?
A. Handwriting includes two skills.
B. To write in cursive is taught first.
C. The letters are repeated many times.
D. The students are taught by practicing a long period.
3.The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means .
A. easy to read B. easy to write
C. unexpected D. unreadable
4.The best title for the passage is .
A. How to Improve Handwriting in School
B. Right or Wrong: the Death of Handwriting
C. Handwriting Involves Two Skills
D. Handwriting Lessons Are on the Way Out
