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近日，随着《中国足球改革总体方案》的出台，“足球进校园”已成为社会热议的话题。假设你是张伟，你的好友王明想加入校足球队，但是他的父亲认为踢足球会影响学习。请你根据以下提示给王明的父亲写一封信，帮助王明说服他的父亲。
关键词提示：good for health； serious about； more confident； encourage him； team effort； communicate… with； make more friends； decide by himself
注意：1.文中应包含所有提供的信息，并进行适当拓展；
2.词数：80—100（给出的文章开头供选择使用，不计入总词数）。
Dear Uncle Wang，
I am Zhang Wei， a friend of Wang Ming. I heard that you didn’t agree Wang Ming to join the school soccer team and thought it would have a bad influence on his study. However， I don’t think so. Here are my reasons.
I’m looking forward to your reply. Thanks so much.
Yours，
Zhang Wei
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在英语拓展学习的过程中，大明同学从网上搜索了一些有关世界纪念日的信息。
请帮助大明同学将上面的纪念日词条按每年的庆祝顺序正确排序。
A millionaire has a big party for his 50th birthday. At this party， he grabs(抓) the microphone and says to his guests that down in the garden of his house he has a swimming pool with two great white sharks in 1.________.
“I will give anything of mine to the man who swims 2._______(cross) that pool.”
The party continues with no events in the pool 3._______ suddenly， there is a great sound and all the guests of the party run to the pool to see 4._____ has happened.
In the pool a man is swimming as 5.________(hard) as he can and fins(鳍) come out of the water and this guy just keeps on 6._______(go). The sharks are swimming after him and this guy 7.________(reach) the end and gets out of the pool， 8._______(tiring) and soaked(湿透的).
9.________ millionaire grabs the microphone and says， “I am a man of my word. Anything of mine I will give： my Ferraris， my house， absolutely anything， for you are 10.______(brave) man I have ever seen. So sir what will it be?”
The guy grabs the microphone and says， “Why don’t we start with the name of the jerk(混蛋) who pushed me in!”
The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route(路线) between China and the Mediterranean(地中海). It started 1._______(在……期间) the Western Han Dynasty and has been a 2._______(桥) between East and West for over 2，000 years.
The road started from Chang’an(now Xi’an) and ended in Eastern 3.______(欧洲的) country， near today’s Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. It was about 6，500 kilometres long and crossed one 4.________(第四) of the planet.
The Silk Road got its name because Chinese silk used to be carried along this road. Silk， jade(玉)， ceramics(陶瓷) and iron went west to Rome. And from the west came glass， gems(宝石) and food 5._______(像) carrots and sesame(芝麻).
The Silk Road was very important to both China and the 6._______(剩余部分) of the world. It was more than an ancient international trade route. Besides trade，7._______(知识) about art， science and literature， as well as crafts(工艺) and technologies was 8._______(分享) across the Silk Road. In this way， languages and cultures 9._______(发展) fast and influenced each other.
Today， along the Silk Road there’re many places of 10.______(兴趣)， such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Now a new train line runs from Beijing across the Silk Road.
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次。
improve， true， harmful， clear， creative |
1.Smoking is ________ to our health， so Beijing stops smoking in all public places now.
2. Zhang Hong thinks joining the English club at school is the best way ________ her spoken English.
3. Sorry， I can’t follow you. Would you please speak more ________?
4. Although some people think street performers are boring， I think they are ________ people.
5.Don’t look at me like that! I’m telling you the ________.
There are millions of people throughout the world who are either born blind or have become blind over the course of their lifetimes. It is unfair to take away the visual beauty of the world from these people. Doctor Humayun has created the world’s first bionic eye that could change the life of every blind people in the world.
Doctor Mark Humayun is a well respected professor at the Doheny Eye Institute in California. He has been working for years on creating a bionic eye that would allow blind people to see images just like a normal person does. His idea of the bionic eye is actually an eye that has been built in a small video camera.
The test results show the bionic eye has given blind patients the amazing ability to see the scientists doing the tests. But the images are still blurry(模糊的) and we need much work before the eye actually becomes a regular implant(植入物) into blind people. Humayun believes that he can go into production with the bionic eye over the next three to five years.
A closer look at the bionic eye is amazing. The patient wears a special set of eyeglasses. All the signals(信号) are passed to the implanted eye. It’s done by wireless technology. Humayun has created an invention that could change the lives of millions of people. Imagine a world in which someone would no longer fear about being blind. This could be considered a technological achievement.
1.Why is Doctor Mark Humayun well respected?
A. Because he has been working on a small video camera.
B. Because he is a professor of a famous university.
C. Because he invented a video camera for the blind.
D. Because he devoted himself to making the blind see again.
2. How about the bionic eye created by Mark Humayun now?
A. It can help the blind to see the man doing the test.
B. It has achieved an excellent effect during the use.
C. It can be implanted into the blind people’s eyes.
D. It looks much like the normal people’s eye.
3. How long will it take Doctor Humayun to produce his bionic eye?
A. For more than eight years.
B. For more than five years.
C. For three to five years.
D. For less than three years.
4.What does this passage mainly tell us?
A. The life of blind people has changed.
B. Mark Humayun becomes famous.
C. There will be no blind in the future.
D. A technological study for the blind.
