假如你是李明，你的美国笔友Peter在来信中询问你和你的同学们在新年里都希望在哪些方面有所提升?为此.你在你们班做了一个调查，调查结果如下。请给Peter回信,简要介绍调查结果，并谈谈你自己的提升计划(至少两个计划)以及你将如何落实,让新的一年过得有意义。
要求:
1.作文要点齐全，书写工整，逻辑严密.句意通顺:
2.注意时态;
3.字数:80-100词;
4.文中不得出现自己的真实姓名及校名。
"Fall" and"Autumn"
What season is it in October? If you ask people from the UK, they will tell you it's "autumn". But if you go to the US, you will find that people use“autumn" or“fall".
According to Dictionary .com, both words have been around for a long time, but neither of them was the first to describe this season. During this season, crops (庄稼) would become ripe (成熟) and farmers would have a big harvest. So in Old English, this season was simply called "harvest" .
Then, in the 1600s, more people left their farms and moved to cities. With fewer people farming, the word "harvest" became less useful. English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people started calling it“the fall of the leaf", or“fall" for short.
But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word "autompne" and the Latin "autumnus" came to England. "Fall" as the word for this season disappeared slowly.
At the same time, people in the UK were making their first trips to North America. They brought both the words“fall" and“autumn" with them. That's why today's Americans have two names for one season.
Title: “Fall” and “Autumn” | |||
The names of the season in October | People in the UK call it “autumn”. | ||
People in the US call it1. “autumn”2. “fall”.
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3.of the names for this season | In the UK
| In Old English | It got the name "harvest" because it was time for farmers to 4.. |
In the 1600s | "The fall of the leaf" or “fall”5."harvest". | ||
At the end of the 1600s | "Autumn" appeared in England. It 6. _French and Latin. | ||
In the US
| At the end of the 1600s
| People in the UK started to travel to North America and brought these two words there. |
What will we be able to do in 10, 20 or 30 years' time? What will the life be like in the future? 1.
Genetic engineering (基因工程) may help us make the perfect humans. Babies may grow up to play basketball like Yi Jianlian or look nice like Zhang Ziyi. 2. Maybe people will be able to meet and talk with their dead family members.
Over the next 20 to 50 years, it will become harder to tell the difference between humans and machines. Perhaps we will be able to make copies of ourselves, so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead. 3.
Nanobots(纳米机器人) will be important.4. For example, we will swallow (吞下) a nanobot and it will travel through our body, taking a video of what's happening there. The video will help the doctor save us.
5. They may be able to think better than us. We may be more and more interested in computers. We may spend all our time in front of computers. Maybe we will forget our real needs. Maybe we will become super couch potatoes weighing 250kg!
A. Robots can help us feel better
B. We will use them when we are ill
C. Will it be much better than it is now?
D. In the future, computers may have their feelings.
E. Also, we may be able to bring the dead back to life.
F. People may be able to find ways of putting the life of a person into a new body.
Can hippos swim?
Hippos like to spend most of their time in the water. But they can't swim!
They just walk in water. Hippos enjoy staying in cool water. They go up and
down in the water.
Can Koalas eat poison?
Koalas only eat a special kind of leaves. Each Koala eats about 1kg of these leaves a day. These leaves are poisonous(有毒的)。But they can' t kill koalas because koalas have special bodies. They can keep koalas from the poison in the leaves.
Are clouds really light?
Most clouds might look light. But they are heavier than you think. A cloud can be about 500000 kg. That' s as heavy as 100 elephants. Clouds look big but are made up of many small water drops (水滴). Each water drop is so small that it can fly high. This is how clouds stay in the sky.
Are left-handers stmarter?
Left-handers and right-handers usually use different sides of their brains(大脑). Right- handers use the left side more often, but left-handers use both sides. We use the left side of our brain to work out problems and the right side to create. Left- handers are good at creative things such as music, art and science. But it's not all-good news for them. They often forget names and places.
Do children with older brothers spend more time learning language?
Having an older brother comes with many good points. However, a group of
scientists found that children with older brothers spend more time in language learning than those children with older sisters. Scientists think this is because older brothers talk more to their parents. Older sisters talk with their younger sisters and brothers more.
1.What are these passages about?
A.Human and nature. B.Animals and weather. C.Weather and human.
2.Hippos can____ in the water.
A.swim B.go up and down C.enjoy keeping warm
3.According to the passages above, which question can you answer?
A.Why are the clouds heavy?
B.Why can koalas eat poisonous leaves?
C.Why does it take children with older brothers more time to learn language?
4.What may left-handers not be good at?
A.Music, art and science. B.Working out problems.
C.Remembering names and places.
5.In which magazine below can we read these passages?
A.World Trip B.Science Today C.Animal World
In China, there are many great people. They do a lot for our country and people. These days, Book Store has some new books about their stories. Come and see for yourself!
| Qian Xuesen ●Father of China's missile program; King of rockets ●1911-2009 ●Birthplace: Shanghai ●He led China’s nuclear and space programs. Price:￥35 |
| Yuan Longping ●Father of hybrid rice ●1931-now ●Birthplace: Beijing ●He develops high-yield hybrid rice and greatly improves China's rice production. Price:￥38 |
| Tu Youyou ●China' s first Nobel Prize winner in natural science ●1930-now ●Birthplace: Ningbo ●She studies traditional Chinese medicine and artemisinin which can treat malaria(疟疾). Price:￥42 |
| Lang Ping ●The most important player of Chinese women's volleyball ●1960- now ●Birthplace: Tianjin ●She led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win five world titles in a row, making it the only team in history to do so. Price:￥40 |
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1.Of the four great people, Qian Xuesen is from _________.
A.Shanghai B.Beijing C.Ningbo
2.Alice likes Yuan Longping and Tu Youyou. She will pay_________for the two books.
A.￥64 B.￥72 C.￥80
3.Tu Youyou, China's first woman to win Nobel Prize, always studies ___________.
A.hybrid rice B.nuclear and space C.traditional Chinese medicine
4.As Yao Ming is talented in basketball, Lang Ping is really good at ________.
A.baseball B.volleyball C.football
5.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.There are two great men and two great women above.
B.Chinese women’s volleyball team won five world titles in a row.
C.All of the four people are over sixty-five years old.
阅读下面短文,根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确填(A),错误填(B)。
Dear Mike, These days, I find that I have a growing interest in listening to music. Taylor Swift is my favorite singer. But I' m spending so much time listening to music that I'm having problems with my schoolwork. I have a lot of schoolwork to do these days. What can I do about this problem? Wu Yu |
Dear Wu Yu, It’s nice to hear that you’re spending much time listening to music. I also like to listen to music often, and I even play it myself. I think it's a fine hobby. But how much time do you need to spend listening to music? It’s hard to say. If listening to music is stopping you from finishing your work, then maybe you should listen a little less. Every hobby must be enjoyed in moderation (适度). There is such a thing as“too much of a good thing” . Here's an idea: why not listen to some other kinds of music when you study? It's OK that you can do both at the same time. The key is to choose music that isn’t too distracting (使人分心的)。There are many kinds of quiet music you can enjoy. If you choose it, I think it' s all right to listen to music when studying. Mike |
1.Wu Yu doesn't have enough time for her schoolwork because of listening to music too much.
2.Listening to music isn't Mike's hobby.
3.Wu Yu doesn't need to care when a hobby stops her from studying.
4.Mike advises that Wu Yu can listen to some quiet music when studying.
5.Mike shares his ideas about how to start a new hobby in this article.
