My mother is English teacher in No. 2 Middle School.
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假如你叫李华，你的同学王明总是说因为学习忙而没有时间锻炼，最近天气变化快，他生病了，请你根据下列要点给他写封建议信：
1．冬去春来，万物复苏，细菌也繁殖旺盛，抵抗力差的人容易生病。
2．锻炼能增强体质，并能使头脑清醒；锻炼一两个小时，学习效果会更好；
有了强健的体格，学习时就不容易感到疲劳，也不易被疾病侵袭；
3．锻炼跟学习同样重要，要坚持每天锻炼一小时。
注意：（1）短文须包括上述要点，应适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（2）词数：100左右。短文开头已给出（不计词数）。
Dear Wang Ming,
I am sorry to hear that you have been ill for days and hope you are better now.
Best wishes !
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
1.Things are going on well, and you should be o_________ about the life in college.
2.The project failed due to l__________ of money.
3.We can live without clothes, but food and drink are e_________.
4.David and I are c__________. We work in the same company.
5.If you don’t c__________ more on your work, you will lose the job.
6.Tom’s mother died two days p_______ to his arrival.
7.The police perform a v________ role in our society.
8.The driver of the car received serious i_________ to the legs and arms.
1.Tom: The weather report said that a hurricane would hit the city. Tom wants to find information on how to protect his family from being destroyed during the hurricane.
2.James: Before learning about a butterfly, James was asked by his biology teacher to learn more about a butterfly in the process of doing research and then write a letter to humankind.
3. Brown: Thousands of animals around the world face extinction. Many more are threatened each year. Brown focuses on the situation of endangered animals and tries to understand how all living things are connected.
4. Li Mei: Modern technology makes fishing easier. Yet overfishing has caused a lot of problems. China has taken some measures to solve the problem. Li Mei wants to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of overfishing on some threatened species and tries to find out effective solutions.
A. http: //www.net.org/marine/csb/
This site is devoted to saving the Chilean sea bass, or Patagonian toothfish, from extinction. It suggests actions people can take to protect the fish, and it offers the flash movie “Please Don’t Eat Me!”
B. http: //www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth/
This site, created by the University of Kentucky Entomology (昆虫学) Department, provides
photographs and facts about various insects we live with. You will find what you want to know about insects here.
C. http: //www.fema.gov/kids/
This visually appealing government site teaches kids how to be prepared for disasters and
prevent disaster damage. The site also tells teachers and parents what to do to help children
after a disaster. It is appropriate for all ages.
D. http: //www.nwf.org/
Find information on wildlife protection programs and wild animals through the articles, photos, quizzes, and games at this site. Learn how you can help protect wildlife which has close relation-ship to human beings.
Old-Fashioned Play-For Pay
Kids! Come to have a ball! Or 60,000 of them! There’s a new type of business franchise（特许经销权）that is appearing in shopping malls and neighborhood across America offering pay-per-use indoor playgrounds, which feature toys, games, guided fun and a workout that doesn’t break the family bank.
As public playgrounds grow increasingly worn and dirty, the for-profit centers offer clean, safe guided activity as well as a variety of challenging exercises to develop kids’ physical fitness, usually for a fee of around $ 5 an hour. “Playgrounds are dirty, not guided,” says Dick Guggenheimer, owner of the two-month-old Discovery Zone in Yonkers, N. Y., part of Kansas City-based chain, “We are indoors; we are padded; parents can feel their child is safe”.
In order to satisfy the need of two-earner families, the new franchise stays open in the evenings, long after traditional public playgrounds have grown dark and unusable. However, these new playgrounds are not meant to be day-care centers. Parents are expected to go stay and play with their kids rather than drop them off. But several also provide high-tech baby-sitting services. At some of the Discovery Zones, parents can register their children in special guided programs, then leave them and slip away for a couple of hours to enjoy a movie or dinner. If there is a problem, Mom and Dad are called.
The most fun of all, though, is getting to do what parents used to do in the days before two-earner families and two-hour commutes（两小时上下班往返）, play with their kids. That, at least, is old-fashioned, even at per-hour rates.
1.What is this article mainly talking about?
A. Children can play without parent’s care.
B. The fast development of Discovery Zone.
C. A new type of business franchise of kids.
D. The disadvantages of outdoor playgrounds.
2.According to the article, which of the following is TRUE to the new playground?
A. The cost is high for a family.
B. It doesn't allow parents to leave their kids.
C. It stays open in the evening just as traditional playgrounds.
D. It's a place where parents can play together with their kids.
3.What does the writer mean by saying "old-fashioned"?
A. The so-called new playground is out of date.
B. The new playground is actually enjoyed by parents.
C. The new playground is also enjoyed by old people.
D. The new playground offers a fashion which is popular in the past.
4.The writer’s attitude toward the new playground is_______________.
A. agreeableB. negative
C. doubtfulD. unknown
Life is difficult.
But life is no longer difficult once we truly understand and accept it. Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nation.
What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is painful. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
Yet, it is in this whole of solving problems that life has its meaning.
Problems are the serious test that tells success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working our problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct.” It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.
1.The writer uses just one short sentence in the first paragraph probably to _________.
A. make a suggestionB. persuade readers
C. make readers laughD. get readers’ attention
2.According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to __________ .
A. encourage them to learn
B. make them suffer
C. make their life easier
D. help them understand life is difficult
3.“Those things that hurt, instruct.” from Benjamin Franklin suggests that ________ .
A. we do not learn from experience
B. we do not learn when we are in pain
C. pain teaches us important lessons
D. pain cannot be forgotten
4.From the passage, it can be inferred that __________.
A. not everybody has the same problems
B. we become stronger by facing and solving the problems in life
C. life is difficult because our problems bring us pain
D. people like to complain about their problems
