My mother is English teacher in No. 2 Middle School.
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假定你是星光中学的高中毕业生李华，母校将为高一新生举办主题为“What to learn in senior high school?”的英语沙龙活动，特邀请你结合自身经历谈谈自己的体会。请根据以下提纲准备一份英语发言稿。
1．学会学习：方法、习惯等；
2．学会做人：真诚、友善等；
3．其他方面：考生自拟。
注意：1．词数120左右；
2．发言稿开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数。
Good morning，everyone! It is my honor to be here to share with you my opinions on what to learn in senior high school．
Thank you.
Li hua
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Yesterday was my mother birthday．My father and I planned to give him a surprise．In the morning，like usual，my father and mother went to work but I went to school at eight o’clock．My mother seemed to have forgotten her birthday．At four o’clock in the afternoon my father bought a bunch of flowers as well a lot of good food my mother likes to eat. I bought my mother large and beautiful birthday cake．When my mother got home，she was greatly surprised by that she saw. All that we had done made her very happily．After supper，I asked my mother to sit down and watched TV．My father began to clean the floor and I set out to doing the washing-up.
Jonny: Hey! I’m just practicing Tai Chi(太极. Would you like to join me?
Peter: I know nothing about it. Is it difficult?
Jonny: It seems easy, but you need a great deal of practice. You just follow me just like this.
Peter：OK-Don’t laugh 1. me．I may look funny．
Jonny：Bend your knees slightly and reach out your arms like tree branches，naturally and 2. (soft)．Try to keep your body straight．Move slowly，then be sure to keep your balance and Don’t let your body shake．
Peter：I cannot control my body well．My legs become 3. (pain)．
Jonny：Keep 4. (hold) your position for a while．It helps develop your strength and flexibility．Raise your leg and let 5. stay in the air for seconds．
Peter：I feel my legs shaking．I cannot do this any longer．
Jonny：Be patient! Tai Chi 6. (call)“shadow boxing”in English．It asks you to act like water：to be flexible as well 7. strong．In real competition，a Tai Chi master borrows
the strength of the competitor and uses this energy to fight back．The 8. (hard) you try to beat him，the more likely you will get hit．He controls you!
Peter：Unbelievable!Oh…， 9. you don’t mind，I'll stop and take a deep 10. ．
People in communities have slowly been pushed apart over the years，mostly because people simply aren’t taking the time to say a simple “hello”．After considering this phenomenon，I decided I was going to the way I was doing things．
My came one morning when I was in the community library . I passed by a girt who her books out of her locker(夹子）．Thinking like most that someone else would help her pick them up，I continued my way．However，when I had to because I stupidly forgot my book，I noticed she had just finished packing them up by herself．No one had stopped to her．
“OK，”I thought to myself，“this is where I should have changed．”
My best opportunity came a few days later when I saw a man by himself waiting for the library to open, so I sat down next to him and began a ．It was difficult to get started，and even when I had to say goodbye，almost every from my new friend had a tone(语气)of doubt in it．And who could blame him?
People aren’t used to making an chat with a stranger．But a change，no matter how it is needed，doesn’t just happen．It takes people like us to make it possible．I you to take a small step out of your comfort zone and try to make someone’s day a little brighter. Together，we can really make society come as a whole．
1.A．change B．explain C．1earn D．show
2.A．trouble B．doubt C．wish D．opportunity
3.A．took B．dropped C．got D．pulled
4.A．go back B．stand by C．come out D．turn up
5.A．pleaseB．greet C．help D．praise
6.A．sitting B．walking C．riding D．running
7.A．discussion B．lesson C．report D．conversation
8.A．joke B．cry C．response D．story
9.A．unchangeable B．Unprepared C．unforgettable D．unfinished
10.A．desperately B．frequently C．simply D．widely
11.A．allow B．warn C．order D．advise
12.A．1ater B．straighter C．closer D．Slower
From my second grade on，there was one event I feared every year：the piano recital(独奏会)．A recital____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers．Each year I___ ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”．And each year he’d shake his head，muttering(嘀咕) about building self-confidence and working towards a ．
So it was with really great that I stood in church one recent Sunday，video camera in hand，and my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt rising to play the piano in his very first recital．
My father had longed to play music since childhood，but his family was poor and couldn’t lessons．He could have gone on regretting it， too many of us do．But though he was rooted in his past，he wasn’t there．When he retired three years ago，he his church music director to take him as a student．
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard，he stared down at his fingers．
Has he forgotten the ? I worried，remembering those split seconds ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would ．But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the fingers that once baited(装饵于)my fishing lines．And I he had been doing what music teachers always stress： the music and pretend the others aren’t there．
“I'm of him for starting something new at his age，”I said to my son Jeff．
“Yeah，and doing it so ，”Jeff added．
With his first recital，my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago．
1.A．reflected B．explained C．meant D．proved
2.A．would B．could C．might D．should
3.A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something
4.A．goal B．stage C．journey D．chance
5.A．trouble B．satisfaction C．strength D．disappointment
6.A．kept B．sent C．watched D．felt
7.A．through B．from C．against D．before
8.A．miss B．afford C．select D．understand
9.A．as B．once C．if D．while
10.A．educated B．protected C．stuck D. spoiled
11.A．allowed B．invited C．inspired D．persuaded
12.A．roughly B．simply C．merrily D．curiously
13.A．words B．videos C．notes D．lessons
14.A．decades B．weeks C．hours D．moments
15.A．play B．freeze C．click D．adjust
16.A．same B．warm C．different D．dirty
17.A．predicted B．realized C．imagined D．insisted
18.A．pass over B．turn up C．concentrate on D．bring in
19.A．ashamed B．aware C．tired D．proud
20.A．casually B．anxiously C．nicely D．frequently
