Winter is a really fun time of the year—it's great to have snowball fights and build snowmen, 1. When it's cold outside and you're not prepared, you can feel uncomfortable. Lucky for you, learning how to stay safe is not difficult.
●2. Wearing thick clothes is the best way to stay warm in the cold. Depending on where you live and how cold it is, some kids may need more clothes, some less.
●Take that hat. You maybe wear a large overcoat and ready to go, but are you forgetting something? 3. You'll stay much warmer with a hat than without one—tons of body heat escapes right from your head.
●Drink up. Sounds like advice for hot weather, not cold weather, right? 4. When you're outside in the cold and breathing hard, your body loses a lot of water through your breath. And the best way to get that water back is to drink up!
●Take it easy. Sometimes if you're out having fun, it's easy to forget to pay attention to your body. But if your body temperature drops even 4 or 5 degrees while you're out
side, it can make you feel terrible. 5. And if you ever feel weak, those are signs that you have to take it easy indoors for a while.
A.Love those clothes.
B.Have a snowball fight.
C. Pull a 
hat onto your head.
D. That's why you need to be careful with your body s signals.
E. Well, the truth is that it's good advice for both kinds of weather.
F. but you have to know how to be safe while you're out having fun.
G. You can stay outside as long as possible to fully enjoy your snow days.
Traffic Light Reading is one of students’ favorites! And it’s so simple. Here’s what to do: Take three pens in different colors, most suitably red, orange and green. But it’s not too important as long as teachers and students are both clear on the colour code they’re going to use.
Students read a text, not worrying too much about how much they understand. Teachers can ask them to re-read when students are paying attention to vocabulary. Start by underlining the words that they understand completely (including names, numbers etc) in green.
Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar, they maybe know them but aren
’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange.
Finally, students read the text a third time underlining the words they clearly don’t understand in red. Sometimes teachers might want to set students a limit for how many red words they underline, telling them only to underline the words that they believe are seriously blocking their understanding of the text as a whole. Generally, however, students are pleasantly surprised by how few words are red and how many are green. Seeing their ability laid out in a visual way really helps to increase confidence.
Once the whole text is underlined, teachers can give students a limit of 5, 10 or 15 words, depending on the length of the text, and tell them they’re only allowed to look these words up in a dictionary. This helps them to recognize words that are actually getting in the way of their understanding of the text and words that they don’t know but actually don’t impact their whole understanding of
the text.
This is a useful activity that can be done with a printed text, in a Google Doc, on RealtimeBoard, or set as a homew
ork task for some independent study.
1.What do we know about Traffic Light Reading?
A. It’s easy. B. It’s expensive.
C. It’s difficult D. It’s useless.
2.If a student uses orange to underline a word, it means that he .
A. doesn’t know it at al
l B. has actually understood it
C. isn’t certain about its meaning D. has never met with it at all
3.What does the underlined word “impact” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. increase. B. form.
C. affect D. use.
4.In the author’s opinion, Traffic Light Reading .
A. needs more eyes than mind
B. trains students’ ability to learn
C. makes the students study long hours
D. encourages the students to speak bravely
An Indian movie about two sisters has become a huge hit in China. The Hindi language film, called Dangal, has earned almost $ 170 million in China since its release there on May 5.
Much has been written about why Dangal has enjoyed such big success in China. Some people say one reason is that the film’s star and producer, Aamir Khan. He is famous in India’s Bollywood film industry. Two of his earlier films were also big hits in China.
Khan’s popularity was clear after he got more than 600,000 followers on the Chinese social media service Sina Weibo within two months of joining. But he is not the only reason that the film strongly connects with audience across China. Media has pointed out how it shows similarities between parental systems in China and India.
Dangal is based on the true story of a man who enjoyed the sport of wrestling (摔跤). He competed as a wrestler, but never could achieve his lifelong dream: winning a gold medal. As a father, he wanted his son to win the medal. But his wife only gives birth to daughters. So he finally decides to train them to be world-class wrestlers.
The movie is more serious than most Bollywood productions, which tell happy love stories and include colorful music and dance performances.
Edward Chan is a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He says the strict way of parenting in the film is something people in China can easily relate to. “I think the father role described by the movie in India is quite similar to the culture, especially the traditional culture in China.”
The Chinese government-supported Global Times newspaper pointed that movie critics (评论家) in China did not like Dangal. Most of them agree with the fact that the father in the film was forceful in pushing his daughters to become wrestlers. But the film Dangal is really aimed to educate children to work for their dreams.
1.What’s the main reason for the father teaching his daughters to wrestle?
A. He loved them very much.
B. He wanted to punish them.
C. Few women took this sport.
D. He wanted them to realize his goal.
2.What do most Chinese movie critics agree?
A. The truth of the whole story was doubtful.
B. Indian films often have a bad influence on Chinese parents.
C. The father’s behaviour in the film Dan gal was very cruel.
D. The film Dangal was against the Indian traditional culture.
3.What can we learn from the text?
A. Most films from Bollywood arc seriou
s.
B. Daughters perform worse in sport than sons.
C. Indian parents roles are similar to those in China in some way.
D. The films produced by Aamir Khan is not popular with Chinese.
4.What does the author think of Dangal?
A. It’s unsuccessful. B. It’s educational.
C. It’s unknown. D. It’s relaxing.
Whatever life threw at us each year, our family had one tradition at Christmas: our dog Pepper opened our presents for us.
Last year, everyone made it home for a Christmas get-together. However, it couldn’t feel perfect because Pepper’s health was becoming worse. Her life had already been longer than we expected—she was fourteen and yet her mind was still sharp. Her love for life made us feel better. But her body could not keep up with her mind.
Probably it was Pepper’s last Christmas, so we decided to make sure she would enjoy it. On Christmas Eve, we each prepared presents for her.
Soon, Pepper selected her first Christmas gift. She turned the present, just as she was a young dog once more. She pulled the paper off the dog treat before she chewed (咀嚼) it slowly. Our family was so happy.
Pepper saw the remaining three presents, and then turned to mom as if asking, “May I open another?”
“Go ahead, girl!” Mom encouraged.
For the next few minutes, Pepper opened each of her Christmas presents. While she did, she reminded us of the joy of being together. Our family felt as a whole-not because we were in the same room or city, but because our love brought us together.
Pepper passed away after Christmas. Her peaceful passing made us tearful. Her passing was also a celebration of life, because she gave my family so much love and 
laughter.
I still treasure Pepper’s final Christmas gift. She taught me that no matter where we each spend the holidays, the smallest act of sincere giving can unite our family through our love. For me, that knowledge is the longest-lasting gift of all.
1.Why did the author think the Christmas wasn’t perfect last year?
A. Pepper was in poor health.
B. Pepper died on Christmas Eve.
C. The family members didn’t get together.
D. Peper’s life wasn’t longer than we expected.
2.How many Christmas gifts did Pepper get last year?
A. One. B. Three.
C. Two. D. Four.
3.What does the underlined phrase “the longest-lasting gift” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. The life lesson the author learned from Pepper.
B. The Christmas present for the dog.
C. The holiday spent with family.
D. The friendship with the dog.
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. The Power of Love
B. The Importance of Helping Others
C. Celebrating Christmas
D. Enjoying the Happiness of Making Friends
假定你是李华，正在教你的英国朋友Leslie学习汉语。请你写封邮件告知下次上课的计划。内容包括:
(1) 时间和地点;
(2) 内容: 学习唐诗;
(3) 课前准备: 简要了解唐朝的历史。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文，文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/\),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除: 把多余的词用斜线(\) 划掉。
修改: 在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词:
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
This afternoon I went to see my grandfather by a bus. It was very crowded and I had to stand. Besides me there was a woman held a little boy in her arms. In front of her, a young man occupies two seats, pretending to be sleep. I heard the little boy curious asking his mother, “What’s wrong with the uncle?” I had thought that perhaps the woman would blame the man. Beyond her expectations, the woman answered with a smile, “Be quiet. This uncle must very tired because of hard work.” The young man must have heard the word. His face turned red and offered one seat for the woman at once.
