根据下列提示写一篇120词左右的文章，介绍美国政治活动家马丁·路德·金的生平。
1929年出生。
1951年就读于波士顿大学，认识了Scott，并相爱，第二年结婚。
1954年大学毕业离开波士顿，成为牧师，开始领导黑人民权运动，经常演讲。
1963年成千上万的黑人在华盛顿聆听了他著名的演讲《我有一个梦想》。
1964年获得诺贝尔和平奖。
1968年被杀害。
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Dear Jim,
I'd like to invite you for dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. I can imagine how surprising you are! In fact, I am there visiting my uncle, who happened to be working in the city at present.
The Chinese restaurant naming New Panda Buffet provides genuine Chinese food, where many diners have given 5-star reviews. It is located at 5120 Rodeo Rd,Los Angeles. Could you come at 6 p.m. on Friday?
By the way, I will present you with a go set then. I really appreciate that you have done to help me with my English during the past two years. But you, I would not have made such a great progress in English.
Looking forward to you early reply!
Yours’
Li Hua
1.A balanced diet plays a very important part, since it is b_________ to one’s health.
2.After the meeting, he r__________ himself to the fact that he was fired.
3.We aren’t supposed to look down on people with d________, like the blind, the deaf etc.
4.Television programs t_________ by satellite expose us to many different cultures.
5.The exploration spacecraft l__________ in 2003 sent back thousands of live pictures of Mars.
6.His __________（志向） is to become a computer programmer after graduation.
7.Many infectious diseases have been ____________（根除） up to now
8.Treated with a vaccine, you can’t be ___________（感染） with bird flu.
9.The UN is an international organization that helps countries resolve ________ （争端）peacefully.
10.They finally came to a decision that has met with general ___________（赞成）.
Back to School
I had always longed to get a degree, but raising a family had come first. Now with my last_________in middle school, I thought, why not try to________something while I still had the opportunity. When I told my husband Bob my idea, a broad smile lit up his face. “If that’s what you ________, we’ll make it work.”
When we asked the kids for advice, they had mixed______.Our daughter, already in college, thought it a great idea while John, in high school, was _______ that we might be in college at the same time. James, our youngest, wanted to know who would take him to football practice. I_______that things would be a little different, _______ if everyone contributed, it wouldn’t be difficult.
The next day we drove to the community college and after a careful research, I chose to_______in occupational therapy (康复理疗) . Days passed in excitement, enrolling in classes, shopping for__________ and attending orientation(入学指导). I felt like a kid again, but as the first day of classes drew near, I became__________ . I was simply too old. People would laugh at me. Finally, with encouragement from my family and friends, I stuck with my _______.
As I entered my classroom that first morning, I chose a seat in the back, hoping to _______attention. For the rest of that day, I did what I saw the other students do, and gradually, my self-consciousness faded. I found the classes and assignments______, and I left that day feeling I might survive. By the end of the first week, I had made a few friends.
Studying and keeping up with my duties at home was___________No sooner had I begun to study than it was time to drive the kids to their activities. Math and science were________my strong subjects, so I devoted more time to those. When the first semester_________, I had a 4.0 GPA and was placed on the Honor Roll.
By the second year, Bob and the kids were all doing their_________ , and I had learned how to comfortably________my school and home life. My hard work paid off. I was awarded a scholarship and got the bachelor’s degree.
As I drove away on the last day of school, I thought about what a difference returning to_________had made in my life. I looked much younger and I had more _________and enthusiasm for life. I even became a therapist. It’s never too late to try again.
1.A. student B. friend C. classmate D. child
2.A. achieve B. create C. remember D. improve
3.A. want B. offer C. take D. accept
4.A. choices B. impressions C. requests D. reactions
5.A. happy B. grateful C. horrified D. relieved
6.A. complained B. explained C. noticed D. declared
7.A. or B. so C. but D. for
8.A. fill B. major C. lead D. join
9.A. instruments B. clothes C. supplies D. souvenirs
10.A. anxious B. confident C. determined D. confused
11.A. opinion B. promise C. project D. decision
12.A. pay B. draw C. avoid D. receive
13.A. annoying B. interesting C. demanding D. depressing
14.A. challenging B. different C. rewarding D. simple
15.A. always B. never C. ever D. still
16.A. ended B. started C. changed D. returned
17.A. dishes B. deeds C. share D. homework
18.A. value B. save C. continue D. balance
19.A. family B. society C. hospital D. school
20.A. time B. money C. energy D. chance
Yesterday night, over a dinner with my elder brother’s family, a topic of happiness came up. My wife, Marla, a psychologist, was sharing Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of “flow” with us. Marla explained that according to the research on flow, people are happiest when they are absorbed in a task that is just challenging enough for them to experience a sense of mastery(熟练).
A few moments later my brother, Yuri, offered the following opinion: “The first and only, necessary and sufficient factor for happiness is to stop associating happiness with pleasure. The two — happiness and pleasure — have nothing to do with each other.” This morning, with my cup of coffee, I searched through a pile of books on my bedside table and—at the bottom—found a book by Bertrand Russell, I started reading but didn’t finish. In it, I found the following thought:
“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life, and when by means of great wealth homo sapiens can gratify all his whims (突发奇想) without effort, the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness.”
The conversation came full circle: people are happiest when they are in a state of flow (Csikszentmihalyi’s language )…which is the effortful devotion in a moment…which has nothing to do with pleasure.
Indeed, as Yuri insisted : happiness–as–pleasure is a myth; the association between happiness and pleasure is nothing but a semantic(语义的) habit; psychologically, the two—happiness and pleasure—are arguably different; and breaking up this association between pleasure and happiness might, in fact, be a powerfully first step in pursuit of happiness.
As I look back on that exchange, I recall that there was an effort, a struggle to find a common understanding about this seemingly difficult idea—a struggle that made me happy.
1.The author wrote this text mainly to ________.
A. look back on the happy night
B. advise readers to read Bertrand Russell
C. tell readers how to be happiest
D. show different opinions on family gathering
2.According to Marla, people feel happiest when they ________.
A. get what they want without effort
B. master the happiness around them
C. involve themselves in a challenging task
D. experience things that can bring pleasure
3.What writing style is used by the author to explain happiness?
A. Giving examples. B. Using quotes.
C. Making comparisons. D. Offering arguments.
4.The best title of the text may probably be ________.
A. The struggle for life B. Happiness as pleasure
C. A topic over the dinner D. The effort for happiness
A machine that takes sweat-laden (浸满汗水的) clothes and turns the sweat into drinking water is in use in Sweden. The machine makes the clothes turn round quickly, heats them to remove the sweat, and then passes the steam through a kind of special material to make purified water.
Since it has been brought into use, its creators say more than 1000 people have drunk others’ “sweat” in Gothenburg. They add the liquid is cleaner than local tap water.
The device was built for the United Nations’ child-focused charity UNICEF to promote a campaign highlighting the fact that 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water.
The machine was designed and built by the engineer Andreas Hammar, known locally for his appearances on TV tech show “Mekatronik”. He said the key part of the sweat machine was a new water purification part developed by a company named HVR.
“It uses a technique called membrane distillation (膜蒸馏),” he told the BBC. “We use a special kind of material that only lets steam through but keeps bacteria, salts, clothing fibers and other things out. They have something similar to the International Space Station, but our machine is cheaper to build. The amount of water it produces depends on how sweaty the person is, but one person’s T-shirt typically produces 10ml, about a mouthful.”
The device has been put on show at the Gothia Cup-the world’s largest international youth football tournament. Mattias Ronge, chief executive of Stockholm-based advertising agency Deportivo, said the machine had helped raise awareness for UNICEF, but in reality had its limitations.
“People haven’t produced as much sweat as we hoped – right now the weather in Gothenburg is lousy,” Mattias Ronge said. “So we’ve equipped the machine with exercise bikes and volunteers are cycling like crazy. Even so, the demand for sweat is greater than the supply. And the machine will never be produced in large numbers, since there are better solutions out there such as water purifying pills.”
1.Which of the following is the disadvantage of the sweat machine?
A. The amount of water the machine produces is rather limited.
B. It takes too long for the machine to produce water.
C. It costs a large amount of money to build the machine.
D. The water processed by the machine is not clean enough.
2.UNICEF is mentioned in the text to ________.
A. show how the sweat machine works
B. show the importance of the United Nations
C. explain why the sweat machine was invented
D. tell us who invented the sweat machine
3.What did Mattias Ronge think of the sweat machine?
A. It could only be used in summer.
B. It was not worth popularizing.
C. It did not work at all.
D. The water it produced tasted sweet.
4.The text is written mainly to tell us that ______________.
A. 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water
B. a machine which turns sweat into drinking water is invented
C. a better solution to purifying dirty water is discovered
D. the pill which turns dirty water into clean water is produced
