What is the probable relationship between the speakers？
A. Colleagues.
B. Brother and sister.
C. Teacher and student.
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What does John find difficult in learning German？
A. Pronunciation. B. Vocabulary. C. Grammar.
你受学生会委托为校宣传栏“英语天地”写一则通知，请大家观看一部英语短片Growing Together，内容包括：
(1)短片内容：学校的发展；
(2)放映时间、地点；
(3)欢迎对短片提出意见。
注意：
(1)词数100左右；
(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
When I was little, Friday’s night was our family game night. After supper, we would play card games of all sort in the sitting room. As the kid, I loved to watch cartoons, but no matter how many times I asked to watching them, my parents would not to let me. They would say to us that playing card games would help my brain. Still I unwilling to play the games for them sometimes. I didn’t realize how right my parents are until I entered high school. The games my parents taught me where I was a child turned out to be very useful later in my life.
Diets have changed in China — and so too has its top crop. Since 2011,the country 1.（grow）more corn than rice. Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over 2. past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.
A taste for meat is 3. (actual) behind the change: An important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle. Another reason for corn's rise: The government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice 4. (improve) water quality. Corn uses less water 5. rice and creates less fertilizer(化肥) runoff. This switch has decreased 6. (pollute) in the country's major lakes and reservoirs and made drinking water safer for people.
According to the World Bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total 7. (globe)fertilizer consumption. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government 8. (start) a soil-testing program 9. gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers - and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons. That prevented the emission(排放) of 51.8 million tons of carbon dioxide. China's approach to protecting its environment while 10. (feed) its citizens "offers useful lessons for agriculture and food policymakers worldwide." says the bank's Juergen Voegele.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Two weeks earlier , my son, Ben, had got in touch. He’d moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I’d ______ seen him . So imagine my ______ when he emailed me saying he wanted to come to visit me.
I was ______ ! I arrived early at Byron Bay where we were supposed to ______ . The bay was ______ in sunshine, and there was a group of kayakers around 150m off the shore. Getting a little ______ .I realized one kayak（皮划艇）was in ______ . “Something’s not ______ !” I took off my T-shirt and ______ into the water. I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying across the middle. He was ______ violently. Linking arms with one of the instructors . I helped ______ the young man out of the water. He was unconscious and as I looked at his face, something ______ to me. Those brown eyes were very ______ . “What’s his name ?” I asked the instructor. “Ben,” he replied, and immediately I ______ . That stranger was my son!
The instructors called for an ambulance.__ ,after a brief stay in hospital, Ben was well enough to be allowed to __ and later the family met up for dinner. We chatted about everything and then Ben __ to me. “I just want to say thank you,” he said, “You __ my life !”
I still can’t believe what a __ it was. I’m just so glad I was there __ to help my son.
1.A. also B. often C. even D. last
2.A. delight B. relief C. anger D. worry
3.A. scared B. shocked C. thrilled D. ashamed
4.A. talk B. stay C. meet D. settle
5.A. bathed B. clean C. deep D. formed
6.A. faster B. closer C. heavier D. wiser
7.A. trouble B. advance C. question D. battle
8.A. real B. right C. fair D. fit
9.A. stared B. sank C. dived D. fell
10.A. arguing B. fighting C. shouting D. shaking
11.A. lead B. persuade C. carry D. keep
12.A. happened B. occurred C. applied D. appealed
13.A. sharp B. pleasant C. attractive D. familiar
14.A. agreed B. hesitated C. doubted D. knew
15.A. Fortunately B. Frankly C. Sadly D. Suddenly
16.A. return B. relax C. speak D. leave
17.A. joked B. turned C. listened D. pointed
18.A. created B. honored C. saved D. guided
19.A. coincidence B. change C. pity D. pain
20.A. on board B. in time C. for sure D. on purpose
