— I am under the weather. I think I should go to see a doctor.
— I think so. Let's go to the park to find a quiet place.
— That's great! I'm looking forward to my birthday.
— Great! I always think he can pass it.
— Thank you! I should practice more in the future.
— It's very messy. There're mountains of dirty clothes everywhere
— Because she always gives me some useful information.
— I will have a job interview in a minute. I'm afraid I can't pass it.
— _______! I hope you can find it.
— Great, but it ______ all the weather.
— I just had a fight with my mom and I felt __________ it. I shouldn't have done that.
Almost everyone has a mobile phone, but have you ever thought that cell phones might be 1 for your health? A study shows that heavy mobile phone use may cause hearing loss and people can't hear clearly.
This study shows that people who use cell phones for about an hour a day have a 2 time hearing some similar sounds, especially in their right ears. It is getting harder for 3 to tell the differences between the sounds of “s” and “f”, and “t” and “z”.
Researchers studied 100 people who used cell phones and 4 them with 50 people who did not. The study lasted for l2 months. What the researchers found was that cell phone users had more hearing 5 than those who did not use cell phones.
Our ears have many little 6 inside them. Too much noise will cause these hairs to get weak and 7 die. When these hairs die, it affects our ability to listen.
However, cell phone users don't care too much 8 this study. One man said, “I'd be more worried about people who 9 MP3 players. They put those earphones in their ears and enjoy very 10 music. I think that is more likely to cause hearing loss than a cell phone.”
Better Time for Teenagers to Keep Healthy
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Brushing teeth |
Drinking milk |
Going to bed |
Eating fruits |
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Common time |
After getting up or before sleeping |
During breakfast |
Around 23:00 |
After meal |
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Time from experts' suggestion |
3 minutes after meal |
Before sleeping |
Around 21:00 |
An hour before meal |
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Advantage |
To reduce germs（细菌） in the mouth |
To keep bones strong and help sleep well |
To be good for a deep sleep |
To keep the body strong |
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Warm tip |
Brush the tongue while brushing teeth |
Avoid drinking it when having a stomachache |
Sleep for at least 8 hours every night |
Wash carefully before eating them |
Every town in the United States has a post office. Some are very small, and you may also find them in the corner of a shop. Others are larger buildings. They are open on weekdays and on Saturday mornings. ‘From Monday to Friday, they are usually open from 8:30 am t0 16: 30 pm.
If you know how much the postage(邮费)is for your letter, you can buy stamps at any window. In some post offices, you can buy stamps from machines. Stamps are sold at different prices, from l cent to many dollars. If you are not sure how much the postage is for your letter, you may ask the man or the woman in the post office for help. He or she will give you the stamps you need. If you are sending your letter far away, you should use airmail envelopes. Remember that postage will be more expensive for a letter to be sent outside the country.
At a post office, you can also buy postcards. A postcard is cheaper than a letter. Usually the postage for a postcard is about half that of a letter. The postcards that you buy at a post office do not have pictures-And they are not to be sent outside the country. Sending letters is all easy and cheap way to keep in touch with people in many different countries.
Every morning, a woman baked bread for her and her family and an extra piece for a hungry passer-by. She would always put the extra piece of bread on the window sill.
She noticed that a hunchback(驼背)came every day and took the extra piece. Instead of saying thanks to her, he would say, “The bad you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you!"
This went on, day after day. Finally, the woman got very angry. ”He is so impolite!” she said to herself.
One day, she added some poison to the piece of bread she prepared for him! When she was about to put the piece of bread on the window sill, she stopped. “What am I doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the bread into the fire, prepared another one and put it on the window sill.
As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the bread and said those words to her.
That evening, there was a knock on the door. It was the woman's son, hungry and weak.
Looking at his mother he said, “Mom, I was too hungry to walk any further a mile away. But just then, an old hunchback was kind enough to give me a piece of bread.”
Then the woman realized the meaning of the words, “The bad you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you!”
①The hunchback picked up the piece of bread.
②The woman's son came back home alive.
③The hunchback gave the piece of bread to a hungry man.
④The woman put a piece of bread on the window sill.
Have you ever experienced this moment? You pick up a pen and start to write something down, but you can't remember what the Chinese characters look like. You are not alone. Lots of people experienced such a moment. CCTV10 started a show called Chinese Character Dictation Competition. On the show, only three out of the 10 adults correctly wrote the words bingqilin(ice cream), and no one could write out penti(sneeze).
According to a survey, about 94 percent of people said they had a bad memory when they wrote some Chinese characters. It seems that Chinese characters are in danger. As we know, the digital(数字的) age takes over people's daily life, and the need of using a pen to write is geeing less and less. Most people now write Chinese on keyboard(键盘)using pinyin. An expert said, “These days, many people would easily forget the feature of a Chinese character, such as ins structure(结构)and meaning.”
Chinese characters are one of the world's oldest written languages. It is not only a way for us to record things, but also important to pass on Chinese culture. For example, the Chinese character man(male) is made of two parts, tian(farmland田)and li(strength力). We can tell from it that in the old times, Chinese men were in charge of working on the farmland.
Now, many organizations(组织)are making efforts to call on more people to pick up pens and write Chinese characters.
The Man of Many Secrets
Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers(表演者·演艺人员) in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes－from prison cells(囚室), from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks.
Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had ability to move his toes as well as to move his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a New York club. They called themselves the Houdini brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant, but for a long time they were not successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspaperman to watch. It was the publicity(名声) that came from this that started Harry Houdini's success.
Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs(手铐) and toes trained to escape from ankle chains（脚镣）, but his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck－and a small skeleton key（万能钥匙）, which is a key that fits many locks passed quickly from her mouth to his.
Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local jail of every town he visited. In the afternoon the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? Worldwide fame, and a name remembered today.
Last year, I had a chance to be exchange student. I went to the USA. It was the (one) time for me to be there. I was (excite), because I had never gone abroad. When I arrived in America, I stayed with a host family. At first, I was nervous that I could hardly speak a word. But my host parents were very kind to me and helped me to be relaxed. Gradually, I managed (understand) them and my friends. Soon I got used to (live) in the USA. Now I can speak English (good) than before. Sometimes I still share my ideas my friends in America. I really enjoy my experience as an exchange student. It's exciting to 1ive in a country with (difference) culture. I hope that I will have more (chance) to go abroad.
内容提示：
因为雾霾天气, 学生的户外活动比以前少了;
人们不得不戴面罩(mask)出行, 道路上也发生了更多交通事故;
空气污染问题严重, 对健康有害;
每个人都应该采取措施来保护环境。例如……
注意：
短文须包括所有要点, 不必逐句翻译, 要求语句通顺、意思连贯;
第4个要点的内容须适当发挥;
短文开头已给出, 不计入总词数。
These years the haze weather appears more and more often……
