A traveler was in a large desert, planning to walk across it in one month. Twenty more days passed the journey had been going on1. "Soon I'll be able to walk out of this desert," he thought gladly.
But the desert was never friendly2travelers. In a short time, there came a strong sandstorm. He hurriedly3his head with the clothes, prostrate on the sand. After about ten minutes, the sandstorm4. He shook the clothes and stood up. At that moment, he found himself in a hopeless situation-the backpack with food and water was swept away by the5.
As we know, it seems 6 to leave the desert without food and water.7, he had a pear left. He held it in his hands tightly. "Not too bad, at least I have a pear. I8I can walk out of the desert."
Days and nights went by quickly, but the desert still looked endless. Besides, hunger, thirst and fear of9were always around him like ghosts,10, each time he was close to losing hope, he forced himself to stare at the pear that he had been11. "Not too had, at least I have a pear."
A small pear became the12for his survival(生存). Three days later,13he saw a village not far away, he laughed with excitement. He felt completely relaxed-the "pear" brought him back to14.
To keep hope is the best weapon(武器) for victory, so never tell you "15" because only if you try to search, you can always find a "pear" to pull you out of trouble.
Let's learn about nature!
Are you interested in animals and nature? Want to enjoy your summer holiday and learn something interesting and useful?
Here comes your CHANCE! Here is a THREE-DAY SUMMER PROGRAM! You can take part in many activities and meet with animals, such as giraffes, pandas tigers, and so on! More information about the program is as follows:
Age: Students aged 8-16
Groups: There are 2 programs for you to choose from. Each program needs at most 15 students.
Program cost: $230 for members; $250 for non- members(非会员).
How to do: Come to our center to get an application form(申请表) .Send your form on or before June 25. 2018.
Notes:
⒈NO FREE LUNCHES. You may either bring a lunch-box or pay for lunch in our restaurants.
⒉Both programs will start ONE DAY later if there is a warning of rainstorms.
COME AND JOIN US NOW!! DON'T MISS THE CHANCE!!
What can you make with pieces of paper? Look at Chen Yiyan's work! The 14-year-old boy in Hangzhou Foreign Language School has an amazing talent for paper-folding. He has folded a "fantasy world" with his hands.
Chen wasn't born with this talent. When he was a fourth-grader, he found his brother's paper-folding book. It got him interested in it. Following the 50 steps shown in the book, he made his first work--a paper elephant within two hours. Since then, he has read many books about paper-folding and practised folding paper in his spare time. So far, his fantasy world has many members, such as monsters and robots. He made his favorite work last year. It was a paper dragon that had almost 2,000 steps.
Chen used to fold paper himself until he met Li Changnan, an eighth-grader in his school who also loved folding paper. They set up a paper-folding club last year. To their joy, their school sponsored it. With the encouragement and the money provided, they had a paper-folding class every Wednesday afternoon. The club soon attracted a lot of students. Now it has more than 20 members. They showed their works and taught other students how to fold paper. On February 14th this year, the club also held a speech for the kids in Wenzhou Children's Library.
"It is really exciting to develop my hobby and share it with others at the same time, "said Chen, "I hope more and more people get to know paper-folding and love the art."
①holding competitions
②showing their works
③giving a speech
④reading books in the library
⑤teaching how to fold paper
⑥having paper-folding classes
On Monday, I stopped my car in front of my daughter Juliet's middle school. She jumped in the front seat, feeling down. She asked me to help her study for her science test.
"Dad I need to memorize a unit about the Reproductive Cycle of Plants. And I can hardly make it."
"You know memorizing seems like the best way to study, but in fact you can do better in tests if you work on trying to understand the material."
Juliet was open to my advice. It was Monday afternoon and we had two nights to study before the test on Wednesday. I suggested a plan. "Tomorrow night, you are going to teach the material to me. Tonight, read the unit. Prepare to teach."
Asking her to teach me was an unusual idea but I was determined to do it. Studies show teaching somebody else is a very useful way to lean, Even if you don't do the teaching, the act of preparing to teach leads to more learning than just trying your best to memorize the material.
On Tuesday afternoon, Juliet sat down with her Science book facing me said, "Okay Dad, let's study." I wanted her to teach me. But false starts happened. I couldn't be too hard on her. So instead we starred with me asking her some simple questions. She knew some but not other. When she didn't know the answers. I encouraged her to check the book.
She started checking things that didn't make sense. And she was actively seeking to test her understanding. I was happy to see it. She wasn't memorizing, she was trying to make sense of things, which was exactly what I had hoped she would do.
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Once, two lazy birds lived in a nest together. a cold winter day, a strong wind was blowing. Suddenly, there appeared a hole in their nest. The cold wind blew in through the hole and got away the warm air from the nest. They started feeling. But each of them thought that the other bird would the hole. As a result, no one did it. Soon the snow started to fall and the nest. The two lazy birds felt freezing. But no one was active to work. In the morning they were found dead in their nest.
Life is the same. Some people never get because their laziness blows out the chances. Being not lazy will enable you to live a happy and successful life. It's up to you.
"I first saw Beijing Opera in London in 1993, and it just shocked me. It was really amazing," says Ghaffar Pounazar.
The 32-year-old British gave up his work in London and came to a Beijing Opera school. Since then, Ghaffar Pourazar has worked hard on this art.
On stage, the Beijing Opera actors not only act, they also sing and dance while performing some difficult movements(动作). ① When Pourazar first got to China. He couldn't speak any Chinese, and he knew nothing about Beijing Opera. As the oldest student in the Beijing Opera school, he learned more slowly than his classmates, but he didn't give up. Now, he can perform Beijing Opera like a professional(专业人士).
But Beijing Opera is not as popular as it was before. The young Chinese now spend more time on the Internet. This makes Pourazar very sad. "I used to get really angry at what was happening to Beijing Opera and at the Chinese people. This is part of your culture. You created this amazing thing. but now you are forgetting it, throwing it away."
Pourazar has decided what to do. ② Now he is performing a Beijing Opera that is about the Monkey King in two languages, Chinese and English. The Monkey King is a hero in a Chinese story. Chinese people love him very much. In the Beijing Opera, Pourazar acts the Monkey King.
写作要点：
1）现场情况。人多拥挤，16支龙舟队竞争激烈，人们欢呼，队员们闭队合作，最终“勇气队”获胜。
2）赛后活动：我给Tony介绍端午节，下午带他参加有关端午节的其它活动，如……
3）感想：Tony……，我……
写作要求：
1）短文内容必须包括所有要点、语句通顺，条理清晰；
2）省略号处须作适当发挥(1-2句即可)；
3）100词左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
June 18th
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival.
