It's Christmas at Clara's home. Many guests arrive to celebrate with the family. Clara's godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, makes toys. He gives Clara a very special gift of a 1 . Her brother, Fritz, is 2 . He takes the nutcracker away and it gets broken! After all the guests leave and the children go to bed, Clara 3 up at night and goes downstairs to get her nutcracker under the tree. She 4 asleep there. She dreams that all her toys come to life and are fighting against the bad Mouse King. The Nutcracker flies to 5 young Clara, but is struck down. Clara saves her Nutcracker by 6 her shoe at the Mouse King.
With the Mouse King out of the way, Clara runs to the Nutcracker. When she kisses him, he turns into a prince! Then she and her prince enjoy a 7 trip along which they see dancing snowflakes and are welcomed by sweets.
On Christmas morning, Clara wakes under the 8 holding her nutcracker. This story of Nutcracker is very popular,9 with kids. It was made into a ballet. Russian 10Tchaikovsky composed his beautiful music and that is one of the reasons why people love to watch it. See it at the theatre and yo'll find the story is also told by beautiful dances, rather than just words.
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Here is a mark table(分数表)about the students' English competition. Find some useful information to the following questions.
Items |
Group One |
Group Two |
Group Three |
Group Four |
1.Answer correctly |
67 |
71 |
76 |
78 |
2. Answer quickly |
76 |
81 |
79 |
62 |
3.Answer humorously |
69 |
68 |
81 |
77 |
4. Speak freely |
81 |
83 |
84 |
85 |
5. Speak clearly |
88 |
86 |
83 |
86 |
6. Speak loudly |
90 |
93 |
91 |
91 |
7. Have a good manner |
79 |
74 |
75 |
79 |
8. Cooperate (合作)well |
82 |
63 |
88 |
84 |
Average(平均分) |
79 |
77 |
82 |
80 |
Clothes are important and necessary to us, but do you know how to choose suitable clothes in a correct way? Here are some ideas for you.
When you go shopping and want to buy some clothes, you should think about which kind of clothes really need and decide how much money you can spend on them. Then look at the labels that are inside the new clothes. They tell you how to take care of the clothes. The label for a shin may tell you to wash it in warm water. A sweater label may tell you to wash it in cold water. The label on a coat may say “dry clean only” and cleaning in water may ruin(损坏) this coat. If you do as the directions say on the label, you can keep your clothes looking their best.
Many clothes today must be dry-cleaned. Dry cleaning is expensive. When buying new clothes, you had better check if they need to be dry-cleaned. You can save money if you buy clothes that can be washed or that are well made. Well-made clothes last longer. They look good even after they have been washed many times.
Clothes that cost more money don't always mean they are better made. They may not fit you, either on the other hand, less expensive clothes may sometimes look better and fit you well.
Be honest. That's all you have to do on Honesty Day. It would be great if we were all honest every day of the year. It's good that there is a day to encourage honesty. M. Hirsh Goldberg started Honesty Day. He chose the last day of April because the first day is April Fool's Day, which celebrates lies. On Honesty Day, anyone may ask you any question and you should give a true and honest answer. That means that you have knowledge of Honesty Day.
M. Hirsh Goldberg wrote a book on telling lies. He said in his book mat almost all person lie about 200 times a day. In our daily life, a typical(典型的) life for a man is "I did not drink that much” and for a woman is "Nothing is wrong I'm fine.” It is found that nurses are the most honest people, while sales people and politicians(政客) are the biggest liars.
Every Honesty Day, M. Hirsh Goldberg hands out prizes to honest people.
Sandy has a big family, but she doesn't think her family (live) was happy. She and her brother and sister often fight with each other for many reasons.
Max is Sandy's classmate and neighbor. He also has a very big family with brothers and their parents. Sandy noticed that Max never fights with his brothers. They always have big smiles their faces.
Sandy thought that was (stranger). One day she asked Max they get on well with each other. Max smiled and asked Sandy (go) home with him.
As they came into the house. Max's (old) brother saw them. “Hi, Sandy and Max,” he said, “Why not (come) here and share some ice cream with me?”
At that time, Max's younger brother came out of his room. He looked very excited and said, “Oh, Max, I have a story to tell .”
Sandy knew Max's secret of getting on (good) with his brothers was to share. So Sandy decided to go back home and try this from then on.