A school trip |
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Place |
Yandang Mountain |
Time |
1. |
Transportation |
2. |
weather |
3. |
Activities |
Flying kites and 4. |
What might Sam think of the snow ball he bought? 5. |
—Yes, there is. Look, it's next to the school over there.
—Just a minute.
—Me, too. It's one of the ________ TV programs I've ever seen.
—Sorry, but so much homework is waiting for me.
—Oh, no. I ________ go to the cinema. The tickets, you know, are too expensive.
—I like________ of them. They are useful for English learners.
—Sorry, I don't know her address, either.
—________.
We look at the world around us everyday, but somehow we don't manage to see it until what we've become used to suddenly disappeared. That's to say that you may get used to some places and some 1 around you. For example, the neatly-dressed woman I used to see --or look at on my way to work each 2.
For three years, no matter 3the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On 4 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime turn out clean cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. 5, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I 6all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how 7I expected to see her each morning. You might say I 8her.
"Did she have an accident? Something 9?" I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had 10her. I began to realize that part of our 11life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar strangers: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who 12walks her dog along the street ever morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are 13markers in our lives. They add weight to our 14 of places and belongings.
Think about it, while walking to work, 15we mark where we are by passing a certain building, why not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though unnamed , person?
Nowadays, more and more apps have come into the world. Most of them make our life better. Look at four apps below:
Apps |
Founding Time |
Function |
Advantages |
Methods |
Baicizhan | March, 2015 | English words' learning app | Learning is fun | Choose the correct picture of the new word,then practice in other ways |
Douban FM | November, 2009 | Music app | Songs playing one by one | Use "heart" "trash" or "skip" buttons to mark the songs |
Moment Camera | January, 2014 | Camera app | Sequence shots and different—sized frames | Take photos as usual |
| November, 2013 | Hottest news app | Make the news personal to you | Click the "+"button to choose your favorite news. |
Sometimes, you might not finish drinking your glass of water before you go to bed. You might want to drink it the next morning. But have you ever wondered if it is still safe to drink?
"If you have clean water in a clean glass, you're fine to drink it for a day or two," Kellogg Schwab from the Johns Hopkins University Water Institute in the US told Time.
But you may find that it tastes strange. That's because after about 12 hours, the carbon dioxide in the air reacts with the water in your glass, slightly lowering its pH level.
Also, there might be more microorganisms in your water if you leave it out overnight. Microorganisms grow more quickly at room temperature. These microorganisms can stick to your glass. They can make you get sick more easily. But as long as you clean your glasses very often, this will not be a problem.
In countries like the US and UK, people often drink water directly from the tap. This is OK—however, tap water cannot be stored for a long time. Most experts say that tap water has a shelf life of six months, according to Zane Satterfield from West Virginia University, US. After six months, there is less chlorine in the water and bacteria start to grow. You'd better not drink the water otherwise you may get sick.
What about plastic water bottles? Schwab said people should be careful with them. If you leave a bottle of water under the sun or in a car for a long period of time, the plastic produces a chemical called BPA. This chemical can cause heart disease and cancer.
Earlier this year, China achieved a new milestone in space exploration. On Jan 3, Chang'e 4 became the first space probe in history to successfully land on the far side of the moon, People's Daily reported.
From Earth, we can only see one side of the moon. The other side has been a mystery. Scientists have long wondered what lies on this side of the moon.
Chang'e 4 has sent back photos of the far side of the moon. It is also being used to carry out experiments, such as growing seeds in a low-gravity environment. The data collected from these experiments could be used to help us build a base on the moon in the future.
The success of the Chang'e 4 mission is a major achievement for China's space program. It marks a new stage in China's deep space exploration, said Wu Yanhua, deputy head of China National Space Administration.
China launched its lunar exploration program in 2004, naming it Chang'e. Chinese scientists set three goals—"orbiting, landing and sample returning" – referring to launching probes that could circle around the moon, touch down on its surface and bring lunar materials back to Earth.
Chang'e 4 has realized the second goal. The third will be achieved during the Chang'e 5 mission , which is set to take place before the end of this year, China Daily reported.
Following the success of the Chang'e missions, Chinese scientists are looking even farther into our solar system. China's first Mars mission is expected to be carried out by 2020, Wu said.
In addition to the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the Chang'e 4 mission has achieved many other firsts. One of them is international cooperation and joint exploration. The experiments will provide valuable data for the scientists.
A few years ago national attention was fixed on a deep, dark cave in the mountains near where I live now. A team had entered the cave to do some research. Although every precaution had been taken to make it safe, one young man was separated from the team and lost in the depths of the cave.
For several days a rescue team worked around the clock, searching almost everywhere in the underground cave. With each passing hour chance of finding the young man inside the cave became smaller, and people had a lot of guesses. Perhaps he had simply run away. Or maybe he had stumbled out some other entrance and was now lost in the mountains. Or perhaps he was already... well, nobody wanted to say it. But everybody thought it. Everybody, that is, except the young man's parents.
"That wasn't a choice in our opinion," the young man's mother said." Finally we would find him—safe and alive. We were certain of that."
There was little reason to those who were familiar with the cave said it had been completely searched-several times. Common sense suggested that time was running out and that other choices needed to be considered—like when to say "enough".
But like Kris Kringle says in his famous book A Miracle on 34th Street, "Faith is believing in something even when common sense tells you not to do." And the young man's parents had faith. They wouldn't give up, and they wouldn't let anyone else give up, either. And sure enough, the young man was found—hungry, thirst and afraid, but healthy.
How did the young man manage to stay a live in the cave?
"I've never stopped believing that someone would find me," said the young man.
while twenty remain noise smoke |
Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?
In 1969, the pollution was terrible(沿着) a river in Ohio. People thought it impossible to(被清理)up. The river was so polluted that it caught fire and(燃烧). Now, years later, this river is one of (杰出)examples in the world for environment. But the river wasn't changed in a few days or even a few(月份). It took years of work to (减少)the pollution.
Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have (习惯)that are making your family crazy. Possibly you always fail your tests and you never work(努力) than before. Or you don't know how to control(你自己)so as not to be late for school again. When you face them, don't you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?
For (大多数的)of us changes are little by little and need a lot of effort and work. Just be patient.
⑴你家情况;
⑵有关餐桌礼仪;
⑶她要承担的家务劳动;
⑷…现在,你就她提出的问题给她回信,也预祝她在你家过得开心!
要求:⑴文章必须包括图片中主要内容,可适当发挥;
⑵文中不得出现真实的人名、校名等相关信息;
⑶字数约110词。
Dear Sara,
I'm glad to hear from you yesterday.
…
Love,
May