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☆When adding WeChat friends, yourself and explain how you know them. |
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—I see. That's why all her sweaters are orange.
—Sure. On Friday afternoon.
Holly: Hey, Luke.
Luke: Pretty good. You know I moved into a new house.
Holly: Really?
Luke: A week ago.
Holly: Where's your new house?
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Holly: That's a good place.
Luke: Yes. It's expensive but nice. All my family like it.
Holly: Congratulations! I guess you'll have a house-warming party, right?
Luke: Of course. Will you come then?
Holly: Cool. I can't wait to see your new house.
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A. When was it? B. It's on Red Tree Street. C. How's it going with you? D. It's next Monday, the 17th. E. Did you spend a lot of money? |
As a police artist, Joe Brown draws pictures of suspects (嫌疑犯) when people tell him about the 1 of each suspect. Then, the police put the pictures in newspapers and on television to help 2 the suspects.
His job is interesting but not 3, because different people describe the same person differently and sometimes many people don't have good 4, especially the old. "The suspect is of medium height and young. He has long straight brown hair and big eye," an old woman says. Another woman says, "He's tall and thin with blonde hair. He's about thirty years old." In the end, the real 5 is a short heavy man and he has short brown hair.
One day in class, the teacher held up an apple. She stood on the platform (讲台) and said, "Please 1 it in the air, and…"
One student 2 his hand and said, "I can smell it. It is the smell of an apple."
The teacher stepped 3 the platform, passed by each of the students and said, "Smell 4 to see if the smell of the apple is still in the air."
Half of the students put up their hands to show that they could smell it. The teacher returned to the 5 of the classroom and asked again who else could smell the apple. The rest raised their hands except one boy. The teacher came to the boy and asked, "You really can't smell the apple?"
The boy answered, "No, I can't smell it. I don't think it's a 6 apple."
The teacher 7 at the boy and said to the class, "He's right! It's not 8 to get the apple smell from this apple."
All of the other students had been tricked. Some may have thought that perhaps the apple didn't have the apple smell, 9 they didn't dare to speak up. They just 10 the first student blindly and went along with him.
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Dear Dr. Green, My relationship with my mother is worse and worse now. It seems she's never tired of talking. She talks here and there, day and night. More seriously, I feel like we don't have much in common. She doesn't always understand what I'm trying to say. What should I do? Yours, Jim |
Dear Jim, I know how you feel. It's not easy being your age. And it's not easy being a mother, either. It's common for kids to have trouble talking with parents, and talkative mothers are not new to teenagers. But remember, she's nagging (唠叨) you because she just wants what's best for you. Talking is her way to show love and care. And she also wants to know more about you. After a day's work, she's tired, too. But she will never be tired of caring about you. Kids should learn to understand and care about parents. In my opinion, it's helpful to share school life with her. Then, you talk and she listens. Doing some housework together with her is another good way for you two to know each other better. And if possible, often tell her your feelings about the things around you. Always keep in mind: be polite and patient. Yours, Dr. Green |
| Travel around England | ||
| Places to visit in London | ||
| ☆The Thames It turns through London, dividing the city into two parts. It's interesting to take a trip on the river. This way, you can see almost every place of interest of London. ☆Big Ben May 31, 2019 is the 160th birthday of the largest four-face clock in the world-Big Ben. It isn't the name of the tower itself but the 13-ton bell inside it. Every hour, it "bongs" the number of hours to tell the time. |  | |
| Places to visit in Liverpool | ||
| ☆Music: "The Beatles Story" If you love The Beatles — the world-famous 1960s music group, come here! |  | Open every day except Dec 25 and 26 Adult: £16.00 Under-16s and student: £12.00 Child under six: Free |
| ☆Sport: "Liverpool FC" Do you love football? Visit Anfield football center, home to Liverpool's favorite football team. |  | Closed on Sat. & Sun. Adult: £15.00 Under-16s and student: £9.00 Child under six: Free |
| ☆Museum: "Liverpool Museum" You can learn all about the history and culture of Liverpool here. It was set up in 1851, and moved to the new building in 2011. |  | Open daily Free entry! |
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A If we laid all of the blood vessels (血管) in the human body end to end, they would reach about 100,000km long. That's nearly two and a half times around Earth! |
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time, Coca-Cola has showed that it uses 3,000,000 tons of plastic bottles
each year. That's the weight of 15,000 blue whales-the largest animal on
Earth. | C If your throat tickles (发痒), pressing your ear might make it go away. That's because your throat and ears share the same group of nerves (神经). When you press your ear, the nerves in your throat can feel it. |
| D It takes about 7 to 8 trees to make enough O2 for one person to breathe for a year. Each person needs around 750kg of O2 per year. A large tree might make around 100kg of O2 per year. | E To young children, a year might seem to last forever. But older people might say that it flies by. Why is that? According to the US scientists, young people's brains deal with information faster than older people. They take in more information and do more things in a day. So they feel like each day lasts longer. However, older people's brains take in less information and see a day pass more quickly. | F About 200 muscles (肌肉) work together when you take a step. That's a lot of work for your muscles, since many people take about 10,000 steps a day. If you want to get some easy exercise, walking is good for you. |
Dave: Hello, Peter. Have you noticed that some people are not so healthy as before though life has improved a lot.
Peter: Yes, it's true. Nowadays some people eat more, so they are getting heavier an easy to get sick.
Dave: Eating more than needed is for sure not healthy. But to be , this eating habit is not completely true for what causes their. Some people eat more but that doesn't what they eat is bad for them.
Peter: I agree. It's just different. Eating unhealthy food is another problem. It will make people healthy to stay away from junk food and try to eat more kinds of food per day.
Dave: Yes, you are right. The food people have should be healthy and .
Peter: I think so. What's more, to become , people should still exercise more. Doing sports daily will make people in good condition.
Dave: These days, people have so much , because they're quite busy studying and working. Many people go to bed very late, even when they have to go to school or to work early the next morning.
Peter: That's true. They may find nothing in their bodies and feel least uncomfortable at first. But if such lasts long, people will finally get sick.
Dave: Doing sports is a good way to get relaxed. It will do good to people's health.
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Is it true that we British people have a different sense of humor from people in other countries? Let's have a look at what we laugh at in .
To us British people, and important people often cause laughter. It's not just politicians (政客) who make us laugh, but anyone whose job is to tell other people what to do and who takes too seriously.
We laugh at the power, but also, pitifully, at anyone who is treated . We know they cannot win, but if they do win sometimes, it's even . Our clowns (小丑) are often silly people doing silly things, while in America, they are often clever people doing clever things-and at last.
The fact that we laugh when other people might feel is one of the strangest things to learn about British humor. We do have a strong sense of irony (反讽). After some terrible experience, we might say, "Not very ." And we might say in the middle of a typhoon, "It's a bit windy today." Or "There is a tiny problem," when something has gone wrong. We don't like to express strong feelings, but just "keep calm and carry on".
Another things that can make it difficult British humor is that we don't always laugh or even smile when we say something funny. We often keep a straight face or use an unsmiling expression when we're making a joke.
Do you think the British sense of humor is special?
Global warming is a big problem that we have to stop. One of the best things we do is to plant more trees. Trees can take in CO2 in the air and stop global warming.
A team of scientists at Boston University has been working with NASA to study Earth's green vegetation (植被). They used a special NASA camera and found that global leaf area had increased by 5 percent since the early 2000s. That's about one-quarter of the size of the entire Amazon rainforest.
The growth mainly came from China's forest protection programs, NASA said. For example, since 1962, China has been planting trees in Saihanba, Hebei Province. It was once a desert.
Ant Forest, a feature in Alipay app, gives users points for doing eco-friendly things such as walking and going paperless in the office. Users can then use these points to water and grow their own virtual (虚拟的) trees. When the virtual trees are big enough, Ant Forest will plant real trees somewhere in the world.
A. More than 55 million trees have been planted in this way. B. The Chinese public has also joined in these activities recently. C. And China was responsible for 25% of that gain, according to the study. D. However, people there can produce vegetables without any difficulty now. E. But now, China has turned the area into the country's largest man-made forest. F. According to a news report, China is doing a great job of "greening" the world. |
In 30 years from now, what will we eat? Will the food still be the same as it is now?
The United Nations says that there will be over 9 billion people in the world by 2050. Our food needs will grow by 70%. What we eat now may not be enough for humans in the future. That is to say, we'll have to turn to something else. But what else can we eat? Here are a few possible choices.
Veggie (Vegetable) meat
A new kind of hamburger is now popular in the US. It looks the same as any other hamburger, and so is the taste. But it's actually a "beef" burger made out of plants. The company behind the burger, Impossible Foods, uses peas and potatoes to make the "beef". They take coloring, protein (蛋白质) and fats from these plants and mix them together.
Making meat out of plants uses less water and land than raising animals for meat. It also creates fewer green house gases. Some food companies are making chicken, pork and other meat out of plants, too-follow the same steps as making the "beef".
Insects
Insects take up little space and don't make much waste. They also have more protein than beef, chicken and pork. This makes insects another possible food of the future.
It's common for people in some places to eat whole insects. But most people probably won't want to see the insects they eat. So in the future, people will first turn insects used for food into powder (粉末). Then they can use the powder to make other foods like chips, protein bars, biscuits and so on.
Algae
The BBC says algae farming could become the world's biggest farming industry in the future. They point out that algae is cheap and grows very quickly. Also, it's very nutritious (有营养的). It has much more protein and oil than many other plants.
Besides eating algae as a dish on its own, people may also use algae oil and algae butter in the future. Some algae has a strong taste. The UK scientists are trying to use algae to take the place of salt.
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