—Sure. I won't. It's said that the medicine may make me feel tired and sleepy.
—Yes. No one can tell what will happen tomorrow.
—What a nice boy! He knew his little sister was sleeping inside.
—Really? Then only three still need to work harder.
—Life is the most important to us.
—Many ways in fact. Above all, we should always look on the bright side of things.
—Yes, he has been to France three times and learned a bit of French.
—Yes. I will make sure that we use it correctly and safely.
—Oh, what a pity ! then how about going to a bookstore nearby _________？
—First, you should listen carefully in class and ________the teacher's notes.
—Oh, almost never. I use e-mails, blogs and text messages to ______them.
For the first time. scientist have made clones(克隆) of monkeys. A clone is a copy of a living thing. A team of Chinese 1used cloning to make two baby monkeys. Both are girls. They are named ZhongZhong and Huahua.
Scientist have cloned other kinds of 2. They have cloned dogs and cats, they have also cloned pigs, cows and ponies. The 3animals to be cloned in the world was a sheep named Dolly. She 4in 1966.
Scientist had never been able to clone primates (灵长类动物), Primates are a group of animals. They include monkeys. apes (猿) and people. Now, that has come true. Soon scientist may be able to clone 5 too. However, the Chinese scientist will not be cloning people, they will keep cloning monkeys6monkeys are more like people than other lab animals such as mice or rats. Lab animals can help to study diseases. Cloning monkeys is 7to the scientist for medical studies.
However, there are still reasons that some scientists want to8people. For example, some parents might want to clone a child who has died. Yet the cloned Child would 9really be the same. They would look like the same, but would not be the same one. It might be hard for them to know that they were a clone of10else.
Last week, students at Northridge High school held a Chinese week. During the Chinese week. Many people enjoyed the Chinese food fair, they could eat traditional Chinese snacks, and learn to make different kinds of Chinese dishes. "It was wonderful! I love Chinese food, and welcome the chance to learn Chinese Cooking!" One student said.
There were talks on Chinese Culture and history. Along with a talk on traditional Chinese medicine. James Manson and Alice Simpson talked about their experiences in China. Mr Manson has been working in Shanghai for three years, and Ms Simpson was a teacher in chengdu for two years, there were several traditional Chinese music shows and one modern Chinese music show. Along with this, there was a show of Chinese traditional dance. Many students were also excited in the Chinese film Festivals in the evenings.
In the morning there were lessons on speaking and writing Chinese, and in the afternoon, there were kungfu and Tai Chi classes. However, to most students, the best part of the Chinese week was a Chinese culture and history show. It had Chinese inventions, such as kites, fireworks. Chinese paintings and traditional Chinese clothes.
"The Chinese week was a big success! We hope to have another week next year!" said Chinese week manager. David Williams.
The years from A.D 500 to 1450 are called the Middle ages. Sometimes they are also called the Dark Ages since few people had an education during that time. Still, there were lots of new ideas and inventions. Many of them came from China.
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Paper Money In 1023. the first government—printed (政府印制的) paper money was printed in China. Before that, paper money had been printed just by companies. Marco polo was an Italian explorer who went to China. He wrote about paper Money. Paper money did not become popular in Europe Until Sweden began printing it in 1601. |
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Movable type printing machine Bi Sheng Made the first movable type printing machine in China in the 1000s. Before this， people had to make copies of books by writing out the whole book by hand. |
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Magnetic(磁的)compass A compass is usually used to tell you what direction you are going. The Magnetic compass was first used by the Chinese around A.D 200. But at that time， people mainly used it for telling what would happen to them in the future. They began using it for sailing around the year 1000. |
It seems very natural that if you have two dollars and add two dollars to them, you have four dollars. But do you know it too men millions of years to be able to think so? In fact, one of the most difficult things to teach children is the idea of numbers.
In ancient times, when a man wanted to tell how many animals he owned. he had no system(系统) of numbers to use. He put a stone into a bag for each animal. The more animals, the more stones he had. It may explain why the word "calculate" comes from the Latin word "calculus", "calculus" means "stone."
Then, man used lines to count. People would just draw a line for each thing they wanted to count, but they had no word to tell the number.
Later on, people used fingers. Again we have word that goes back to this. The word "digit" comes from the Latin word "digitus". It means "finger"! And the fact that we have 10 fingers led to the use of 10 in the system of numbers.
The number system we use today was invented by the Hindus in India thousands of years ago and was brought to Europe during 8th to 11th by Arab traders(商人). In this system, people count things with ten numbers. 1. 2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.and 0. It is decimal system(十进制), that is, it is built on the base of 10.
Almost half of Chinese parents play with their mobile phones while talking with their children. According to a new study.
The study of 4170 primary and middle school students in six cities has been done by China Youth and Children Research Centre.
It finds that 8percent of parents often play with their mobile phones when talking with their children and 40 percent sometimes answer their phone calls when communicating with them. More than 40 percent of Children say their parents do not pay enough attention to them while they are talking, according to the study.
The top five topics in parent—student communication are study. What happened in school, interests and hobbies, friends, and the child's future?
Sun Hongyan, from the China Youth and Children Research Center, says communication between parents and children has changed a lot. Now the use of IPads or mobile phones has become the main reason for parent—child fights.
Children often get on the internet to talk to others when they do not have enough communication with their parents. Sun says. She advises that parents should talk to children in sincere manner, listen to them, respect them and keep eye contact while talking.
More than 1 billion people around the world are homeless. Two companies have come up with a new way to help. They are using special 3-D printers(打印机). The big machines print out new homes.
A printer usually prints things onto sheets of paper. A 3-D printer works differently. It read a design. Then it makes a 3-D model of that picture. It makes the model from the bottom up. It prints one floor at a time.
The new 3-D printer is called Vulcan. The Vulcan can build homes in less than one day. The houses are big enough for three or four people. The first 3-D printed house has already been built. It was shown in Austin. Texas. USA. The house has large windows. The rooms are small but making you feel at ease.
The new house was built by two companies. One is New Story. The other is ICON Evan Loomis, head of ICON said." the house in Austin is just the first step. Later this year, we want to build about 10 homes in EL Salvador." Next year, they plan to build a whole village. It will have 100 homes.
However, not everyone likes the idea of 3-D printed houses, someone worries that a heavy and could blow out windows or doors. ICON and New Story say they will work hard to make their homes safe. They also plan to share the printers with other companies. Together. They will do what they can to end homelessness.
Do you remember what you were doing at the age of 7? Maybe playing a bottle with your friends, or busy with different classes? For a(two) grader from SongGang No 2. Primary school in Bao'an District. ShenZhen, being 7-year-old means that she has played piano with her idol(偶像), pianist Lang Lang six times now.
The young pianist is Bi Ye. She(win) eight gold medals at national piano competitions in China since five. At the age of six. she won the gold prize at the International Franz Schubert Piano competition for Children and Youth (国际儿童和青少年弗朗茨•舒伯特钢琴比赛). And at the age of seven. She (get) another prize at the International Franz Liszt(李斯特) Piano Competition for Children and Youth. Then she became(young) winner of the prize.
Like other parents. Bi's parents simply wanted to provide their Child an activity to improve their years' education. But when Bi's mother learned that playing the piano can make kids (smart) and stronger. She took Bi to learn the piano at the age of four. After three months. Bi could play and sing the song "Little Duck."" she sits in front of the piano, she will be really excited. She will touch the keyboard with her(finger)" said Bi's Mom.
"She is as confident a famous star when this little girl plays the piano." Said Lang Lang after the final show.
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1）简单介绍家庭成员：一家三口，父亲母亲皆为英语老师，为人友善。
2）介绍你家基本条件：舒适的房子，单独的卧室，学校离家近。
3）说明你们为交流生计划的特色活动。（至少两项）
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1）文章必须包含所有提示内容，并可作适当发挥；
2）表达清楚，语句通顺，意思连贯，书面规范；
3）文中不得出现真实姓名和校名。
4）字数要求80—100次（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）
参考词汇（仅供参考）：apply for 申请； host family住宿家庭
Dear Mr. Smith,
My name is Li Hua. I'm glad that some of your students and teachers will come to our school for an educational exchange. I'm writing to apply for a chance to be one of the host families of American students.
Thank you for considering my application. I'm looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
