— Yes. It's one of ____________ most successful clubs in Italy.
—It is very clean and beautiful ____it is a bit small.
— Yes, but now I play the piano.
— ____________.
A: There is a festival in June in our country, it's Father's Day.
B:Yes,it's on the fifth day of the fifth lunar(阴历) month. We call it the Dragon Boat Festival.
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B: We make and eat zongzi and hold dragon boat races.
A:Why do you celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?
B: Oh, it is a story about Qu Yuan. He lived about two thousand years ago. His job was to give advice to the emperor. But he wasn't trusted and often got punishment. So he jumped into the Miluo River and died.
A:Was the day that Qu Yuan died on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in that year?
B:From then on, Chinese people began to eat zongzi and have dragon boat races on that day to memorize him.
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A. What a pity! B. Yes, you are very smart. C. What happened to him? D. It sounds very interesting. E. Is there a Chinese festival in June, too? F. What do you usually do on that day in China? |
One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student, "You speak very good English."1the girl answered, "No, no. My English is very poor. "The foreigner was quite2at the answer. Thinking he had not made3understood or the girl had not heard him clearly, he said, "Yes, indeed, you speak very well."
But the girl4kept saying, "No." In the end the American boy could not understand and didn't know5to say.
What's wrong with the girl's answer? She didn't6a compliment(恭维) in the same way as the American people do. She should answer "Thank you" instead of "No". She7understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel proud and8when they are praised. So if someone says the dishes you have9are very delicious, you should say, "Thank you."
In our country we think being modest is a virtue(美德) and being10is a bad thing, but in my opinion, being confident does not11being proud. So sometimes you should be confident12being modest.
If you are modest and say, "No, I'm afraid I13do it well", while working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say "No", you will certainly be looked down upon by14. When asking for a job, if one says something like "Yes, I can certainly do it' instead of "Let me have a try", he or she will15getting it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence.
Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country: candles, cakes, and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
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Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in that house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child's bed while he is sleeping So he will see them at once when he wakes up. |
India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthday children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolates to everyone in the class. Their best friend helps them to do this. |
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Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh birthdays for girls and the fifth for boys. |
Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also put flowers on the birthday children's chair to make it beautiful. |
Jackie visited his grandparents on their farm. And he was playing with a slingshot(弹弓) in the woods. He practised in the woods but he could never hit the target. As he was walking back, he saw Grandma's pet duck. Without thinking, he shot, hit the duck in the head and killed it. He was very afraid. He knew Grandma loved the duck. She would be sad or even angry if she knew that her duck was killed He then hid the dead duck under a tee His sister Susan saw it all, but she said nothing.
After lunch that day Grandma said, "Susan, let's wash the dishes. "But Susan said, "Grandma. Jackie told me he wanted to help in the kitchen today, didn't you, Jackie?" And then she whispered(小声说) to him, "Remember the duck? "So Jackie did the dishes.
Later Grandpa asked if the children wanted to go fishing, but Grandma sad, "I'm sorry but I need Susan to help clean the house." But Susan smiled and said, "Well, that's all right because Jackie told me he wanted to help."
And she whispered again, "Remember the duck?" So Susan went fishing with Grandpa and Jackie stayed.
These "remember the duck" went on for many days. Then finally Jackie couldn't stand it any longer. He came to Grandma and told her that he had killed the duck. She gave him a hug, and said, "Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was standing at the window and I saw the whole thing. But because I love you, I forgave you. But I just wanted to see how long you would let Susan make a slave(奴隶) of you."
I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, my injured, sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me.
Sometimes people asked me embarrassing (使人难堪的) questions. Whenever kids played games, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on(瞧不起) me. Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that saying. As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful，or you will fall down or bump into something because you are not looking. "As a teenager, I usually looked down to hide my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.
In high school, I even became the class president, but inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say," Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside instead of your appearance(外貌) ."
My mum's love was the sunshine that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be confident(自信的) but also to have deep compassion(同情) for others. "Hold your head up high "has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.
Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He said it was a strange visit. "I don't understand, but I frightened(害怕) your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a purse from Zhengzhou, she looked in it and asked me to take it back.Do English people like spiders?"
"Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop front, so there was a ladder(梯子).Grandmother stopped me from walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought some lovely rose soap(肥皂) for my mother, a smart umbrella for my father and some new shoes for myself. Your grandmother came in and screamed(尖叫) !"
"Then I broke a small mirror in the bathroom.I felt very sorry. When I left I gave your grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were 13. She didn't like it."I explained to Lu, "My grandmother follows the old customs(习俗). You must not give someone an empty purse or they will have no money. You must not kill a money spider or the same will happen. Also it is very unlucky to walk under a ladder and to put new shoes on the table. An open umbrella in a house means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years' bad luck, and 13 is also a very unlucky number.."
A. Your grandmother's face went white. B. I think she was happy about my leaving. C. You were really making my grandmother very afraid. D. Then I saw a red spider on the table So I killed it for her and she seemed very unhappy. E. When we got back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to check if it was all right. |
What can we do to help protect the environment? It seems useless to just pick up a piece of trash(垃圾) ,but what will happen if you keep doing it every day? Tommy Kleyn, an ordinary man from the Netherlands, may give you the answer. Tommy Kieyn walked past a polluted river on his way to work every day. It used to be a beautiful view, but the trash on the bank made it dirty and smelly. So Tommy decided to pick up the trash along the river a little bit at a time after work. "It took me about 30 minutes to fill one garbage(垃圾) bag with trash, but one garbage bag didn't seem helpful in a place as polluted as this. I decided to fill one bag of trash each day as I passed by," Tommy said. Every day, Tommy took pictures of the river and shared them on his Facebook page. To his surprise, in just six days, he had made great progress with his cleanup effort(努力) . He felt happy and kept doing it. Gradually, more and more people knew about Tommy's story. Other people in the community began following in his footsteps and cleaning up trash on their way home, too. "The idea is to encourage people to fill one garbage bag with litter each day. It only takes 30 minutes, but it really makes a difference and you will be amazed at how good you feel afterwards, "he said. People from all over the world have been moved and inspired(激励)by Tommy's story. No effort is useless if we keep doing it every day. Ordinary people like you and me can also make a difference to the world we live in if we take actions right now.
Dear Lin Tao,
I was happy to read your letter. You asked me for someon learning English. At first, I also found it hard to remember so many words and phrases. Then I found that the best way waslearn their pronunciations. There are some useful rules in the pronunciation, and they can help me remember new words. I also had some grammar problems when I was in the first grade. I tried to read more. Now it isn't very.for me to understand the sentences and passages. That's my secret of English. I hope it helps you. Please never give up!
Yours,
Mary
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