I still remember my kindergarten(幼儿园)teacher, Mrs, White. She looked just like Snow White, 1 she had the same bright eyes and short dark hair.
We used to 2 a lot . And I would show what I wrote to Mrs. White for correction(批改). She would look at my writing and see many mistakes in it. But she 3 made any red correction and she always gave a star. I was feeling 4 of my writing each time I got a star. But it 5 my mother. So one day, when she met Mrs. White at a parent-teacher meeting. Mum asked her why she never corrected my6 and why she never said no to her child.
Mrs. White said, “The children are just beginning to get 7about using words. Spelling and grammar can wait. We can't 8 that interest with a red pen.”As it was a long time ago, my mother could only remember the main idea of 9 Mrs. White said about my writing. However, I grew up learning to use words with loving care and 10 like that.
If Mrs. White had used her red pen more often, I 11 wouldn't be telling you about this now, Whenever I look back on those encouraging 12 from Mrs.White, I feel they just look 13 real ones in the night sky-bright, shiny, and guiding me on my way somewhere. I do believe she was such a 14teacher, who tried to use a red pen less to keep the joy, wonder and excitement in a child's 15 .
Thanks to Mrs. White, I have no fear about writing. Also, I'm not afraid of any mistake in my life!
One Sunday evening, it was quite dark when old Stanley went for his walk. He was walking along the sidewalk, Suddenly, he saw a white car coming around the corner at high speed. It was going too fast and crashed into a red car in the street where he was walking. He rushed up to the cars to see if anyone was hurt and needed help.
The two drivers were arguing.
“You came around the corner too fast,”one man said.
“No!" said the driver of the white car, "That's not true! Your car was parked in a wrong place.”
Stanley listened to their argument and then said the white car driver was wrong to drive too fast. The driver of red car asked Stanley to prove he was right in court(法庭). Stanley gave the driver his name and telephone number.
Next Thursday morning, Stanley was asked to go to the court. The lawyer(律师) for the driver of the white car asked him a lot of questions about what he had seen. Then he asked Stanley how old he was.
“I'm eighty-two," answered Stanley.
“Do you usually wear glasses ?”asked the lawyer.
“Yes, I do,”answered Stanley.
“Were you wearing them on the night of the accident?" the lawyer asked.
“No,”replied Stanley.
Then the lawyer said, "Why should the court believe you? You are eighty-two years old, you were not wearing your glasses, and it was dark. How far can you see in the dark?”
Stanley thought about it for a minute. “Well,”he said, "when it's dark, I can see the moon. How far is that?”
Foods that are well known to you may not be familiar to people from different places around the world. Tourists and travelers often get to try some unfamiliar food. That is part of the fun of traveling. Here are four people's experiences with foreign food.
David King is a Chinese student in France. “I never had cheese or even milk before I came to France. Cows are seldom seen in my part of China. So there is no milk or milk products. I drank some milk when I first arrived in France. I hated it! I tried cheese, too, but I didn't like it. I love ice cream, though that's made from milk.” |
Birgit is from Sweden. She traveled to Australia on vocation. "I was in a restaurant that was special in fish. I heard some other people order flake, so I ordered some, too. It was delicious! Later, I learned that flakes is an Australian name for shark. Now, whenever I see a new food, I try it on purpose. You know why? I remember how much I enjoyed flake.” |
Chandra is a dentist in Texas. She is from India. “ I'm afraid to try new foods because maybe there is beef in them. I'm a Hindu(印度教信徒)and my religion(信仰) stops me from eating meat from the cow. That's why I can't eat hamburgers or noodles with meatballs.” |
Nathan is from the United States. He taught for a year in China. “My friend gave me some 100-year-old eggs to eat. I didn't like their appearance at all. The eggs were green inside, but my friends said the color was normal. Chinese people put something on fresh eggs. Then they put them in the earth for three months. So the eggs weren't really very old. Even so, I didn't want to touch them.” |
Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000miles to its winter home in central Mexico(墨西哥). How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don't have an answer.
For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.
The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place? Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.
How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation(代) makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.
Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces(繁衍), and then dies. On the trip north,two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.
Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.
The underlined word "offspring”in the passage is closest in meaning to______.
lead to, fall behind, once a month, take care of , terrible, on business,closed, chopsticks, the most expensive |
Simon works hard all the time so he won't _.
This is watch in the shop. I can't afford it.
Amy goes to the reading club .
It's our duty to our parents when they are old.
A earthquake hit Nepal on April 25,2015 and many people gave a helping hand.
My father has gone to Hongkong . He will stay there for two weeks.
The local government the factories which caused water pollution in that area.
Those western students in our school try to use when they have meals.
Please don't go (swim) on your own. It's too dangerous.
The office worker (catch) the early bus to work every day.
Emily's mother didn't allow her to watch her favorite programme Running Man and it made her (happy).
Miss Green advised us to decorate a card for each other with those (leaf).
Little Edison is clever enough to learn paper-cutting by (he).
It's important for us to use natural resources (wise).
Peter and his wife live on the (seven) floor and they go up and down by lift.
, we went back home after school.
You not stay up late, so you can .
This afternoon we will have a lesson about American . Don't class.
Would you please the TV? I want to know the for tomorrow.
The girl enjoys , but she prefers to draw pictures.
Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock（股票)market last year with a value of around 140 billion-the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.
Ma made his first trip to the a US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for "beer", he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for "China" and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website--the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).
Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.
It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.
Ma's hero is Forrest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015,Ma said, "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”
Many companies today hold meetings to discuss their new plans. As people are paying more attention to the environment problems, more companies are looking for ways to reduce their bad influence on the environment. Many of them achieve this by using web meeting.
Web meeting is a technology that allows people to communicate better over the Internet. It's an easy way of hosting and attending a meeting. Participants(与会者) don't have to leave the office. Each of them will receive an invitation with the meeting time and date on it. When the meeting is ready to begin, they must sit before their computers.
With web meeting, all participants can attend the meeting at their own desks. They don't need to drive a car to travel to and from the meeting. As a result, no fuel(燃料) is used and less time is taken up in attending a web meeting.
Materials for the meeting are simply e-mailed to all the participants before it begins. Then participants can just read them on the screen. For the company, this not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost.
As a meeting hall is not used, the only power for a web meeting is the power that is used by the computers. Besides, organizers don't have to pay for food or accommodation(住宿)for the participants. All this means that less energy is used.
In a word, web meeting is a cheaper, greener, and more friendly way of hosting and attending a meeting. Companies that hold web meetings are willing to work hard for a better environment. So they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas. In return, they develop good relationship with other companies and improve their business.
