—_________________. Everyone was busy.
—I ___________ stay at home, but I'm not sure.
— Yes, it's Mickey Mouse.
—No problem.
—I'd like to go to ___________ university first.
—Something about the art festival.
—____________ I'll do it right away.
Xiao Li: Great news! The Chinese Women's Volleyball Team has won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics.
Han Mei: Yes. Everybody around me is talking about it now.
Xiao Li: Did you watch the game?
Han Mei: Of course.
Xiao Li: Me too. It was really hard for the girls to win. Do you know what impressed and touched me most?
Han Mei: I guess it's the girls' spirit of not giving up.
Xiao Li: It sure is. they had the best teamwork and fought until the last minute. Han Mei: And they make me understand success never comes easily.
Xiao Li: I totally agree. Compared with the girls, I feel kind of ashamed. I sometimes give up doing what seems difficult.
Han Mei:
Xiao Li: You are right, let's work harder from now.
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A. I'm also excited about it. B. Though they aren't the greatest players, C. I think we can also succeed if we always work hard and keep trying. D. I watched it from the beginning to the end. E. In fact, they didn't play very well last night. F. Yes, one finger can't lift a small stone. |
John loved basketballvery much. One day, as he was walking to a basketball game, he dreamed about1 basketball for the college team the next year.Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters2.
John woke up in ahospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knewhis college basketball3 wasover. John did4 thedoctor told him, but it5. When he left the hospital, John was sentto a health center.
A week6 he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach（教练）. His legs7 in a skating accident.8 he couldn't move his legs, Sunny became the coach of a basketball team called the Suns. It was a wheelchair basketball team, because9 on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited John to10 the team. John played badly, but for the11 time after the accident. He stopped feeling sorry for himself.
After becoming a partof Suns, John improved quickly. Basketball was like12 for him. John was much13 than before. When John became unhappy, Sunnywas there to comfort him. The day before John14 the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He askedSunny how he could be so happy even with his broken legs.
Sunny15 and said, "It's really quite easy. Whenyou keep your face to the sun, the shadows (阴影) willfall behind.
Most people will restand relax when they are old. They do not work. And most people are certainlynot famous. But Grandma Moses is different. She started a new job at the age of70.
This is her story. Shewas born in a poor farmer's family in 1860. Her parents named her Anna MaryRobertson. She married Thomas Moses in 1887. He was a farm worker.
In 1930, Anna MaryMoses was 70, and was a grandmother. She began to paint pictures. She drewpaintings of country life. One day, her daughter took her paintings to a storein town. Her paintings were put in the window. A man from New York saw them andbought them. And he wanted more!
The man liked GrandmaMoses's paintings. He wanted to help her. So he took her paintings to galleries(美术馆) in New York City. Otto Kallir had afamous gallery there. He liked the paintings. When it was 1940 and GrandmaMoses' paintings were in Kallir's gallery. She was 80 years old.
Grandma Moses suddenlybecame famous. Everyone wanted her paintings. So she painted more and more. Shewon many prizes for her paintings. She became famous in the United States andEurope.
When she was 100 yearsold, the State of New York made her birthday "Grandma Moses' Day". Afterher 100th birthday, she painted 6 more paintings. She died at the age of 101and a lot of people think she is amazing.
Mr Zhang was a sportsfan. He worked in a hospital in the capital. He was busy all the time and hadlittle time to have a rest. And one day he felt unwell and couldn't go onworking. He decided to spend a week's holiday in a quiet village where he couldgo swimming or fishing. He got off at a small train station and soon got to aquiet village. He took a room hotel and went to sleep after he had a good meal.
At first Mr Zhangenjoyed himself there. He could do everything he wanted and went everywhere heliked. Nobody disturbed (打扰)him orknocked at the door at midnight. But on the fourth day he was in trouble. Afterlunch it was very hot. He went swimming in the river. Suddenly he saw a beautifulbird in a big tree. He wanted to catch it, so he walked to it, but it found himand flew away. He began to pick some flowers in the forest and before long helost his way.
The sun had gone downand night had fallen before Mr. Zhang found a small restaurant in anothervillage. He came in and told them to bring him some bread, two eggs and a glassof tea. After a while his food was brought. Soon he ate up all the bread andeggs. When he was going to have the tea, he found there was a fly in the glass.
"What's in mytea?" Mr. Zhang called out, "A fly."
"It's impossible,sir," said the owner of the restaurant, "I had told the waiters topick all the flies out of your tea before they brought it to you!"
Although it was only autumn, everything outside was colored white. Unexpectedly, we were hit by a big snow storm and no one was prepared.
We have two apple trees in our backyard. Prana, our dog, loves apples. When she goes outside, she usually digs out a dirty apple from the ground and then quickly eats it.
On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Prana went outside and I watched her from the window. I noticed that she was digging lots of holes and bringing out the apples buried (掩埋) under the snow. She seemed to be glad to dig out as many apples as she could.
But when she came back inside, she brought back only one. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat. She knew that they hadn't prepared enough food for the early ''winter".
This beautiful act of unselfish (无私的)love from an animal taught me what real kindness was.
How to beat sadness?
That's OK. You need days like this, or how would you know you are happy? You'll enjoy your good days even more when you have a few bad days. Even if sadness is a part of life, let's try to make it small. Here are a few simple ways to help you feel better when you are feeling sad.
⒈Stand up straight and this helps your energy flow (流动). When your energy is flowing freely, you can flow too.
⒉Smile! It's easy to do and have good results.
⒊Listen to music. Some kinds of music work better than others, so try and find out what kind of music works the best for you.
⒋Take some time. You can find pleasure in reading a book, watching a sunrise or having a hot bath, or something like that.
⒌ Even something as simple as taking a walk will get your blood flowing. It's a great way to clear your mind of anything that makes you sad.
These ways will cheer you up when you are down, but don't just use them when you are sad. You will be surprised to learn that these simple ways will keep your sadness away. But if you are in a deep depression (沮丧), go to see a doctor.
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A. Try and practice them every day to make them a habit. B. It can be your favorite music. C. Exercise. D. We all have days when we are down, tired and unhappy. E. This way can not only leave you in a good mood (情绪) but also bring others a good mood. |
On 7 October, 36students in Linyi, Shandong wore beautiful clothes in a show. Their clotheswere made of all kinds of things.
The show gave the studentsa chance to make things with their own hands. It also helped them learn to makegood use of wastes.
Students had lots ofgood ideas. Some found things like old clothes to make the dresses.
"We hope to saveenergy (能源). Our world is short ofenergy. So I don't want to just throw old things away," said Xie Jing, 13,at Linyi Art School. She had more than 20 CDs on her nice blue dress. She gotthem from her family and friends.
Song Dandan, a Junior2 student from the same school, looked like a farmer in her straw coat and hat.She picked the straw from the fields and put it all together. "I want toshow what people wore in the past," she said.
Du Yue, 14, even madeclothes for astronauts. When she walked, she tried to be slow. It looked likeshe was walking on the moon. "I wish to be the first woman from China towalk on the moon!" she said.
A new survey shows us almost percent of the students use the Internet every day. Others use it at three or four times a week. Most of the time they do good things through the Internet. , their parents are still about their health and study. So please don't use the Internet before your homework.
