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Bella, one of the top students in her class, always gets up early and hopes to get better grades by working hard. Vincent has joined a mountain climbing club. The club members will have a climbing trip next week and he will be the leader of the team. Aileen is an English teacher. She always knows what's going on in class, even when her students are passing notes behind her back. Sam is a newcomer to a high school. He feels a little nervous in the classroom with a lot of strangers around him. Victor's friends are taking a high-speed train to visit him. But his friends are late. He is now waiting for them at the station. |
A. In many ball games, the most important person is the one who carries the ball. Such a person is the leader and he makes sure that a job gets done. B. Birds feed on worms. A bird will go hungry if it cannot catch worms. The bird that gets up early is sure to get some food, so the early bird catches the worm. C. Your feet become hot when you run. But when you are forced to sit in one place, your heels stay cool. When someone keeps you waiting, you can say he is cooling your heels. D. Some people seem to know what's going on behind them, as if they had eyes in the back of their heads. "Eyes in the back of your head" describes the ability to notice everything happening around you. E. You don't know what will happen if you wake up a sleeping dog in the street, so it would be mach smarter to let sleeping dogs lie. F. People may get their feet into the water slowly when they start to lean swimming. "Get your feet wet" means trying to do something for the first time. G. Fish live in water. A person who is in a strange or uncomfortable environment may feel like a fish out of water. |
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Sarah has some problems in her English study. She tries her best, but she is still poor at English. She doesn't know what to do. John has trouble in falling asleep at night. He can't go to sleep though he is tired. This makes him tired and nervous. Tim likes eating junk food very much, such as hamburgers. As a result, he becomes fatter and fatter. Grace is very sad because she has a quarrel with her best friend. She doesn't know whether they can be good friends again. Tina is a shy girl. She is afraid of speaking in public. She becomes nervous when she speaks in front of other people. She doesn't know what to do. |
A. I think a good talk with your friend is necessary for you. If it is you who make the mistake, you should say "sorry" to her. Communication is the best way to solve the problem. B. Practice makes perfect. If you want to learn English well, you should practice more. Watching English movies is helpful. And you can remember English words before sleeping or after getting up. C. You should drink much more water. You'd better have a day off and have a good rest. If necessary, a doctor can help you. D. Don't get too excited before going to bed. You can drink a glass of milk but not coffee. If it doesn't work, you'd better go to see a doctor. E. You'd better have a good plan for your study. Make a good schedule according to all the subjects that you learn. Listen to the teachers carefully when you are having lessons. F. You should pay more attention to your eating habits. You shouldn't eat much junk food. Instead, you should eat more fruit and vegetables. Doing exercise every day can also help you. G. You should be more self-confident. Try to join some clubs, take part in some parties, and make more friends. I'm sure you will not be so nervous as before. |
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（1）Lily is an English major in Sun Yatsen University. She thinks English songs and movies help improve her English. （2）Zeng Jie is a middle school student. She is not happy now because she failed in her English exam again. She wants someone to help her. （3）Mr. Chen is a taxi driver in Beijing. He knows little English. Since more and more foreigners are coming, he wants to improve his spoken English. （4）Tom is a university student in America. He wants to know more about China and visit it one day. But his Chinese is poor. So he wants to find a Chinese pen pal who knows some English. （5）Wei Lin is a university student. She is good at English but she is too shy to talk with foreigners. |
A. English training center for beginners. If you want to learn some basic English for daily communication, you can telephone 010-8473852. B. Are you good at English? Are you willing to share with others your learning experience? If you are, please e-mail us at E-learning@hotmail.com. C. The Oscar season is coming. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is on at 7:45 this Saturday evening. You are going to love this exciting action movie. D. Here are many English native speakers to communicate with you in our English centre. Just open your mouth, you will find the foreigners here are nice and helpful. E. Wu Qing is crazy about traveling. He wants to find a partner to travel around the world. His next destination is America. F. If you are worried about passing English exams and do not know how to do with it, many experienced teachers of all levels are here waiting for you. Please call our English tutoring centre at 020-46134728. G. Shen Yi is a college student and she majors in geography. And she is also interested in English and would like to make friends with native English speakers. |
Storytelling
Storytelling has caught the human imagination for thousands of years. People everywhere have told stories to amuse, to teach, to remember, and just to pass the time. People started telling stories long before writing was invented.But people all over the world still tell one another stories out loud. A person who can tell a good story nearly always finds listeners.
Before people developed writing, storytelling was the most important way to pass along information. Anything a culture wanted to protect—its beliefs, its history, and its traditions—had to be told out loud. Each generation would tell the culture's stories to the next.Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition. Even cultures that know how to write still pass along some information in this way.
In other cultures only special storytellers were trusted to do this important job. A culture's best storytellers had good memories. They could also make the stories very interesting, so people would listen and remember them. Sometimes people would sing the stories or tell them in the form of poems.
However, stories told aloud change over time as different people tell them. A storyteller might change a story in order to make it better. Or a teller may simply not remember all the details of a story. Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one person. Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.
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A. In this way the stories were passed along. B. In some cultures everyone would pass along the stories. C. Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember. D. Instead, a whole culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history. E. Today stories are also written down in books and acted out in movies, TV shows, and plays. |
⑴Jack plans to create a cooking club at school. He wants to know how much it will cos ⑵Sam cares about the environment very much. But he doesn't know how to start an Environmental club in school. ⑶Creating a swimming club is Mike's dream. However, he isn't sure whether his school can help to build a pool. ⑷Sue is thinking of starting an English club. But she worries about theme and the place they can meet. ⑸Lucy expects to start a club about poetry because she knows that lots of kids love poetry. But she is wondering how to get people to join. | A. Setting up an English club is one of the things we are going to do this term. So do it right now. Let's see how many people will join and then decide where and when to meet B. You must know that pools are expensive to build, and they usually take several years to complete. So I think it's a good idea to get the swimmers to a nearby pool. C. Reading poems can be very fun. You can first ask your classmates to join, and then they will invite their own friends to join it. D. Your plan sounds like a good one. As for the cost, you can ask your mother for some advice. She must know a lot about cooking. E. First you should think about your interest. If you like playing games, a gaming club will be a good idea. If you are a swimming fan, it is great to start a swimming club. F. I think it is a good idea to set up a club like that! You can first give speeches about protecting the environment at school. G. A club can influence people a lot even if it has only a few members, so I wouldn't worry too much about it being small. |
Smoke alarms(报警器)
House fires cause many deaths each year and a large number of these fires are unfortunately set by children.Kids must understand that they, d better not play with fire. You should keep matches and lighters out of their reach.
The main job of such an alarm is to protect you while you're asleep. You should have a smoke alarm outside each bedroom and on each floor of your home. You ought to have two plans for getting out of your house if there is a fire and practise these plans in the dark with your family.
A smoke alarm warns you of the danger. Take action immediately. When you come to a closed door, check it with the back of your hand. If it feels hot, there may be smoke or fire behind the door, so take care. Once you are out of your house, call the fire department from a neighbor's house. If a family member or a pet is caught inside, you shouldn't go back in. Firemen know how to perform rescues safely Change the batteries at least once a year. You should use the test button each month to see if the alarm and batteries are still working. A smoke alarm lasts about ten years. You ought to change it even if it seems to be working.
About two out of three fire deaths happen in homes with no working smoke alarms.
A. Most of these deaths can be avoided.
B. But when you hear it, you don t have much time.
C. A smoke alarm is only good if it's working properly.
D. So, it's important to teach them that fire is a tool, not a toy.
E. A smoke alarm greatly reduces your chances of being hurt in a fire.
Most of us think the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.In fact, an Italian named Antonio Meucci was officially recognised(认定)as the inventor a few years ago. Who is Meucci and why wasn't he known for his invention at the time?
Antonio Meucci was born in Italy in 1808. He studied engineering and drawing. During his studies, Meucci started to experiment with electricity. When two places were connected with wire, people in those places could hear each other talk.
In 1850, Meucci and his wife. Ester, moved to New York. Meucci was worried about his wife, because she had become very ill. To solve this problem, he connected metal cables between his home and his workshop. This way, they could talk to each other conveniently.
Meucci invited a group of people to see his new invention. They listened in amazement as the voice of a singer was heard through the wires.
Even worse, Meucci never applied for a patent (专利) on his invention. Meanwhile, Alexander Graham Bell was working on the same idea and in 1876 the patent for the telephone was given to him.
In 2002, more than a century after Meucci's death, his work was finally recognised by the government.
A. He discovered that sound could travel through metal cables. B. However, he wasn't the first person to think of the idea. C. Unfortunately, only a few people attended this talk. D. He will now be known all over the world as the telephone's inventor. E. He needed to keep in touch with her at all times. |
