—I think so. I was deeply moved by ________ story between the mother and the daughter.
—Yes, I think it is ________. Using phones in class does harm to our study.
—This book is as meaningful as that one, so you can choose ________ of them as a gift.
— It's said that ________ they do so, it will bring bad luck.
—Oh, yes. My parents ________ me there once a year when I was in primary school.
—Of course! It's about fifteen minutes' walk.
—________. It helps recycle the waste.
As Brian entered Room No. 32, Peggy's face lit up with a bright smile. Peggy was Brain's 1, and was dying of cancer. She had a collection of paper dolls that she had made. All 62 were on the wall behind her bed. Brian had asked her about the dolls, but she would always just smile, and say 2 that they were her friends.
Day by day, Peggy's body grew 3, but her spirit remained strong. Each one of her smiles pierced Brian's heart. It was two weeks after Peggy's ninth birthday that she died. 4 expected, it broke Brian's heart.
As Brian forced 5 to walk into Room No. 32 to collect Peggy's things, he saw the paper dolls smiling at him from the wall. Unable to 6 the dolls, Brian found a shoebox to put them in. One by one he removed them from the wall. For the 7 time, he found some names on the back of each: Terrah, Ivy, Nicole and so on. He felt puzzled. There was one 8 name that caught his attention: Jessie. Jessie had been Peggy's first and best friend in the 9, who had died about one year ago. Then Brian began to realize the paper dolls were all the children that had 10 since she had arrived at the hospital. When he finally pulled the 62nd doll off the wall, he found one that he had 11 seen before. It was purple, Peggy's favourite colour. As Brian turned the doll over and read the back, tears filled his eyes.
All the time he had been pretending that it was 12 serious. Peggy had already known that she was going to die, but she always kept smiling at the world.13 a big brother, he had known so little about his sister, the 14 girl on earth. Peggy, only a child, had accepted her disease and death as a part of her life. She faced most people's worst fear with 15.
From that day on, Brian learned not to think of life's downsides, but to seek out the best in any situation.
Gong Bao Chicken was originally a family dish of Ding Baozhen, an official of the Qing Dynasty. Over the years, it has become one of the most popular dishes in Chinese restaurants all over the world.
It's hard for people to refuse the delicious dish. What's more, it is easy to make. So, why not pick up some chicken and try this recipe out?
RECIPE
Ingredients Instructions
chicken breast.......................300g 1. Heat the oil over a high heat.
roasted peanuts.......................50g 2. When the oil is hot, add the chillies and stir them for about 30 seconds.
small pieces of dried to fu....................... .50g 3. Add the spring onions and stir them for about 30 seconds.
cooking oil.......................2 spoons 4. Add the chicken and cook it through.
dried chillies...................5 or 6 5. Add the soy sauce, vinegar and sugar.
spring onions.... ................a handful 6. Add the peanuts and dried tofu and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes.
soy sauce.................1 teaspoon 7. Add some salt and serve.
vinegar.......... .....................1 teaspoon
sugar........................2 teaspoon
salt.......................1 teaspoon
Have you ever heard of "humblebragging"? We use it to describe someone who seems to make a modest statement, but is actually trying to bring attention to something they are proud of.
For example, Li Ming says to his friend, "I just found out that I got accepted to Tsinghua University AND Beijing University. Maybe they got my name mixed up with someone else's!" He wants to tell others that he's been accepted to two good schools. But he doesn't want to seem too arrogant. So he words it in a way that seems more modest.
Although people who humblebrag think it will make them seem easy to get on with, a 2015 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that humblebragging has the opposite effect.
According to one of the leaders of the study, "Humblebragging often makes others uncomfortable, because it seems not sincere. That ‘sadness is me' attitude with self-promotion does not lead to a good impression. Even simply bragging or complaining is better, because at least those messages are seen as more sincere."
In our daily life, we all humblebrag to some degree. Alibaba founder Jack Ma once said that his biggest mistake was starting the company. " I never thought this thing would change my life. I was just trying to run a small business, and it grew so big!" he said.
The best way to share your achievements is to admit your self-promotion and the prizes directly. In this way, people will see that you aren't just showing off and are simply being honest.
Many cultures have stories of talking trees that give advice as well as warnings to people. Alexander the Great and Marco Polo were said to have visited such a tree in India. And in some modern stories, such as the film Avatar, trees can communicate with animals and people.
New research has found something amazing: it seems that plants can communicate after all.
It has been known for some time that plants use chemicals to communicate with each other. This happens when a plant gets attacked by insects. The plant gives out chemicals from the leaves that are being eaten. This is like a warning, or a call for help: "I'm being attacked!" When another plant gets the chemicals, it starts to give out its own, different chemicals. Some of these chemicals drive insects away. Others attract the wasps! The wasps kill the insects that are eating the plants. Scientists hope to learn more about this plant warning system, so that we can use it to grow more crops.
More surprisingly, plants also use sound to communicate. People can't hear these sounds, but plants are making them. Some plants make noises with their roots. Corn and chilli plants do this. Some trees make clicking noises when there is not enough water.
Most surprisingly of all, plants have an amazing system of communication that can link nearly every plant in a forest. Scientists call this system the "wood wide web". The wood wide web is linked underground by fungi. It links the roots of different plants to each other. It is in some ways similar to the Internet we use. Using the wood wide web, ▲ . However, it may lead to bad effects. Plants may use it to steal food from each other, or spread chemicals to attack other plants. Perhaps one day scientists will learn how to create a "firewall" to help prevent these attacks within the wood wide web.
Scientists are learning more every day about the secret ways in which plants talk to each other. Who knows? Maybe one day we will know enough about plant communication to be able to "talk" with them ourselves.
①chemicals ②leaves ③sound ④fungi
It was just the three of us-my parents and me. My dad was a truck driver and was gone most of the time, so my mom was almost like a single mother.
We moved to a small house with a yard in Brighton on my third birthday. My first memory was our neighbor Arlene handing me strawberries from her garden. She and her husband, Bill, lived next door.
There weren't any kids of my age in the neighborhood, so I mostly played in the yard with my dogs. Arlene spent lots of time working in the garden, and I was always talking to her from our yard. She never got tired of listening to me talk. I think Arlene saw herself in me-we were both lonely kids-and that may be why she always took the time to listen to me. Bill too.
One day, my parents asked Bill and Arlene whether they'd watch me while they were out. This worked well for everyone, so it became a monthly event. They had a spare room in their house, which became "my" room.
Arlene and I would do crafts together. We made clothes for dolls. Bill taught me how to ride a bike and later how to drive a car. He was always fixing something in his garage. I would hang around to chat with him, and he would always stop and listen to me, just like Arlene did.
When I was about five, I had an idea. One day, I knocked on Bill and Arlene's door and said, "Will you be my grandparents?" They started crying and excitedly accepted. They had never thought of having the chance to be parents or even grandparents one day. Soon after, they printed out an adoption certificate and it hung on their living room wall from then on.
From the day I adopted them, I called Bill and Arlene Grandpa and Grandma. Over the years, Bill and Arlene supported me in all my dreams. They encouraged me to apply for college, even though I didn't have the money to go.
Arlene passed away in 2013. At the end of the funeral, I gave the eulogy, "The greatest joy of my ife, my grandmother, Arlene leaves behind her husband, Bill and her granddaughter, Katie. "
After the funeral, Bill gave me the ring he'd gifted to Arlene on their 25th wedding anniversary. It's a gold ring that I wear on my ring finger to help me remember the kind of love I wish to put into this world.
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The Year of the Ox is coming. In China, you will find all kinds of ox figures made of gold, wood, （塑料）, paper, and stone on sale in stores and on streets to celebrate the return.
The ox （选择） to be one of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs long time ago, do you how why?
Centuries ago, most people made their living by farming. The ox was used to help work in the fields and carry （重的） things for them.
The ox is considered one of the （象征） of being diligent and hard-working in Chinese culture. When someone gets over something difficult through hard work, people often use "niu", meaning "excellent", to （称赞）him or her.
Oxen （很少地）laugh at the weak or fear the strong. They work hard and always think of others （没有）thinking about themselves.
This is （尤其）reflected in a poem by Lu Xun. He once wrote "Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a （一千）pointing fingers; Head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children. ", which fully shows the poet's loyalty to the people.
"They never want to be the center of attention," the （网址）China Highlights noted. So naturally, those who were born in the Year of the Ox are often expected to be hard-working, reliable and loyal.
参考词汇：
used to do/be...，try one's best to do...，make progress in (doing.) ...
要求：
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②文中不能出现真实的人名、校名等相关信息；
③文本长度：110词左右，开头、结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
I Am Growing
I'm Li Hua, for the past three years, I have changed a lot. What great progress I have made!
