The story goes that two friends were walking across the desert.
During the journey they had a1, and one friend hit the other in the face. The one who got hit was hurt, but2saying anything, he wrote in the sand, "Today my3 friend hit me in the face." They kept on walking until they found green fields and a beautiful river where they decided to4.The one who had been hit fell into the river and started5, but the friend saved him. After he was out of 6, he wrote on a stone, "Today my best friend saved my life."
The friend who7and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why? "The other8, "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand where wind of forgiveness(宽容)can blow it away.9when someone does something good for us, we must carve(雕刻)it in the stone where no wind can ever blow it away."
Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in the stone. Send this phrase to people you will10forget. It's a short message to let them know that you will never forget them.
Mark Twain tells a boy's story in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck is a poor child without a mother and a home. His father drinks too much alcohol and always beats him.
Huck's situation frees him from the restriction of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He also smokes. Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped(逃脱)slavery(奴隶制).They travel together on a raft(木筏)made of wood down the Mississippi River. Mark Twain started writing" Huckleberry Finn" as a children's story. But it soon became serious. The story tells about the social evil of slavery, which is seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Huck's ideas about people are formed by the white society in which he lives. So, at first, he does not question slavery. Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural and this is the law of God. So he thinks it is his duty to tell Jim's owner where to find him.
Later, Huck comes to understand that Jim is a good man. He finds he cannot carry out his plan to inform Jim's owner of his whereabouts(下落). Instead, he decides to help Jim escape. He decides to do this, even if God punishes him.
Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit.
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company.
In 1939, Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp(瘸的)for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine.
Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, ：Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Oliva, one of Roald's daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better.
Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed(棚)at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap.
"One of the nice things about being a writer," he once said, "is that all you need is what you've got in your head and a pencil and a bit of paper."
In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox.
After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illness and those with problems with reading and writing.
It may be hard to believe, but the American Revolution (革命) —the war that freed the American states from British control—began over a cup of tea. Tea was not the only thing that caused the war, of course, but it played a very big part.
The British people's love of tea is well-known. When the British won control over much of North America in the early 1700s, they brought their tea-drinking habits with them. Tea quickly became the continent's most popular drink. As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country—mostly from India.
In the early 1700s, the Britain government made a special deal with the East India Company, an English trading company. They agreed that no other company was allowed to bring tea to Britain or any country controlled by Britain, including America. It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products. And it always decided on a high price!
In North America, the local people did not like having to pay such high prices. Instead of overpaying for tea from the British, they turned to Dutch traders, who secretly brought tea to the country that was just as good—and much less expensive. Although this broke the law, the American people didn't care. They got the same cup of tea at a much lower price.
The East India Company, however, didn't like this at all. By the 1760s, they were losing millions of pounds each year to Dutch traders—a huge amount of money in a time when £60 a year was considered a good income. Instead of reducing their prices to compete with the Dutch, the company asked the British government for help and the government agreed.
In 1767, the British introduced new laws that increased the prices of all goods which were brought into America. These laws helped make the East India Company even richer and forced local people to pay much more for everything. The American leaders asked the British government not to do so, but the British refused to listen. These unfair laws increased Americans' anger about British rule and the rest, as they say, is history.
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A. We've known each other since we were kids. B. Where is she from? C. You mean the girl reading a book? D. What does she look like? E. Could you introduce me to her? F. She is always ready to help others. G. Let's talk to her when she stops reading. |
W: Do you know the girl in red under the tree?
M:
W: Right. Do you know her?
M: Of course. She's Lily.
W: Is she easy to get along with?
M: Yes. She is kind.So she is very popular with the people around her.
W: I want to make friends with her.
M: Certainly. But I don't want to disturb her now. She seems to lose herself in the book.
W: OK.
M: All right.
I remember when I was growing up, my mum always said, "Half the fun of doing anything is sharing it with others." It's so true. Friends allow us to enjoy the taste of our success and our joys and comfort us in our challenging moment. They provide a mirror for us to learn more about ourselves. I've always looked on friends as the family members. They enrich our lives. As Robert Steven once said, "A friend is a present which you give yourself."
To be a good friend，①成为一个好的听众是很重要的. Hear what your friends say first rather than making conclusions (结论) quickly. Sometimes it is useful to repeat their words back to them. It can help them to realize whether their words were what they wanted to say.
Patience is also important in being a good friend. You know the old golden rule, "Care for others the way you would like them to care for you." The support of a friend during a difficult time could make the difference between success and failure.② Encouragement and confidence are the best gifts that can change a person's life.
We should choose our friends carefully, because they can have a huge effect on our life. As someone told me, "The attitudes of your friends are like the buttons (按钮) on a lift. They will either take you up or down."
We may be very(please) with the rapid progress we have made in every field of study, but we have almost done nothing to improve our present examination systems which focustesting the(student) memory instead of their(able). As soon as a child begins school, he enters a world of examinationwill decide his future. In fact, a good examination system should encourage students(think) for themselves. But the examination now does anything but that. It forces the students to rememberis taught to get high marks. Thus the students who come out first in the examination often may be the(good) in their studies. In addition, suchexamination system often drives teachers to cram (塞满；填鸭式教学) all the time and forces them to train students to study for the(come) examination. There must be a better way to test students' true ability as well as their knowledge.
1）影片由李安(Ang Lee)执导, 他因此片获最佳导演奖;
2）影片讲述了一个名叫派(Pi)的年轻人的故事, 他独自乘小船出行;
3）他要应付恶劣的天气, 还要找到足够的食物, 最终安全返回;
4）观后感想。
注意：1）观后感须包括所给的内容要点, 要求语句通顺、意思连贯;
2）第4要点的内容须用2-3句话展开合理想象, 作适当发挥;
3）观后感的开头及结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。
Our school Drama Club is holding a film activity.
We are our own heroes.
