—July, ____ the month, because summer vacation begins in this month.
—____. I'm getting my coat.
A: Hello, Ben.
B: Oh, hello, Tom. I am going to watch a volleyball game between Chinese team and American team.
A: Oh, that's such an important game. I don't want to miss it.
B: Of course. Let's go.
A: It seems that you like volleyball very much. Do you like P. E.?
B: No, I don't like it.
A: Why not?
B: What about you?
A: I like P. E. lessons very much. Our teacher is very friendly.
B: You are lucky.
A: Do you like doing sports?
B:
A: I agree with you.
A. I would like you to go there with us.
B. Where are you going?
C. Yes. Doing sports can make us healthy.
D. Because the teacher is too strict with us.
E. Shall we go together?
F. In her classes, we have many interesting activities.
Amy, Iris and Matt moved to the UK two years ago and began their new lives. How are they 1 in their new country?
Amy is from Japan. She used to live 2 her uncle and grandparents. She and her mother now live in the UK. She knew little English 3 she first arrived in the UK, but now she speaks it quite well. She 4 her life in the UK and loves dancing with her friends.
Iris came to London to live with 5 mother and father. At first, she was excited every day. 6 about one month later, she became very homesick. She felt 7 and missed her friends. 8 , she soon made new friends through playing basketball and tennis. Now she has gotten used to her new life.
Matt got used to his new life there quickly as he has the 9 of already being a good English speaker. He is happily living with his mother and brother. He is 10 with his classmates and has won many singing competitions.
When a young elephant is born, it stands quickly on its feet. It drinks milk from its mother for a few years.
The mother elephant teaches it how to use its nose. She teaches it many things. The mother elephant is very important to a young elephant.
Elephants travel a lot. Sometimes they have to cross rivers. A young elephant can be washed down river. Or it can fall into a hole. When young elephant is parted from its mother, it becomes an orphan (孤儿). Sometimes young elephant becomes an orphan because its mother has been killed.
In the wild, a young elephant needs its mother. It can't live without her. It can get sick.
Some people, called keepers, take care of the orphan elephants in a park. The keepers take care of the elephants until they can take care of themselves. Then, the keepers take the elephants back to the wild.
The keepers need to teach a young elephant how to feed. To make it more comfortable, they rest its nose against a huge coat, which feels a little like its mother.
In the wild, a young elephant will go under its mother to find protection from the sun. In the park, the keepers put an umbrella over them.
Orphan elephants don't forget where they were cared for.
King's College Summer School is a yearly training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. This year's summer school will be from July 25 to August 15. More information is as follows:
Application (申请) date Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2023. Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16, 2023. Foreign students should send their applications before July 10, 2023. | Courses English Language Spoken English: 22 hours Reading and Writing: 10 hours American History: 16 hours American Culture: 16 hours |
Steps A letter of self-introduction A letter of recommendation (推荐) The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information. | Cost Daily lessons: $200 Sports and activities: $100 Travels: $200 Hotel service: $400 You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city. |
Please write to: Thompson, Sanders 1026 King's Street New York, NY 10016, USA E-mail: KC-Summer-School@yahoo.com | |
Imagine you walk into your office with the temperature just right. You sit down and a very valuable and meaningful day begins. This is the kind of smart office that engineers are trying to make. It uses technology to help workers perform their best at work.
It can be bad for your health if you sit in front of a desk for too long. For example, it can cause pain in the back and the neck. Sanon, a company in Zhejiang, built UP7 to deal with this. As a smart lifting desk, UP7 can tell how long a user has been sitting in the chair. When it reaches the setting time, it will "tell" the user to stand up and walk around. It does this by either shaking the table or sending messages to the user's phone.
The company also invented a kind of smart chair to match with the table. "The chair is so comfortable. It can adjust its arms and height according to your body shape," a user in Zhejiang said on Xiaohongshu.
In smart offices, you probably won't use paper notebooks. Instead, you can try electronic paper books to put your work online. N10 from Hanvo n Technology in Beijing, is a new "notebook" like this. It uses a screen that doesn't produce much light. Users write or draw with an electronic pen on the screen.
"It is just like reading and writing on real paper," a user said. "You can organize, search and save notes easily. You usually need several big paper notebooks to do what the electronic notebook does."
The internet is a place where we can talk freely, but it is also a place where we pay little attention to whether or not our language ability is becoming poorer.
According to a recent survey by China Youth Daily, more than 76 percent of young people in China said they felt their Chinese language skills have declined. They don't use rhetorical technique (修辞手法) as often any more. It is believed that technology and internet emojis (表情包) have changed their communication habits.
For example, direct expression is a preferred way to communicate online. When one sees something funny, one will simply type "hahaha" or use the "cry-laugh" emoji, BeijingYouth Daily noticed. What's more, Cai Xiaoxia, a teacher from Fuzhou, told China YouthDaily that words in general are being used less. For example, people can share photos and emojis online with little need for words to describe them.
Also, "copy and paste" culture is getting popular. People simply pick up expressions from the internet without much thought. Many begin to use a fixed set of sentence patterns, such as "...yyds".
If this continues, it could influence our way of thinking, People's Daily believed. When we use expressions without thinking, it means we have become too lazy to express our real feelings. If teenagers are used to using emojis, they could lose the ability to use words properly.
To improve our language skills, experts suggest that we should try to think independently and develop our own language. They also suggest that we should read more works of literature (文学). Keep using different words to show your special feelings, said Shen Xiaolong, a professor in the Chinese department at Fudan University.
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George was a little boy and he had pocket money. He put it in his piggy bank and never wasted it. One day, his grandma came his home. George out his piggy bank and said, "Grandma, your back always . Take my pocket money and go to see a doctor. "
He was imagining that his mother praise him. He was even imagining that his mother would buy him some and toys. Thinking about this, George was very happy. His grandma was very . She said, "Thank you, George. You are a good boy. But your mum has already taken me to the and my back doesn't hurt any longer. "
the words, George cried because he would not have a chance to eat candies or have a new toy.
内容包括：1. 事情的起因、经过、结果；2. 你的收获和感想。
注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称；3. 短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：fall behind (落后) ; work together as a team (团队合作) ; achieve success (取得成功) ; team work spirit (团队精神)
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
As an old saying goes "Ten thousand lines can pull a boat", with great teamwork, we can achieve remarkable results.
