The Storm Brought People Closer Together
Ben could hear strong winds outside his home in Alabama. Black clouds were 1 the sky very dark. With no light outside, it 2 midnight. The news on TV reported that a heavy rainstorm was in the area.
3 in the neighborhood was busy. Ben's dad was putting pieces of wood over the windows 4 his mom was making sure the flashlights and radio were working. She 5 put some candles and matches on the table.
Ben was helping his mom make dinner when the rain began to beat 6 against the windows. After dinner, they tried to play a card game, but it was hard 7 fun with a serious storm happening outside.
Ben could not sleep at first. He finally fell 8 when the wind was dying down at around 3:00a.m. When he woke up, the sun was rising. He went outside with his family and found the neighborhood in a mess. Fallen trees, 9 windows and rubbish were everywhere. They joined the neighbors to help clean up the neighborhood together. 10 the storm broke many thing apart, it brought families and neighbors closer together.
A: Hi, Jenny! Do you know Mary?
B: Sure, she's my classmate and my good friend.
A: I met her in the park this morning.
B:
A: About 9:00.
B:
A: She was learning to ride a bike.
B: It can't be Mary.
A: Really? What were you doing at that time?
B:
A: Who's that girl? She looked like Mary.
B: She and Mary look the same.
A: I see. No wonder that she didn't say hello to me.
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A. Where did she go? B. What time did you meet her? C. What does she look like? D. What was she doing then? E. She might be her younger sister Alice. F. From 8:00 to 10:00 I was with her. G. We were practicing the guitar in the club. |
Washing machines or cooking machines make housework easier than before, but some parents think children should play and do things they like; housework seems to be a hard job for them.
First of all, doing housework makes the children feel they are useful and an important part of the family. This is not clever.
Second, children know the value (价值) of a job only when they do it.
Third, housework helps children to get their life skills and manners. At a small age, parents can teach the children to do small chores.
Things would be much easier if they were taught to do housework at an early age.
Parents cannot live with children forever and teaching them to do housework is an important step for their future life.
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A. But not all children like doing chores. B. But letting children do small chores is important and useful. C. By letting the children do chores at home, they will understand the value of the job people do. D. Many students have trouble when they start living far from family. E. Many parents are ready to say NO if their child touches something or wants to do something. F. By and by, it becomes a good habit and this kind of habit helps them a lot when they grow up. |
Do you know where the President (总统) of the United States lives? Yes, he lives in the White House. Do you know what the White House is? Perhaps some of you do, while others don't.
The White House is a house in Washington D.C. The President of the US works and lives in it. It is really white. But do you know why the White House is white?
The story happened in 1812. That year England was at war with America. The British army got to Washington and set the President's house on fire.
In 1814, in order to hide the marks (痕迹) of the fire, the stone walls of the President's house were painted white—and it has been " the White House" ever since.
Some people say they can know what the weather will be like from animals. They believe that birds, chickens and frogs can tell the weather.
When they see birds fly high out to the sea, they know it is a nice day, because birds won't fly out when it's rainy. When the weather becomes bad, birds will come back to the beach. A big wind may come with a rain. Birds do not like to fly in a big wind. They may sit in a tree while rain is coming. It's a cloudy day. The rain is coming. Chickens aren't quiet, and they are running here and there. Frogs are making a big noise in the pool. If it is a nice day, the frogs will come out of the water.
In November 1979, pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey. Most of them were hearing this story for the first time. However, this story is not new to Chinese children. The Monkey King or Sun Wu Kong is the main character in the 1______ (tradition) Chinese book Journey to the West.
The Monkey King is not just any normal monkey. In fact, he sometimes does not even look like a monkey! This is because he can make 72 changes to his shape and size, 2______ (turn) himself into different animals and objects. But unless he can hide his tail, he cannot turn himself into a man. To fight bad people, the Monkey King uses a magic stick. Sometimes he can make the stick so small that he can keep it in his ear. At other times, he is able to make it big and long.
The Monkey King has excited the children of China for many years. And as soon as the TV program came out more than 30 years ago, Western children became interested in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up.
having or using special powers to make impossible things happen or seem to happen
The Horse Riding
Bob is a middle school student. His favorite thing is to play games. He eats a lot of junk food. As he stays up late at night, he often sleeps in class. When he is having a P.E. class, he feels very sad. Most of his classmates say to him, "Bob, you are too slow. You'd better play all by yourself." What's worse, when he is running in a relay race, his team will complain about his action.
One day he went to a doctor. "Doctor, I'm sad when I play sports with my classmates.
How can I become thinner and healthy sooner?"
The doctor told him to keep on exercising every day. Bob thought it was a good idea.
A month later, he came to the doctor again and complained about exercising. Pulling a long face, he came to the doctor's office.
The doctor asked him, "How do you exercise, Bob? Do you run or play basketball?"
Bob answered, "I don't run or play basketball. I go for horse riding every day. The result is that I gain weight while the horse loses weight."
The doctor laughed, "You shouldn't ride the horse. You should run with your horse every day."
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现象 |
经常对父母发火，甚至几天不和父母说话 |
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父母过分关注分数 我们…… |
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我们应该和父母沟通 我们…… |
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