At first, I wanted to give up the job becausegetting up too early in the morning made me unhappy. I’ll never forget howtired I felt on my first day, but I’ll never forget sitting together andtalking about our days with my workmates for the first time either. Suddenly, Ifelt good to be a member of them.
Penny’sfamily was very poor. Her father was a sailor (水手). He earned very littlemoney and was ____16____ away from home. Her mother could not work ____17____she was often sick. One day. Penny’s mother said to Penny, “Our lamp (燈) isbroken. Go to the market on your way home from school and buy another one. Here’ssixty dollars. ____18____ to get a bargain (還價), dear.”
出佛手園,遠處有山,山中有嵐,有云。嵐清,云白,綢緞一般,棉花一般,曼妙而行,逍遙自在。除了愛,還有眼前這山川草木。小小人類身處自然,永不孤單。那些草木,那些動物,那些自然界中的生靈,各安其所,相處自洽。而人類,不免焦慮,屢屢焦慮,內(nèi)在小宇宙紊亂,何不走到自然中,謙卑蹲下,去學(xué)習(xí)一株草、一顆露珠的寧靜?
41. Bill cares about sportsevents and how the sports players are now.42. Tony is interested in reading. He wants to knowwhat kind of new books have come out and how some famous writers are livingnow.
Flying kites Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made ofwood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijingkite, Tianjin kite, and Weifang kite. And they are quite different from eachother. For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.
Everyone knows how similar chimpanzees (黑猩猩)are to humans. So it’s no surprise that their greetings are also close to ours.The most common ways of greeting between chimpanzees are hand touching andhugging. Sometimes they also kiss each other. Some chimpanzees can even learnsimple sign language.
遙看起伏的山巒,心存疑惑:把店開到山頂,哪來的底氣和自信?車子往山上爬的時候,是在一條不足丈寬的小路上。路已年久,不少地方坑洼不平,好幾個彎道,極陡,路邊不見護欄,我瞪著眼睛,雙手緊緊擦著扶手。近一小時的驚恐后,終于見到被大樹環(huán)繞著的一幢幢鋼架結(jié)構(gòu)的時尚小屋,夕陽斜照,大玻璃墻晃人眼睛,飄窗擺著素雅的靠墊。突然想起,在這高山之巔,晚飯沒法下山吃了,那險窄之道,在漆黑的山林里,誰還受得了一上一下?
In the late autumn, John was badly ill andbecame bedridden (長期臥床的).After the doctor visited John several times, he told Sue, “His condition isquite ___22___.John seems to have lost all will to live. If he doesn’t want to live, medicineswill not help him.”
In the large yard stood thirteen trees ofdifferent sizes. One day, while Joey was playing with his sister under thetrees, he noticed that a tree trunk (樹干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
As a boy, Kevin visited national parks and helearned the Earth is in ___12___condition. He felt worried, and he wanted to ___13___ the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in waternear North Pole(北極)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
At the age of nine, Kelly dreamed of being abasketball player. But one day when she was playing basketball, she hurt herleft leg ____16____.
Antarctica lies in the most southern part of theworld. It is the coldest area on Earth. There isn’t much rain, but there is alot of snow and wind. The lowest temperature was on 21 July in 1983 at -89.2℃!
“Red Trip” in TonghuaTonghua is a good choice to have a “red trip”. It is aplace full of “red stories”. The well-known national hero Yang Jingyu oncefought here. Experience the “red spirit”!
The app — called Sit With Us — is ___15___. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon,he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ___16___ that invitation. They can then use the app todecide when and where to ___17___.
I joineda band (樂隊)as a drummer in my middle school. I thought itwould be fun playing the drum and meeting new friends. At first it was easy,but a month later, it got difficult. I was the only one who couldn’t keep pace (節(jié)奏)with the other players. Our teacher,Angie, singled me out to keep practicing while everyone else got to relax. Ifelt ashamed (羞愧的)as my teammates watched me fail so many times.Finally I got so tired of practicing that I didn’t care about doing it right.
Electric cars may seem like a recent invention,but they have been around for years. In the early 1900s, there were ___16___ electric cars on the road than gasoline(汽油)cars,because at that time, gasoline was expensive compared with other fuels(燃料)
TheChinese knot, a folk art, has a long history. People first made them to recordinformation and send messages before they started to use words. The knots wereused for decoration (裝飾) and to express thoughts and feelings in theTang Dynasty. They were later popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. But thisart wasn’t really accepted by the common people until the Qing Dynasty.
Antarctica is a continent (大陸) of ice. There is hardlyany rain in Antarctica, so the Antarctic Desert becomes the driest desert inthe world. It is also the world’s largest desert by area.
Raden Roro Hendarti, nearly 50 years old, is alibrarian in Muntang village. She started a “trash library”, hoping to makechildren read more as well as make them realize the importance of environmentprotection. Each weekday, Raden puts all kinds of books on the back of herthree-wheeler (三輪車)and rides to Muntang village. There, children line up to exchange plastic cups,bags and other trash for books from Raden’s mobile library. After finishing theexchange, Raden carries back all the trash.
Dealing with a nosebleed(鼻出血)mightseem simple. But recently, the British RED Cross asked parents with youngchildren how to help a child with a nosebleed. About 65 percent of parents didnot ____11____the correct action to help.