轻松寒假，快乐复习30天 第4天

The English play _________ many students are preparing at the New Year’s party will be a great success.

We’ll reach the sales targets in a month _______ we set at the beginning of the year.

--- Is it true that Mike refused an offer from Yale University yesterday?
--- Yeah, but I have no idea _______ he did it; that’s one of his favorite universities.

I now, we have raised 50.000 pounds for the poor children, ______ is quite unexpected.

It is difficult for us to imagine_____ life was like for slaves in the ancient world.

Love is_____ makes you smile when you are tired.

___________ we can have clean drinking water lies in ___________ effective measures will be taken by the government about water pollution.

We have just heard a warning on the radio _____________ a typhoon may be on its way．

As for the plan some agree while others don’t. I’m one of _____ opposed to it.

I have no idea             go there with her.

From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t ________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he _____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:_____the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.

A．reflected B．explained C．meant D．proved

A．would B．could C．might D．should

A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something

A．goal B．stage C．journey D．chance

A．trouble B．satisfaction C．strength D．disappointment

A．kept B．sent C．watched D．felt

A．through B．from C．against D．before

A．miss B．afford C．select D．understand

A．as B．once C．if D．while

A．educated B．protected C．stuck D．spoilt

A．allowed B．invited C．inspired D．persuaded

A．roughly B．simply C．merrily D．curiously

A．words B．videos C．notes D．lessons

A．decades B．weeks C．hours D．moments

A．play B．freeze C．click D．adjust

A．same B．warm C．different D．dirty

A．predicted B．realized C．imagined D．insisted

A．pass over B．turn up C．bring in D．concentrate on

A．ashamed B．aware C．tired D．proud

A．casually B．anxiously C．nicely D．frequently

Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart.
“I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home,’ but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education,” says Jacobs.
The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid form the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.
With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around.
At the same time, tuition（学费）continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade,
“If we go on this way for another 25years, we won’t have an affordable system of higher education,” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”
Financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.
According to Paragraph 1, why did the plan of Jacobs family fail?

How did the Jacobs manage to solve their problem?

Financial aid administrators believe that _______.

What can we learn about the middle class families from the text?

According to the last paragraph, the government will       .

假定你是学生会主席李华。学校将举办一次以“校园生活·创意无限”(Innovations on Campus)为主题的创意作品展评活动。请你根据以下图示，以短文
形式用英语写一份书面通知。

注意:  1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯;
3.开头及结尾已为你写好，不计人总词数。
参考词汇: 校园campus 创意作品innovation 颁奖prize-giving
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（）A company ______profits from home markets are declining may seek opportunities abroad.