At the end of the term, our ethics(伦理学) professor gave us a test. He had told us (1) (expect)one and had warned us it would be included in the final grade.
The test began. Sure enough, I was (2) confident that I finished all the questions after forty (3) (minute)except the very last one: What is the name of the woman who cleans the lecture hall?
I thought it was(4) joke. I'd seen the woman many times. She'd been working in the building for at least a year. She is short (5) dark hair, in her fifties, and we'd even smiled at each other once or twice. But I didn't know (6) (she)name because I'd never thought to ask her. I handed in my test and the last question (7) (leave)unanswered﹣hoping the final result wouldn't be influenced to(8) (bad)because of it. But then one student put up his hand. He hadn't finished the test, (9) ."I' m just wondering," he said." Will it really change my grade if I don't complete that last question?"
" Certainly, " our professor(10) (smile)." In your future jobs,…"
I've never forgotten that lesson.I also learned that the cleaner's name was Sherry.
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One day while a man(44) (walk) on a street corner,he saw a boy selling a number of small birds in a cage(笼子)
He looked at the birds flying about in the cage and trying to get out.He(45) ( stand) for some time looking at the birds.At last he said to the boy,"How much do you ask for your birds?""fifty cents a bird,sir"said the boy."I (46) ( not mean) how much a bird."said the man."But how much for all of them?I expected(47) (buy) them all."
The boy began to count,and found they came to five dollars"There is your money,"said the man.The boy took it happily.Then the man opened the cage door as quickly as he could,and let all the birds fly away.
The boy,in great surprise,cried,"What did you do that for,sir?You(48) ( lose) all your birds."
"I (49) ( tell) you why I did it,"said the man."I (50) (shut) up three years in a prison(监狱),and I decided never to see anything in prison which I can make free."
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Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many people in the 19th century. She was named after the city of Florence in Italy.
Florence was (1) unusual young woman for her time, because she didn't want to go to parties and get married. She wanted to be a nurse and help people. Her family (2) (not) want her to become because a nurse because hospitals back then were dirty, horrible places.
(3) the age of thirty﹣one, Florence went to Germany and learned all about nursing. It was hard work,(4) she loved it.
In 1854, lots of British soldiers went to fight in the Crimean War. Army hospitals were filled with injured people, but there(5) (be) no nurses and many soldiers died. Florence and a team of nurses went to help.
Florence worked 20 hours a day to make the hospital a (6) (clean) and safer place. She brought fresh food,she cleaned the beds and she used clean bandages on the wounded soldiers. Soon, fewer (7) (man) were dying.
At night, Florence talked to the injured soldiers and helped them (8) (write) letters to their families.They called her "the lady with the lamp", (9) she always carried a lamp.
When Florence returned to England, people called her a hero. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thanks.She(10) (give) the honor(荣誉)﹣Order of Merit, becoming the first woman to receive it.
When I was in the sixth grade,I joined a piano competition.I practiced for four hours every day and my piano teacher came three times a week (1) help me.Then the big day(2) (final)arrived.I was so (3) (nervous)when they called my name.I went up(4) started to play.(5) I was playing,everyone sat still and listened.I played the song without any (6) (mistake).Then I waited for(7) (they)to call out the(8) (win).When I(9) (hear)my name,my heart was beating so quickly I thought I would stop breathing.I couldn't believe it.I won!It was the(10) (happy)day of my life!
Each different part of China has its own special forms of traditional art. These usually try to show the things(1) are important in life, such as love, beauty and family. The most common things, from paper to clay to bamboo, are turned into objects of beauty.
According to Chinese history, sky lanterns were first used by Zhuge Kongming. He sent them out(2) (ask)for help when in trouble. Today, sky lanterns are used at festivals and other celebrations. They(3) (make) of bamboo and covered with paper. When the lanterns are lit, they slowly rise into the air like small hot﹣air balloons for all to see. They are seen as bright symbols of(4) (happy) and good wishes.
Paper cutting(5) (be)around for over 1500 years. Paper cutting sounds very easy(6) it can be difficult to do. The paper, usually red, is folded before it is cut with scissors. The most common pictures are flowers, animals, and things about Chinese history. During the Spring Festival, they are put on windows, doors and walls (7) symbols of wishes for good luck and a happy new year.
Chinese clay art is famous because the clay pieces are so small but they look very real. The pieces are usually cute children or lively characters from a Chinese fairy tale or historical story. The pieces are(8) (careful)shaped by hand from a very special kind of clay and then allowed to air﹣dry. After(9) (dry) they are fired at a very high heat. They are then polished and painted. It takes several weeks(10) (complete)everything. These small pieces of clay art show the love that all Chinese people have for life and beauty.
It's four o'clock in the afternoon.Some students(61) (talk) about the future.Here is one of their predictions.
I believe we will be able to live in the space.There(62) (be) many big clean hotels in the space.We can fly our rockets to the space hotel there.And also we (63) (play) sports and enjoy all kinds of interesting food in the sky.﹣John.
Malala Yousafzai,19,is a Pakistani youth activist.She is the (1) (young)person in the world ever to be named United Nations(U.N.)Messenger(信使) of Peace.The United Nations is (2) international organization,which is meant to encourage (3) (country)to work together on different opinions without the use of war.Yousafzai has (4) (glad) accepted the role of working for girls' education.Usually,a messenger (5) (stay) in the position(职位)for three years."If (6) want to see your future bright,you have to start working now and not wait (7) anyone else,"she said at the acceptance meeting in New York.In 2012,Yousafzai was nearly killed by the Taliban because she worked hard (8) (get) the same education for young girls in Pakistan.But later her condition improved.(9) a brave girl! Since then Yousafzai (10) (become) a symbol for peace and girls' right to receive an education.
How does garlic(大蒜) grow?Hu Mengmeng,13,had been thinking about this question for a while. Last term, Hu (1) (get) her answer in her schools rooftop garden.
Hu's school, Tangwai Junior High School in Shanghai, set up a small garden on its teaching building's rooftop in 2015. Each term, students (2) (plant) one kind of vegetable. While taking care of them. They also do scientific experiments(实验)(3) (learn) more about vegetables.
Chen Yan, a 14﹣year﹣old girl, (4) (study)in this school for one year.Last year,she started to plant garlic with her teacher's help.She wondered how sunshine affected the growth of garlic.She put three pots of garlic in different places to get different amounts of sunlight.Then, she watched their growth every day. Later, she found that the garlic which got the most sunlight (5) (grow) best.
The garden (6) (turn) into a fun place two years ago.The students planted different types of vegetables in shapes, such as hearts, or squares in the garden. The different kinds of vegetables made the garden more colorful.
And that is not the end. Next year, they (7) (build) a robot to help with planting,"Students will work with our robot club to build more robots to help with watering. " Mr. Zhou, the school's science teacher said.
Speaker 1:I went straight into work after leaving school at the age of eighteen.I got a job in a big business.But I think it was a mistake as there weren't any chances for me.I think graduates(毕业生) (51) (usual) get more interesting jobs,so I decided to go to university to have a better future.Studying for a degree was one of the best (52) (experience) of my life.I loved my subject,and now I'm looking for a new job﹣better paid and more interesting than my last one.
Speaker 2:I (53) (leave) school at sixteen and started working in a market.Now I've just opened my first shop.Some of my friends (54) went on to university can't find work.They had (55) good time at college for a few years,but I really don't know (56) they still stayed in college.
Working for(57) (you) is the best education.
Speaker 3:I got quite a shock when I got my first job after graduation from university.My boss had been in the same class (58) me at school! She went straight into work at eighteen and now she's making more money than me! Actually,she (59) (want) to go to university now.And I think that's probably a much(60) (good) way to do it.I think you'll get more from university if you spend some time working first.
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An old man went to India. When he got there, he saw some fruit for sale, but most of it was very
cheap. The (1) (cheap) thing was a basket of red fruit.
"How much per kilo? " the old man (2) (ask).
" Two rupees(卢比)," the shopkeeper answered.Two rupees in India is almost nothing,(3) the old man bought a whole kilogram and started eating it.
However, as soon as he started eating, his mouth began (4) (burn), his eyes began to water,and his whole face became as red (5) the fruit. As he coughed and struggled to breathe, he jumped up and(6) , screaming:"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
And yet he continued to eat the fruit. Some people who were looking at him shook their(7) (head)and said, "You are crazy! Those are chili peppers(辣椒)! You can′t just eat them by the handful!"
The old man said to (8) (he), "I paid for them, so I must eat them."
This old man seemed pretty stupid. But are we so much smarter? All of us have (9) (spend) money and time on something﹣ maybe a relationship, or a business, or a job﹣ and sometimes, even if
we know there's no hope that things will change, we still continue with it.
What we can learn (10) the old man is this: if you've lost a lot over something that doesn't work,let it go and move on. It's better than continuing to lose.
As we all know,the environment around us is getting worse and worse.Some chemical factories always pour(1) (废弃的)water into the(2) (河流).And they also(3) (产生)terrible gas.In some places,some people even have no clean water to drink.So I think we must do something to protect the environment.
How to protect the environment?First,as a student,we should use cloth bags instead of(4) (塑料的)bags when we go shopping.(5) (第二),we'd better reuse the old textbooks as possible as we can.Third,we should never forget to turn off the lights when we leave the classrooms.In a word,we must try our best to protect our environment.I believe we can make the world a better place to live in.
June 15,2018
This morning I took a bus to school. The traffic was (1) (busy) than usual and there were more people on the bus. At Xinhua Stop, I saw (2) old man get on the bus. He looked very weak. I stood (3) and gave my seat to him. He thanked me and asked me about my name and my school. We talked (4) (happy).
Later in the (5) (three) class, Mr. Du came in and asked me to go to the front. I didn't know (6)w , so I was a little afraid. Everyone was looking at me. Then he told (7) (they) what I did on the bus this morning. He (8) (know) it because he got a phone call from the old man. Mr. Du said I could be a good example to my (9) (classmate). It was really a good day (10)f me! I was so proud.
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A Spring Morning
This spring morning in bed I'm lying,
Not to awake till the birds are crying.
After one night of wind and showers,
How many are the fallen flowers!
(Translated by Xu Yuanchong)
This poem (1) (write) by Meng Haoran (689﹣740), who lived during the Tang Dynasty. It might be one of the(2) (famous) poems about spring in China. People like to read it(3) they wake up on a spring morning.
Meng didn't directly say how much he loved spring. Instead, he wrote about the details(细节) of the season: the birds, wind, rain showers and fallen flowers. His descriptions(描述) of these things showed (4) (we) the joy he felt during springtime.
Meng chose to write about the sounds of spring. These sounds allow readers (5) (picture) spring using their own imagination.
Do you play Ant Forest? It is (1) online game on Alipay (支付宝). Players (2) (collect) "energy" by doing something environmentally﹣friendly. They can grow and water (3) (they) own "trees" with the "energy". (4) the "trees" are big enough, Alipay with some other companies will plant real trees in the desert (沙漠)area of China. Every year millions of trees (5) (plant) in this way.
This is part of China's tree﹣planting program. It hopes (6) (stop) the desert from becoming larger. Since 1978, China has planted over 66 billion trees (7) the north. It is known as "the Great Green Wall".For example,Saihanba in Hebei Province was once a desert, (8) now it has become the biggest man﹣made forest in China.
"China is making the world much (9) (green) than before. It sets a good example and has many (10) (lesson) to share with the world,'' said the United Nations Environment Program.
Can a one﹣armed person still play basketball? You might think so after you see Zhang Jiacheng play.
The one﹣armed 13﹣year﹣old from Guangdong(1) (become) an internet star recently.Featuring his dribbling(运球)skills and powerful underarm shots (腋下投篮),his basketball(2) (video) have been viewed by more than 50 million people. Zhang even drew the attention of NBA superstar Steven Curry, "You are(3) inspiration. You are a real superstar in playing basketball. "Curry said in a video posted on Sina Weibo.
However, it wasn't easy(4) Zhang to step onto the court. At the age of five, Zhang(5) (hit) in a car accident and lost his right arm. "Although it was difficult at first, I gradually got used to eating and getting dressed by(6) (Ⅰ)," Zhang said. He also keeps up with his studies in school and helps his family with chores. On a hot evening in 2018, Zhang was watching a basketball match(7) he first discovered his love for the sport. Then he signed up for a basketball class in his school. From then on, he always took a basketball with him. He also practiced basketball in PE class. While the class was learning how to jump rope, which takes two hands, he asked his teacher(8) (let) him do basketball training instead. As time went by, he(9) (final) became the best basketball player in his school.
He has got a lot of attention since then. Zhang said, "With the encouragement of all these people,I'll practice more. I'm sure that I will become even(10) (good)."
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