Show Biz Summer 2018
Location: Rosewood Center for Family Arts
Important Information:
* Tuition paid on the first day of class. No tuition refunds（退款）.
* DCT reserves the right to cancel any class; refunds made for cancelation.
* Please accompany students the first day of class.
* Registration begins one-half hour before class time.
How To Register:
* Mail: fill out the form in this brochure.
* Be sure to list the class and group that you want.
Drama Days: $ 175
Entering Grades:
Group A: 1st—2nd; Group B: 3rd—5th.
Time: June 2—June 6
* Create the situations and scenes.
* Showtime—invite family and friends to your Friday Showcase!
* Bring a sack lunch and drink each day!
Laugh Out Loud: $ 175
Entering Grade: 5th
Time: June 23—June 27
* Tell a joke! Learn why old jokes can be the best!
* Work with your class to put on a Comedy Show for family and friends!
Acting—Just Acting: $ 225
Entering Grades: Group A: 1st—2nd; Group B: 3rd—4th
Time: August 4—August 8
* Start with the characters: Who are you? Be the Star of your Dreams.
* Work with your class to create the plot.
Summer Scenes: $ 225
Entering Grades: 5th—6th
Time: August 11 一August 15
* Do you want to be an actor?
* Improve your skills with instructions from professional actors & directors.
1.Which of the following classes is set only for the 5th grade students?
A. Drama Days. B. Summer Scenes.
C. Acting—Just Acting. D. Laugh Out Loud.
2.What can students do if they choose Drama Days?
A. Create paintings. B. Write novels.
C. Play a drama for friends. D. Have free lunch.
3.What should parents know about Show Biz Summer 2018?
A. There will be no refunds in any case.
B. Tuition must be paid at least before June 2.
C. Registration begins half an hour after class time.
D. Students had better be accompanied on the first day.
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When I was a child, my grandmother Adele took me to museums, restaurants, dances. She showered me gifts from her travels around the world. But I can only remember a book she gave me—one book that, to this day, I have not read. She presented me with her own favorite childhood book: Hans Brinker. My grandmother was happy to share this book with me. She even decorated the title page with her proud writing.
I tried to read it. I adored reading, and would dive into a new pile of books from the library all at once. But something about Hans Brinker just wouldn’t let me in. The story was set in Holland, a long time ago. It felt dull and unfamiliar, even though I was a fan of classics of other times and places. I simply read the first pages over and over. I could not progress.
Standing on a bookshelf in our living room, the book was like something I avoided. It scolded me for not being interested, for not trying hard enough, for disappointing my grandmother. The book started to fit in, almost forgotten, until Adele asked. Had I read it? Did I like it? Always determined, she wanted to know the answer. I would make some kind of excuse, but feel bad, and open it again, hoping for a new reaction. The book weighed on me.
Years passed and finally Adele and I both accepted that I would never read Hans Brinker. Eventually I cleared the book from the shelf. The Hans Brinker experience led me to set a rule that I’ve lived by ever since: Do not ask about a book given as a gift and don’t let anything become your barrier. What Adele originally wanted to do is to give book-giving special meaning, but she increased the possibility of the owner to be a disappointment.
1.What is the similar hobby of the author and his grandmother?
A. Reading. B. Writing.
C. Travelling. D. Buying books.
2.Why was the author unwilling to read Hans Brinker?
A. He didn’t like Holland. B. The book was boring.
C. The book had many stories. D. He hadn’t enough time to read it.
3.What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. The author began to hope for a change.
B. The author began to dislike reading books.
C. The author felt stressed facing the book.
D. The author felt sorry for his grandmother.
4.What does the underlined part “the owner” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. The author. B. The grandmother.
C. The writer of Hans Brinker. D. The publisher of Hans Brinker
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New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern of Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main lands—the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Maui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu, and numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometers east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometers south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. The country’s varied topography（地形）and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to volcanic eruptions. New Zealand’s capital city is Wellington, while the city that has the largest population is Auckland.
Polynesians settled in the islands that were to become New Zealand somewhere between 1250 and 1300 AD, and developed a unique Maori culture. In 1642, Abel Tasman, a Dutch explorer became the first European to sight New Zealand In 1840, representatives of the British Crown（王室） and Maori Chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, making New Zealand a British colony. Today, the majority of New Zealand’s population of 4.5 million is of European descent(血统), and the indigenous(土著的) Maori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders. Reflecting this, New Zealand’s culture is mainly originated from Maori and early British settlers, with recent broadening arising from increased immigration. The official languages are English, Maori and New Zealand Sign Language, with English predominant(主要的).
New Zealand is a developed country with a market economy that mainly consists of the exports of dairy products, meat and wine, along with tourism. New Zealand is a high-income economy and ranks highly in international comparisons of national performance, such as health, education, economic freedom and quality of life.
1.What does the underlined word “comprises” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Loses B. Conquers.
C. Explores. D. Includes.
2.What can be inferred from the text?
A. New Zealand was the last land to be settled by humans.
B. The indigenous Maori takes up the largest population in New Zealand.
C. The formation of the Southern Alps has something to do with volcanic eruptions.
D. New Zealand’s culture is mainly originated from Maori and early Dutch settlers.
3.Who made great contributions to Maori culture according to the text?
A. Polynesians. B. Dutch.
C. British Crown. D. Tonga.
4.What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The developing aims of New Zealand.
B. The economic situation of New Zealand.
C. The high ranks that New Zealand government has got.
D. The achievements that New Zealand government has got.
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Dogs can tell how other dogs are feeling from the way their tails are wagging(摇摆)，according to researchers who monitored the animals’ heart rate as they watched dogs’ movies. The Italian team found that dogs had higher heart rates and became more anxious when they saw others wag their tails more to the left，but not when they wagged more to the right, or failed to wag at all.
The curious form of communication is probably not intentional, or consciously understood, but is instead an automatic behavior that arises from the structure of the brain, said Giorgio. “It’s not something they clearly and exactly understand,” Giorgio told The Guardian. “It’s just something that happens to them.”
Giorgio traces the effect back to the way the two halves of the brain process different experiences. In a previous study, his team showed that when a dog had a positive experience, activity rose in the left side of the brain, bringing about more tail wagging to the right. Or else more tail wagging to the left. The effect is barely visible to the human eye because dogs tend to wag their tails too fast, but it can be seen with slow motion video, or in some larger types.
In the latest study, the researchers wanted to find out whether the direction of tail wagging had any effect on other dogs. To get an answer, they fitted dogs with vests that recorded their heart rates, and played them movies of other dogs wagging their tails one way and then the other. To ensure the dogs reacted only to tail wagging, and not appearance? they repeated the experiment with dogs that appeared only as shadows.
“When dogs saw other dogs wagging their tails to the right, there was quite a relaxed reaction and no evidence of an increased heart rate. But when the wagging was to the left we saw an increase in heart rate and a series of behaviors typically associated with stress, anxiety and being more watchful, “Giorgio said. The anxious animals held their ears up, breathed, and kept their eyes wide open. The study appears in the latest issue of Current Biology.
1.What does the text focus on?
A. Animal protection. B. Animal welfare.
C. Animal tests. D. Animal psychology.
2.What leads to dogs’ wagging tail to the left or right according to Giorgio?
A. Their automatic behavior. B. Their conscious response.
C. Their increasing heart rate. D. Their selective preference.
3.At what time do dogs have more tail wagging to the right?
A. When they run quickly. B. When they feel hungry.
C. When they play with their owners. D. When they feel stressed.
4.What may be the best title for the text?
A. How dogs communicate with each other
B. Some reasons why dogs feel seriously anxious
C. Dogs’ different behaviors in different situations
D. Dogs’ communicating ways of tail wagging
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Do you know what a big dream is? Does a big dream show one’s future? Or, is a big dream something that provides only entertainment? Children dream big dreams, but there are three barriers to realizing dreams. 1..
The self
Immediately following the birth of a big dream, a negative self-talk takes over and gives all the reasons why it cannot happen. This voice inside of people is the ego（自我）.It’s there for protecting and should be listened to. Sometimes it is right, but more often it is wrong. 2.. That’s why only a handful of people make their dream come true
Family and friends
Family and friends are a lot the ego. 3., so they will often list all the reasons why the big dreams won’t come true. Sometimes, family and friends destroy dreams of those they love most, out of their own fear of those left behind.
4.
If one gets past the first two barriers, one has to face the world. It is the last and the most terrible barrier. In the past, big dreamers were locked up and sometimes even killed when they were shown to the world. Fortunately, in most of the world today, big dreamers just get laughed at 5.. When children feel confident and then try their best, they will be ready to accept any failure. The truth is that every great dreamer whose dreams have never seen the light of success knows failure well. They simply fail until they succeed
A. The world
B. The future
C. Most people are influenced by it
D. They want to protect those they love
E. And their big dream is to be a rock star or a famous artist
F. They often kill them before they ever have a chance to grow
G. The way to realize a big dream is with confidence and action
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I want to share a moving story with you. A friend, who started up and ran her own youth ____ group, lost her husband because of cancer 2 years ago. Almost after he ____, she found out that she had ____, too. She is still going strong and her ____ is working well for now. She always has a smile and kind words for everyone, just as she usually did during the ____ days.
One of the ____ I have had over the years is to -take photographs, ____ candid(偷拍
的) shots of people laughing and smiling. I have a great headshot of the fried and her husband, from about a year or 2 before he died. They ____ have the loveliest smiles in the photo. An idea came into my mind when I ____ the photo. So I ordered a(n) ____ of it and put it into a nice frame for her. I gave it to her last night at a meeting of the theater group. I didn’t know if she would like it, so I was very ____ of how it might go. ____ there were floods of tears from her and a few other friends, we all had lots of hags and ____. It was a friendly and warm ____ that I hadn’t had for many years.
My friend said, “It is one of the nicest ____ I have of him and, though I normally ____ pictures of myself, I love this one.” She couldn’t ____ me enough and was really shocked that I had done such a(n) ____ thing for her. I felt it was only a ____ effort on my part, but it ____ an amazing result.
1.A. theater B. painting C. science D. literature
2.A. escaped B. died C. recovered D. approached
3.A. energy B. cancer C. creation D. wealth
4.A. schedule B. method C. treatment D. arrangement
5.A. meaningful B. joyful C. precious D. previous
6.A. hobbies B. collections C. advantages D. achievements
7.A. suddenly B. fortunately C. approximately D. particularly
8.A. both B. never C. neither D. rather
9.A. took B. sent C. scanned D. described
10.A. meal B. enlargement C. ticket D. celebration
11.A. frightened B. nervous C. proud D. doubtful
12.A. Because B. Unless C. Although D. Once
13.A. smiles B. plans C. friends D. messages
14.A. weather B. reception C. scene D. color
15.A. presents B. relations C. memories D. pictures
16.A. recall B. design C. store D. dislike
17.A. thank B. teach C. bless D. forgive
18.A. expensive B. complex C. equal D. thoughtful
19.A. continuous B. tiny C. special D. final
20.A. gave up B. looked for C. brought about D. waited for
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Crying marriage? Surprising, isn’t it? Actually, the custom of crying marriage 1. (exist) a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and remained in fashion until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular 2. before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, 3. view it as a necessity of the marriage procedure.
It is very much the same in different 4. (place) of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. Otherwise, 5. bride’s neighbors would look down upon her as a 6. (poor) educated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases in which the bride 7. (beat) by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.
In a word, crying at the wedding is a way to set off the 8. (happy) of the wadding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 9. (arrange) marriages of the old days of China9 there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their 10. (disappoint) marriage and even their unhappy life.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I often quarrel with my mother over if I can watch TV after school. She holds the view that high school students has to make full use of every minute to work hard at their lesson. It seems to her that once I am allowed to do that, I’ll be unable to control myself and forgot all about my study. I also thinks watching TV is bad for my eyes. But I really can’t accept her ideas. In my opinion, watching TV can make my mind to have a rest after a day’s hardly work. Beside, it is important for us to know what has happened home and abroad. Thus, we shouldn’t be forbidding to watch TV.
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假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Jackson最近在考虑是否要出国留学，他来信寻求你的意见。 请你就此用英语给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 建议他出国留学；
2. 列举几点出国留学的好处（不少于三点）。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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