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The most delicious memories seem to happen during the holidays. And like a squirrel preparing for winter, I put them away to enjoy slowly during the long winter months. Sometimes, I enjoy them for years.
Among them are sweetest recollections: my little girls at the church play and the moment they got their first angel wings; a pink dolly stroller(手推车) wheeled into the bedroom with a tiny voice declaring, ''Look what Santa Claus brought me! ''; or New Year's snowmen wearing bright scarves borrowed from a grandma's fragrant drawer.
But there is one memory that is a little bittersweet -- sort of like 80% dark chocolate, but still good for you.
This story brings to mind a colorful candy dish and a very little boy. The occasion was somewhere between Christmas and New Year's when a few candies in a dish remained behind, a bright spot in dull winter gray.
Wrapped in December's chill, my then 3-year old grandson, Justin, and I had dashed from the warmth of my parked car into the building where I planned to take care of a few work-related tasks.
A smiling secretary greeted us as we brushed the snowflakes and rubbed our hands to chase the cold. Then with my grandchild close to my side, I busied myself, finishing the items of business that had brought us there. But while his hand remained in mine, his eyes fell on the candy dish sitting nearby.
As we turned to leave, the thoughtful and very observant woman behind the desk asked the question all children wait to hear.
''Honey, '' the kindly woman said, peering over her glasses at Justin. ''Would you like a candy bar? '' she asked, her hand pushing the dish close for an easier reach.
The boy looked up questioningly, his eyes meeting mine, permission hanging in the air. A slight nod from me and then a hurried beeline to the candy dish followed. One candy bar was already in his hand.
Para 1: ''Justin! '' I said from the doorway.
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Para 2: In the humor of the moment, I felt something hard to swallow.
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I joined the army as an infantryman (步兵) instead of as a helicopter pilot because I only had the literacy (读写) level of an 11-year-old. I had no idea that I had a reading level that_______; I had just _______words when I didn’t know them, and usually ended up getting them wrong.
It was just before I turned 19 that I _______ my very first book. I can vividly remember the sense of _______and achievement I felt. It was meant for primary school children but I didn’t _______. I had read a whole book, and I was _______. From then on I read anything and everything I could get. I just wanted to get as much_______ as I could.
I learned in those days at the _______education centre. There are always people looking forward to helping you and _______you stuff. But you are never going to progress __________you keep learning. The unbelievable educational__________that the army offers make it one of the few places that can help you climb up the ladder of social classes in the UK.
For me, improving my literacy level had another more surprising__________. When I left the army, I was asked to write a(n)__________of the Bravo Two Zero Mission and that led to the unexpected career change of becoming a(n)__________.
I have spent quite a bit of time over the past few years__________schools, and workplaces, as well as army bases and businesses, to talk about my past and__________others to start reading and writing like me. The__________I give to all the people that I chat to is that if I can do it, anyone can. If that is a message that even one of them accepts and__________, then it has been__________. My experience shows that the best soldier out there is the one with a __________card.
1.A.high B.new C.low D.senior
2.A.gone over B.made up C.put down D.taken back
3.A.wrote B.received C.bought D.read
4.A.pride B.beauty C.duty D.security
5.A.panic B.care C.doubt D.agree
6.A.depressed B.puzzled C.trapped D.hooked
7.A.wealth B.knowledge. C.support D.freedom
8.A.community B.nursery C.army D.health
9.A.showing B.selling C.lending D.teaching
10.A.unless B.until C.though D.since
11.A.expenses B.backgrounds C.opportunities D.requirements
12.A.trouble B.burden C.outcome D.challenge
13.A.email B.diary C.scheme D.account
14.A.athlete B.typist C.author D.reporter
15.A.visiting B.attending C.constructing D.inspecting
16.A.permitting B.encouraging C.commanding D.preferring
17.A.message B.story C.impression D.influence
18.A.changes B.uses C.questions D.ignores
19.A.controversial B.arbitrary C.ridiculous D.worthwhile
20.A.library B.credit C.business D.fitness
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Let's take a minute to think about the water we use. The human body is 60% water and we need to drink lots of water to be healthy. When we are thirsty we just go to the kitchen and fill a glass with clean water.
1.For example, farmers, who produce the food we eat, use water to make the plants grow. When we turn on a light or switch on a TV or a computer we use energy and we need water to produce this energy.
The truth is that we are lucky enough to have clean water whenever we want，but this is not the case for many people around the world.2.That's around one in 10 people in the world. If we drink dirty water，we can catch diseases from the bacteria and become ill. Every year over 500，000 children die from diarrhea(腹泻)from dirty water. That's around 1，400 children every day！Also，in some countries children walk many kilometres every day to get water.3.Therefore，they don't have time to learn how to read or write and don't get an education.
4.On this day every year，countries around the world hold events to educate people about the problems of dirty water and that clean water is something that everyone should have around the world. At one school in the UK，children between the ages of 10 and 15 walk 6km with six litres of water.5.People give them money to do this and all the money helps get clean water to as many people as possible around the world.
A.We use water indirectly too.
B.Every system in our body depends on water to function.
C.It is to inspire people to learn more about water-related problems
D.If children walk many hours a day to get water，they can't go to school.
E.Did you know that around 750 million people do not have clean water to drink？
F.In 1993 the United Nations decided that March 22nd is the World Day for Water.
G.In this way，they know how it feels to walk a long distance carrying heavy bottles.
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Pizza delivery driver
Work 15 - 20 hours a week for busy pizza shop.
Duties include making and delivering pizza and some cleaning.
Paid $ 10 per hour + $ 2 per delivery + free dinner.
All applicants must have your own car.
Email us with information about whether you ever cooked and when you can work.
The Pizza Place@telstra. com
TV Host
A national TV station wants to find two people to host a new primetime (黄金时段) game show. Interested? You need to have
◆ a confident and lively personality
◆ some experience of working in the media industry
◆good communication skills
◆ an enthusiasm for performing
£ 40 ,000 per year
Apply to Jonhkeirs@tvhost, com
Casual Sale Assistant
We are looking for casual team members to join our team for 10-30 hours per week！
You must have a positive attitude and great willingness to talk to others, can work in both a team and as an individual and be available to work on Mondays and weekends between 9 am and 5pm.
You will be responsible for using the cash register, tidying up shelves and helping customers find what they are looking for.
Pay is $ 14.50/hr, but $ 25/hr at weekends
To apply, get in touch with the manager
Tony Robins on (02)98761234 or Tony. Robins@ JB - HiFi. blacktown. org. au
Chinese Teachers
Our established language school is looking for Chinese teachers. Our classes are small and students are all ages.
You must have a university degree and teaching experience and a health certificate.
You must also be able to speak and write Chinese fluently.
30 hours per week(flexible times)
£ 30 per hour, plus bonuses
Apply to Smith @ gmail. com
1.The candidate for a pizza delivery driver must tell the employer his/her_____.
A.personality B.availability
C.driving experience D.salary expectation
2.How much can Tom get as a casual sale assistant if working 2 hours on Sunday?
A.$50. B.$30. C.$29. D.$14.5.
3.Who must be outgoing?
A.TV host and Chinese teacher.
B.Pizza delivery driver and Chinese teacher.
C.TV host and Casual sale assistant.
D.Casual sale assistant and Pizza delivery driver.
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I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran Jackson’s Carnegie Library absolutely by herself. SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere. If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes. I was willing; I would do anything to read.
My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me. “Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said.
Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you’d taken it out; it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at a time and two only. So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. I knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time.
My mother shared this feeling of mine. Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else. I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my brother’s two daughters. She’d just look up at the right time, long enough to answer—in character —“The better to eat you with, my dear,” and go back to her place in the magazine article.
1.Which of the following best describes Mrs. Calloway?
A.Quiet. B.Considerate.
C.Boring. D.Strict.
2.What do the underlined words “this feeling” refer to in the last paragraph?
A.Interest in games. B.Love for Mrs. Calloway.
C.Desire to read. D.Fear of the library rules.
3.Where is the text probably from?
A.A guidebook. B.An autobiography.
C.A news report. D.A book review.
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On 23 June 2016, UK (United Kingdom) adults made a historic decision. More than 33 million people voted for the UK to leave the European Union (EU). In the referendum, the result was that around 52% of them—just over half—voted to leave the group of 28 countries. This is called Brexit made up to describe the “British Exit”. No country had ever left the EU before, so Brexit was a significant moment in European history.
After UK and EU leaders had lots of hard negotiations about how Brexit would work, on 22nd, January, 2020, Wednesday, the British Parliament finally approved an agreement about the UK’s divorcing the EU, which Queen Elizabeth II agreed to on Thursday. The deal was expected to pass in the European Parliament the next week. If everything went well, the UK would leave the EU on January 31, 2020. It did! The UK finally and officially left the EU at 11 pm on this day, ending a process that began three and a half years before. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brexit fans celebrated with fireworks and big parties. For many they called it the UK’s Independence Day. For many others in the UK, it represented the final stage of something they fought hard to prevent. Now the deal has been signed and Britain has left, but it doesn’t mean the life in Britain will change suddenly. Until 31st December 2020, freedom of movement will continue and this means UK citizens will have the right to live and work in the EU.
Making things even more difficult is the fact that the next challenge of Brexit has arrived. The UK and EU now have almost one year to work out the details of the relationship they will have in the future. Many experts express their common concern that making these new agreements will go through the same experience as the original Brexit deal.
1.What does the underlined word “referendum” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A.Explanation. B.Vote.
C.Deal. D.Statement.
2.What day was it when the UK left the EU officially?
A.Tuesday. B.Wednesday.
C.Thursday. D.Friday.
3.What can we say about Brexit?
A.It was an extremely difficult process. B.It is a great victory for all UK people.
C.It means a temporary loss for the EU. D.It brings UK people a new life overnight.
4.What is the experts’ attitude towards Brexit’s next work?
A.Ambiguous. B.Confident.
C.Worried. D.Cautious.
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Grab an ice cube from the freezer and place it on a table. Watch closely enough and you will see, well, not much at all. The ice cube is absorbing heat, but it is still an ice cube. Before it melts, it will draw heat from the environment to change from solid to liquid. Only then will it begin to slip and slide in a puddle(水坑) of its own making.
And so to A Word Without Ice by Henry Pollack, retired professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize with Al Gore.
The book gets off to a slow start. You may have to work a little before being rewarded. But given time, Pollack's account warms up and really takes off. The story he has to tell is fascinating, frightening and important.
Despite the title, this is not a book about the world without ice. Much is given over to the impact of ice in Earth's long history, as an important force that shaped our planet's landscape, controlled migrations and influenced cultures. Pollack takes us through Antarctic and Arctic explorations, the natural cycles that bring us ice ages and milder periods without extremes of heat or cold, and the rise of climate science which, among other achievements, can recreate a history of the temperature on Earth from kilometers of ice core drilled from the polar caps.
Pollack’s intellectual power and clarity of phrase are invaluable in describing the scientific evidence for global warming, the ways in which it will affect the world, and the all-too-probable consequences. Pollack is not one to brush awkward issues under the carpet. There is serious discussion about uncertainties in climate science, and in particular, the computer models used to forecast future warming. For its forensic analysis (取证分析) and strong destruction of climate sceptic (怀疑论者) arguments alone, A World Without Ice is worth keeping on a nearby shelf.
Some readers may find Pollack's US-centric approach occasionally grating (刺耳的). He tells of intense irrigation in southwestern Kansas, IPCC reports as big as several New York City phone directories and school-day stories from Omaha. But this is forgivable. The US is uniquely placed to act on climate change but faces a significant barrier in the shape of the outdated, influential, oil-funded anti-climate change lobby (游说议员的团体).
Thoughtful throughout, Pollack occasionally delivers paragraphs that stay with you long after closing the book. On the subject of the book itself, he writes: "Nature's best thermometer (温度计), perhaps its most sensitive and unambiguous indicator of climate change, is ice. When ice gets sufficient warm, it melts. Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it crosses the threshold (门槛) from solid to liquid. It just melts."
A World Without Ice is a call to arms. Debates about which mitigation (减缓) strategies might give us the best chances of reducing our emissions miss the point, Pollack says. If we want to avoid the worst that climate change may bring, we need "every hose in the stable pulling together and as hard and as fast a possible".
Pollack's argument is attractive, persuasive and deeply upsetting, no matter the climate change tiredness that unavoidably sets in as a consequence of endless media coverage of global warming. The author's final warning comes from Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Pollack leaves us in no doubt as to where that is.
1.We can learn that A World Without Ice .
A.brings us to the core of the issue at the very beginning
B.convinces skeptics of the truth about climate change
C.gives an in- depth analysis of global warming
D.gets funded by anti -climate change lobby
2.Why does Henry Pollack think ice is nature's best thermometer?
A.Ice is a reminder of peaceful co- existence.
B.Ice is a common topic of the media coverage.
C.Ice is a controversial issue in political debates.
D.Ice is a clear indicator sensitive to climate change.
3.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 8 probably means the book .
A.urges us to make joint efforts to fight climate change
B.advocates addressing climate change by armed forces
C.recommends debating on strategies to reduce emission
D.calls for separate and tough actions in a timely manner
4.What does the underlined word “that" in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Warning from Lao Tzu. B.Destination of a journey.
C.Effect of global warming. D.Argument on climate change.
5.What's the author's attitude toward A World Without Ice?
A.Ambiguous. B.Positive. C.Cautious. D.Sceptical.
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The novel coronavirus（新型冠状病毒）outbreak forced Belgian pianist Jean-Francois Maljean who had planned to go to Wuhan in February 1. (postpone) the trip. The musician decided to write a song 2. (immediate) after discussing the idea with his Chinese business partner, He Liu.
“I have been playing concerts around China for almost 20 years. I have so many friends in Wuhan. I want to show my 3. (consider) to those people affected by the virus and those who are fighting in the hospitals in the face 4. the disaster, especially the doctors and nurses who are protecting others but thinking little about 5. (they),” says 67-year-old Maljean.
It 6. (take) the musician about three days to finish the song Chime of The Down Bells, 7. has become popular online since Feb 10. He Liu invited 15 local people from all walks of life in Wuhan to sing the Chinese version of the song. Maljean’s daughter, Noemie Maljean, an 8. (excellence) singer, performed the lead vocals（主唱）.
Maljean put Wuhan’s landmark buildings and famous scenery into 9. music. “I hope that my music can comfort the people suffering in Wuhan and in China. I’m always deeply moved by the great sacrifice 10. (make) by the people of Wuhan,” says the pianist.
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假定你是李华，你校将举办外国学生中文演讲比赛，请给你的英国朋友 George 写封邮件邀请他参加。内容包括：
1. 比赛时间；2. 演讲话题；3. 报名方式。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考范文：
Dear George,
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I’m looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
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