How to Write a StoryWriting a detailed story ...

How to Write a Story

Writing a detailed story takes patience and practice. 1., though , you can handle the challenge.

Keep the outline short

Avoid complete sentences. 2.. Long outlines with complete sentences end up being unnecessarily wordy. Sometimes they look like full paragraphs rather than brief outlines. Spending too much time and putting too much detail into your outline is effort you could be putting into writing the story itself.

Choose a point of view

Once you've written your outline and thought about the story you want to tell, decide at what point the reader enters the story. For you, and especially for the reader, the experience is a more intriguing one if the reader begins the story in the middle of the action. 3.. It will get your reader's attention immediately. He wants to continue reading surely. A boring opening means a bored reader who has no interest in moving on.

4.

Avoid giving everything away about the character in the first few paragraphs. Instead, consider different ways you can reveal different facets of the characters to your readers without stating them in an obvious way. 5.. If you take on too many, you'll find you won't be able to develop each of them fully in only a few pages.

A. Develop the characters

B. Instead, use short phrases or terms

C. Begin your story in an interesting way

D. If you're motivated and truly love to write

E. Before you write anything, you need an idea for a great story

F. Limit the number of main characters you include in your story

G. Once you've written your outline about the story that you want to tell

高二英语七选五简单题查看答案及解析

1.He gave a detailed a_______ ( 叙述)of what happened on the specific night.

2.Patience! The naughty boy meant no harm. He broke the vase d____________ (故意地)just in the hope of drawing his parents’ attention, who had failed to care about him.

3.He said he would r________ (推荐) me to Mr. Li as his assistant but he didn't.

4.To everyone's joy，the famous film star was a________ mayor of the state.

5.He was a very __________ (体贴的) boy for someone so young.

6.He has always been ambitious and fiercely ________(好竞争的，好强的).

7.Often the lives of writers r_______(动词：像)the life of the characters they create.

8.Nobody should i________(忽视，不理) the problems we are faced with.

9.His a____________ of mind during driving nearly caused an accident.

10.They ________(积累) a certain amount of working experience through volunteer work.

高二英语完成句子中等难度题查看答案及解析

How do you write a story based on a person__________job you are not familiar?

A．whose    B．with whom    C．with whose   D．to whom

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

A. 20 Years Younger

The book details easy and effective steps we can all take to rebuild the foundation of youth and enjoy better health, improved energy, and a positive outlook on life. The four basic programs are: an exercise system for fighting muscle and bone loss, a longevity-focused diet, sleep rejuvenation, and wrinkle-fighting skin care. Woven throughout the text is practical advice on changing appearances, controlling stress, staying mentally sharp, navigating medical tests, and much more.

B. Born To Run

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

C. Natural Running

In Natural Running, Abshire explains how modern running shoes distort the efficient running technique that humans evolved over thousands of years. He reviews the history of running shoes and injuries, making the case for barefoot running but also warning about its dangers.

D. Woodworking

This book includes excellent instruction from a best-selling woodworking author on all aspects of woodworking with hand tools. He approaches setting up the all-hand tool shop, explains how the tools work in wood, addresses the joinery, and finishes with instructions on building a workshop accessory to use with hand tools. Also included are other sample projects and information on finishing the hand worked projects.

E. Whittling Little Folk: 20 Delightful Characters to Carve and   Paint

At the beginning of the book, readers will find step-by-step carving and painting instructions for a Scandinavian inspired man and woman. Once they have learned to carve these two projects, readers will find an additional 18 patterns that can also be created with the same technique and some subtle changes.

F. Quick and Easy Meals

The book offers healthy, low-carbon Primal-approved recipes that can all be completed in under half an hour and, in many cases, in just a few minutes. Sisson and Meier show you how to delight your family or guests every time with quick, delicious meals using local produce, CSA meats, healthy fats (yes, and real butter) and common herbs and spices.

请阅读以下购书者的信息，然后匹配相关的书籍。

1.Carina is fond of art and likes carving very much. In order to make something for the coming Mothers Day, she is searching a new idea.

2.Daisy is a busy salesgirl, who is difficult to find time to cook. She likes home meals.

3. Alexander is a college student. He likes running. He wants to know more about the secret of shoes and running.

4.Sammy majors in PE. He will do a research on how to train long distance runners.

5.Nancy is looking for a book about advice on controlling stress, changing appearances, and enjoying a better health

高二英语信息匹配中等难度题查看答案及解析

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What did the speaker ask the students to do the week before?

A. Write a short story.

B. Prepare for the lesson.

C. Learn more about the writer.

2.Why does the speaker ask the questions?

A. To check the students’ understanding of the story.

B. To draw the students’ attention to reading skills.

C. To let the students discuss father-son relationships.

3.What will the students do in 10 minutes?

A. Ask more questions.　　 B. Discuss in groups.　　 C. Give their answers.

高二英语短文中等难度题查看答案及解析

How to Write an Email

While many people are accessible by email, sometimes it is difficult to determine how exactly to write an email to them. 1.

Write an appropriate subject line. The subject line should tell the recipient (接收者) immediately what the email is about. 2. Remember that your wording also has to be brief.

3. It is best to be more formal rather than informal, so when writing to someone you have never met or written to before, a “Dear Jane Smith” is appropriate. When addressing someone whom you are a little familiar with, a “Dr. Smith” is okay until they tell you to address them by their first name, in which case a simple “Jane” will be okay.

State your purpose at the beginning. Within the first two sentences of your email, your recipient should know exactly why you are writing to him. Sometimes an introduction may have to precede (先于) the sentence that states why you are writing and sometimes it has to follow.

Use appropriate language. You may be used to using informal language in certain social settings. 4. Even when dealing with colleagues or friends you are familiar with, do not immediately fall back on informal language.

Keep it simple. People may get dozens and even hundreds of emails a day. 5. In that way, they can save much of their time when reading emails.

A. Use proper greetings.

B. Express your ideas clearly.

C. Here are some tips for you to follow.

D. You should avoid spelling and grammar mistakes.

E. Be as specific as possible when writing the subject.

F. However, an email may not be the best place to use such language.

G. It is always easier for them if you keep your email as short and brief as possible.

高二英语七选五简单题查看答案及解析

When you retell stories, you can ____ the unimportant details.

A. cut off               B. cut out              C. cut up       D. cut down

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Mrs. White _____ the story when her husband forgot the next detail.

A. took on　　 B. took up　　 C. made up.　　　 D. turned out

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Increase your creativity

Every month I face the same problem — how to write educational, informative and, hopefully, interesting articles. 1.. At other times my mind goes blank (空白的), and I experience a creative block.

At times we all face creative challenges in life, from designing websites to decorating our apartments, but there are ways to work through creative slumps (低潮).

★Daydream

For years, others may have told you to stop daydreaming. 2.. Daydreaming sometimes helps you take a more creative approach to your problem.

★Be happy

Some studies suggest that a positive mood (心情) encourages creativity because it increases activity in the parts of the brain related to decision-making and feelings.

★3.

Face-to-face conversations with friends can lead to creative thinking.

★Take risks

Don’t let fear hold you back. You won’t succeed at everything you try. But with each new effort, you will build self-confidence and develop new skills for the future.

★Limit your amusement

Everyone enjoys entertainment. 4.. Literature and audiobooks are better forms of amusement because they force you to use your imagination.

★Look for inspiration

Activities such as listening to music, going to museums and travelling all provide sources of inspiration.

★Go offline and go outside

Remember how much fun you had as a child running, playing and pretending? Your imagination simply ran away with you. 5., and can help you get back some of that creative energy from your childhood.

A.Get social

B.Make friends

C.Nature settings fire the imagination

D.In fact, letting your mind run briefly can actually be helpful

E.Reading relaxes the mind and encourages you to use your imagination

F.Sometimes I can just sit down at my computer and the words just flow

G.But watching TV, for instance, requires little thought and can actually decrease creativity

高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教徒) ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil. So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.

What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell. What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.

Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the "introduction of this wonderful new fruit -- or is it a vegetable?" As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an "evil fruit".

But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. "What are you afraid of?" he shouted. "I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!" Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.

1.The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because _______.

A．it made Christians evil                    B．it was the apple of Eden

C．it came from a forbidden land              D．it was religiously unacceptable

2.What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

A．The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down.

B．There was little progress in the study of the tomato.

C．The tomato was still refused in most western countries.

D．Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.

3.What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?

A．To make himself a hero.

B．To remove people's fear of the tomato.

C．To speed up the popularity of the tomato.

D．To persuade people to buy products from his factory.

4.What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato.

B．To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato.

C．To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato.

D．To introduce the establishment of the first tomato-canning factory.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析