Parents are busy people. If they are working, they are usually not at home1when/ after their children return from school. Sometimes it is necessary for a parent to write2an after-school note for their children. They sometimes put the note on the kitchen table, the refrigerator, 3or another place where their children are sure to find it. A note is often a4better way to "talk" with a child than using the telephone. For one thing, parents have time to think about5what they want to say before they write. For6another, the note lists all the information in one place. It is easy to read again and again People often forget all the details that they7hear in a telephone call. Finally, cell phones can be turned8off or telephone calls not answered. For these reasons, after-school notes are very popular with parents.
The ___and important festivals are the ones that ___
the end of winter and to the coming of spring.At the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give children ___
in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals,
forty days before Easter, usually in February. These carnivals ___
include parades,dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds. Easter is an important
__ and social festival for Christians around the world. It
the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival happens a little later. The country, __
cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow.
Time flies! This is ＿＿ third year that I have been in this school. In the past two and a half years, our school _＿
＿_(organize) many activities. What impressed me __＿
＿__ (much) was an activity _＿
＿(call) “Learning to Farm”. On an autumn afternoon, we _＿
＿(send) to a farm _
___ we learnt to plant potatoes. __
__ (be) in the city for such a long time, we were so happy to go to the countryside. After _
__ (divide) into three groups, we started to work. Some students cut potatoes _
_ pieces, some dug holes, and the others put the pieces of potatoes into the holes, put the earth back and pushed _
__down hard.
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I enjoy doing physical training in my free time. Yesterday, when I was working out at a gym on my lunch hour, I saw elderly lady there riding on a bike. She couldn’t walk very well, so she had a cane (手杖) near her,
she was still there
(work) hard. After I finished my exercising, I told her that I was going to wait for her
she got done and that I would walk her out to her car. It was a little far to her car and it was a
(fog) day yesterday in Missouri. I walked her to the car and opened the car door for her,
won me her big smile and gratitude. I know
is a small thing, but I felt so good inside for helping her.
my help, she could have fallen so easily out in the wet parking lot, and no one would have known she had fallen. I knew she
(need) my help, and her smile was enough
(make) my day.
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W：Jack．how have your two sons been doing at school recently?
M：Don’t ask! Mark never starts studying，and Jason never stops (study)．
W：You’re joking! I hear that Jason is likely (be)at the top of his class after exam this year．
M：Yes，so his teacher say．He’s been (work)very hard at his books every evening for months on end recently．He is hoping to
Harvard University．
W：Great．Maybe he’ll become a university professor(he)in the future．
M：Maybe．But sometimes I wish he'd go out and enjoy himself change．
W：Yes…What about the younger one?
M：Well，Mark's teachers say he has abililty，but he (rare)does his best．He does his homework in ten minutes every day and then
(rush)out to play football.
W: Perhaps he can make his fortune at football. People can make (plenty)of money from sports now．
M：My wife always worries about their future
W：Perhaps you can have a talk with him now to find out he is thinking about his studies and future plans．
M：Good idea．I'll take your advice．
Until about 150 years ago, the most important, expensive and renowned kind of painting was large-scale pictures that told a story, regarded as the (hard) challenge for an artist.
(choose) suitable subjects, artists had to be well-read. Then they had to know
stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions. To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand perspective, lighting and anatomy. So history painting needed a lot of thought and
. (imagine). Large-scale pictures used to be reserved for grand religious or patriotic subjects, but that changed in the 19th century, as artists began creating history paintings based
contemporary news stories. One of the first of these was The Raft of the Medusa, inspired by the wreck of
French ship in 1816, which showed how art could have a powerful political impact. It presents a scene
the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship. When they
( rescue ), they told how they had been abandoned by their captain, while he sailed to safety in a lifeboat. Starving, they had to eat each other to survive—though this picture makes
look heroic rather than violent. The picture caused a huge outcry. Some people thought the artist meant to criticize the French king,
had been involved in appointing the ship's captain.