阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival _____(mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.
Qu was a minister of the State of Chu _______(situate) in the present day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period (战国时期)．He was upright, loyal and highly respected.___
____, he was dismissed from office. ___
_ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were ____
__(able) to recover his body.
The people of Chu _______mourned Qu's death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost ____
___year on the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile (爬行动物)in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised ____
____to wrap the rice and bind it ___
___throwing it into the river.
During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize (象征,表示) the rice offerings to Qu. And the dragon boat races symbolize _______many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing in response to your advertisement for a temporary position an administrative assistant. I am
21-year-old student and would be able to work during June and July.
I (graduate) from the university of Hong Kong next year with an M.S. degree. I feel that I am competent
(meet) your requirements. My studies have included courses in computer control and management and I designed a control simulation system developed with Microsoft.
I don’t have any working experience, I enjoy working with people and I am
(interest) in a career in your industry when I leave university. I am an outgoing, friendly boy
would enjoy building strong interpersonal relationships with valuable customers.
I (be) very grateful if you could send me more
(inform) about the position available. I’m looking forward to
(hear) from you.
Yours sincerely,
James Brown
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and without hesitation.
, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success language learning.
good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only
(memorize)rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and their
(mean), studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language.
we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. Learn through use is a good piece of
(advise) for those
are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and
(write) the language whenever we can.
The truthtrees are vital to our life is not a secret. They provide us with food, wood and most
(important), oxygen. Now there is one more thing we can add to this list—blocking out harmful bacteria from water.
The discovery (make) by a team
(consist) of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school students
were seeking a natural water filter—one that would help communities in developing countries that do not have
(accessible) to modern water filter systems.
The(research), led by Professor Rohit Karnik, decided to turn to trees for help because they could allow liquid to flow through, while blocking out air bubbles.
They began by cutting 1.5-inch-wide sections of tree bark from the branches of a white pine tree. The people related then tested the wood’s filtering ability by pouring water containing red dye particles of different sizes through.their amazement, they found that it was effective in trapping all the articles.
(encourage), the team conducted
experiment, this time with water that contained bacteria. Sure enough, the sapwood held back 99% of the bacteria, allowing only 1% to flow through.
请写一篇吸烟危害的短文.
内容要点:
吸烟会导致许多疾病,甚至一些危及生命的疾病.
吸烟不但对吸烟者自己有害,也严重影响不吸烟者的健康.
据报道,美国每年至少有32万人因吸烟而丧生.目前约有四千万人仍在吸烟.
可喜的是,越来越多的人已认识到其危害,开始戒烟.
青年学生不应该养成这一恶习,如有这一习惯,应尽早戒除.
Nowadays, it is common that more and more high school students open their own micro blogs on the Internet. For one thing, it can provide a colorful platform to show their talent. For _, it is a useful way
___（release）their pressure. And all these make it more and more popular with high school students.
_many parents and teachers hold a different view. They think that
__（manage）one’s micro blogs will takea lot of time and energy,
___should be used to study．
In my view, I am in favor__the activity. Today the Internet is playing an important role in our life.
__, as high school students of the Information Age, we need to learn to make use of this meaningful tool to communicate and display
__（us）.What’s more, opening and organizing micro blogs need various abilities such as writing, designing, being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog.
___a result, we improve ourselves while organizing our micro blogs.
In fact, micro blog itself is of little harm．It is your attitude towards it _matters.We should take the advantages and avoid some bad effects.