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 cut potatoes _
_ pieces, and_
___put the pieces of potatoes into the holes and put the earth back.
Sitting on the bus I took the book out and was about to read but I was attracted by a young woman behind, who was speaking ________ her cell phone.
She was talking to her brother. She wanted to know where he was, why he wasn't where he was supposed to be, why he had _________(撒谎) to their mother again and if he knew that their mum had broken down in
t___________ that morning because of him.
She kept it quiet but she didn't have any mercy on him. She let him know exactly ___________she thought of him but I could tell there was
________ (爱) under all the disappointment. She tried so hard to get this boy to come to see his mother and make it all right, but I got the
_________ (印象) she was fighting a losing battle.
When she left the bus, I got_________ behind her. "Excuse me," I said. "Do me a favor, would you?
T__________ this money and buy your mum a box of chocolates
__________ a bunch of flowers. And tell her a stranger said that
b_________ a mother is the hardest but most important job in the world."
“At last, no more exams.” It’s a common feeling among high school graduates who have just completed the college entrance examination. What a relief! However, rather than fill the next three months with sleep, eating, and (watch) TV, some students have started working on finding a good choice of foreign college.
Different from those who begin their ___ (apply) for foreign colleges in Senior 2, Li made a late decision on a US education. She began to think about it in Senior 3, but decided not _
_ (give) up the college entrance exam.
Li’s classmate Mao Bingxin_____ (consider) studying in Canada after the top exam. She began a TOEFL course on June 11.
He Wei, ____ 18-year-old who studies at Shenzhen Bao’an High School, isn’t allowing _
___much freedom this summer vacation either, devoting her time to looking for a language school_
__she can study French and some overseas study consulting agencies.
He Wei considers ____worthwhile spending the summer preparing for college rather than hanging out with friends. “__
___we don’t really know what the future holds for us, we are sure that the better preparations we make
__it, the more choices we will be given.” she said.
We may find ourselves in many situations, where we discover or learn something that matters for us. But somehow, it really makes no____(different). So what can be done?__
_(benefit) from each experience in a learning environment, you need to answer these 3 questions:
What have I learnt or discovered? Most of us___(easy) answer this question. We just list__
__learning points that matter to us. At this stage we are rarely sure of why,__
__we simply don't express it.So what does it mean to me? This question __
__(help) us to express how important the learning points are and why__
__are important.
And now what do I do with this? This last question is the____important because this is the one that helps us to use the learning. It turns the theory into practice.
____doing so, you'll surprise yourself how much these simple questions change the way you learn greatly. Over the coming weeks and months, you'll notice how much you immediately apply __
__you've learnt and also how much it opens up your perceptions(洞察力) of everyday life.
How to learn a oreign language? Here are some tips for you.
Spend the time! The time you spend on a language, the faster you will learn. This means listening, reading, writing, speaking, and studying words and phrases. This means finding
(特别的) ways to spend as much as time
(体会) the language you are learning as possible.
Listen and read every day! Listen w you are on your MP3 player. Read what you are listening to. Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can m
understand, or even partly understand.
Take (责任) for your own learning! If you do want to learn the language, take control. Choose content of interest that you want to listen and read. Pay
(注意) to the words and phrases that you need to understand. Do not w
for someone else to show you the language. Talk when you feel like it. Write when you feel like it.
Relax and enjoy ! Do not worry about what you cannot remember, or cannot yet understand. It does not matter. You are learning and improving. The language will
(逐渐) become much clearer in your brain. So sit back and enjoy.
As the communication between China and Britain is becoming ____(increasing) frequent, the differences between them _
__(cause) a heated discussion in the past few years.
Firstly, table manners are the essential procedure in everyone’s daily life. We get used to ___(use) chopsticks while Englishmen use knife and forks. It’s not polite to burst into laughter when eating in Britain, __
__indicates you don’t respect others. _
__ the contrary, we laugh and talk during a meal. What’s more, in Britain, we have to wander along the left side of the road, but traffic in our country keeps to the right. In addition, for Chinese students, _
_they have experienced in studying is an __
__(organization) learning style. Students are required to follow a clear plan. __
_(compare) with Chinese education, British education is __
__ flexible and imaginative. Students there are encouraged to discuss the subject they want to learn. Last but not least, in China, “thank you” is not frequently used between friends and family members while “thank you” is widely used in Britain.
There is no sense in debating which is better. We owe these manners ____ a long history, so you should do as the Romans do.