If we agree that the function of education is to prepare us for life, then there is very little time to waste. So, while we can, we ought to concentrate ________ teaching children something really useful.
Politeness is a mark of civilization. _________ sooner children learn this, the better. In any case, a lot can be accomplished by a smile and good manners.
Like it or not, our adult lives will be consumed by the struggle for money, but we don’t make an effort to teach children _________ to mange it. So our schools have a duty to teach them this ability from the beginning.
Children should learn to take care ________their health. They should know that
________they eat junk food, they will become fat and unhealthy. They should be very clear about
________ will happen to their bodies when they smoke or drink.
All of _________ are part of society. We have rights and responsibilities. We have to know a little bit of our history and geography, because we need to have an environment in which to relate to the people around us. Our school should spend every moment they have telling this to our children: “This is life, this is what you are going to face
________ this is how you deal with it.
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请阅读以下圣诞购物者的信息,然后匹配这些购物者和他们拟买的礼物。Anna is decorating her Christmas tree. But she finds she hasn’t bought any stockings yet. She needs to hang the stockings on the tree and some on the chimney so that children can find their gifts from Santa Claus.
Martin is looking for a Christmas gift for his six-year-old nephew. He is a loyal fan of David Beckham.
Nick’s sister, aged 4, is fond of cartoons(卡通). She has got a collection of Snoopy, Winne the pooh. Nick wonders what would be the best Christmas gift for her.
Sabrina’s considering buying a Christmas gift for her younger brother. He, at the age of 9, is crazy for video games. He has already had an X-box, but he wants more games.
Granny Margaret is living alone. As the Christmas is approaching(接近), she’d like to send her greetings to her family members and friends living in other places. But she is too old for a day’s shopping.
Enough sleep is important to health. The amount of sleep needed (depend) on the age of the person and the conditions in
sleep takes place. The young may need more sleep than _
old, but usually eight hours are enough for the health of grown-ups. Some can do with less than this amount,
others may need more. Every person knows his own need.
is then a matter of good judgment to satisfy his need. Sleep should always be enough to make one bring back his
(strong) and get ready for a day’s work.
Fresh air is necessary to sound sleep. So it is not without reason for some people to think that it is practicable(切实可行的) to sleep the open air. A bath at bedtime,
hot nor cool but of body temperature, may be
_ (help) to sleep. Sleep producing drug(帮助睡眠的药物) should never be taken except when __
(suggest) by a doctor.
Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots. Recently it had begun experimenting with a household robot, ______ was going to be tested out by Larry’s wife, Claire. Claire didn’t want ____
____ robot in her house, especially as her husband would be ___
____(absence) for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn’t harm her or allow her ____
___(harm). However when she first saw the robot, named Tony, she felt alarmed because he seemed more like a human than a machine. He was tall and handsome ____
_____ smooth hair and a deep voice although his facial expression never changed.
On the second morning Tony, _______(wear) an apron, brought her breakfast and then asked ___
_____ she needed help dressing. She felt embarrassed and quickly told hem to go. ____
___ was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human. One day, Claire mentioned that she didn’t think she was clever. Tony said that ____
__ must feel very unhappy to say that. It was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot. But she __
____(begin) to trust him.
Wang Peng sat in his empty restaurant feeling very frustrated b nobody came to his restaurant that morning. He thought that the menu he prepared was
(完美). Then he saw his friend Li Chang hurrying by w
coming into his restaurant to eat as he always did. Driven by
, Wang Peng followed his friend to a newly opened restaurant
offered to make people thin in two weeks. The new restaurant was
of people. Wang Peng came in and was shown a menu. He was a
at what he saw. After leaving the restaurant, he went to the library and did some r
. Arriving home Wang Peng rewrote his own sign, trying to win his customers
. The two restaurants began to
(竞争)!
阅读下面短文,根据以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,并将该词完整地写在下方相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。
Working at the whaling station, I had wcatching huge whales many times with the help of the killer whale. On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I was sorting out my
(住所), I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. It was Old Tom, the killer
was telling us that there was about to be a whale hunt.
Having become (意识到) of what was happening, we jumped into the boat without
(一刻不停的) and headed
into the bay. As we d
nearer, I could see a whale
attacked by a pack of about six killers. Because of being badly wounded, the whale soon died and its body was
by the killers down into the d
of the sea very soon.