As a working mom with three young sons, keeping the house clean is a big challenge. ________ we clean the house every week, one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their __________
_(mess) look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them______
____ it again and again.
If I don’t remind them, I will step over all the things _________make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite _______
___ change from my pre-kid years when I never ______
___(leave) any waste in the house. ____
____seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.
When last week I found a program called “Share a Healthy Habit” on a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in cleaning chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the summer, while school is out and their life is __________ (relax)?
The goal for my boys is to clean__________own dorm room themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get ______
____ (old), so I need to start my plan as soon
When I was a teenager, I used to skateboard on the playground. It seems that skateboarding is an(entertain) hobby a lot of American teenagers take great interest in.
I had a skateboardwas bought not too long ago. But since I don’t skateboard any more, I made a
(decide ) that I should go to a skateboard shop and give
to some kid. I know I would have been so excited if someone had done that for me when I was younger.
So I drove to the local skateboard shop and waited outside for about ten minutes. A boy and his dad(be ) about to walk into the shop when I stepped up. I asked him if he’d like my skateboard. He asked how much it was. I told him it was free---as long as he used it!
His eyes lit up and I could seeexcited he was.
(hand) him my skateboard, I walked back to my car. His dad kept asking me if I was
(real) giving him my skateboard,
I kept saying ,“Yes!”
I think his dad wasexcited than he was. I was very happy that I could give someone a very nice skateboard.
As human populations grow, animal habitats often begin to . The good news is
in many places around the world, areas are now being
just for animal use. These wildlife
allow animals live in their natural or wild habitats.
B
Every living thing in nature to survive. Most plants are threatened by animals and people, as
as by other plants, and may have to live in difficult conditions. Plants survive by adapting
life in different environments, and by
successfully with
living things.
Willmatter if you don’t take your breakfast? Some time ago a test
(give) in the United States. The test included people of different
(age) from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfast, and sometimes they got
breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see
well their bodies worked when they had eaten
certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect
if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be
(especial) true if a person works
his brain. For example, if a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with
(much) attention in class.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show_______ (happy), as in “a red-letter day”. This is a day __
___ something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs.___
___ almost six hundred years, church calendars have been marked with red to indicate special holidays.
A red-letter day is ______ day that people are feeling quite happy. It’s a day that you’ve long waited for, a wedding day, for example, ____
__ it may be a day with a happy surprise. You might tell your friend that yesterday was a red-letter day____
_____ you won some money in the state lottery(彩票).
“Rolling a red carpet” is another _________ (common) heard expression, which ____
_____ (represent) a warm welcome. A city may “Roll a red carpet” for ___
____baseball team when the team arrives home after winning the championship.
Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. Red-handed is one. To be caught red-handed is to be caught ______ (perform) a bad act.
阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：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面相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Many people believe fresh water will never be used up. They think fresh water comes from such varieties sources that is always enough for us. Such opinion
(导致)to surprising waste of water. As a matter of fact, the earth is
of fresh water. Furthermore, with the rapid g
of the world ‘s population and the serious pollution of our surroundings, the world is
（面对 ）the danger of running out of fresh water. A
, in some big cities, fresh water cannot meet the d
needs. It is up to us to find new ways tos
water. First, we should make the best
of water. Second, scientists must work even harder to purify (净化)seawater,
(污染) water and try to find solutions to reduce the use of fresh water in industry．