Homesickness can be a terrible feeling for anyone who travels away from their home town, country or simply away from the house they live in for a period of time. It is a strong feeling of wanting to go back to your own places very much. Some people get homesick easily while never experience it at all.
Different people deal with homesickness in different ways. Some ring home and have a chat with the people who they think ‘home’ – often their mum or dad. This may be a good idea for you to feel that you are not . It reminds you that home and the people you love are still there and that you will see them soon. However, it can make the homesickness even . By talking to people from home, it can make you miss them more! It can make you want to be home even more and make you realise you miss your loved ones. For this very reason, some people find better not to contact home but to let the feeling pass by doing fun activities. This can not only work as a good way to lonely feelings that homesickness can cause, but can also work well towards helping you get used to the place which you are living or staying in. Reminding yourself that where you are can make you see the bigger picture; that home is great, but where I am right now is also great different reasons!
In German there is a(n) which is quite opposite to homesickness and that is ‘Fernweh’. This means the feeling of wanting to get away and see new places.
A．other B．others C．the other D．the others
A．respect B．remain C．represent D．realise
A．lonely B．satisfied C．alone D．single
A．in all B．in general C．in short D．in fact
A．better B．good C．bad D．worse
A．how much B．how often C．how many D．how long
A．it B．that C．these D．those
A．increase B．reduce C．cancel D．improve
A．to B．by C．for D．with
A．idea B．word C．reason D．sickness
完形填空先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a good children’s book. Either the author has aimed too , so that children can’t follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story,________the story seems to be talking to the readers.
The best children’s books are very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the child who hears the story and the adult who reads it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this, ________ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as works of children’s literature were in fact written for . “Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious（明显）of this.
Children, left for themselves, often the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a library and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative way, or have a look at the most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents.
Perhaps we parents should stop ________ to brainwash（洗脑）children into accepting our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so ________ that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise over the bedtime story.
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完形填空先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
Chinese students face huge pressure. There is the pressure to be better than _ _, or there is the shame of being different. Students must spend a lot of time _ _ hard in order to not be left behind.
_ is not the only way to make students succeed. Educational expert Li Zhenxi said: “It’s better to encourage kids. We should not separate students _ low grades.”
Interest is the best teacher. Letting children do the things they’re _ _ in is a good way to encourage them.
Wei Nan, 31, is one of the best trailer(预告片) directors in China. His childhood was very different _ _ those of other children. He started learning to _ _ when he was only 6. After 10 years of playing different roles, he felt _ _ of being an actor. He _ to do something he really wanted to. He spent five years learning editing(剪辑) and gradually became _ _ in this area. In 2005, he started his own company and produced trailers for famous movies.
Wei never went to a university, but nobody can deny(否认) that he is a successful young man. “I’m lucky to be able to do something I like,” he said.
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The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman, “How have you done so much in your lifetime?”
He replied,“I have__ _ .I have turned my mind free to imagine I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams.
And when I awoke in the morning, I saw the way my dreams real .While __ people were saying, ‘You can’t do that, it is __ ___ ,’ I was well on my way to achieve what I wanted, As Woodrow Wilson,28th President of the U.S., said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are .”
They see things in the soft fog of a spring day, or in the red fire a long winter’s evening. Some of us these dreams die, but others feed, protect and look after them; keep them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light, it comes to the people who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So pleased, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, try to tell you they are too impossible.
“Sing your songs, dream your dreams,and hope your hope.”
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完形填空。（从A、B、C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
If a country wants to develop rapidly, education must come first. However, in China, many poor families in some villages can’t an education for their children. some children reach the school age, they have to stay at home and do some farm work.
,Project Hope started on October 30th, 1989. It has mainly two purposes. One is to__ _the poor children who can’t go to school without money, __ __is to build schools for the students in poor areas so that they can have a better studying environment.
__ the help of Project Hope, a lot of poor children have returned to school and it has built many new schools it started . So the children can get much knowledge and make their dreams come true . Once they get , they will have ability(能力) to build their hometown. At the same time, their living conditions will be as well.
There are still many poor children in of help. As for the project, there is still a long way to go.A. give B. offerC. afford
A. So B. Although C. Because
A. LuckilyB. Recently C. Possibly
A. stop B. help C. keep
A. AnotherB. The otherC. The others
A. Under B. Without C. With
A. beforeB.since C. after
A. skillsB. friendsC. knowledge
A. wellB. better C. best
A. detail B. need C. Public
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在1—10各题所给的A、B、C、D三个选项中，选出一个最佳选项。
In America, the school day usually starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at about 4 p.m. The school subjects________ different from ours. In China, we always ________ Chinese, math, English, P. E. and so on. But in America, students have more ________ , such as cooking and driving lessons. Their school life isn’t just ________study. They have ________ things to do than the Chinese students do. There are many clubs in American schools, too. If the students are________ in sports, they can join different sports clubs. American students also have art clubs, language clubs and some ________ clubs. From 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., they do ________ things in different clubs.
Maybe you think English is very popular in the world, so American students don’t need to learn any other language. ________ that’s not true. American children from the age of seven _________ learn a foreign language. For example, they learn French or Chinese.
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