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Jane: Hi, Leo. You seem tired and sleepy today. Are you OK?
Leo: Oh, my neighborhood is so ______ (noise)—I can’t sleep much.
Jane: What’s going on in your neighborhood?
Leo: The road near my home ______ (repair), and that makes a lot of noise. That’s____
___ I can’t sleep well at night these days.
Jane: Is it really loud?
Leo: Oh, it’s terrible! ______ (hope), the construction won’t last long.____
___ they don’t finish the road soon, I’m afraid I’m going to go deaf.
Jane: Oh, that’s awful. How about your neighbors? Are they quiet and friendly?
Leo: Yes, most of them are. But one of my neighbors, David, ________ holds parties every night, won’t stop making noise. Being exposed____
____ so much noise day after day really drives me mad!
Jane: It’s no use just________ (complain). Why not hold a neighborhood meeting? I’m sure you could come up with some good __
____ (approach).
Leo: That’s a good idea. Why didn’t I think of that? _______ seems that I haven’t got a brain in my head these days.
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.
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By “luxury(奢侈品)”, we mean "a pleasant and often expensive thing that is not necessary". From a historical point of view, things which were a luxury when they first came into being all became necessities later.
Anything, no matter luxurious it is, will become a necessity, when it is widely used. This is true of many of the present luxuries, among which mobile phones, cars, computers and many other things
(include). It is known to all that the purpose of the development of science is
(make) things easy for the mankind, not for only
small number of people.
, the first thing to do after a new invention occurs is to spread it so as to benefit
many people as possible. In the course of the spread, the luxury becomes decreasingly luxurious until
the end it becomes a necessity. This is an objective law, and
can be an exception.
With the quick (develop) of science and technology, the process for many things to become a necessity from a luxury will be greatly shortened. Anything that can be imagined will be invented and in no time becomes a necessity
(access) to ordinary people.
As a hiking-lover, I have climbed many famous mountains in China. I can still remember one of my happy and__________（难忘）hiking experiences on the Wuyi Mountain. It was the early spring when I decided to go hiking
___________my friends. Before our trip, I thought it a
___________of cake to get to the top of the Wuyi Mountain. At first, we all felt rather happy, chatting and laughing. However, after
__________ (到达) the middle of the mountain, we started to be tired out. We were thirsty and our legs were painful. All of us were unwilling to
m___________ on. We were about to give up
___________someone called out “come on, come on”.
E______ by his words, we all climbed to the top of the mountain.
From this trip, I deeply feelw__________ makes me happy is not only those beautiful
v__________ of the mountains but also the experience that we have overcome our mental and physical
___________ (挑战) to achieve our final goals and enjoy pleasures from them.