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You may like reading novels for fun. But you need to get （organize） if you are reading a novel for school. Here
(be) some tips.
First, pay attention to characters. What do they do in the novel? What do they want? Everything— is about a character can help us to understand him, from his
（appear） to the kind of food he eats.
Besides, the order of the story and the plot are （equal） important. Make sure that as you read, you make
quick note of what happens in each chapter. This will help you bring the things you have noticed about the character, setting, language and so on together. It's also an enormous help for you to retell the story after you have read it.
Next, themes. They are ideas that a novel explores. is a must to get the hang of the theme if you want to fully appreciate the novel. Perhaps love is a major theme, or justice, or
（survive）.
Furthermore, novels are made up language. Writers use language in a special way
(make) their novels work. They may use metaphors(比喻), invent symbols, or show different characters' personalities through their speech styles.
Everyone has his own attitude to getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ________ (weep).“I love being seven,”she cried.“I don’t want to be eight!”I held her in my arms and explained that it was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and what a wonderful birthday she was going to have. ____
___ (eventual) she was comforted. It’s always strange __
__ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, but something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging increasingly interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me __
___ (frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is an ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members who have died before me.
Many people think that teachers give pupils too much homework．They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time．Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not （proper）plan the homework tasks they give to pupils．The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks that they
（do）at school already．
In Greece，many parents complained about the difficult homework that teachers gave to their children．The parents said that most of the homework was a waste of time，and they wanted to stop it．Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework．In Denmark，Germany and several other （country）in Europe，teachers cannot set homework at weekends．In Holland，teachers allow pupils
（stay）at school to do their homework．The children are free to help one another．Similar
（arrange）also exists in some British schools．
Most people agree that homework is not fair．A pupil doing his homework in a quiet and comfortable room is in a much （good）position than a pupil who does his homework in a small，
（noise）room with the television on．Some parents help their children with their homework．Other parents take no interest in their children’s homework at all．
Dear Mum and Dad,
The College Entrance Examination is around the corner, I wish I c___have a heart-to-heart talk with you. Thanks to your
(鼓励) and unselfish love, I have been m
great progress in my studies. It will be less than three weeks before I take the exam, which makes me under great pressure. Therefore, good studying conditions and timely help will do me a lot of good. My dream is the very one you always have. In order to make f
use of the time, I decide to make a few detailed study
(计划) for the exam. What’s m
, it’s also necessary that I do some physical exercise once in a while so that I can keep f
. All in all, I have
(自信) in my future life and I do wish you good health and a happy life.
Yours,
Li Hua
There are ____（amaze）things in the world. The story about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is one of the widely spread__
_____（legend）in the early 20th century.
On 22 July 1933, two visitors, Mr and Mrs George Spicer, were driving along the Loch Ness —one of the most famous ______（湖）in the highlands of Scotland. Suddenly, they saw an animal on the road in front of them. Unlike any other animals that they ___
__（see）before, it had a very big body and a small head, but no legs. When Mr and Mrs Spicer saw it, it was moving towards the lake like a snake.
Soon, stories about this strange ___ (动物)and Loch Ness became famous all over the world. Now people are still _
__ (interest) in Nessie and many visit Loch Ness in the hope of __
__ (see) Nessie.
There are various reasons why people compose(创作) poetry. Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that ( 留下印象) the readers deeply, while others try to c
certain emotions. The first poems
(写) in English were nursery rhymes, which were used to delight small children. With their strong rhythm and a lot of repetition, they were easy to learn and to
(背诵).Cinquain is another form of poetry which
（包含）of five lines. People can describe a picture in just a few words with these poems.The Japanese form of poetry Haiku, made up of seventeen syllables, is not a traditional form of English poetry but p
with English speakers. In
（此外）, Tang poems are borrowed by English speakers, which are translated into English, making the English poetry more colorful.