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Last year, my brother and I went to Mianyang for a vacation．Some of my friends who had been there before said ______ was a wonderful holiday destination．Before we went, we had planned for months．When the day came, we were ready.
After our plane landed, we went to the hotel．We had made our reservation six months ____ （early）, but the man at the front desk said there had been a mistake．We ___
___（tell）that our rooms hadn’t been reserved for that week, but for the week after．I didn’t understand why this would happen and my credit card had already been ___
_ (charge) for the reservation．What’s worse, the hotel had been fully booked．When we were wondering what to do, the manager came out．She apologized for the mistake and gave us a spare VIP room on _
__ top floor．We had never stayed in such an amazing room, and we weren’t charged extra.
There was once a young shepherd boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was lonely and(bore) for him watching the sheep all day.
No one was nearthere farmers he could sometimes see working in the fields in the valley below.
One day the boy thought of a plan byhe could get a little company and have some fun. He ran down toward the valley
(cry), “Wolf! Wolf!”
The men ran to meet him, andthey found out there was no wolf at all, they complained and returned to their work. However, the boy was very happy when he saw the men come running.
The boy enjoyed the company so much that a few days later he triedsame trick again, and again the men ran to help him.
A few days later, a real wolf came from the forest and was headingthe sheep.
The boy ran toward the valley, and more loudlyever he cried,“Wolf! Wolf! A wolf has really appeared. ”
But the men, who had been(fool) twice before, thought that he was tricking them again. No one came
(help) the boy. The lying shepherd boy was eaten up by the wolf with all his sheep.
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear ______spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and without hesitation.
______, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success ________ language learning.
_______good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only
________(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and
_________ meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language.
________ we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of
_______(advise) for those
_______are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and
________ (write) the language whenever we can.
假定你是班长李华，请根据以下内容给新任外教Smith先生写一封信, 向他表示欢迎并转达同学们对英语课的希望：
1. 介绍西方文化；
2. 组织多样活动；
3. 关注学生发音, 提高听说能力。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头已为你写好。
Dear Mr. Smith,
I’m writing on behalf of my class to extend our warm welcome to you. Here are some of our expectations for your English class.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
He is the man who for many people has been a role model. Now your biggest hero deserves a special day you can express your thanks and let him know how much
_(important) he is to you than any other model.
The idea of Father’s Day came from American woman called Sonara Smart Dodd in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day
(honor) her father. He raised six children by
__after his wife died. Dodd thought there needed to be a day to honor loving dads.
The first Father’s Day (celebrate) on June 19, 1910. In 1924, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a
(nation) Father’s Day. Finally, in 1996, President Lyndon Johnson declared the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day.
The third Sunday of June—which (fall) on June 21, 2015—is Father’s Day. Here are some ways to show your love and respect:
* Send him a (greet) card. Fathers prefer cards which are not too emotional. So choose one that will make him laugh.
* If he has a computer, cover his desktop words like “I Love you Dad”.
* A small present, such as a framed photo of your family, can make him feel like a king.
Never before in history ________ a city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing is left of it ___
_____ memories and some houses far from the centre of the city. Its businesses are gone. The factories, hotels and palaces are all gone too. Within an hour __
____ the earthquake, the smoke of San Francisco’s fires could be seen 160 kilometres away. The sun was red in the dark sky. There was no stopping the fires. There was no way to organize ____
___ communicate. The steel railway tracks were now ___
____(use). All of the ways ___
_ man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the thirty seconds the earth moved.
Out at sea it was calm. No wind came up. ________ from all direction---east, west, north, and south, strong winds blew upon the ___
____ (luck) city. Man himself had to make ruins of some of the city’s best buildings ____
_____ that they would not be a danger to those in the streets. A list of buildings undestroyed was now only a few addresses. A list of the brave men and women would fill a library. A list of all ____
____ killed will never be made.