题目内容
6. 那i男子雇用露西秘密监视她的邻居。
Lucy is paid by that man to .
6 .say on her neiehbour
[语境展示]阅读下面句子，并试着归纳balance的意思。
1. The salesgirl weighed the vegetable on the balan skilfully.
2. Riders need a good sense of balance.
3. We must keep a balance between spending and saving
4. The crown could balance a stick on the end of his nos (
5. He balanced the advantages and disadvantages of t\ -situation.
[自我归纳]balance既可作名词，也可作动词。
★作名词时，意为••⑦天平(句1)② (句2)
③均衡状态（句3)
★作动词时，意为:①使(某物) 保持平衡(句4)②平衡，平稳(句5) 。
[拓展]
keep / lose one's balance 保持/失去平衡
balanced adj,平衡的
[即学即练]翻译亍?句子。
他失去平衡，从自行车掉了下来。
2. 尽量保持工作和娱乐平衡。
3. 你能单脚站立多久?
have to, mustn’t, needn’t, can't, ought to
1. It says No Smoking. You
smoke here.
2. 1 don’ t think it will rain. David take an umbrella.
3. Lucy was ill so her husband change their travel plan last week.
4. We don't exercise much,but we really.
5. Those results be right. You must have made a mistake.
1. .两年前她靠做自由撰稿记者来维持生计。
She as a freelance journalist
two years ago.
根据短文内容,f短文后的选项中选出能填 在空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The tradition of birthday parties started a long time ago. People thought that there was a special danger from evz7 (邪恶的) spirits,so friends and family came together to bring good thoughts and wishes and even presents. 36 But as uiuug?iis anu WIMICS
time went by,children and then adults began to have the? own birthday celebrations. There are s?me traditions — such as sending birthday cards,blowing out the candles on a birthday cake and singing the “Happy Birthday” song,that you can find almost anywhere,any time. 37
In many English-speaking countries,a twenty-first birthday cake often has a key on top. 38 The key means that the young person is now old enough to leave and enter the family home at any time they want to!
In the past in parts of Europe,men who reached the age of thirty and were still single,had to clean the stairs of the City Hall. This way every girl could see that the man didn't have a girlfriend.39
After the age of thirty,many people prefer to forget their birthdays rather than celebrate them ... children often bring Mum (or Dad) breakfast in bed. 40 It's also a day when your friends and family have to pay if you go out for drinks or a meal!
A. Birthday traditions are.around the world.
B. At one time,only kings had birthday parties.
C. Or the cake itself is sometimes in the shape of a key.
D. It's traditional to give flowers and enjoy a special meal.
E. Family members put many sweets on the birthday cake.
F. They could also see how good he was at cleaning the house!
G. Others are more specific to certain ages and certain countries.
Task I. Read the text and fill in the blanks in the chart below.
1.2.3.4.5.6.
Picking up her backpack for school,14-year-old Carolyn Milander,from Houston, lexas,cned for the second time that week. “Not against Carolyn!” her mother said,worriedly.
When you study all night and don't get enough sleep,you get so tired!This terrible cycle has got to enff Carolyn shouted,fine,just leave me alone!Carolyn had just stared at a new secondary school and was having trouble dealing with the increased expectations and pressures
u Instead of just watching,Carolyn,s mother heard tfie Happy Class” at Carolyn' s school might help,and she insisted that Carolyn should attend it That was four years ago. Recently,Carolyn told her story.
I remember angrily being driven to my first Happy Class,Carolyn said. ul shyly walked into the classroom. I felt embarrassed,hoping no one would see me when they passed by. We started by closing our eyes and focusing on(集中注意力于) our breathing.w As Carolyn began to notice her breathing,she said,ul stopped thinking about people the hallway. I felt really relaxed.w This was a feeling she liked and she could tell she would benefit from what the classes could offer.
Happy Class was an important turning point for Carolyn. She learned to accept herself tor who she was. Many of her friends expected her to attend Harvard or another top university but Carolyn realized she could achieve happiness clqse t? home,rather than by going to a top university. In fact,Carolyn decided to become a jjyrse and to apply to(申请) just one college — a 20-mmute drive away.
“I. didn’ t want to be towpto tempted(吸引) by a top university. I wanted to remain true to the goals I set for myself," Carolyn said. feel good about myself for sticking to what I believe in and I would encourage other teens to make the choices that are best for them and to discover what makes them happy.
Adolescence(青春期) is a time when young people should be able to discover their own identities. When Carolyn spent soirie time to discover what was meaningful to hr,personal success followed. This is what all teens should be able to do.
1. When Caroljoi attended a new secondary school,
A. it was hard for her to fall asleep at night
B. her mother had high expectations of her
C. she put too much pressure on herself
D. she got on badly with her mother
2. What point does Carolyn make about her first
Happy Class?
A. She thought it offered less than she expected.
B. She realized the methods being taught were useful.
C. She wished there weren,t so many other people thare.
D. She found discussing her problems made her feeibetten
3. Why did Carolyn give up applying to one of the
top universities?
A. They were all too close to her hometown.
B. She hadn't spent enough time on her studies
C. Her parents couldn’t afford to pay the
expensive fees.
D. She had already made up her mind to do something else.
4. What do Carolyn's words in Paragraph 5 suggest?
A. She is proud of doing what she thinks is right.
B. She is trying to understand her friends,decisions.
C. She would like her friends to choose a job like hers.
D. She appreciates the good advice she has been given.
5. What does the underlined word “This” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Becoming successful at school.
B. Finding out what matters to them.
C. Learning from successful persons.
D. Spending time on what they eniov.
4. Joy (may / will) take early retirement this year. She hasn’t decided yet.
7. It took Vikram Seth three years to write his 1,349-page (小说) A Suitable Boy.
