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What time is it now?
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你一周在学校学习五天，某英语报社正在以“My Favorite School Day”为题进行征文活动，请你用英语给该报社写一篇征文，谈谈你最喜欢哪一天，这天你上什么课以及你喜欢这一天的原因。要求70词左右。
提示词语：
morning，math，PE，subject，teacher，afternoon，happy
提示问题：
1. What’s your favorite school day?
2. What classes do you have?
3. Why do you like the day?
My Favorite School Day
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The late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, once said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart.”
Mandela understood that our mother language is a very close thing to us. For people who speak their mother language, it helps them keep their traditions. Their language is the bridge with their ancestors (祖先). And it is also how they think about the future.
So it's a serious thing that a language disappears (消失). Over the last century, more than 400 languages have died out. Some languages are now spoken only by a few people, like Yagan in Chile. Africa and South America are also places where many languages are imperiled (处于危险的).
Why are humans speaking fewer languages than we once did? The answer has something to do with globalization (全球化). Nowadays, it's more useful to speak certain languages—English is one example. This has killed some languages, usually ones spoken by fewer people.
The United Nations has set Feb 21 as International Mother Language Day. This work is very important. As US writer Rita Mae Brown wrote, “Language is the map of the culture. It tells where its people come from and where they are going”.
1.How does the writer introduce (介绍，引入) the topic?
A.By using a famous person’s words. B.By asking difficult questions.
C.By giving good examples. D.By explaining special things.
2.According to Nelson Mandela, a man’s mother language _____________.
A.doesn’t go to his head B.can’t explain things better
C.carries certain feelings D.helps talk to their ancestors
3.Which is the most suitable (适合的) place in the passage for the sentence, “But some people aren’t prepared to accept the earth with fewer and fewer languages”?
A.At the beginning of Paragraph 2 B.At the beginning of Paragraph 3
C.At the beginning of Paragraph 4 D.At the beginning of Paragraph 5
4.What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A.The US writer Rita Mae Brown does not agree with Nelson Mandela.
B.The United Nations wants people to care more about dying languages.
C.People in Chile do not speak their mother languages any more.
D.There will be more and more languages in the world soon.
The light in my bedroom burned out last night and Dad __________a new one this morning.
A.put up B.put in C.put on D.put out
What will the weather be like tomorrow?
A.Sunny. B.Rainy. C.Cloudy.
Margaret came home from school with a drawing in her hand and tears in her eyes. She had drawn a picture of Tippity’s house but a(n) _________had made fun of it.
“He said it was awful. He said I would never be an artist.” She made a very_________face. “I'm sorry, Margaret,” said her mother. “He was wrong. This is a good drawing.”
“You_________say that. You're my mom,” sniffed(抽鼻子) Margaret.
“But it is really good, sweetie,” said her mother. “Why don't we_________it to Uncle Dot and see what he thinks?”
Margaret and her mother rode their bikes to the fishing boats at Bright-by-the-sea. Here they found Uncle Dot_________on a little bench( 长椅). He was drawing a picture of two fishermen who were working on their boat. They showed him Margaret’s drawing and said,” A boy at school said it was_________.”
“Well, this is nice!” Uncle Dot_________the drawing and said: “I like the way you showed all the flowers in Tippity’s garden, and that’s a very cheerful sun in the sky.”
“Look here,” Said Uncle Dot. “Why don’t all of you sit down and paint with me for a while? I have lots of art supplies. Use_________you like.”
Margaret chose markers and her mother picked out a few bits of colored chalk, and_________she liked to draw with when she was a child. In no time, everyone was busy drawing and painting.
Some people__________to see what they were doing and said nice things about their work. The “artists” listened to the sounds of seagulls( 海 鸥 ) overhead and boats rocking on gentle waves. They were having a wonderful time。
Each piece was different. Everyone had seen the__________things: a boat, fishermen, the sea and the sky. But each person drew or painted those things__________his or her own way “This was great fun1” said Margaret’s mother “See? You are both__________!” said Uncle Dot.
“Yes, we are,” said Margaret__________. She held her mother's hand. “Yes, we are.”
From that day on, Margaret and her mother enjoyed drawing and painting all kinds of art.
They didn’t care whether others thought their work was “good” or not because they knew that didn’t__________at all.
1.A.girl B.artist C.boy D.teacher
2.A.embarrassing B.sad C.surprising D.ugly
3.A.always B.never C.sometimes D.seldom
4.A.show B.reflect C.perform D.stick
5.A.jumping B.sleeping C.lying D. sitting
6.A.wonderful B.awful C.thankful D.meaningless
7.A.studied B.returned C.found D.received
8.A.wherever B.whoever C.whatever D.whenever
9.A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing
10.A.forgot B.remembered C.advised D.stopped
11.A.same B.different C.similar D.ordinary
12.A.by B.in C.on D.from
13.A.actors B.fishermen C.artists D.teachers
14.A.proudly B.wisely C.quietly D.suddenly
15.A.mean B.know C.treat D.matter
Later this year, Beijing will start the country’s first driverless(无人驾驶 ) subway trains. The Yanfang Line-connecting part of Fangshan district center-will be the first to try out driverless technology.
According to the experts(专家) in public transportation, the new trains will make the underground railway system(系统) better. They will have an upgraded(升级的)operating system. They will reach 80km per hour and carry more than 1,200 passengers.
The development of driverless technology is opening up in other areas of transport(交通工具). Driverless cars have been a dream for many people. And in the past few years, big car companies, including Volkswagen and Toyota, have made lots of studies while they are competing with other companies, such as Google.
But with not racks(轨道) to run on, how will driverless cars be safe? This technology is made up of many sensors(传感器) including radar and GPS. This gives the car an exact position in the world, as well as what’s around it. It also allows the car to see moving objects(目标), like other cars and people.
Pilot-free planes have also become a hot technology topic. Yet while these new kinds of technology are seen as better and safer, they do have problems. They cannot work at all without the help of computers. Just like humans, computers make mistakes-although less often. And like much of technology, it makes many workers lose their jobs. What will happen to the future bus drivers and pilots?
1.Will Beijing start the country’s first driverless subway trains?
2.How many passengers will the driverless subway train carry?
3.What did the big companies do about the driverless technology?
4.Why will driverless cars be safe?
5.What does the writer mainly tell us in the last paragraph?
The young man couldn’t afford a new car. ________ he bought a second-hand one.
A.Still B.Instead C.Moreover D.Finally
B. 根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and 1.（赢得）a national Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）
Leech , 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as 2.（平常的）along Pine Street, he suddenly heard a loud,3.（奇怪的）sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Corn Wall, southern England, “That must be a fire, I 4.（推）the door in and then I shouted for the people inside. Then I started pouring（倒出）milk 5.（到处）.”He used 320 bottles of milk to 6.(阻止) the fire. When firefighters（消防员）7.（到达）at the shop, the fire was under control（得到控制）.
Leech helped save the 8.（生命）of eight people in the flats above the shops.
“It was hard work to 9.（打开） those bottles. But it was even 10.（更难）trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone ,” Leech said jokingly.
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