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(2018·山东临沂)亲爱的同学,在你三年的初中生活中, 总会与有些同学成为朋友。请以 “My Best Friend and I” 为题, 根据以下要求与提示, 用英语写一篇短文。
要求:
1. 如果你最好的朋友是女生,请用名字Mary; 如果是男生, 请用Jeff。短文中不得出现任何真实人名、校名及其它相关信息,否则不予评分。
2. 不少于60词。
提示:
I. Who is your best friend?
2. How long have you been friends? And how did you become friends?
3. How are you the same as and different from your best friend? And what do you like about him / her?
My Best Friend and I
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This army started from four to five _________ soldiers.
A. hundreds of B. thousands C. thousands of D. thousand
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7 January, 2014
A new report says more and more international students are attending colleges and universities in the United States. It also notes a large increase in the number of international students from China.
These findings are from the latest Open Doors Report. The report documents the record number of international students in the United States during 2012, 2013 school year. It says more than seven hundred sixty-four thousand four-hundred such students were attending American colleges and universities during the last two years. That represents an increase of almost six percent than one year earlier.
On the other hand, the number of Americans studying overseas (海外) increased by one percent, which reached nineteen thousand this year.
The report says one hundred ninety-four thousand students at American colleges and universities were from
China. That is an increase of more than twenty-three percent over the year before. Peggy Blumenthal, an expert(专家) of international education, described the effect of the increase in Chinese students.
"Now they have been coming for some time. But this year was the highest level ever." She says many Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children. The children mainly choose to study in America.
"We know many of them have enough income to be able to afford to send them anywhere in the world that they want to go. And for the most part, looking around the world, Chinese students still prefer to come to the United States as their choice."
Chinese students are not the only ones who want to attend American colleges and universities. After China, India sends the second largest number of students to the United States for higher education. India has about one hundred thousand students in American schools. South Korea is third with about seventy two thousand students.
Why do so many foreign students study in the United States? Peggy Blumenthal provides one reason.
"The advantage America has is that we have a huge system and a very perfect system. So there are over four thousand universities and colleges in the United States. Among them are some top ones in the world, and what that tells us is there is still a lot of room to host international students."
Foreign students represent less than four percent of the total student population in American higher education. And from Learning English, that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Bob Doughty. Thanks for listening.
1.Bob Doughty seems to be ________.
A. an exchange student from the USA
B. an expert of international education
C. a viewer of VOA
D. a reporter from VOA
2.Which country below has the fewest students studying overseas?
A. South Korea B. India C. China D. America
3.Which is NOT the reason why so many Chinese students go to the USA for further study?
A. Lots of Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children
B. The USA has a huge and a very perfect education system.
C. There is a lot of room to host international students in the USA.
D. The USA has some top universities and colleges in the world.
4.Which of the following statement is true?
A. China has 122,000 more students than South Korea at American colleges and universities.
B. The number of Americans studying overseas is becoming smaller and smaller.
C. The number of Asian students has an increase of 6% over the past two years.
D. Most of the international students in the United States are Chinese.
5.This passage from VOA Special English is most likely to be ________.
A. An advertisement B. A radio programme C. A science report D. A tour guide
— My dream is to build ______university on the moon some day.
— It sounds like _______unusual dream. I wish you could realize it.
A. a; a B. an; a C. a; an D. an; an
When I was young, my mother gave me warm arms _____.
A. to sleep B. to sleep in C. sleeping D. sleeping in
(2018·山东临沂)People already know a lot about animals. However, there are still some things about animals that may surprise you. Here are some facts about animals you probably didn’t know.
Cows do have best friends and feel stressed when they are separated. Scientists have found that cows are very social animals and a cow always makes friends with other cows. When a cow is with its friends, it feels relaxed, compared with when it is alone.
During breeding season, a male penguin (企鹅) will offer a small stone to a female penguin as a gift. If she takes it, they will become partners. When the female penguin lays an egg, she and her partner may carry it on their feet, because some penguins don’t build nests (鸟巢).
Crocodiles (鳄鱼) swallow (吞) stones. Crocodiles always swallow their food instead of eating it like other animals. They swallow stones which break the food into very small pieces in their stomachs. These stones may stay in their stomachs all their lives.
Elephants use plants to treat pain or other illness. Scientists once found a pregnant (怀孕的) elephant in Africa who ate a kind of plant which was not part of her normal food. Four days later, she gave birth to a baby elephant. The same plant was used by the local pregnant women.
根据短文内容,判断下列句子正误。正确的用“A”表示,不正确的用“B”表示。
1.A cow hates making friends with other cows.
2.All the male penguins will build nests if the female penguins lay eggs.
3.Crocodiles swallow stones to help with digestion (消化).
4.Elephants eat plants only when they are hungry.
5.The passage mainly tells us some surprising facts about animals.
(2018·山东临沂) When you are in your school dining hall during lunchtime, you may feel lonely _______ you can find someone to have lunch with.
A. if B. unless
C. after D. because
Our classroom is very clean and tidy because it ______ every day.
A. cleans
B. cleaned
C. was cleaned
D. is cleaned
My grandfather was born____Oct. 10, 1935.
A. on B. in C. at D. of