How to get along with your parents?

What do you think of your parents? Are they your friends, teachers or just the people who are older than you? As children, what can you do to get along better with your parents? If you want to make friends with your parents and grow into adults yourselves at the same time, you can try taking the following steps.

【1】 Your parents won’t always be around, so spend time with them while you are able to. You can find activities to do together. In doing this, you will learn more about each other.

【2】 In order to understand your parents better, you have to spend time making conversations with them. You can talk about your hobbies, problems, opinions and so on. After that, you can connect with each other on a deeper level.

【3】 It may seem easy, but it is often harder than you think. When you are talking with your parents, make sure you are listening. This means looking at them when they are talking and speaking clearly when you are replying.

【4】 If you want your parents to give you more freedom（自由）, you should show them that you’re already “young adults”. You should learn to control your feelings and show them that you can manage（安排） your time well.

【5】 Do something nice or helpful for your parents. For example, help them with some home chores, make them gifts or teach them some computer skills. In a word, do what you can to help your parents.

A. Listen to them carefully.

B. Act like an adult.

C. Enjoy doing activities together.

D. Be helpful at home.

E. Talk with your parents.

【1】令我们惊讶的是，上个月我们厂的产量仅增加了百分之二。

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【2】机会就在面前，但值得冒此风险吗？

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【3】当你在香港出差时，我正忙着准备期末考试。

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【4】每年，成千上万的人聚焦在纽约时代广场庆祝新年的到来。

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【5】你最好不要熬夜，熬夜有害健康。

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A. present B. friendship C. west D. translate E. convenient F. create

【1】He traveled alone the whole country from east to_____________ .

【2】You can_____________ a better you by studying hard.

【3】Helping each other can make our_____________ stronger.

【4】What can I get him for a birthday_____________ ?

【5】Can you help me_____________ this letter into English?

【6】Now it is very_____________ to go shopping online.

最近，某大学推出“跑距”app。每学期男生要跑168公里，女生要跑120公里才可获得体育课满分。对于这个方法，调查到李华班级的同学们有不同的想法。假如你是李华，请根据以下调查结果表，写一封建议信给《未来大学生英文报》的编辑，列举不同的事实与观点。

小词典：build up v. 树立 will n. 意志 get injured v. 受伤

注意：（1）信件内容必须包括表格的所有内容，可适当增加细节；（2）文中不出现真实的地名和人名；（3）词数：80—100（信件开头、结尾已给出，不计入总词数）。

Dear Editor,

To improve its P.E. course, the university recently started to use an app called “Running Distance”. Students’ running records on the app will become part of their P.E. score.

To get a full mark, every term, boy students have to run_____________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

Following the research, researchers believe they know why some of us prefer coffee while others like tea more. The researchers have found that people who like more bitter tastes are more likely to drink coffee.

The researchers say they find something strange in their research. People who are more sensitive（敏感的） to the bitter taste of caffeine are more likely to prefer coffee to tea. They were also more likely to drink more coffee than those who are not so sensitive to caffeine.

Researchers looked at the study on more than 400,000 men and women in the United Kingdom. They also looked at an Australian study that compared the tastes of 1,757 twins（双胞胎） with their siblings. The researchers say genes aren’t the only factors（因素） influencing people’s tastes. Other things like our changing environment, social factors or the influences of taking medicine can also turn us on or off coffee or tea.

The researchers said we can learn to like coffee. Dr Liang-Dar Hwang said, “Bitter taste is influenced not only by genetics, but also environmental factors. Even though humans naturally dislike bitterness, we can learn to like or enjoy bitter-tasting food after being influenced by environmental factors.”

【1】The research suggests that_____________ .

A.our DNA helps us to prefer coffee

B.the University of Queensland in Australia influenced our tastes

C.it’s more possible for people who like more bitter tastes to drink coffee

D.it’s impossible for us to know why we like some tastes more than others

【2】It can be inferred that people mentioned in Paragraph 3_____________ .

A.have the tastes of allB.have no taste of bitter

C.are more likely to like tea better than coffeeD.are more likely to feel the bitter taste of caffeine

【3】The underlined word “siblings” in Paragraph 4 probably means “ ”.

A.brothers or sistersB.aunts or uncles

C.friends or relativesD.teachers or classmates

【4】From the last sentence, we know that_____________ .

A.environment can’t influence peopleB.environment can influence people, too

C.coffee is the best drink in our daily lifeD.we should drink more coffee instead of tea

Two seeds lay side by side in the ground. They were talking with【1】 other.

The first seed said, “I want to grow!I want to feel the 【2】（warm） of the sun on my face and the blessing of the fresh rain drops on my flowers in the morning!I want to hold 【3】 my sprouts（芽） through the earth and send my roots（根） deep into the ground. I will make friends with other【4】（plant）, and we can grow together.”

So she grew. 【5】, she saw that the other seed did nothing. She was surprised and asked, “Don’t you want to come out and see?”

The other seed said, “I am scared. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don’t know what I will come across in 【6】 dark. If I push my way through the hard clay above me, I might hurt my sprouts. And if I open my flowers, I might【7】（pull） out of the ground by a naughty（淘气的） child. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe.”

It just sat there 【8】（silent）.

A hen was walking nearby and looking for food. She found the 【9】（two） seed and ate it.

Like this seed, if we do not take risks in order to grow, we may lose【10】（we） in life.

The Emperor spoke in a low voice but I could hear all the words clearly.

His Majesty and I often spoke to each other but neither of us understood a single word. I tried words from many languages. No one could understand me, not even the cleverest of the Emperor's followers.

After about two hours the Emperor left. His wife, children and their servants went also. There were strong guards around me. This was to stop the crowd of people from hurting me.

An officer told the guards to hold six men who made me angry. These men were given to me and I had to choose their punishment. I put five of them in my pocket. Then I pretended（假装）to eat the sixth man.

The poor man screamed terribly. The guards were worried when they saw my knife in my hand. I only cut the rope round his hands. Then I put him on his feet and let him go. I lifted the other five men out of my pocket and put them gently on the ground too.

The people and the soldiers were very pleased with my great kindness. They told the Emperor about it immediately. Emperor ordered his men to make a bed for me and they had to join six hundred of their little beds together to make one bed for me.

At the same time the Emperor asked all his advisers for their advice on how to deal with me. They were very worried. If they set me free, I might be dangerous. I was eating so much food that soon all the people would be hungry. The farmers could not grow enough food to feed all of us.

The wise men thought that they should kill me. But they would not be able to bury(埋葬）me. My dead body would smell. This might cause much illness all over the country.

【1】Why did the tiny people hurt Gulliver at first?

A.They just wanted to make fun of him.B.They thought he would attack the king.

C.They wanted to kill him and got his knife.D.They were afraid of him because he was too big.

【2】The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 4 refers to（指代）" ________" .

A.the guardsB.the six men

C.the officersD.the Emperor's children

【3】What do the last two paragraphs mainly talk about?

A.The Emperor and his men's decision to kill Gulliver.

B.The Emperor and his men's communication with Gulliver.

C.The Emperor and his men's difficulties in dealing with Gulliver.

D.The Emperor and his people's pleasure with Gulliver's great kindness.

【4】What prevented the tiny people from killing Gulliver?

A.Gulliver's size and knife.B.Gulliver's strength and wisdom.

C.The king and his wife's order.D.The trouble of his dead body.

I am returning to my home and stuck in the traffic near Delhi. The driver of the ambulance（救护车） was trying to get out of heavy traffic and 1_____________.

Some were giving space to the ambulance to get out of traffic but some people were not giving it. This shows that even today there are good people in the world and 2_____________.

It is often heard in the news that 3_____________. Then the ambulance cannot find the way and the patient may die on the way. If we are used to thinking of others, then 4_____________.

A. the traffic is so busy now

B. many more patients can be saved

C. the drivers are also ill on the way

D. the patient was fighting with his illness

E. there are selfish（自私的） persons as well

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【2】_______

【3】_______

【4】_______

【5】According to the writer, is it necessary to give space?（不多于7个单词）

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seldom agree it prefer pride

【1】Believe me I can fly. I’m_____________ that I can fly.

【2】Sometimes, smile has_____________ own form of power.

【3】The_____________ has raised hopes that the war may end soon.

【4】She_____________ feels so happy that exciting tears come from her eyes.

【5】My mother_____________ cotton clothes in the past, but now she likes silk better.

The Italian baked food will come from a new business partner Princi, which has a small chain of seven bake shops in Milan and London.

“We’re getting into the food business,” Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks, told the Washington Post. “Princi will be fully working with bake business, so not only will we be serving coffee, but we’ll be baking bread, pasties(点心). The kind of Italian pastries is what you’ve never seen in America.”

Starbucks will bring the freshly-baked Princi things to other Starbucks, but if you don’t live in Seattle, you might have to wait a little bit. Luckily, the shops with Italian-style baked goods at the Starbucks in Shanghai were opened in December 2017, but you have to wait until when the new Starbucks opens in Milan in late 2018, and then in New York, Tokyo and Chicago in 2019. Then Starbucks lovers will surely have a good chance to meet their needs from then on.

【1】What can people usually drink and eat in Starbucks?

People usually_______________________________in Starbucks.

【2】What will Princi help Starbucks offer to people?

Princi will help Starbucks offer_____________________________to people.

【3】What does Howard Schultz do in Starbucks?

Howard Schultz is__________________________________.

【4】Where will the new Starbucks open in 2019?

The new Starbucks will be opened in_____________________________in 2019.

【5】What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

It mainly talks about______________________________.