About Orders

    Ordering via Fax or Mail

You can call us at (212) 868-8488 to place your orders. If you want to fax or mail us your order, you do not need to fill out a separate form. Just place products in your shopping list online and continue through checkout(结账台) until you are reminded to print out the order sheet for fax or mail orders. Then write your credit card information on the printed sheet and fax or mail it to ChinaSprout to complete your order.

Order Confirmation(确认)

You will receive an order confirmation via email automatically within 24 hours of placing your order. If you have not received your order confirmation within two days, please let us know through our contact form. We will respond within one business day.

Change or Cancel Order Prior(较早的) Shipping

ChinaSprout wants to provide the fastest service for you. We will ship all orders within 24 hours. There is a good possibility that by the time you call with a change or cancellation, your package could already be on its way to you. If you would like to make a change or cancel your order, please contact us as soon as possible. We will do everything possible to try to meet your needs.

International Orders

We do accept international orders. We will ship all international orders by air mail unless you specifically request otherwise. Your shipping costs are calculated by USPS(美国邮政管理局) service; just add the products in the shopping cart, fill out the address, and you will see the shipping costs. Air mail will take 7-21 business days. International Priority will take 1-4 business days. All international orders must be paid using a credit card. Checks and money orders are not accepted. Please note that International USPS packages may have no guarantee for delivery time and tracking.

1.If a customer wants to order by mail, he needs to ____.

A. fill out two different forms               B. get a form from ChinaSprout

C. provide his credit card number online      D. print out the online order sheet and fill it in

2.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

  A. Customers are not allowed to cancel their order.

  B. Foreigners will receive their products in two weeks.

  C. ChinaSprout promises to ship any order in one day.  

D. ChinaSprout will send the order confirmation in two days.

3.Customers in foreign countries will receive ____.

  A. their orders usually by ship               B. their products mainly by air

  C. their order confirmations by fax           D. their shipping information by phone

The emperor penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and lives in Antarctica. The male and female are similar in size, reaching 122 cm in height and weighing anywhere from 22 to 45 kg. The back and head are black, contrasting sharply with the pale-yellow breast and bright-yellow ears. Like all penguins, it is flightless, with a streamlined body and their wings stiffen and flatten into flippers(鳍状肢) for a marine habitat.

Its diet consists primarily of fish, but can also include animals with hard shells. In hunting, the species can remain underwater up to 18 minutes, diving to a depth of 535 m. Its unusually structured hemoglobin(血红蛋白)allows it to function at low oxygen levels.

The emperor penguin is perhaps best known for the journeys adults make each year in order to mate and to feed their babies. The only penguin species that breeds(繁殖) during the Antarctic winter, it goes on a long journey of 50-120 km over the ice to breeding areas which may include thousands of individuals. The female lays a single egg, which is incubated(孵化)by the male while the female returns to the sea to feed; parents take turns searching for food at sea and caring for their chick. They both care for the chick until it is able to enter the water to find food on its own. During the process of incubation, the male can lose up to 1/3 to 1/2 of his body weight. One of the coolest things about the male is that if the chick comes out its egg before the female returns, the male can actually produce a special liquid to feed the chick. He can only do this for a short time. If the female doesn’t return, he must leave the chick to go on with his own life. The emperor penguin can typically live for 20 years in the wild, although observations suggest that some individual may live to 50 years of age.

1.We can learn from paragraph 1 that ____.

  A. the emperor penguin is the world’s largest kind of penguin

  B. the emperor penguin has pale-yellow ears

  C. the male and female emperor penguins are of different sizes

  D. the emperor penguin lives in the most northern area on the Earth

2.The emperor penguin can stay underwater for a long time mainly because of its ____.

  A. strong wings     B. streamlined body     C. structured hemoglobin     D. special diet

3.The emperor penguin differs from other penguin species in that ____.

  A. it gives birth in the Antarctic winter        B. it feeds mainly on fish

  C. the male won’t search for food on his own   D. it can only live for a short time

4.According to the passage, ____.

  A. the egg of the emperor penguin is mainly incubated by the female

  B. many emperor penguins will stay together to breed

  C. the male emperor penguin will give up his own life to feed the chick

  D. the female emperor penguin will leave the chick forever once it lays an egg

认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸相应题号的横线上。

Mirriam Websters online dictionary defines happy as: enjoying good health and satisfaction. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? I know a secret that can lead to happiness. Now you may ask, what secret is that? It’s a well-known secret, in fact. Perform a random(随意的) act of kindness per day.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to grow. According to University of Pennsylvania’s website, positive psychology has three central concerns: positive emotions, positive individual character, and positive systems. Understanding positive emotion includes the study of satisfaction with the past, happiness at present, and hope for the future. Understanding positive individual character consists of the study of the strengths and virtues, such as love, courage, creativity, curiosity, self-knowledge, self-control, and wisdom. Understanding positive systems needs the study of meaning and purpose as well as the strengths that help the growth of better communities, such as responsibility, leadership, teamwork, purpose, and tolerance(忍耐力).

Positive psychology focuses on strengths as well as weaknesses, on building the best things in life as well as repairing the worst. It asserts(断言) that human goodness and excellence is just as real as sadness and illness, and that life consists more than seeking the answers to problems. All these things can be summed up in one concept: giving can equal a meaningful life, i.e. happiness.

But you are probably wondering how. Well, let’s examine the research, shall we? A 1996 study showed that wealth is only weakly related to happiness both within and across nations, particularly when income is above the poverty level. So money does not mean happiness. In 2000, a different study showed that activities that make people happy in some way—such as shopping, good food and making money—do not lead to satisfaction in the long term, indicating that these have quick diminishing returns(收益递减).

However, on the other hand, we also know that people who witness others perform good deeds experience an emotion which drives them to perform their own good deeds. Making a contribution to the lives of other people may help to extend our own lives.

This is why I make a point of trying to do something nice every day. Sometimes I tip much larger than I need to. Sometimes I just smile at someone who looks like they really need it. A random act of kindness is an act that receives just as much as it gives. You’ll be happier. They’ll be happier. And you’ll live longer. So, please, perform a random act of kindness each day.

必须使用模块五和模块六第一单元生词表中的单词

1. Before the Spring Festival, streets and shops are always c__________ with people.

2.It is i__________ to kill rare animals and whoever kills them shall be punished.

3.The couple did not have a child of their own so they a__________ the baby deserted in the street.

4.Don’t care what others say and trust in your own j__________.

5. In the last three d___________，great changes have taken in my hometown.

6.______________(产量) of computers has increased double in the last few weeks.

7.He is considered as an __________(杰出的) actor who has a gift for acting.

8.Zhao Benshan is one of the most popular ___________(喜剧演员) in China.

9.He __________(发誓) he hadn’t taken my watch.

10. It was __________(荒谬的)of him to raise such a foolish question in class.

用所给动词的适当形式填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

1.The TV series was so interesting that neither of them felt like _______ (go) to sleep.   

2.The brave soldiers were determined to save all the people ________ (trap) in the burning building.

3.I want to leave now; I can’t stand _____________(do) nothing useful here. 

4.The boy pretended ___________ (study) when his mother came in.    

5.The poster was revised _____________ (base)on the suggestions of other group members.  

6.__________(ask) around, I find many people willing to pay slightly higher prices for things that are environmentally friendly.

7.The boy was naughty but he always avoided _________(catch) so the teacher thought I was good.

8.______ (ensure) the safety of gas, the government has checked the city’s gas supply system thoroughly.

9.The old man is badly ill and he needs ___________(take) to hospital at once.

10.The problem __________(discuss) at the meeting tomorrow is about the preservation of local cultural heritage.

最近你班就克隆人是否可行进行了一次讨论。请根据下表内容介绍一下讨论的结果，并发表自己的观点。

注意：

1. 对所有要点逐一陈述，适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

2. 词数 120 左右。开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

      Recently, our class have had a discussion about whether it’s right to clone humans. _________

The farmers built long fences, ____ keeping the wild dogs out of them.

   A. aimed at   B. aim for   C. aiming at   D. aimed to  

His parents are convinced ____ the fact the their son always focuses his mind ___ his study.

   A. of; on   B. of; at   C. by; to   D. on; at 

 ---Does the young man standing at the gate ______ the car?

   --- No. The car is _________ his father.   

A. take possession of; in the possession of  

B. have possession of; take possession of

C. have possession of; in the possession of  

D. in the possession of; take possession of

His letter was so confusing that I could hardly make any ______ of it.  

A. explanation     B. meaning  C. sense          D. guess