The app — called Sit With Us — is ___15___. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon,he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ___16___ that invitation. They can then use the app todecide when and where to ___17___.
At the age of nine, Kelly dreamed of being abasketball player. But one day when she was playing basketball, she hurt herleft leg ____16____.
Antarctica lies in the most southern part of theworld. It is the coldest area on Earth. There isn’t much rain, but there is alot of snow and wind. The lowest temperature was on 21 July in 1983 at -89.2℃!
“Red Trip” in TonghuaTonghua is a good choice to have a “red trip”. It is aplace full of “red stories”. The well-known national hero Yang Jingyu oncefought here. Experience the “red spirit”!
I joineda band (樂隊(duì))as a drummer in my middle school. I thought itwould be fun playing the drum and meeting new friends. At first it was easy,but a month later, it got difficult. I was the only one who couldn’t keep pace (節(jié)奏)with the other players. Our teacher,Angie, singled me out to keep practicing while everyone else got to relax. Ifelt ashamed (羞愧的)as my teammates watched me fail so many times.Finally I got so tired of practicing that I didn’t care about doing it right.
①我媽是一個(gè)知青,我爸是一個(gè)農(nóng)民。在我幼時(shí)的歲月里,我爸應(yīng)該很辛苦。只有他一個(gè)農(nóng)村戶口,卻有三個(gè)城里人要養(yǎng)活,他的田地太少了。但他勤快,愿意為生活付出所有氣力。據(jù)說(shuō)我家永遠(yuǎn)是每畝地里出錢最多的人家,而他的女兒們卻幾乎沒去過那片土地。
“幸好!”媽媽笑道,“走出五里路我就哭了,一哭哭了幾百里……”常樂想問為什么,忽然響起一片古怪的聲音。滿池塘都在怪叫。常樂像皮球一樣彈到媽媽懷里,大叫:“水里有怪物!”
一只蜉蝣從水里一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)鉆出來(lái)。遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)的天邊,一個(gè)紅紅的家伙一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)冒上來(lái)。蜉蝣高興地和它打招呼:“你好,你很神奇呀,你一來(lái)世界就亮了?!薄澳愫?,小蜉蝣?!薄澳阏J(rèn)識(shí)我?你是誰(shuí)呀?”“我是太陽(yáng)?!薄疤?yáng),我好快樂呀,我有一天的生命,你和我一樣嗎?”
媽媽19歲嫁給爸爸。外婆生育了6個(gè)孩子,還領(lǐng)養(yǎng)了一個(gè),但媽媽是唯一的女兒,在那個(gè)年代,雖然說(shuō)不上能享受到多少寵愛,但至少?zèng)]有遭受過任何對(duì)女性的輕慢,媽媽甚至還念到初中畢業(yè),字寫得比我還好,能自由閱讀文學(xué)作品。
My mum and dad bought a nice, big turkey a fewdays before Thanksgiving. ___29___was proud of herself as she got it for a good price. ___30___ Thanksgiving, Mum got the turkey out of thefridge.
Liu Min is an English teacher. These days, herfamily are experiencing a different life of working and studying. They get upand do morning exercises at 6:30 in the living room. After breakfast, theystart their work and study. Her husband turns on his computer in the study (書房), reading his e-mails andmaking a list of today’s work.
When youand your friends turn to each other to talk about problems or troubles, yougive each other advice and help. One important thing of our growth is to makedecisions to help our friends and learn to support each other. This requires usto learn what it means to help friends and how to help them in right ways.
Remember that it’s better to fail than it’s togive up, and the key is to learn from your failure(失敗). But along withdifficulties, there will also be ____18____ wonderful waiting for you.
I often hear some students say English isdifficult, so they can’t learn it well. ___11___ English is very easy for me. I’m good ___12___ it. I’m very glad to tell you ___13___ about how I study English.
Bike-to-Work Day is held every year across North America on thethird Friday of May. It was started by the League of American Bicyclistsin 1956. Its aim is to promote (促進(jìn)) the bicycle as a serious choice of getting toand from work. In today’s world where global warming is a serious issue, thebicycle is a perfect way of reducing our carbon (碳) footprint.
Dealing with a nosebleed(鼻出血)mightseem simple. But recently, the British RED Cross asked parents with youngchildren how to help a child with a nosebleed. About 65 percent of parents didnot ____11____the correct action to help.
Lastsummer, I was holding the net when Grandpa asked me ____19____ I couldhelp him teach Frank how to play chess. I said no because I wanted to catchfish. Grandpa had been the one who’d taught us how to catch fish, but then the ____20____ made him stay behind.
If youthink you have walked into a library with a ____11____ likethat, you are exactly wrong. ____12____, you’ve entered the workplace of CourtneyHolmes, known as the Storybook Barber (理發(fā)師).
Late onenight, Gulliver received a warning that some nobles wanted him killed. Even theemperor of Lilliput wanted to give him less food to save ___16___. It was true Gulliver was very expensive.
At the age of seven, I started school in London.There I met a ____21____,Mr. King. He influenced my whole life. Mr King taught me maths. He washumorous. Sometimes, he told us funny stories. So his lessons made us ____22____.