Going camping is the best fun if we know how to do it. Every healthy boy and girl should e1. living outside for several days every year.

Four people make a good group for a camping trip. They can do much of the camp work in

p2.. They will agree better than two or three. So it is not necessary to leave anybody a3. to look after the camp while others go fishing or hunting.

It is always better to bring someone w4. has “camped out” before. If he cannot be found, then make your plans, d5. what you will do and how you will do it.

First, choose a leader, not because he is more important than the r6. but because if someone gives directions, the life in camp will be much simpler. If it is your f7. time to go camping, you had better go somewhere nearby.

After you have had some e8., you can safely try the other way. Where you go is of little

i9.. Near every large city there is a lake or river where you can find a good camping site. Campers always have more fun if they are near some water, but if such a place is not e10. found, go into the forest. Try to get away from towns or villages. The wider the places are, the better.

Spring Festival living tips for foreigners

As Chinese New Year is coming, foreign readers share their tips on how to spend the festival in China. You're welcome to add your suggestions.

1.Don't travel during the holidays.

"Don’t travel during the holidays" is one golden rule that I have

followed for years, especially during Spring Festival as the traffic is

heavy. You can see a large army of Chinese passengers gather at

every train station.

2.Enjoy the dinner on New Year's Eve.

I always spend Spring Festival with a Chinese family, eating

dumplings, laughing and joking. I love the Chinese and there are no other people I would rather spend my time with.

3.Don't forget the hongbao.

Usually, I send money to friends by New Year red packets on my mobile phone. "Digital Hongbao" is more popular than traditional ones. People use QQ and WeChat to give hongbao instead of the traditional red packets.

4.Set off fireworks.

I really love to watch fireworks, for some reason they make us feel so excited! I’m really glad I’m here in China for the Chinese New Year, I've never seen so many fireworks in my life! I do wish people would be more careful, especially with their children. I always remind kids who are playing to keep away from some fireworks that I’m going off.

5.Watch the Spring Festival Gala.

While I don't understand Chinese, the show itself is very good. I was quite impressed (印象深刻的). The CCTV Spring Festival Gala is one of the most amazing TV shows from an artistic point of view.

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Foreigners should learn more information when they are in China during the Chinese New Year. First, there are a large number of people 1. at every train station. They had better not travel because of the heavy traffic. Second, on New Year’s Eve they 2. to spend time with Chinese families enjoying the delicious food like dumplings. Third, Digital Hongbao is very popular 3. Chinese by sending money to friends or relatives using mobile phones. Fourth, fireworks can give foreigners happiness. They watch fireworks with 4.. Fireworks may be dangerous when kids are playing very 5. to fireworks. Finally, it’s a good choice to watch the Spring Festival Gala which is one of the most amazing TV shows on CCTV.

Many top students around us spend lots of time working for the class, but they always get good grades in all subjects. How do they do that? Here are some valuable suggestions.

Studying is a matter of your personal interest, so choose the way you are most comfortable with. Some people like working at night when the house is quiet, while others like doing their work early in the morning. However, others like studying their lessons as soon as they arrive home from school while the work is fresh in their minds. No matter which way suits you, try to do your best.

Studying is your business and the business comes before entertainment. When you are studying, don’t answer phone calls, don’t watch TV shows and don’t eat snacks. Studying is the only thing in your mind. Nothing can pull your attention away from what you are studying.

Studying is like eating. You should eat a little at a time. You can plan what to do today, but don’t do too much. When you can’t finish the work you planned to do, you will feel stressed and may lose confidence. On the other hand, you will not study well without a good plan. It all depends on how you manage your time.

The students who hand in a clearly written paper are already half way to get an “A”. Tidy papers are likely to get higher marks than messy ones. When you write clearly and do your work carefully, the thoughts in your mind are clear. You are able to make fewer mistakes.

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假设你是Daniel，是阳光中学英语社团的团长。昨天你给同学Mary发Email介绍社团的规则和活动，并邀请她加入该社团。

要求：1.必须包含表格中所有要点，可适当发挥。

2.词数：不少于90词；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

3.语言通顺，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范。

4.文中不能出现自己的真实姓名和校名。

Dear Mary，

I’m expecting you to join us!

Daniel

Students’ Night at Catch-Up!!

Every Wednesday & Thursday

Show your student card

to enjoy a special price of ¥80

for everything on the menu!!(full price:¥120)

For a table of six or more, we treat each to a special drink!

Not a student anymore? Dig out your old school uniform and wear it to Catch-Up!!

You can also enjoy a special price of ¥100 on Students’ Night.

Catch up with your friends at Catch-Up, the finest restaurant in town!

We open every day 5:00pm-11:30pm

1.What is “Catch-Up”？

A. It’s the name of special dish. B. It’s the name of a movie theater.

C. It’s the name of a restaurant. D. It’s the name of a summer camp.

2.How often do they have a students’ night at Catch-Up?

A. Every day. B. Two days a week.

C. Three days a week. D. Four days a week.

3.If six or more students come to Catch-Up, what can they get?

A. They can get a free movie ticket. B. They can have a free drink each.

C. They can get a school uniform. D. They can just pay half the price.

4.What do we know about the Students’ Night at Catch-Up?

A. The waiters all wear school uniforms every night.

B. Students who come to Catch-Up will get a free drink.

C. Catch-Up opens later on Students’ Night than on other days.

D. People who are not students still have a chance to get a special price.

5.Last Thursday Patty and her parents all put on their school uniforms and had dinner at Catch-Up.They should pay .

A. ¥240. B. ¥280. C. ¥300. D. ¥320.

I was 8 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1993, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it were yesterday. “Jessica, I don’t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”

AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 11, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.

We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work. I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher’s words muffled as I was thinking how I was going to manage.

I didn’t share my burden (负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside even though he was too weak to feed himself.

I had known that he was going to die. But after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit (非营利的) National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.

I was 14 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call attention to AIDS. I do.

1.What does Jessica tell us about her father?

A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill. B. He depended on the nurses in his final days.

C. He worked hard to pay for his medication. D. He told no one about his disease.

2.What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?

A. Jessica was too tired to hear her teacher’s words. B. Jessica had special difficulty in hearing.

C. Jessica was too troubled to focus on the lesson. D. Jessica couldn’t understand her teacher.

3.Why did Jessica keep her father’s disease a secret?

A. She was afraid of being looked down upon. B. She thought it was a shame to have AIDS.

C. She found no one willing to listen to her. D. She wanted to obey her mother.

4.What’s the meaning of the word “cruel” in Paragraph 4?

A. 惨淡的 B. 无情的 C. 粗鲁的 D. 痛苦的

5.Why did Jessica write the passage?

A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father. B. To show how little people knew about AIDS.

C. To draw people’s attention to AIDS. D. To help her remember her father.

CHICAGO- Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit from now on. Doing it a lot can lead to “toasted skin syndrome (症状)”, an unusual-looking spotted skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure (暴露), according to medical reports.

In one recent case, a 12-year-old boy from California developed a skin discoloration on his left lap after playing computer games a few hours every day for several months. “He recognized that the laptop got hot on the left side; however, he did not change its position,” Swiss researches reported in an article published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Another similar case is a Virginia law student who needed treatment for the spotted darkening on her leg. Dr. Kimberley Salkey, who treated the young woman, learned the student spent about six hours a day working with her computer placed on her lap. As Dr. Salkey later learnt, the temperature under the laptop could reach 51 degrees. That case, from 2007, is one of 10 laptop-related cases reported in medical journals in the past six years.

The condition can also be caused by overuse of heating pads (垫子) and other heat sources that usually aren’t hot enough to cause burns. It’s generally harmless but can also cause such permanent (永久的) skin darkening. In very rare cases, it can cause damage leading to skin cancers, said the Swiss researchers, Drs. Andreas Arnold and Peter Itin from University Hospital Basel. They do not mention any skin cancer cases linked to laptop use, but suggest, to be safe, placing a carrying case under the laptop if you have to hold it on your lap.

Dr. Kimberley Salkey said that under the microscope, the affected skin is similar to skin damaged by long-term sun exposure.

Major producers including Apple and Dell warn against placing laptops on laps or exposed skin for long periods of time because of the risks for burns. In the past, “toasted skin syndrome” has happened to workers whose jobs require being close to a heat source, including bakers and glass blowers, and in people who gathered near hot stoves to stay warm.

Dr. Anthony J. Mancini, chief at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said that it’s unlikely that computer use would lead to cancer since it’s so easy to avoid close skin contact (接触) with laptops.

1.According to the passage, “toasted skin syndrome” can be caused by all the following EXCEPT ______.

A. being close to a heat source or hot stoves B. long period of direct contact to hot laptop

C. using one’s laptop with a carrying case D. overuse of heating pad and other heat sources

2.The underlined word “discoloration” in the 2nd paragraph refers to ______.

A. spot B. darkening C. sunburn D. heat

3.It can be learnt from the passage that laptop users ______.

A. should avoid close skin contact with laptops

B. are likely to develop a certain kind of cancer

C. have known much about the harm of laptop heating

D. should go to see the doctor at once

4.Some computer producers warn against placing laptops on laps for long periods of time because of ______.

A. the risk for burns B. the risk of dropping

C. the risk of breaking D. the protection of back bone

5.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? ______.

A. Laptop is Dangerous B. Skin Damage is Possible

C. A Bad Habit D. No laps for Warm Laptops

A.Never be afraid to give

B.Plan ahead as much as possible

C.Work out your priorities（优先考虑的事）

D.Be disciplined(有纪律的) at all times

E.Make sure everything has its place

F.Stick to a schedule

Being Well-Organized And Getting Things Done

Being well-organized and getting things done and what we have done is tried to make them as easy to follow as possible to allow you to implement(实施) them immediately. There is no doubt that being organized does make a difference .

1.

It is something that you should do every single day and the best way to approach this is to place things in order of importance. Watching that movie may sound like a good idea, but put that at the bottom of the list and focus on things that influence your work, health, or anything else that is key to your survival(生存).

2.

Next, you should consider trying to plan ahead, so if you know that there is an appointment at a certain location for a certain time, then plan your day around that appointment.

3.

Knowing where everything is really will allow you to get more things done as you will waste less time hunting for that object that you require to complete your task. Too much time is wasted hunting for keys or that piece of paper and it also just stresses you out and can upset your pace.

4.

Giving tasks to others will always lead to you getting more done, but it is not just a case of picking anybody to do a task. Instead, you need to make sure that they are capable of doing it without running into any problems and that they do have the correct tools to complete the job.

5.

Having a schedule will help to force you into completing tasks on time and actually getting more done in the process. The only problem here is that you need to be sensible when working out how long something takes or you will put undue pressure on yourself and this is where mistakes can occur and you will actually then start to get less done.

Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I ______ a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 a.m. and I found the building was dark except for the only light in a first floor window.

Many drivers would just shout once or twice and then drove away, but I thought this ______might need my help. So I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a _______, elderly voice. After a long time, the door opened. A small old man showed up before me, ______a small bag. He kept thanking me for my______. “It’s nothing,” I told him.

“Oh, you’re such a good man.” He said. When we got into the taxi, he gave me a (an) _______, and then asked, “Could you drive through the city center?”

“But it wasn’t the ______way.” I answered quickly. “Oh, I’m in no hurry.” He said. “I’m on my way to a hospital. I don’t have any family left. The ______ says I don’t have much time left.

I ______ started the taxi and shut off the meter(计程器). For the next two hours, we drove_______ the city center. He showed me the building where he once worked. We drove past the church where he got married. He would never forget that happy moment. Sometimes he’d ask me to slow down in front of a building and would sit ______the darkness for a long time, saying nothing. When the sun began to rise, we drove in silence to the address he had given me. When we arrived,_______without thinking, I gave him a big hug. “You gave an old man a little moment of _______ Thank you!” He said with tears in his eyes.

I was completely lost in thought for the rest of the day. What would happen if I had refused to do ______ I did? We always think that there are no ______ moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may think small and unimportant ones.

1.A. made B. received C. accepted D. gave

2.A. driver B. policeman C. guide D. passenger

3.A. strong B. loud C. weak D. sweet

4.A. carrying B. taking C. wearing D. fetching

5.A. difference B. kindness C. happiness D. surprise

6.A. order B. address C. idea D. promise

7.A. busiest B. longest C. quietest D. shortest

8.A. teacher B. policeman C. doctor D. neighbor

9.A. easily B. noisily C. luckily D. quietly

10.A. from B. through C. by D. past

11.A. looking up B. looking through C. looking after D. looking into

12.A. hardly B. almost C. ever D. usually

13.A. pleasure B. chance C. sadness D. pain

14.A. how B. what C. why D. when

15.A. awful B. bad C. great D. peaceful

A:Time flies!It’s time to say goodbye to my junior high school!. When looking back at these past three 1. (year), I remember many things.

B:Yeah, I will miss Ms.Miller very much. She was so patient with me that she took the time to explain things to me 2.(clear) whenever I could’t understand 3.(something). And she guided me to do a lot 4.(good) in English.

A: I used to be weak in English, 5.because of Ms. Miller, I put in more effort and my scores doubled. She 6.(teach) us so well.

B:She was also strict with us and nobody was allowed to arrive late 7.moring readings.

A:But she was also friendly and always made her classes 8.(interest). I always remember the excitement.

B:Yes, we were lucky to spend time 9.our kind and caring teachers.

A:Shall we get each of them a card and a gift to say thank you?

B:OK. Let’s make a card by10.(we)

A:Good idea.