—I can’t agree more. ________!

A.What a strange weatherB.How a strange weather

C.What changeable weatherD.How changeable weather

A.every dog has its dayB.many hands makes light work

C.it never rains but it poursD.the early bird catches the worm

Volunteer Wanted

Dear students,

The English Corner is eager to find student volunteers. If you are interested in it, please send your application(申请) letter to ECV2020@163.com. The following information should be included: Personal information. Do you have volunteer experience? Why do you want to be a volunteer? Requirements (要求) 1)Excellent spoken English 2)Ability to work with others

参考词汇：apply for 申请

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2.短文中请勿使用真实姓名、地点或所在学校名称。

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I have learned from your advertisement that some volunteers are needed.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours,

Li Hua

The competitors vary in age, from teenagers to adults. Peng, 36, an associate senior editor (副主编) of a poetry magazine, is one of the most familiar (熟悉的) faces of the show. He can recite around 1,000 poems.

With a master's degree in literature, Peng is always the hot favorite to win the prize, but, surprisingly, he's lost two finals in a row－the second season he lost to a 16-year-old high school student, Wu Yishu, and in the third season he was beaten by deliveryman (送货员) Lei Haiwei.

He cried after losing the season three final, “I realized that if I compete and fail again, at least I've tried, but if I don't sign up, that means I'm more of a failure because I'm afraid of trying. Therefore, when season five came around, I decided to give it another go,” Peng recalls.

The season five final came down to Peng and 11-year-old Han Yaxuan－again he was facing a much younger rival. This time, though, there was to be no mistake and victory was finally his.

“I want to tell people who have a similar experience that, even though you go through all kinds of misfortune (不幸的) or difficulties, as long as you are brave enough to look up, there will always be a light in the sky to guide you out of the darkness,” Peng said in his speech. “Thousands of years later, all of our shadows will vanish, only the beauty of poems will last.”

【1】How many seasons of the Chinese Poetry Conference does Peng Min take part in?

A.TwoB.ThreeC.FourD.Five

【2】Who won the second season of the Chinese Poetry Conference?

A.Wu YishuB.Peng MinC.Lei HaiweiD.Han Yaxuan

【3】What made Peng Ming successful ?

A.His failureB.His misfortuneC.His bravenessD.His difficulties

【4】What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase “vanish”?

A.存在B.消失C.出现D.停止

【5】What is the best title of the passage ?

A.No Pain, No Gain.B.It Is Never Too Late to Learn.

C.Failure Is The Mother of Success.D.A Good Beginning Makes A Good Ending.

The Oxford, Collins and Cambridge dictionaries chose “climate emergency (气候紧急状态)", “climate strike (罢工)” and “upcycling”, respectively (分别地), as their Word of the Year". This tells us that climate change was a widely-discussed issue in 2019.

“Climate emergency” means a situation in which urgent (紧急的) action is needed to reduce climate change. “Climate strike” refers to people leaving work or school to call for more action to protect the environment. “Upcycling” refers to making new items out of old or used items to reduce waste.

Climate change has already affected the world in many ways. Take Venice, for example. Due to climate change, Venice experienced the worst flooding it has seen in the last 50 years in 2019. Many stores, restaurants and hotels were flooded. This caused serious damage totaling hundreds of millions of euros (欧元).

Although we've known about global warming for a long time, our large companies and governments have been slow to respond to it. The year 2019 might have been the turning point that will finally encourage our leaders to take responsibility.

“Decades ago, when the science on the climate issue was first increasing, the impacts (影响) could be seen as an issue for future generations,” Katharine Mach, a Stanford University climate scientist, told The New York Times. “ It's definitely our issue now.”

However, simply realizing that climate change is a threat (威胁) is not enough. We must take real action before it is too late.

【1】According to the three well-known English dictionaries, people paid the most attention to_______ in 2019 .

A.Word of the YearB.climate changeC.the environmentD.global warming

【2】________directly requests people to reduce waste.

A.Climate emergencyB.Climate strikeC.UpcyclingD.Climate change

【3】The flooding in Venice in Paragraph 4 tells us________.

A.how climate change has affected the world

B.Venice is a dangerous place to live in

C.Venice suffered serious damage in 2019

D.climate changed a lot in the world in 2019

【4】What the climate scientist Mach said means________.

A.future generations will suffer the climate issue

B.climate change has increased for many years

C.many scientists are working on the climate issue

D.we must take actions to deal with climate change right now

【5】From the passage, we can infer that________.

A.the leaders will take responsibility to protect the environment

B.people will use the three well-known English dictionaries

C.the climate issue will be more and more serious in the future

D.people will leave work or school to protect the environment.

However, Messi is still surprising people. On Sept 24, he won his sixth FIFA ______Player of the Year award. No one has won this award as many______as he has.

His win has come with some debate（争议）. Many expected the award to go to Liverpool defender (防守球员) Virgil vanDijk, who was named ________ the UEFA Men's Player of the Year in August.

In addition, Messi's Argentine national team has not done so well. They______the semi-finals (半决赛) of the Copa America tournament (锦标赛) in July and played poorly in the World Cup last year.

However, Messi himself is still playing at a very high ______. He scored 51 goals in 50 games last season. He continues to set records, such as earning the most La Ligaand Spanish Super Cup titles in the history of club Barcelona.

“I believe he should have won it. He______Barcelona on his back, which he has done for years and years,” British soccer player Darren Bent told Sky Sports. _______his critics (批评者) admit (承认) that he is still a powerful player. “Messi is clearly still as potent (强有力的) a goal-scoring threat (威胁) as he has been through his career,” the RT article said.

Messi himself is _______about his future. “My idea is to continue here for as long as I can perform well and my body allows me______that,” he said in an interview for The18.

【1】A.bestB.worstC.earliest

【2】A.Men'sB.Women’sC.Boys’

【3】A.kindsB.goalsC.times

【4】A.asB.byC.for

【5】A.gotB.lostC.won

【6】A.levelB.speedC.spirit

【7】A.getsB.carriesC.brings

【8】A.ButB.SoC.Even

【9】A.worriedB.confidentC.disappointed

【10】A.to loseB.to winC.to do

The film My People, My Country had its premier（首映）【1】 September 30th. Hundreds of people had flags in their hands and sang My People, My Country 【2】 /tɡe(r)/ at the start of the film. The song is 【3】 with Chinese people. Singer Li Guyi first performed it in 1985. And it was reworked (翻唱) for the movie by pop singer Faya Wong.

There are seven short 【4】 (story) in the 158-minute film. They are from seven directors led by Chen Kaige. The film shows us the nation's 【5】 /mptnt/ historical moments since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The film 【6】 (main) shows events through the eyes of ordinary people.

In the short story, Going Home, Simon Yam plays a clock repairer. He saw the return of Hong Kong from British rule to China in 1997. The actor 【7】 (he) has the power of hope. “On the day of Hong Kong's return, I felt it wasn't just a return to the motherland, but the return of hearts, " he said. "When the flag 【8】 (go) up, I felt like, ‘We are home. ’" 【9】 /n(r)/ short story The Guiding Star is about a pair of brothers. They saw the landing of the capsule (太空舱) of Shenzhou XI in 2016. It changed the lives of the brothers and made them full of new hope.

The film My People, My Country has been one of the most popular Chinese films 【10】 2015.

【2】 It is the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days before Easter when people often give up or stop eating things that are bad for them like chocolate or fast food. At the end of Lent is Easter. 【3】 Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. Traditionally, during Lent, people didn’t eat rich foods like butter and eggs, so to use them up they made pancakes from these ingredients on Shrove Tuesday.

【4】 People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times. 【5】The most famous pancake race takes place in a town called Olney, in the middle of England. People say that Olney has been celebrating pancake races since 1445!

A.Easter takes place on a different date each year because it depends on the moon.

B.It is celebrated in English-speaking countries like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada.

C.Another tradition on Pancake Day in the UK is pancake racing.

D.Pancake Day is always on a Tuesday in February or March.

E.In some pancake races people dress up in fancy dress costumes.

【1】别人向你道谢，你可以这样回应：

You __________________________________________.

【2】你想知道时间，可以这样问对方:

_______ __________________________________?

【3】你想感谢朋友的帮助，可以这样对她说：

________________________________________.

【4】要中考,你同桌很焦虑，你可以这样安慰他：

_____________________________________.

【5】你看到有人随地吐痰，你可以这样对他说：

Don’t_________________________________.

—We should clean our hands, remove the mask carefully, dispose of (处理掉) the mask safely and wash our hands again.

A.when we can take off a maskB.why we can take off a maskC.how we can take off a mask