have a dream，as...as，together with，go to sleep，work on

【1】He is ______ the railroad.

【2】A teacher ______ five students was in the classroom then.

【3】I hope I will be ______ beautiful ______ my mother.

【4】I ______ that one day I can go to the moon.

【5】Tom ______ before 9 o'clock because he was too tired in the daytime.

【1】he，in，the，finishing，work，succeeded

______________________________________________________________________.

【2】study，he，cares，nothing，about，but，his

______________________________________________________________________.

【3】people，she，one，is，of，richest，the

______________________________________________________________________.

【4】dream，did，have，you，a

______________________________________________________________________?

【5】day，he，to，field，went，twice，the，a

______________________________________________________________________.

班委会决定，你将代表你们班同学给外教 Jack 写一封邀请函，邀请他参加你们班的毕业 Party，请 根据以下提示，请以初中生李华的身份给 Jack 写一封邮件，告诉他，你们班毕业 Party 的时间、地点， 以及会有什么具体活动。提示词语：graduate, graduation, excited, hall, sing, dance, drama

提示问题：

When will the Graduation Party be?

Where will the Party be held?

What will be on the Party?

Dear Jack,

I’m glad to tell you the big news!

Yours,

Li Hua

Every girl dreams, and Lisa is no exception. She once hoped that her dream of becoming a ballet dancer would come true one day. She worked hard at her ballet lessons and all her teachers believed that she was a good student.

One day, she saw a poster saying that a famous ballerina troupe (芭蕾舞团) would be performing in her hometown. Her thoughts ran wild. “I must meet up with the leader of the troupe and show him my skills!” She said to herself.

When the troupe arrived, Lisa put on her ballet outfit (芭蕾舞装) and hid in the troupe’s dressing room.When the leader of the troupe entered the room, she came out and introduced herself. She couldn’t wait to tell the leader about her dream.

The leader asked Lisa to dance for him. But halfway through her dance, he stopped her and said, “I’m sorry. You’re not good enough!” Upon hearing this, Lisa ran out of the dressing room. She felt quite ashamed.

Years later, Lisa had given up dancing. She asked the leader of the troupe to meet with her and explain why he didn’t think her dancing was good enough. He replied, “I say this to all of my students.” Lisa said, “But you ruined my life!”

The leader pointed out that he had been impressed with her bravery when she hid in the dressing room just to show him her dancing skills. “But if you had treated ballet seriously, you wouldn’t have given up so easily when I told you that you weren’t good enough,” he explained.

【1】What was Lisa’s dream?

【2】How did Lisa feel after seeing the ballet troupe’s poster?

【3】Where did Lisa hide when the troupe arrived?

【4】What did the leader think of Lisa’s dancing?

【5】What can we learn from the passage?

【1】昨晚我儿子发高烧了。

My son ________ ________ ________ ________ last night.

【2】因为喝酒过多他丧失了唱歌的能力。

He ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ because he drank too much.

【3】屋子里充满了烟雾。

The room ________ ________ ________ smoke.

【4】我十岁的时候就能弹钢琴弹得很好。

I was able to play the piano very well ________ ________ ________ ________ ten.

【5】我们都知道，爱因斯坦以他的相对论闻名。

As we all know, Einstein ________ ________ ________ his theory of relativity.

well-known, around the world, who, that, fall ill

【1】There are lots of places of interest ________.

【2】I lost the book ________ my father bought for me last week.

【3】He didn’t go to work yesterday because his mother ________.

【4】— Do you know Lang Lang?

—Yes, he is a ________ pianist.

【5】Is this the boy ________ you met in the train station?

The English and their Manners.

So what about those situations when we realize that we really need to apologize to someone? Is it better to put aside your pride and say you’re sorry, or – as the American actor John Wayne put it – is apologising a sign of weakness?

“People worry that an apology may tell others that you have just done something wrong, rather than as an effort to understand the wronged party’s situation, problems, and feelings,” says Harvard Business School’s Alison Wood Brooks. But she adds, “A good apology is unlikely to have the opposite bad result, and is more likely to increase trust than not apologizing at all.”

As for how to do it, Edwin Battistella, a language expert from Southern Oregon University has the following advice: “The right way to apologize is the way your mother taught you.” Say you threw a stone at a cousin. “She’d have you go and look at them in the eye and say: ‘I’m sorry I threw the stone at you and I won’t do it again’. It’s important to name what you did wrong, to show yourself as being sorry in some way and to promise what might be different in the future,” Battistella says.

Just how many times you’ll need to repeat the apology may be different according to where you live. Wood Brooks and Harvard PhD student Grant Donnelly have collected data that suggests that, for a small mistake, the best number is a single “I’m sorry”. “If it is a big mistake, then making two apologies seems tobe the magic number for expressing empathy (同理心), getting back trust and liking,” Wood Brooks says. Ofcourse, if you’re British, you may need to double that. “A single ‘sorry’ does not count as an apology: we have to repeat it and embellish it with a lot of words, like terribly, truly etc.” says Professor Fox.

【1】From paragraph 1, we know that .

A.English people never say sorry for things they haven’t done

B.it’s unusual to say sorry about the weather in England

C.it’s common for English people to say sorry to others

D.English people are often hit by others accidently

【2】Wood Brooks may agree with that apologizing _.

A.is a sign of weaknessB.will make people feel more nervous

C.may have some bad resultsD.may help people trust each other more

【3】The underlined word “embellish” probably means .

A.break downB.compare with

C.look forward toD.make more attractive

【4】The last paragraph is mainly talking about .

A.the steps of making apologiesB.the best ways of apologizing

C.the right words for apologizingD.the importance of apologizing

—Why not make some ourselves? It will be much .

A.interestingB.more interesting

C.most interestingD.the most interesting

【1】Tom missed a lot of school through ________ (ill) last year.

【2】We know nothing about him except he is a famous ________ (write).

【3】Wei Shusheng is a famous ________ (educate) who comes from Hebei Province.

【4】Walking through the forest in the dark, I was ________ (great) afraid.

【5】Everyone tries his best ________ (get) first in the long jump.

In the past, American kids knew that high school would bring bullying from elder students. Young students felt lonely and confused.

Nowadays, things are improving. Schools are creating “teams” to make students feel welcome. A team is smaller, friendlier, and easier to become a part of than the school as a whole.

Teams are made up of a few students from each grade level. Teachers choose team leaders to act as role models. Within a team older students protect and advise the younger students, who will do the same for the later. The teams stay together for all four years of school. Some teams even create their own flags!

Students meet on campus before school starts at “orientation”(新生训练). At orientation, students get to know the members of their team. Orientation may go on for as long as one week. During orientation, experts guide students through “trust games”. In one popular game, a student is blindfolded(蒙起眼睛的) and led by a partner through some obstacles(障碍物). In scavenger-hunt(寻物) type games, students have to find out the interests and hobbies of their teammates. These activities help students to get close to each other. Students can go to their team members questions, problems and even friendship. This way, high school doesn’t seem quite so scary.

【1】High schools are up to 10 times larger than middle schools, aren’t they?

【2】How did young high school students feel in the past?

【3】What is a team made up of?

【4】How long may an orientation last?

【5】What is the aim of the activities at orientation?

【6】What activities do you expect to have in your future high school? Why? (please give at least two reasons)