假如你是李华, 打算邀请你校的美国交换生Peter于本周六下午4点一起去参加读书俱乐部。请你用英语写一封邀请信, 告诉他你们见面的时间、地点,

以及活动内容和邀请他的原因。

提示词语：Reading Club, listen to the lecture（讲座）, share

提示问题：● When and where are you going to meet?

● What are you going to do?

● Why do you invite him

Dear Peter.

How is it going?

I’m writing to invite you to go to the Reading Club together.

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Yours

Li Hua

Let's Save Our Language Heritage

Each year on Feb 21, UNESCO holds an International Mother Language Day（IMLD）. The event is to draw attention to the disappearance of the world's languages：dozens of them are vanishing each year. UNESCO sees this as a tragedy（悲剧）, and with good reason.

What happens when a language dies out? Something huge is lost—not just sounds and marks but the way that people make sense of the world and communicate with each other. And it is through language that we have culture and tradition. Kill a language and all this is killed too.

Through IMLD, more people are becoming aware of the destruction of linguistic（语言学的）diversity in modern times and trying to stop it. Google's 2012 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload text, audio and video files to the project site. They want to introduce people to the wonders of the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.

The Myaamia Project is a similar kind of effort. This is an attempt to revive（重新使用）the language spoken by the Miami and Illinois tribes（部落）of the US. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which formally died out in the 1960s.

These activities, which breathe life into languages on the verge（边缘）of extinction, might seem old-fashioned to some. But those who work to keep languages alive are not enslaved（束缚）to the past. They are enthusiastic young people who design apps and use social media to champion their activities. As the US-based social event calendar website Upcoming puts it, they“spread the word" to save the word.

So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling for our mother tongue, although those of us who speak one that is not endangered might not always be aware of it. This is why we should recall（回忆）the wise words of the late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela：“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart.”

【1】When is International Mother Language Day?

【2】What happens when a language dies out?

【3】What is Google's 2012 Endangered Languages Project?

【4】What can we know from Paragraph 5?

【5】Why did the author mention Nelson Mandela's words?

New technology may change this. Scientific American reports that a specially-designed oven will be sent into space this autumn with NASA's NG-12 cargo（货物）.Far from the common vacuum-packed（真空包装的）meals, astronauts may get to enjoy freshly baked cookies before the end of 2019.

Why aren't they baking cookies in space already?

For one thing, there's the risk of a fire. Engineers also have to overcome the challenge of microgravity, which prevents heat from circling inside ovens the same way it does on Earth.

Astronauts will still have to wait a while before they can have their cookies, though. After baking, the results will be sent back to Earth for safety testing. If successful, this will be the first oven to bake food in space.

“I believe…that will be game-changing for both science and astronauts, ”food technology researcher Maeena Naman Shafiee told Scientific American.

One of the main driving forces behind this project has been NASA's 2018 research into the effects of " confinement（封闭）and isolation（隔离）”. Unlike on the International Space Station（ISS）, astronauts traveling out of Earth's orbit may not be able to speak to their loved ones on future missions, which could lead to negative feelings.

It's hoped that the chance to bake and sense familiar smells can bring joy to crews（宇航人员）.

“Is the ISS going to smell like fresh-baked cookies? We don't know, ”said NanoRacks' communications manager Abby Dickes. “But that's a feeling we all know and love…that will make someone feel at home.”

Baking cookies in space would mark an important step, offering a small comfort in the difficult and unfamiliar environment of space travel. Astronauts have already grown plants aboard the ISS.

With commercial（商业的）space travel now being planned, who knows what other developments may surprise us in the future

【1】What can the new technology help astronauts to do in space?

A.Store more food.B.Enjoy fresh cookies.

C.Quickly prepare food.D.Cook many different kinds of home-made meals.

【2】Why is it difficult to bake cookies in space?

A.Because it's difficult and costly to send food into space.

B.Because microgravity stops food from staying in one place.

C.Because baking cookies in space would pollute the spaceships.

D.Because it is hard to heat food properly because of microgravity.

【3】What was the main purpose of the cookie project?

A.To improve astronauts' health.B.To make improvements in space travel.

C.To encourage more people to travel to space.D.To make space travel more comfortable for astronauts.

—More trees ______________, I think.

A.plantB.are plantingC.have plantedD.must be planted

—They have special plates ___________their food doesn't float away.

A.so thatB.sinceC.so…thatD.because

—Both give me the pleasure of reading.

A.wellB.bestC.betterD.the best

1．影片由李安(Ang Lee)执导，他因此片获得奥斯卡最佳导演奖。2.影片讲述了一个名叫派(Pi)的年轻人的故事，他独自乘小船出行。3.他要应付恶劣的天气，还要找到足够的食物，最终安全返回。4.观后感想。

参考词汇：Drama Club戏剧俱乐部；Life of Pi《少年派的奇幻漂流》；Academy Award for Best Directing奥斯卡最佳导演奖

注意：1.观后感须包括所给的内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯。2.第4要点的内容须用2—3句话展开合理想象，可适当发挥。

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What made him sad was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You have no____You will never be a pianist.” As an eight-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly____He decided that he didn’t want to be a pianist any more. For the next two weeks, he didn’t touch the piano. Wisely, his father didn’t____, but waited.

Luckily the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he____he could show other people that he had ability to do it well. That day he told his father that he wanted to____with a new teacher. From that point on, everything turned around.

He started____competitions in the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition. When it was announced that Lang Lang had won, he was too_____to hold back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever—he had to play on the world’s big stages. In 1997 Lang Lang____again, this time to Philadelphia, US. There he spent two years practicing and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. After his____performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, gigs (演奏会) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall started pouring in. Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots(找到) him, and lets him shine.

【1】A.ifB.unlessC.whenD.since

【2】A.pianoB.knowledgeC.fortuneD.talent

【3】A.hurtB.illC.brokenD.scared

【4】A.hearB.pushC.eatD.sleep

【5】A.realizedB.explainedC.forgotD.noticed

【6】A.argueB.danceC.studyD.interview

【7】A.winningB.beatingC.watchingD.refusing

【8】A.annoyedB.madC.tiredD.excited

【9】A.startedB.leftC.movedD.performed

【10】A.helpfulB.meaningfulC.successfulD.useful

A.marriedB.have been married

C.got marriedD.have got married