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必修一课文
期末复习
So this is it — senior high school at last. I’m not outgoing so I’m a little ______ (anxiety) right now. I want to make a good first ______ (impress). Will I make any friends What if no one ______ (talk) to me I just ______ (have) my first maths class at senior high school! The class was difficult, ______ the teacher was kind. He even told us a funny story and everyone laughed so much! I found most of my classmates and teachers ______ (friend) and ______ (help).
This afternoon we had our chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson was great, but the guy next to me tried to talk to me ______ whole time. I couldn’t concentrate ______ the experiment. I really wanted to tell him ______ (be) quiet and leave me alone.
What a day! This morning, I was ______ (worry) that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn’t feel awkward or
______ (frighten) at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here and there’s a lot ______ (explore) at senior high. I feel much ______ confident than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow ______ (be) a great day!
anxious, impression, talks, had, but, friendly, helpful, the, on, to be, worried, frightened, to explore, more, will be
Book 1 Welcome Unit
My name is Ann Wells and I’m a Grade 10 student at Lakeside High School. I’m an ______ (act) person and I love sports. I’m ______ (curiosity) about everything. I often ask questions, ______ I learn best by ______ (do). My favourite subject is physics. ______ (dance) and ______ (skate) are my hobbies, and I also like to read short stories. I plan to become ______ engineer in the future.
I’m Thando Gowon. I’m 16 this year. I come from South Africa. I’m a Grade 10 student at South Hill High School. I look good, think fast, ______ play hard. You’ll never see me ______ a book or a pen. If I’m not in class, I’m ______ in the library or in the computer lab. ______ the weekends, I play computer games if I’m not busy ______ (study). My dream is ______ (start) my own IT company.
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Book 1 Welcome Unit
Book 1 Unit1
Hi! My name is Adam and I’m a freshman at senior high school. ______ (go) from junior high school to senior high school is a really big challenge. The first week was a little ______ (confuse).
First, I had to think very ______ (careful) about which courses I wanted to take. The school adviser helped me choose the ______ (suit) ones: maths, English, chemistry, world history, and Chinese. I know that Chinese is a very difficult language, ______ I hope to be fluent when I graduate. My adviser ______ (recommend) that I should sign up for ______ (advance) literature because I like English and I’m good at it.
I had to choose extra-curricular ______ (activity), too. I tried to join the school football team, but the coach told me that I didn’t play well enough. ______ (obvious), I was unhappy, but I won’t quit. I’ll find a way ______ (improve) on my own so that I can make the team next year. I ______ (join) a volunteer club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out food ______ homeless people in the community.
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Book 1 Unit1
I know I’ll have to study harder as a senior high school student and get used to being ______ (responsibility) for a lot more. I’m a bit worried about ______ (keep) up with the other students in my advanced course, and it’ll be quite difficult ______ (get) used to all the homework. Still, I’m happy to be there. ______ (study) hard isn’t always fun, but I’ll be well ______ (prepare) for university or ______ else comes in the future.
responsible, keeping, to get, Studying, prepared, whatever
Book 1 Unit1
10 September 2018
Dear Worried Friend,
You wrote that you are very ______ (worry) about your friend, Chen Lei. I understand quite well that you are ______ (anxiety) and feel terrible. You think that your friend ______ (play) computer games too often and spends too much time online.
I recommend that you talk to your friend about his ______ (behave). It is not unusual for teenagers of your generation ______ (attract) to computer games and the online world. But ______ (spend) too much time online is unhealthy and makes ______ very difficult to focus ______ other things in life. Some students even become ______ (addict) to the Internet and cannot concentrate ______ school and family life. I think you should encourage your friend ______ (try) new hobbies. Why not discuss the problem together I am sure he will listen to you, ______ you are his good friend.
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If you were born in the 2000s, you ______ (call) the oh-ohs. The 21st century. That would make you young, ______ (create), connected, global, and no doubt smart. Maybe good-looking, too. Right But ______ do other people think about your generation
Some adults worry that you’re more interested in the screen in front of you ______ the world around you. They think of you ______ the “face-down generation” because you use your phone so much. They wonder ______ you will deal with school, friends, and family. Are today’s teenagers too busy ______ (text) and taking selfies to become in real life — or “IRL”, as you would say
Other adults worry that today’s youth ______ (spoil) and don’t want to face the challenges of adult life. Many children born in the 1990s and 2000s were raised by “helicopter parents”. They were always there to guide and help their children with a busy schedule ______ (fill) with homework and after-school activities such as dancing, drawing, or sports. With parents ______ do everything for them, today’s youth seem to prefer to live like teenagers even when they are ______ their 20s or 30s.
Book 1 Unit1
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Does the face-down generation need a heads-up Well, probably not. The fact is that many of today’s teenagers are better ______ (educate) and more creative than past generations. They seem to be willing to become leaders. More young people than ever volunteer ______ (help) their communities. ______ are also brave young people such as Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for pushing girls’ rights to go to school.
So if you’re one of the oh-ohs, there’s reason to be ______ (hope) about the future. Things are looking up for the face-down generation. ______ (chance) are that you will do great and laugh out loud.
Book 1 Unit1
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PERU is a country ______ the Pacific coast of South America ______ three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land ______ (run) along the coast, the Andes Mountains and the Amazon rainforest.
In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was ______ centre of the ______ (power) ancient Inca Empire. The Inca emperor lived ______ the now-famous site Machu Picchu. Spain took control of Peru in the 16th century and ______ (rule) until 1821. It is ______ this reason that Spanish is the main ______ (office) language of Peru.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
______ short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day ______ (travel) by boat to your ______ (accommodate) in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days ______ (explore) the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique ______ the rainforest.
Book 1 Unit2
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Machu Picchu Tour
This four-day walking tour will take you on ______ (amaze) paths through the Andes Mountains on the way ______ the city of Machu Picchu. After ______ (reach) your destination, you will have a day ______ (explore) and be amazed by this ancient city. ______ (especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing ______ (need) to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, ______ capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th ______ the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food ______ go shopping at the local markets.
Book 1 Unit2
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Lake Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful countryside driving along the new highway Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you family on an island for three days. Both homes ______ (make) of water plants from the lake.
So come and experience ______ everything from the ancient Inca culture and villages ______ deep rain forests, beautiful coastline.
For more brochures and other package tours around Peru, contact us ______ tourinfo@travelperu.org.
Book 1 Unit2
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Book 1 Unit2
My time here in China is going well. I love my new school and classmates. Over the October holiday, my parents and I are planning to go to Xi’an ______ (see) the Terracotta Army. I’ve heard that it is an ______ (amaze) sight, and I can’t wait ______ (go). To me, the story of the Terracotta Army is almost unbelievable. It’s amazing that there are more than 8,000 statues, and no one in modern times knew about them ______ the 1970s.
We’re also planning to visit several other places in Xi’an. My dad and I are both looking forward to ______ (go) to the Shaanxi History Museum, ______ my dad loves history and I have heard that this museum ______ (know) as a “Chinese treasure house”! We’re also going to the Xi’an City Wall and a few other famous ______ (sight).
We’re taking the train, ______ (leave) the day before the October holiday begins. We’re arriving at 9:30 a.m. and will start sightseeing right away, So I hope we sleep well on the train!
I guess that’s all for now! I’ll write again soon and send photos! Do you have any plans for the ______ (come) holiday Hope to hear from you soon.
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Book 1 Unit2
TERRACOTTA ARMY
Come and see the Terracotta Army: more than 8,000 statues were made in the third century BCE ______ (guard) the tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang! Each statue has a different face, ______ (lead) researchers to believe that each one is ______ copy of a real soldier. The statues fill only one part of the emperor’s huge tomb, ______ still has not been completely unearthed. More than 700,000 people worked for nearly 40 years to build this tomb.
However, no one in modern times knew about the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974, ______ some farmers discovered the tomb while they ______ (dig) a well!
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Book 1 Unit2
Tourism can be both good and bad. Yes, it brings ______ money for the local economy and creates lots of jobs for locals, but it may also bring some problems.
One ______ (grow) problem is tourists who want to prove that they ______ (visit) a destination. Tourists have used paint, rocks, or even ______ (key) to write on the Luxor Temple in Egypt, the Colosseum in Rome, Stonehenge in the UK, memorial stones at the bottom of Qomolangma, ______ many, many other places. Thousands of tourists sites ______ (destroy) by tourists who “love them to death”. I have three words for people like this: please stop it. If you want to leave ______ mark on the world, do it by changing someone’s life with kindness and love. Pass kindness along ______ future generations, not destruction.
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Book 1 Unit2
______ big problem in some places has been tourists ______ (disturb) the local people and life. Some tourists wander around and take pictures of local people without asking for their ______ (permit). For example, Chiang Mai University in Thailand and Yonsei University in South Korea have great numbers of tourists visiting their campuses ______ walking through their libraries and other public areas, taking pictures of students and disturbing their studies. I have three words for tourists like this: please be ______ (consider). Have fun in a way does not disturb others.
The number of problems from tourists is endless: walking ______ large groups without considering others who need to walk by, crossing roads without ______ (observe) local traffic laws, and many more. The only way ______ (solve) the issue of the terrible tourist is to make sure that you are not one! Be the best, ______ (kind), most polite tourist possible. Remember, whenever you step outside your country’s borders, you are representing your country ______ the rest of the world.
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Book 1 Unit2
Pisa is a fine old city. The houses are well-built; the streets open, straight, and well-paved; the shops well-furnished; and the markets well-supplied. There are some beautiful palaces. The churches are built ______ taste and well decorated. There is a stone wharf ______ each side of the Arno River (阿诺河), which ______ (run) through the city, and there are three bridges over it. ______ number of people there is rather small. This gives the place ______ air of wonderful quietness, which is very ______ (please).
Of course, I visited the beautiful leaning tower, which is eight floors high, each ______ (have) a round of columns, rising one above another. It leans ______ far on one side that if you dropped a stone from the top, which is 188 feet high, it would fall 16 feet ______ the base of the tower. I would have never dreamt that this would ______ (happen) for any other reason than an accident; but some people have said that it was done ______ purpose by the architect! Anyone with eyes can see that the columns on one side ______ (sink) rather far. These leaning towers are not uncommon in Italy; there is one in Bologna (博洛尼亚), another in Venice (威尼斯), a third between Venice and Ferrara (费拉拉), and ______ fourth at Ravenna (拉韦纳).
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Book 1 Unit2
A ______ (much) interesting person you might meet in Italy is the Improvisatore; this is ______ they—eat certain people who have the ______ (surprise) ability to make up poems on any subject ______ you suggest. Mr Corvesi, my landlord, has a son who is ______ (amazing) good at this. When a subject ______ (give), his brother picks up his violin to play along ______ he begins to make up poems with wonderful speed and skill. He will, at a minute’s ______ (warn), recite two or three hundred beautifully ______ (write) verses, with compliments to the listeners! The Italians are so fond of poetry that many of them ______ (memory) the best parts of their great poets; these are the sources ______ which the Improvisatori take their rhymes, rhythms, and expressions.
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Book 1 Unit3
As a player, Lang Ping brought honour and glory to her country.As a coach, she led Chinese women’s volleyball team to medals at world championships and the Olympics.As a person, Lang Ping ______ (love) by fans at home and abroad.When the Chinese team ______ (prepare) for the 2015 World Cup, her ______ (determine) was tested.The team that Lang Ping had built was falling ______.One of ______ best players had been ______ (injure), and the team captain had to leave because of heart problems.______ (lose) two important players was a big challenge, ______ Lang Ping did not lose heart.She ______ (face) difficulties before, and she knew that her young players could win if they worked together ______ a team.Two weeks ______ (late), they were world champions!Then in 2016, Lang Ping led her volleyball team to Olympic gold in Brazil.
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Book 1 Unit3
When Michael Jordan’s ______ (foot) left the ground, time seemed to stand still. The player ______ became known as “Air Jordan” changed basketball with his ______ (grace) moves and jumps. Jordan’s skills were ______ (impress), but the mental ______ (strong) that he showed made him unique. In the final ______ (second) of a game, Jordan seemed to find a way ______ (win). Jordan says that the secret ______ his success is learning from his failures. “I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” Losing games taught him ______ (practise) harder and never give up. In life, Jordan has learnt to share his ______ (succeed) with others. The Boys and Girls Club which he started in Chicago ______ (help) young people since 1996.
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Book 1 Unit3
I always wanted to look ______ the slim girls on TV even ______ I knew that it was impossible. I worried about my ______ (weigh) and tried every new diet I read about online. I tried no-fat, low-fat, 5:2, only bananas, no bananas — I almost went bananas, too.
Then I read an article ______ said instead of asking “Am I fat ” I should be asking “Am I fit ” I had no idea a letter could make such ______ difference! Once I started thinking about ______ (fit) rather than weight, things began to change. Instead of ______ (say) “I want to lose three kilos”, I would say “I want to run two kilometers in eight minutes” or “I want to be able to do 30 push-ups”. Rather than ______ (cut) out the foods I enjoyed, I added healthy foods ______ my meals.
I could still have a burger now and then, ______ I would add a salad or an apple.
Finally, I stopped ______ (compare) myself with actresses and models and looking for things that were wrong ______ my face or body. Instead, I made ______ list of the things I liked about myself. By being positive ______ myself and my body, I became both happier and ______ (healthy).
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Book 1 Unit4
Strange things were happening in ______ countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days, the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. There were deep ______ (crack) that appeared in the well walls. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous ______ (eat), and dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields ______ (look) for places to hide, and fish jumped out of the water. At about 3:00 a.m., on 28 July 1976, bright lights ______ (see) in the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud noises were heard. But the city’s one million people were asleep ______ usual that night.
At 3:42 a.m., everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world ______ (be) coming to an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city, one of the most ______ (dead) earthquakes of the 20th century had begun, a quake ______ even caused damage more than 150 kilometers away in Beijing. Nearly one third of the whole nation fell ______. A huge crack, eight kilometers long and 30 metres wide, cut ______ houses, roads, and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt.
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Book 1 Unit4
In less than one minute, a large city ______ (lie) in ruins. Two thirds of the people ______ lived there were dead or injured. Thousands of children ______ (have) without parents. The number of people who were killed or ______ (bad) injured in the quake ______ (be) more than 400,000. Everywhere survivors looked, there was nothing but ______ (ruin). Nearly everything in the city ______ (destroy). About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone. Bricks covered the ground ______ red autumn leaves, ______ no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not safe ______ (cross). The railway tracks were now useless pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. People were ______ shock — and then, later that afternoon, ______ big quake shook Tangshan again. Even more buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity were hard ______ (get). People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.
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Book 1 Unit4
But hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army ______ (send) 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those ______ were trapped and to bury the dead. More than 10,000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care. Workers built ______ (shelter) for survivors ______ homes had been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. Water and food were brought into the city by train, truck, and plane ______ (slow), the city began to breathe again.
Tangshan started to revive ______ (ir) and get back up on its feet. ______ strong support from the government and the tireless efforts of the city’s people, a new Tangshan was built upon the earthquake ruins. The new city has become a home ______ more than seven million people, with great improvements in transportation, industry, and environment. Tangshan city has proved ______ China and the rest of the world that in times of disaster, people must unify and show the ______ (wise) to stay positive and rebuild for a brighter future.
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The most powerful earthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that crashed ______ coastlines across Asia yesterday, ______ (kill) more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries. Fishermen, tourists, hotels, homes, and cars ______ (sweep) away by huge waves ______ (cause) by the strong earthquake ______ reached a magnitude of 9.0. The undersea quake ______ (strike) around 7:00 a.m., Sunday off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. In that area alone, at least 1,870 people were killed.
In Sri Lanka, some 1,600 kilometers west of the quake centre, the number of deaths stood ______ 2,498, and one million more ______ (affect) by the tsunami, government officials said. Indian officials said as many as 1,900 had been killed along the southern coast. Another 254 ______ (find) dead in Thailand and 54 in three other countries. In southern Thailand, 1,900 people were hurt and many more were ______ (miss), local officials said. “I was having breakfast with my three children water started filling my home. We had to leave everything and run to ______ (safe),” said Chandra Theeravit, a local Thai woman.
Thousands of people are still missing, and the number of deaths ______ (expect) to grow even ______ (high) over the next few days. Foreign aid ______ (organize) for the tsunami-hit countries. However, dangerous conditions and ______ (damage) roads will make it difficult to deliver food and ______ (supply).
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Book 1 Unit4
San Francisco, May 5, 1906. The earthquake that ______ (strike) San Francisco on April 18 shook down hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of walls and chimneys. But the fire ______ followed burned up hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of buildings and homes. Never before in history has a city been so ______ (complete) destroyed. San Francisco is ______ (go). The factories, the great stores and newspaper buildings, the hotels, and the great houses of ______ rich are all gone.
On Wednesday morning at a quarter past five came the earthquake. A moment ______ (late), the disaster was a fact. South of Market Street in the working-class neighborhoods and in the factories, fires started. Within an hour of the first quake, the smoke could ______ (see) 100 miles away. The sun was red in the dark sky. There was no ______ (stop) the fires. The firefighters ______ whom the task was given did their best but there was no way ______ (organize) or communicate. The railway tracks were now useless and there was no water in water pipes. All of the ways ______ man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the 30 seconds the earth ______ (move).
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Book 1 Unit4
By Wednesday afternoon, half the heart of the city was gone. At that time, I watched the disaster from a ship on the bay. Out at sea it was calm. No wind came ______. Yet from every direction — east, west, north, and south — strong winds blew upon the unlucky city and those ______ homes had once stood in its green hills.
Wednesday night ______ (see) the destruction of the very heart of the city. Man ______ (he) had to make ruins of some of the city’s best buildings so that they would not be ______ danger to those in the streets. Tens of thousands who had lost their homes left the city to look for shelter ______ the fires. Some ______ (dress) only in blankets and carried the things ______ they had been able to rescue from the fires. But there were no fights and no pushing or shoving. Somehow this worst of disasters brought ______ the best in the survivors. Never in all of San Francisco’s history were her people so kind ______ on this night of terror.
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Book 1 Unit4
The China International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) ______ (form) in 2001 and is now made up ______ several hundred rescue workers and about 20 sniffer dogs. The team brings help and hope ______ those whose lives are changed by a storm, flood, earthquake, or any other natural disaster.
After long and ______ (care) training, the team went ______ its first international rescue missions in 2003. That year, the Chinese team helped save lives after earthquakes in Algeria (阿尔及利亚) and Iran (伊朗). It was the first time that a Chinese team ______ (work) outside China, and the team won high praise for their ______ (brave) and skill.
Since then, the CISAR ______ (complete) many missions. The list of people to ______ help has been given is long. The team treated more than 3,000 people who were injured in the 2006 earthquake in Indonesia, helped 2,500 ______ (wound) people after the earthquake that hit Haiti (海地) in 2010, ______ spent several months giving aid to over 25,000 victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan (巴基斯坦).
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Book 1 Unit4
Rescue workers are trained ______ (find) people, treat injuries, and hand out food, water, and other ______ (supply). They have to be able to do work that is difficult conditions which can be very dangerous. After a disaster, there is ______ (usual) no electricity or water, and there may be diseases and accidents. Rescue workers get to save lives, but they must also bury the ______ (die). That means they have to be strong in ______ body and mind.
Rescue workers must have big hearts, too. It takes a lot of love and courage ______ (risk) one’s own life to save someone else’s. The members of the CISAR have plenty of ______ and are always ready to go ______ help is needed.
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Book 1 Unit5
China is ______ (wide) known for its ancient civilization which has continued all the way through into modern times, ______ the many ups and downs in its history. There are many reasons ______ this has been possible, but one of the main factors ______ (be) the Chinese writing system.
At the beginning, written Chinese was a picture-based language. It dates back several thousand years ______ the use of longgu — animal bones and shells on ______ symbols were carved by ancient Chinese people. Some of the ancient symbols can still ______ (see) in today’s hanzi.
By the Shang Dynasty (around 1600-1046 BCE), these symbols ______ (become) a well-developed writing system. Over the years, the system developed into different forms, as it was a time ______ people were divided geographically, ______ (lead) to many ______ (variety) of dialects and characters. This, ______, changed under Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221-207BCE).
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Book 1 Unit5
Emperor Qinshihuang united the seven major states into one unified country ______ the Chinese writing system began to develop ______ one direction. That writing system was of great ______ (important) in uniting the Chinese people and culture. Even today, no matter ______ Chinese people live or what dialect they speak, they can all still communicate in writing.
Written Chinese has also become an important means ______ which China’s present is connected with its past. People in modern times can read the classic ______ (work) which were written by Chinese in ancient times. The high regard ______ the Chinese writing system can be seen in the development of Chinese characters as ______ art form, known as Chinese calligraphy, ______ has become an important part of Chinese culture.
Today, the Chinese writing system is still an important part of Chinese culture. ______ China plays a greater role in global affairs, an ______ (increase) number of international students are beginning to appreciate China’s culture and history through this amazing language.
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Book 1 Unit5
Wang Le: Hey, everybody, what are your biggest problems ______ learning English
Liu Wen: Hi! I’ve been studying English ______ primary school. I used to get high marks in English, ______ now I’m having a lot of trouble with my listening. When I listen to native English speakers ______ (talk) in a video, I can catch only a few words. I can never quite get the main idea. Any advice
Jia Xin: Listening to English radio programmes ______ (help) me get used to how fast native speakers talk. I also repeat ______ I hear to help ______ (1) to experience the feeling of the language. Sometimes I even record my voice ______ I can listen to myself and compare my pronunciation with the radio host’s! My biggest headache is how to be polite in English. It’s so much ______ (easy) to just say “Open the window!”, but in English that can sound really terrible. I have to think about who I’m talking to and then decide ______ to say, “Open the window, please!” or “Could you open the window, please ” or even longer “Would you mind ______ (open) the window, please ”
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Book 1 Unit5
Li Rui: Yeah, that’s really hard! I think it all ______ (depend) on who you’re talking to. If I’m talking to a close friend, I can use short requests, like “Open the window” — our relationship is close and we’re equals, so I only need a few words to bridge the gap ______ us. But if I’m talking to someone who isn’t very close to me, I must make my request ______ (long) — and I must make it a question, not a demand, e.g., “Could you open the window, please ” If I’m talking to someone senior ______ me, then I should say, “Would you mind opening the window, please ” For me, vocabulary is my ______ (big) problem — there are just SO MANY new words! I can’t keep all the new vocabulary straight in my head, and I certainly can’t remember ______ to use them all ______ (proper). HELP!
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Some polyglots, ______ can speak quite a few languages, may seem especially ______ (talent). Zhao Yuanren, a Chinese American linguist, could speak seven languages and more than 30 dialects. England’s Queen Elizabeth I could speak about 10 languages. A famous Italian ______ (name) Guiseppe Mezzofanti was reported to have been able to communicate ______ 30 to 40 languages. Polyglots are indeed amazing but American teenager Tim Doner is living ______ (prove) that anyone can try to be one.
As a child, Tim studied French and Latin at school, but he found ______ difficult to be interested in just words and grammar rules. When he was 13, Tim started listening to Hebrew rap music. One day, he looked ______ the words in a dictionary and realized he could put them together to make sentences ! He started looking for people who spoke Hebrew ______ he could practise, and then, he decided to sign up ______ a summer Arabic class. One evening, just for fun, he posted a video of himself ______ (speak) Arabic and ______ of him speaking Hebrew. Hebrew and Arabic speakers wrote nice comments ______ his videos and gave him advice. Tim loved it.
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He could actually communicate with people! After that, Tim started looking for new languages to learn, and _________(post) more videos of himself speaking new languages, including Chinese. Tim also began to use many other ______ (method) to make learning fun.
Tim wishes everyone would learn more than one language and not just as a school subject. “Knowing a language is a lot more than ______ (know) a couple of words out of a dictionary,” Tim says. Languages are for communicating with people, learning about their culture, ______ understanding how different people think. “Open up your mind to the fact ______ language represents a cultural world view,” says Tim. “You can translate words ______ (easy), but you can’t quite translate ______ (mean). ” Or, ______ Nelson Mandela said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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It is one of the most famous books in the world; yet it has no story and no interesting characters, no exciting beginning and no ______ (satisfy) ending. And yet this book keeps ______ (print) and it keeps growing! At its last printing, it was 20 volumes, ______ nearly 22,000 pages. This ______ (strange) popular book is one of the most famous dictionaries in the English-speaking world.
The Oxford English Dictionary or OED ______ short, began in 1857 ______ just an idea of a group of people who thought the world needed an English-language dictionary ______ (show) the history of English words from 1150 CE to the present. It wasn’t until the late 1870s, however, ______ James Murray joined the project ______ it began to grow. Murray planned for a dictionary of about 6,400 pages in four volumes, completed in 10 years.
James Murray (1837-1915) did most of his work in a small metal building ______ (call) the Scriptorium. That small building, hot in summer and cold in winter, was the place ______ Murray and his assistants collected millions of pieces of paper, each one with a word and an example sentence or phrase ______ (write) on it. Murray and his assistants worked hard, ______ after five years they had only reached the word ant!
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It was not until 1928 that the dictionary was declared complete and ______ (publish): 10 volumes with over 400,000 words and phrases. James Murray did not live to see the ______ (complete) of his life’s work; he passed ______ in 1915, over a decade before OED came ______.
As soon as the dictionary was published, ______, the editors started to update it! In 1933, the Oxford English Dictionary were reprinted in 12 volumes. Between 1972 and 1986, four more volumes ______ (add) with new technical and scientific vocabulary and words from other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In 1989, the entire dictionary was reprinted in 20 volumes. Three years later, all 20 volumes were put onto CDs and the entire dictionary is available online today.
______ about 600,000 words and three million quotations from over 1,000 years of English, the OED not only is a record of ______ the English language has come from but has also become an important part of the history of English-speaking cultures around the world.
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