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1、精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 读书破万卷 下笔如有神1. Napoga is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana, Africa. It is hard for her family to get clean water. Every morning, she leaves home at half past five to get clean water for her family in a village far away. It takes her six hours to get enough clean water for daily coo
2、king and drinking. She has no time to go to school or to play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are like Napoga. They cant get enough clean water to keep healthy. Earth Day is April 22. But on all other days, we must also remember it. The water we use is the most important natural re
3、source on the earth. Water covers 70% of the earths surface. But most of that is sea water. We cant use it for very many things. Fresh water covers only 1% of the earth s surface. You probably feel lucky that your life isn t as hard as Napoga s. But that doesn t mean you don t have to worry about wa
4、ter. We all face serious water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars, factories, farms and homes make our rivers, lakes, and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish, too. Now, 34% of all kinds of fish are dying o
5、ut. How do cars and factories make our water dirty. First, they pollute the air. Then, when it rains, the rain water comes down and makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain, called acid rain, is also bad for plants, animals and buildings. t have enough clean Scientists say that in 30 years, more t
6、han half of the people in the world won water. We have to learn how to save more water for ourselves and our children. Here is some advice for saving water: Turn off the water while you brush your teeth. You can save as much as 450 liters each month. Leaky taps waste a lot of water. Fix them right a
7、way. You can easily cut your 10-minute showers in half and you ll be just as clean. When you wash dishes, don t let the water run. t full , youre Only wash clothes when you have a lot to wash. If your washing machine isnwasting water. 2. What are you going to do if you are in a burning house. How wi
8、ll you escape. Do you know how to save yourself. Please read the following passage. Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save your life. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but
9、not lifts. From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible, learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury. The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop
10、of about six feet to the ground. It is about te height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building. Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your hea
11、d low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leaked into the room. On a second or third floor, the 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 1 页,共 5 页精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 读书破万卷 下笔如有神best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground
12、more safely. Dropping onto cement might end in injury. Bushes and grass can help to break a fall. 3. Linda Evans was my best friend like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding. When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in tou
13、ch through letters, and we saw each other on special time like my wedding and Linda s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address Unknown ”. I had no idea how to find Linda. Over the years, I missed Linda v
14、ery much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill. One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman
15、 who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman Linda married name. “There must be thousan ds of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her. She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin.” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ” Minutes later I heard a voice
16、that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won t lose each other again. 4. Do you remember we agreed to circulate our ideas for our school proje
17、ct this year. Well, here is our suggestion and we in our school hope you will join us to develop it. The idea came to us in the autumn of 2004. We were sitting in our class when our head teacher made an announcement. “There ll be a new boy starting school tomorrow. He comes from the circus so hell b
18、e with us for a while.” Immediately there was whispering around the classroom. I heard remarks like “Those are dirty people”; “They eat raw meat”; and “Watch out for your bagsThe teacher must have heard them because she stopped the talking and said in a very serious voice: “Jake is our guest for as
19、long as he stays here. Make sure you treat him well. I donhear any complaints about your behaviour to him.” I was curious because it was the first time I had met anyone from a circus. Fortunately for me, the next morning, after being introduced to the class he sat in the only spare seat next to me.
20、Of course I didnt want to be nosy but I couldn t help looking at him sideways as I began my mathematics task. I noticed Jake was smaller than me and had dirty finger nails. His shirt was clean but had been repaired in many places and his trousers were helped up by a wide, leather belt. As he seemed
21、to have no handkerchief and was sniffing loudly, I passed him one of mine. Immediately the boys began to whisper “What did you do that for. Leave him be.rated ” I concenton my work. From my left a slight movement showed that Jake must have heard the remarks too. 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 2 页,共 5 页精选学习资料
22、 - - - - - - - - - 读书破万卷 下笔如有神He seemed to be having great difficulty with his work and was struggling to hold his pen correctly. He looked around as if for help. I looked around too. The teacher was busy so I leaned over and offered to explain the problems to him. As he listened his mouth split int
23、o a smile. His eyes lit up as if a light had been turned on and he returned to the exercises with enthusiasm. He finished them quickly and proudly presented them to the teacher. “Well done, Jake, ” she approved. Jake smiled and was soon busy sorting out information and adding more of his own. I thou
24、ght about how Jake s life would be. I remembered seeing the campsite and thinking how poor the facilities were. So I decided to help. As it was my turn to suggest a project for our grade, I put forward this idea. Our head teacher accepted it and so we began to prepare our plans to improve the campsi
25、te. Hope you will join us. 5. When my family moved to America in 2022 from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very fi
26、rst embarrassment in the United States. I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respec
27、t the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. A
28、fter the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry. In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowl
29、edge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience. However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old ” showsperson is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to
30、keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didnt
31、 want to hear.6. My wife Julie and I were out on the road that runs around where we live, when we saw an old worn-out dog stumbling painfully up the road. We stopped, bent down, talked gently to the dog and patted it. I checked and there was a collar with a phone number. I called but no one answered
32、. 名师归纳总结 The dog was painfully thin. So Julie ran home to get some of our dogfood while I tried to 第 3 页,共 5 页- - - - - - -精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 读书破万卷 下笔如有神encourage the dog. After Julie came back, we sat down on the sidewalk while our new friend made short work of the food. Eventually we got her
33、 home. After trying for many times we got a response from the number. A lady came around with a bunch of flowers for us. She explained that Tara had been her fathers dog. She was very old angot lost that morning. So, Tara was safely returned home. Here is the truth of the story: Actually Julie and I
34、 were out that morning because I was leaving. She was trying to persuade me to come back, but I wasnt hearing anythin g that made that sound likely. I was about to turn and go when an old black dog walked between us and almost fell down. Suddenly we had something more important than our problem to w
35、orry about. There was a creature in need right before us and we had to work together to help it. We did help it. And here I am writing the story in my own home, in my own family. In the song “Love Is Not a Fight ” Warren Barfield talks about marriage. At one point he sings, “And if we try to leave,
36、may God send angels to guard the door. ”Sometimes angels come disguised as dogs. 7. If you were walking around a supermarket and saw a woman with a shaved head, a ring through her nose, a tattoo design on her arm and she has a small child in her shopping trolley, what would your opinion be. Do you t
37、hink this kind of body decoration is attractive or ugly. Different people have different ideas. The following are some examples of body decoration from around the world. In many parts of Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shinny skin. On Bali, a little island in Indones
38、ia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in their village who will file
39、 off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult. In Myanmar, there is a small group of people who are called t
40、he “Papaung ”. They believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that theres nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong. At around the age of 5, a Papaun
41、g girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all her life, never once taking
42、them off. So now I m sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful. 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 4 页,共 5 页精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 读书破万卷 下笔如有神8. I got my first driver s license in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlot
43、te, North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a th married woman. Henry and I were living in Baltimore, Maryland. Two weeks before my 20 birthday, Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and showed to the man behi
44、nd the counter my North Carolina driver ready to s license,“Mr. renew, the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21. Smith, your husband, will have to sign for you,” he said. I argued, pointing to a very large belly of mine, “ I am married. I am having a baby. Why shou
45、ld I have to have someone sign for me to drive. ” He answered coldly, “Its the law, madam.” Henry encouraged me to calm down, just go ahead and get the license and be done with it “No. ” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license. I called the North Carolina Moto
46、r Vehicle Office and renewed my NC license by mail-using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the next twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland, and I had to take the Maryland driver
47、s exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years-sign the name Susan Brown, have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive. 9. About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings. Instead, they receive their elementary and high school
48、education by working at home on computers. The Center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public “cyber schools”and that is about twice as many as two years ago. The money for students to attend a cyber school comes from the governments of the states where they live. Some educators say cyber schools receive money that should support traditional public