After a careful examination, a famous doctor told my grandmother, “You have such a ______ heart condition that you should have an operation.”

“But the complications(并發(fā)癥) can happen.” The doctor ______ my grandmother and looked at her worried face.

The doctor went on to say that she would have a 40 percent possibility of having a heart trouble during the operation, a 35 percent possibility of being unable to stand up, and even a 20 percent of ______ on the operating table because of her old age.

My grandmother was ______ surprised and quickly said, “Doctor, since you’re talking about these ______. I have one for you: there is a 100 percent possibility that you won’t operate on me!” With these words, my grandmother got up and ______ the doctor’s office.

The next day, my grandmother went to another doctor’s office. There she was also told she needed an ______. The doctor also said that her ______ might cause some problems, but he was quite sure about the success of the operation.

My grandmother might be brave, but she is not silly. She then asked the doctor, “If I am your mother, what will you ______?”

The doctor walked up to her, smiled, put his arms around her, and said, “Mom, let’s have the operation!”

My grandmother had the operation and came out fine! Her positive attitude added many wonderful and happy years for her to enjoy life with my family.

【1】A.restaurantB.hotelC.hospital

【2】A.fantasticB.seriousC.proper

【3】A.encouragedB.warnedC.promised

【4】A.fightingB.hurtingC.dying

【5】A.terriblyB.nearlyC.simply

【6】A.conditionsB.changesC.possibilities

【7】A.leftB.reachedC.entered

【8】A.operationB.experienceC.examination

【9】A.weightB.heightC.age

【10】A.includeB.recommendC.promise

—They should not only share happiness together but also give________ to each other.

A.comfortB.confirmationC.agreement

—I couldn’t agree more. It has the biggest screen and the most comfortable seats.

A.awfulB.fantasticC.ordinary

某英文網(wǎng)站正在舉辦以“時(shí)間管理”為主題的征文。假如你是李華, 請(qǐng)用英文寫一篇短文投稿。談?wù)勀闶侨绾喂芾碜约旱臅r(shí)間的, 以及這些做法給你帶來的好處。

提示詞語: do homework, limit, make a plan, free time

提示問題:

How do you manage your time?

What benefits have you got from doing so?

It's very important for us to manage time wisely.

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Lucy Hughes, a 24-year-old English inventor, has used fish skin and scales(鱗）to create a new kind of plastic that will break down in about six weeks. Her invention won 2019 James Dyson Award, which was created by the famous English inventor James Dyson to encourage students to try to use their creativity to solve problems in the real world.

Lucy Hughes studied how to design products at the University of Sussex in England. As a designer, she knew a lot about how wasteful many products are. Plastic bags, for example, are often used once for a short time and then thrown away. She decided to challenge herself to make something out of waste instead

The University of Sussex isn't far from the coast. Ms. Hughes spent some time studying the fishing business and the waste from fish that were thrown away. After some tests, she decided that the fish skin and scales seemed like the most likely parts for her product. She tried more than 100 different experiments before getting things just right. Ms. Hughes called her finished product "MarinaTex". It solves two problems: the single-use plastic and fish waste.

MarinaTex is clear and feels like plastic, but it's stronger than normal plastic that is of the same thickness. It is also cheap to make since it's made from fish waste. The process of making MarinaTex also doesn't use much energy. Most importantly, MarinaTex doesn't take hundreds of years to break down. On its own, it breaks down in four to six weeks.

For winning the contest, Ms. Hughes will earn f,30, 000. Her school will get f,5, 000. She is looking forward to moving ahead with her idea. She hopes the award money will help her with the process of getting MarinaTex into use as quickly as possible. She thinks that one of the best uses for MarinaTex will be in some kinds of food packaging.

【1】What did Lucy Hughes create?

【2】How many experiments did Lucy Hughes try?

【3】What problems does MarinaTex solve?

【4】What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

【5】How will Lucy Hughes possibly spend the award money?

In the study, a new curriculum（課程）was used in some schools in coastal North Carolina. The students worked on four activities centered on the connections between climate change and local wildlife. They also took part in a community-based project and interviewed their parents about the changes in weather they had noticed in their lifetimes. To see how attitudes changed as a result of the program, the researchers surveyed both students and parents at the beginning and the end of the study.

The study shows the students who completed the climate change module cared more about the issue（問題）. The effect was even stronger among parents. Experts say the program's success had a lot to do with how teachers dealt with climate change in the classroom.

"Reading a textbook and completing a worksheet are unlikely to lead students to talk about their day at the dinner table, ”says Martha Monroe, an expert on environmental education at the University of Florida. Instead, the researchers designed hands-on lessons focused on local issues. For example, one task involved monitoring the weather outside the school and comparing it with historical information about the area.

Those activities may have helped increase parental involvement. "If you can get kids so excited and talking with their parents about what they are learning in schools, parents will want to learn, ”says Danielle Lawson, a social scientist and leading researcher of the study. However, she adds, “We are not telling the students what to think or what to say. That way, kids didn't feel that there was all this responsibility put on them to change their parents' minds about anything.”

Lawson is hopeful that kids can boost their parents' understanding of climate science. "I know how powerful kids can be, ”Lawson says. "Kids don't need a special curriculum to discuss climate change at home. They just need to talk to their parents about what they see going on.”

【1】The second paragraph is mainly about

A.how the study was carried out

B.how the activities were designed

C.why a new curriculum was introduced

D.why both students and parents were surveyed

【2】What can we learn about the new curriculum from the passage?

A.It developed students' communication skills.

B.It focused on lessons about climate change in textbooks.

C.It helped students feel responsible to change their parents.

D.It created more chances for families to talk about climate change.

【3】The word "boost" in the last paragraph probably means “_____________”.

A.checkB.expressC.improveD.share

A.cancelsB.cancelled

C.is cancelledD.was cancelled

A.discussesB.discussed

C.is discussingD.was discussing

Do you think you’re a lucky person? Let’s see what Professor Richard Wise-man, a famous psychologist（心理學(xué)家）, has discovered about luck:

Ten years ago, I set out a research on luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others always experience ill luck.

Many people volunteered for my research. Over the years I interviewed them, watched their lives and had them take part in my experiment.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover why there were differences in their ability to find opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper and asked them to look through it an tell me how many photographs were in side.

I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying. “Tell the researcher you have seen this and win $50.”

This message took up half of the page and was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but unlucky people tended to （傾向于）miss it and lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are just more nervous than lucky people. They are busy looking only for what they need and this stops them from noticing the unexpected. As a result, they miss out on opportunities.

Lucky people tend to be more relaxed and open. They can see everything that is in front of them, rather than just what they are looking for.

My research shows that lucky people live by several principles（原則）. Here are some of these principles:

1.Opportunities are always given to those who are prepared.

2. Be open to new experiences and break your normal thought patterns（模式）.

3.Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well.

4.See yourself being lucky before an important meeting or phone call.

【1】How long has Professor Richard Wise-man studied on luck?

【2】What did the volunteers do for the professor during the research?

【3】What’s the purpose of Professor Richard Wise-man’s small experiment?

【4】The message in the newspaper was so small that unlucky people couldn’t find it, wasn’t it?

【5】Why did the unlucky fail to find the message in the newspaper according to the research?

【6】Which principle of the four is the most important in your opinion? Why?

Do you remember when you wrote a letter last time? If the answer is “not recently”, don’t worry. You are not a 【1】 .

A survey of 1,000 teenagers around the world done by a French company BIC found that a third of today’s teenagers had never written a letter, half had not written a thank-you letter, and a quarter had not even written a birthday or Christmas card. In fact, 58 percent of teenagers c【2】 that handwriting was “too slow” and 17 percent believed it was “outdated”.

These results have caused w【3】that the art of handwriting may one day die out.

“Hand-writing” is one of the most c【4】 art forms we have and should be given the same importance as other art form such as painting, or photography,” Jonathan Skyrme, general manager at BIC UK & Ireland, told the Daily Mail.

The New York Times once explained that a handwritten letter sends a message in a way that o【5】messages can never do. “When you get an email, you can never be sure that you are the o 【6】 person to have received it -- or even that it was written by the person who sent it,” said the newspaper.

As US author Simon Garfield once wrote, “Emails are a poke（蜻蜓點(diǎn)水）, but letters are a loving touch.” So imagine the powerful message you send when you actually write out your thought by hand, buy a stamp, take it to a mailbox, and wait days for your special s【7】to receive it.