What started as a sweet gesture on a 32nd birthday has grown into a beloved family tradition for one Midwest family. At the age of 8, Kim Carey made her dad, Ray Ronchetti, a crown(王冠)for his 32nd birthday with the help of her little sister Gina Chandler. Since then, the sisters have
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| A．accept | B．know | C．guarantee | D．pretend |
| A．uncle | B．dad | C．grandpa | D．brother |
| A．disappointed | B．annoyed | C．frightened | D．entertained |
| A．ignores | B．misses | C．refuses | D．likes |
| A．donated | B．admired | C．created | D．imagined |
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| A．happened | B．decided | C．regretted | D．forgot |
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An Unforgettable Thanksgiving Day
“Mom, is it okay if I invite a few of the classmates for Thanksgiving?” asked my son Evan. Evan had been senior high school students for two years. The school he attends is a challenging school and is strict with students but Evan did well and he had changed a lot. We were very grateful that our son had learned not only to tidy up, but to shine everything. Most importantly, he became more outgoing.
But with all the strict rules and hard work, the students there were also forming lifelong friendships. It was a practice that those unable to go home for the holidays would find a welcoming place at the table in the home of any of their friends. We’d hosted Evan’s roommates last year and looked forward to meeting new guests this Thanksgiving.
“Oh, one thing, Mom,” Evan continued. “These guys are exchange students. They would be Tim from Thailand, Kanok and Patrick from Mexico and Costel from Canada. They couldn’t eat their traditional dishes at school. So you’d better cook some special dishes for them. I know you are good at cuisine（烹饪）. ”
Indeed, I did delicious dishes and I was very excited about the international dishes we’d have at our dinner table. What dishes would I cook for these special visitors? They’d probably love a traditional turkey. But ... what are their traditional dishes? I love to cook, so this was an excuse to take out my wide variety of cook books, to do a little research on the favorite foods of these three faraway lands.
I decided to roast a turkey, and found several traditional dishes of Mexico and Canada. The only traditional dish of Thailand I thought I could have a try was something called foufou. I told Evan about it, who checked in with his friend Tim. “Tim is crazy about foufou, Mom! You have to make it! Tim also said he could help you if you needed. ”
So Turkey Day morning found me busy in the kitchen. The last dish I cooked was foufou. I followed the steps to prepare foufou and finally placed it on the stove（火炉）to cook for ten minutes.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；At this time, I heard Evan’s excited voice, so I went out of the kitchen.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Just as I talked with Tim, I smelt something burning in the kitchen!
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Every morning on the island of Oahu, students at Pu’ öhala Elementary gather on a field as towering mountains watch them from the mist. Their day starts with songs in ‘ölelo Hawai’i, the islands’ native language, restating values of respect and justice that their teachers hope will guide them through their education, and throughout their lives.
Like most kids their age, they’re not concerned about the significance of the language they’re learning. Still, they have a weighty responsibility: to receive the torch (火炬) and ensure the security of ‘ölelo Hawai’ i for future generations.
It was only 50 years ago that the language was on the edge of extinction. Though the situation is much improved, in many ways ‘ölelo Hawai’ i is still on life support. Teachers say there’s a huge enthusiasm for school kids to learn the language, but as they grow up, they’re encouraged to focus on “more useful” subjects and use English, which are believed to assist them in achieving success in their work. In 2016, there were 18, 610 Hawaiian speakers on the islands.
“One hundred thousand is the approximate number of speakers needed to consider the language safe, ” says Solomon, professor of Hawaiian language at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. “The idea is that there are enough people passing it on to the next generation, socializing their children to use the language in all domains of life, to express all thoughts and needs and desires. ”
Fortunately, the kids of Pu’ öhala Elementary will take the responsibility to continue the work of the current young adults defending the language, expanding access to ‘ölelo Hawai’i in part through TikTok and Instagram, and making the language a practical skill in adulthood. These youth, along with those committed to recovering the language from previous generations, share their hopes for the better.
1．What are the students at Pu’ öhala Elementary expected to do?| A．To figure out the value of life. | B．To go out of the island of Oahu. |
| C．To pass their native language down. | D．To draw people’s attention to folk songs. |
| A．Career development. | B．The improved situation. |
| C．Lack of enthusiasm. | D．Little educational support. |
| A．It is used in all walks of life. | B．It is considered a safe language. |
| C．It demands more speakers to be safe. | D．It has one hundred thousand speakers. |
| A．Worried. | B．Hopeful. | C．Unclear. | D．Reserved. |
A professor at the University of South Florida recently published a paper she knew barely anyone would read. At least, not outside her field. The paper had to do with the impact of algae (海藻) blooms and depletion (退化) of coral reefs on the region’s tourism industry.
The work of completing the paper was glum, says Heather O’Leary. It involved tracking visitors’ reactions to the environment on social media. “Part of the data for months was just reading posts: dead fish, dead fish, dead fish,” she recalled. “We were really thinking every day about the Gulf of Mexico and the waters that surround us, about those risks, and the risks to our coastal economy.”
O’Leary wanted people to pay attention to her paper and raise their environmental awareness. But she couldn’t come up with any solutions. However, attending concerts at USF’s School of Music inspired and gladdened her. She reached out to its director of bands, Matthew McCutchen. “I’m studying climate change and what’s going down at the coral reefs,” he remembered her saying. “And I’ve got all this data from my paper and I’d like to know if there’s any way that we can turn it into music. So people can know about my paper.”
Indeed there was. Composition professor Paul Reller worked with students to map pitch, rhythm and duration to the data. It came alive, O’Leary said, in ways it simply couldn’t be done on a spreadsheet.
“My students were really excited to start thinking about how students from other majors, such as the music students, heard patterns that they did not normally hear in some of the repetitions,” she said. In this case, she said, the patterns revealed the economic impact of pollution on coastal Florida communities.
With music, she added, “you can start to sense with different parts of your mind and your body that there are patterns happening and that they’re important.” “The world is going to see more and more of these ‘wicked problems’, the ones that take multiple people with different types of training and background to solve.”
Now,a group of professors and students are working to bring together music and the environment in related projects, such as an augmented (增强的) reality experience based on this composition. The group wants to spread awareness about the algae blooms, data literacy (数据认知) and environmental protection.
1．What does the underlined word “glum” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Exciting. | B．Emotional. |
| C．Routine. | D．Miserable. |
| A．Turn her algae data into music. |
| B．Find some music about coral reefs. |
| C．Teach her some musical terms. |
| D．Compose songs regarding climate change. |
| A．The different types of training. |
| B．The repetition of pitch and rhythm. |
| C．The threat of pollution on the costal economy. |
| D．The complex challenges of wicked problems. |
| A．Providing solutions to the algae problem. |
| B．Exposing more wicked problems to the public. |
| C．Showing the economic growth in coastal cities. |
| D．Helping people experience the problems better. |
A lot of people assume the more work they put in at the gym, and the longer and harder they push themselves, the better their results will be.
Your body is capable of making only tiny adaptations and improvements at any one time. Once you've given it enough push to make these changes, any additional work you do after that point won't be making you any better.
As a general rule, regardless of your experience, aim to only increase the volume of any exercise by one step from workout to workout.
| A．It seems logical. |
| B．Instead, it'll harm your progress. |
| C．It's natural that you may want to keep fit. |
| D．After that, you can stop exercising during the day. |
| E．Only in this way can you enjoy the benefit of exercise. |
| F．They would just increase the chance of injury for beginners. |
| G．How much exercise you need to do depends on your current fitness level. |
Walking along the Great Wall is a once-in-a-lifetime dream for many, but Jim Spear has taken it one step
As an architect, not only did Spear renovate (翻新) his own dream house,
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Yingge Dance, a traditional folk art combining dancing, Chinese martial arts, and Chinese opera, is popular in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong province in South China. Yingge, written with the characters for “hero” and “song”,
However, as young people move out of the villages, so are local folk arts
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