Task 1 Lead-in
I'm sitting here in a ____1____(bore) room. It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon. I'm wasting ___2___(I) time I got nothing to do. I'm hanging around I'm____3____(wait) for you. But nothing ever happens. And I wonder. I'm driving around in my car. I'm driving too fast I'm driving too far. I'd like______4_____(change) my point of view. I feel so____5_____(lone) I'm waiting for you. But nothing ever happens. And I wonder. I wonder how I wonder __6____. Yesterday you___7___(tell) me about the blue blue sky. And all___8___I can see. It's just a Yellow lemon tree. I'm turning my head __9_____and down. I'm turning turning turning turning turning around. And all that I can see. It's just____10_______lemon tree. Say da da da ...
Task 2 Homework
1. Leaving the less important things until tomorrow ____ (be)often acceptable.
2. Truly elegant chopsticks might ___ (make)of gold and silver with Chinese characters.
3. Sarah says, \"My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school____ (come) first.
4. This included digging up the road, _______(lay) the track and then building a strong roof over the top.
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5. But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first Western TV reporter (permit)to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.
6. On our way to the house，it was raining so hard that we couldn't help wondering how long it would take __________（get）there.
7. This switch has decreased (pollute) in the country’s major lakes and reservoirs and made drinking water safer for people.
8. I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid looking directly into his eyes so he doesn't feel __________(challenge).
9. They also shared with us many traditional stories about Hawaii that were （huge）popular with tourists.
10. According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years (long) than non-runners.
11. He screams the (loud)of all.
12. She has turned down several (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies.
13. Running is cheap, easy and it's always (energy).
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14. To avoid knee pain,you can run on soft surfaces,do exercises to (strength)your leg muscles.
15. I'm a ____(science)who studies animals such as apes and monkeys.
16. When the gorillas and I frightened each other, I was just glad to find (they) alive.
17. Instead, she is earning $6500 a day as model in New York.
18. However, the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25, 000 people were using_____ every day.
19. Most of us are more focused our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day.
20. I work not because I have to, because I want to.
21. Over time, the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.
22. Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius, lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C., influenced the development of chopsticks.
23. While they are rare north of 88°,there is evidence they range all the way across the Arctic, and as far south as James Bay in Canada.
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24. Then the driver stood up and asked, “ ________ anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?”
25. It was raining lightly when I arrived in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn’t care. A few hours ___________，I’d been at home in Hong Kong.
Task 3假如你是命题专家，请给下列短文设语法填空
The adobe dwellings(土坯房) built by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest are admired by even the most modern of architects and engineers. In addition to their simple beauty, what makes the adobe dwellings admirable is their ability to “air condition” a house without using electric equipment. Walls made of adobe take in the heat from the sun on hot days and give out that heat slowly during cool nights, thus warming the house. When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough to cool the house during the hot day. At the same time, they warm up again for the night. This cycle goes day after day. The walls warm up during the day and cool off during the night and are thus always a timely offset（抵消）for the outside temperatures. As natural architects, the Pueblo Indians figured out exactly how thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.
Task 4 Exercise
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Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?
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In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio. It 61 ______ (be) unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it 62 ________ (actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of 63 ____ most outstanding examples of environmental clean-up.
But the river wasn’t changed in a few days 64 _____even a few months. It took years of work 65 _________ (reduce) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is 66 ________(clean) than ever.
Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit 67 _________ is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don’t know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation, don’t you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?
While there are 68 ________ (amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the 69 _______ (change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be
70 ________(patience).
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Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia’s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top 61 __________ (attract).
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So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research. I 62 ____________ (allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be 63 __________ (official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back 64 _____my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, 65 ______I was the first Western TV reporter 66 ___________ (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include 67 ____________ (introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research center in the misty mountains of Bifengxia. On my recent visit, I held a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by
68 _______(it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few 69 ______(day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed,70 ______other is with mum—she never suspects.
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