Each year there is an increasing number of cars on roads and streets as millions of new cars and trucks are produced. One out of every six Americans works at putting together the parts of cars, driving trucks, building roads or filling cars and trucks with gas. Americans won't live without cars!
Most Americans would find it hard to think what life would look like without cars. However, some have realized the serious problems of the air pollution that is caused by the car.
The polluted air becomes poisonous and dangerous to health.
One way to get rid of the polluted air is to build a car that does not pollute. That's what several of the large car factories have been trying to do. But to build a clean car is easier said than done. Progress in this field has been slow.
Another way is to take the place of the car engine by something else. Inventors are now working on steam cars as well as electric cars. Many makers believe that it will take years to develop a practical model that pleases man.
To prevent the world from being polluted by cars, we'll have to make some changes in the way many of us live. Americans, for example, have to cut down on the number of their total cars. They are encouraged to travel and go to work by bicycle. Bicycling is thought to help keep the air clean.
But this change does not come easily. A large number of workers may find themselves without jobs if a car factory closes down. Thus the problem of air pollution would become less important than that of unemployment.
Although cars have led us to a better life, they have also brought us new problems.
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注意:①词数100左右;
②词汇:国际化internationalization;
③可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Stars blazed(猛烈地燃烧)in the sky above Spook like a million tiny suns. They shone through the mists, which had during the last year become thinner and weaker. At first, he had thought the world itself was changing. Then he had realized that it was just his feeling. Somehow, by burning tin in his body for so long, he had permanently strengthened his senses to a point far beyond what other Allomancers could attain.
The burned tin had begun as a reaction to Clubs's death. Spook still felt terrible about the way he'd escaped, leaving his uncle to die. During those first few weeks, Spook had burned his metals as almost a self-punishment he'd wanted to feel everything around him, take it all in, even though it was painful, or perhaps because it was painful.
But then he'd started to change, and that had worried him. But, the crew always talked about how hard Vin pushed herself. She rarely slept, using pewter(白镴)to keep herself awake and alert. Spook didn't know how that worked he was no Mistborn, and could only bum one metal but he figured that if burning his one metal could give him an advantage, he'd better take it, because they were going to need every advantage they could get.
The starlight was like daylight to him. During the actual day, he had to wear a cloth tied across his eyes to protect them, and even then going outside was sometimes blinding. His skin had become so sensitive that each little stone in the ground felt like a knife jabbing(猛刺)him through the bottom of his feet. The cold spring air seemed freezing, and he wore a thick cloak(斗篷).
However, he had concluded that these discomforts were small prices to pay for the opportunity to become whatever it was he had become. As he moved down the street, he could hear people turning over and over in their beds, even through their walls. He could sense a footstep from yards away. He could see on a dark night as no other human ever had.
① Always before, he'd been the least important member of the crew the dismissible boy who served as a handy man or kept watch while the others made plans. He didn't feel annoyed with them for that he'd been right to give him such simple duties. ② Because of his street dialect, he'd been difficult to understand, and while all the other members of the crew had been carefully picked, Spook had joined through the back door since he was Clubs's nephew.
Spook sighed, sticking his hands in his trouser pockets as he walked down the too-bright street. He could feel each and every thread of the cloth.
Dangerous things were happening he knew that: the way the mists lasted longer during the day, the way the ground shook as if it were a sleeping man, periodically(周期性地)suffering a terrible dream. Spook worried he wouldn't be of much help in the critical days to come. A little over a year before, his uncle had died after Spook fled the city. Spook had run out of fear, but also out of a knowledge of his lack of power. ③ He wouldn't have been able to help during the campaign.
He didn't want to be in that position again. He wanted to be able to help, somehow. He wouldn't run into the woods, hiding while the world ended around him. He was sent to gather as much information as he could about the Citizen and his government there, and so Spook intended to do his best. If that meant pushing his body beyond what was safe, so be it.
He approached a large crossing. He looked both ways down the intersecting(交叉的)streets the view clear as day to his eyes. I may not be Mistborn, and I may not be emperor, he thought. But I'm something. Something new. Something people would be proud of Maybe this time I can help. ④
① The shining daylight that almost made him blind.
② The little stones that jabbed him like a knife.
③ The cold spring air that seemed freezing.
④ The sleepless people that turned over and over in their beds.
⑤ The awakened awareness of being unimportant when keeping watch.
⑥ His street dialect that made him hard to understand.
“Perhaps he'd find a way to become useful to the others.”
Henry the car.
村上春树的随笔中提到“小确幸”一词,意指生活中微小而确实的幸福。生活中小小的幸运与快乐,是流淌在生活的每个瞬间且稍纵即逝的美好,是内心的宽容与满足,是对人生的感恩和珍惜。当我们逐一将这些“小确幸”拾起的时候,也就找到了最简单的快乐!
请描述生活中让你难忘而感动的一个瞬间或一次经历,并谈谈你的感受。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.不得出现真实校名和姓名。
A happy moment/ experience in my life
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的适当形式(不超过3个单词)。
Louis Armstrong, the most influential jazz musicians, is considered great not only because of his 61 (achieve) but also because of his personalities.
62 (bear) in a poor family in New Orleans in 1901, instead of 63 (commit) crimes to get money like some boys in his situation, Louis would sing on the streets in order to earn a few cents from 64 (passer-by). However, at the age of 12, Louis was arrested because of firing a gun into the air at a New Year's Eve party. In a school of problem boys, he was taught to play drums and the trumpet, 65 enabled him to find work related with music after he left the school. A well-known musician Joe “King” Oliver noticed Louis and began to teach him about jazz. When Oliver left New Orleans in 1917,Louis took 66 his job in one of the best bands in town.
After becoming famous, Louis would introduce his particular style of jazz to enthusiastic audiences while 67 (travel) around the United States as well as Europe. Apart from being a famous jazz musician, he was also an unofficial goodwill ambassador who spoke 68 (public) about the rights of black people in America. Despite the fact 69 he became rich and famous, Louis Armstrong continued to live a simple live in a working-class neighbourhood. He continued playing and recording until July 6th, 1971, when he died in his sleep at his home in New York. He is still remembered as the most 70 (distinguish) musician in the early history of jazz.
She ______ a reward for her efforts.
A. offered B. worth C. respected D. deserved
Do you think you have a healthy eating habit? 36 So it’s time you started to eat properly. Try to avoid the following bad eating habits.
1. Watching TV while having meals.
Doing this means you don’t pay attention to your food, forget how full you are, and so overeat. It can also cause digestion(消化) diseases. 37
2. Having drinks rather than water.
Drinks and fruit juice are usually high in calories and sugar, which can cause weight problems. 38 For your body to burn fat, it needs at least eight glasses of pure water a day. Liquids like soda (苏打水) and coffee actually take water away from your body.
3. Replacing meals with snacks.
39 But it often results in overeating and health problems related to a lack of vegetables and vitamins. Snacking only works if it is well planned and includes healthy foods such as nuts, vegetables, fruit and yogurt (酸奶).
4. 40
Different foods provide different kinds of nutrition(营养). If you don’t have a balanced diet, this can result in malnutrition and a weaker body.
5. Refusing to drink milk.
Milk is the best natural food – it provides you with protein, which makes your bones strong and teeth healthy.
Are you worried about your diet? If so, don’t get too upset—there is still plenty of time to develop a healthier lifestyle. You will be glad you did!
A. Take a walk after eating and help your stomach digest the meal.
B. Choosing meat and certain vegetables over others.
C. You are what you eat.
D. Water is important in making your body work properly.
E. One way to avoid this is only to eat in certain areas of your home.
F. Buying from roadside snack bars.
G. Many students think that eating small snacks can help them on diet.