Canadians speak English.
Canadians have also come from Germany and Italy. There are smaller groups from other places, too.
You can see that different kinds of people are called Canadians. Many do not want to forget their own customs and languages. But they share a large country. They share a future in that country. They are all called Canadians. The people who lived in Canada first are 1. ________ 2. ________. People The Eskimos 3. ________ 4. ________ 5. ________ living in the cold place. The European settlers include the people from 6. ________, England, Scotland, Germany and Italy. Languages Other things 7. ________ and 8. ________ are widely spoken in Canada today. Up to now, many people living in Canada still 9. ________ their own customs and languages. The European settlers have lived in Canada 10. ________ 450 years ago. 10
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC,疾控中心),if you don’t often wash your hands, you can pick up viruses（病毒） from many places and make yourself ill. You’re dangerous every time you touch your eyes, noses or mouths. In fact, one of the most common ways people catch colds is by rubbing their noses or their eyes when there are cold viruses on their hands, especially when you’re sick, you may spread（传播） the viruses directly to others. You should wash your hands in the following situations:
·After you use the bathroom ·After you blow your nose or cough ·Before eating, serving or preparing food ·After you touch pets or other animals ·After you visit anyone who is sick ·When your hands are dirty
There is right way to wash your hands. Follow these simple steps to keep your hands clean.
·Use warm water ·Wash for 15 seconds
·Rinse(冲洗) with warm running water and dry them with a clean towel. Way to 1. ________ the spread of 2. ________ hands illness 3. ________way to wash your hands After using the 6. ________ Situations in which you must wash your hands Before having 7. ________ After visiting 8. ________ When your hands are not 9. ________ After 10. ________ pets or other animals 11
What do you think of the most important inventions in the world? The TV? The printing? The telephone? Or the computer? A report shows that they are not the only important inventions. Here are three other important inventions.
One of the simplest inventions is the toilet. Before toilets, waste ran into rivers from people’s houses. Illnesses were common in big cities, and it was often difficult to find clean drinking water.
Animal food is another important invention. Before the invention, most animals were killed every autumn because there was not enough food for them in winter. After hay(干草) became a kind of common animal food, animals could live through the long winter.
The third great invention is glasses. Glasses help people read, write and do “close work” after the age of 45. Without glasses, the world would be difficult for the people above 45.
Use running water which is not too 4. ________ or too 5. ________ 1. ________ Some 2. ________ important inventions Three 3. ________ simple inventions Before the inventions Waste ran into rivers from people’s houses. ▲The toilet ▲The TV ▲The 4. ________ ▲The telephone ▲The computer ▲8. ________ ▲Hay /Animal food 5. ________ were common. It wasn’t often 6. ________ to find clean drinking water. People 7. ________ most animals in autumn because there was not much food in winter. Reading, 9. ________ and doing “close work” would be difficult for the people who are 10. ________ than 45. 12
Winter is dangerous because it’s difficult to know what is going to happen and accidents happen so easily. Fog can be waiting to meet you over the top of a hill. Ice ahead might be hiding under the melting（融化）snow, waiting to send you off the road. The car coming towards you may suddenly go across the road.
Rule Number One for driving on icy roads is to drive smoothly. Sudden movements can make a car suddenly very difficult to control. So every time you either turn the wheel, touch the brakes（刹车）or increase your speed, you must be as smooth and slow as possible. Imagine you are driving with a full cup of hot coffee on the seat next to you. Drive carefully and make sure that the cup wouldn’t fall.
Rule Number Two is to be careful about what might happen. The more ice there is, the further down the road you have to look. Test how long it takes to stop by smoothly braking.
Remember that you may be driving more quickly than you think. So keep enough distance when the road is wet, three times this distance on snow, and even more on ice. Try to stay in control of your car at all times and you will get away from trouble.
Title: Safe Winter 1. ________ Main comparison Something may happen in winter Contexts What is going 2. ________ is hard to know in winter. You will drive away from the road because of the ice 3. ________under the melting snow. 1. 4. ________ suddenly can make a car difficult to control, so when you drive on icy roads you must drive as 5. ________ and 6. ________as possible. 2. Be able to expect what might happen. When driving, you must look 7. ________ along Rule for driving the road than usual. Maybe it will take you 8. ________ time to stop the car by smoothly barking. 3. Keep five meters from the front car, when driving on rainy days. And keeping 9. ________meters from the front car on snowy days is safe. Make the car be 10. ________the control at all times, you will be safe. 13
Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories of their own country and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.
Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since the 18 century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print? Why do they choose some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?
Firstly, it is important to report news stories. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may print
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completely different stories to those on TV.
Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. People don’t want to read stories about everyday life. As a result, many stories are about some kind of danger and seem to be “bad” news. For example, newspapers never print stories about planes landing safely, instead they print stories about plane accidents.
Another factor is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.
Title: Ways of 1. ________ the news Hundreds of years ago Walking or 2. ________ horses to carry the news were the main ways. So people must wait for 3. ________ to receive the news. 1. People can learn about what is 4. ________in their own country and all over the world by watching TV or reading newspaper. 2. People have been used to 5. ________newspaper in their everyday life for about three 6. ________ years. 3. It’s hard for the newspaper editors to decide which news stories to choose and Fast and convenient ways of today print. Comparing to the TV, newspapers can give more 7. ________ about the same story. 4. Newspapers always print some 8. ________ stories and “bad” news to 9. ________ the readers. 5. The third factor is also very important. More people are 10. ________ of news in foreign countries. Chinese newspaper aren’t the same as British, French and American newspapers. 14
Today, many teenagers are overweight, and some of this is because of their bad eating habits. Most teenagers love food with a lot of fat, oil, salt, and sugar. People often call this kind of food “junk food\eating habits go beyond fast food. We find many teenagers eat unhealthily. Some don't have breakfast before they go to school. During the day, some don't have a proper meal for lunch. In a recent survey(调查) at one school, scientists found that over two-thirds of the students didn't follow a healthy diet. They didn't like vegetables, and many of them didn't like to eat fruits. They preferred to eat food with a lot of salt, sugar, or fat.
Parents today also worry about their children's diet. Some doctors give the following advice: ★ Teenagers shouldn't eat too much junk food.
★ Teenagers shouldn't eat food with too much salt. Salt can cause high blood pressure(高血压) in the future. ★ Teenagers should eat food with less fat, oil, and sugar.
★ Teenagers need to eat some fruits and vegetables every day. Fruits and vegetables have a lot of vitamins and
have little fat.
★ Teenagers need to drink more milk. Milk will help their bones grow.
★ Teenagers need to eat breakfast every day. This is good for their body and mind. Junk food contains Eating 2. ________ food Science proves that 4. ________ think Teenagers need to Teenagers need to Doctors think A lot of fat, oil, salt and 1. ________. Can cause high blood pressure. Bad eating habits are more 3. ________ than fast food Teenagers should change their 5. ________. Drink 5. ________ milk. Eat some fruits and vegetables, because they are 7. ________ in vitamins and have little fat. 8. ________ breakfast every day is good for their body and mind 15
Junk food means 9. ________food, teenagers should eat 10. ________ food like this. John’s British school life
I study in a mixed school. Boys and girls have lessons together. My favourite subject is Home Economics. I like learning how to cook and sew. Now, I know how to cook healthy and tasty meals. Our school has a reading week every year. We can read any books from the school library. We can even bring in books and magazines from home. Near the end of each class we can talk to our friends about our books. The reading week is always too short because we want to read all our friends’ books as well.
Nancy’s American school life
I had driving lessons in school last year. Now, I drive to school every day. This is great because it’s faster than taking the bus. Twice a week, I play softball after school. Every Monday, I go to a ‘buddy club’. At the buddy club, older students talk to new students about school life. My buddy is Julie. She is a senior in 12th grade. She helps me learn all about my new school. She helps me with my homework and listens to my problems. Julie is my hero. During lunchtime, I meet my friends and always have a great time talking to each other. Sometimes, we go to shopping malls after school. 1. John studies with other boys and girls 3. ________. Home Economics includes John’s school life in 1. ________. cooking and 4. ________. John likes it a lot. 2. During the 5. ________ week, students can read any book from the school library and they always feel the reading week is too short because they want to 6. ________their books to read. 1. Nancy drives to school every day. It takes her 7. ________ time to go to school by car than by bus. Nancy’s school life in 2. ________ 2. Every Monday Nancy goes to a “buddy club”, there she meets a senior student 8. ________Julie. Julie helps Nancy a lot, and Nancy 9. ________ her very much. 3. When 10. ________ lunch, Nancy and her friends have a good time talking to each other. 16
On a Friday night, a poor young violinist was playing his violin at the entrance of the subway station. The music was so great that people slowed down to listen and put some money into his hat.
The next day, the violinist came to the entrance again. He put down his hat as usual. Beside the hat was a piece of paper with some words on it. It said, “A George Sang has put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Welcome to claim(认领) it. ”Soon the people were all attracted by the words and wondered what it could be. After a while a man rushed through the crowd, took the violinist’s shoulders and said, “I knew you would certainly come here. ”The violinist asked, “Did you lose something?” “Lottery (彩票) ”. The violinist took out a lottery ticket with Sang’s name on it. Sang took it and danced happily.
Sang was an office worker. He bought the lottery and won a prize of $500,000. But when he gave $50 to the violinist for his wonderful music, the lottery ticket was thrown in, too. The violinist was a college student. That morning, he was going to fly to Vienna for high education. However, when he found the ticket, he cancelled the flight and returned to the entrance.
Later someone asked the violinist why he didn’t take the lottery ticket to pay the tuition fee（学费）. He said， “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily. If I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever.”
Title: The importance of 1. ________ honest (1) On a Friday night, a poor young man who 2. ________ the violin very well was playing at the entrance of the subway station. He played so 3. ________ that people slowed down to give him some money. (2) On 4. ________ night, the young man did the same thing as usual. Beside the hat there was a piece of paper, and there were some words 5. ________ on it. Soon the paper 6. ________ many people and the people wanted to know what it could be. After a while, a man rushed to the young man 7. ________. But when the man saw the lottery with his 8. ________ on it, he couldn’t help 9. ________ happily. (3) Sang bought the lottery and won a prize of ＄ 500,000, but when he gave money to the young man, the lottery ticket was thrown in , too. That morning, the young man had planned to go to Vienna by 10. ________.
