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Now students’ English handwriting(書寫)gets worse and worse. That makes their teachers feel worried. Is your English handwriting beautiful?【1】

Use paper with lines

When you write English words or sentences, you can use paper with lines. That will make your handwriting straight.【2】 Be sure to fill the lined space completely. And make sure these capital letters (大寫字母) are written properly.

Slow down

If your writing is hard to read, just slow down a little. 【3】If you write too quickly, it's hard for you to stop where you should, and you may make more mistakes easily.

【4】

When you hold your pencil in the correct way, writing is much better. Some kids press down really hard when they write. That makes the hand writing bad. Try to be relaxed and don’t hold the pencil so hard. Let your writing appear nice and clean. If you do so, people will guess you are a student with a good habit.

Draw more pictures

【5】While you are drawing pictures, you need to use the skills to control (控制) your pencil better. Even though you have no chance to draw at school, you can practice by drawing at home.

Handwriting is very important. Imagine you are a famous movie star or a well-known sports player, what do you do when your fans run up to you? Give them your autographs (親筆簽名) , of course!

A. If not, here are four steps that really work!

B. Hold your pencil right

C. Drawing can improve your handwriting.

D. We will try to learn English well.

E. Going slower makes your handwriting clearer.

F. Those lines on the paper can help you to write words in the right size.

There was a baby whale named Ella. She lived with other whales in a deep bay. One day, she noticed something large pass overhead. It was as big as a whale. but it wasn't.

Ella was frightened. She had never seen a boat before. Although Ella was scared, she was curious, too. She forced herself to swim to the surface. She saw several faces watching her. In fact, they looked very friendly. In the next few months, Ella lost her fear of boats. People in the boats always enjoyed seeing her.

As time went by, people and boats became a part of her life. Whenever a boat passed overhead, she swam to the top to say hello. One night, Ella saw a lot of fish swimming around the bottom of a ship. Suddenly, she ________________by a fishing net. She fought hard to get free. Finally, she escaped, but part of the net was tangled（纏�。�in her mouth and around her tail. Ella was hurt and confused. Slowly and sadly she made her way towards the deep ocean.

Many weeks passed, and the net in her mouth made it hard for her to eat. And every time she struggled for air, the net cut into her tail, But if she didn't get air every half an hour, she would die. Winter was coming, she had to move to warmer waters with others. However, this time she had no choice but to stay in the bay and wait to die.

One morning, to her surprise, the water was filled with boats. When the boats came closer, a person reached into the water. Ella stared at the person's hand. The hand reminded her of something. She began to feel better. Soon many hands touched her. Ella felt them pulling the lines of the net. Moments later, she was free as before! The people were waving their starfish-shaped hands. Ella knew that the hands would always be there in her life.

【1】Did Ella see a big whale swim over her head one day?

【2】Why did Ella force herself to swim to the surface?

【3】Complete the sentence"Suddenly, she ________________by a fishing net." in Paragraph 3.

【4】According to the story, what do whales need to do before winter comes?

【5】Why did Ella have no choice but to give up the journey?

【6】What do you think Ella will do when she meets boats again? Please give your reason(s).

We might love to tell others about our unusual experiences—that time we climbed Mount Everest, tasted some rare food or ran into a famous person on the street. But new research suggests：that if we s【1】 these unusual experiences with others, it may bring something uncomfortable.

"Unusual experiences are pleasant in the moment but can cause social t【2】 in the long run, "says psychological scientist Gus Cooney of Harvard University. "Some people mistakenly thought that having an unusual experience would make them the star. But they were wrong, because to be unusual is to be different from other people, and social interaction is based on something similar. "

"We all h【3】 to have experiences that are fine and rare, and when we get what we want, we are always eager to tell our friends. But I've noticed that conversations always seem to develop well on more ordinary topics." Cooney explains. " This made me wonder if unusual experiences were r【4】 as lovely as we had thought. "

To find out, Cooney and his colleagues had 68 people come to the lab in groups of f【5】. In each group, one person was asked to watch a popular video of a street magician performing for a crowd, while the other three people were asked to watch an ordinary animated video. After watching the videos, the people sat around a table and had a five-minute free conversation.

After the group discussion, the people who watched the magician's performance felt w【6】 than those who watched the animated video, because they felt they were not included during the discussion.

This finding suggests that we ought to give more thought in choosing what to talk about with others. If an experience turns you into someone who has n【7】 in common with others, then no matter how good it is, it won't make you comfortable in the long run.

A. sad B. loud C. exciting D. gentle

—_______

A. Congratulations! B. What a pity!

C. No problem. D. Never mind.

A.doesn’t , until B.doesn’t, and

C.didn’t , until D.didn’t , or

A. don’t keep B. not keeping C. to not keep D. not to keep

A.move B.moved C.moves D.moving

Birthday party is on the way!

Thirty minutes ______ the party, volunteers arrive and get to work. They make delicious food, prepare exciting games and arrange colorfully wrapped boxes on a table. Soon it's time to play the music and welcome the eager guests. They rush in, ready to celebrate.

Every month, parties like this take place at homeless shelters across the country. They're hosted by a group called the Birthday Party Project. This non-profit ______ throws birthday parties for groups of kids who don't have a home. For many of them, it's the first birthday party they've ever had.

Paige Chenault is the founder of the Birthday Party Project. "Everyone wants a chance to feel known and seen, and a birthday is a ______ time to make it true. "says Chenault. She and her family threw the Birthday Party Project's first event in January 2012. "We realized our own community was a great place to start, "she says. Since then, the project has ______. Now it hosts about 50 monthly parties in 15 cities. More than 10,000 Children have celebrated their birthday at these events.

Eight-year-old Dipson is one of them. At the party held there in March 2019. Dipson unwrapped his gift: a new bicycle. "It was very fun,"he says. But Dipson also says he has learned a ______ from his party: "You can get a bit sick when you have too much chocolate cake. ,"he warns future party-goers.

Jamie Gates is the education supporter at the housing community where Dipson lives. The Birthday Party Project holds parties there each month. According to Gates, if she doesn't remember to tell the children the date of the next event, they'll ______ asking her until they get the answer. "Parents will come to the party, too," she says. "Everyone in the community loves it."

【1】A.overB.afterC.beforeD.during

【2】A.schoolB.organizationC.conferenceD.station

【3】A.suddenB.privateC.perfectD.safe

【4】A.grownB.begunC.frozenD.gone

【5】A.sayingB.subjectC.skillD.lesson

【6】A.dislikeB.keepC.missD.finish

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When you are sitting in class, have you ever drawn pictures in the margins (頁邊的空白處) of your notebooks? If so, you are doodling. Many people think of doodling as a distraction (分心) from more important things. But it might be just the opposite. Doodling might help one focus on work.

One study shows that doodling may help you remember things you hear. In 2009 researchers asked two groups of people to listen to a phone message. One group was encouraged to doodle, but the other was not. Neither group knew that it would be asked to remember information from the message. But the group that doodled remembered 29% more.

Other people have suggested other uses for doodling. Jesse Prinz, a professor who studies doodling, says it can help you think creatively. Walking away from a problem to draw might actually help you solve it. When you come back, you'll have a fresh perspective (觀點) and figure out an answer more quickly.

An author named Sunni Brown wrote a book on doodling. She argues that doodling is a tool that can help people think. She admits that people see doodling as doing nothing, but she wants to change that. In fact, she runs a business that helps companies improve organization and planning through doodling.

Brown believes doodling is helpful because it includes many ways of learning. You learn in four ways: seeing, hearing, reading or writing, and through movement. The more ways you use, the better you learn. And when you doodle while listening to a lecture, you use all four.

You might think that being good at drawing is important for doodling. But if the point of doodling is to help you think, then it doesn't matter what the picture looks like. Even if you're not an artist, doodling can help you. So next time you need help focusing, pick up a pen and doodle away!

【1】Which of the following is true?

A.Jesse Prinz thinks doodling can help people remember better.

B.Brown believes doodling involves four ways of learning.

C.One study shows doodling is a distraction from more important things.

D.Many people think that doodling may be good for your learning and thinking.

【2】According to the passage, when you have a problem, you might find a way to solve it by ________.

A.having a conversationB.watching a movie

C.drawing lines or shapesD.wondering in the park

【3】The writer probably agrees ________.

A.doodling has drawn more attentionB.doodling needs good drawing skill

C.doodling develop one's patienceD.doodling helps one focus attention

【4】What's the passage mainly about?

A.The problems of doodling.B.The causes of doodling.

C.The advantages of doodling.D.The side effects of doodling.