1、.常考句型【句型1】spare no effort tov.“不遗余力地”仿写：我们应该不遗余力地美化我们的环境。We should spare no effort to beautify our environment.【句型2】bring home to人事“让明白事”仿写：我们应该让人们明白努力的价值。We should bring home to people the value of working hard.【句型3】be closely related to.“与息息相关”仿写：做运动与健康息息相关。Taking exercise is closely related to he
2、alth.完形填空Today，February twentyninth，is leap day(闰日)This date only appears on the calendar once every four years.But why?Everyone knows the Earth takes three hundred sixtyfive days to travel around the sun.Well，that is not exactly correct.The Earth really takes three hundred sixtyfive days，five hours
3、，fortyeight minutes and fortysix seconds to complete its orbit around the sun.The problem for people developing calendars was what to do with the extra five hours，fortyeight minutes and fortysix seconds.People needed calendars to help them know when to plant crops and when to celebrate religious hol
4、idays.The ancient Greeks and Chinese had a solution.They produced calendars that included extra months every nineteen years.The ancient Romans had a different solution.In the year fortysix，the Roman ruler Julius Caesar made a new calendar.The Julian calendar included an extra day every four years.Bu
5、t there was a problem.The Julian year was just over eleven minutes longer than the cycle of the seasons.In 1582，Pope Gregory the Thirteenth established a new calendar to keep a better recorder of the days.Pole Gregory was the religious leader of most of Europe.He decided that years that could be div
6、ided by four would add a day.However，years that ended in two zeros and that could not be evenly divided by four hundred would not be leap years.For example，the years 1700,1800 and 1900 were not leap years.But the years 1600 and 2000 were leap years. So leap years are years with three hundred sixtysi
7、x days，instead of the usual three hundred sixtyfive.This extra day is added to the calendar on February twentyninth，sometimes known as leap day.People born on leap day may be called “leapings.”They usually celebrate their birthday on February twentyeight or March first.Title: 1 ReasonsThe Earth real
8、ly takes 365 days,5 hours,48minutes and 46 seconds to complete its orbit around the sun.2 was needed to help people know when to plant crops and when to celebrate religious holidays 3 How to deal with the extra 5 hours,48 minutes and 46 seconds 4 5_WaysAncient Greeks and ChineseProducing 6 every 19
9、years7_Producing an extra day 8The Pope Gregory Producing a leap day if the year could be divided 9 .No leap day when the year ended in two zeros but could not be divided by 400ResultLeap day 10 and February twentyninth was added to the calendar答案1.Leap Day/An Extra Day2.A calendar3.Problem4.Solutio
10、ns5.People6.extra months7.Julius Caesar8.every four years9.by four10.came into being/began to exist/was accepted.阅读简答Its strange that a man born on Labor Day has had to work so hard to succeed in life.Jacob seems like a normal person.He likes music，art and photography.His parents both got college de
11、grees.He used to go to a beach house in Portland every summer.He is a big fan of Mexican food.Reading these facts about him may lead to the opinion that he had a great childhood.However，behind all of these is a past that would be terrible for many kids growing up.It started when he was only two year
12、s old.His parents divorced and then remarried.Going through elementary school and middle school，he was frightened a lot.This may have led to the worst thing that could have happened to a young man.He developed deep depression.Doing the smart thing，he talked to his parents about his problem.His paren
13、ts decided that this issue was very serious and Jacob was admitted to West Hills Hospital.He stayed there for two weeks and had his depression diagnosed.Serious insomnia caused the problem.The solution was daily medication.The medication took care of Jacobs depression problem.However，it contained a
14、substance with lithium(锂)The side effect he suffered from lithium was that he got spoonfuls of sugar and ate it with anything else that was on his plate.This led to a weight gain of 25 pounds while he was on medication.So he decided he had to lose some weight and stop the medication.Now he has lost
15、a big part of the weight and he has managed to solve his problem he had in high school.Now he is a happy human being.Many people would have had a very hard time coming back from depression.Many people probably would have given up their dreams.But Jacob is not like this.He took what was a mess of his
16、 life and turned it around to become a great man and a person with a very bright future.1. When was Jacob possibly born according to the passage? (No more than 3 words) 答案On Labor Day.2. Why did Jacob suffer from deep depression? (No more than 4 words) 答案Because of serious insomnia.3. How did Jacob gain the weight of 25 pounds while on medication? (No more than 14 words) 答案By eating spoonfuls of sugar with anything else that was on his plate.4. What can we know from Jacobs story? (No more than 10 words) 答案He had a hard time but never gave up.
