1．　　Two years ago, I took a bus to visit a friend living on a farm. My friend (1)       to pick me up from the bus station. Once I got off the(2)      , I pulled my two suitcases (行李箱) and walked to the pickup area. (3)      , my friend got stuck in the heavy traffic and I had to (4)       for an hour at the pickup area. To make things worse, it started raining half an hour later. Looking around, I was sad to find that there was no place to take shelter (躲避) from the (5)      . Just as I was feeling (6)      , a man driving a car stopped in front of me and (7)      me an umbrella. I asked for his (8)       so I could mail (邮寄) it back when I (9)       using it. To my surprise, the man said, "You don't have to (10)       it. Just pass the umbrella on to someone else when (11)       car arrives." When my friend finally (12)      , I gave the umbrella to a lady carrying a baby who just arrived at the pickup area. (13)       I left, I asked her to give it to anyone else in (14)       of the umbrella. When I arrived at my friend's farm, I was very tired, but happy that I was able to pass (15)       on to others.

2．　　My mom told me a story that was about the school picnic. At that time, schools didn't have a field day. The biggest day for them was School Picnic Day.
　　School Picnic Day was usually held on the last day of school in June. On that day, kids played simple games. No one cared who won or who lost.
　　Before the school picnic, parents always packed picnic baskets for the kids. They filled them with a lot of good food.
　　There was a poor family. They had no picnic lunch that year. When my mom noticed this, she tried to help them.
　　Just then, the teacher said there was going to be one final race before lunch. It was the sack race, in which two people get inside a sack and hop as fast as they can to the finish line. The winner would receive a special lunch basket.
　　My mom wanted to enter this race. She waited until she saw Mary, the eldest sister of the poor family, stand up. She asked Mary if she could be her partner, and Mary agreed. My mom went out of her way to make Mary win.
　　Later, Mary came and thanked my mom for being her partner. She said that her brothers and sisters really enjoyed the picnic lunch. According to mom, it was the best school picnic in the whole world.

4．　　When Juliet was a child, she often went to the city park and played with her friends. On a sunny morning, when Juliet came to the park with her mom, she looked around and felt very unhappy.
　　"What's the matter, dear? What's wrong with you?" asked her mom.
　　Juliet replied, "Mom, how beautiful and clean it used to be! But now there's so much trash on the ground."
　　Juliet's mom looked around. There were scraps (碎片) of paper, boxes, glass bottles and a lot of other trash everywhere.
　　"What can we do?" asked Juliet sadly.
　　"I'm sure you will think of something," said her mom.
　　As soon as Juliet and her mom went home, Juliet painted a picture of the park and wrote a sign in large black letters at the top of the picture. The sign read "PLEASE KEEP OUR PARK CLEAN". Later, she took plenty of bags and went back to the park with her mom. Juliet put up her picture on a big trash can (垃圾桶).
　　"Will you help me pick up the trash, mom?" Juliet said as she handed her mom a bag.
　　"I surely will," replied her mom smilingly.
　　The children at the park ran over to see what was going on. Juliet handed them each a bag. "Let's clean this place up," said Juliet. Then they began to pick up the trash, talking and laughing. Soon all the bags were full.
　　"We need to come back another day. There's still some trash on the ground, but the park looks much better," said Juliet.
　　Her mom said, "So it does. I knew you would think of a way to help."

5．　　Do you have any online classes? It is possible to take classes at home. All you need is a computer and a headset.
　　However, most students don't seem to like online classes. According to a recent survey, only 33 percent of the students would take such classes. Over 1,500 students from 10 cities took part in the survey.
　　Many students said it was hard to focus on studying while taking online classes. This was true for Lian Ruohan, 15, at the Affiliated High School of Peking University. "There are no classmates and no real teachers watching me. I can surf the Internet or do other things if I want to. It's harder to always stay focused," she said.
　　Lian prepares a lot before taking her classes to make sure she will keep her attention. She also pushes herself to communicate with teachers. Students can come up with or answer questions while taking online classes.
　　Wen Jiayi, 14, at Yucai Middle School Attached to Chengdu No. 7 High School, thinks online interaction (互动) isn't enough. "The online teachers don't really get to know me. When I don't hand in homework, all I get is a short message instead of real concern (关心)," she said.
　　However, online classes still have advantages. "It saves time and money compared with taking offline classes. Also, if I don't understand some parts of a lesson, I can watch it over again," Lian said.

6．　　The Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum, has been considered a great old museum for a long time. (1)       Nowadays, such cultural and creative products have been one of the hottest topics and they are popular among Chinese people.
　　Since 2007, the Palace Museum has come up with more than 9,600 products. The products include notebooks with embroidery (刺绣) covers and dolls of emperors and empresses. (2)       It was reported that the products were sold for about 1 billion yuan in 2016.
　　Besides the products, the Palace Museum also created an app called A Day of an Emperor. (3)       Users will be guided to learn about a day of life and work of an emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
　　Several years ago, a documentary called Masters in Forbidden City became popular online. (4)       They say that they can learn a lot about Chinese history and culture by watching the documentary. The documentary also makes them want to work at the museum.
　　(5)       For example, the National Museum of China has had similar projects, too. China encourages more and more museums to take different measures (措施) to make young people interested in Chinese history and culture.

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How I Learned to Learn English
　　Last year, I did not like my English class. Every class was like a bad dream. The teacher spoke so (1)       that I did not understand her most of the time. I was afraid to ask questions because of my poor pronunciation. I just (2)       behind my textbook and never said anything.
　　Then one day I watched an English movie called Toy Story: I fell (3)       love with this exciting and funny movie! So I began to watch other English movies, too. (4)       I could not understand everything the characters said, their body language and the expressions on their(5)       helped me to get the meaning. I also (6)       I could get the meaning by listening for just the key words. My pronunciation improved as well by listening to the conversations in English movies. I discovered that listening to something (7)       is the secret to language learning. I also learned (8)       sentences like "It's a piece of cake" or "I serves you right". I did not understand these sentences at first. But because I wanted to understand the story, I looked (9)       up in a dictionary.
　　Now I really enjoy my English class. I want to learn new words and more grammar so that I can have a (10)       understanding of English movies.

18．“双减”之后，为了引导学生合理利用周末时间，最近你校开展了“如何让周末生活更有意义”的征文活动。请你从体育运动、家务劳动和社会活动三方面，用英语写一篇短文投稿，提出你的建议和看法。
写作要求：
1. 短文必须包含以上三方面的内容，井适当发挥；
2. 词数：80词左右；(文章的开头和结尾已给出， 不计入总词数)
3. 文中不得出现真实姓名及校名。
　　Nowadays, we students have some free time on weekends, but how can we make our weekends more meaningful? Here are my suggestions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________