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Thanks for everything

说声感谢不仅能让他人的世界更明媚，也会点亮你的生活。如果你觉得失落、不被关爱、不被欣赏，那就试着敞开你的心灵，也许这正是你最需要的。

In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who’d lived those years with us. In fact, we don’t have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closet to us—the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now! while your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world’s happiness.


Saying thanks not only brightens someone else’s world, it brightens yours. If you’re feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need.


Of course, there are times when you can’t express gratitude immediately. In that case don’t let embarrassment sink you into silence-speak up the first time you have the chance.


Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. The Indians, he had been told, did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had exceptional generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks.


I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive, more caring?


Thankfulness sets in motion a chain reaction that transforms people all around us—including ourselves. For no one ever misunderstands the melody of a grateful heart. Its message is universal; its lyrics transcend all earthly barriers; its music touches the heavens.

The difference between love and like


若你不再喜欢一个人，只需捂上耳朵；若你紧闭双眼，只会将爱化作一滴泪，永存心间。


In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster, but in front of the person you like, you get happy.


In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring, but in front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.


If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush, but if you look into the eyes of the person you like, you smile.


If front of the person you love, you can’t say everything on your mind, but in front of the person you like, you can.


In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy, but in front of the person you like, you can show your own self.


You can’t look straight into the eyes of the one you love, but you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.


When the one you love is crying, you cry with him, but when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.


The feeling of love starts from the eye, and the feeling of like starts from the ears.


So if you stop liking a person you used to like, all you need to do is cover your ears. But if you try to close your eyes, love turns into a teardrop and remains in your heart forever after.

本文也是一篇议论文，考试中涉及的议论文题材的比较多。这种题材的作文应该要比较熟练。

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                                City Problems
Nowadays, millions of migrant workers flock into cities in search of jobs and better living. However, with the sharp rise in the urban population, many problems arise in the development of cities.

Firstly, cities become more and more crowded, putting much pressure upon transportation, housing, sanitation, education, employment and so on. City services and facilities have been strained to a breaking point. Secondly, a growing number of private cars emit huge amount of carbon dioxide, leaving the air mercilessly polluted. What is more, the city is also threatened by rising crime. Not a single day passes without the report of someone being robbed, kidnapped or murdered.

Last but not least, city-dwellers are not only separated from the natural world but also isolated from each other, even not knowing the name of their next-door neighbor.

All these problems have harmed the attractiveness of the city. Unless there is some improvement, more and more people may seek to live in the suburbs.

本期练习重点：
从句关系代词误用、从句类型混淆、平行结构

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1. Government reports, exmaination compositions, legal documents
and most business letters are the main situations which formal ___1___
language is used.

2. A survey was carried out on the death rate of new born babies
in that region, which results were surprising. ___2___

3. In spite of which has recently been done to improve the conditions ___3___
of elementary schools a great number of children are still unable
to go to school.

4. It was not until the accident happened when I became aware of ___4___
my foolishness.

5. How abundant certain natural resources may be, they cannot ___5___
reproduce themselves and are bound to be used up ultimately.

6. The news which he will take over his father’s business does not ___6___
surprise us at all.

7. Nutritionists believe what diet affects how one feels physically ___7___
and emotionally.

8. The purpose of new technologies is to make life easier，not make ___8___
it more difficult．

9. We’ve installed two air-conditioners in our apartment, that should ___9___
make great differences in our life next summer.

10. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs Green went to the market, buying ___10___
some bananas and visited her cousin．

11.After three days’ waiting, there was a little doubt in the
mother’s mind that the police could find her lost child. ___11___

12. It is the ability to do the job which matters ,not where you come ___12___
from or what you are.

13. Agriculture was a step in human progress to that subsequently ___13___
there was not anything comparable until our own mahine age.

14. We often take it for granted much of our world has been exposed ___14___
and explained by science.

15. Which is annouced in today’s newspaper, the Shanghai Export ___15___
Commodities Fair is also open on Sunday.

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答案及解析:

1. which -> where或which前加in
situation在后面从句formal language is used作状语。本句的意思是：政府报告、考试作文、法律文件和大多数商贸信函都用正是语言。

2. which -> whose
本句意思是：对这一地区新生儿死亡率进行调查，其结果令人吃惊。这里的whose results表示调查的结果。

3. which -> what
what 引导名词性从句作in spite of 的宾语，整个介词结构作状语。意思是：尽管最近为提高小学教育条件作了些事，但仍然有很多孩子无法上学。

4. when -> that
这里是it is…that…的强调句型。无论强调句子的什么成分，如时间状语、地点状语等，都只用that引出句子的其他部分，而不用when、where和which；在强调人时还可以用who (whom)。

5. How -> However
本句意思是：不管某些自然资源多么丰富，它们不会再生，终究要被用完的。这里用however引导让步状语从句。

6. which-> that
这里的that引导的是一个同位语从句。

7. what -> that或what -> /
此处的that引导的是一个宾语从句，不做任何成分，也可以省略。 what 在引导名词性从句时，在从句中作一定的成分（宾语，主语），例如：I don't agree with what you said，这里what作said的宾语，整个名词性从句 what you said作agree with的宾语。

8. not后加to
否定词not在此处起并列作用，连接两个to make．．．，to make．．．形成平行结构，to make．．．，to make．．．在句中作表语。

9. that -> which
此处引导的是非限定性定语从句，不能用that。

10. buying -> bought
并列连词and前面是一般过去时went，后面是一般过去时 visited，因此，两者之间也应该用一般过去时bought，以保持时态一致。went．．．，bought．．．和visited．．．三个并列谓语表示按时间先后顺序发生的动作。

11. that -> whether
本句的意思是：等了三天之后，那位母亲有点怀疑警察是否能够找到她失踪的儿子。

12. which -> that
同第4题。

13. that -> which
此处是“介词+关系代词”引导的限制性定语从句。这里的介词to是与从句中的comparable搭配的。本句的意思是：农业的出现是人类进步的里程碑，从那以后直到我们进入机器时代之前，一直没有任何文明可以与之相提并论。

14. granted后加that
take …for granted意为“认为…理所当然”，是固定搭配。此处的 it .是形式宾语，真正的宾语是后面的从句, 所以要加上that。

15.Which -> AS
根据语法规则，as充当关系代词，可构成非限制性定语从句，as指代后面的整个句子。which引导的非限制性定语从句一般不能置于句首。