Practice 1
1. Translation
流量统计
The intercommunication (1 ) monitor at the foot of Jonathan’s bed started to flicker (2 ). A fresh, smiling appeared (3 ). “Good morning, dear. Ri and shine.” Jonathan yawned (4 ) sleepily and was about to return to sleep. His father’s rious face suddenly appeared on the screen (5 ) alongside his mother’s. Immediately, Jonathan bounded for the bathroom, where the water was heated and ready for u.
The coffee maker was brewing该死的英文 (6 ) the morning coffee. The network had 网球之家regulated (7 ) it to start brewing at ven every morning.
“Oh dear, I forgot to dispo (8 ) of that,” Jonathan’s mother said, as the removed an expired (9 ) carton of milk from the refrigerator and emptied (10 ) it into the sink (11 ). “It was a good thing the refrigerator noticed and had more delivered just now,” she remarked, handing Jonathan another milk carton.
Jonathan ate his cereal (12 ) and muffins (13 ). The muffins tasted delicious, although they were automatically (14 ) microwave-baked红薯的功效 (15 ). Everything in the kitchen was linked by network.
After breakfast, Jonathan went the living room. His father was sipping (16 ) his morning coffee while browsing (17 ) through his palmtop. He was busy scanning (18 ) newspapers. He always kept electronic files of newspapers in ca he wanted to read them off his palmtop (19 ) at any time he wished. Jonathan had about twenty more minutes before school started. Grabbing (20 ) the palmtop controller from the table, he shuttled (21 ) between the World Wide Web, the audio rver and video games. He ttled for a sports programme “World Cup 2024” on the digital (22 ) video channel.
“Hmmm, the World Cup … Just don’t be late for class, Jon,” Jonathan’s father reminded him before he headed for the home office to have an Internet conference (23 ) with his colleagues (24 ).
Fifteen minutes later, Jonathan was in his study room with the computer on. As he 宝宝成长记录downl
oaded (25 ) the day’s study schedule (26 ) from his school network, he t up the digital video camera. Then his teacher’s stern face appeared on the screen.
Miss Wu adjusted (27 ) her glass and greeted her students, “Good morning, class. I e that Patrick has already recovered from his chicken pox.”
She smiled at one of Jonathan’s classmates.
Then she addresd (28 ) the whole class, “I hope you’ve completed the home tutorial I e-mailed you yesterday. Plea mail it back to me after class.”
Pausing for a moment, Miss Wu typed on her keyboard (29 ). “Synchroni your processors plea. All right then, let’s begin.” Miss Wu’s voice was elaborating (30 ) on the notes displayed (31 ) onscreen, “About thirty years ago, Singapore faced two of the worst disasters in her aviation (32 ) history … One was the SilkAir crash in 1997, the other was the misadventure of flight SQ006 in 2000…” Listening attentively (33 ), Jonathan started to key in additional (34 ) notes into his electronic notebooks.
2. Fill in each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets.
Stories about fairies have gained great _______ (popular) among children. For instance, many children believed that the sandman visits them each night and puts ‘sleepy dust’ in their eyes to help them sleep. Children also know of the tooth fairy that replaces a tooth placed under a pillow with some money while youngsters are ______ (sleep). There is the bogeyman, an evil fairy that kidnaps children who leave home without ______ (permit). Children are warned of the ______ (fright) ‘bug-a-boo’—a fairy who carries off ______ (mischief) children.
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A man goes to the doctor and says, "Doctor, wherever I touch, it hurts."
The doctor asks, "What do you mean?"
The man says, "When I touch my shoulder, it really hurts. If I touch my knee - OUCH! When I touch my forehead, it really, really hurts."
The doctor says, "I know what's wrong with you - you've broken your finger!"
Practice 2
Translation
Passage 1
I learnt to read at the age of four. Like any child who just had first reading experience, I was very excited. My reading interests were mostly picture books and alphabet (1 ) cards. Books like Miffy Goes to School had brightly-colored pictures and only on ntence on each pages. Still, I never grew bored of them, and I read them repeatedly (2 ).
Enid Blyton’s books were introduced to me when I was in Primary One, Goblins and fairies (3 ) enchanted基金转换 (4 ) me. The delightful (5 ) storytelling回族风俗 (6 ) kept me glued to Blyton’s wonderful tales. I fell in love with the tale of Amelia Jane the rag-doll and her toy friends that come alive at night. The adorable (7 ) toys always found themlves in funny adventures. This was why I kept a Blyton book by my bedside. I often fell asleep wondering if my own toys wound come alive like in tho stories.
