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Dear Mike,

Thank you so much for inviting me to take part in the winter camp organizing by your school in the coming winter holidays. Quite interesting, I am writing to learn about further details.

Above all, I wonder that it is convenient for you to inform me of the specific schedule in advance. Beside, this will be my first experience to participate in such a activity. Would you be kind enough to offer with any suggestions on whose items I specially need to take with me?

I was really excited and looking forward to it. I would appreciate if you could give me a reply at your earliest convenient.

Yours,

Li Hua

   The “dog days”, I always thought, were those summer days so hot that even dogs would lie around on the ground, breathing loudly. Originally, the phrase actually had nothing to do with dogs, or even with the lazy days of summer. The dog days refer to the dog star — Sirius（天狼星）.

To the Greeks and Romans, the dog days occurred around the day when Sirius appeared to rise just before the sun，in late July. They referred to these days as the hottest time of the year. If you go back to even a book The Iliad, it describes the star as something dealing with the war and disaster. All throughout Greek and Roman literature, you found these things. The phrase “dog days” was translated from Latin to English about 500 years ago. Since then, it has taken on new meanings.

Are the dog days, when Sirius rises, really the hottest days of the year? Although July and August are generally known as the hottest months of the year in Europe, the hottest period can vary from year to year. In Athens, for instance, Sirius rises around the middle of August this year. But it'll happen earlier in the next year.

There's another reason that the dog days don't correspond（与……一致）completely with the heat. “Our Earth is like a spinning top（陀螺）,” said Bradley Schaefer, professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University. “If you throw it onto a table，after it slows down the pointing direction of the top will slowly go around in circles. Similarly to a ball, the Earth's movement is kind of wobbling （摇摆）around. ”

The calendar is fixed according to certain events, but the stars have shifted according to the way that the Earth wobbles. So in about 50 years, the sky shifts about one degree. This means that the dog days of ancient Greece aren't the dog days of today. What it also means is that thousands of years from now, this event won't even occur during the summer.

【小题1】What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The origin of the dog days.

B．The influence of the dog days.

C．The occurrence of the dog days.

D．The misunderstanding of the dog days.

【小题2】From Paragraph 3, we know______.

A．people in Europe don't like Sirius

B．the dog days appear earlier in Athens

C．the dog days appear at different time every year

D．people in Europe believe Sirius brings the hottest days

【小题3】Bradley uses the spinning top in order to______.

A．explain the movement of the Earth

B．study how the Earth is affected by the heat

C．introduce the reason why the Earth moves

D．predict how the Earth will move when it slows down

【小题4】What's the purpose of the passage?

A．To study the relations between the Earth and Sirius.

B．To explain why hot days are called “dog days”.

C．To introduce some information about “dog days”.

D．To show the changes of Sirius throughout the years.

翻译句子
【小题1】我正要打开电视突然听到敲门声。（be about to do. . . when. . . ）
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【小题2】对自己的经历进行反思将会帮助你认识到对你来说什么才是真正重要的。（reflect on）
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【小题3】请提供一个电话号码，万一有紧急的事情我可以联系到你。（in case）
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【小题4】据公告，只有在大火被控制以后居民才被允许返回家中。（announce）
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【小题5】教室前面的墙上挂着一面国旗。（倒装句）
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选词填空(可变换形式)

【小题1】Although he is young,he wants to ________ his own life decision rather than depend on his parents.
【小题2】The specialist that our manager ________ at the meeting will give us a lecture next week.
【小题3】My brother ________ pointing out my mistakes,which always makes me very angry.
【小题4】Sometimes when I look at the sky, I ________ making a trip somewhere.
【小题5】Although having made great progress,the scientists are still ________ inventing new methods of reaching outer space.
【小题6】Usually people won't ________ you when they still have a lot of ideas crying for expression.

选词填空(可变换形式)

【小题1】He is ________ the cleverest student I’ve ever taught.
【小题2】_______________ emergency, break the glass and press the button.
【小题3】According to some philosophers, everything ________ is reasonable.
【小题4】A great change has ________ in young people’s attitudes to their parents.
【小题5】To be frank with you, the population in our country is ________.
【小题6】Though they graduated from the university ten years ago, all the classmates try to ________ one another.
【小题7】The plan has already been ________ and could be put into operation at once.
【小题8】If the mother does not ________ her child’s signals, her child will make little effort to speak.