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1、精品文档时文阅读 4Smell o f competitionWen Ruyang (right) and her teammates at the soup cooking competition.PROVIDED TO 21ST香气四溢的校园煲汤大赛！It was an October afternoon. A fantastic smell of food came out from GuangzhouGuangya Experimental School. Students there 1 (have) a cooking competition!Earlier this year,
2、the school 2 (set) up several life skill courses, amongwhich the cookingclasshas been the most popular.After 3 (learn)forhalfa year,the school decided 4 (hold) a cooking competition to test the students. They 5(choose)soup as the theme since its a favorite for Guangdong people.On the day, 16 student
3、s6 (divide) into four groups to make their own soup.Gan Zhanhao, 13, and histeammates cooked a lotusroot( 莲藕 ) soup. Ittook themquite some time because they sliced (切菜 ) the roots first. This made peeling (削皮) afterwards pretty hard. Aftermore than twohours, Gan s team7 (final)finished their soup.“I
4、 never knew8 (make)soup would be so hard,” said Gan.“I hadto keepan eye on the fire and the pot (罐子 ) all the time.”“I appreciate ( 感激 ) my parents, ” he added.Wen Ruyang, 13, and her team made spareribs (排骨 ) soup.“Our soup is perfectfor autumn, ” she said.“It 9(contain)honey dates( 蜜枣 ), lotusseed
5、s and finespareribs. ” InWens words, honey dates aregood for dryweather and lotus seedskeep 10 (we)cool. 11 (make)sure thesoup tastesgood,Wen and her teammatesdid many experiments tocontrol( 控制 ) the amount of datesand salt.Finally, theirsoup won praise from the judge She Ziqiang, a well-known herba
6、list (中药师 ) inGuangdong called“King of Soup”. He said the soup of Wens team was one of the12 (good) he had ever tasted!精品文档精品文档1. were having2.set3.learning4.to hold5.chose6.were divided7.finally8. making9. contains10. us11. making12. best2“拼命三郎”彭于晏。When talking about Taiwan actor Eddie Peng, whats
7、the first thing you thinkof?In the past most people would say he is handsome. But now,1 (many) peop le will see how dedicated ( 敬业的 ) an actor Peng is.Very few actorsare willing2 (spend)a year to trainfora movie. But Peng did. In 2011, he played a gymnast (体操运动员 ) in the movie Jump! Ashin (翻滚吧！ 阿信 )
8、. 3 (play)the rolewell,he workedwith a gymnast for 11 months.Itwas reallyhard trainingfora person with 4 (not)experiencebefore.Peng5 (fall) fromthe vaultinghorse ( 鞍马 ) time aftertime.He kept6 (lose)hisbalancewhiledoing backward somersaults( 后空翻 ).But he didn tgiveup. Finally,Peng was able to finish
9、8 0 percentof the gymnasticsin the movie likea realathlete.Two years 7 (late),Peng got toplayaboxer ( 拳击手 ) inthe movie Unbeatable( 激战 ). To make himself8 (look) more like a boxer, Peng started a strictdiet( 节食 ).For threemonths, althoughfeeling 9 (hunger),he had to do exerciseand practice boxing ei
10、ght hours a day.“It s not justabout the figure,” saidPeng. “You onlyget to understandwhata real boxer 10 (think)after the same hard training he or she had.”Pengsnewest role is a cyclist (自行车手 ). He has already cycled 120km everyday for some 11 (times).The32-year-oldsaidhereallyenjoys12(throw)himself
11、intothecharacters.“Every time I shoot a movie, I gotto learn a new skill,” he said.“It slike a bonus (奖励 ) for acting!”1. more 2. to spend 3. To play 4. no 5. fell 6. losing 7. later 8. look 9. hungry 10. thinks 11. time 12. throwing3精品文档精品文档FILE PHOTOA FEW weeks ago, I 1 (get) $120 (734 yuan) from
12、a friend in a Smile Group. Heasked me 2 (do) good th ings with the money. Since then I 3 (use) the money to help strangers, and raised a lot of smiles.One day I was in a shop, looking at the second-hand books. It 4 (happen) that the bookshelves were next to the toy shelf. I noticed a poorly dressed
13、woman 5(stand) behind me. A little girl about 3 years old came over tothe toy shelf. 6(Immediate) her attention7 (catch) by a toy pram (手推车 ). She spoke to hermother andher mother asked the shop assistant (店员 ) how much it 8 (cost). Theanswer was $3.Then she said“no”. The child said9 (something). Ma
14、ybe “no” was not newfor her but she couldnt keep the disappointment (失望) from10 (she) face.I had a total of $5. I put the money in the11 (mother)hand and said:“Buyher a doll too.”I didn t wait to see the end. I walked out of the shop and into the sunshine.The money the friendgave me was to helpme find12 (happy)inthe world.W
