Where would you liketo stay when you go on a vacation? What kind of hotel would you like to choose?Different people have different ideas. In fact, there are all kinds of specialplaces to stay when you go on a vacation. There are hotels, motels, youthhostels, B&Bs (bed-and-breakfast), home stays, and more. Each is for a differentkind of people. If you travel by car, a motel is good for you. You can parkyour car outside your room. A youth hostel is good for young backpackers (背包客). A B&Bs might bebest for couples (夫妻)or anybody who doesn't like being noisy.

    For people who like reading, the libraryhotel in New York is a must-see. Each of the hotel's 60 rooms is full of books.In fact the hotel has over 6, 000 books in all. If history is your thing, the9th floor is for you. If you are interested in math and science, you can stayon the 5th floor. Artists will feel at home on the 7th floor. The Poetry Gardenis on the 14th floor, and there is acozy sofa in it. You can sit on thesofa and enjoy reading a good book or relax outside in the Poetry Garden.

    Imagineyou are taking a walk on the beautiful beach. Just then, your feet step oversomething and you hear a crack (噼啪声) —an empty plastic bottle. Things like thisare happening more often because of sea rubbish.

    Studiesshow that 80%of all the waste is from the land. The waste is mainly plastics (塑料制品) which are really hard todegrade (降解). So the rubbish will remain there for along time. Some of the pollution is caused accidentally. For example, about10,000 product-filled boxes are lost at sea every year from business ships.Sometimes people just throw things into the water from boats or land. Manylarge rubbish areas are formed in the North Pacific Ocean.

   Thankfully, the situation isn't ignored (忽视). Groups like the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAssociation (NOAA) are taking action to help clean the sea. Since 2006, 76projects have cleared out 3,814 metric tons (公吨) ofrubbish from the sea. Methods of rubbish cleaning include using machines toremove (移除) the waste away from the surface of seawater. Besides, special nets are set by the mouths of rivers to stop therubbish before it reaches the sea. If everyone does his part, sea rubbish seemslike a problem that can be solved.

My Perfect Neighborhood

I'm Helen. I live in a perfect neighborhood. The street is very quiet. Some people like lots of noise and crowds, but I like quiet places. My house is between a big park and an apartment building. On the weekend, I sometimes buy a magazine(杂志) from the newsstand and sit in the park to read it. There is a big supermarket not too far away. Next to the supermarket is a small basketball court.

Across the street is a bakery(面包店), and next to the bakery is a cinema where I can watch interesting movies. So, you see, my neighborhood has everything I need. The only thing that isn't so nice is it's far from my school. In fact, I need to take two buses to get to school.

1. 你校流行的运动项目(如篮球、足球、羽毛球、跳绳等)；

2. 你最喜欢的运动以及你进行这项运动的情况(如时间、频率等)；

3. 喜欢的理由。

注意：

1. 内容必须包含表格中的所有信息；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 文中不得透露个人信息；

4. 词数80左右(短文首句已给出，不计入总词数)。

参考词汇: badminton(n. 羽毛球), skipping(n. 跳绳)

My favorite sport

Doing sports is important to students. 

The Arctic Region（北极地区）is one of the coldest place in the world. It is cold all the year round. Spring comes from May to June. The ice and1 begin to melt. The plants begin to grow and the animals look for2 . The summer comes from July to August. The temperature in summer can get only -8℃. It should be the warmest3 here. Autumn comes from September to October and it lasts4 .5 comes quickly from November to April next year. Winter is the6 and coldest season of a year. And the Arctic Region is filled with ice and snow everywhere. At this time there is no7 . So it looks like night in winter.

Are there any people living in such a8 place? Yes, they are Eskimos. It is9 for them to live there, but they live happily with a long10 .

English is one of the most important languages in the world. Here are four ways to learn it well. 

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