The American travel website company TripAdvisor publishes a list of the world's best beaches every year. Today, we are going to explore some of this year's top beaches in the world.

⒈Baia do Sancho, Brazil

It is named as this year's best beach in the world. Its water is calm and clear. Its sand is fine and soft. But getting to Baia do Sancho is not so easy. It is on Fernando de Noronha, a volcanic(火山的) island more than 300 kilometers off Brazil's coast. Travelers must take a plane or boat from major cities in northern Brazil to get there. And no more than 420 visitors can be on the island at one time.

⒉Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos

While Baia do Sancho is difficult to get to, TripAdvisor's second-ranked beach could not be much easier for tourists to reach.

This beach has impossibly clean and clear waters and pure white sand. Its calm waters make it extremely safe for swimming, or simply floating. Once on land, many visitors enjoy walking barefoot for several kilometers on the soft, warm sand.

⒊Eagle Beach, Aruba

To get to the third-best beach, we head south to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba. Like Grace Bay, Eagle Beach has clear, calm waters and soft white sand.

It offers visitors a chance to try different water sports, including tubing and jet skiing. Eagle Beach may be best known, however, for its dramatic sunsets. On clear nights, the sky turns red, orange, and purple.

⒋Playa Paraiso, Cuba

The fourth-best beach is Playa Paraiso, an island off Cuba's southern coast. It has a fun, laid-back restaurant for those who wish to eat and drink. There is little else on the beach. And that is exactly what visitors like about it. People come here for the sugar-like sand and calm waters filled with colorful wildlife.

I left England for Sydney in September. It was a career move for my husband, and our 20-year-old daughter was feeling adventurous and decided to come, too. However, just before leaving England, my 79-year-old mother suffered a stroke (中风). Being strong and independent, she continued to live at home with the help of social services. But she couldn't look after the garden. I thought how wonderful it would be if there was an organization offering volunteer help. Friends asked me what I planned to do in Australia, and I told them I would be looking for a volunteer position with a gardening organization. Imagine my surprise when I found just the organization I had been looking for—Easy Care Gardening (ECG)!

There are several reasons why I volunteer for ECG. Firstly, as a newcomer to Australia I meet many great people who, like me, volunteer some of their time. We cover a large age range, but all love gardens and helping others.

Secondly, through working with ECG I have been lucky enough to explore Sydney's North Shore that I might not have had the opportunity to visit otherwise.

Finally, there are all those wonderful people who we call "clients (客户)", but are more like friends when we visit them often and help with their gardens. What great people I have met, and stories they have to tell—the family histories, where they come from and the reasons for immigrating to Australia. I find it a privilege(特权) to have access to private gardens which, in many cases, have been the joy of their owners for many years. Each one is individual and reflects the character, needs and the history of each family. Indeed, the gardens reflect the historical background of Sydney.

Charles Darwin lived an unusually quiet life. In 1842, Darwin and his wife Emma moved from London to Kent in southern England to have as little disturbance (烦扰) as possible. They already had two children then, and would go on to have eight more in the country.

Darwin had very regular (有规律的) habits. He rose early and went for a walk. After breakfast he worked in his study until 9: 30 am, his most productive time of the day, and then read his letters lying on the sofa before returning to work.

At midday he would go for another walk with his dog, stopping at his greenhouse to inspect (查看) his experiments. Then he would go for another walk around an area of woodland. While walking on his "thinking path", Darwin would consider his unsolved scientific problems.

After lunch he read the newspaper and wrote letters. His network of friends provided information from all corners of the world.

The Darwins were not very strict parents and the children were always seen running wild. Their father worked patiently to a background of playful shouts and little footsteps walking past his study door.

After dinner Darwin played backgammon (a game for two people to play) with his wife. He once wrote, "Now the result with my wife in backgammon stands like this: she…has won only 2, 490 games, while I have won, hurrah (a cheer of joy or victory), hurrah, 2, 795 games!"

Although he had poor health, Darwin continued to publish (出版) a lot of creative works until his final book in 1881 came out. He died the following year, aged 73.

Rather than a quiet space in the local churchyard, which he called "the sweetest place on Earth", Darwin was given a state funeral (国葬) in London's Westminster Abbey.

Our street is a short, one-way street, four blocks from the Charles River. It's lined with three-family homes, built at the turn of the century for people who worked at factories and needed places to live.

There are families and single people, older couples and students in this street. There are Greeks and Chinese and white Americans.

If you head down the street and make a left turn, you may run across Billy Davis. He was born on that street and is now a retiree (退休人士). He'll tell you all about Cambridge in the old days. He'll tell you how he couldn't act up because there were so many watching mamas on his street and they all had eyes on the naughty (顽皮的) kids in the neighbourhood. He might do something wrong, but the minute he walked in his own house, his mum would say "Hey, what were you doing down at the park?" and it was all over. His stories need telling and we are eager (渴望的) listeners.

Walk over a block and you reach our neighbourhood mechanic, Phil. He's the best mechanic in all Cambridge and will give you fair prices and honest statements of what's wrong with your car.

Walk the other way to Central Square and you'll come across the Village Grill, run by Theo and Helen. It's a small neighbourhood restaurant. Whatever you order, you will always find it is worth every penny (便士). You don't just pay for food, but you pay for conversation and it is always interesting. Theo and Helen are Greek, so the conversation turns Greek sometimes.

I walk out of the house on this Monday morning, and smile at my neighbourhood. It's going to be a hot day, and tonight will see many of us at our front door, observing (观察) each other through plants.

When you learn a new subject, you may always consider how much time you need to truly understand it all. Here we give you some advice about how to study, so you'll be able to take on more information with shorter study sessions (时段).

•Study in small sessions. Our ability to store the information we take reduces(降低) after around 30 minutes, so you'd better cut your studying sessions into smaller parts.

•Find a study area. Don't study in a place where you sleep! Don't study in your bed, where you play games, or in front of the TV. Why? You need to program your mind to study in a place where you always study.

•Take good notes.  And review them after class to increase your understanding.

• To be a good student, you should be a good teacher. You cannot teach something you do not know.

•Read your textbook effectively (有效地). Always use the SQ3R method. You need to survey, question, read, recite (背诵), review to actively, remember the information.

A. Train your mind.

B. Just reading it is not enough.

C. Be ready to teach what you've learned.

D. It's a good idea to study in a familiar place.

E. You can do some fun activities during your breaks.

F. Find a note-taking method that works best for you.

G. Doing so will only mix up your mind as to what to do.

At the age of nine, I was taking swimming lessons at a pool. The day arrived when I was to be tested to see if I could 1 to a higher level class.

Fifteen of us were to 2 swimming from one side of the pool to the other and back. I watched as my 3, one by one, tried and failed. Then it was my turn to 4, I mean, my turn to try to pass the test. It was about halfway when I got 5. I immediately stopped and 6 the side of the pool, ending my test. Our instructor, a college student, was standing above me. "Why did you7?" he asked, in a less than 8 voice. "I got water in my nose," I 9.

That's when this college student 10 me one of life's great lessons, 11 he probably never realized that. Bending down, he shouted, "So?"

"So?" The 12 shocked me. It had just seemed 13 to me that the answer to pain was to remove the thing causing the 14. My nine-year-old brain had not understood the fact that a valuable 15 is worth achieving, however difficult to get there. Recognizing that, I was 16 nothing would keep me from completing the test. In fact, I did it rather 17 on my next attempt. Seeing me 18 the test, almost all the others did so as well.

Life is a journey, and the road won't 19 be easy. We have to focus on the final destination, not the 20 along the road.

Louis Pasteur was a French scientist who developed cures for many dangerous (illness). He also successfully invented a way to kill bacteria in milk and make it safe to drink.

Pasteur was born in 1822, in Dole, France. He was a courageous student who (frequent) asked questions, searched for answers and challenged incorrect ideas. He (receive) a Doctor of Science degree in 1847. While (work) at the University of Lille, Pasteur discovered fermentation, a chemical change used to make bread, cheese and other foods, involved germs. He showed that heat killed the germs that cause fermentation. This (discover) led to his invention of a process for destroying harmful germs in food, which became (know) as pasteurization (巴氏灭菌法).

In the 1870s, Louis Pasteur sought to find a cure for anthrax—a disease  mainly affects cattle. Firstly, he found anthrax was much more likely if farmers buried dead sheep with the disease in fields. Pasteur advised farmers not (bury) any dead animals in areas where cattle may eat growing grass in the future. In 1881 he conducted an experiment to try out his vaccine (疫苗) for anthrax, which was  success.

Pasteur died in 1895, in Saint-Cloud, France. On his last day he remarked: "I should like to be younger, so as to devote myself  the study of new diseases."

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Yesterday afternoon my friends, Xiao Ming, and I went skating on the lake. As soon as we got here, we began to skate happily. Suddenly, I noticed something usual. The moment I warned Xiao Ming to take care of, the ice broke but he slipped into the water. I had no choice but cry for help. After hearing my cry, a young man rushed over, jumped into the lake and tried my best to swim towards Xiao Ming, that was struggling in the cold water. At last, Xiao Ming was saved but the young man left without say anything. We were all deeply moved by what he have done.

1）选修你校开设的中国画课程；

2）上课时间和地点；

3）工具和材料：毛笔、墨和宣纸等；

参考词汇： 选修课 optional course  中国画 Chinese Painting  毛笔 Chinese brush

注意：1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。