4.---Hi,Emily!Are you going to Jeff's party this Sunday? ---Maybe not.I'm afraid I have to ________ his invitation because I'm very busy this Sunday.( )
It's not common to see a team get 11 straight wins in atournament(錦標賽).However,the Chinese women's volleyball team has done it! On Sept 29,the Chinese women's volleyball team won the first prize in the Women's Volleyball World Cup in Japan.It was the(1)
tenth world title(冠軍)."The winning is the best gift to celebrate the(2)
birthday of New China,"People's Daily said in an article. It was not an easy road to their(3)
.Led by Langping,the girls in the team worked as hard as they(4)
.The World Cup was played in several different(5)
and the team didn't have much time to train.The girls had to squeeze in(擠出)training time.On Sept 25,for example,they(6)
in Osaka at 2:30 p.m.jye.ai started training only an hour later. Never(7)
up was also key to the girls' winning.Many of(8)
kept on playing even with injuries (受傷).Opposite hitter Gong Xiangyu went to Japan with an-injured finger.Blocker Yan Ni had a serious shoulder injury. These talented girls put in hard work to win on the(9)
stage (舞臺) in the world.Now the girls are busy(10)
ready for the 2020 Summer Olympics.Let's cheer for them!
29.Every app on my phone wanted me to know Nov.11th was coming last week.I asked a Chinese colleague(同事)if it was a special h(1)
. "It's just like Black Friday," she explained.I hoped she was wrong. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.For me,Thanksgiving is the b(2)
US holiday of all.I don't need to buy a(3)
special.Yes,we buy turkeys,but we also i(4)
friends and family to share.Usually,each person cooks a different dish and brings it to the meal.It's a day to be thankful---not for turkeys,but for the people we care about. Black Friday is the n(5)
day.Starting around 4 am,t(6)
of people wait outside of stores and malls.When the doors o(7)
,they rush to the shelves to buy everything on sale.In l(8)
than 24 hours,many people forget the lesson of Thanksgiving.They become mindless consumers (消費者). To p(9)
for Nov.11th,I opened Taobao to find a discount on winter clothes.Two hours later,I found m(10)
become a mindless consumer too.Although I didn't fight in the crowded stores,I got lost among all kinds of goods and kept buying things I didn't really need.Maybe my colleague was right in some ways,Nov.11th is like Black Friday.