The old couple has three children,and who are working abroad.

Health is a most significant factor than any other in a person's life.

For the family dinner,Gloria made a traditional Columbian dish passing down from her grandma.

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.J.Sterling Morton was considered the founder of Arbor Day for his contribution.During the years between1867-1882 Morton dropped out of politics in order to spend more time promoting agriculture in Nebraska.He supported better farming methods,conservation programs,and tree planting.In 1872,the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture adopted Morton's resolution to create Arbor Day,a day set aside to plant trees.Prizes were offered to counties and individuals for planting properly the largest number of trees on that day.It was estimated that more than one million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day. Today.all 50 states celebrate this holiday,although the dates may vary to match each local climate's best time to plant trees.

Read the following paragraph and cross out TWO irrelevant sentences.Whether it's studying for exams or working on a project,we've all been under immense stress at some point.When it gets a bit overwhelming,we can reach a level of exhaustion that is unprecedented-the dreadful bunout.What can we do to avoid the evils of burnout?There are two tips that may help you.Psychologist Albert Bandura's theory can be beneficial.His idea is that you should believe in your ability to complete a task at hand.Bunout isn't just caused by working long hours.A feeling that you are capable of succceding means that a difficult task might be less exhausting.Finding ways to express your creative side may also help.Not everyone has creative aspects to their jobs,and,therefore,they need to find other outlets.Being negative can be incredibly draining.They could paint,write or take part in local theatre.All these things may help to detach them from the overwhelming stress that may exist in their working life.

Write a letter of invitation according to the following situation:You are President of the Student Union of your school and plan to invite Professor Smith to your annual Food Culture Festival.Write him a letter and introduce the arrangements and the purpose of the event.Please sign your name as Li Fei.(150-200 words)

Choose the best topic sentence from the four options below.

Read the following paragraph and choose the best topic sentence from the four options that follow.Writing a summary is an excellent way to understand what is read. This in itself is an important goal of academic study. If you don't understand your source material, chances are that you will not be able to refer to it usefully in an essay or a research paper. Summaries help you understand what you read because they force you to put the text into your own words. Practice of writing summaries also develops your overall writing skills,since a good summary,like any other piece of good writing, is clear, coherent, and concise. Summaries are useful to your readers as well.You can best demonstrate the source material to your readers by summarizing it if they are not familiar with it. Summaries are required frequently in academic writings. In critique papers, you summarize material in order to critique it;in synthesis papers, you summarize to show relationships between sources.

People have designed clocks that measure time in many different ways over the centuries.(periodic sentence)

I packed my bags. I waved good-bye. I went down the stone harbor steps. (parallel structure)