《2025年情景导学高中英语选择性必修第二册外研版》

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The first week of my summer vacation was exciting, and my sense of freedom was so intense that it felt like I had to pack everything into that single week. The next week was a little calmer. But by the third week my two best friends had left for summer camp and I became very bored. Getting up late each morning, I was spending more and more time with my cellphone and in front of the TV. That is when Mom reacted, declaring my phone and the TV off limits between 6:00 in the morning and 6:00 at night. It was shocking just to hear her say it.
In that first hour I felt I’d lost my senses of sight and hearing. The silence was numbing. I circled the house, going from room to room looking for something to do, asking myself what I could do. When I encountered Mom in the kitchen, I asked her, “What can I do?”
“That’s up to you,” she said without looking in my direction. Through the day I posed my question to her several more times, getting much the same result. Then late in the afternoon, while she was working at her computer, I dared to ask again. Instantly she swung around to look at me, and I could see that my question had a definite effect on her expression. She looked as though she had been shocked. Her jaw was clenched, like she was holding her words between her teeth as they struggled to get out. She looked me straight in the eye, then smiled and said, “Well, are you up for a challenge?”
“Sure, what?”
“Your challenge is to follow the same ant for ten minutes.”
“What is so tough about that?”
She smiled again, “You might be surprised.”
Some time later Mom stood beside me, timer( 定时器) in hand. “I’ll set the timer for ten minutes when you find your winning ant.”
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Paragraph 1:
Some of the ants I saw seemed to be eating something. What I really needed was a long-distance ant, a runner, otherwise I would stand no chance of winning the challenge. Fortunately enough, soon my eyes locked on a big ant that was carrying a long blade of grass. Mom reminded me that the clock started to tick. I crawled to follow the ant while he struggled up and around. Whenever he was near the tiny hole around the corner, my heart missed a beat. What if he disappeared into the nearest hole? But believe it or not, this time, I was favored by luck.
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I heard Mom's timer ring and then she said, "You win, sweetie." But curiosity glued my eyes to the ant. When he was approaching a crack, he turned and climbed back onto the concrete, seeking another possible route. How clever the ant was! Time really flies when you are absorbed in something interesting. The rest of my summer days were filled with more fun activities from planting sunflowers along the fence to observing birds in our backyard. I hardly thought of my cellphone, which lay still in the back of my desk drawer. Nor did I raise that silly question "What can I do?" again!