随着电脑普及率的提高，学生对字迹的重视程度降低了。据一项调查显示，有 85.5%的中学生说自己的 字迹不好看，而他们又不想改善字迹，其理由有很大差别。
请根据下图写一篇 100 词左右的英文短文，说明该现象并发表自己的看法。
中学生不想改善字迹的理由
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请改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的 增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，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。
Last fall, after a day of perfect weather, my brother and I decided to build a stick shelter and sleep outside. But it was a little of more challenging than we original thought. The biggest problem was finding sticks---they are either too wet nor too short. So we used our tent poles. An hour late, it was finished. They looked great on the outside and quite comfortable on the inside. Just when we were ready for a comfortable night of sleep, it started to rain. But we were preparing. We brought our rain jackets, that kept us dry and allowed us to fall sleep comfortably. It didn’t turn out perfect, but we had great time in our shelter.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Reggie was a normal boy, but he had been born deaf. He was well known to everyone in town, and they were all very fond of him. Unfortunately, he always seemed to be treated 1. (different) from everyone else.
Reggie didn’t like this very much. But the person 2. disliked this most was his friend Michael. Michael decided that things had to change. So he managed to persuade other people in town 3. (choose) one day of the festival for deaf people this year. During that whole day everyone in town would have to wear earplugs( 耳塞). The day 4. (call) The Day of Silence, and when it arrived everyone stuck plugs in their ears. As the hours passed, people began to realize 5. difficult life was for the deaf. Soon no one was thinking of Reggie as 6. deaf person. 7. (use) his usual gestures, Reggie was the one who could communicate best with everyone. They were surprised at his ability to find solutions 8. almost any problem. They realized all Reggie needed was 9. (much) time than others to communicate. That was the only difference.
It was on this day 10. everyone realized they have to give people a chance to show how useful they are.
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars ____ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, ____ computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of ____ seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of ____ precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but ____ a cost. When we lose or ____ half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag ( 时差). Our bodies feel that they have been ____ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at ____ results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit (传播) harmful ____ into our brains, a consequence we do not like to ____ about.
However, how do we ____ the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it ____ to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a ____. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ____to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into ____ world.
There was a time ____ some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation ( 耕作) of the ____ or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking ( 多 重 任 务 ) there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a ____ of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors ____. Modern machines have ____ people from that primitive existence.
1.A. explore B. get C. cover D. fly
2.A. when B. as C. thus D. while
3.A. speed B. time C. product D. distance
4.A. wasting B. losing C. saving D. spending
5.A. in B. at C. on D. with
6.A. earn B. drop C. miss D. gain
7.A. left B. come C. forgotten D. felt
8.A. ships B. airplanes C. computers D. cars
9.A. prevention B. radiation C. combination D. damage
10.A. think B. tell C. carry D. wish
11.A. control B. handle C. do D. deal
12.A. uncomfortable B. easy C. difficult D. good
13.A. second B. day C. year D. time
14.A. actively B. quietly C. enthusiastically D. curiously
15.A. another B. else C. other D. all
16.A. what B. which C. where D. when
17.A. surface B. water C. land D. island
18.A. way B. view C. pathway D. point
19.A. expressed B. charged C. inspired D. faced
20.A. freed B. remained C. kept D. cleared
You probably know that exercise is the key to reducing depression, but you might not know why. Here are some tips for exercising when you’re depressed.
Change your view of “exercise”.
Forget “exercise”. Instead, think “being active” or “having fun”. 1. Besides, it gives you a bigger benefit.
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Taking part in physical activities with others supports you in doing those activities. Ask friends what activities they’re doing or they would like to start doing, and join them. Other choices include hiring a personal trainer, joining an exercise group or going to a class.
Try an experiment.
3. Or go to the gym every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Even if you’re feeling too tired to do any actual exercise, still go to the gym, park your car, walk in, chage into workout clothes, and pick up a 5-pound weight. If you’re really so tired that you don’t want to do anything else, that’s totally fine.
Take it outside.
Nature has a great effect on our feeling and decreases depressive symptoms. Even just looking at images of lakes and trees helps. 4. Or walk on a treadmill (跑步机) by a window.
Tie it to a goal.
Korb said, “When you connect your exercise to a long-term goal, it helps your brain forget momentary discomfort and makes your exercise more satisfying.” For example, Korb started getting active because it made playing sports more enjoyable. Figure out what’s truly important to you. 5.
A.Move with someone else.
B.Sign up and go to exercise classes.
C.It’s a lot easier to do something simple.
D.Remind yourself of your goal regularly.
E.Remember your partner to keep you company.
F.Take a walk around your neighbourhood or a local park.
G.This increases your chances of actually moving your body.
We all know what a brain is. A doctor will tell you that the brain is the organ of the body in the head. It controls our body’s functions, movements, emotions and thoughts. But a brain can mean so much more.
A brain can also simply be a smart person. If a person is called brainy, he is smart and intelligent. If a family has many children but one of them is super smart, you could say, “He’s the brains in the family.” And if you are the brains behind something, you are responsible for developing or organizing something. For example, Bill Gates is the brains behind Microsoft.
Brain trust is a group of experts who give advice. Word experts say the phrase “brain trust” became popular when Franklin D. Roosevelt first ran for president in 1932. Several professors gave him advice on social and political issues(问题)facing the U.S. These professors were called his “brain trust”.
These ways we use the word “brain” all make sense. But other ways we use the word are not so easy to understand. For example, to understand the next brain expression, you first need to know the word “drain”. As a verb, to drain means to remove something by letting it flew away. So a brain drain may sound like a disease where the brain flows out the ears. But, brain drain is when a country’s most educated people leave their countries to live in another. The brains are, sort of, draining out of the country.
However, if people are responsible for a great idea, you could say they brainstormed it. Here, brainstorm is not an act of weather. It is a process of thinking creatively about a complex topic. For example, business leaders may use brainstorming to create new products, and government leaders may brainstorm to solve problems.
If people are brainwashed, it does not mean their brains are nice and clean. To brainwash means to make some accept new beliefs by using repeated pressure in a forceful or tricky way. Keep in mind that brainwash is never used in a positive way.
1.According to the text, if you’re the CEO of Bai Du you can be called .
A. the organ of Bai Du B. the brains behind Bai Du
C. the brain drain of Bai Du D. Bai Du’s brain trust
2.Roosevelt successfully won the election probably because .
A. he was the brains behind America B. he got the help of word experts
C. he was smart at giving advice D. he got his brain trust
3.From the passage, we can infer that .
A. brainy and brainwash are never used in a negative way
B. brainstorming is not a good choice for a political leader for lack of creativity
C. a country suffers a “brain drain” when educated people move to other countries
D. to drain a lake means to fill it with a lot of water
4.The author explains the “brain” expressions by .
A. using examples B. making comparisons
C. making comments D. analyzing origins
