How will Uncle Tom come?
A. By motorbike. B. By taxi. C. By car.
为了更好地接待前来观光考察的美国朋友，某市旅游局拟招聘一批志愿者，下面是招聘要求．
Volunteers Are Wanted
☆Ready to serve others
☆Healthy and strong for traveling
☆Good English is needed for serving
☆Good knowledge of tourism
假设你是某高中学生李华，发现自己完全符合招聘条件．请你给该旅游局（Travel and Tourism Administration）招聘负责人写一封应聘信，包括如下内容：
1．说明写信的目的；
2．介绍个人信息和优势；
3．询问是否能够被聘用．
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头和结尾已为你写好．
Dear officer，
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I am looking forward to your answer．
Best wishes
Yours，
Li Hua．
短文改错
Are home visits necessary when they are so many ways to communicate with the students’ parent? Some people are for home visits. They thought home visits will make it easily for parents and teachers to communicate and work more closely to help students learn. Home visits will give teachers a chance to better understanding their students. Besides, others think it is a waste of the time and energy to pay home visits. If they keep on touch with the students’ parents with text messages, QQ or E-mails, it will be more convenient and save a lot of time. Personally, I think home visits is positive, and teachers can educate their students effectively through home visits.
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。
Everybody in David’s class packed their bags and got ready 1. (go) home last Saturday. Usually David’s mother would fetch him home but that day she was not there, so he walked home by himself.
When he reached home, he knocked on the door as he didn’t bring his keys. 2. (surprising), no one answered the door. He 3. (knock) again when one of his neighbors 4. (name) John called him. He told David his mother was out and invited him to stay in his house till his mother came back. David knew that if his mother 5. (be) at home, she would have answered the door soon. So David went to John’s house and played with him. 6. (stay) in John’s house for a few 7. (hour), David saw his mother come back. They thanked John and his family. It turned out that David’s mother had 8. serious backache so she had to see the doctor.
9. this experience, David has learnt that neighbors are people 10. help each other. The relationships among neighbors are like building a bridge and they will build a good bridge one day.
When I was younger, I was very sporty. My dad is a runner who great ____ me. My great hobby between the ages 11 and 14 was cross-country____. However, when my family ____, my new school didn't pay attention to ____, and had no after-school activities like football or running.
Over the next few years, I ____ exercising except during P.E. lessons at school. I was ____ that I could eat what I wanted and didn't put on any weight, so it looked like I was healthy, but in reality I was very ____.
When I started university, I decided that I would try and get fit, but by then I was worried about ____ myself in front of other people. ____, this year, one of my New Year's promises has been to try and get in shape. This ____ came after I was late for a bus, tried to run after it and was very out of ____ in under a minute! I considered ____ running again, yet my housemate tried to practice yoga, so my New Year's ____ was delayed.
Finally, one of my friends ____ a swimming pool close to my house that she had gone to a few times. Now, I love ____, and I find doing laps in the pool very relaxing. Experts say everyone should do 30 minutes of proper ____ every day, so I'm starting with an hour three times a week and ____ every day. I hope that I will soon start to feel the ____ of regular exercise, and will become fitter and ____. In the long term, I know it will be very good for me, and ____ all sorts of health problems that often occur in later life.
1.A. understood B. created C. discouraged D. influenced
2.A. skiing B. jogging C. running D. driving
3.A. collected B. moved C. saved D. travelled
4.A. sports B. lessons C. parents D. seats
5.A. tried B. stopped C. enjoyed D. risked
6.A. obvious B. rich C. lucky D. nervous
7.A. unusual B. unlucky C. unconscious D. unfit
8.A. helping B. introducing C. embarrassing D. teaching
9.A. Even B. However C. Also D. Thus
10.A. decision B. advice C. method D. praise
11.A. control B. order C. date D. breath
12.A. taking in B. holding up C. taking up D. turning out
13.A. resolve B. present C. party D. welcome
14.A. saw B. ran C. met D. recommended
15.A. swimming B. running C. boating D. touring
16.A. place B. way C. exercise D. light
17.A. getting up B. building up C. putting up D. making up
18.A. actions B. hobbies C. glasses D. benefits
19.A. quicker B. stronger C. higher D. braver
20.A. prevent B. suffer C. treat D. show
How to improve reading efficiency
1. Make sure of your purpose of reading.
Before you start reading, ask yourself why you are reading this book. Most people read for two main reasons: pleasure or knowledge. Being specific and clear about your reading purpose not only helps you to avoid books that you don’t need to read, it also reminds you the book is important to you.1.
2. Read only what you are attracted to.
Whether you are reading fiction or nonfiction, it's important to enjoy what you read. Your friends may recommend books that they love, but those books might not necessarily be the ones you enjoy. 2.
3. Give up books that you don't enjoy.
You may have selected books that match your purpose. You may have selected books that you are attracted to. But you are reading them, there may still be some books that you won't enjoy reading. 3. Remember reading shouldn't make feel annoyed.
4. 4.
Having a reading goal helps you figure out how much reading you need to do in a week or even a day.
5. Give yourself a deadline to finish each book.
Before you read each book, ask yourself when you need to finish this book. What I find interesting is that I tend to read books that I borrow from libraries faster than the books I bought. 5. I don't need to return those books. When you don't set a deadline to finish you book, there isn't a sense of urgency. And when something isn't urgent, you tend to slow down.
A. Set a reading goal.
B. Understand each word of the sentence.
C. Read books which you are interested in.
D. Reading is the most important way to get knowledge.
E. The reason is that the books I bought don't have a due date.
F. This encourages you to keep reading and complete the book faster.
G. Whenever you realize that you aren't enjoying the book you are reading, give it up.
