---Can I help you? ---I’d like to buy a ...

---Michael was late for Mr. Smith’s oral class this morning.

--- _______? As far as I know, he never comes late to class.

A. How come    B. Why not    C. So what    D. What is it

假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter想提高中文水平，进一步了解中国文化。请给他写一封信，推荐学习资源。内容包括:

1.学习资源:报纸、杂志及其他途径；

2.推荐理由；

3.表达祝愿。

注意:

1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter,

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes

Li Hua

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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：在错的词下划一横线，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。

I was in college where my father passed away. One evening, a man visited me and after a while, he inquires about my studies. I told him I could not go to the college because I did not want to study anymore. He reminded how my father had sent me to the best college in our city. Did I want to fulfill his father’s dream or did I want to be called a failure? I wept and said I do want to do my best and I just couldn’t concentrate. He gave me all the encouragements I needed to be able to carry on. His calming, gently voice did wonders and I decided to study harder and complete my graduation early.

When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be very difficult to let go of your anger. But forgiveness is possible — and it can be surprisingly 1.(benefit) to your physical and mental health. So far, research 2.(show) that people who forgive can have more energy, better appetite and better sleep. “People who forgive show 3.(little) anger and more hopefulness,” says Dr. Frederic Luskin, who wrote the book Forgive for Good. “So it can help reduce the tiredness out of the immune system and allow people 4.(feel) more energetic.”

So when someone has hurt you, cool down first. Take a couple of breaths and think of something 5. gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love. Don’t wait for an 6.(apologize). “Many times the person who hurt you may never think of apologizing,” says Dr. Luskin. “They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things 7. same way. So if you wait for people to say sorry, you could be waiting a very long time.”

Next keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean 8.(accept) the action of the person who upsets you. Instead, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you. Finally, try to see things 9. the other person’s perspective. You may realize that he or she was acting out of ignorance. To gain perspective, you may want to write a letter to 10. (you) from that person’s point of view.

When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to discourage me from becoming a brewer(酿酒师). He’d spent his life in local breweries, _______ making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him.

So I did as he asked. I went to business school and got a highly paid job at a business-consulting firm. _______, after working there five years, I was haunted by _______. Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?

I remembered that some time before, my dad had been cleaning out the attic and _______ some old beer _______. “Today’s beer is _______ water that can hold a head,” he’d told me.

I agreed. Americans pay good money for _______ beer, I thought. Why not make good beer for Americans using my family way?

I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. When I told Dad, I was hoping he’d put his arm around me and get _______ about continuing tradition. Instead he said, “Jim, that is the _______thing I’ve ever heard!”

________ Dad objected, in the end he became my new company’s first ________, coughing up(支付) $40,000 when I opened the Boston Beer Company in 1984. Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and ________. All my safety nets were gone.

Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest ________ yet: no one had ever heard of it. I needed a name that was ________ and elegant, so I called my beer Samuel Adams, ________ the brewer and patriot(爱国者) who helped to found the Boston Tea Party.

The only way to get the word out, I realized, was to sell direct. I filled my briefcase with beer and ________ every bar in Boston. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. The rest is history. It wasn’t supposed to ________ this way —whatever does? —but in the end I was ________ to be a brewer.

My advice to all young entrepreneurs is simple: life is very long, so don’t ________ to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you ________.

1.A. barely    B. easily    C. sufficiently    D. adequately

2.A. Though    B. Otherwise    C. Still    D. Anyhow

3.A. fear    B. doubt    C. regret    D. desire

4.A. came across    B. picked out    C. put down    D. brought about

5.A. receipts    B. cans    C. recipes    D. labels

6.A. exactly    B. particularly    C. roughly    D. basically

7.A. inferior    B. superb    C. fake    D. sour

8.A. miserable    B. amused    C. excited    D. concerned

9.A. dumbest    B. smartest    C. toughest    D. rudest

10.A. As soon as    B. As much as    C. As far as    D. As long as

11.A. employer    B. customer    C. investor    D. salesman

12.A. inspiring    B. relaxing    C. pushing    D. frightening

13.A. opportunity    B. decision    C. obstacle    D. defeat

14.A. respectable    B. honorable    C. recognizable    D. understandable

15.A. after    B. by    C. as    D. for

16.A. hit    B. got    C. called    D. promoted

17.A. make out    B. reach out    C. set out    D. work out

18.A. appointed    B. destined    C. considered    D. intended

19.A. hesitate    B. need    C. wait    D. rush

20.A. delay    B. dream    C. plan    D. prepare