If ________ to very loud music every day...

假定你是李华，在春节来临之际你准备给你的外国朋友Tom邮寄一副春联，请根据以下内容给他写一封信。

写作要点：

1. 邮寄春联的原因。

2. 介绍春联所寓含的中国传统文化。

（1）春联可以用来装饰门户，以求美观。

（2）春联是春节的象征，能增添节日的喜庆气氛，代表一年中最美好的祝愿和好运。

3.你的期待。

注意：1.词数100左右。

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.文章的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

参考词汇：春联spring festival couplets

Dear Tom,

How are you getting along these days I miss you very much.

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Yours,

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。

The problem of “white pollution” was caused by using plastic is becoming increasingly serious, on which plastic shopping bags play an important role. In China, about three billions plastic shopping bags are consumed every day, that results in a great waste of resources and heavy environmental pollution. Lucky, the government has put a nationwide ban on the use of free plastic bags, demand that no stores or supermarkets should provide customers with free plastic bags. The rule will undoubtedly reduce use of plastic bags or promote the awareness of environmental protection. It was highly suggested that everyone turns to cloth bags and shopping baskets.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

If a little humanlike robot begged you not to shut it off, would you show sympathy?

In an experiment 1. (intend) to find out how people treat robots when they act like humans, many participants struggled to power down a begging robot named Nao. 2. experiment was conducted by researchers in Germany, whose findings 3. (publish) in the scientific journal PLOSOne.

Nao, 4. was designed to beg about half of the participants not to switch it off but not the other half, was used 5. (measure) if his begging affected how people reacted.

In one previous experiment, researchers found that people preferred communicating with robots with complementary (互补的) personality characteristics to 6. (they) own. And since robots can exhibit social characteristics either 7. (speak) with human voices or taking the shape of a human body, the research suggests that people tend to react “8. (especial) social to them.”

The researchers said a possible 9. (explain) for their results was that people regarded Nao’s begging 10. “a sign of making its own decision.”

Danielle was living in a new city with no local bank of her own. She desperately needed to _____ a bank to cash her paycheck. For more than two weeks, she made ____ one after another but in vain. How could she continue to ____ herself and her two children as a single mother?

Taking a break from her ____, Danielle decided to attend a meeting at the local women’s resource center. The women there had been a strong source of encouragement since she fled her home ____ for her safety. Sitting next to Danielle, Amy began to share the details of her ____ situation. She was just days away from ____ her home and her car. Her phone and electric services were both scheduled to be ____. Her husband had gambled away their money. She had nothing left. Nothing!

As Amy described the degree of the situation, Danielle ____ God’s soft whisper in her heart: “After the meeting, give Amy twenty dollars.” Danielle immediately thought, “But I can’t lonely have forty dollars.” She heard the ____ again. Danielle knew she needed to follow. When the meeting ____, she reached in to her purse and ____ handed twenty dollars to Amy. Knowing Danielle’s situation, Amy was ____ to accept it at first. But as a crowd of women ____ to give Amy hugs of support, Danielle told her that God wanted her to have it. Then Danielle left.

Now with just twenty dollars left in her wallet, Danielle decided to ____ cashing her pay check at just one more bank before heading home. ____ she expected the rejection she had received at so many other banks, she was ____ filled with renewed confidence and optimism. Hopefully, she walked in to the bank next to the women’s center. Moments later, the bank ____ her pay check with no questions asked. Wearing a big smile, Danielle returned home.

As for Danielle, it has been three years since that day. Realizing true hope has no ____, she continues to be ____ for the life time supply that she received for just twenty dollars.

1.A. select    B. consult    C. find    D. search

2.A. decisions    B. attempts    C. choices    D. appointments

3.A. encourage    B. believe    C. comfort    D. support

4.A. struggles    B. ambitions    C. failures    D. experiences

5.A. in debt    B. in fear    C. in public    D. in doubt

6.A. desperate    B. similar    C. unique    D. social

7.A. ruining    B. leaving    C. missing    D. losing

8.A. reduced    B. abolished    C. cancelled    D. changed

9.A. received    B. found    C. heard    D. felt

10.A. story    B. advice    C. order    D. voice

11.A. concluded    B. followed    C. lasted    D. agreed

12.A. politely    B. quietly    C. happily    D. sadly

13.A. unlikely    B. eager    C. unwilling    D. embarrassed

14.A. intended    B. approached    C. managed    D. continued

15.A. avoid    B. consider    C. risk    D. try

16.A. While    B. If    C. But    D. Since

17.A. anyhow    B. somehow    C. therefore    D. otherwise

18.A. counted    B. checked    C. tested    D. cashed

19.A. cost    B. cause    C. price    D. purpose

20.A. ready    B. thankful    C. welcome    D. fortunate

Have you ever imagined the benefits that a good memory can bring to you? 1. Here are four ways to improve your memory.

2. There is evidence that sleep plays a vital role in the consolidation of memories relating to learning motor skills, such as learning to play a musical instrument or ride a bike. Having a full night’s sleep soon after gaining a new skill helps consolidate the processes involved, so they can later be performed well.

It’s rewarding to continue education. Older people are often told to adopt a “use it or lose it” approach to maintaining cognitive (认知的) function. 3. In a 2016 study, US researchers found participants aged 60-90 who spent 15 hours a week for three months learning a complex skill, such as digital photography, saw significant improvements in memory tests.

Taking a break counts. 4. More than a century ago, German scientists showed that people performed almost twice as well in memory tests if they took breaks.

It’s useful to stay social. Having an active social life delays memory loss as we age, US scientists who asked people in their 50s and 60s to do memory tests every other year between 2001 and 2007 found the decline in recall abilities of their most sociable subjects to be half that of the least well connected. 5.

A. Sleeping well helps strengthen memories.

B. Old people should participate in easy activities

C. Yoga, meditation or other relaxation techniques may help.

D. Memories can be destroyed if the brain doesn’t have enough rests to sharpen them.

E. In fact, when it comes to memory, research suggests that only certain types of mental activities help.

F. Being able to remember important pieces of information can give you a powerful advantage in your life.

G. Having good friends, volunteering for charities and other forms of social engagement also protect memory.