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假如你是李明,请给报社写一封关于拯救老虎的信,要点如下:

1. 老虎的现状(比如目前数量日趋减少等);

2. 问题出现的原因(比如人为、环境等因素);

3. 应采取的措施。

注意:1.书信必须包括所有要点，适度增添细节; 2.词数100个左右。

Dear editor，

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Yours,

Li Ming

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。

It was my 17th birthday and I was looking forward to see my friends. I arrived at my favorite restaurant, waiting for him. We would have the special birthday dinner. I looked for a familiar face but failed. Soon the restaurant was filled customers, none of which were my friends. An hour later, I went back home, lonely and disappointing. To my great surprise, I found the door was wide open while I arrived home. Nervously, I walk into the dark room. Suddenly, all the light went on and my friends were appeared shouting ‘‘surprise”. I had an unforgettable birthday.

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。

The Amber Room was made of several tons of amber. The amber which1.(select ) had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, 2.took the country's best artists about ten years 3. (make).

The Amber Room was designed for the palace of Frederick I. 4., the next King of Prussia Frederick William I, to whom the Amber Room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave 5. to Peter the Great. 6. return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czars winter palace in St Petersburg.

Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room 7.(move )to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.8.(lucky), although the Amber Room was considered one of the9. (wonder)of the world, it is now10.(miss).

    My grandmother was always encouraging me to set goals and work hard to achieve them. She would tell me not to be a follower and not to set ______ on what I could achieve. She ______ believed that there were no limits and that you could ______ whatever you wanted to.

I would never forget the following story that she once told me: A farmer won first ______ at the country fair for his huge radish (萝卜)that was the exact shape and ______ of a milk bottle.

Many were ______ as to how the farmer was able to grow this radish that was the exact shape of a milk bottle.

____ one gentleman went up to the farmer and asked the question. The farmer replied, " It was _______. I got the seed growing and then I put it into the milk bottle. It had ______ else to go.”

You can use this story as an analogy(类比，类推) to life--our lives are ______ by the kind of surroundings we place ourselves in, the people that we allow to ______ us, and the goals we give ourselves.

If we only ______ and take no action, then we get no further. But if we ______ , set a goal and take action, then our life takes a ______ shape.

Goals and actions can help us accomplish more in a year than what some people will accomplish in a lifetime. To prove this ______, read the biographies of ______ people and you will see that goals and actions ______  played a big role in their success.

____ Mary Kay Ash puts it, "Don’t limit yourself.” Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go ______  your mind lets you. Whatever you believe, remember, you can achieve.

In summary, don 't put yourself in a bottle; in other words, move out of what is ______  and secure if you want to move forward.

1.A. expectations B. rules C. limits D. lines

2.A. truly B. naturally C. tightly D. partly

3.A. win B. grasp C. wonder D. achieve

4.A. remark B. prize C. bargain D. reward

5.A. size B. quality C. weight D. colour

6.A. doubtful B. worried C. anxious D. curious

7.A. Immediately B. Gradually C. Finally D. Actually

8.A. strange B. easy C. funny D. secret

9.A. nowhere B. everywhere C. somewhere D. anywhere

10.A. shaped B. founded C. controlled D. improved

11.A. understand B. help C. influence D. contact

12.A. dream B. refuse C. survive D. change

13.A. struggle B. insist C. continue D. plan

14.A. fancy B. different C. solid D. clear

15.A. theory B. lesson C. point D. evidence

16.A. successful B. brave C. friendly D. careful

17.A. as usual B. above all C. at all D. in fact

18.A. Which B. As C. That D. What

19.A. as if B. in case C. as far as D. as long as

20.A. comfortable B. valuable C. ordinary D. boring

    Rivers play an important role on the earth, and we can't imagine what the earth would be like without rivers.  1.

With a length of 6, 650 kilometers, the Nile is the longest river in the world. The Nile River has been the source of human civilization since ancient times. The Nile has two main branches—the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile starts from the Great Lakes region of East and Central Africa through Lake Victoria.2. The Blue Nile carries with it a lot of fertile soil which turns out to be very important to farming in Egypt.

The Amazon River is the world's largest river with a width of about 40 kilometers during the rainy seasons but about 10 kilometers wide when it is not flooded. The Amazon River has such a big water volume that it accounts for(占.....比例) more than 20% of all the world’s fresh water—far more than any other river. 3.The main Amazon River flows mostly through Brazil and Peru but its tributaries can also be found in many other countries.

4.It has a depth of about 250 meters. Its length is 4, 700 kilometers. The sources of the Congo River are in the highlands and mountains in the Eastern Africa Rift Valley. It's the second largest river in terms of water volume. 5.The Congo River basin(盆地) is the catchments(流域，集水区) area of the Congo River. It lies in both north and south of the Equator, making its flow very stable as there are always some tributaries experiencing a rainy season at any time.

A. Some of them are worth mentioning.

B. The Congo River is the world's deepest river.

C. Do you know which is the deepest river in the world?

D. The Blue Nile originates from(发源于)Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

E. Without rivers, there would be no living life in and along them.

F. And it flows through the second largest rain-forests in the world.

G. Streams that begin in the Andes Mountains are its sources.