假设你是北京市某中学的学生李华，请根据以下提示，针对北京市遭沙尘暴袭击的情况，向某英语报社写一封信，呼吁大家植树造林，保护环境。
1. 过去家乡树木成林：如今人们毁林种地建房；
2. 气候变化，土地沙漠化；
3. 植树造林，人人有责。
注意：1. 词数100左右：开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好。
Dear Editor,
I’m a student at a middle school of Beijing.
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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。
One day, Dad and I was taking a walk by the lake while a boy rode by at a very high speed. Suddenly, we heard the loud scream. We turned around and saw the boy struggling in the lake, crying out help, Daddy and I ran towards him quickly and had pulled him out of the water. However, the boy rode away immediate without saying “Thank you”. I felt disappointing at his behavior. To my surprises, the boy came back with hot drinks and dry towels several minutes late. Seeing this, I knew I had misunderstood him and felt ashamed of me.
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。
There were many great philosophers in ancient China. Confucius stressed the significance of 1. (kind), duty and order in society, 2. ideas influenced Chinese society for over 2, 000 years.
Mencius was a student of Confucius’s ideas. His teachings were similar to 3. of Confucius. He 4. (bring) up by his mother and had an important position in the government of 5. state. He believed man is good, that people would be good if government was kind, and 6. people were more important than rulers. Mencius wrote a book 7. (call) The Book of Mencius in his last years.
Mozi was also an 8. (influence) thinker, whose beliefs were similar to Confucius’s 9. some ways. Born into a poor family, he became famous for his unusual clothes and behaviour. Because he considered that government was most important, he spent many years 10. (try) to find a state where people would follow his teaching. He believed all men were equal.
On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were rescued by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.
The ______, aged 15-17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passerby saw them ______ in dangerous waves. Lifesavers ______ sent the drone to drop a lifeboat, and the pair made their way safely to the ______.
The drone, known as “Little Pipper”, was actually not ______ to be saving anyone just yet---lifeguards were being trained to ______ the machine. When a call came about the swimmers ______, the drone happened to be nearby.
Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who ______ the drone. He described the experience as ______. “The Little Ripper ______ proved itself today. It is a highly efficient (高效的) piece of lifesaving equipment. I was ______ the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it towards the swimmers, and dropped the ______. With its support they made their way to safety. They were ______, but not hurt. The teens were rescued in just 70 seconds with the drone---while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to ______ the rescue.”
John Barilaro, an official of the state, ______ the rescue as historic. “It was the world’s ______ rescue by the unmanned aircraft”, he said. “Never before has a drone been used to ______ swimmers like this.”
Last December, the NSW state government ______ some “Little Ripper” drones for 247,000 pounds. ______ some are designed to spot sharks, others are ______ with lifeboats, alarms and loudspeakers. “It was money well spent,” said John Barilaro.
1.A.swimmers B.pilots C.visitors D.rescuers
2.A.playing B.surfing C.struggling D.training
3.A.finally B.secretly C.immediately D.gratefully
4.A.island B.ship C.hospital D.shore
5.A.advised B.supposed C.allowed D.guided
6.A.operate B.repair C.work D.power
7.A.in charge B.in place C.in action D.in trouble
8.A.flew B.brought C.checked D.designed
9.A.funny B.useful C.amazing D.important
10.A.necessarily B.basically C.probably D.certainly
11.A.studying B.piloting C.boarding D.inspecting
12.A.lifebelt B.lifeline C.lifeguard D.lifeboat
13.A.sick B.tired C.excited D.surprised
14.A.record B.complete C.experience D.report
15.A.thanked B.greeted C.imagined D.praised
16.A.latest B.best C.first D.quickest
17.A.rescue B.warn C.protect D.reward
18.A.offered B.bought C.booked D.made
19.A.Since B.Unless C.While D.Before
20.A.equipped B.connected C.covered D.filled
Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student in several ways. 1. Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest.
You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while reading a textbook or doing research for a report. 2. Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective(选择的) process. That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your notes.
3.
●Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.
●Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and supporting facts.
●Write your notes in your own words.
●4.
●Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.
As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand(速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time. 5.
A. Use words, not complete sentences.
B. There are three practical note-taking methods.
C. You must write your notes on separate paper.
D. Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.
E. You will also want to develop your own method for taking notes.
F. The following methods may work best for you.
G. First, the simple act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand.
Students perform less well in final exams if smartphones are allowed in class, for non-academic (非学业的) purposes in lectures, a new study in Educational Psychology finds. Students who don’t use smartphones themselves but attend lectures where their use is acceptable also do worse, suggesting that smartphone use damages the group learning environment.
Researchers from Rutgers University in the US performed an in-class experiment to lest whether dividing attention between smartphones and the lecturer during the class affected students’ performance in within-lecture tests and a final exam. 118 students at Rutgers University took part in the experiment during one term of their course. Smartphones were not allowed in half of the lectures and allowed in the other half. When smartphones were allowed, students were asked to record whether they had used them for non-academic purposes during the lecture.
The study found that having a smartphone didn’t lower students’ scores in comprehension tests within lectures, but it did lower scores in the final exam by at least 5%, or half a grade. This finding shows for the first time that the main effect of divided attention in the classroom is on the length of time in keeping memory, with fewer things of a study task later remembered. In addition, when the use of smartphones was allowed in class, performance was also poorer for students who did not use them as well as for those who did.
The study’s lead author, Professor Arnold Glass, added: “These findings should alarm students and teachers that dividing attention is having a not obvious but harmful effect that is damaging their exam performance and final grade. To help manage the use of smartphones in the classroom, teachers should explain to students the alarming effect—not only for themselves, but for the whole class.”
This is the first-ever study in an actual classroom showing a relationship between losing attention from smartphones and exam performance. However, more researches are required to see how students are affected by using smartphones after school.
1.What is the purpose of paragraph 1?
A.To present the main findings of the experiment.
B.To explain how the experiment was carried out.
C.To give details about the result of the experiment.
D.To suggest what should be done for teachers and students.
2.We know from the experiment that having a smartphone in class ________.
A.had no bad effect if students do not use them
B.caused an average 5% drop in students’ scores
C.made it harder for students to keep things in mind
D.had a bad effect on students’ performance in all tests
3.What’s Professor Glass’ attitude towards using smartphones in class?
A.He was against it.
B.He was in favor of it.
C.He cared little about it.
D.He doubted the findings.
4.What is the research team likely to do next?
A.To find out ways to improve students’ memory.
B.To call on schools to ban smartphones completely.
C.To study the influence of using smartphones after class.
D.To do researches on focusing attention in actual classrooms.
