Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Last year, a report by a committee of education experts said that a lot of American students cannot write well. The report noted the concerns of business leaders and teachers. The experts said that more students should have to pass a writing test 1. they can finish high school. They pointed out major college entrance tests are changing now 2. (include) a writing part.
Educators know that teaching students to write well is not easy. One problem is the amount of time needed to read through large amounts of work. So some companies 3. (develop) computer programs that can grade students writing more quickly than a person can. Writing tests can also cost 4. (little) to carry out by computer than paper-and-pencil. These computer systems, known as e-readers, use artificial intelligence to think in a way 5. teachers. For two years, both a computer and humans graded the student writing. Officials say there was almost no difference between the computer grades and 6. given by the human readers.
The entrance test commonly 7.(use) by business schools, the GMAT, already uses e-readers. The GRE and TOEFL tests might start; officials are deciding.
Systems 8.(use) to grade writing in college classes as well. The computers read a few hundred examples of student writing already graded by humans. Then the systems compare new writing against those already examined.
Some teachers say machines can never do the job as well as people can. A computer can find spelling and grammar mistakes, but it can never really understand 9. a writer is trying to say. Critics say a program cannot follow a thought or judge humor or understand a beautifully expressed idea.
But inventors of the programs say computer grading guarantees that each piece of writing is graded in the same way. They also say the systems 10.(mean) to judge knowledge more than creativity.
阅读下面材料，根据其内容进行续写,使之构成一个完整的短文。
Lill was a shy , young girl who grew up in a village. At the age of 16, her father forced her to drop out of school and find a job to help the family.
With poor education, skills and hope, the young girl would take the bus into the big cities of Windsor and Detroit, walk aimlessly about and then return home every day. She couldn't even bring herself to knock on a door.
As the days passed, Lill knew she had to have the courage to knock on a door. On one of her trips, Lill saw a sign at Carhartt Overall Company, saying, “Help Wanted, Secretary. Apply Within. ” She walked up to the office and was met by the office manager Margaret, who sat her down at a typewriter and said with a smile, “Let's see how good you really are."
She directed Lill to type a single letter and then left. Lill looked at the clock： 11: 40 am. She figured that she could run away in the crowd when the clock struck 12. But she knew she should at least stay and give it a try.
On her first try, she got through one line. It had five words and she made four mistakes. She pulled the paper out and threw it away. The clock read 11: 45. “In fifteen minutes," she said to herself, “I'll escape from the company, and she will never see me again. ” On her second try, Lill got through a full paragraph, but still made many mistakes. Again she pulled out the paper, threw it out and started over. This time she completed the whole letter, but still there were many errors in it. She looked at the clock： 11:55 — five minutes to freedom.
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Just then, the door at one end of the office opened and Margaret walked in. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lill did stay at Carhartt Overall Company for 51 years, __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
假如你是李华，看到学校英语校刊(Around the Schoolyard)正在招聘学生编辑的通知， 请你写一封电子邮件毛遂自荐，内容包括：
1.表达对校刊的喜爱等；
2. 介绍自己的英语能力和其他优势；
3. 表达相关愿望等。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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阅读下面材料，在题后空白处填入适当的内容(每空一词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Many well-established bookshops have closed and that trend is continuing today, despite their efforts 1. (survive) by offering a cafe or children's activities as well.
There are three main reasons for this trend. First, increasingly more people2. (give)up reading over the past ten years. Second, quite a high percentage of people 3. continue reading have changed from reading paper books to e-books. Third? of the 4. (limit) number of those who continue reading paper books, a high percentage buy them online instead of from physical bookstores.
Bookstores are providing leisure activities and coffeehouses inside. However, as 5.recent survey shows, these measures seem to be of little help. It would be a shame if physical bookstores were to disappear 6. (complete). Bookstores are more than “places selling books", they are cultural palaces. A city 7. bookstores is not culturally rich.
However, bookstores cannot survive the fierce market8.(compete) and they are failing. The economic burden is so heavy and their profit so thin9.they cannot continue existing. In order to prevent bookstores from totally 10. (disappear) , both the government and the society should help find good ways.
Last year I came across a polar bear face to face. That day, we travelled for six hours there to watch the largest land predator in the world-the polar bear.
The bus suddenly came to a _______ and the engine wouldn't start. Then in the distance appeared a polar bear. _______ by nature, it was walking towards us. My pulse quickened. I could hear my heart _______ in my ears.
He came closer and his long nose moved back and forth, checking out the _______ on the bus door. He walked around the bus, then, without _______, jumped up suddenly on his legs and put his front feet _______ the bus, his sharp paws _______ on the white metal door repeatedly. With his head only four feet from the open windows, he looked up at the faces which stared _______ at him.
To get a good position to take a _______, I climbed up the outside metal balcony (平台)on the bus. The bear had moved towards my end of the bus, but his ____________ was under the balcony, leaving most of its back part outside.
Suddenly, I heard a loud noise from under my feet. I looked down. In a hurry, I had not ____________ the floor of the balcony was a see-through metal grid(网). The polar bear was ____________me. His wet nose almost touched my feet. He looked up at me with his brown eyes, ____________ he wanted to say something. ____________ , I was aware the fact that I was in this bear's territory.
I waited in the freezing Arctic wind, watching him walk away slowly. Just before disappearing behind the snowdrift, he ____________ and looked back at me for one final goodbye. And then I got a perfect photograph.
1.A.use B.life C.stop D.power
2.A.Patient B.Nervous C.Friendly D.Curious
3.A.flying B.beating C.burning D.struggling
4.A.smells B.tastes C.paints D.colors
5.A.effort B.shame C.warning D.doubt
6.A.beyond B.against C.behind D.beside
7.A.drawing B.resting C.focusing D.clicking
8.A.back B.forwards C.away D.around
9.A.research B.picture C.break D.walk
10.A.tail B.paw C.nose D.head
11.A.admitted B.noticed C.explained D.minded
12.A.attracting B.saving C.striking D.smelling
13.A.in case B.if only C.even if D.as if
14.A.Naturally B.Hopefully C.Carefully D.Strangely
15.A.swam B.welcomed C.paused D.shouted
The Dangers of Binge-Watching
The common use of Tik Tok and many other streaming services has created a new problem in today's society: binge-watching. This allows teens to spend huge amounts of time watching shows without a break. Some teens even spend the entire weekend glued to the screens. 1. When it becomes a regular habit, however, binge-watching can really create some problems.
If teens regularly head for their devices for binge-watching , they are more likely to experience loneliness and depression. It makes sense. Lonely or depressed teens will turn to mindless bing-watching to get their attention off those negative feelings. However, it doesn't really fix anything. It is a temporary band-aid that covers the real problem. 2.
The shows teens watch tend to directly affect their minds. Therefore, negative shows, or those with negative portrayals(描绘)of the world around them, can increase feelings of negativity and depression.3.Too many shows are filled with model-thin individuals who are still complaining that they don't look good in their clothes. This can lead a young girl to worry about her physical appearance.
Some teens don't have the self-control to their binge-watching habits on their own. 4. Parents need to be aware of how much time their teens are spending on their devices. Setting limits on screen-time can be easy to accomplish with a good parental control software.
Having regular conversations with your teens about this behavior is critical. Encourage them to tell you why they are binge-watching, what they're watching, and how they're feeling to help them develop healthier viewing habits. 5. By doing so parents have set a clear line that displays when binge-watching has to stop.
A.Worse still, it can merely cause the sense of loneliness to build up.
B.Sure, the occasional binge-watching doesn't sound too bad.
C.For this reason, what parents can do with the situation is critical.
D.They spend more time with screens than with their peers or parents.
E.Parents can also help schedule other activities to fill up the day.
F.Even body image can be linked to the shows that teens watch.
G.Instead, they can simply sit there, staring at the screen and no more effort is needed.
