阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
I always prided myself on being a wise shopper and having a good nose for bargains. So when I came across a sporting goods store with a sign “Going Out of Business Sale”, I marched into the crowded store. Up and down the aisles (通道), I wandered, humming to myself and enjoying the energy and excitement of a sale.
All of a sudden, there, at the back of the store sat a canoe(轻舟) exactly like my husband’s dream Supremo Numero-Uno, whose picture had been stuck on the bathroom mirror for years. My heart beat wildly. I pushed my way through the crowds, and nearly fell into the canoe looking for the price tag. There it was, with the manufacturer’s suggested price at $6,750 plus tax crossed out and a handwritten TO CLEAR $750 AS IS. Must be a mistake. $6000 off? Salesman. I had to talk to a salesman. I spotted a young fellow with a “Hi. I’m Mathew”. “Mathew. Tell me about this El Supremo canoe. What’s wrong with it? Why is it only $750?”
“Oh. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s brand new. We’re closing the store. It’s on clearance like everything else. I’ll go check.” A few minutes later he came back and said, “I’m sorry ma’am. Someone made a mistake on the sale tag. It should be $4,750 for the whole package.”
I felt tears well up in my eyes. “Oh well”, I said sadly. “Of course, it was too good to be true. This is exactly like my husband’s dreamboat. I guess I started to dream myself when I saw that price tag. He’s going to be 62 years old Friday. Had to retire early for his health. It’s been hard on just the pension but the stubborn old fool has been saving $10 every week for years to buy one just like this. I promise I won’t buy anything, but it’s just an old man’s silly dream, you know. Always said he wanted to fish in a canoe after he retired,” my voice lowered and I turned and walked away.
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I was already at the mall door when Mathew caught up with me. “Do you have $750 plus $25 for delivery, ma’am?”
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“Ma’am. There’s something you should know. This store was my Grandpa’s and the canoe had been ordered by him.
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假如你是李华，在你校学习的英国交换生William对中国历史很感兴趣，打算在暑假出去旅游。他给你来信，请你帮他推荐一座中国历史文化名城。请你用英语回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 你的推荐；
2. 推荐理由；
3. 食宿建议。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear William,
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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。
People love the view of old buildings in Paris, especially Notre Dame Cathedral(巴黎圣母院). 1.(unfortunate), on April 16, a fire destroyed the spire(尖顶) of the 850-year-old cathedral, and two-thirds of the roof. Flames could be seen 2.(rise) through the top of the monument. The citizens in Paris gathered around the cathedral, praying 3. the hundreds of firefighters who fought the flames. 4. was no wonder that people felt sad. The church itself, after all, is a historical and artistic treasure. 5.(build) in 1163, it is one of the world's most famous tourist sites, attracting about 12 million 6.(visit) every year.
Notre Dame Cathedral is home to many 7.(religion) artworks, paintings and sculptures. Despite its long history and many treasures, the cathedral 8.(need) the help of a writer to become truly famous. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, presented the building to 9. wide audience of readers. He wrote the book to remind people of it, with the hope 10. they would protect the beautiful old buildings of Paris.
After persuading most of his patients, his wife and son to go back to France following the lockdown of Wuhan, Philippe Klein, a French doctor, decided to stay in the epicenter during the COVID-19 outbreak.
"I am a doctor, so I have to do my job and do my______," said Klein, a general practitioner at Wuhan Union Hospital in Hubei province.
Before authorities in Wuhan______the city, suspending all outbound flights and trains in late January to______the highly infectious disease, Klein had______about 500 foreigners living in Wuhan, most of them French.
Following the outbreak, he closed his______at the hospital to reduce the chances of infection for his patients. Instead, he began to give______and treatment at patients' homes.
But while he continued to see his patients, Klein found some had fever and he might be______with the virus, so he decided to send his wife and son back to France.
"When I came back home after seeing patients, I didn't feel very comfortable. I really did not want to put my family______, so I asked my wife to leave Wuhan on the second plane organized by the French government," he said. "My son was crying when we______, but it was better for them to leave Wuhan and let me do my job. Also they were very proud because I was doing my duty here."
In addition to his sense of duty as a doctor, he said he also chose to stay because of his deep______for the people and the city, where he has lived for six years.
“People in Wuhan are very friendly to French, and here I feel like a star sometimes,” he said.
____the lockdown of a vast city with 11 million people, which is rare in human history, has made a big______on Klein. He said he is touched by the______Wuhan residents have made to contain the outbreak.
“The last month was the craziest month in my______life,” he said. “and I would like to say to the people of Wuhan and to the Chinese people that they are going to overcome this epidemic. And their sacrifice, their courage, their unity, will______. It will be an example to the world to make such a sacrifice to protect the rest of the world.”
1.A.share B.duty C.thing D.bit
2.A.sealed B.decorated C.damaged D.saved
3.A.contain B.decrease C.fuel D.cancel
4.A.healed B.recovered C.served D.cured
5.A.studio B.clinic C.agency D.firm
6.A.finance B.analyses C.relief D.diagnoses
7.A.tested B.influenced C.infected D.detected
8.A.in trouble B.in danger C.in anxiety D.in progress
9.A.departed B.left C.flew D.parted
10.A.affection B.influence C.attitude D.association
11.A.Sensing B.Witnessing C.Smiling D.Hearing
12.A.contribution B.point C.impact D.difference
13.A.offer B.promise C.risk D.sacrifice
14.A.intellectual B.professional C.productive D.amateur
15.A.catch on B.come back C.take off D.pay off
When Republic of Korea(ROK) President Moon Jae-in said on Feb 3, "China's difficulty is also ours" to raise his nation's awareness of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus(COVID-19) in China, China was facing the difficult period of controlling the spread of the virus nationwide. 1.
Now it is the ROK that seems to be at the critical juncture of how China was then, as the country has the highest number of people infected with the virus outside of China; 1,261 as of Wednesday.
2. That the organizing committee for the Olympic Games in Tokyo has for the first time noted that whether the Games will be held as scheduled in the summer depends on how well the epidemic(传染病) is controlled in the next three months indicates that the country is at a crossroad in its efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
The ROK and Japan's advanced medical systems, solid economic foundations and unity of their people in the fight against the virus will prove indispensable to defeating the virus. 3.
Before vaccines are developed, it is good to see that the two countries have already heeded China's lessons and experience in dealing with the epidemic and they are trying to limit population mobility. 4.
Given the three economies' collective importance to the global supply chain, other countries should also prepare for the epidemic's likely aftermath on the world economy, and consider what they can do to support the three countries in their struggle.
5.
A.However, their closely-packed populations will put their governance systems to a tough test.
B.Japan too seems to be facing a similar situation with 170 people infected with the virus, not including 691 from the ship quarantined(被隔离的) at Yokohama port.
C.Their battle is also the world's.
D.Public health policymakers and institutes should step up their cooperation so as to better coordinate their war against a common enemy.
E.It deeply appreciated the moral and material support given by the ROK.
F.The detection, quarantine and hospitalization of those who are suspected of being infected must be done in a wait-for-nothing manner as the two countries are in a race to get ahead of the spread of the virus.
G.It is trying hard to minimize the influence of the epidemic.
“If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect,” the media giant Ted Turner supposedly said sometime in the 1990s. Why be modest? Aristotle said: “All men by nature desire to know.” Intellectual humility is a particular instance of humility, since you can be down-to-earth about most things but still ignore your mental limitations.
Intellectual humility means recognising that we don’t know everything. Actually, it means we should acknowledge that we're probably biased in our belief about just how much we understand and seek out the sources of wisdom that we lack.
The Internet and digital media have created the impression of limitless knowledge at our fingertips. But, by making us lazy, they have opened up a space that ignorance can fill. The psychologist Tania Lombrozo of the University of California explained how technology enhances our illusions (错觉) of wisdom. She argues that the way we access information is critical to our understanding — and the more easily we can recall an image, word or statement, the more likely we’ll think we’ve successfully learned it, and so withdraw from effortful cognitive processing. Logical puzzles presented in an unfriendly font (字体), for example, can encourage someone to make extra effort to solve them. Yet this approach runs counter to the nice designs of the apps and sites that populate our screens, where our brain processes information in a “smooth” way. What about all the information that presents online? Well, your capacity to learn from it depends on your attitudes. Intellectually humble people don’t hide or ignore their weaknesses. In fact, they see them as sources of personal development, and use arguments as an opportunity to refine their views. People who are humble by nature tend to be more open-minded and quicker to resolve disputes, since they recognise that their own opinions might not be valid.
At the other end of the scale lies intellectual arrogance. Such arrogance almost always originates from the egocentric bias – the tendency to overestimate their own virtue or importance, ignoring the role of chance or the influence of other people’s actions on their lives. This is what makes these people credit success to themselves and failure to circumstance. From an evolutionary perspective, intellectual arrogance can also be seen as a way of achieving dominance through forcing one’s view on others. Intellectually arrogant people hardly invest mental resources in discussion or working towards group consensus, thus making it hard for groups to work successfully.
The Thrive Center for Human Development in California, which seeks to help young people tum into successful adults, is funding a series of major studies about intellectual humility. Their hypothesis is that humility, curiosity and openness are key to a fulfilling life. “Without humility, you are unable to learn,” Laszlo Bock, Google’s Head of People Operations, notes.
1.The passage is mainly about ______.
A.the harm arrogance does to us
B.the key elements to a fulfilling life
C.the significance of intellectual humility
D.the way people access information online
2.Technology enhances our illusions of wisdom because it ______.
A.enables people to think critically
B.offers too much unreliable information
C.allows easy access to abundant information
D.makes it hard for people to recall information
3.According to Para.3, intellectually humble people ______.
A.value others’ opinions more than their own
B.use online information to better themselves
C.are unwilling to show their strengths
D.prefer to solve difficult problems
4.The author will probably agree that ______.
A.intellectual arrogance is the result of evolution
B.intellectually arrogant people often lack team spirits
C.successful people are often unaware of their limitations
D.circumstances don’t favor intellectually arrogant people
