假如你是学生李华，你的新加坡朋友Hermam, 来信希望你介绍一下北京的情况，你需要写封回信。
要点如下：
1、北京，首都，位于我国的北方，人口2153.6万，历史悠久，名胜众多。
2、北京已经发展成为国际大都市，很多重要的国际会议和活动在北京举办。
3、邀请Hermam 有空来参观北京，你可以做向导。
参考词汇：大都市metropolis
注意：1. 词数在100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语和结束语已经为你写好, 不计入总词数。
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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处错误，每句中最多有三处。错误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（＼）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、每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Happy is important in our life. In fact, it is always around us unless we put our heart into it.
I will never forget one thing. Once, I get a poor mark in math. I was worried and afraid go home. But when I got back home later, my parents had known which happened to me. He said to me,“It doesn’t matter, my child. Remembering we’ll be always beside you when you need help. We believe you can do the better next time. Never give up! ”I was moving and made up my mind to study harder and harder.
Whenever I am in troubles，I can feel my parents’ love. I want to be a good child for my parents.
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。
Summer in Britain
The summer is a great time to be in Britain. The British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Tate Gallery are all a must-see for everybody who 1. (come) to the country ，but there are also a lot of interesting things to do for those 2.love the outdoors.
The Notting Hill Carnival (诺丁山狂欢节） changes the face of the famous London borough in the last weekend of August. It’s the 3.( large) street festival in Europe. First 4. ( hold) in 1964，it’s a celebration of Caribbean culture but now includes Brazilians, Africans, Europeans and anybody else who likes to dress 5. ( colourful) and feels the urge to dance to the sound of a beat.
With its 6. ( popular) growing, it’s estimated (估算） that 50，000 performers will take part in the parade， 7.( attract) more than 1 million people over the weekend.
In mid-August，in Bristol, a city about 200km from London, the sky is filled 8. colours during its annual balloon fiesta. If the weather is good, more than 100 hot air balloons 9. ( rise) from the fiesta’s site in Ashton Court.
Britain is full of traditions and sometimes just stopping at a country pub for a beer 10. having a cream tea in a small tearoom can make a moment special. Always be sure where you are, and learn enough English to ask for directions. Have a nice holiday!
The Parents’ Lifesaving Touch
On March 25, 2010, Kate and David heard the words every parent feels frightened of: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature(早产的), ______ just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no ______. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just minutes to ______.
“I saw him gasp(喘息) weakly, but the doctor said it was no ______,” Kate told the Daily Mail five years later. “I know it sounds stupid, ______ if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up ______.”
In an effort to cherish(珍惜) her last moments with the tiny boy, Kate asked to ______ him. The couple knew this was likely a ______.
Kate removed the hospital blanket ______ the boy, whom the couple had already ______ Jamie, and ordered David to take his shirt off and ______ her and the boy in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible in their arms and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would improve his ______. They also talked to him.
“We were trying to entice(说服) him to stay,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “We explained his name and ______ he had a twin who he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to ______ him.”
Then something completely ______ happened. Jamie started ______ again. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger.
The couple’s lost boy had made it.
“We’re the ______ people in the world,” David said.
Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and ______. The parents only recently told the kids the story of their ______. “Emily burst into tears,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “She was really upset, and she kept hugging Jamie. This whole ______ makes you cherish them more.”
1.A.losing B.measuring C.weighing D.showing
2.A.appreciation B.improvement C.prediction D.agreement
3.A.live B.play C.grow D.think
4.A.harm B.trouble C.wonder D.use
5.A.but B.or C.and D.for
6.A.gradually B.peacefully C.hardly D.easily
7.A.cover B.hold C.cure D.wash
8.A.risk B.party C.goodbye D.tradition
9.A.around B.to C.beside D.against
10.A.promised B.kept C.awarded D.named
11.A.join B.place C.feed D.hide
12.A.appearance B.condition C.memory D.skill
13.A.why B.when C.that D.if
14.A.protect B.raise C.teach D.save
15.A.unbelievable B.unfamiliar C.natural D.acceptable
16.A.waving B.speaking C.smiling D.breathing
17.A.kindest B.luckiest C.bravest D.cleverest
18.A.free B.relaxed C.healthy D.confident
19.A.birth B.adventure C.growth D.education
20.A.project B.experiment C.progress D.experience
Rich and Famous
Twenty years ago the most common ambition of American children was to be a teacher, followed by working in banking and finance, and then medicine. But today’s situation is quite different. 1. Instead they most commonly say they want to be a sports star, a pop star, or an actor—in other words, they hope to become a celebrity .
According to experts, young people desire these jobs largely because of the wealth and the fame. 2. Let’s take athletes and singers as an example. Their careers are short-lived. Many athletes’ best time only lasts a few years and singers can have a very limited career. The field that was once the focus of their lives becomes something they have little or no involvement in. As a result, they’ll have a feeling of worthlessness and a lack of control. 3.The truth is quite simple: they have been so far removed from it for so long.
In spite of these disadvantages, there is greater ambition than ever among young people to achieve that status. They are not satisfied just making a living—they want to be rich and famous. Globally, more and more TV shows provide talent competitions where winners can achieve their goals in just a few weeks or months.4.They unrealistically believe that this lifestyle is easily obtained and leads to great satisfaction.
While many people argue that there is nothing wrong with having such ambitions, others feel that this trend will finally lead to dissatisfaction as more and more people are unable to reach their goals. 5. That means they ignore the simple fact that great effort is needed before success. As a result, many people won’t realize their childhood dreams, which could have a negative effect on their happiness.
A. In many ways this has been brought about by the celebrity culture.
B. People no longer have a sense of satisfaction once their goals have been achieved.
C. Besides, it can be difficult for them to adapt back to a normal everyday life.
. The younger generation don’t favor these professions any more.
E. Unfortunately, they do not always have a positive effect on people’s life.
F. The reason is that they don’t realize it takes talent and hard work to be rich and famous.
G. This quick way of gaining wealth and fame creates a celebrity culture among people.
Many of us listen to music while we work, thinking that it will help us to concentrate on the task at hand. And in fact, recent research has found that music can have beneficial effects on creativity. When it comes to other areas of performance, however, the impact of background music is more complicated.
The idea that listening to music when working is beneficial to output probably has its roots in the so-called “Mozart effect”. Put simply, this is the finding that spatial rotation performance(空间旋转能力) is increased immediately after listening to the music of Mozart, compared to no sound at all.
How sound affects performance has been the topic of research for over 40 years, and is observed through a phenomenon called the irrelevant sound effect. To study irrelevant sound effect, participants in the research are asked to complete a simple task which requires them to recall a series of numbers or letters in the exact order in which they saw them. The tricky thing is being able to do this while ignoring any background noise.
Two key characteristics of the irrelevant sound effect are required for its observation. First, the task must require the person to use their rehearsal abilities(复述能力), and second, the sound must contain acoustical variation(声学变化). Where the sound does not vary much acoustically, the performance of the task is much closer to that observed in quiet conditions.
The irrelevant sound effect itself comes from attempting to process two sources of ordered information at the same time—one from the task and one from the sound. Unfortunately, only the former is required to successfully perform the recall task, and the effort in ensuring that irrelevant order information from the sound is not processed actually hinders(阻碍) this ability.
A similar conflict is also seen when reading while in the presence of lyrical music. In this situation, the two sources of words—from the task and the sound—are in conflict. The cost is poorer performance of the task in the presence of music with lyrics.
What this all means is that whether having music playing in the background helps or hinders performance depends on the task and on the type of music, and only understanding this relationship will help people maximize their productivity levels.
1.“Mozart effect” is mentioned to ________.
A. explain how music can relax people
B. show music can improve performance
C. advise people to listen to Mozart music
D. stress Mozart music gains wide attention
2.It can be inferred that participants in the research ________.
A. have improved their rehearsal ability
B. perform better in the quiet conditions
C. ignore the background noise successfully
D. prefer the music with great sound variation
3.Paragraph 6 is written to ________.
A. support an idea B. make a contrast
C. introduce a topic D. describe a fact
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Music shapes your life
B. Music develops your creativity
C. Choose quiet music for your work
D. Does music make you concentrate?
