转眼新的一年已经来到。在过去的一年中，帮助和关心你的人很多，但此时此刻你最想感谢的人是谁？请你根据提示写一篇英语短文，内容包括：
1. 你所感谢的对象；
2. 感谢他（她）的原因；
3. 你想对他（她）说的话。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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。
A university is institution of higher education and research which people attend before finishing secondary school. There you'll meet people from all over the world and learn about lots of different subject, like history, geography and languages. There’re clubs there, that can be a lot of fun because we meet new people and enjoy your hobbies. Many people say that attend university are the best time of their life. But it's also a time to work hard and did all your homework. Books can be very expensive, but the school library is so a wonderful place that you can find most of the books you want, so that you don't need to buy them.
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。
In the latest beauty craze (狂热) 1. (sweep) social media in China, women and even some men are boasting (自夸) that they are paper thin, by posting photographs of their waists behind a piece of A4 paper. To qualify, the waist must 2. (hide) by the paper entirely. A piece of A4 paper is 8.3 by 11.7 inches, roughly 3. size of a sheet of American letter paper.
With the A4 waist, the trend is attracting hundreds of photographs and thousands of comments on Weibo and other social media networks like WeChat. Being 4. (normally) thin is a widespread standard of beauty for women, 5. has been criticized as an unhealthy ideal of female attractiveness.
Several commentators have found the A4 trend 6. (disturb). In a telephone interview, an expert said, “I find 7. completely stupid. Using a single size 8. (define) all human beings then thinking you have created new standards 9. (be) foolish.” The A4 waist challenge 10. (annoy) him, saying that it allows certain people to gain bragging (吹嘘的) rights, while leaving others in depression.
I was three months pregnant with twin boys when my husband and I learned that one of them had a fatal birth defect (缺陷). His skull and brain were not ______ properly. Babies with this ______ typically die within minutes, hours or days of being born.
This news was devastating (毁灭性的), and also ______. I wondered, was it something I ate, was it something I ______, was it something I did? But then, ______ it was, why was one of them healthy? So I was ______ with a lot of questions that would never have answers.
Six months later, the twins were born, and they were both born ______. Thomas lived for six days. Callum was healthy. We had decided to ______ Thomas's organs to science. While his death was inevitable, we thought maybe it could be ______.
Three years later. I ______ whether these donations made a ______. So I ______ at the Schepens Eye Research Institute the next day. A receptionist ______ me to Dr. James Zieske, a professor of Hansard Medical School. He ______ my hand and said, “Do you have any questions for me?” I was so ______ at meeting him. I said. “How many corneas (眼角膜) do you request in a year?” He said, “'About ten a year. We would request more, but they are hard to get, and infant eyes are like ______ to us.” My heart was just in my throat. I could ______ choke out the words. He added, “We are likely still studying your son's eye cells, and they are probably in this lab right now.”
When the tour ______, I felt something in me starting to ______. I felt that my son had ______ his place in the world, and that place was Harvard. I'm now an Ivy League mum.
1.A.combined B.formed C.distributed D.adapted
2.A.diagnosis B.judgment C.position D.symbol
3.A.shocking B.encouraging C.confusing D.terrifying
4.A.bought B.collected C.drank D.ignored
5.A.even if B.as if C.in case D.regardless of
6.A.meeting B.associating C.wrestling D.competing
7.A.deaf B.alive C.blind D.equal
8.A.deliver B.apply C.attach D.donate
9.A.ambitious B.inspiring C.rewarding D.productive
10.A.wondered B.imagined C.assumed D.explained
11.A.deal B.difference C.mistake D.fortune
12.A.showed up B.pulled up C.set out D.brought out
13.A.recommended B.related C.introduced D.announced
14.A.grabbed B.shook C.rubbed D.touched
15.A.sensitive B.heartbroken C.privileged D.emotional
16.A.gold B.sunshine C.silver D.light
17.A.slightly B.rarely C.hardly D.definitely
18.A.repeated B.concluded C.expanded D.processed
19.A.disappear B.hurt C.change D.arise
20.A.found B.set C.confirmed D.proved
Music is an international language that is beautiful to people all over the world. It seems to be a natural need for us. 1.
Music plays a significant role in education. Studies have indicated that music physically develops the part of the brain known to be involved with language. 2. Therefore the development of one promotes the growth of the other, and musical training not only develops a child's language skills but also promotes the learning of a second language. Music also causes improvement in brainpower. The thought patterns that are formed while studying music may help improve the ability to learn other subjects.
3. First, music is beneficial with its ability to reduce stress. And stress is associated with many illnesses, which can be prevented with stress reduced. When people are very stressed, there is a tendency to avoid listening to music. 4. But as we know, productivity increases when stress is reduced.
Additionally, music can have positive influence on mood, and many people will turn to certain songs to improve their moods. The main reason behind this phenomenon is that music has the ability to express one's feelings better than any other medium. 5. It also increases self-confidence.
A.So how does it help us?
B.The two are so closely related.
C.Let's see how people enjoy music.
D.Perhaps it feels like a waste of time.
E.The key is to choose the right type of music.
F.Music has some sort of psychological effect.
G.Good music also makes us remember the moments when we were happy.
The first study to examine generational differences in perfectionism over the past three decades reports that young people's desire to be flawless has sharply increased over the past thirty years. Today's college-age students are much more likely to have perfectionism than prior generations, according to the new report.
This study was recently published in the journal Psychological Bulletin. For this study, lead author Thomas Curran and co-author Andrew Hill, analyzed data from 41,641 college students in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. They also used the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale to measure generational changes in perfectionism from the late 1980s to 2016. During their analysis, Curran and Hill investigated three types of perfectionism:
l. Self-oriented perfectionism: having an irrational desire to be perfect on oneself.
2. Other-oriented perfectionism: Placing unrealistic standards of perfection on others.
3. Socially-perfectionism: Feeling excessive expectations of perfection from others.
The statistics are alarming: Between 1989 and 2016, self-oriented perfectionism scores increased by 10 percent, other-oriented perfectionism increased by 16 percent, and socially-perfectionism increased largely by 33 percent.
The rise in perfectionism among college students is driven by a variety of factors, according to Curran. The raw data suggests that the growing use of social media could be fueling the pressure young adults feel to perfect themselves in comparison to others. That said, Curran emphasizes that more research is needed to confirm the relation between an increase in social media usage and increased perfectionism.
Curran also assumes that college students' drive to perfect their grade point average represents a rise in meritocracy (精英教育) among the new generation.
“Today's young people are competing with each other in order to meet societal pressures to succeed and they feel that perfectionism is necessary in order to feel safe, socially connected and of worth.” Curran said.
Andrew Hill sees these findings as a strong call for colleges and policymakers to increase their efforts to control unnecessary competition among young people in order to preserve their mental health. Unfortunately, this may be easier said than done.
1.What does the underlined word “flawless” in the first paragraph probably mean?
A.without effort B.without competition
C.without weakness D.without strength
2.What can you infer from the passage?
A.All college students of this generation have serious perfectionism.
B.Self-oriented perfectionism increased the most according to the latest study.
C.The increase in perfectionism is completely driven by some obvious factors.
D.It is uncertain whether increased social media usage causes more perfectionism.
3.What's the writer's attitude toward the effect of the study on the change of the situation?
A.Concerned. B.Negative.
C.Positive. D.Critical.
