假设你是李华,你的朋友Anne前天举办了生日聚会,但由于期末考试的临近,你忙于备考而未能出席。请根据以下要点写一封道歉信。
1. 表达歉意;2. 说明原因;3. 另约时间。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Anne,
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
请改正下面短文中的错误。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。
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。
Dear Mike,
How is everything going with you? Hearing that you have a plan to learn Chinese, I’m writing to recommend a university that you can have a fruitful learning experience. My recommendation is Peking University, a well-known university suitable for language learning in China.
The reasons account for my recommendation are as follows. To begin with, being a first-class university with the best equipments and the finest teachers, Peking University is capable of offering professional guide and systematic training to you to master Chinese. That I think will impress you must be the resources you can have access during the whole process. Furthermore, locating in Beijing, which is the capital of China, this university has had profound historical culture. Thus, not only can we get to know those who speak standard Mandarin, but you will experience the power of Chinese culture.
All in all, I really hope you can pay a visit to Beijing. I’ll wait for you here and offer help wherever you need.
Yours sincerely,
Jane
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。
It’s time to reconsider food. Around the globe, food problems threaten wildlife, wild places and the planet itself. Today, 7.3 billion people consume 1.6 times 1.the earth’s natural resources can supply. By 2050, the world’s population will reach 9 billion and the demand for food will double.
So how do we produce more food for more people without 2.(expand) the land and water already in use? We can’t double the amount of food. 3.(fortunate), we don’t have to—we just have to double the amount of food available now instead. 4.short, we must freeze the footprint of food.
In the near-term, food production is enough 5.(provide) for all, but it doesn’t reach everyone who needs it. About 1.3 billion tons of food 6. (waste) each year—four times the amount 7. (need) to feed the more than 800 million people who are 8.(hunger).
By improving efficiency and productivity while reducing waste and shifting consumption 9. (pattern), we can produce enough food for everyone by 2050 on roughly 10. same amount of land we use now.
I come from one of those families where you have to yell at the dinner table to get in a word. Everyone has a strong _________ and talks at the same time, and no one has _________ leading to heated arguments. My aunts and uncles are lawyers. Discussions on politics are considered polite conversations. We’re that kind of family.
_______ a family like mine has made me more _________ about the world around me, making me tend to question anything anyone tells me. But it has also made me realize that I’m not a good listener. And when I say “listening”, I’m not_________ the nodding-your-head-and-_________-answering-Uh-huh-or-Ooh-I-see variety. I mean the kind of listening where you find yourself deeply _________ with the person you’re speaking with, when his story becomes so _________ that your world becomes less about you and more about him. No, I was never very good at that.
I spent summer in South Africa two years ago. I worked for a good non-profit _________ called Noah, which tirelessly __________ children affected by AIDS. But __________ you asked me what I really did in South Africa, I’d tell you one thing: I listened, and I listened. Sometimes I __________, but mostly I listened.
And had I not spent two months __________, I might have missed the touching __________ when a quiet little girl at one of Noah’s community centers, orphaned at the age of three, whispered after a long __________, “I love you.”
________ that summer, I knew how to hear. I could sit down with anyone and hear their __________ and nod and respond at the __________ time but most of the time I was __________ about the next words out of my own mouth. Ever since my summer in South Africa, I have noticed that it’s in those moments when my mouth is closed and my __________ is wide open that I’ve learned the most about other people, and perhaps about myself.
1.A.assumption B.influence C.opinion D.feeling
2.A.choice B.difficulty C.fun D.request
3.A.Belonging to B.Believing in C.Taking up D.Struggling for
4.A.curious B.anxious C.nervous D.adventurous
5.A.objecting to B.agreeing to C.attending to D.referring to
6.A.rudely B.loudly C.politely D.gratefully
7.A.identifying B.quarreling C.debating D.competing
8.A.vivid B.confusing C.addictive D.educational
9.A.school B.institute C.factory D.church
10.A.trains B.arranges C.employs D.assists
11.A.unless B.because C.although D.if
12.A.cheered B.spoke C.acted D.explained
13.A.speaking B.studying C.listening D.working
14.A.moment B.sound C.scenery D.performance
15.A.rest B.course C.journey D.silence
16.A.Before B.After C.Except D.Since
17.A.needs B.stories C.comments D.cases
18.A.valuable B.free C.right D.same
19.A.talking B.arguing C.learning D.thinking
20.A.door B.ear C.mind D.notebook
Many people might feel lost during a major transition(转折)in life. Life coaching, however, is the best choice for anyone who is looking for ways to get through the tough path of life.
—1. Some life coaches might focus only on certain types of situations, like advancing careers, while others may be willing to help with nearly any life transition.
A life coach will often act as an advisor for his clients(客户).2. Many times, he will also be able to look at a client’s life with n fair eye and ofter fresh ideas on certain situations. In doing so,the life coach will usually be able to help his client work through any problems he may face.
3. During this interview, the life coach should find out what the client’s wants, needs and goals are in life.
How to help each client is different to everyone, and it is a very individualized process.4. Because of this, a life coach must develop plans based on each client’s strengths, weaknesses, abilities and so on. A life coach will also usually take each client’s morals and values into consideration.
Some life coaches may be able to find employment with a few select universities and corporations. There are also a handful of large life coaching firms that hire life coaches as well. The majority of life coaches, however, work for themselves, opening their own life coaching practices.
5.
A.Methods that work for one client may not work for another.
B.A good life coach should try to satisfy all the needs of his clients.
C.He is often expected to listen closely to their concerns and problems.
D.Before a life coach can help a client, he first needs an in-depth interview.
E.Life coaches offer guidance to all types of people in different stages of their lives.
F.In some cases, life coaches may work together and offer a wider range of services.
G.Generally, there are no strict education requirements for starting a life coaching career.
Smile! It makes everyone in the room feel better because they, consciously or unconsciously, are smiling with you. Growing evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry(模仿) allows us to empathize with and even experience other people’s feelings. If we can’t mirror another person’s face, it limits our ability to read and properly react to their expressions. A review of this emotional mirroring appears on February 11 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
In their paper, Paula Niedenthal and Adrienne Wood, social psychologists at the University of Wisconsin, describe how people in social situations copy others’ facial expressions to create emotional responses in themselves. For example, if you’re with a friend who looks sad, you might “try on” that sad face yourself without realizing you’re doing so. In “trying on” your friend’s expression, it helps you to recognize what they’re feeling by associating it with times in the past when you made that expression. Humans get this emotional meaning from facial expressions in a matter of only a few hundred milliseconds.
“You reflect on your emotional feelings and then you generate some sort of recognition judgment, and the most important thing that results in is that you take the appropriate action—you approach the person or you avoid the person,” Niedenthal says. “Your own emotional reaction to the face changes your perception of how you see the face in such a way that provides you with more information about what it means.”
A person’s ability to recognize and “share” others’ emotions can be prevented when they can’t mimic faces. This is a common complaint for people with motor diseases, like facial paralysis(瘫痪) from a stroke, or even due to nerve damage from plastic surgery. Niedenthal notes that the same would not be true for people who suffer from paralysis from birth, because if you’ve never had the ability to mimic facial expressions, you will have developed compensatory ways of interpreting emotions.
People with social disorders associated with mimicry or emotion-recognition damage, like autism(自闭症), can experience similar challenges. “There are some symptoms in autism where lack of facial mimicry may in part be due to limitation of eye contact,” Niedenthal says.
Niedenthal next wants to explore what part in the brain is functioning to help with facial expression recognition. A better understanding of that part, she says, will give us a better idea of how to treat related disorders.
1.According to the passage, facial mimicry helps ________.
A.experience one’s own feelings clearly B.change others’ emotions quickly
C.respond to others’ expressions properly D.develop friendship with others easily
2.We can know from Paragraph 4 and 5 that ________.
A.people with motor diseases may also suffer from autism
B.people born with facial paralysis may still recognize emotions
C.people with social disorders can’t have eye contact with others
D.people receiving plastic surgery have difficulty in mimicking faces
3.According to Niedenthal, the next step of the study will focus on ________.
A.how we can treat brain disorders
B.what can be done to regain facial mimicry
C.how our brain helps us with emotional mirroring
D.what part of our brain helps recognize facial expression
4.The passage is written to ________.
A.discuss how people react positively to others’ smiles
B.draw people’s attention to those with social disorders
C.introduce a new trend in facial expression recognition
D.explain how emotional mirroring affects people’s empathy