There is no school equal to a decent（体面的）home and no teacher equal to a virtuous（有德行的） parent.
Dad was an English teacher who taught high school students. Mom _______ home and homeschooled their four children Three of us had no trouble _______ but my sister Catherine still could not _______ by fifth grade, and worse still, did not even know the alphabet（字母表）.
My mother did some research and _______ that Catherine had some sort of learning disability. She sent Catherine to a public school to get some help. Catherine made many friends at school and _______ everyone with her gift for telling creative stories in class, _______ she still couldn’t master reading. _______ all the testing was done, the school had my parents come in They were told that based on the test results, they should just take Catherine home.
Tears of _______ ran down my dad’s cheeks, but my mom’s jaw was set in quiet determination. As they walked back to the car, she turned to him and said, “I know she’s not _______.”
Soon after, my mom discovered a learning system that focused heavily on lesson repetition and building slowly on the previous exercises. She worked with __________ for four hours every morning while the rest of us studied on our own. It was __________ for both of them, but she often told a crying Catherine, “ __________ is not an option. You are going to learn to read, or we’ll both try! You have to learn to read! You will learn to read.”
In time, Catherine __________ it. By the time she graduated from eighth grade, she was reading almost at grade level. She continued __________ and was reading above grade level when she graduated from high school.
Catherine came to love reading and writing. All of this because of a wonderfully devoted mother who was absolutely the best __________ ever—for all four of us.
1.A.left B.stayed C.came D.went
2.A.learning B.playing C.talking D.walking
3.A.listen B.speak C.read D.write
4.A.pretended B.wished C.advised D.found
5.A.amazed B.hurt C.bored D.praised
6.A.or B.so C.for D.but
7.A.If B.Although C.Unless D.After
8.A.hope B.sadness C.anger D.sickness
9.A.shy B.sorry C.polite D.stupid
10.A.Catherine B.my father C.me D.her friends
11.A.interesting B.fair C.hard D.good
12.A.Kindness B.Failure C.Courage D.Pressure
13.A.changed B.shared C.got D.checked
14.A.forgetting B.improving C.explaining D.noticing
15.A.teacher B.classmate C.researcher D.learner
假定你是李华，你的美国朋友 Peter 想提高中文水平，进一步了解中国文化。请给他写一封信，推荐学习资源 (resource)。内容包括：
1. 学习资源：报纸、杂志及其他途径；
2. 推荐理由；
3. 表达祝愿。
注意：1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
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。
Last weekend, my parents told me a good news that my family would go camping with my uncle’s family.I feel so excited about it, because I could spend the whole night outside,which had never been happened before.When the day came, we brought the equipments and some food. In the afternoon, the two families settled down, and then they started to walk around. My cousins and I rushed to a forest and went to the highest point, there we could appreciate the whole sight. Stood on the highest place, I felt so greatly. We enjoyed a grander sight by climbing a greater height. At night, we set fire and danced happily. It was so a happy moment for me.
During the winter vacation,I was involved in an image-processing project. My task was to extract（提取）the shape of every cell from a(n)__ of microscope images. It seemed quite straightforward at first,but it turned out to be __.
Since I did not have any experience in image processing,I studied some basic ___on my own and started to use a very popular function library(函数库）called OpenCV. As the time was __,I just learnt to apply techniques without going into the mathematical rationale(原理）。As a result,I didn't complete the task in an efficient way and____lots of time.
Through this project,I got a good __ of the importance of studying the basic knowledge. I will probably ___to spend more time studying the theory before I ___another project. By learning their underlying mechanisms(机制），I will be able to ___the tools to suit my own needs. In this way,1 may achieve___ results.
Another challenge I met was about the brightness setting. When I sketched(勾勒）the __ of the cell by the computer,I first set the brightness value to 50,___that the computer could delete the dark places and extract the shape of the cell___. But it turned out that the standard didn't fit for every image. So 1____the brightness value to 30,but that didn't __ either. It was very hard to find a value that worked for all ____
From this,I began to appreciate human eyes. Our eyes ___the amount of light entering them automatically through a feedback system to achieve the best image representation,but computers are not that __. There is still so much that we don't know about the human body.
In summary,I think it is good for students to be involved in real projects___ they can begin to learn about various fundamental ___and get themselves ready for the future.
1.A.collection B.addiction C.measurement D.accumulation
2.A.simple B.dangerous C.skeptical D.challenging
3.A.items B.techniques C.concepts D.contents
4.A.limited B.previous C.permanent D.equal
5.A.saved B.postponed C.appreciated D.wasted
6.A.use B.sense C.knowledge D.belief
7.A.enjoy B.decline C.choose D.demand
8.A.turn down B.set about C.put forward D.make out
9.A.evaluate B.settle C.dispose D.handle
10.A.better B.quicker C.easier D.closer
11.A.character B.figure C.movement D.outline
12.A.declaring B.requiring C.hoping D.recommending
13.A.automatically B.willingly C.deliberately D.rapidly
14.A.attached B.applied C.changed D.appealed
15.A.work B.solve C.achieve D.gain
16.A.results B.images C.places D.theories
17.A.absorb B.accept C.adjust D.delete
18.A.accessible B.ambitious C.fashionable D.intelligent
19.A.when B.because C.although D.unless
20.A.conclusions B.functions C.systems D.principles
What is happiness? When you can feel inner peace and satisfaction, you are happy. 1. This usually happens when we do something we love or achieve something that we value. It is our opinions that make us feel happy or unhappy. All of us constantly go through various situations or conditions, but we do not have to let them influence our reactions and feelings.2..
Try hard to make a change of the way you look at things.3. That means looking at the good and positive side of every situation. Pay attention to solutions, not problems. Listen to relaxing and uplifting music. Watch funny and interesting programs that make you laugh.
Always look at what you have done and not at what you haven’t done. Look at what you can do, not at what you cannot do. Each day do at least one act to make others happy. When you make someone happy, you’ll become happy, and then people will try to make you happy.4. On the contrary, be happy for their happiness. Communicate with happy people and try to learn from them to be happy. Remember ? do your best to stay detached (冷静的) when things do not occur as intended and desired. Detachment has much to do with inner peace.5.
A.I’ve never regretted it.
B.Always look at the bright side.
C.Do not envy people who are happy.
D.Stop asking for everyone’s approval.
E.Inner peace can lead to happiness, so smile more often.
F.Here are a few tips for increasing happiness in daily life.
G.It is usually experienced at a special moment.
We tend to believe that older people are more positive and younger people are more sensitive to social cues (暗示).
Recently scientists investigated this idea by testing 10,000 men and women. They wanted to see if age affected a person’s ability to identify subtle facial emotions, such as fear and anger.
The researchers from McLean Hospital in the US used a Web-based platform to collect happiness data. It showed the participants two headshots (头部特写) of random people. They were then asked to identify which subject was angrier, happier, or more fearful. The research found that younger people were able to better identify angry and fearful facial cues than older people.
“From the previous studies , we know that the everyday experiences of an adolescent are different from an older person, but we wanted to understand how these experiences might be linked with differences in basic emotion understanding,” wrote Laura Germine, the study’s senior author.
But what is it that makes young people more sensitive?
“This is the exact age when young people are most sensitive to forms of negative social cues, such as bullying,” Lauren Rutter, the study’s lead author, told Science Daily. “The normal development of anger sensitivity can contribute to some of the challenges that arise during this phase of development.”
On the contrary, across the whole 10,000-person survey, researchers found no decline in the perception (感知)of happiness among older participants.
“What’s remarkable is that we see declines in many visual perceptual abilities as we get older, but here we did not see such declines in the perception of happiness,” Germine told Neuro Science News.
She added that these findings fit well with other research, showing that older adults tend to have more positive emotions and a positive outlook.
Following the paper’s release, Rutter told Neuro Science News that gathering their primary research online allowed the team to tap into a “much larger and more diverse sample set” than previous studies.
1.What is the result of the research?
A.We are often bullied while young.
B.We become less positive as we get older.
C.The younger we are, the happier we feel.
D.The younger, the more sensitive; the older, the more positive.
2.What makes young people more sensitive according to the text?
A.Their family backgrounds. B.Their negative experiences.
C.People around them. D.Their visual perceptual abilities.
3.How does the author support the theme of the text?
A.By giving examples. B.By stating arguments.
C.By explaining statistical data. D.By providing results.
4.Where is the text most probably taken from?
A.An announcement. B.A science magazine.
C.A travel guide. D.An official report.
