随着时代的发展，人们彼此间的问候方式也发生了很大的变化。请你根据下面列举出的几种方式，
用英语写一篇100词左右的短文，以便刊登在某英文报Society专栏。开头部分已给出，不计入总词数。
（１）邮寄贺卡、鲜花；
（２）发送电子邮件；
（３）打电话或发手机短信。
要求：（１）分别说明上述方式及特点；
（２）阐明个人喜好并说明原因。
With the development of science and technology, people have a wider choice of sending greetings to their friends and relatives. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
John’s house became too big for him after his wife died, so he bought a smaller one
nearby. There is a very nice old clock in his first house. When some people came to help
move a clock, John thought, “I won’t let them take off my beautiful old clock in the truck.
Perhaps they are likely breakit.” So she carried it on his arms. One the way, a small boy
looked at John for a few second and said, “How interested you are! Why did you buy so a
large watch?”
1 My parents always e____________ me to try again when I fail the exam.
2. The river polluted by the dirty water from London was to b_________ for the outbreak of Cholera.
3. I like English very much. It is my f__________subject.
4. Charlie Chaplin acted a man who was unlucky but determined to o_________ all difficulties.
5. Tony is very clever and always wins the first prize, so his mother is very p______ of him.
6. The old man was a_____________ in reading the book and didn’t hear the bell.
7. He felt a little n_________ when it was his turn to speak at the meeting.
8. After graduating from Zhejiang University, Tom went a_________ and found a job in the USA.
9. December is the t_________ month of the year.
10. Books are my best friends. They give me k________ and make me happiness.
Here are some patients(病人), each of whom wants to see a doctor . Decide which doctor is suitable for the patient mentioned. There is an extra doctor that is not suitable for any of the patients.
1. _____ Patient one. He has a running nose all day. He has a fever and constant cough.
2. _____ Patient two . She sleeps poorly . She has difficulty in sleeping , and is unable to concentrate. She also has nightmares（恶梦）occasionally.
3. _____ Patient three. His tongue is red and sore (痛) all over . His breath smells bad and he has
a bad taste in his mouth .
4. _____ Patient four. His blood pressure is really high. His head aches when he bends over or lies down.
A. Brown , a medical student majoring in oral cavity (口腔), is having his practice in a teaching hospital . Every day he meets quite a few people with a toothache , throat trouble and so on.
B. Tom is a psychologist (心理学家) . He keeps in touch with his mental patients by phone.
C. Wood , an adviser and doctor in a hospital , thinks we should pay more attention to what we eat . It is a problem that many people are becoming fatter and fatter. In his opinion, blood pressure is connected with it and he is trying his best to solve this kind of problem.
D. Mary , a female doctor , is doing research in breast-cancer . A lot of woman , she thinks , are suffering from this kind of disease all over the world . She has made up her mind to help these women.
E. Mr. Smith is a very good physician. He works as a doctor in a hospital and he is an expert at curing common diseases .It is easy and convenient to see Mr. Smith.
Hawaii has planned to be the first U.S. state to roll out（正式推出）electric car stations statewide --- a move towards weaning the islands off oil.
Hawaii, which is far away from the U.S. mainland, imports foreign oil for almost 90 percent of its energy needs. One–third of that oil is used to power cars and buses on island streets. This move will help Hawaii meet its goal of reducing fossil fuel use by 70 percent by 2030.
Better Place, a Palo Alto, California-based company, will build the car recharging stations and provide recharged batteries for electric cars. The company will purchase renewable energy --- such as wind power --- from Hawaiian Electric Co.
Better Place picked Hawaii for the first statewide rollout in part because the islands are a contained environment, with few vehicles (车辆) coming in and out. Better Place would need to build a bigger network across several states to serve some mainland markets. Hawaii also has rich renewable energy resources, including wind, solar and wave power. This is important because Better Place won’t use oil. Better Place plans to recharge its batteries at night with power from Hawaii’s wind farms. That power normally goes unused because of Hawaii’s low nighttime energy needs.
Hawaii is an ideal place to show off Better Place technology because the state welcomes over five million tourists each year from the U.S. mainland, Japan, Canada and the rest of the world. “If we can get them into electric cars when they rent, we do two great things,” Shai Agassi, Better Place’s founder and chief executive officer, said. “One, we avoid emissions （排放物）; two, we use the opportunity to educate them, to teach them in Hawaii how it needs to be done in the rest of the world.”
However, Hawaii doesn’t expect to spend any money to improve the network. Maybe it needs to offer tax breaks or other ways to encourage people to buy electric vehicles when they are first offered.
1.
The underlined part “weaning the islands off oil” (in Para 1) probably means _________.
A. exploring the islands for oil
B. stopping Hawaii’s dependence on oil gradually
C. importing more oil from other islands
D. increasing the amount of oil used there
2.
Why is Hawaii chosen to be the first state where car recharging stations will be built statewide? _________
①There are few cars in Hawaii.
②Hawaii can provide environmentally friendly energy.
③Plenty of oil has been found in Hawaii.
④Hawaii is separated from the mainland with few vehicles coming in and out.
A. ①, ③ B. ②, ③ C. ②, ④ D. ①, ④
3.
When visitors to Hawaii rent electric cars, they _________.
A. will be taught it is necessary to do as Hawaiians do to protect the earth
B. will be offered tax breaks
C. need to be told what should be done before travelling
D. should be given the chance to try two things before driving
4.
We can infer from the passage that _________.
A. Better Place is a company producing electric cars
B. people are not encouraged to buy electric cars
C. electric cars will be recharged with power from renewable resources
D. Hawaii now has reduced the use oil by 90 percent
We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why.
"Look down, Elsa," Father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross (十字形) of twisting, turning streets leading to the square. "See, my dear," Father said gently. "There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can't get to the place where you want to go by one road, try another."
Now I understood why I was there. Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do something about the awful lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she could not believe the lunches were as bad as I said.
When I turned to Father for help, he would not help. Instead, he brought me to this high tower to give me a lesson. By the time we reached home, I had a plan.
At school the next day, I secretly poured my lunch soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I asked our cook to serve it to Mother at dinner. The plan worked perfectly. She swallowed one spoonful and sputtered, "The cook must have gone mad! "Quickly I told what I had done, and Mother said firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day!
In the years that followed I often remembered the lesson Father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn't stop working until I tried every possible means to my goal, Father's wise words always remind me that there is more than one way to the square.
1.
What did the author want her mother to do earlier that day? _______
A. Do something delicious for lunch.
B. Ask the father to taste her awful lunch.
C. Dismiss the mad cook.
D. Speak to the school about lunch.
2.
The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ______ .
A. the cook agreed to serve the soup to Father
B. the matter of lunch hasn’t been settled
C. her father persuaded her mother successfully
D. the method the author thought of was effective
3.
By sharing her own experiences, the author tries to tell us________.
A. when one road is blocked, try another
B. how bad the lunch of her school is
C. how wise her father is
D. about the church rower' near her home
