假如你是李华,对今年一月出现的严重雾霾记忆犹新,认为绿色生活方式对于改善空气质量十分有益。请根据下列要点写一篇短文,向校刊“英语角”栏目投稿。
简述雾霾情况 |
倡导绿色生活 |
持续三周左右 影响全国多地 造成极大不便 |
乘坐公交出行 节约水电纸张 … … |
注意:1.词数:120左右; 2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Greener Life Cleaner Air
It is not easy to forget the heavy smog that occurred on January.___________________
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假设你是李华,打算暑假和你的美国朋友lucy一起去旅游,请你根据提示给她发一封弟子邮件,告知她旅游安排和注意事项。
目的地 |
海南岛 |
时间 |
7月18日-7月26日 |
活动 |
岛上远足,海上冲浪,岛上宿营 |
注意事项 |
携带护照 |
注意:词数100左右,可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯
Dear Lucy,
I’m writing to tell you the arrangements for our trip during the summer holiday.
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
短文改错 (共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
An English lady was finally decided that she really should learn to drive. But after many attempts, she pass her driving test and told her husband that,
to release, he was going to drive him over to France for a holiday. But then
a week after the trip, she suddenly announced that they wouldn’t take the holiday. “How did you change your mind?” he asked her by surprise. “Well,
it is all because of the business of driving on right.” She said, “I have been practicing for three weeks now, but I still couldn’t get used to it, in fact,
I’ve nearly killed three peoples.”
Have you ever lost your temper? Did you yell or scream at those around you, even people you like or love? Did you want to break something or hit someone?
Everyone gets angry. We have lots of emotions. At different times, we may be happy, sad or jealous. 1. .
It’s perfectly okay to be angry at time--- in fact, it’s important to get angry sometimes. Anger can even be a good thing. When we are treated unfairly, anger can help us stand up for ourselves.
__2.___ some people keep their anger buried deep inside. If you do this, you might get a headache or your stomach might start to hurt. You may just feel crummy (糟糕的) about yourself or start to cry. It’s not good to hide your anger, so you should find a way to let it out without hurting yourself or others.
When you start to feel angry, you can count to 10, draw a picture of anger, play a video game, run as fast as you can or do something active. An effective way is to talk to a friend you can trust. 3. .
4. Instead, admit to yourself that you are angry and try to figure out why you are angry and what you can do to keep the situation from happening again.
Never getting angry is impossible. But, you should always remember that how you act when you’re angry can make the situation better or worse.
5. Take charge of it!
A. Once you talk about anger, those bad feelings usually start to go away.
B. Taking it out on others never solves anything.
C. Anger is just another way we feel.
D. Here is an important way to deal with anger.
E. But anger must be released in the right way.
F. Every coin has two sides.
G. Don’t let anger be the boss of you.
Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.
But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But is also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.
There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.
1.What does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?
A.Using too much packaging.
B.Recycling too many wastes.
C.Making more products than necessary.
D.Having more material than is needed.
2.The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______.
A.the tendency of cutting household waste
B.the increase of packaging recycling
C.the rapid growth of super markets
D.the fact of packaging overuse
3.According to the text, recycling ______.
A.helps control the greenhouse effect
B.means burning packaging for energy
C.is the solution to gas shortage
D.leads to a waste of land
4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.Fighting wastefulness is difficult.
B.Needless material is mostly recycled.
C.People like collecting recyclable waste.
D.The author is proud of their consumer culture.
A study by St.. Louis University has found that a lovable dog named Sparky and a robotic dog, AIBO, were about equally effective at reducing the loneliness of nursing home residents. The study confirmed previous findings that dogs have a good effect on nursing home residents.
Dr. Andrew Smith led the Stanford University team that built a home-assistance robot. “If humans can feel an emotional tie with robots, some day they could be not just our assistants, but also our companions,” he said.
To test whether residents responded better to Sparky, a trained dog, or the Sony-made robotic dog, researchers divided 38 nursing home residents into three groups at three long-term care centers in St. Louis.
One group had weekly 30-minute one-on-one visits with Sparky; another group had similar visits with AIBO; a control group had no contact with either dog. The groups’ respective levels of loneliness were tested by having them answer a number of questions at the beginning and near the end of the visits.
After two months, both groups that had contact with the dogs were less lonely and more attached. Most of the elderly regarded Sparky, a 9-year-old dog, as an audience for their life stories, said investigator Marian Banks.
“He listened attentively, wagged his tail, and allowed them to pet him,” said Banks, who adopted and trained Sparky after finding him in a street behind her home seven years ago.
Those who were together with AIBO took a little longer to warm to the robotic creature. Over time, however, they grew comfortable with him, and petted and talked to him. He would respond by wagging his tail, vocalizing, and blinking his lights..
“AIBO is charming once you start to interact with him,” said the study’s author, Dr. William Banks, “He’s an attractive sort of guy. He gives a feeling of being personal, not just a robot.”
1.Before the new study, it was known that ____.
A.robots were effective at reducing people’s loneliness
B.robots could build close connection with humans
C.dogs could help get rid of old people’s loneliness
D.dogs and robots were equally effective at reducing loneliness
2.Those who had contact with the robotic dog found that ___.
A.they didn’t feel comfortable with it
B.it was hard for them to interact with it
C.they weren’t comfortable with it at first
D.the robot’s vocalizing and blinking confused them
3.The findings of the researchers tell us that___.
A.robots are better at caring for old people than nurses
B.robots can to some degree replace dogs as companions for old people
C.it’s easy for people to become close with robots
D.every home will have a robot assistant one day
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Robots Serve People Better Than Thought
B.No More Lonely Old Age with Emotional Robots
C.Advanced Technology Used to cheer up the Elderly
D.Robots and Dogs Can Equally Cheer up the Elderly