My Stay in New York
After graduation from university, I had been unable to secure a permanent job in my small town. So I decided to leave home for New York, 1.______I might have a better chance to find a good job. 2. ______ (earn) some money to pay the daily expenses, I started work in a local café as a waiter. I believe that3.______ ______ ______ I was offered a good position, I would resign at once.
Over time, the high cost of living became a little burden on my already 4. ______ (exhaust) shoulder. On the other hand, my search for a respectable job had not met with much success. As I had studied literature at university, I found it quite difficult to secure a suitable job in big companies. Mother had just said that 5.______ I want to have a better career advancement, I had to find work in the city. Perhaps 6.______my mother had told me was deeply rooted in my mind. I just did as she had expected.
Soon I had lived in the city for over six months but I still did not like it. Apparently, I had difficulty7.______ (adapt) myself to life in the city, let alone finding a job to my delight. After nine months of frustration, I eventually decided to go back to my small town. Not until I returned 8.______I realize that a quiet town life was the best for me.
假设你是李华,最近跟父母去国外旅行时所居住的旅馆服务不好。请根据以下要点提示
给旅馆老板写一封英文投诉信,
l空调无法关掉;
2浴室不干净;
3.晚上周围噪音很大,且不给更换房间。
4服务员态度随意,漫不经心。
注意:l.词数100左右;
2.短文须包括所给要点,但不必逐句翻译;
3可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
4文章的开头和结尾已经给出,下计入总词。
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to complain about your hotel service. My parents and I had a terrible stay in
Room 512.
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Looking forward to hearing from you
Yours faithfully
Li Hua
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短文。短文中共有10处错误,每句中最多有两处。错误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(^),并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
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。
Jack had a serious accident and is now in hospital.
Yesterday afternoon, Jack was crossing the street while a car was coming towards him at great
speed. When the driver saw Jack. But it was too late for him to stop the car. Jack was knock down, lay on the ground. The driver dialed 120,and soon an ambulance came and takes Jack to hospital immediately After about three hours' operation ,Jack was out from danger. But when I went to see her this morning, he was lying in bed, his eye closed
I hope he get good again as sooner as possible
阅读下而材料.在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Alan: Racial prejudice continued to be exercised by the authorities long after the end of the slavery and the 1. (liberate) of slaves in the United States of America. You only have to look into this case to see 2. I mean.
Gina: So what's the ease about?
Alan: It's about a handful of black teenagers accused 3. robbery
Gina: How did they come to be accused?
Alan: Some white teenagers said they had been attacked by black teenagers and the police 4. were looking for them stopped a train and searched it. They and several other black and white people on board were found riding the train without 5. (possess) tickets. Two of the white women swore that they 6. (rob) of their cash and chequebook by these boys.
Gina: Then what happened?
Alan: They were arrested and sentenced to death
Gina: So what was the problem?
Alan: At first they were kept under high security and not allowed 7. (see) lawyers. When they were finally tried, the jury(陪审团) was all white and so was 8. judge.
Gina: They still might have been guilty.
Alan: No. One of the women later admitted she had lied Despite this, only four of them were
released. By then, they had spent six years in prison. The 9. were either sent to jail forseventy five years or sentenced to death.
Gina: So what happened? Was there a happy en ding?
Alan: Not really. In the end none of them spent less than ten years in prison. Twenty four years later. only long after they had all died, were all of them 10. (final) pardoned.
"How was school, Ben?" I asked my after he began kindergarten(幼儿园) this year. "The work is too and there's not enough time to play." he replied with a deep .
I couldn't help but remember Ben's mother. my daughter, Jane, and her to the first day of school. When Julie home that afternoon. I asked her the same question . She also replied with a long, face but her answer was a little different as she announced . " I didn't learn to today."
What a disappointment for a little girl who thought she would know how to read her little books after the first day of school. I had to explain to her that she would learn to read but didn't happen quite that fast.
My went back to my school days again I could almost the chalk dust in the air. I suppose few schools still use chalk and blackboards. They have probably been with newer equipment and large computer screens
On the first day of school, the expectation was s0 that I would be up early in the morning and long before it was time to leave for school We . about 6 blocks to school new shoes that felt tight and carried our small supplies inside a cigar box from one of the local stores. The stores must have saved cigar boxes just to give to us children .We them from year to year until they fell apart.
The first day of school was a new beginning, although there might be on the first day. The doors of knowledge had been opened and we great learning adventures. It is an in our lives that most of us remember. It's a big step for a small child toward leaving babyhood and so "there isn't enough time to play".
1.A. son B. grandson C. brother D. cousin
2.A. short B. loose C. hard D. long
3.A. cheer B. expression C. concern D. sigh
4.A. attention B. approach C. reaction D. access
5.A. returned B. left C. headed D. escaped
6.A. cheerful B. friendly C. sad D. familiar
7.A. write B. read C. listen D. speak
8.A. widely B. magically C. perfectly D. commonly
9.A. eventually B. originally C. occasionally D. constantly
10.A. idea B. view C. mind D. sight
11.A. smell B. imagine C. taste D. reach
12.A. decorated B. replaced C. exchanged D. equipped
13.A. small B. great C. faint D. slight
14.A. anxious B. nervous C. curious D. ready
15.A. walked B. drove C. ran D. rode
16.A. on B. in C. by D. with
17.A. saved B. used C. protected D. hid
18.A. excitement B. anxiety C. disappointment D. sorrow
19.A. expected B. promised C. demanded D. appreciated
20.A. matter B. affair C. fact D. event
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项其中有两项为多余选项。
Boys do bad at school
Despite education reforms and more than enough money, more and more boys have been dropping out of high schools in the United Arab Emirates (阿拉伯联合酋长国 ) for the past few years. 1._They often choose jobs in public services. the army or the police force instead. As a result. only 30% of the universities are made up of male students. Such a condition has also put them at an obvious disadvantage. 2. In such an oil-rich country. families are so wealthy that their children do not need to study hard. Boys often come to school with personal helpers who carry their suitcases for them and help them with their homework. They rely on them to do everything they would otherwise have to do themselves_3._
Public schools usually get enough money from the government. 4. The rest go to private schools where teachers are more interested in pushing children towards a higher education. In public schools. motivation is low and students seem uninterested in learning. Experts agree that teacher training throughout the Emirates needs to be improved.
5. 0ne of them is the population's widespread thinking that the government will always supply young citizens with jobs. Authorities are convinced that just pouring money into the school system won't achieve the desired results. Their aim is to have more Emirati males finish high school and continue to go to university, where they will get degrees and have a bright future.
A. But what comes after oil runs out in the country?.
B. Boys and girls are often separated in public schools.
C. Few women will marry a man with lower education.
D. However. only 40% of all children attend these schools.
E. The Emirati people have been living on the land for centuries.
F. Many mistakes have actually been made in the past few years.
G. Currently about 25% of boys in the country do not finish high school