Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. alert B. classify C. commit D. delicately E. gentle F. impose
G. labels H. moderation I. relieve J. signals K. simply
Let's say you've decided you want to eat more healthfully. However, you don't have time to carefully plan menus for meals or read food __1.__ at the supermarket. Since you really__2.__ yourself to a healthier lifestyle, a little help would come in handy, wouldn't it? This is where a "choice architect" can help__3.__some of the burden of doing it all yourself. Choice architects are people who organize the contexts in which customers make decisions. For example, the person who decides the layout of your local supermarket-including which shelf the peanut butter goes on, and how the oranges are piled up—is a choice architect.
Governments don't have to__4.__healthier lifestyles through laws for example, smoking bans. Rather, if given an environment created by a choice architect-one that encourages us to choose what is best-we will do the right things. In other words, there will be designs that gently push customers toward making healthier choices, without removing freedom of choice. This idea combines freedom to choose with__5.__hints from choice architects, who aim to help people live longer, healthier, and happier lives.
The British and Swedish governments have introduced a so-called "traffic light system" to __6.__foods as healthy or unhealthy. This means that customers can see at a glance how much fat, sugar, and salt each product contains__7.__by looking at the lights on the package. A green light __8.__that the amounts of the three nutrients are healthy; yellow indicates that the customer should be__9.__; and red means that the food is high in at least one of the three nutrients and should be eaten in __10.__. The customer is given important health information, but is still free to decide what to choose.
The giant vending machine (自动售货机) is a new village shop
Villagers have long been used to facing a drive when they run out of basic supplies. However, help is now nearer at hand in form of the country’s first automatic push-button shop. Now residents in the Derbyshire Village of Clifton can buy groceries around the clock after the huge vending was installed outside a pub in the village this week.
Peter Fox, who is1.______electrical engineer, spent two and a half years working on the project. The machine 2.______ (equip) with securing cameras and alarms and looks like a mini shop with a brick front, a grey roof and a display window.
Mr. Fox said he hoped his invention, 3._____ is set to be installed in other villages in the area over the coming months, will mark a return to convenience shopping for rural communities.
He said:“ I had this idea a few years ago but I couldn’t find a manufacture who could deliver what I wanted, so I did it by 4._____. The result is what amounts to huge outdoor vending machine. Yet I think the term “automatic shop” is far 5.______ (appropriate)
In recent years, the commercial pressure from supermarket chains6.______ force village shops across the country to close. In 2010, it was estimated that about 400 village shops closed, 7.______ (urge) the local government to give financial support to struggling shops or set-up new communities stores.
Hundreds of communities have since stepped in and opened up their won volunteer-run shops, but Mr. Fox hopes his new invention will offer a solution8.______these villages without a local shop.
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.