The old man fell down the front steps, knocked his head, and lost ________; when he woke up, he was back in his house.
A. consciousness B. balance
C. confidence D. contact
From the smile on Rico’s face, you might have the ________ that he has no problems. The truth is, however, that his parents are both quite ill, and he lost his job two weeks ago.
A. evaluation B. commitment
C. concern D. impression
假如你是李华，你的朋友Tom邀请你下周去他们学校参加文化交流活动并向外国朋友介绍中国的传统绘画。但你忙于准备高考，不得不谢绝邀请。请根据下面的要点用英语写一封信：
1.谢绝邀请； 2.说明理由； 3.推荐朋友May参加，并说明原因。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.信的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入总词数）
Dear Tom,
Thank you very much for your invitation.
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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 we go mountain climbing. Even the heavy rain in the morning could not prevent us going. Set off very early, we went along an extreme narrow road, all in high spirits. On every side of the road was green fields and some farm houses. We could hear the sound of the rain and our footsteps mixing with our laughter. At noon we reached the top of the mountain. That surprised us most there was the beauty of scenes. After having short rest there and sharing with the food we had brought, we started going down. It rained even harder. We were wet to the skin, and we still sang and laughed happily.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空1词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Freeflyers: Modem Skydivers
Have you experienced the thrilling sport—freeflying? Imagine falling towards the planet Earth at 1. awesome speed of 300 kilometers per hour. You start your fall from over four kilometers above the Earth. And you have less than one minute before you pull your parachute (降落伞）cord. You are falling 2. fast that just turning your head can send you off 3. a different direction. This is the wild side of a sport that has not found its limit—freeflying.
Freeflying 4. (base) on the more traditional skydiving, 5. of which are eye-catching. However, it is more terrifying to watch freeflyers create formations and movements. Freeflyers, 6. the name suggests, enjoy the more spontaneous(即兴的）thrill of doing their own things.
The wildest trip for a freeflyers is falling ‘head down’. Falling ‘head first’ requires a great deal of control, which means 7. (travel) not only fast but also steadily. Even the 8. (slight) movement has a great effect on your direction.
They wear the amusing jumpsuits, strange helmets and smaller parachutes. 9. (actual), their parachutes are about one quarter the size of the traditional skydiver’s parachutes. It is only in the last few years 10. freeflying has gained any real public acceptance.
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still the brightness of sunshine. It would be to see again, but a can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the of them made me more what I had.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to against blindness.
The hardest I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real, person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he me, “and roll it around.” The words in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my . It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
1.A. remember B. affect C. measure D. bring
2.A. possible B. wonderful C. hopeful D. reasonable
3.A. question B. mistake C. disaster D. situation
4.A. importance B. value C. loss D. attention
5.A. record B. expect C. offer D. appreciate
6.A. natural B. modern C. meaningful D. challenging
7.A. necessary B. easy C. difficult D. practical
8.A. right B. plan C. place D. potential
9.A. guard B. hit C. argue D. fight
10.A. game B. skill C. lesson D. knowledge
11.A. self-control B. self-confidence C. self-defense D. self-improvement
12.A. modest B. energetic C. generous D. positive
13.A. strengthen B. express C. share D. destroy
14.A. urged B. blamed C. respected D. admired
15.A. held B. stuck C. bothered D. knocked
16.A. important B. specific C. common D. impossible
17.A. invented B. confirmed C. checked D. noticed
18.A. interest B. limitation C. experience D. responsibility
19.A. once B. unless C. because D. though
20.A. fail B. try C. act D. continue
