I’m sorry, but I didn’t mean to keep you waiting here for a long time, can you me?
A．apologize B．remind C．forgive D．Gain
假设你是李华，你国际学校的朋友Paul邀请你下个星期天去他们学校参加文化交流活动并介绍中国传统绘画 (traditional Chinese painting), 但是你的爷爷生病住院，不得不谢绝他的邀请。请根据下面的要点给Paul用英语写一封回信。
要点：1. 谢绝Paul的邀请；
2. 说明你的理由；
3. 推荐你的同学Anna参加。
注意：1．词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头已为你写好（不计入你所写词数）。
Dear Paul,
Thank you very much for your invitation.
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Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错(共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分)
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作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
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。
While Joe left university, he got a good job in a bike factory. After he had worked there for some years, he decided to have change. But he put a notice in several newspapers, saying what experiences he had and the kind of job he would like to have. One of the answers he accepted was from a man looked for a job, too. This man wrote to him, “Dear sir, when you get a new job, to be kind enough to give my name and address to your present boss，as I have been trying to find a position like you for a long time.” After he reads the letter, he suddenly realized what he had done was real foolish.
Will 1. matter if you don’t take your breakfast? Some time ago a test 2. (give) in the United States. The test included people of different 3. (age) from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfast, and sometimes they got 4. breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see 5. well their bodies worked when they had eaten 6. certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect 7. if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be 8. (especial) true if a person works 9. his brain. For example, if a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with 10. (much) attention in class.
You've been away from us for one year; you told us a lie which I came to know not long ago.
On this special day for teachers across the country, I can ________keep myself from telling your white lie(善意的谎言) to those who would lend me an ear.
Do you still remember the happy _____about six years ago? We fixed our eyes upon you at your _____.You, a beautiful young lady, ____ __ us that you would live in our village.
Soon after, we began to find you were part of your students and their simple honest parents. The villagers found their children ____ __more time on their books ___ ___ after doing their homework and housework. Yet they still ____ __ that one day you might leave. You _ __a smile all the time, which reduced to some degree their___ __ of your leaving. You went all out in the ____ __ of your students, helping them not only in their studies but also in their tuition(学费).You often emphasized to us the ____ __ of one's life, so that must have been what you were ____ in those five years!
One cold morning when class began, you entered the room ____ __ you had been crying ____ __. In your class, we ____ __ but looked away from your eyes. You ____ __for some time as if you were ____to find the right word…you said you would go away and would never be back to teach because your boyfriend wanted you more…
On the following morning, we ___ __ you the very best and the villagers gave you their ____ __The train took you away and your broken ____ __.The other day I happened to hear my parents chatting that you had lung cancer and left the world soon after you waved goodbye.
1.A. foreverB. seldomC. soonD. hardly
2.A. sceneB. conditionC. signD. sight
3.A. reportB. explanationC. arrivalD. speech
4.A. promisedB. answeredC. permittedD. agreed
5.A. sharedB. spentC. paidD. devoted
6.A. evenB. everC. soonD. still
7.A. consideredB. fearedC. supposedD. doubted
8.A. gainedB. presentedC. woreD. pretended
9.A. difficultyB. questionC. troubleD. fear
10.A. teachingB. middleC. fieldD. course
11.A. wayB. wealthC. valueD. cost
12.A. afterB. withC. forD. against
13.A. as long asB. now thatC. as ifD. even though
14.A. happilyB. bitterlyC. angrilyD. anxiously
15.A. listenedB. talkedC. discussed[D. studied
16.A. explainedB. stoppedC. talkedD. spoke
17.A. worryingB. thinkingC. cryingD. trying
18.A. hopedB. expectedC. broughtD. wished
19.A. thanksB. satisfactionsC. expressionsD. rewards
20.A. classB. heartC. classD. memory
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，选项中有两项为多余选项。（E=AB, F=AC, G=AD）
1. Half a minute? A few seconds?
Google engineers have discovered that even 400 milliseconds—as short as the blink of an eye—is too long for most Internet users.
A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. People hardly notice such a small time difference, but it does cause them to stop searching, reported The New York Times.
Nowadays, millions of smart-phones and computers are constantly gathering and sending out information. 2. you can get digital "traffic jams". Meanwhile, users are expecting faster and faster service.
Google found that if one website is 250 milliseconds slower than another website, then people will visit it less often. 3. Google said people do expect different things from different websites because they realize not all loading times are the same. For example, a person will be more patient waiting for a video clip to load than for a search result.
Even so, four out of five online users will click away if a video takes too long to load. This makes it difficult for video websites to choose between the quality of pictures and fast loading times.
Pursuing a higher speed has always been part of the history of the Internet.
In the 1990s,when the World Wide Web first started to become popular, 4. people called it the "World Wide Wait". But engineers managed to fight the problem with new inventions. They laid a lot of fiber optic cables for high-speed transmissions; they improved software so it would work more smoothly; they placed computer servers all around the world to be nearer to users; all this increased speed.
Nowadays we can enjoy much faster Internet ._ 5. But they will need to keep fighting to keep up with the developing demands of internet users.
A. Internet is becoming faster and faster.
B. With so many people downloading maps, sports videos, news and restaurant recommendations,
C. We can not expect a faster speed about the internet.
D. Major search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing usually find search results in less than a second.
E. How long are you willing to wait for a webpage to open before you start to lose your patience?
F. This is why technology companies are now competing to be the fastest.
G. it was very crowded and slow;
