“幽默感”被认为是人类最重要的品质之一。请你用英语写一篇短文陈述幽默的好处。要点如下：
1．促进学习；2. 有益健康；3. 缓解压力；4. 增进友谊。
注意：1. 词数：100左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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下面短文中共有10处错误，错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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
Union is strength. Whenever you’re faced with difficulties, and cooperation plays an important part in getting you out of trouble.
There was a time that I was so proud that I overlooked my classmate, refusing to work together with them.Therefore, it was no doubt that I was left alone,suffering from loneliness and failure. Unluckily, a teacher impressed on me the value of cooperation.From then on, I learned to help others and turn to my friends for the help whenever I had difficulty finish a task on my own. Surely cooperation makes a great difference. Now I am getting on well with his friends.
My experience has teach me that only if we place great stress cooperation can we go beyond ourselves. As the saying go, “United we stand; divided we fall.”
Everyone may have a complex and different process of 1. (grow up). There are many 2. (influence)factors in a person's growth and development of his personality.
As for me,what has affected me most in my growth and personality is my family and friends, the two 3. （equal） important factors. As we know, children who 4. (bring up)in a good atmosphere have a better character than those 5. are not. 6. (fortune), I belong to the former. Besides, friends in some ways affect me a lot. 7. we my have many different opinions and personalities, I have really learned something positive from them. In 8. (conclude), I get lots of valuable things from them. My family offers me warmth and cares, 9. my friends give me 10. (strong) and courage. Both of them have influenced me most since I was born.
Two young girls were proud of their beautiful hands. One put them in shining water, and the 1. looked like diamonds dripping (滴下) from them.“What beautiful hands I have！” she said, and then2. her hands for others to admire. They were very soft and white, for she had done 3. but wash them in clear water.
The other girl crushed some flowers in her hands, and they 4. like perfume (香水). “What beautiful hands I have！” she said. Her hands smelled like flowers, 5. she’d never done anything but wash them with 6. every morning.
Another girl nearby didn’t show her hands. She hid them in the 7. of her coat.
An old woman came down the road and 8. before the girls. The first two 9. their hands and asked her whose hands were more beautiful. She10. her head at them and then asked to see the hands of the11. girl.
“Oh, these hands are clean, 12. ,” said the old woman,“but they are hard from 13. .These hands have been helping the girl’s mother and father dry the dishes, sweep the floor, water the garden, 14. for the baby, and show the little brother 15. to build blocks. These hands have been 16. making the house a happy home.” 17. the old woman brought out a ring set (镶嵌) 18. a diamond.“Here, wear this ring, my child. You deserve the 19. for the most beautiful hands that are always the most 20. .”
1.However, all floods are not alike. Some floods develop slowly, sometimes over a period of days. But flash floods can develop quickly, sometimes in just a few minutes and without any signs of rain. Flash floods often have a dangerous wall of roaring water. It carries rocks and mud and can sweep away most things in its path. Overland flooding occurs outside a river but still can be harmful. Flooding can also occur when a dam breaks, producing effects similar to flash floods.
If a flood is likely to occur in your area, you should:
Listen to the radio for information. 2. Don’t wait for instructions to move.
If you have time to prepare, you should:
Make your home safe by bringing in outdoor furniture. More essential items to an upper floor. 3. Do not touch any electrical equipment if you are wet or standing in water.
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Don’t walk through moving water. Six inches of moving water can make you fall. If you have to walk in water, walk where the water is not moving. Use a stick to check the firmness of the ground in front of you.
Don’t drive into flooded areas. If flood water rises around your car, give up the car and move higher ground if you can do so safely. 5.
The following are guidelines for the period following a flood:
Listen to news reports to learn whether the community’s water supply is safe to drink. Stay away from downed power lines, and report them to the power company.
A. Turn off all pieces of electrical equipment.
B. Otherwise you and the car can be quickly swept away.
C. The following are tips about escaping from floods.
D. Floods are one of the most common disasters in the United States.
E. If you have to leave your home right away, remember the following tips.
F. If there is any possibility of a flash flood, move immediately to higher ground.
G. There are many natural disasters like floods, storms, hurricanes in the US every year.
New York — Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Hand Washing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.
Global Hand Washing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership for Hand Washing with Soap. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of hand washing with soap. The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs (病菌). They say the correct way to wash hands is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Then, rinse well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth.
The Partnership says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the dirt that holds most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the likelihood that people will wash again.
It also says washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea (痢疾), which is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing more than one and a half million children a year, by almost half.
1.The Partnership creates Global Hand Washing Day to _____.
A. call on people to wash hands
B. help the developing countries
C. make a culture of hand washing in the third world
D. promote the importance of soap in hand washing
2.The following facts can explain why soap is important EXCEPT that _____.
A. soap gets people into the habit of washing hands
B. soap helps to get rid of more germs off hands
C. soap attracts people to do more hand washing
D. soap gives people a longer hand washing time
3. According to the last paragraph, diarrhea is a disease that _____.
A. kills half of the kids in developing countries
B. can be prevented by washing hands with soap
C. causes the greatest number of child deaths
D. makes soap stand out in hand washing
