While exciting for many, the holidays are stressful for the thousands of families who are struggling in our community.
Therefore, our holiday programs coordinate(使协调)food collections and donations to aid the low-income mothers, children and senior citizens. Those who wish to join the challenge can send financial donations to our office: 1355 Oakman Boulevard, Detroit 48238. Other ways you can get involved are:
Collect fresh or packaged food or donations for senior citizens. Many schools and business coordinate food drives to support this effort. The donation will be distributed in a massive effort on December 12 at the Rashid Ground. Call 313 494 4401.
Adopt a senior citizen. We will randomly select senior citizens and provide their contact information for donors. We encourage donors to provide fresh food for a holiday meal, and small gifts, if possible. Donors are responsible for purchasing and distributing the gifts and food. Call 313 494 4424.
Adopt a family. Donors can request the names and addresses of families that are enrolled in our food program to provide gifts and food for the holiday season. They can indicate the size of the family they wish to adopt. All families will be selected randomly. Call 313 494 4413.
Participate in our Special Holiday Delivery. Different from past years, when delivery took place at the Gathering Center, volunteers are now expected to meet at the Campus Hall on December 12 to pick up boxes of food and deliver them to senior citizens. Contact Volunteer Outreach Department at 313 494 4270 to sign up for this special event.
1.This passage is written mainly to _________.
A. explain how holiday-makers can make their life meaningful
B. show what lonely and miserable lives poor citizens are leading
C. advertize for a company located in Oakman Boulevard, Detroit
D. introduce several ways of joining a program for charity work
2.If you want to adopt an elderly man and send gifts and food to him, you should call ________.
A. 313 494 4401
B. 313 494 4424
C. 313 494 4413
D. 313 494 4270
3.As a volunteer in Special Holiday Delivery, where should you go to distribute food to the old this year?
A. The Campus Hall
B. The Gathering Center
C. The Rashid Ground
D. The office of Volunteer Outreach Department
写作
假设你是英才中学学生会主席，你校将邀请一名英国心理学专家来做关于中学生心理问题的讲座。请参照以下内容准备一份通知。
心理学讲座
1. 主题：中学生心理（psychological）问题疏导
2. 时间：6月15日下午2:00—5:00
3. 地点： 学校礼堂
4. 最后20分钟与心理专家进行互动交流。
5. 欢迎大家光临
注意：
1. 词数120左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇：学校礼堂：school auditorium 心理学专家psychologist
短文改错。
请修改以下短文：文中共有10处语言错误，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（∧），并在该词下面写出修改的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。修改：在错的词下面划一条横线（_），并在该词下面写出修改的词。注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分
The time we have is usual limited. However, even an hour is of much valuable. We should make full use of your time to do useful things. As students, we mustn’t study hard so as to serve for our society and our nation in the future. But it is pity that there are a lot of people who didn’t know the importance of time. They spend their valuable time smoke and drinking. They don’t realize that wasting time is the same as wasting a part of their life. Remember, don’t put off which you can do today until tomorrow.
下面材料，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。
Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show 1. (happy), as in “a red- letter day”. This is a day when something special happens. The expression is probably based 2. church customs. For almost six hundred years, church calendars(日历) 3. (mark) with red to indicate special holidays. Today’s calendars are still marked that way with the _4. (meaning) of holidays and special days printed in red.
The expression “a red-letter day” is often heard in everyday life. A red-letter day is 5. day when people are feeling quite happy. It may be a day 6. __ you’ve long waited for, a wedding day, for example, or it may be a day with a happy surprise. You might tell your friends that yesterday was a red-letter day, 7. you won sonic money in the state lottery (彩票).
“Rolling out the red carpet" is another 8. (common) heard expression, which 9. (represent) a warm welcome of any kind. A city may “roll out the red carpet” for its baseball team when the team arrives home after winning the championship.
Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. Red-handed is one. To be caught red handed is to be caught 10. (perform) a wrong act.
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Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. ________, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was________ and ill.
My father was ________a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness ________ all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is ________ . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started ________ about life, and I told them about one of my________ . I said that we must very often give things up ________ we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always ________that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father ________up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ________ ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. ________ , he answered his own question: “I ________ the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also ________ by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I ________ remember his words and become ________ . If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be ________ to give up my small irritations. In this ________, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I ________ what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one________ .
1.A. Afterwards B. Therefore C. However D. Meanwhile
2.A. tired B. weak C. poor D. slow
3.A. already B. still C. only D. once
4.A. took B. threw C. sent D. put
5.A. impossible B. difficult C. stressful D. hopeless
6.A. worrying B. caring C. talking D. asking
7.A. decisions B. experiences C. ambitions D. beliefs
8.A. as B. since C. before D. till
9.A. suggests B. promises C. seems D. requires
10.A. spoke B. turned C. summed D. opened
11.A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
12.A. Surprisingly B. Immediately C. Naturally D. Certainly
13.A. had B. accepted C. gained D. enjoyed
14.A. touched B. astonished C. attracted D. warned
15.A. should B. could C. would D. might
16.A. quiet B. calm C. relaxed D. happy
17.A. ready B. likely C. free D. able
18.A. situation B. form C. method D. way
19.A. doubt B. wonder C. know D. guess
20.A. award B. gift C. course D. Word
Changing the world does not only mean finding a medicine for cancer or finding the origin of human beings, but recycling a piece of paper as well. 1. . What follows are three simple ways we can go green and change the world.
Recycle
Every day about 63 million newspapers go out, and 44 million of them are thrown away. By recycling the newspaper alone we could save half a million trees a week. New phones, iPods, or computers are created every day. 2. . By taking them to the local stores that collect them, they can go to people who don’t have enough money to buy one.
Go vegetarian one day a week
According to the scientists at New York University, if the whole population skips one meal of chicken, the amount of carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) would be the same amount if more than half a million cars were taken off roads in the US. 3. .
Refuse bottled water
Most people drink bottled water because they think that bottled water is healthier than tap water. However, 25% of the bottled water actually comes from tap water. Not only are you drinking the same water as the water in your house but you are paying more. 4. . So it is necessary to use reusable water bottles instead of plastic water bottles.
Changing the world had to start from small things. 5.. However, every little helps a mickle(多量). Keep in mind what Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
A. So give up just one day of eating meat.
B. One of the most serious threats to our planet is plastic pollution.
C. Going green is a way that we can have a meaningful influence on the world.
D. Also plastic bottles will cause plastic pollution.
E. It may seem as if the small changes are not influencing the world.
F. But what happens to the old ones?
G. Actually there is little or no difference between bottled water and tap water.
