你是李华,你很烦恼。最近,每天早晚,你们小区广场上都有很多人在跳广场舞,持续时间长且噪音大,给你和小区里其他人带来了很多的不便。请给小区委员会领导写封信,反映现象及其导致的不便并提出合理建议。
注意:
词数100左右;
短文的开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数;
可适当增加细节,使文章语篇连贯。
参考词汇:广场舞square dance
Dear sir,
I’m writing to tell you something about the people doing the square dance in our community, which has made me terribly upset.
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Yours,
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作文。文中共有10处语言错误,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:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧),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(一),并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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。
Tom is no longer the boy he used to be. Only a year before, he was overweight and a little lazy. He got tiring easily and did not like sports. It was not until he got serious ill that he realized that he should make a change. He started to exercise and begin to eat a healthier diet of more vegetables or less meat. These changes helped her lose a lot of weight. He is now a very happy boy at very good shape, and that he is always so active.
We can learn from Tom that we should careful about what we eat and make sure that we take enough exercises.
Keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways to improve our English writing ability.
1. (compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 2. (little) time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. 3. we persist in the practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express 4. (we) in English. When keeping a diary in English, we run up against many 5. (difficult). In the first place, 6. often happens that we have trouble 7. (find) appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is 8. (extreme) hard for us to put them into English properly.
As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is 9. we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is 10. great use to keep a diary in English for the development of our writing skills.
Born without the right hand, 12-year-old Cassie Stewart often had to sit out during music classes. Cassie was sad that she couldn’t take ____ and would quietly walk toward the back of the ____ .
Now she doesn’t have to, thanks to an _____ by a local high school student. Nicholas Brown, 15, ____ and tested a 3-printed prosthesis(义肢)for Cassie and Andrew Mindy, another student who also has a ____ , to use during music classes. “I wouldn’t really call it a prosthetic hand,” said technology _____ , Brad Fessler, who helped Nicholas _______ the project. “it’s a prostheses ______made for playing instruments. Generally, in the prostheses world, everything is custom-made to _____ different people,” Fessler said. “ in this case, we were able to use the same exact prosthesis for each student, ____ their sizes are different. Everything is designed to be adjustable. They put the prosthesis on, and they can use their other hand to ______ it.”
The idea for the project was born when Cassie’s music teacher, knowing Fessler had just bought a 3-D printer, emailed him to see _____ he could find a way to help her students. Immediately, Fessler thought of Nicholas, one of his ______ students. “ He is really brilliant,” Fessler said. “ He just ______ on things really quickly.”
They worked together to find a(n) ______ for Cassie and Andrew. “Coming up with the original idea was the hardest part,” Nicholas said. “But the _______ of it was just improving the idea and finding out what works.”
They ____ Cassie and Andrew with the final product this week. “I was so glad that she could use it and that it was actually _____ ,” Nicholas said. Cassie was most _____ about the guitar. “I think it’s a really cool instrument,” she said. “I’m _______ they did it for me,” she added.
1.A. care B. part C. action D. interest
2.A. door B. office C. classroom D. playground
3.A. example B. experiment C. instruction D. invention
4.A. used B. bought C. repaired D. designed
5.A. question B. concert C. talent D. disability
6.A. fan B. student C. teacher D. prizewinner
7.A. on B. for C. with D. into
8.A. surely B. specifically C. suddenly D. secretly
9.A. fit B. surprise C. recognize D. challenge
10.A. even though B. because C. as though D. unless
11.A. wear B. play C. adjust D. touch
12.A. when B. if C. how D. why
13.A. star B. university C. poor D. honest
14.A. misses out B. picks up C. looks back D. comes down
15.A. arm B. doctor C. instrument D. solution
16.A. rest B. fact C. meaning D. difficulty
17.A. treated B. examined C. presented D. filled
18.A. changing B. working C. existing D. appearing
19.A. excited B. strict C. worried D. confused
20.A. sorry B. satisfied C. confident D. grateful
Things People Over 50 Wish They’d Done Differently At 25
Save more money. Retirement is no joke, as you’ll learn by 50. As you stare at the poor reality of your retirement, you might find yourself counting every penny you wasted on worthless things. So pack your lunch, find street parking or take the bus.1.
Travel more. You’re only young once. So before you get tied down by responsibilities of a spouse (配偶)and kids, it’s a good idea to explore the world and all it has to offer. Consider working abroad.2.Just go somewhere that will make you look up and around rather than down at your smart phone.
Slow down. Too many of us waste precious moments because we’re too busy connecting to our digital products or on social media. Life is short. Enjoy it. We think a reader put it perfectly: “I wouldnot have been so busy to be successful and work 80 hours a week.3.I would have defined myself by more than what I did for a living.”
4.As the saying goes, nobody can take your accomplishments away from you. Education is one of those accomplishments. Many readers wished they would have either gone to college. Whether it’s bad to land you the career of your dreams, or to meet people from different walks of life or to learn to see things a little differently, education is always a good choice.
5.By 25 you might have noticed your metabolism(新陈代谢)slowing down. Looking after yourself at this time is about creating habits (and breaking bad ones) that will lead to a long life in which you’re healthy enough to do everything you want to do.
A. Get a better education.
B. Consider your health.
C. I would have enjoyed my life slowly.
D. Visit the city you dream about all day.
E. Focus on trying to build a good credit history.
F. Remember that a penny saved is a penny earned.
G. So never be afraid to stand up for yourself and speak your mind.
I have always been somebody who often alternated(交替)between hoping to be alone and hoping to be with others. The thing was, I only wanted to be with others in a very particular way. I wanted to feel warmth between me and the other person. I wanted to feel safe and comfortable. I wanted to feel close. If my relationship with someone didn’t have closeness, it tended to make me feel lonlier than just being alone.
I found most of the advice out there about how to get over loneliness futile. “Put yourself out there more!” the experts said. “Meet more people and you will finally find good friendships.” That only sounded reasonable. Most of us already have people in our lives with whom we feel that spark(火花)of connection, and we just don’t know how to properly fan the flames. We don’t know how to move from common interacting with someone to becoming close. In other words, I’ve found that most of us who fight against loneliness do not lack access to other people. That’s not the source of the pain.
The source of the pain is the lack of a certain feeling in our relationships. And that feeling is closeness. This feel of closeness is what you really want when you are lonely. The feeling of closeness arises between two people when they both feel that the other understands them well and cares about them deeply. I call these two important qualities of closeness “knowing and caring”.
Taken together, knowing and caring are a powerful combination. They say to the other person, “Not only do I see the real you, but I want to keep the real you well.” This is the message you will give and receive from close relationships. Getting to know others in the way that improves closeness means coming to understand them from their own perspective(角度). Closeness doesn’t have to be something that happens by accident--- it is within your control to create. Starting now, you really can stop being lonely.
1.What does the underlined word “futile” mean?
A. Unhelpful. B. Wonderful.
C. Useful. D. Unbelievable.
2.According to the author, most people who feel lonely _______ .
A. should make more new friends
B. don’t lack chances to contact other people
C. don’t know how to express their feelings
D. refuse to change their attitudes toward others
3.According to the passage, the feeling of closeness is ______ .
A. what we really need in our daily life
B. something we can’t control or create
C. based on understanding and valuing each other
D. the most important for building a good relationship
4.To build a close relationship with others, we should ______ .
A. learn to look after others
B. share our thoughts and feelings
C. spend more time staying with others
D. think more from others’s points of view