假设你是成都七中学生王小明，你校外教 Martin 最近退休了。请你代表全校学生根据以下要点，给他写一封感谢信:
1. 感谢他对学生的付出;
2. 回忆师生共度的快乐时光;
3. 祝福他退休生活愉快。
注意： 1、字数 100 词左右；
2、可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
3、信的开头和结尾已为你写好 Dear Martin,
How are you doing recently?
Best wishes,
Your students from Chengdu No. 7 High School
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：把缺词处加个漏字符号（∧），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。
A kind of little cars may someday take place of today’s big ones. If all the people who drive such cars in the future, there will be fewer pollution in the air. There will be more space for parking cars in cities. The streets will be less crowd. And driving will be safe as these little cars can go only 65 km per hour. The future cars will be fine for getting round a city, so they will not be useful for long trips. Little cars will go 200 km before needing to stop for more gases. If big cars are still used along with the small ones, two sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be used for the big fast cars and another roads will be needed for the slow small ones. It is said that three so little cars can fit in with the space now needed for one car of the usual size.
Disposing (处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste disposal problem becomes 1. (increase) difficult.
During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot 2. a dump site (垃圾场). People 3. (transport) household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Regularly some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The 4.(pleasant) sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories, mills (制造厂), and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted 5.(remaining) into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.
Several facts make these choices 6.(accept) to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, 7. are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. The land is either too expensive or too close to residential neighborhoods. A long distance dump has been a common practice, 8. once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is nonexistent. 9.(aware) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.
10.(recycle) efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city’s reusable waste.
Christina Parra brushed her cane(手杖) across the carpet at the entrance to Walgreens. She tapped her way past the shopping carts (手推车) and red lipsticks she could only _______.
Christina, a 16-year-old with two prosthetic(假的) brown eyes, had visited this store several times in _______ for this moment: She was shopping. Love songs _______ through the loudspeakers of the North Highlands, California store. Christina reached the end of Aisle (通道) 1-A and turned right, _______ her way past smooth bottles of liquid soap, toward the individual soap bars. She wanted to buy a bar of soap. A simple goal, but not _______ an easy one.
Christina was 18 months old when she was diagnosed with cancer in both her eyes. Doctors _______Christina’s left eye immediately; a few years later, they removed the right. Since then, activities other kids _______ for granted—taking a bus, _______ the street, shopping at a store—have posed(造成) plenty of _______ for her.
The teacher showed the little girl how to find her classroom by __________ her cane along a lawn’s edge. She learned to count driveways while __________ to a certain address. Yet for a long time, shopping still seemed __________. How would she ever walk __________ those vast aisles, __________with row after row of products she couldn’t see?
Finally, Christina told her teacher that she was ready to shop__________. Together, they took inventory (目录册) at Walgreens. Over the course of several __________, Zermeno told Christina the kinds of products each aisle held; Christina took careful __________ on her Braille computer (盲人电脑).
And __________ it was, on Monday, that her __________came to rest on the bars of soap. She felt her way down to a lower shelf, until she __________ the one she wanted.
1.A. see B. find C. imagine D. smell
2.A. search B. preparation C. praise D. favor
3.A. went B. got C. flew D. passed
4.A. forcing B. feeling C. finding D. losing
5.A. fortunately B. clearly C. necessarily D. differently
6.A. removed B. cured C. treated D. rebuilt
7.A. make B. take C. have D. get
8.A. cleaning B. building C. crossing D. wandering
9.A. challenges B. joy C. pleasure D. disasters
10.A. waving B. tapping C. touching D. moving
11.A. appearing B. turning C. pointing D. walking
12.A. scary B. uncertain C. possible D. frightened
13.A. across B. through C. over D. by
14.A. surrounded B. covered C. filled D. decorated
15.A. of her own B. on her own C. to her own D. at her own
16.A. failures B. efforts C. attempts D. visits
17.A. notice B. attention C. focus D. notes
18.A. so B. yet C. moreover D. besides
19.A. cane B. fingers C. nose D. cart
20.A. saw B. smelled C. bought D. located
Five Ways to Improve Reading Comprehension
Help your child keep what he reads—a crucial skill, especially as he gets older and needs to gain important information from textbooks.
Have him read aloud. This forces him to go slower, which gives him more time to process what he reads. 1. Provide the right kinds of books. Make sure your child gets lots of practice reading books that aren’t too hard. 2. Stopping any more often than that to figure out a word makes it tough for him to focus on the overall meaning of the story.
3. To gain meaning from text, your child needs to read quickly and smoothly—a skill known as fluency. Rereading familiar, simple books gives your child practice at decoding words quickly, so he’ll become more fluent.
Supplement class reading. If his class is studying a particular theme, look for easy-to-read books or magazines on the topic. 4.
Talk about what he’s reading. 5. Ask questions before, during, and after a reading session.
For example:
•Before: “What interests you in this book? What doesn’t?”
•During: “What’s going on in the book? Is it turning out the way you thought it would?”
•After: “Can you summarize the book? What did you like about it?”
A. He should recognize at least 90 percent of the words without any help.
B. Select books that are appealing to your child but not too challenging.
C. Some prior knowledge will help him get better prepared and make his way through tougher classroom texts.
D. This “verbal processing” helps him remember and think through the themes of the book.
E. Plus, he’s not only seeing the words, he’s hearing them, too.
F. Have him reread to build fluency.
G. Increase the speed of reading.
Scientists have found that human eyes are more likely to be damaged by UV rays while skiing in the snow-covered areas than sitting on the beach, according to a report by the UK newspaper.
The researchers at Kanazawa Medical University, Japan and American company Johnson conducted the study together. They looked at the effects of light reflection on newly fallen snow on a ski trail in Ishikawa District, northern Japan. They compared the results with the levels of UV rays on a sand beach in southern Japan's Okinawa District.
They found that on the beach, eyes are exposed to a daily 260 kilojoules (千焦耳) of UV a square meter compared to 658 kilojoules in snow-covered areas.
The findings are supported by the Japan Meteorological (气象的) Agency. According to the agency, the reflection rate of UV light on beaches is often between 10 and 25 percent, compared to 80 percent in the new snow areas. The amount of light increased 4 percent with a 300-meter rise in height.
Most of us know that UV rays can harm the skin. That's why we wear sunscreen on our skin before we get out in the sun. But many of us may not realize that UV rays are also harmful to the eyes.
If your eyes are exposed to large amounts of UV radiation over a short period of time, you may experience a kind of sunburn of the eye, which is harmful. Your eyes will become red and feel a strange feeling. They may be sensitive to light. Fortunately, this is usually temporary and seldom causes permanent damage to the eyes.
Long-term exposure to UV radiation, however, can be more serious. Scientific studies and researches have shown that exposure to small amounts of UV radiation over a period of many years increases the chance of eye damage, which could lead to total blindness.
1.You would most likely find the article in ________.
A. a doctor’s diary B. a travel journal
C. a medical magazine D. a physics textbook
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Too much eye exposure to UV rays may cause total blindness.
B. Short-time exposure of the eyes to UV rays doesn't harm them at all.
C. Most people know that UV rays harm the eyes as well as the skin.
D. The study was conducted by researchers from Japan, the USA and the UK.
3.Human eyes are more likely to be damaged by UV rays while skiing in the snow-covered areas than sitting on the beach because ________.
A. snow produces more UV light than water
B. people don’t wear sunscreen while skiing as they do while sitting on the beach
C. the reflection rate of UV light in snow-covered areas is much higher than that on the beach
D. human eyes are exposed longer to UV light in the snow- covered areas than on the beach
4.What will the passage most probably talk about next?
A. Never ski on newly fallen snow in Japan.
B. Go to hospital to have your eyes examined.
C. Wearing a hat can provide protection while skiing in new snow areas.
D. Take some measures to protect your eyes while skiing in new snow areas.
