假设你是李华，学校邀请著名书法家沈鹏到校举行书法讲座。请你给外教David写封邮件邀请他参加。
内容要点：
1.讲座时间：5月15日（星期日）上午8:00---11:00；
2.讲座地点：艺术楼演讲大厅；
3.活动安排：听讲座，讨论及提问题，观摩名家即兴创作等；
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.calligraphy 书法；improvise即兴表演
Dear David,
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Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours sincerely,
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。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限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Today we had the honor of invite Professor Hudson, a foreign teacher from Beijing University, to give us an English lesson. All of us were deeply impressing by this unforgettable English lesson. The professor began the class with an amusing English story, that attracted our attention at once. He spoke slowly and clearly so that we could follow her well. Great inspired, most of us took an active part in classroom activities. After class, many students being interviewed spoke highly of him. They said that never they experienced such interesting a class. From his lesson, we came to a conclusion what it is not so difficult to learn English but we find a good way.
Each year 1.(thousand) of tourists visit the polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica. But the increasing number of people traveling to the ends of the Earth can have2.negative effect on fragile ecosystems. Should tourists3.(allow) to visit polar regions?
About 40,000 tourists visit Antarctica each year. More than five million travel to the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Transporting tourists to the regions 4.(increase) ship and airplane traffic, adding to the risk of pollution, oil spills, and other 5.(environment) damage. Because the places where wildlife is accessible 6.(be) few in number, tourist traffic can become concentrated in specific areas, 7.(put)Arctic vegetation at risk.
Others say that access8. these very special parts of the world should not be restricted to only researchers and scientists. Polar tourism allows people to develop deep 9.（person） connections with polar regions. “Those 10. travel to the Arctic or Antarctica often become cheerleaders for supporting those places.” Jim Sano, vice president for travel and conservation at World Wildlife Fund, told TFK.
Lita CabEllut is one of Spain’s most successful artists, “My _________ was like that of thousands of street kids around the world.” says Lita. She used to _________ the streets of Barcelona with other homeless children and _______ in the open air.
Lita was _______ in a village in Aragon, north-east Spain, in 1961.While she was a baby, her mother _______Barcelona. She was left with her grandmother—but _________she spent most of her time out on the_________.
_______, she says that “art was there because art is _________ around us”, but she didn’t think about it in a __________ sense—she was focused on __________.
Lita’s grandmother ____________when she was about 10 years old and she ____________ a Barcelona orphanage（孤儿院）before being ____________ by “a beautiful Catalan family” two years later.
She didn’t____________ much about them, except that they __________her to art. They took her to Madrid’s Prado museum, and showed Goya’s works to her. Her adopted family __________Lita to keep painting—they ____________paid for private teachers to make up for __________time. She slowly made progress at school, started to listen to the “voice of art” and ____________to study hard.
1.A. hobby B. skill C. dream D. childhood
2.A. move B. wander C. leave D. cross
3.A. drank B. sang C. slept D. danced
4.A. born B. cured C. invited D. admired
5.A. moved to B. stayed in C. passed by D. backed off
6.A. in favor B. in danger C. in person D. in reality
7.A. beds B. streets C. tables D. grasses
8.A. Knowing B. Training C. Remembering D. Forgetting
9.A. badly B. finally C. never D. always
10.A. sad B. bad C. formal D. humorous
11.A. arrival B. survival C. eagerness D. patience
12.A. died B. bit C. ran D. played
13.A. kept pace with B. ended up in C. took charge of D. got hold of
14.A. adopted B. matched C. shown D. recognized
15.A. finish B. admit C. mind D. tell
16.A. attached B. contributed C. introduced D. added
17.A. discouraged B. taught C. encouraged D. shocked
18.A. yet B. just C. still D. even
19.A. closing B. lost C. available D. spare
20.A. decided B. pretended C. preferred D. abandoned
People have been making and flying kites for about 2,000 years. 1.Some historians believe it the ancient Chinese may have started kite flying 2000 years ago. It is still a popular hobby in China, Japan and Korea and in other countries of the Far East where beautifully decorated appear in different colors.
2.Simple kites are made by crossing two sticks and covering them with paper or cloth. Then you attach a string at the end. More expensive kites have frames made of fiberglass, plastic or aluminum. The name comes from a graceful bird called kite.
3.A flat kite is the oldest and simplest type of kite. It flies because air flows over and under the kite's wing. The pressure under the wing helps the kite lift into the air.
4.Early scientists sent kites up into the air to measure temperature at different heights. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin used a kite to prove that lightning was a form of electricity. He attached a metal key to the string of a kite. When lightning hit the kite, electricity passed down the string and Franklin got an electric shock. It was a very dangerous experiment that you shouldn't copy.
Kites were also used to develop airplanes. The Wright Brothers experimented with kites before they flew the first airplane. 5. In World War I the Germans developed a large kite that could transport people to a submarine. Kites were also used to carry radio signals over long distances.
Today most people fly kites as a hobby. Kite festivals are organized in many cities in all parts of the world.
A. Kites are made in many different sizes, colors and shapes.
B. flying kites is great fun and it is easy if you know some secrets.
C. Kites have also been used in experiments.
D. No one knows for sure who invented the kite.
E. In Japan families fly fish kites on Children's Day, May5th.
F. Stories of kites were brought to Europe till the end of the 13th century.
G. In the past, kites were sometimes used to take pictures in wars.
Cycling or even walking in city areas can be a little dangerous, thanks to the fact that one is sharing the road with vehicles that are increasingly getting larger and heavier. A recent study proves that of the 1.27million people that die in road traffic crashes each year, about half are walkers, motorcyclists and cyclists. Now there may be a solution that could provide at least some help to protect this helpless group---an airbag!
If you are worried that this safety measure will involve you taking around a heavy package or worse still, wrapping yourself inside an ugly plastic bag, the bag is fitted not on the human, but on the outside of the vehicle. And, while there are several versions of the idea in the works, the one most recently unveiled by Dutch car company TNO, seems to be the most advanced and ready to go into production.
In the works since 2011, the airbag covers only the lower part of the windshield. This will provide the much needed buffer(缓冲)between the person’s head and the pane of glass he/she would otherwise meet.
The chain of events leading to an airbag cause are quite simple---A camera fitted beneath the rear-view mirror monitors the vehicle’s closeness to a walker or cyclist. Any contact with either one of them sets off the sensors in the car’s bumper and quickly blows up the airbag. In addition to that the sensors also set off the car’s automatic brake, reducing the chances if an even worse injury.
In tests conducted using a model, the success of not getting injured after being hit by a car travelling at about 40km/h was about 50-50! While not perfect, it will still result in reducing the number of deaths by a huge amount.
With TNO ready to license its technology to car makers and many more companies trying to develop similar concepts, we would not be surprised if outer airbags become a standard feature in every car pretty soon.
1.Why does the airbag cover the lower part of the windshield?
A. To protect the windshield from being destroyed.
B. To make the vehicle look beautiful.
C. To reduce the weight of walkers.
D. To prevent people’s head crashing on the glass.
2.The fourth paragraph is mainly about__________.
A. how the airbag works
B. where the airbag is fixed
C. why the airbag is safe
D. what the airbag is made up of
3.The writer thinks the airbag of TNO____________.
A. perfect
B. practical
C. expensive
D. useless
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Airbags are a new standard feature in cars.
B. Airbags are much safer for drivers now.
C. Airbags are practical for walkers and cyclists.
D. Airbags are a solution to higher car accident rates.
