There’s something about Minot that I’m always going to carry with me. When it got hit last year by the worst flooding in its history, there was this feeling of helplessness. You just watched this water slowly rise and flood the city. It was heartbreaking. But this is a community of people that are extremely strong and not afraid to roll up their sleeves and work to get it back to normal.
I’ve tried to bring as much awareness to Minot as I can, and raise as much money as I can. We held a concert last year, where my wife singer Fergie talked her band the Black Eyed Peas into coming in and doing a benefit concert. From it we raised $2 million towards the rebuilding effort, which was really cool. We won a contest for Oak Park as well, to start rebuilding on that.
Roosevelt Park Zoo is one of my oldest memories. I remember having a birthday party there as a kid. We used to go to look at the monkeys and other animals in the summer when it was open. But after last year’s flood, it was almost washed away, and they’ve got go start from scratch. I think the $25,000 dollars is a great start, but we’re going to have to raise a lot more to get it back to right. Luckily, the community itself is developing, so it’s just a matter of those doing whatever they can to help can to help the community to get it back to normal. However, it’s going to be a number of years for a third of the homes were lost. That will take a long time to heal, and if anyone in the world can get through it, it’s the people in Minot.
1.The author helped Minot fight against the flood by______.
A. donating as much money as the could
B. raising money for it through various activities
C. calling for the people’s awareness to stay calm
D. asking his wife’s band to play to comfort the people
2.The author helped rebuild Roosevelt Park Zoo mainly because______.
A. it was important for the children
B. many performances were held there
C. it reminded him of his happy childhood
D. it was destroyed the most seriously by the flood
3.Which of the following did the author show to us in the text?
A. His deep love to his hometown
B. The ways of helping each other in the flood
C. The difficulty of rebuilding homes in his hometown
D. His worry about the future life of the people in Minot
Films
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
It’s supposedly based on a true story, which stars Jennifer Carpenter as Emily Rose, a country girl who goes away to college and then becomes possessed by the devil. The inspiration for the film came from the story of Anneliese Michel, a supposedly possessed woman who died from starvation after a series of unsuccessful exorcism attempts in 1976.
Children of the Corn
Has that thing ever happened to you where you go on a road trip and stop for gas and realize that you lose your direction off the beaten path and people start looking at you like you’re from the moon? The instance always reminds you of this movie. Walk far into the wilderness and it’s all just Children of the Corn territory.
The Ring
Some people prefer the original Japanese version of this film to the 2002 remake starring Naomi Watts, so if you have time, watch both, but if you don’t, start here. There was a really exciting period in the early 2000s when the film industry made some exciting changes to the usual format of horror movies. This movie helped introduce a transition from monster films to a more psychological approach that relies on expectations more than in-your-face jump scares.
It Follows
This is a movie that’s super fun to approach not knowing much about it, because if you hadn’t already known the fact that it’s a scary movie, you’d be surprised by how things develop as you’re experiencing it for the first time. There are a lot of scares in It Follows that catch you by surprise, which makes it feel refreshing, fun, and horrifying at the same time.
1.Who is Jennifer Carpenter?
A. A woman who died from starvation
B. An actress who acted Emily Rose
C. A girl who was possessed by the devil
D. The author who wrote The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2.If you lose your way near a gas station, you are most likely to think of the film_______.
A. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
B. Children of the Corn
C. The Ring
D. It Follows
3.What special contribution did The Ring make?
A. It introduced fun and horrifying experiences at the same time.
B. It introduced in-your-face jump scares
C. It created a new style of horror movies
D. It was adapted into many Japanese films.
4.How may you feel when watching It Follows?
A. Sad and upset
B. Fun and moved
C. Bored and sleepy
D. Amazed and frightened
手机本来是方便联系的，但是很多年轻人却将手机当成消磨时间的娱乐工具。他们整天低头发微信、玩游戏，被人们戏称为“低头族”。请为Campus Life写一篇文章，对这种情况进行分析，并发表你的看法，文章中需包括下面的要点：
1.人们对手机产生依赖，疏远家人和亲友；
2.低头玩手机甚至引发交通事故，给家人带来痛苦。
注意：1.词数120～150；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3.参考词汇：低头族Smartphone Addicts
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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短文。短文中共有10处错误，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：在错的词下画一横线, 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。
The Big Bang Theory, one of the most popular comedy in America and even around the world these days, tell stories about four male scientists and a beautiful waitress.
These scientists are smart in their fields, especially Sheldon. He has a real high IQ in physics and he is very bad at getting along with others. Fortunately，his roommate Leonard was very tolerant and always forgives him at every time Sheldon makes a mistake. The waitress, naming Penny, is a very easy-going and nice girl whom has a dream of becoming an actress.
The comedy has gained popularity among people aged from 18 to 49. Its special and funny stories make people falling in love with it in short time.
Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you get a closer look you will notice one of them is blind. Instead of 1. (abandon) him, his owner has made him a safe and comfortable barn to live in. And if you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell 2. (come) from 3. smaller horse. Attached to 4. (it) halter (缰绳) is a small, copper-colored bell assisting the blind friend to follow him,
5. you watch them, you'll find the horse with the bell always checking on the blind one, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to 6. the other one is, trusting he will not 7. (lead) astray (迷路地). When the horse with the bell returns to the barn each evening, he will stop 8. (frequent) to look back, making sure that the 9. isn't too far behind to hear the bell．
Life does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of our acquaintances; 10. other times, we are the guide horse, who helps others to find their way.
Two brothers --- one a bachelor, the other married --- owned a farm whose rich soil yielded (生产) a lot of grain. _______ of the grain went to one brother and half to the other.
All _______ well at first. Then every now and then, the married man began to wake from his sleep at night and think: “This isn’t ________. My brother isn’t married, he’s all _______, and he gets only half the produce of the farm. Here I am with a wife and five kids, _______ I have all the security I need for my old age. But who will _______ my poor brother when he gets old? He needs to _______ much more for the future than he does at the present, so his need is _______ greater than mine.”
_______ that he would get out of bed, _______ over to his brother’s place and pour a sackful of grain into his brother’s granary(粮仓).
The bachelor brother _______ began to get the same _______. Every once in a while he would _______ from his sleep and say to himself: “My brother has a(n) _______ and five kids and he gets only half the produce of the land. Now I have no one except myself to _______. So should my poor brother, whose need is clearly greater than mine, receive _______ as much as I do? ” Then he would get out of bed and pour a sackful of grain into his brother’s granary.
One night they got out of bed at the same time and ______ to meet on the way, each with a sack of grain on his _______!
Many years later, after their death, the _______ leaked out(泄露). So when the townsfolk wanted to build a church, they _______ the spot at which the two brothers met, for they could not think of any place in the town that was better than that one.
1.A. Some B. Much C. Half D. Most
2.A. left B. went C. ended D. changed
3.A. fair B. true C. fine D. easy
4.A. rich B. strong C. honest D. alone
5.A. or B. so C. and D. but
6.A. know about B. depend on C. talk with D. care for
7.A. spend B. earn C. save D. accept
8.A. obviously B. finally C. slowly D. luckily
9.A. For B. On C. With D. At
10.A. turn B. steal C. jump D. look
11.A. even B. still C. never D. too
12.A. worry B. award C. result D. chance
13.A. suffer B. hear C. wake D. return
14.A. classmate B. wife C. friend D. uncle
15.A. blame B. persuade C. encourage D. support
16.A. hardly B. nearly C. exactly D. almost
17.A. happened B. agreed C. refused D. decided
18.A. way B. head C. hand D. back
19.A. joke B. story C. humor D. history
20.A. avoided B. designed C. chose D. enjoyed
