假定你是李华,你的朋友李芳向你询问你校新开设的iPad课程( iPad class),请你向她写封回信,告诉她课程很受学生欢迎并简单阐述理由,要点如下:
1. 资源丰富
2. 促进交流
3. 利于环保
4. 其他理由
注意:1. 开头和结尾已给出。
2. 可适当增加细节,使行文连贯。
3. 词数100词左右。
Dear Li Fang,
I’m very glad to receive your last letter, in which you enquired about our newly opened iPad classes.
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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仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Welcome to our English Corner. This Corner was set up three years before. Every Sunday morning, students from different school and some foreigners often took part. Gather around here, we practise spoken English by talking about everything we are interested. We also exchange my experience in English study. We all have a good time here. Thousands of people have been here since it is set up. We think that they have learned a lot of by taking part in activities here. However, it is a really supplement(补充) to our English class. If you want to know much about the corner, you may talk to the students here.
I am awfully sorry about the severe earthquake, which 1. (strike) your hometown. I felt 2. (extreme) upset when the news came that the earthquake had led lo extensive and severe damage in your country, causing loss of lives and leaving many people 3. (home).
4. (face) such a horribly 5. (nature) disaster, the people there remain 6. calm and strong-willed that we all admire your courage and strength. Here in China people are very 7. (concern) about the present situation in your country and we are all determined to make every bit of our effort to help. 8. the saying goes, unity is strength. I am sure that9. strong determination and the support from every corner of the world, you and your country can go through the difficulty and a better hometown 10. (rebuild) soon.
Mondays are generally pretty busy for me. On one of these __ Mondays, I got ready to go to work thinking about all the things I have to __ on that day and walk down to get to my car scolding myself for being late to work, but __ the car was nowhere to be found. I __ right across my apartment the previous night but it wasn't there that morning.
This was at 8:00 am in the morning. I made___ to all the towing places, police stations all the time thinking that it was towed by __ . By around 10.00am, I couldn't find it anywhere and the cops decided that it was __ stolen. Alter filing a report with them, I finally get to work thinking how my day was completely __ .
Later in the day I went to pick up a rental car at Entetprise __ to realize that my license was missing too along with my car. I told the enterprise guy the whole __ and he was so sorry for me that he __ to take me to the nearest DMV(车管局) and get a duplicate (副本__, I was totally dumbstruck.! I didn't know why this complete stranger would want to __ some time off his day to help me. He actually took me to DMV, got a duplicate and then __ me a car. I was __ the whole day because of the sequence of events that happened to me but somehow this simple act of kindness from a complete stranger made it all __ it. It cheered me up and made me forget all the misfortunes of the day, I was so __ by this kind act that the next day I made sure someone else got a similar __ . I took some smiley shaped chocolates and __ them on some of my colleague's desks.
There is still a lot of goodness out there in the world. We just need to take the time to __ it.
1.A. typical B. ordinary C. strange D. pleasant.
2.A. make B. explain C. accomplish D. arrange
3.A. excitedly B. surprisingly C. interestingly D. hurriedly
4.A. stayed B. looked C. walked D. parked
5.A. calls B. trips C. surveys D. contributions
6.A. cops B. doctors C. thieves D. officials
7.A. normally B. eventually C. actually D. finally
8.A. made up B. took up C. put up D. messed up
9.A. still B. even C. quite D. only
10.A. message B. secret C. story D. process
11.A. declined B. offered C. hesitated D. approved
12.A. license B. card C. paper D. ticket
13.A. spend B. leave C. take D. get
14.A. lent B. presented C. purchased D. rented
15.A. delighted B. annoyed C. disappointed D. amused
16.A. worth B. worthy C. personal D. special
17.A. moved B. changed C. turned D. appealed
18.A. honour B. respect C. alarm D. surprise
19.A. forgot B. threw C. left D. exposed
20.A. make B. achieve C. live D. realize
Smartphone stress: Are you a victim of ‘always on’ culture?
You are on holiday but secretly check your work emails the moment you wake up. You get anxious if there’s no Wi-Fi in the hotel or mobile phone signal up the mountain. 1. And you secretly worry things will go wrong at work if you're not there. There are the typical signs of “always on” stress induced by smart phone addiction.
Work-life balance
Pittsburgh-based developer Kevin Holesh was so worried about how much he was ignoring his family and friends and he developed an app-Moment-to monitor his usage. The app enables users to see how much time they're spending on the device and set up warnings if self-controlled usage limits are offended. 2.“Some time on your phone, some time off it, enjoying your loving family and friends around you.” And some employers are acknowledging that getting the work-life balance right isn't so easy. We need help.
“Always stressed”
3.You are not giving your body time to recover, so you're always stressed. And the more tired and stressed we get, the more mistakes we make. 4. The fact that we can stay connected to the workplace wherever we are in the world is feeding deep-rooted insecurities.
Slowdown in decision
We know consume media for more hours than we sleep. 5. It actually makes it more difficult to make decisions and many are becoming less productive because they're overwhelmed by it all and feel they can never escape the office.
A. Moment’s goal is to promote balance in your life.
B. You get excited if you receive a text message or an e-mail from a friend.
C. This is leading to a sort of slowdown in decision and it is creating more stress in the workplace.
D. The negative impacts of this ‘always on’ culture are that your mind is never resting.
E. Physical and mental health can suffer.
F. Mobile phone companies argue that mobile connectivity is beneficial.
G. You are nervous if your phone is getting low on power.
Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus (校园) of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem — how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campus’s six buildings comfortable.
Some parts of most modem buildings — theaters and offices as well as classrooms, are more sufficiently heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned (使用空调的) even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing (再分配) it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the University’s system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others.
Along the way, Pittsburgh has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat than female students, and the larger a student is, the more heat he produces. We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard working overweight mate genius.
1.The heat in the heating system of the Johnstown campus is supplied ________.
A. by human bodies
B. by both human bodies and other heat-giving objects
C. by both human bodies and commonly used fuel
D. by human bodies, commonly used fuel and other heat-giving objects
2.According to the passage, the technique of heat recovery is used ________.
A. to find the producers of heat
B. to provide heat for the hot water system
C. to make the campus more beautiful
D. to collect heat and reuse it
3.The underlined phrase “the hottest prospect” in this passage refers to ________.
A. the person who suffers most from heat
B. the person who needs more heat than others
C. the person who gives off most heat
D. the person who makes better use of heat
4.Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?
A. A New Heat Recovery System in Pitt
B. Modern Building’s Heat System
C. Body Heat and Its Producers
D. Ways of Heating Building