假定你是李华，与留学生朋友Bob约好一起去书店，因故不能赴约。请给他用英语写封邮件，内容包括：
1.表示歉意；
2.说明原因；
3.另约时间。
注意：1. 词数100左右。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好。
Dear Bob,
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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。
If you want to be a inventor, you must have a plan design to solve a particular problem. This is not as easily as it sounds. Many idea, developed after weeks of research, may not prove successful. Many unsuccessful approaches rejected, but only the most creative and successful ones are welcomed. Each idea has tested by you will need to be improved until it lead you to a new invention. Once this hard work has been completing and the patent committee has approved your design, you will find your invent adopted on all sides.
Davidson Black was a1.(Canada) doctor who organized the excavation that led to the discovery of the bones in the Zhoukoudian 2.(cave) near Beijing. He was a specialist in the study of bones3.it was his ambition to find and identify bones of early humans. His university was ware4.the significance of his work. At first they gave him ample time to do his research, but5.(late) they realized he was prepared to pursue it regardless of his students’ needs and his6.(teach) career, so they forbade him 7.(travel) there any more. It was his assistant, Pei Wenzhong, 8.made the discovery of these primitive bones and 9.(sharpen) tools. Davidson Black knew that his success was almost 10.(entire) due to his assistant’s systematic hard work.
Eating the Cookie
One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. _______ was “having the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life was _______.
Unfortunately, the cookie kept _______. Some of the time it was money, and sometimes power. At_______time, it was the new car, the biggest contract. A year and a half after his diagnosis(诊断) of prostate cancer, he sits_______his head regretfully. “It seems that I stopped learning how to_______ after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it _______, he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty three. It’s taken me this long to understand that the _______ will never make me happy for long.
The_______you have the cookie it starts to fall to pieces or you start to ________about it crumbling (弄碎) or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to________a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be________that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ________ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ________ the cookie is not what life is about.”
My patient laughs and says________has changed him. For the first time he is________. No matter if his________is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer________me, ‘What is really important?’ Well, life is important. Live any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to________with the cookie: it has to do with being ________.”
1.A. Happiness B. Success C. Business D. Love
2.A. normal B. common C. worthless D. useless
3.A. increasing B. changing C. decreasing D. recovering
4.A. one B. a C. no D. other
5.A. shaking B. nodding C. knocking D. raising
6.A. grow B. learn C. live D. work
7.A. burns B. breaks C. shares D. throws
8.A. disease B. change C. kid D. cookie
9.A. hour B. time C. second D. minute
10.A. think B. come C. worry D. doubt
11.A. give up B. add up C. use up D. call up
12.A. brave B. curious C. aware D. sure
13.A. unless B. because C. though D. until
14.A. Eating B. Protecting C. Having D. Making
15.A. death B. energy C. life D. cancer
16.A. happy B. weak C. upset D. sad
17.A. result B. fortunate C. business D. behavior
18.A. asked B. left C. deserted D. recognized
19.A. deal B. do C. connect D. link
20.A. alone B. alive C. ambitious D. active
Wrong Reasons for Going to College
A college education can be priceless.1.If any of these following factors had a big influence on your decision, you’re probably right to second-guess yourself.
Because all your friends are going.
In only a few weeks’ time, the whole friend group will be scattered to a half dozen different colleges in a half dozen different places. Not to go will set yourself apart. 2.
Because someone else expects it from you.
Perhaps you come from a family where everyone goes to college. Or maybe, you’re the kid that everyone is proud to believe will be the first to get there. 3.. It’s become so much a part of the air you breathe that you’ve never stopped to consider whether you want to go or whether you’re ready to go.
4.
It’s been tough to find even a summer job. You don’t have an alternative plan. Everyone else is doing it(see above). You think you might as well go to school. That is the lamest(无说服力的) of reasons to spend $20,000 or more in the next year.
Because you are afraid you’ll regret it if you don’t go.
Your uncle tells you that his one regret in life is that he didn’t go to college. Others tell you that they could have gone so much farther in their career if only they had a college education.5.So this is not a persuasive reason for you to go to college.
A. Because you don’t know what else to do.
B. It seems that for years everyone has just assumed that of course you’ll go.
C. Because you don’t want to work.
D. But maybe in your heart you know that you are going for the wrong reasons.
E. Friends will wonder what’s wrong with you
F. Everyone seems more excited than you are.
G. Whatever the story is, there are always people who regret decisions they’ve made.
People are being lured(引诱)onto Facebook with the promise of a fun and free service without realizing they’re paying for it by giving up large amounts of personal information. Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.
Most Facebook users don’t realize this is happening. Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they’re paying for Facebook, because people don’t really know what their personal details are worth.
The biggest problem, however, is that the company keeps changing the rules. Early on, you could keep everything private. That was the great thing about Facebook—you could create your own little private network. Last year, the company changed its privacy rules so that many things—your city, your photo, your friends’ names—were set, by default(默认), to be shared with everyone on the Internet.
According to Facebook’s vice-- president Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information, they have a “less satisfying experience.”
Some critics think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. Its original business model, which involved selling ads and putting them at the side of the page, totally failed. Who wants to look at ads when they’re online connecting with their friends?
The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Senator(议员) Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. He also urged the Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites. “I think the senators rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them,” Schrage admits.
I suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy, it’s only the beginning, which is why I’m considering deactivating(撤销)my account. Facebook is a handy site, but I’m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t know. That is too high a price to pay.
1.What do we learn about Facebook from the first paragraph?
A. It is website that sends messages to targeted users
B. it makes money by putting on advertisements
C. It provides loads of information to its users
D. It profits by selling its users’ personal data
2.Why does Facebook make changes to its according to Elliot Schrage?
A. To provide better service to its users B. To follow the Federal guidelines
C. To improve its users’ connectivity D. To expand its scope of business
3.What does Senator Charles Schumer advocate(主张)?
A. Setting guidelines for advertising on websites
B. Banning the sharing of users’ personal information
C. Removing ads from all social—networking sties
D. Formulating (制订)regulations for social—networking sties
4.Why does the author plan to cancel his Facebook account?
A. He is dissatisfied with its current service
B. He doesn’t want his personal data abused
C. He finds many of its users untrustworthy
D. He is upset by its frequent rule changes
