When you finish reading this book, you will have_______ better understanding of_______ life.
A. a; the B. the ; a
C. /; the D. a ; /
假定你是李华，请给你的笔友Martin写一封电子邮件，介绍音乐的魅力所在，并说明你喜欢的两种音乐类型及其原因。
音乐的魅力 | 1.心情愉悦，减轻压力，给人以鼓舞。 |
2.抚慰心灵，了解国外文化。 | |
喜欢的音乐 | 1.流行音乐：旋律优美。 |
2.传统音乐：使人安静，领悟生活的真谛。 |
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.为使行文连贯，可适当增加内容；
3.参考词汇：tune 曲调。
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文中共有10处语言错误，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：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：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。
In the summer holiday，we travelled to Qingdao and paid visit to my uncle there. It's a long and bored journey. But the moment I arrived, I fall in love with the city. It's such beautiful a city that I can hardly find any word to describe it. The streets are cleaning and the sky is blue. If you walk along the coast，you can feel the wind to blowing on your face. The sea is vast and sometimes you can find a boat or a ship. You may also do some fishing as far as it is permitted. Moreover，I think the driver there drive too fast in the street. You should be careless when crossing the street.
Through a series of experiments, an American scientist has gained an understanding of the social structure of ant societies. The ants 1. (examine) by scientists are the only creatures other than man to have given up hunting and collecting for a completely agricultural way of life. In their underground nests they plant gardens on soils made from finely cut leaves. This is a complex 2. (operate) requiring considerable division of labor. The workers of this type of ant can 3. (divide) into four groups according to size. 4. of the groups performs a particular set of jobs.
The making and care of the garden and the nursing of the young ants are done by the smallest workers. Slightly larger workers are responsible 5.cutting leaves to make them suitable for use in the gardens and for cleaning the nest. 6. third group of still larger ants do the construction work and collect fresh leaves from outside the nest. The 7. (large) are the soldier ants, whose duty is to defend the nest.
8. (find) out how good the various size groups are at different tasks, the scientist measured the amount of work done by the ants against the amount of energy they used. He examined first the gathering and carrying of leaves. He selected one of the size groups and then measured 9.efficiently these ants could find leaves and run back to the nest. Then he repeated the experiment for each of the other size groups. 10.this way he could see whether any group could do the job more efficiently than the group normally undertaking it.
A BRITISH girl who died after a terminal illness won the right to have her body frozen, the High Court said on Friday. The 14-year-old girl from London had written to a judge______she wanted a chance to “live longer” after suffering from a(n) ______ form of cancer. She had researched and ______ to undergo cryonics(进行人体冷冻), the process through which people are ______ with the hope they will be brought back to life with the help of future medical ______.
“I think being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up — even in hundreds of years’ time.” The girl launched legal action to request that her mother, who______ supported the child’s ______, be the only person allowed to make decisions about the disposal(处置) of her body. Her parents are divorced and the teenager’s father initially ______ his daughter’s plan.
Judge Peter Jackson ruled in the girl’s favor in October following a private ______ at the High Court of England and Wales in London. The girl was too ______ to attend the hearing and has since died, ______her body being taken to the US and cryogenically frozen. US-based Cryonics issued a(n) ______saying the teenager had arrived at their facility and “packed in dry ice, at 5 p.m. on the 25th of October, about 8 days after ______,be
coming its 144th patient.”
Jackson said his ______ was based on the best outcome for the girl, not ______ the science itself, in what he ______ as an unprecedented ruling(前所未有的裁决).
By October 6 the girl know her wishes were going to be ______That gave her great _______For the last eight years of her ______the teenager had not had face-to-face contact with her father, who ______ his concerns about the costs and consequences of his daughter being frozen.
1.A. indicating B. doubting C. responding D. explaining
2.A. entire B. complete[ C. rare D. natural
3.A. reacted B. survived C. continued D. decided
4.A. dead B. buried C. frozen D. asleep
5.A. benefit B. change C. progress D. influence
6.A. fully B. heavily C. really D. generally
7.A. opinions B. wishes C. judges D. advice
8.A. carried out B. disagreed with C. insisted on D. turned out
9.A. hearing B. listening C. talk D. speech
10.A. excited B. surprised C. puzzled D. ill
11.A. for B. with C. on D. at
12.A. statement B. movement C. advertisement D. argument
13.A. discussion B. hesitation C. death D. treatment
14.A. prediction B. decision C. opportunity D. ambition
15.A. for B. on C. in D. off
16.A. described B. checked C. imagined D. possessed
17.A. displayed B. finished C. struggled D. followed
18.A. success B. disappointment C. comfort D. equality
19.A. life B. circle C. reality D. pain
20.A. made B. raised C. considered D. preferred
How Helping Others Helps You
Volunteering has a positive effect on your community.1. Volunteering can help you learn more about yourself and even put you on a path to your future career. Learn more about the reasons to volunteer below.
Gain valuable life experiences and skills.
Whether you build houses for the homeless or mail flyers for a local politician, you can experience the real world through hands-on work. 2.
Meet interesting people.
3.No matter what groups of people you’re working with, you’ll find that they have information and ways of looking at the world that can broaden your horizons.
Get academic credit.
Some high schools offer academic credit for volunteer work through service learning. 4.To find out if your school offers service learning, talk to your school counselor.5.
It’s eye-opening(令人瞠目的) to realize that doing even small things can have a big impact on others. Rhea, a college sophomore(大二学生), still remembers a visit she made to a senior home with a choir when she was in middle school. “An elderly man in a wheelchair looked up at me and said in a gravelly(粗哑的) voice, “You’ve made my day. This means so much.”She recalls, “No one had ever thanked me in such a way for doing something so small, and a stranger no less!”
A. Make a difference.
B. It’s good for you too.
C. It can help you learn more about yourself.
D. Giving back to your community is valuable in itself.
E. And you can explore your major or career interests at the same time.
F. It’s a program that offers hands-on learning through service to the community.
G. Both the people you are helping and your fellow volunteers can give you new understanding.
