假定你是李华，暑假就要来了，你打算参加学校组织的国际游学（Study Tour）活动，目的地是California。请给美国朋友Peter写封信表达你游学的目的，并希望得到他的建议。要点如下：
1.开拓国际视野；
2.体验不同教育；
3.提高语言能力。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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1.When Bonnie Rivers passed her exams, everyone c____________ her and wished her all the best for her future.
2.I am happy to have found many things I can do, like writing and computer programming. My ambition is to work for a f________ that develops computer software when I grow up.
3.We have found human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hills as well as tools and other objects. So we think it is reasonable to a___________ they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold.
4.Pressed by my friends and relations, I decided to s__________ the opportunity to get recognition for my successful idea by sending my invention to the patent office.
5.However, when she first saw the robot, she felt _____(惊恐), which seemed more like a human than a machine.
6.Also, when I miss my family, it’s a great comfort to have a ________(替代)family to be with.
7.____________ __________ __________ (不久前的一天)I was showing the boys the weekly chemistry when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling everywhere.
8.I am surprised he is so strongly ___________ ___________ ___________(支持)smoking because he is usually very reasonable about health issues.
9.---Hello, Serena. I was expecting you to call me back yesterday.
---I’m sorry. I tried but your phone _______ _________ ___________ _________(出故障)and I couldn’t get through.
10.It suddenly ______ __________ __________ ________(我想到)we could go to the customs office for help.
Jack Ma, the chairman and founder of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, took down on Google’s artificial intelligence AlphaGo at the Big Data Expo1. (hold) in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, and urged Chinese enterprises not to develop such things 2. AlphaGo. Chinese Go player Ke Jie, current world No. 1, has admitted defeats in his three3. (match) against computer program AlphaGo in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, 4.led to heavy online discussions regarding the future of mankind and AI.
“Machines must have its own special thinking and must do thins human cannot do,” Ma added, 5. (believe) AI should work for humans to do useful things that human are unable to achieve, rather than just spoiling human’s fun.
But speaking for myself, I don’t really care. I6.(especial) advised that many fellow enterprises should not develop such things and we can do many other useful things.”
Ma also explained7. he didn’t like AlphaGo: “Go game is8.interesting and fun thing where I can wait for my competitor 9.(play) wrong and I can win. But the machine never plays wrong and it can work out the next 300 steps10.you can only think about the next three.”
When a mom attended school to help her disabled son, her son and the school thanked her in the sweetest way possible. It wasn’t until after his college years that Marty became disabled after ______down stairs. When her son ______to get his MBA Judy O’ Connor attended every class with him to help him write and _____ . Every day, Judy would sit by Marty in class, taking notes to make sure to set down______requests, raising her hand so he could answer questions, and silently filling in his______ on test days. “After a little while, we found that working together we could ______a great deal,” Marty says.
On graduation day at Chapman University, Judy was dressed in black to mix in with the other_______. Little did she know she’d soon be the center of______. When Marty’s name was called, his mom helped ______ him to the front of the stage, _____for a picture with Marty as he received his diploma. Over the loudspeaker, a voice _____ with happy tears made an _____: The university was giving Judy an honorary MBA. “A lump came to my throat, I was proud of my son and ______to be honored,” says Judy.
The mother and son had joked that Judy was putting in enough work to earn her own______. To Marty, there was no question his mom, a retired elementary school teacher with a business degree, had ______earned her honorary MBA.
Perhaps just as important, Judy gave Marty______. Life as Marty knew it before the _______may have changed, but he encourages anyone in a ______ situation to keep up hope. “Just keep an open mind,______you can make your diversity your advantage and take challenges as a(n)______for growth in your life,” he says.
1.A. blowing B. falling C. beating D. ringing
2.A. dissatisfied B. astonished C. determined D. discouraged
3.A. participate B. complain C. dream D. withdraw
4.A. normal B. potential C. practical D. specific
5.A. functions B. comments C. consequences D. answers
6.A. accomplish B. expand C. save D. witness
7.A. products B. graduates C. friends D. neighbors
8.A. responsibility B. pressure C. attention D. tradition
9.A. wheel B. move C. distribute D. record
10.A. advertising B. tracking C. bouncing D. pausing
11.A. connected B. choked C. frozen D. motivated
12.A. adventure B. experiment C. announcement D. arrangement
13.A. discovered B. touched C. ignored D. designed
14.A. degree B. wealth C. passport D. attraction
15.A. even B. just C. also D. still
16.A. excuse B. reason C. doubt D. confidence
17.A. event B. issue C. accident D. barrier
18.A. similar B. special C. private D. different
19.A. but B. and C. though D. while
20.A. adaptation B. talent C. opportunity D. reaction
How can I carry out a group project?
Group projects can be so overwhelming (使人不知所措的), especially when people don’t cooperate and follow through. “1.” To follow this wise advice from expert Julie Hochheiser IIkovich, simply break down that hug project into smaller jobs that can be tracked. Here’s exactly how to do it:
●List it. The day the project is assigned, immediately identify the end goal. 2.This should include everything from minor tasks to major ones.
●Schedule it.3.This should include meetings, tasks, and deadlines. Assign each person a color and highlight each task with those colors, so it’s clear who is doing what.
●Track it. As a team, decide on a project manager who will keep everyone on track, and who you agree is allowed to call team members out if they’re not hardworking. (Advice on how to choose: 4.)
As stressful as group work is, it can actually be beneficial in the long run. At first, groups that work well together can achieve much more than individuals working on their own. And being part of a team will help you develop your interpersonal skills. Also, working with others will help identify your own strengths and weaknesses. 5.
A. Give feedback on group processes to groups
B. Then list what needs to get done to accomplish it
C. Look for the person with the most organized desk!
D. A half-hour of planning saves a week of stress at the end!
E. Create a timetable for the project and put everything from the list on it.
F. This sense about yourself will be invaluable when you enter the workforce.
G. Group projects can help people develop new approaches to solving problems.
There’s a trend that more city people decide that they want to grow crops and raise some live-stock (家禽). After all, there are few things more satisfying than biting into a bunch of tender, red carrots you grow yourself, or a fresh egg from the backyard.
Most gardeners understand that the soil in big cities is often polluted with lead and know to get their soil tested. But most are pretty clueless about how to prevent other types of pollutants, like heavy metals and asbestos(石棉)from getting into their vegetables.
Part of the problem is that “there might be pollutants that gardeners can’t test for,” says Brent Kim, a program officer. Most soil tests look for lead, cadrniunt(镉)and arsenic(砷). But they don’t test things like chemicals left behind by cars, which might have escaped into the soil.
So if you’re thinking of staring an urban garden, Kim says, once you’ve found a plot of land, you should learn what’s now an empty plot or a backyard might once have been a parking lot, a gas station or a chemical ground. “Knowing its past will give you some idea about what might be in that soil,” he says.
“People tend to think raised beds are going to solve their pollution problem,” Kim says. But polluted soil could easily kicked onto your plants, especially if the beds are low to the ground.
“Another consideration is that you have to be careful about the materials that you’re using to build a raised bed,” Kim says. Recycling wood from an old construction site might seem like a good, eco-friendly idea. But that wood could be treated with chemicals you don’t want touching your fruits and veggies, Kim says. And it’s always a good idea to use gloves while gardening, and wash all your produce thoroughly.
“I see these urban growing spaces as these oases(绿洲)in the middle of these urban environments,” Kim says. “They bring communities together, and they help people save money on fresh produce. Urban growing spaces are amazing. Let’s keep doing this, but let’s do it safely.”
1.What does the underlined word “clueless” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. unaware B. careless
C. helpless D. considerate
2.What should you do when starting an urban garden?
A. Build it on a parking lot B. Keep it low to the ground
C. Know the history of the ground D. Use recycled wood to build it
3.What do we know about the raise beds from the text?
A. They are free from some tests B. Their plants can be poisoned
C. They are environment-friendly D. Their materials are all recycled
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A. More fresh vegetables are produced by urban gardeners
B. Growing vegetables become a fashion in big cities
C. Big cities are short of soil for growing fresh produce
D. Urban gardeners may not realize the seriousness of polluted soil
