假如你叫李华，你们的外教老师Mr Jenkins邀请你和几名同学今晚去他的公寓参加他的生日派对。但你临时有事不能赴约。请给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1.祝他生日乐；
2.表示歉意；
3.说明原因；
注意：1.词数100左右：
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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作文。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：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。
When Western parents are expected a baby, they start to think long and hardly about what they will name their child. The child will have to live with a name for their whole life after all.
Some parents seem focus on finding a name that is distinctive, a name that everybody likes it and nobody else uses. Also, sometimes it goes horribly wrong. One musician named his child Audio Science, while other couple named their kid Pirate. Recently, some parents in the US and Europe have gone as far as pay someone to come up with a name for them. Some companies charge a couple hundred dollars, and one Swiss company charges about $ 30,000 think of a unique name that has never been used before.
As a doctor, I became the 1. (great) surgeon in the country and the president of the National Society of Surgeons. For this reason, a celebration 2. (hold) in my honor But I couldn’t help feeling sad.
On the day, my friend came up to me and said: “You’ve achieved something that others can’t even dream about. 3. are you so sad?”
“I’ve achieved something that I didn’t even want,” I said, “I 4. wanted to be a surgeon and now I can’t escape from it. If I would suffer a 5. (fail) then maybe I would have a chance to do something that I really love. But for now, I’m chained to a thing that I don’t evenlike.”
“You 6. be joking?” my friend cried out, “The biggest honor for a surgeon is 7. (become) the president of our national society. Your wife is happy, your children are happy. Everyone has the highest respect for you!”
But I don t respect myself, that’s 8. is wrong. I wanted to be a dancer, but my parents were against 9. and I listened to them. I was weak. I became a great surgeon, but I am not working in the field that I wanted to devote my life 10.. That is why I am unhappy.
I lived with a rat. Possibly he was a mouse. I never ______ him. At night, when he thought I was ______, I heard him dragging things around and walking into things. Perhaps he was half blind. Whatever the case, he had ______ eating habits.
On the counter in the ______ were bags of croissants (羊角面包), nuts and fruit but he would only ______ himself to the Cheetos. He made a careful hole in the ______ and then ate from it. I had to ______ the snacks he touched.
This animal was ______. If he had gone after something other than Cheetos, perhaps we could have worked out a deal.
One day, I found out he had upgraded his technique. I discovered in a drawer in the kitchen that he had ______ a lot of food. Was my new drawer his new nest? I had to ask people how to ______ him. I didn’t like the suggestions - glue boxes and poison.
My neighbor had an idea about what to do with pest. ‘‘I’ll ______ this, he said one day. He took out a handful of Cheetos from the ______, coated them with dishwashing liquid and placed them carefully ______, in the shape of a scary face.
“Are you hoping to ______ him?” I asked. And when the next day the food was ______, not even orange crumbs (碎屑) remaining, I said: “Failure!”
After waiting for the greedy animal to ______ for over a week, as the days went by, it was ______ there would be no further sign of my nighttime ______. My neighbor’s plan ______ after all.
Now, I am the only one who ______ Cheetos in this house.
1.A. followed B. noticed C. saw D. kept
2.A. eating B. talking C. sleeping D. watching
3.A. bad B. good C. traditional D. normal
4.A. kitchen B. bedroom C. garage D. doorway
5.A. teach B. help C. protect D. enjoy
6.A. bag B. can C. pocket D. box
7.A. bring ou B. divide up C. put away D. throw out
8.A. clever B. greedy C. lucky D. reasonable
9.A. produced B. shared C. saved D. wasted
10.A. take hold of B. put up with C. go along with D. get rid of
11.A. discuss B. handle C. accept D. prepare
12.A. plate B. drawer C. refrigerator D. bottle
13.A. around B. back C. behind D. ahead
14.A. meet B. fool C. frighten D. touch
15.A. left B. mixed C. gone D. hidden
16.A. come back B. catch up C. move on D. give up
17.A. clear B. necessary C. funny D. strange
18.A. neighbor B. partner C. guest D. visitor
19.A. failed B. improved C. passed D. worked
20.A. buys B. eats C. makes D. dislikes
Making words shorter is a common habit of English speakers today.
It seems that most sayings or popular words have their own abbreviation. 1. For example, LOL stands for “laughing out loud”，IMO is “in my opinion” and BTW is “by the way”. US technology website Lifewire made a list of the most common abbreviations in 2016.
Simple ones you may already know - like BTW, IMO and IDK (I don’t know) made the list. 2. They include TFW (that feeling when), and FTW (for the win). TFW is sometimes used along with a funny photo to describe your feelings, while FTW is a kind of internet cheer used to express happiness. 3. You can use this one before you tell someone what you think about something.
4. Terry Wood, a foreign language teacher from Leonardtown, US, says the habits have lowered his students’ writing abilities. “They do not capitalize (大写) words or use punctuation anymore,” Wood told US News. “5.”
A. The list is meant to be good fun.
B. Another interesting learn is IMHO (in my humble opinion).
C. But there were lots of other more difficult ones on the list, too.
D. This happens a lot when they are used on social media or in a text message.
E. Any word longer than one syllable (音节) is now abbreviated to one.
F. Researchers identified several ways in which teens changed language while speaking online.
G. However, some people believe these abbreviations are also causing problems.
“Languages are important,” “I know they’re hard but don’t give up,” “They’ll help you in life”.
I was told these words of encouragement over and over again, I would always roll my eyes, ignore them and continue to stress over the past and future tense and any numbers over 20.
I have studied languages from a young age. I began learning Greek aged 10. when my family and I moved there for two years. At first it was difficult and I had no idea whether I would be able to learn the language and use it productively, but eventually it started to make sense.
Slowly, very slowly, I started to get an immense (巨大的) sense of pride from using words and phrases I had learnt, overhearing (偷听) conversations and (almost) understanding everything that was said.
Eight years later I started university back in England, where I met one of my best friends. Guess how we became best friends? She spoke Greek as a second language, I spoke Greek as a second language, that was our conversation starter. We went for coffee and from that moment we were inseparable. I was always told I would meet people through languages and it would open up doors for me, and that was one of the first moments where I believed it. Sometimes it comes down to something small like that, to make you realise what you’re doing is 100 percent worth it.
I was encouraged by my family to continue on the language path since I started learning at the age of 10, so I took up German and it was really challenging. There were a lot of times I thought I was going to give up, but I am so glad I didn’t; when I was 18, I didn’t get into the university I wanted, or get to study the course I wanted, I had no idea what I was going to do. I changed my plan and applied to go to the University of Manchester instead, to study Spanish. I had never studied Spanish before; they saw that I had studied Greek and German and offered me a place! Now I am in Spain for a year having an amazing time and enjoying the sunshine, working as an English language assistant in a lovely little primary school.
It was a wonderful chain of events; if I had ignored everybody who encouraged me to study languages, gave up when it was hard and didn’t practice, I would not be doing what I am doing right now, and ray life would be totally different. I’m glad I listened.
My advice: it’s true, languages arc important, immerse (使沉浸于) yourself in them, work hard and enjoy the benefits (because there are a lot!).
1.When offered tips on learning languages, the author •
A. kept them in mind carefully
B. didn’t pay any attention to them
C. tried to test whether they were true or not
D. would react with a huge sense of pride.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the author?
A. She started learning Greek because of her strong interest in it.
B. She fell in love with the Greek language as she slowly mastered it.
C. She dreamt of learning languages at the University of Manchester.
D. She met her best friend in her Spanish language class.
3.What is the article mainly about?
A. The most effective way to learn a second language.
B. The difficulties the author once had in learning languages.
C. The importance and advantages of learning a second language.
D. The author’s language learning experiences and how she benefited from them.
