With May Day approaching, have you taken it into account where you choose to spend May Day holiday? Your trip may reflect your personality: Are you a party animal or a culture explorer?
The Los Angeles Times reviewed American students’ spring break choices and came up with interesting findings. We also suggest possible destinations here in China for each type of travelers.
Party animals
Cancun, Mexico is still the most popular destination for young Americans’ spring breaks. Beaches and pubs are a cool choice for party-goers.
Possible destination in China; Sanya, Hainan
Culture explorers
More students chose Europe to visit museums and castles and enjoyed a slow pace of life: Paris and London were the top two destinations.
Possible destinations in China: Yunnan and Tibet.
Star chasers
MTV moved its 25th annual Spring Break party to Las Vegas this year. Star chasers attended concerts and danced to their favorite artists’ music.
Possible destination in China: Beijing, where quite a few music festivals are on during May Day holiday.
Do-gooders
Students traveled far away to South Africa lo help kids orphaned by AIDS and to Brazil to save forests.
Possible destinations in China: neighborhood communities
1.If you like doing voluntary work for people in need, you are a .
A. do-gooder
B. culture explorer
C. star chaser
D. party animal
2.Why are party animals advised to visit Sanya, Hainan?
A. Because it has wild forests.
B. Because it has warm weather.
C. Because it has beautiful seashores.
D. Because it provides various activities.
3.Which is the best place to go when you want to spend your holiday loosely?
A. Mexico.
B. Paris.
C. South Africa.
D. Beijing.
假如你是李华，请给外教Trey写封邮件介绍清明节（Tomb Sweeping Day），内容包括：
1．活动时间；
2．活动内容。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文流畅；
3. 开头已给出。
Dear Trey,
I’m writing to_____________________________________________________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua
短文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词的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。
Last week our school hold a sports meeting. Realize it was our last school sports meeting, we decided to make it a unforgettable experience. We first attended the opening ceremony, for whom our class had made a lot of preparations. Much to our excitements, our performance was a success. My classmates participated various events such as running, the high jump and the long jump. Due to the hard training the athletes had done before, and their performance was very impressive. Finally the result came which our class won the second place! Cup in hand, we took a picture together proud. This sports meeting will be a precious memory for all of them as time goes by.
A Bite of China, a Chinese documentary television series on the history of food, 1.(eat) and cooking, returns! The show broadcast on CCTV Channels every Friday now.
Covering over 300 different 2.(dish) and more than 150 people, the new season not only is a simple 3.(introduce) to food, but also 4. investigation(调查) of Chinese people and society. Hot topics, such as higher education, 5.(discuss) in the documentary series.
Liu Hongyan, director 6. the documentary as well as a famous food writer in China, wishes 7.(explore) the relationship between Chinese people and their food through the show.
The Beauty and mystery of Chinese food had never been 8.(proper) explained or thoroughly appreciated on an artistic level 9. the show A Bite of China was put on the TV screen in May, 2012.
Let’s travel along A Bite of China III, another journey of food and culture, 10. will never let you down!
1.It had never o__________ to him that he might be falling in love with her.
2.He has realized the danger of smoking and is d__________ to give it up now.
3.She studied hard before the examination and it p__________ off.
4.He has been deeply o__________ with his term paper.
5.She a__________ for the same job with the local newspaper last year.
6.The government announced a series of economic __________(改革).
7.Robson strongly __________(反对) to having to rewrite the article yesterday.
8.Would you like to make a __________(捐献) to the people in need?
9.I would strongly __________(推荐) buying a good quality bicycle rather than a cheap one.
10.He has enough money so he can live in __________(舒适).
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are _______, one by one. “There is my grandmother’s house,” I say, _______ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage(朝圣) with Lisa, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing(追溯) _______ memory for me. Lisa was one of the mobile children, _______ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of _______, and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors _______ for 200 years.
We soon _______ by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories _______ back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the _______ where I was once so gloriously a child. It still ________ a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk ________ the rooms in memory. Here, my mother ________ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family ________ into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being ________ them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lisa ________ attentively as I talk and then says, “So this is where I ________; where I belong.”
She has ________ her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human ________. To be rooted is “to have an origin”. We need ________ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the ________ of “I”. We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
1.A. appearing B. moving C. exposing D. expanding
2.A. referring B. travelling C. pointing D. coming
3.A. shared B. short C. fresh D. treasured
4.A. passed B. raised C. moved D. sent
5.A. home B. duty C. reality D. relief
6.A. built B. lived C. remained D. explored
7.A. catch up B. pull up C. live on D. settle down
8.A. falling B. turning C. rushing D. taking
9.A. yard B. village C. room D. house
10.A. adapts to B. appeals to C. belongs to D. occurs to
11.A. across B. through C. along D. past
12.A. lay B. played C. stood D. sat
13.A. marching B. looking C. breaking D. pouring
14.A. between B. with C. near D. behind
15.A. wonders B. listens C. reacts D. agrees
16.A. began B. grew C. studied D. stayed
17.A. deepened B. recognized C. accepted D. found
18.A. heart B. rights C. interest D. behaviors
19.A. one B. its C. that D. every
20.A. meaning B. expression C. connection D. background
