What does the man want to do first?
A. See the elephants. B. Have a cup of tea. C. Watch the dolphin show.
Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a restaurant. B. In a furniture store. C. In the woman's company.
假定你是李华,目前在美国某中学作交换生.春节将至,你和其他中国同学将举办一场CHINA NIGHT的活动,向大家介绍中国传统文化.请你发email邀请校长MAX参加，100词左右
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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。
Last term, a newspaper reading course was start by our English teacher. He ask me to explain one article in the newspaper.
The preparation seemed difficult than I had thought. As there were many names of people and place in the article, so I needed to look them up in the dictionary. Understand long sentences was another problem. When I read and found them hardly, I asked my English teacher for help, and finally understood a whole article.
When my turn came, I confidently stood on the platform and explained it quite good. The course benefited him a lot.
Hands can easily get cold in winter. Wearing gloves might be a good choice, but sometimes it is not 1. (convenience). However, this was not a problem for ancient Chinese people, 2. had a more delicate tool to keep their hands warm: hand warmers.
There is no accurate written record about the origin of this tool, but there are some laics about its 3. (invent). One folk story concerns Emperor Yangdi from the Sui Dynasty (581-618) who visited Jiangsu in the winter. Due to the bitter cold, the local official asked the producers to make 4. small warmer for the emperor that could be held in one’s hands. Thus the hand warmer 5. (create).
Techniques for producing the tool were 6. (steady) developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). Many poems and books from this period recorded people using hand warmers. The Dream of the Red Chamber, the classic novel written 7. Cao Xueqin from the Qing Dynasty, also described a maid who 8. (send) a hand warmer to Lin Daiyu in one chapter.
Ancient hand warmers had various designs. Round and square shapes arc typical. Some of 9. (they) look like pumpkins and flowers. Inside a hand warmer, there were 10. (burn) coals, some mixed with fragrance and giving off a pleasant smell.
Yan Wei, a 30-year-old blind man, has just covered a marathon on Sunday. This time he ______ his personal record with a new time of 3 hours, 15 minutes and 58 seconds. He had two ______ to help him and was ______ them with a safety rope.”
Yan, who lost his ______ when he was a few months old, started running three years ago, after learning that volunteers were available to ______ blind runners at the 2015 Beijing Marathon.
When he started training with the help of his ______ and parents, he could run only for 2 or 3 km at a time. But soon he ______ so much that his sister had to ride a bike to stay ______ him and guide him. It took him just four months to be ______ for his first marathon.
Yan ______ his quick progress to daily exercise. “I’d like to ______ 200 km per month. I feel ______ if I do not run for two days in a row.” says Yan.
But training is becoming ______ for Yan now, because there are few guides who can run faster than him. His guides need to be in better ______ condition than him.
“He’s never missed a single training in the past three years. I am ______ not only by his strength but also his ______ to train,” says Shu Hao, an ______ runner who has taken part in a lot of marathons and one of Yan’s running guides.
Instead of dying to prove himself ______ he ran, Yan has taken delight in running and now moved to ______ the process. He has completed fourteen ______ in the last two years and just wants to keep going.
1.A. beat B. copied C. researched D. preserved
2.A. dogs B. coaches C. guides D. judges
3.A. lifted by B. tied to C. separated from D. fixed on
4.A. parents B. strength C. voice D. sight
5.A. assist B. comfort C. represent D. consult
6.A. teachers B. classmates C. brother D. sister
7.A. donated B. occupied C. improved D. witnessed
8.A. away from B. ahead of C. behind D. for
9.A. ready B. late C. grateful D. harmful
10.A. adjusts B. owes C. devotes D. applies
11.A. run B. drive C. swim D. fly
12.A. unlucky B. embarrassed C. uncomfortable D. ignored
13.A. stricter B. looser C. easier D. harder
14.A. living B. physical C. mental D. educational
15.A. praised B. evaluated C. impressed D. inspected
16.A. instruction B. pressure C. absence D. determination
17.A. experienced B. honest C. overweight D. upset
18.A. soon after B. every time C. as if D. even though
19.A. delay B. register C. simplify D. enjoy
20.A. projects B. operations C. marathons D. tasks
