假如你是李华，在你校学习的美国交换生David和你成为了好朋友，并且在他的帮助下你的英语学习取得了很大的进步。在他结束学习回国之后, 请用英语给他写一封感谢信。内容应包括：
1. 表达思念；
2. 感谢帮助；
3. 希望保持联系。
注意事项：
1. 不得透露真实姓名和学校
2. 词数：100左右
3. 开头和结尾已写出，不计入词数
Dear David ,
How time flies! It’s been a total week since you left our school.
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Best wishes
Yours,
Li Hua
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。
I lived in my hometown ten years before．It was a quiet and beautiful village with green tree and clean water．I miss the days spend in my hometown so much.
When I was in my hometown, I always wake up early in the morning．Some people took a walk around while others was doing their farm work．I used to go to the hill nearby with my grandpa on every day with a little dog following them. There I’d like to play the dog while my grandpa was taking care of his fruit trees. Sometimes I would go to the river to catch fish. What happy I was!
I will keep the beautifully memory forever．
Tim Cook，the CEO of Apple，showed off their newest device，the Apple Watch．Mr．Cook said it was the most personal device Apple1.(create)．
The Apple Watch is a very small computer a person wears on his or her wrist．It can do many of the same things2.an iPhone．The apps are customized(定制) for the watch．It is different than just seeing3.is on your phone．
Like a phone，you will be able to receive4.(call)on your wrist．Mr.Cook smiled while5.(describe) this. “I've been wanting to do this since I was five years old，”he said. “The day is6.(final) here．”
The watches arrived in stores7.late April．They are sold at different prices，beginning at ＄349．Mr．Cook said the high-end model，the one8.(make) of 18-karat gold，is thousands of dollars.
One problem with Apple Watch is that you need an iPhone on your body，or nearby，9.(get) this watch to function fully．Like a phone，it also needs to be charged each night. It remains to be seen whether people really want to carry both a smart phone10.a smart watch.
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a bunch of white gardenia (栀子花) was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it. _______ to the flower shops were not helpful at all—it was a cash _______. After a while I stopped trying to _______ who the sender was and just delighted in the beauty and perfume of the white flowers in soft pink paper.
But I never _______ imagining who the sender might be. Some of my _______ moments were spent daydreaming about it. My mother_______to these imaginings. She would ask me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(n) _______ kindness and said that he/ she might be showing _______. Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was _______ a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man ________ the street whose mail I helped to get during the ________ so he wouldn’t have to risk down his icy steps. As a young girl, ________, I tended to guess that it might be a boy who had noticed me a long time ________ I didn’t know him.
One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment and fear. He was ________ some of the most important events in my life. And I became completely ________ in my upcoming dance in my graduation ceremony.
The day before my father died, my mother and I had gone shopping for a dress. We’d found a splendid one, but it was the wrong size. When my father died, I ________ about the dress. My mother didn’t. The day before the graduation ceremony, I found that beautiful dress, in the right size, on the sofa. I didn’t ________ whether I had a new dress or not, but my mother did. She wanted her children to feel ________ and lovable, believing that there was a magic in the world and ________ in the face of hard times. In truth, Mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia—lovely, ________ and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother passed away ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
1.A. Calls B. Quarrels C. Messages D. Complaints
2.A. service B. deal C. bargain D. offer
3.A. recognize B. imagine C. clarify D. discover
4.A. tried B. stopped C. succeeded D. enjoyed
5.A. saddest B. worst C. happiest D. loneliest
6.A. devoted B. occurred C. assisted D. contributed
7.A. special B. common C. valuable D. important
8.A. concern B. attitude C. interest D. appreciation
9.A. repairing B. washing C. unloading D. starting
10.A. across B. through C. over D. onto
11.A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
12.A. however B. besides C. therefore D. otherwise
13.A. only if B. even though C. so that D. as if
14.A. considering B. attending C. missing D. arranging
15.A. absorbed B. uninterested C. discouraged D. disappointed
16.A. lost B. hated C. forgot D. expected
17.A. suspect B. believe C. care D. realize
18.A. contented B. respected C. supported D. loved
19.A. trouble B. beauty C. challenge D. struggle
20.A. strong B. cautious C. splendid D. fortunate
How to develop courage by overcoming daily fears
At times, when it comes to courage, we tend to believe it only applies to rare and uncommon situations. Yet our ordinary lives can also be full of courage, even if we are not facing the end of a gun, a wild animal or a dangerous criminal. Courage doesn’t just mean doing heroic acts. 1. In fact, where there is fear on a daily basis, there are opportunities for you to show your courage. Here are some suggestions to develop courage by overcoming daily fears.
Recognize your fears.
By realizing that you’re fearful, you are more likely to get to the bottom of what your fear is. 2. you might come to understand that you’re afraid of failing or taking chances. You may be fearful simply because you don’t have confidence in yourself. The key is not to dwell on your fear, but rather to understand what it is that you’re worried about.
Ask yourself what is the worst that can happen.
If you hesitate to take action, ask yourself this: what’s the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then go on to improve on the worst. Is failure the worst thing that can happen? No, absolutely not. 3.. Doing nothing is actually the worst thing that can happen. When you take no action, you are assured of getting nowhere.
Take action.
4.. You cannot think courage comes just in one day. You need to act to overcome your fear. Your action may put you into discomfort, but you have to just do it. And your action can prevent you from being stuck.
5.
To build up your confidence, you need to do the same thing over and over again. Soon you will discover that less courage is needed because you have already gained mastery. You are able to move decisively forward.
A. Share your fears with others.
B. Practice, practice and practice.
C. So you are already in a comfort zone.
D. Courage comes from taking action.
E. Each undesired result is just one more step towards your goal.
F. Finding out what is truly holding you back,
G. You needn’t wait for an emergency to occur to develop courage.
There are two great trends on parents bringing up children today．First，children are now praised to an unbelievable degree．As Dorothy Parker once joked，American children aren’t raised；they are motivated．Children are constantly told how special they are．The second is that children are honed(磨砺) to an unimaginable degree．Parents spend much more time than in past generations on their children’s development．
These two great trends—greater praise and greater honing—combine in close ways. Parents shower their kids with affection，but it is intermingled with the desire to help their children achieve success．Parents are happy when their child studies hard，practices hard，wins first place，gets into a famous college．
The wolf of conditional love is hidden in these homes．The parents feel they love their children in all circumstances．But the children often think differently．They feel that childhood is a performance—on the athletic field，in school and beyond．The shadowy presence of conditional love produces a fear，the fear that there is no completely safe love．
Meanwhile，children who are uncertain of their parents’ love develop a great hunger for it. This conditional love is1ike an acid that affects children’s criteria to make their own decisions about their own colleges，majors and careers．At key decision-points，they unconsciously imagine how their parents will react．
These children tell their parents those things that will bring praise and hide the parts of their lives that won’t. Studies suggest that children who receive conditional love often do better in the short run．They can be model students．But they suffer in the long run. They come to hate their parents．They are so influenced by fear that they become afraid of risk．
Parents today are less likely to demand obedience(顺从) with explicit rules and lectures．But they are more likely to use love as a tool to exercise control. But parental love is supposed to ignore achievement. It’s meant to be an unconditional support -a gift that can not be bought and cannot be earned．
1.What does the underlined word “intermingled” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Greeted． B. Mixed． C. Compared． D. Separated．
2.Some children can’t make their own decisions probably because________.
A. they have too many options B. they are lacking in parents’ advice
C. they are doubtful about parents’ love D. they care too much about parents’ reaction
3.What’s the author’s opinion about parental love？
A. It doesn’t go to children with poor grades.
B. It is meant to control children’s behaviour.
C. It shouldn’t focus on children’s achievement.
D. It works with strict rules and constant reminding.
