What did the man buy?
A. A new car. B. Some junk food. C. A new bicycle.
What is the man going to do?
A. Buy a new bag. B. Make a phone call. C. Use the bathroom.
假定你是高中生李华。你班同学决定举行班级春游。请你写一封邮件邀请外教Susan参加，要点包括：
1. 时间：4月22日早8点北门出发；下午5点磨山樱园入口处集合返校；
2. 地点：东湖绿道；
3. 内容安排：绿道骑行；户外野餐（食物自备）；小组自由活动。
注意：
1. 词数100左右，开头语已为你写好；2. 可以适当添加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：东湖绿道 The East Lake Greenway
Hi Susan,
We’re planning a spring outing for the whole class.
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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。每处错误仅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。
My friend Kevin had started waking up early and decided that he was going to do it completely natural so he quit drinking coffee. This is similar to everyone who never works out and then decide he is going to run a marathon the next day.
It didn’t work out for Kevin. He was miserable after a couple of day and decided to give up woke up early and went back to drinking coffee.
Personally, I had to drink a ton of coffee when I first started waking up early. I’ve been able to cut them back dramatically but it’s what I needed readjust my internal clock early on. Nowadays I really don’t need any caffeine (I usually just drink a cup of green tea in the morning) but I want to share a reality of what I have experienced.
There are two ways to look at this question --- 1. relating to eggs in general or to the chicken egg specifically. Either way, the answer is the same: the egg came before the chicken. 2. the case of eggs in general, animals such as dinosaurs were laying eggs long before the modern chicken came into existence, 3. (mean) that in this sense, the egg predated (早于) the chicken by thousands of years. As for the chicken egg specifically , according to NPR’s Robert Krulwich, the modern chicken 4. (hatch 孵化) from an egg, meaning the egg came first.
The key to understanding the answer, and indeed the question itself, is to understand what the question is getting at. The dilemma is to understand 5. a chicken-like bird transformed into 6. is known as a modern chicken after being hatched or whether two chicken-like birds 7. (lay) and fertilized an egg that then hatched a fully formed chicken. In this case, the latter option is the most realistic, therefore answering the question of which came first. 8. (essential), a bird that was similar to a hen and another bird that is similar to 9. rooster combined their genetic material, leading to a gene mutation (突变) that resulted in the chicken that is 10. (good) known and loved today.
During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be_______him. I hated the place. I had never _______been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack alone. The heat was_______-almost 125 0F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). _______a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the every air I breathed, were_______ with sand, sand, sand!
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was _______ and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I _______be in prison! My father answered my _______with just two lines-two lines that will always sing in my_______- two lines that completely changed my life:
Two men looked out from prison bars
One saw the mud, the other saw the stars
I read those two lines________ I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present ________; I would look for the stars.
I made friends with the natives, and their ________ amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had ________to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and________for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean________
What brought about this________ change in me? The desert hadn’t changed, ________ I had. I had changed my ________. And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing________of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered I had looked out of my self-created prison and________ the stars.
1.A. off B. behind C. near D. beyond
2.A. already B. before C. then D. still
3.A. unbearable B. incomprehensible C. inflexible D. uncontrollable
4.A. Only B. Many C. Not D. Such
5.A. covered B. charged C. buried D. filled
6.A. giving up B. keeping up C. catching up D. getting up
7.A. ought to B. might well C. would rather D. had better
8.A. complaints B. calls C. questions D. requests
9.A. imagination B. memory C. consideration D. comparison
10.A. now and then B. by and by C. up and down D. over and over
11.A. company B. occupation C. situation D. relationship
12.A. movement B. guidance C. reaction D. purpose
13.A. happened B. failed C. managed D. refused
14.A. asked B. hunted C. waited D. headed
15.A. floor B. surface C. rock D. level
16.A. challenging B. astonishing C. puzzling D. exciting
17.A. as B. or C. for D. but
18.A. principle B. attitude C. identity D. standard
19.A. vacation B. operation C. adventure D. affair
20.A. found B. counted C. sought D. reached
