假定你是李华，最近你的英国笔友James发来邮件说他的第一本小说出版了，并给你寄来了样书（sample copy）。请用英语给他回一封邮件，内容如下：
1．表示祝贺；
2．感谢赠书；
3．希望提些写作建议。
注意：1．词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear James,
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Yours sincerely,
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：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
Dear Mike,
How happy we are to know you’re going to participate in our Chinese Idiom Contest. Here are what you are supposed to know about.
The contest will be hold in the school library at 8:00 a.m in July 15, 2018. Characters wrong used should be recognized in some Chinese idioms. Besides, you are required say out the idioms by guess gestures of your partner. Hopefully, why I have to remind you of is that you’d better to get one story idiom prepared in case you are probably invited to tell one. By the way, all our Chinese teachers will be invited as judge.
Expect your excellence performance in the approaching contest.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Nowadays, in my spare time, I prefer to go outdoors and spend my time in some different places and with some different people.
The first reason 1. I do outdoor activities is that I have spent too much time indoors. Most of the time I just sit in the classroom, listening 2. the teachers and doing my homework. The indoor activities are too 3.(limit). The second reason is that fresh air, sunlight and enough physical exercise 4.(need) for a healthy body. So when I am free, I should go out. And the 5.(three) one is that I want to have more 6.(experience) in my life. When you go out, far away from your daily life, you will meet a lot of people who are quite different from you. It will give you a lot of 7.(beauty) moments.
8.(do) outdoor activities, however, will take a lot of money and energy. So if you have not prepared enough, having some amusement indoors is also 9. good choice. It may be much cheaper and easier 10.(carry) out. Reading some books and enjoying music are also very good.
The late Booth Tarkington always said, “I could take anything that life could force upon me except one thing: blindness. I could never ______ that.”
One day, when he was along in his sixties, Tarkington ______ down at the carpet on the floor. The colors were not clear, so he went to a ______, and he soon learned the truth: he was losing his sight. What he ______ most had come on him. And ______ did Tarkington react to it? To his amazement, he felt quite ______. When total darkness closed in, Tarkington even said, “I found I could take the ______ of my eyesight, just as a man can ______ anything else. If I lost all five of my ______, I know I could live on inside my mind. For it is in the mind we see, and in the mind we live, whether we know it or not.”
To ______ his eyesight, Tarkington had to go through over twelve operations within one year. He knew he couldn’t ______ it, so the only way to lessen his ______ was to accept. And when he had to have ______ operations, he tried to remember how fortunate he was. He said, “How wonderful it is that ______ now has the skill to operate on anything so ______ as the human eye!”
A(n) ______ man would have been nervous if he had had to tolerate over twelve operations and ______. Yet, Tarkington said, “I wouldn’t ______ this experience for a happier one.” It taught him ______. It taught him that nothing life could bring him was ______ his strength to tolerate.
1.A. feel B. forget C. forgive D. tolerate
2.A. put B. threw C. glanced D. settled
3.A. tailor B. specialist C. shop D. concert
4.A. feared B. needed C. enjoyed D. envied
5.A. why B. where C. how D. when
6.A. sad B. gay C. desperate D. thrilled
7.A. loss B. test C. experiment D. recovery
8.A. take B. admire C. control D. achieve
9.A. fingers B. organs C. senses D. toes
10.A. protect B. adjust C. examine D. restore
11.A. escape B. get C. predict D. feel
12.A. expectation B. suffering C. anger D. dissatisfaction
13.A. hurried B. successful C. secret D. repeated
14.A. society B. library C. science D. school
15.A. gentle B. bright C. beautiful D. delicate
16.A. popular B. average C. skillful D. proud
17.A. blindness B. behavior C. mistakes D. failures
18.A. leave B. prepare C. exchange D. take
19.A. caution B. confidence C. honesty D. acceptance
20.A. for B. beyond C. by D. within
A volunteering vacation can be a meaningful way to spend your time off, but to make the trip satisfying both for you and the cause you are supporting, several factors need to be considered. Here is some advice on planning the ideal vacation:
1. There are hundreds of causes to volunteer for, and finding one close to your heart will lead to a more worthwhile trip. Possibilities include wildlife conservation, education, environmental protection, health and nutrition. Also, consider any personal and professional skills that you can contribute. 2.
Choose your destination and setting. Your volunteering trip will be more enjoyable if you use it to reach a favorite destination. If Southeast Asia is on your mind, helping with tree-planting programs in Bali would benefit the environment and let you appreciate the scenic island. 3.
Is volunteering outdoors in a hot or snowy climate appealing, or do you prefer being in an air-conditioned office?
Ask the right questions. 4. Be aware that most volunteering programs require a weeklong commitment. Ask other questions like: How many hours of work per day is required? Are there days off? Will you be working individually or as part of a team? And what are the goals of your efforts? 5. Ask if the cost includes only accommodations or meals and transportation too.
A. Figure out your cause.
B. Find a well-respected organization.
C. And think about the surroundings you want.
D. Your duty there is to help, as well as to rest and relax.
E. The more you know about your trip, the more successful it will be.
F. Despite the word “volunteer”, these vacations usually cost you some money.
G. If you’re a doctor, for example, working at a health clinic could be an ideal fit.
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System（BDS）is a Chinese satellite navigation system. It consists of two separate satellite constellations（星座）. The first BeiDou system, officially called the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System and also known as BeiDou-1, consists of three satellites, which since 2000 has offered limited coverage and navigation services, mainly for users in China and neighboring regions. Beidou-1 was decommissioned at the end of 2012.
The second generation of the system, known as COMPASS or BeiDou-2, became operational in China in December 2011 with a partial constellation of 10 satellites in orbit. Since December 2012, it has been offering services to customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
In 2015, China started the build-up of the third generation BeiDou system（BeiDou-3）in the global coverage constellation. The first BDS-3 satellite was launched on 30 March 2015. Up to January 2018, nine BeiDou-3 satellites have been launched. BeiDou-3 will eventually consist of 35 satellites and is expected to provide global services upon completion in 2020. So far, China has sent 27 BeiDou satellites into space. When fully completed, BeiDou, the world’s fourth navigation satellite system, following GPS in the United States, GLONASS in Russia and Galileo in the European Union, will provide an alternative global navigation satellite system to the United States owned Global Positioning System（GPS）, and is expected to be more accurate than the GPS. It was claimed in 2016 that BeiDou-3 will reach millimeter-level accuracy（with post-processing）, which is ten times more accurate than the finest level of GPS.
According to China Daily, in 2015, fifteen years after the satellite system was launched, it was generating a turnover of $31.5 billion annually for major companies such as China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, and China North Industries Group Corp.
1.What does the underlined word “decommissioned” in the 1st paragraph mean?
A. out of service B. out of control
C. under repair D. under work
2.How many BeiDou-3 satellites had been sent into space by January 2018?
A. 3. B. 9.
C. 27. D. 35.
3.Which of the following statements about BDS is true according to the passage?
A. Beidou-2 began to operate in December, 2012.
B. Beidou-1 cannot cover all the Asia-Pacific regions.
C. Beidou-3 had reached the finest accuracy of GPS by 2016.
D. BDS ranks fourth among the existing navigation satellite systems in the world.
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The service of BDS.
B. The accuracy of BDS.
C. The development of BDS.
D. The comparisons among the satellite systems.
