—Have you decided to take up teaching as a career after graduation?
—I ________ go abroad for further education instead, but it depends.
A. should B. must
C. might D. shall
This city plans to ________ all high-polluting factories by the end of 2018 so as to improve its air quality.
A. purchase B. promote
C. remove D. replace
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
