假如你是学生会主席李华，为了让外国人了解中国传统文化，学生会将进行“唐诗吟诵大赛”(Tang Poetry Recitation Contest)，特邀请学校国际部学生参加，请你根据提示写一则通知。
主要内容包括：
1.大赛目的和意义；
2.主办方：校学生会。时间：201 6年12月30日。地点：校报告厅(assembly hall)；
3.范围：唐诗三百首(Three Hundred Tang Poems)。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文流畅。
Notice
Do you want to have a further knowledge of Chinese culture?
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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： 在错词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
With the development of science and technology, intelligent robots will be wide used in the future. At home ,robots will help people do some housework and taking care of the elderly, babies and patients. In addition to these task, robots will even be able to play the chess and do exercise with people. In factories, robots will be used to perform some dangerous jobs avoid accidents.
Robots will change our future life by many ways, what will make it more colorful and comfortable. Therefore, we shouldn’t depend on intelligent robots too much, for they were made to help humans rather than replace us. As helpers of we humans, robots should be used properly.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Located in the northwest of Hunan Province, about 300 kilometers away from Changsha, capital of Hunan, Zhangjiajie, 1. covers a total area of 9,563 square kilometers, is a tourist city for its unique natural scenery and abundant tourism resources. Zhangjiajie 2.(award) the title of “World Geological Park” in 2004. 3. (actual), Zhangjiajie, honored as “the most fantastic mountain under heaven” and “a walking Chinese landscape painting”, is also widely praised as “4. enlarged potted landscaping” “a mini fairyland” and “a maze (迷宫) of nature”, attracting a growing number of tourists 5. home and abroad.
Since it was discovered in the 1980s, tourism industry 6. (become) the leading industry in Zhangjiajie, which has stimulated the development of other industries 7. (relate) to tourism. At the same time, eco-tourism has been developed rapidly in Zhangjiajie. When you come to Zhangjiajie, you can fully appreciate 8. (it) magnificent natural scenery and experience appealing folk custom as well as other thrilling tourist 9. (activity), and you will be deeply impressed by 10. is performed by the minorities there.
It must be an exciting, joyful and unforgettable tour to Zhangjiajie.
Dropping into hopelessness completely, Jack wandered on the streets, knowing he came to the end of life. In his mid-fifties, Jack had never been ____ , experienced the joy of having children or spent holidays with his family. On this miserable rainy night, he felt as if there was _____in the entire world who cared whether he lived or died.
Meanwhile, I was sitting in my room watching the rain _____ my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I ____ from my chair and raced out. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overcome by _____ , invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room.
____ , I walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but the sight of the man, _____ his head in his hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back upstairs to my room and ____ my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin, I ran back downstairs.
When I reached the door of the living room, I walked right in. The three ______ looked at me in _____as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a ____ , turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy.
Downstairs, Jack sat quietly with his head ______.Tears streamed down his face as he ______held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, “It’s just that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so ____. That is the first hug I have ever got. It’s hard to believe that somebody ___ .”
Jack's life changed that night. When he left our house, he was ____ to live instead of die. Although we never saw Jack again, we received letters from him ____ , letting us know that he was doing fine.
My life changed that night, too, as I ____ the huge healing power of giving, even if it’s only a gift of fifty cents. Before Jack left, my parents asked him why he had knocked on our door. Jack said that ______he was walking along the streets that rainy night, ____ and ready to die, he noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.
1.A. married B. employed C. managed D. understood
2.A. somebody B. everybody C. nobody D. anybody
3.A. break B. cover C. approach D. beat
4.A. looked B. settled C. jumped D. ran
5.A. pity B. anxiety C. guilty D. fear
6.A. Annoyed B. Curious C. Worried D. Excited
7.A. holding B. nodding C. shaking D. resting
8.A. presented B. adjusted C. pushed D. reached
9.A. strangers B. adults C. neighbors D. visitors
10.A. anger B. delight C. fun D. surprise
11.A. hug B. smile C. kiss D. handshake
12.A. raised B. bowed C. ignored D. turned
13.A. calmly B. privately C. tightly D. impatiently
14.A. anxious B. lonely C. stressed D. bored
15.A. makes B. deserves C. cares D. figures
16.A. disappointed B. flexible C. likely D. ready
17.A. hardly B. immediately C. occasionally D. never
18.A. saw B. informed C. hid D. assisted
19.A. before B. until C. unless D. when
20.A. weak B. hopeless C. ashamed D. regretful
How to improve your vocabulary
Vocabulary is a key part of learning a new language. 1. Maybe you can’t learn a hundred new words a day, but you can learn one or two a day, totaling thousands of new words over the years. Here are some tips for building up your vocabulary.
Make a plan to learn new words. If you want to improve your vocabulary more quickly, you have to make at least a small promise. 2.
Make you vocabulary practical. 3.For example, learn more of your trade language---- the words that are commonly used in your business or hobby or vocation(职业). Find better, fresher, clearer words to express what your friends are talking about.
4. As you read, if you come across a new word that you don’t understand. Don’t miss it. Take the time to look it up in a dictionary. Write it down and use it later.
When you learn a word, use it immediately and frequently. Put your new word into conversation with as many different people as you can. 5. Use it in sentences. Write it on a card and practice it while waiting for red lights.
A. Repeat it to yourself.
B. They’re highly reusable.
C. Start learning where you are.
D. Decide to learn one new word every day or two.
E. When you’re writing something, use a dictionary frequently.
F. Start by learning the words that can express what’s most important to you.
G. The more you read, the more words you’ll see, and the more you’ll understand.
Is beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive(主管的) circle, beauty can become a disadvantage.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required.
This is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 college students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
1.In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness ________.
A. makes women look more honest and capable B. strengthens the manly qualities required
C. is of no importance to women D. often enables women to succeed quickly
2.Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness ________.
A. affects men and women alike B. has as little effect on men as on women
C. is more of a disadvantage to women D. turns out to be a disadvantage to men
3.According to the passage, people’s views on beauty are often ________.
A. practical B. one-sided C. old-fashioned D. supportive
4.The passage is mainly about ________.
A. the disadvantages of being attractive B. the advantages of being attractive
C. equal rights for women D. the importance of appearance
