What has Paul been busy doing recently?
A. Getting a novel published.
B. Collecting poems.
C. Writing a poem.
假定你是李华，你校学生会(The Students' Union)决定于9月5日下午在学校操场举办一次图书义卖活动(charity activity)，目的是筹钱为贫困地区的儿童买书。请用英文给你校来自澳大利亚的交换生 Paul发一封电子邮件，邀请他参加这个活动。
注意： 1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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。
Mistakes are unavoidable in life. But attitudes towards it may make a difference. I still remember how my spoken English was improved. In a beginning, I always kept silent in our oral class to avoid make mistakes. Before long my teacher get to know about my situation. He encouraged me to speak out that I thought. Whenever I made mistakes and felt discouraging, my teacher will help me figure out how I could have avoided them. I also joined in an English club to get more chances to speak. Practice makes perfect. Now I can talk fluent in English. So don't afraid of making mistakes. Learn from mistakes, and success is just waiting for us.
We are what we eat because what we eat every day has 1. great impact on our health. Therefore, we should make every effort to change our bad eating habits. 2. we all know, baked or fried foods may be 3.(taste), but eating too much of them will 4.(probable) result in some illnesses. Moreover, junk food that costs us a great deal of money but is not healthy.
5.(compare) with people in the west, Chinese people used to eat more grain and vegetables but 6.(little) meat, which is a good eating habit. However, things are quite different now. With the rapid economic 7.(grow) of our country, now we are also eating a lot of food high in sugar and fat. We 8.(run) the risk of eating unhealthily without considering the balance of our diet.
The food we choose affects our health, so we must keep it 9. mind that the food we choose should give us the nutrients that 10. need.
Experts say boredom is good for kids. It forces them to be creative, ______ their imaginations, and helps them discover new things. A(n) ______ in point is 13－year－old Luke Thrill from Dubuque, Iowa.
Luke was ______of playing video games and riding his bike, so he decided to build a tiny house in his backyard instead. He made money from cutting lawns(草坪) and ______ exchanged some services, such as gaining the help of an electrical engineer ______ sweeping his garage. Luke also ______ spare materials from his grandmother's house and other ______ materials from his neighbors for some of the windows and the door.
The 89－square－foot home cost $1, 500 to build and ______ 18 months. Inside there's a kitchenette, a back sitting room, a table and a mounted(镶嵌的) TV, and an upstairs bedroom can be easily ______ by stairway.
Although Luke did the ______ and learned how to do all the work, he had his father's ______ throughout the project. Greg Thrill was very happy that his son learned to stay on ______ and deal with grown－ups. ______， he had some simple rules when Luke ______ the house: “You ______ the money. You build it. And you own it.”
Luke is now in love with ________. He has a YouTube channel and hopes to ______ other kids to start building. ______， he wants to build a bigger tiny house to live in, but for now, he ______ in his new home a few nights a week, does homework there, and uses it to take a ______ from his twin brother.
1.A. changes B. ignores C. improves D. weakens
2.A. method B. explanation C. procedure D. case
3.A. tired B. fond C. confident D. guilty
4.A. thus B. even C. still D. anyhow
5.A. in exchange for B. in praise for C. in support of D. in place of
6.A. updated B. ordered C. removed D. used
7.A. recycled B. cheap C. new D. raw
8.A. spent B. took C. saved D. wasted
9.A. supported B. accessed C. held D. landed
10.A. research B. housework C. experiment D. discovery
11.A. permission B. help C. control D. order
12.A. credit B. business C. budget D. duty
13.A. Therefore B. Besides C. Rather D. However
14.A. finished B. decorated C. started D. painted
15.A. borrow B. donate C. raise D. distribute
16.A. books B. videos C. riding D. building
17.A. inspire B. press C. command D. warn
18.A. Luckily B. Eventually C. Frequently D. Strangely
19.A. brings out B. leaves out C. hangs out D. puts out
20.A. ride B. risk C. chance D. break
Last summer over 12,000 fans were at Wembley Arena in London, shouting and cheering. Thousands more were watching online.1.It was esports, or competitive computer gaming.
Millions of people in the UK play computer games for fun. Some of them have become professional gamers, playing games as their full-time job.2.They practice for ten or more hours a day, five or six days a week. They do exercises like typing something and trying to type it faster and faster. They also study videos of other players and plan ways to beat them.
3.Are players athletes? Some say no. Esports players don’t need to run, jump, throw or do big physical actions. At the moment, the UK government classifies esports as kinds of games, not as sports.
But others say yes: esports are sports. Players do need some physical skills, especially hand-eye coordination, reflexes, accuracy and timing. If darts, snooker and shooting are classified as sports, then perhaps esports should be too.
4.And they will be an official medal sport in the Asian Games starting from 2022. Next step: the Olympics?
For many esports fans and players, though, the most important thing is that esports are growing in popularity and importance.5.
A. But are esports really sports?
B. All like playing computer games.
C. It’s not easy being a professional gamer, though.
D. But this wasn’t a football, basketball or tennis match.
E. It is certain that esports will come into the 2024 Olympics.
F. In fact, China and South Korea do classify esports as sports.
G. If esports are not as important as sports now, they definitely will be in the near future.
