Why does the man wear sunglasses?
A. He wants to make himself look cool.
B. He thinks it too sunny outside.
C. He has some physical problems.
Where does this conversation take place?
A. In a store B. In a restaurant C. In a hotel
假定你是李华，你们班下个星期天将去景德镇参观并感受陶瓷(pottery)文化。你们的外教John对中国陶瓷很感兴趣，因此你想邀请他一同前往，请就此给他写一封信，要点如下:
1. 活动时间:下周日早上8:00至下午5:00；
2. 活动内容:观看陶艺大师制作陶器，体验制作陶器等。
注意:1. 词数100左右。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除和修改。
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. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I’m Zhang Lei from China. I’m easy-going and warm-hearted, which makes its easy for me to make new friends. Energetic and responsible, I am a captain of our school football team. Reading is that I really love, both for fun and knowledge.
If I’m luckily enough to be chosen as chairman of the Students’ Union, I will spare no effort to live on to your expectations. More colourful after-school activities will be organized, which will definitely reduced pressure but enrich our school life. Consider we are studying in an international middle school, communication should be given priority. So an international club will set up, thus enhancing the understanding between the students from different country.
Dragon Heads-raising Day, 1. falls each year on the second day of the second lunar month, is one of the Chinese traditional 2. (festival) as the proverb goes: “The dragon is awake, 3. (raise) his head.” On this day, dragons, a prominent totem (图腾) in Chinese culture, raise 4. (they) heads with the sound of thunder. Around this time, the earth is bursting with life—grass and trees are beginning to shoot up. In ancient China, people 5. (pray) the dragon god beside a river or a lake for the precious spring rain to breed their crops.
6. (tradition), food eaten on this day was renamed after parts of the dragon. For instance, wontons (馄饨) were called “dragons’ eyes”. The special foods usually eaten on this day include dragons’ scales, popcorn and pigs’ heads.
In Shanxi, people get their hair 7. (cut) in a symbolic move to remove the old and embrace the new. In 8. countryside in Hebei Province, people would fetch water from a well 9. dawn. It was believed 10. on this day the well was full of dragon eggs which would bring the collectors good harvest.
As a child, I was always told to “eat my greens”. These were the unappealing vegetables that sat on the edge of my plate. Peas, and green beans, all looked and tasted ______. Let’s face it, when there were so many other delicious treats to _______, why eat boring vegetables?
Since then my taste buds have ______ and I’m also fully aware of the health benefits of eating fresh vegetables. But we still need ______ of the amazing goodness these green super foods give us. In the UK, a campaign has been ______ for several years to encourage us to eat our “5 A Day”—five portions of fruit and vegetables. That’s ______ evidence has shown there are significant health ______ through getting at least five 80g portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day.
But I struggle trying to fit these five portions into my daily ______, partly because I have a sweet ______ and vegetables are, well, tasteless. Researchers have been ______ how to make eating vegetables more ______. They analyzed the psychology behind our food ______ and found that most of us are ______ by taste. Brad Turnwald from Stanford University says that “studies show that people ______ to think of healthier options as less tasty for some reason.”
In Europe, a project called VeggieEAT has also been trying to find ways to get people to ______ more vegetables. Project leader, Professor Heather Hartwell believes in ______ encouraging people into eating the right things. One idea is to put a ______ of a tasty looking fruit on a supermarket trolley as a ______ about buying something from the fruit store after looking at the picture. She says, “Choice is a really ______ thing. But making vegetables look attractive will increase their sales.”
Certainly, eating “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” does sound tempting, even if it just tastes like a carrot, but if it makes us eat more vegetables then that can only be a ______ thing for our health.
1.A. disgusting B. delicious C. ripen D. sweet
2.A. buy B. prepare C. offer D. enjoy
3.A. appeared B. developed C. existed D. shrank
4.A. reminding B. informing C. warning D. talking
5.A. planned B. aimed C. run D. intended
6.A. why B. how C. when D. because
7.A. needs B. benefits C. issues D. risks
8.A. diet B. education C. work D. exercise
9.A. tendency B. preference C. tooth D. appetite
10.A. showing B. discovering C. reporting D. studying
11.A. appropriate B. attractive C. beneficial D. independent
12.A. choices B. values C. wastes D. judgments
13.A. confused B. disturbed C. motivated D. challenged
14.A. manage B. decide C. agree D. tend
15.A. grow B. eat C. store D. harvest
16.A. gradually B. suddenly C. falsely D. seriously
17.A. variety B. lot C. picture D. number
18.A. worry B. concern C. clue D. hint
19.A. easy B. complex C. quick D. good
20.A. difficult B. strange C. beneficial D. awful
