假如你是李华，你未曾谋面的美国笔友Tim给你发来邮件，表示将要来你所在的城市参观游玩。请你给他回复一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1．表示欢迎并要去接机；
2．询问航班及到达时间；
3．描述自己，以便对方辨识。
注意：1．词数100-120；
2．邮件格式已给出，但不计入总词数。
Dear Tim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。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。
Most people say we prefer spring or summer, but I like early autumn most. Surprising, the weather is often very good in September and October and it is not so hot in summer. This is really the time to get out to enjoying the beauty of the countryside. At this time of year, you will find that the woods and forests were breathtakingly beautiful. Few things are more enjoyable when walking slowly through a wood on a sunny morning in early autumn. It is wonderful to walk across of a crisp carpet of orange, gold and brown fallen leaf in a quiet and cool air. The world seem at peace and I always feel relaxing.
阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Regular exercise and a healthy diet can be potentially beneficial to your life. But could speaking more than one language have healthy benefits for your brain? A team at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute in Canada1.(seek) the answer to that question. 2. (get) it, they studied the medical records of 211 people. Based on medical examinations, all of the subjects were apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (老年前期痴呆). Typically, such people are 3. (confuse) easily about times and dates, have trouble 4. (remember) recently acquired information, and find 5. difficult to solve problems and make plans. Among the people participating in the Canadian study, about half spoke two languages and the other half only one.
6. the researchers found was a clear link between the bilingualism (双语能力) of the first group and a delayed onset (开始) of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. In the study, the group that spoke two languages showed 7. (sign) of Alzheimer’s five years later than the group that spoke only one language did.
People who 8. (regular) communicate in two languages have stronger control of language 9. are able to keep their speech ability longer. The Canadian study followed earlier work that was conducted in 2007. That research showed that 10. (be) bilingual improves attention and cognitive control in both children and adults.
When I was a child I used to look forward to Saturday mornings. That was when my brother, Bernard, and I got our pocket money from our father. I would put half of it in my money box, ____ run off happily with the rest to Bartlett’s, a little, local ____ at the end of our street.
There I would join the other children ____ to spend their pocket money, and we’d ask Mrs. Bartlett to ____ us “the tray (托盘)”. In those days, there weren’t all the ____ of sweets and chocolate bars you see on sale now. All Mrs. Bartlett ____ were a few items arranged on a simple wooden ____, which she kept under the counter. But to us it was a wonderful ____: toffees, lollipops, barley sugar, and sweets wrapped in colorful paper. It always took ages for each child to ____ what to buy. But Mrs. Bartlett didn’t ____: as long as there were no grown-up customers waiting to be ____, she let us take our time.
Bernard liked sweets, too. The ____ was he didn’t like buying them. When I went to Bartlett’s, he went to a newsagent’s shop that sold football cards. He was ____ about these picture cards of famous footballers and spent all his pocket money trying to ____ whole teams of players.
On Saturday afternoons he would ____ the house and find out where I was. He knew I had been to Bartlett’s. If I didn’t ____ my bag of sweets quickly enough, he’d see it and say, “Can I have one?” And I would say, “Why should I give you one? You had your pocket money, too — you could have____ your own sweets.” Then Bernard would go to our mother to ____, “Mom, Helen has a whole bag of sweets and she won’t give me one.” To which Mum would say, “Helen, don’t be so ____. Share your sweets with your brother!” I thought this was really ____, but of course I gave him some sweets.
1.A. and B. but C. or D. until
2.A. restaurant B. theatre C. barbershop D. grocery
3.A. careful B. slow C. eager D. afraid
4.A. sell B. show C. make D. teach
5.A. prices B. tastes C. varieties D. smells
6.A. provided B. wanted C. noticed D. controlled
7.A. floor B. tray C. chair D. house
8.A. atmosphere B. line C. way D. sight
9.A. imagine B. decide C. realize D. guess
10.A. escape B. change C. mind D. succeed
11.A. served B. accepted C. paid D. checked
12.A. problem B. mistake C. difficulty D. disadvantage
13.A. anxious B. cautious C. puzzled D. mad
14.A. collect B. return C. organize D. protect
15.A. paint B. repair C. share D. search
16.A. sew B. hide C. pack D. deliver
17.A. divided B. saved C. bought D. eaten
18.A. recommend B. complain C. apologize D. reply
19.A. surprised B. modest C. smart D. mean
20.A. unfair B. unusual C. impolite D. inconvenient
People elect a mayor (市长) to help run a city in the United States. The mayor must keep track of all city activities. 1. They run the city government with the help from city council (市议会).
Mayors may be “weak” or “strong.” In cities that use a weak-mayor system, the city council has most of the power. Under this system, people elect council members and leaders of some departments, or city offices. 2. A city may have many boards and committees, which are groups that make decisions. Each group manages one city department. Although people elect the mayor, he or she has little power. The weak mayor may suggest leaders for city departments. However, the council must approve these suggestions.
In a strong-mayor system, the elected mayor chooses the leaders of each department. 3. The elected city council doesn’t have the power to approve the leaders that the mayor chooses. Strong mayors check the work of many different city departments. These departments plan the way that the city will grow and develop.
A strong mayor prepares the city budget. 4. Citizens know whom to blame if services fail. However, the mayor works with the council to figure out the needs of the city and to complete city projects.
Strong mayors have a great deal of control over the government of a city. 5. Most cities have written city charter (章程) that explains the duties of the mayor and other officials.
A. However, mayors do not work alone.
B. However, they must stay within the law.
C. The council never prepares the city budget.
D. The council also may choose leaders for city departments.
E. The mayor makes sure that people who break the laws are punished.
F. In this sense, the mayor decides how to spend money for city services.
G. He or she makes sure that these leaders run their departments efficiently.
Along with my co-founder, I run Harry’s, a men’s grooming (美容) company. And my wife Lacey is a senior writer and editor at The Hollywood Reporter. Our careers are important to us. So we always agreed that when it came time to build our family, we wanted to co-parent. In theory, it sounded like a lot of fun.
So far it has been. But as I’ve learned since the birth of my not theoretical daughter, Chloe, it’s also really hard.
To be clear, becoming a parent is much, much harder for my wife. But Lacey does have one thing that I’ve struggled to find: a space to talk about balancing work with parenthood. Due in part to the physical, mental, and emotional tolls (损伤) of pregnancy and childbirth, moms often find community in those shared experiences. In addition, there are blogs, books, and resources for mothers returning to work; for better or for worse, the demands of raising a baby are often assumed by women.
But there are plenty of working dads out there, too. In fact, I feel if I’m struggling with this whole ‘working dad’ thing, then other guys must be struggling, too. If I’m craving a space to share experiences and normalize true co-parenthood, I have to believe I’m not the only one.
Dealing with the problem at a macro (大的) level is hard. But I do have the power to make real change within Harry’s. My co-founder and I want to make sure that everyone on our team feels 100% supported, as employees and as parents. To that end, we’re excited to offer a new, progressive policy: 16 weeks of paid parental leave, taken any time within the first year, to every person on our team.
Some people might decide to take the full 4 months and others won’t. That’s OK. The goal is not to dictate right or wrong, but to offer our team real flexibility and control. Because all parents deserve the resources and tools to make the best decisions for their families; to be great coworkers, and also great parents.
1.What is bothering the author?
A. His wife is fully occupied.
B. His daughter is troublesome.
C. He is failing to balance work and life.
D. He can find nowhere to seek child-raising advice.
2.Which of the following would the author agree with?
A. It’s easier for a woman to be a parent. B. Kids benefit a lot from co-parenting.
C. Women suffer a lot from parenthood. D. It’s women’s duty to take care of kids.
3.What does the underlined word “craving” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Using. B. Desiring.
C. Creating. D. Saving.
4.What’s the aim of the new policy?
A. To promote equality.
B. To free working dads.
C. To nurse great coworkers.
D. To encourage true co-parenthood.
