假设你是学生会主席李华，你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛，希望附近某大学外籍教师Smith 女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写一封邀请信。
英语演讲比赛
主题：人与自然(Man and Nature)
时间：6月15日下午2：00-5：00
地点：501教室
参赛选手：10名学生
联系人：李华（电话：44876655）
参考词汇：评委 judge 主题 theme 英语演讲比赛 English Speech Contest
词数：120字左右
Dear Ms. Smith,
I am Lihua, the leader of the Students Union of Yu Cai Middle School.
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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（
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。
Last Sunday, I went on a hike with one of my best friend, Kevin. I got up early that morning and prepare lots of food in my lunchbox and then I went Kevin’s home to pick him up. On the way to the mountain, we enjoyed at seeing many beautiful flowers along the road. After we arrived at the mountain, all of us couldn’t help admire the natural scenery. Then he advised that we had a race between us, what made me excited too. But I agreed immediately. In a hurry, Kevin tripped on a stone and fell all the way down. Fortunate, he got stuck on a tree and I pulled him up at last. What a day!
阅读下面材料，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。
The Great Wall was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a dragon, itwinds up and down across deserts, grasslands and mountains, 1.(run) approximately21,196 kilometers from east to west.
The 2. (construct) of the Great Wall was not that easy, 3. drew heavilyon the local resources for building materials. The walls were 4. (original) built in theSpring ＆Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Emperor Qin Shi Huang succeeded inhis effort to have them joined together. Since then, the Great Wall 5.(serve) as amonument of the Chinese nation throughout history.
With 6. history of about 2,700 years, some parts of the Great Wall are now 7.ruins or have disappeared. However, the Great Wall of China is still one of the most appealing8. (attraction) all around the world owing to its historical significance. The best-knownpart of the Great Wall of China, Badaling, 9.(locate) 43 miles northwest of Beijing,attracts thousands of national and foreign tourists every day.
Today, the Great Wall 10. (recognize) as one of the most impressive architecturalachievements in history.
He Had a Go
It was a cool spring evening in Melbourne, Australia. I drove to my boxing gym for aFriday night training session. After _______ up, I started training. Then I noticed a tall andslim young man walking through the doors. There was something about him that caught my_____.
Before long, I realized that he might have a mental illness. Having volunteered for mentalillness support groups, I really ______ his problems when I looked at him.
He paid for the session, put on a pair of gloves and then started hitting the punching bags.I watched him from a _____ and wanted to help him to punch straighter and better. Then Ifelt it was best to leave that up to the trainer who was _______ watching him.
After a few seconds of punching the bag, he stopped and started staring at the ______.The trainer went up to him and ______ to help him. It was almost like he woke up from adream. He ______ eye contact with the ceiling at once.
Then the bell rang and it was the end of the round. _____ rounds we are required todo five push-ups(俯卧撑),_________ all the boys that were training that night did fivepush-ups. He _____ to complete his five push-ups. The bell sounded again and the nextround began. He punched the bags for a few seconds and then he _____. This time he wasstaring at the walls which were decorated with boxing posters.
It was clear to me that he could not _______ for long.
When I finished training, I decided to go to him and offer him my help. I held the bag forhim and asked him to punch. He _______ the bag a few times and then stopped again.
I smiled at him and asked, “Do you like boxing?”
He replied with a very shy _________on his face, “Yes, boxing is alright.”
What else could I do than ______ this man and his willingness to give it a go? Mostpeople put self-imposed(自我强加的)_________ on their lives and stop themselves fromhaving a go. I kept thinking about this man while admiring him for even turning up to a boxinggym, let alone training at what appeared to be his ________
There are many lessons to learn from this man. What I ______ admired about this manwas that he had a go! That is what ______ ordinariness from greatness.
So what will you have a go at?
1.A. lifting B. running C. warming D. going
2.A. heart B. attention C. breath D. imagination
3.A. experienced B. mentioned C. overcame D. understood
4.A. distance B. box C. poster D. screen
5.A. still B. even C. also D. ever
6.A. bags B. walls C. ceiling D. trainer
7.A. offered B. promised C. seemed D. planned
8.A. made B. broke C. kept D. avoided
9.A. Before B. Through C. During D. Between
10.A. for B. but C. or D. so
11.A. struggled B. preferred C. refused D. decided
12.A. slowed B. stopped C. continued D. hesitated
13.A. stand B. stay C. concentrate D. remember
14.A. hit B. felt C. grasped D. watched
15.A. view B. look C. sight D. scene
16.A. accept B. appreciate C. motivate D. notice
17.A. targets B. burdens C. limitations D. minds
18.A. worst B. fullest C. greatest D. hardest
19.A. really B. hardly C. merely D. nearly
20.A. prevents B. protects C. transforms D. separates
Choosing the right college for you is not so easy. You should have a general idea of what you want and don’t want. The idea can guide you to what fits your needs best. 1..
Think about what major you want to study in college. If you know that, just look atcolleges that have your major. 2.. So think carefully about your majors and interests before choosing one.
Where the college is located matters. Anyone who tells you the location isn’t important is lying. 3., stay away from schools in cold areas. If you look forward to working in the publishing industry, New York may be your best bet. If your parents want you to stay close to home, please don’t consider anywhere that requires a plane ticket to get to.
Think about how much you can afford. Are your parents paying for your education? If so,how much are they willing to spend? Do you have to contribute anything? Financial aid and scholarships exist, but don’t count on anything. Are you willing to get into debt at school?4., these are all things to consider for you.
Make sure you’re going to spend time with the right people. The cool thing about colleges that each different one attracts different kinds of people. For the first thing in your life, you get to choose where you get to spend your time and who you get to spend it with. 5. .And make sure that the people you’re with for four years are your kind of people.
A. If you don’t like cold weather
B. Before you fall in love with a college
C. College is about learning what you love
D. You’d better choose a major that is popular
E. Go to the college with some people you like
F. Remember, above all, it’s people that make places
G. These guidelines will help you figure out what college you want to go
Robots and humans will soon be living in harmony(和睦).A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with a human in a project.
Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot. To start with, the Telenoid will be trained to follow the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer, and to connect music with different emotional states. Chella then plans to see if the robot can use these connections to create music.
Intelligence is often regarded as the ability to find connections between the existing things. But Chella suggests that a conscious(有意识的) creature should be able to go a step further and introduce new connections that result in the creation of something new.
Some jazz musicians say that they should have a mental library of musical phrases so that they are able to combine them in new ways. More importantly, however, this combination happens in a state that is similar in a sense to dreaming. Chella wants to copy these states in a machine.
“This work raises interesting questions about the link between consciousness and music making,” says Philippe Pasquier, a musician and computer scientist. But he is skeptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body.
Pasquier argues that the robots are faced with two challenges(挑战). Software that can copy Bach has already been developed. But interpretation（演绎）includes human’s different tastes and judgments. “What made the Beatles famous was not so much their works, but the fact that the interpretations of the works were wonderful,” he says.
It is not yet clear how a robot would go about interpreting music in a new way. But by copying humans and then learning to sing, Chella’s robot could provide clues.
What seems to be important is that human composers often listen to lots of music made by others. So Chella’s robot had better listen to those jazz standards first.
1.Which of the following is the robot’s first step before it tries to create jazz?
A. Living with human beings in harmony.
B. Connecting actions with human’s emotions.
C. Copying a human singer’s movements and sounds.
D. Learning to communicate with human beings freely.
2.The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 5 could be replaced by .
A. doubtful. B. worried.
C. certain. D. concerned.
3.What can we know about the robots like Telenoid from the text?
A. They are household robots. B. They can talk with researchers.
C. They are faced with two challenges. D. They will become human singers.
4.What can be concluded from the text?
A. Chella’s robot needs a physical body to make music.
B. How to interpret jazz is a piece of cake for Chella’s robot.
C. A new kind of software should be developed to copy Bach.
D. Chella’s robot should listen to much jazz to create something new.
