假定你是学生会主席李华，邀请交换生Peter参加你校在本月举行的文明校园（civilized campus）创建活动。请根据以下要点，给他写一封电子邮件。
1 活动目的；
2 活动内容（倡导语言美、行为美、环境美）；
3 表示欢迎。
注意：1 词数100左右；
2 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
LiHua
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。
As is reported that 7 billionth baby was born in October 31st, 2011. However, people don’t seem to be happier about the news. The earth had become too crowed. People are suffering from various problems such as lack for resources, poverty, starvation and so on. Great damage has been causing to earth as human beings struggle for more living space.
I am worried the future of our planet. I hope all the country cooperate and take measures to prevent the population from growing too fast. Besides, people should use natural resources more effective. After all, we have the only one earth.
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
Over the past years Starbucks coffee 1. (become) a coffee chain store.The cafes don‘t sell coffee; they sell 2. very atmosphere. They offer customers the perfect atmosphere 3. which to take time out and relax.Every single store throughout the world is furnished in a romantic style and 4. (special) meant to be cozy, private and quiet: earth-toned(褐色调)space, fancy wall paper, lovely paintings,5. (amaze) background and irresistible coffee smell…The most fantastic decoration style about Starbucks 6. (design) with oversized chairs and tables outside the store. When 7. comes to a sunny afternoon, I love to take a seat outside,8. (bathe) in the afternoon sunshine, and listening to the lovely music 9. tasting the most terrific Cappuccino. This is exactly what I love in here—the Starbucks! This is the cafe I love not merely because of the cafe itself, but also because of the 10.(feel) it brings me.
It was Sunday and I was returning from my sister’s place. I left_______thinking that I might get a seat in the metro (地铁) and it would be a rather easy_______. But since my bad luck was_______me everywhere, I couldn’t get a seat. I_______and made my way straight to the end of the compartment. I_______there leaning on the side rails. I was feeling very_______about myself.
After few_______I got a seat. Just then, entered a_______lady supported by the metro staff and she sat next to me. I helped her out of the wheelchair and made her sit. I_______my MP4 player and pushed the earpieces just to keep all the________thoughts from my head. Just then I heard the lady calling me. She introduced herself to me and asked about me. I________my best possible smile and answered that much only and pushed ________my earpieces.
She went on________and I had to take out my earpieces and keep them back in my bag. She told me she was a student at Ramakrishna Mission Ashram and goes there________. It gives her peace and strength. The strength to keep going________her to enjoy the human life as much as possible. She then gave me one of Swami’s________and also recited some of verses. She kept on talking for the most of the time and I was very________listening to her.
We were so busy in talking that we didn’t even________our names and I didn’t notice it until we came to our train station and we went our ways.________she left, I opened the booklet she gave and read inspirational________. There and then, I understood that whatever may come, it should not hamper our hopes and our expectations.
1.A. carefully B. early C. slowly D. luckily
2.A. tour B. voyage C. travel D. journey
3.A. approaching B. attending C. following D. attacking
4.A. entered B. remained C. stayed D. insisted
5.A. left B. lay C. sat D. stood
6.A. low B. confident C. proud D. special
7.A. points B. passages C. stops D. seats
8.A. wealthy B. crippled C. learned D. stubborn
9.A. searched for B. pulled off C. picked up D. took out
10.A. positive B. objective C. negative D. valuable
11.A. forced B. changed C. created D. offered
12.A. up B. ahead C. down D. back
13.A. questioning B. talking C. arguing D. quarreling
14.A. constantly B. commonly C. instantly D. regularly
15.A. forbids B. warns C. helps D. reminds
16.A. gifts B. books C. records D. pictures
17.A. attentively B. angrily C. nervously D. anxiously
18.A. remember B. explain C. understand D. exchange
19.A. Since B. After C. Before D. When
20.A. letters B. notices C. messages D. purposes
In an adult’s opinion, sleep is a precious commodity. Usually we don’t feel as if we get enough sleep, which is something we are always longing for.1. For some reason, kids never acknowledge the feeling of “tiredness” as meaning “I need sleep”. What’s more, for many children, sleep represents an unwanted separation from the important people in their lives.2.
How do parents make the problem worse? I hear so many parents complain that they can’t get their children to go to sleep. Let’s take a close look at this concept. We cannot make a child go to sleep, but we can make them go to bed.3. If you even try to control a child’s ability to go to sleep, you are losing the battle before you begin. Even our children themselves cannot really control when they go to sleep. The most we as parents can do is to make the environment helpful to sleep.4.
It’s time that you decided what your own feelings are about bedtime and analyzed your feelings and needs, and your child’s feelings and needs. 5. The most important guideline is that you decide what you are going to do, and then stick with it. Parents usually create their own problems by dancing around and between all the different bedtime methods until they get themselves angry and their kids confused. So, the first step is to decide exactly how you will handle bedtime. The second step is to communicate your rules to your child. The third step is to carry out the plan.
A. Being in bed is too lonely, too boring, and no fun at all!
B. I’m going to give you three ideas for solutions
C. In kids’ opinion, sleep plays an important role in childhood.
D. There’s a big difference between the two.
E. Sleep will then come on its own.
F. Can you give me some examples to deal with kids’ problem?
G. But to kids, sleep is purely and simply an unwanted interruption in a life full of fun.
Crown shyness(树冠羞避) is a mysterious natural phenomenon in which the crowns of some tree species do not touch each other, but get separated by a gap clearly visible from ground level. The effect usually occurs between trees of the same species, but has also been observed between trees of different species.
There are many theories going around, most of which make sense, but no one has been able to prove without the shadow of a doubt why some trees avoid touching each other.
In his 1955 book Growth Habits of the Eucalypts, Australian forester M.R. Jacobs writes that the growing tips of the trees are sensitive to abrasion(擦伤), which results in crown shyness phenomenon. This theory was also supported by Dr. Miguel Franco. Some experiments have shown that if trees displaying crown shyness are artificially prevented from swinging in the wind and touching each other, they gradually fill up the gaps between them.
But while the above theory is arguably the most widespread, it’s certainly not the only one. Some scientists have suggested that crown shyness is a mechanism to stop the spreading of leaf-eating insects. These pests have been known to work together and create structures that extend up to 10 cm off of tree branches in order to reach other plants, so the gaps are the trees’ natural defense method.
One Malaysian scholar studied many trees, but found no traces of abrasions, despite their clear crown shyness. Instead, he suggests that the growing tips of the trees were sensitive to light levels and stopped growing when they got too close to other trees. Plants are able to sense how close they are to other plants and in order to get more light, they give off some chemical element to stop other trees from growing too close.
Whatever the reason, one thing is for sure: plants are more intelligent than people used to think.
1.What can we know about crown shyness?
A. It can cause abrasion between trees.
B. It only happens between the same species.
C. It has been discovered for only half a century.
D. No agreement has been reached about its real cause.
2.What will happen if trees showing crown shyness are stopped from swinging?
A. The trees will stop growing and even die.
B. The gaps between the trees will grow wider.
C. The crown shyness phenomenon will disappear.
D. The gaps between the trees will remain the same.
3.What’s tree’s reaction when attacked by pests according to the text?
A. Swinging less in the wind
B. Leaving space between their crowns
C. Spreading their branches and leaves
D. Stopping growing for a period of time
4.Which statement might the Malaysian scholar agree with?
A. Trees have special ways to attack others.
B. Some insects stop trees growing too close.
C. Trees compete with their neighbors for light.
D. Trees won’t touch each other to avoid diseases.
