假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。 英国交换生Jim在给你的邮件中提到他对你校的学生社团非常感兴趣，计划下学期参加其中一个。他向你征询建议。请给他回邮件，内容包括：
1. 推荐的社团； 2. 推荐的理由； 3. 建议他做哪些准备。
注意：1. 词数不少于100；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours faithfully,
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。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。
I do well in school, so people think I am smart. And it’s not true. In fact, three year ago I struggled in Grade 9. Later, I decide to get serious about school, so I made a few changes. First, I decided I would become interesting in whatever was being taught, regardless of that what other people thought. I also made up my mind to work hardly every day. After carry out these changes, I became active participant in classroom discussions. Then my test scores began to rise. How exciting! It seems to myself that being smart is simply a matter for making efforts and being interested.
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Qiang Shuping was so busy making cloth shoes 1. she didn’t even rest during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The woman from Baipu County, Jiangsu Province, 2. (make) shoes since she was 19 years old, and this year marks her 31st year making cloth shoes.
She spends the entire day in her tiny studio, which measures less than 10 square meters altogether, filled with cloth shoes in 3. (vary) stages of completion.
Nowadays, many stores make cloth shoes 4.(use) machines, but Qiang sticks to the technique of making shoes entirely 5. hand. She says the shoes 6. (produce) by the machine are not of the same quality as handmade ones. The handmade cloth shoes are more durable and comfortable, 7. (soft), and absorb sweat better.
Some people buy cloth shoes out of nostalgia(怀旧), while 8. trust their quality. Making shoes isn’t 9. profitable job, but Qiang still insists as she wants to preserve the craft and pass it down to the younger generation.
Handmade cloth shoes are also called qiancengdi (shoes with a thousand layers),10. can date back to the ancient Zhou Dynasty. In 2009, the making technique of qiancengdi was listed as the national intangible cultural heritage.
During my lifetime, I’ve learnt something important: it’s good to learn new skills outside of your comfort zone. About seven years ago, I started learning how to paint as a ______. I was pretty terrible. Everything looked ________, and my colors were totally off. My friends and colleagues suggested that I stop ________ my time on something I wasn’t good at. “________ on your day job,” they said.
I kept at it — practicing, taking classes, finding the right ______ who could guide and challenge me. I am now ________ “good”. Today, the same friends say I was born with this _______.
The same thing __________ when I started piano and singing lessons a couple of years ago. Comments shifted from, “Stop wasting your time and focus on what you know,” to “You’ve got a musical gene.”
These _______ originate from long-held beliefs that growth is usually not possible for adults. Even when there is evidence of learning, it can be _______ to inborn talent. Most scientific studies on adulthood focus on cognitive (认知) decline, rather than _______, suggesting that even scientists may think that development is limited in adulthood.
A few recent studies suggest that ________ new skills, such as photography, for even three months may enhance the functioning of the brain in adults.
I would take these studies one step further to argue that a(n) ________ cause of cognitive decline is the fact that adults learn fewer new skills _______ to children. If we can _______ how to learn well as adults, then perhaps we can ________ cognitive decline.
Adults are often _______ to go outside of their comfort zones. We fear looking _________ for making mistakes; we fear failure could cost us our jobs. Perhaps a reason why we suffer from cognitive decline is that we do not engage in learning new skills for many years.
To better communicate with my German friends, I am starting to learn German. I’m ________ at the“listening and babbling (咿呀学语)” phase. Sure, some may laugh at an adult babbling, but I hope one day I can __________ German fluently, and inspire many other adults to learn like a baby.
1.A. hobby B. dream C. job D. measure
2.A. perfect B. bright C. dull D. enjoyable
3.A. taking B. wasting C. putting D. getting
4.A. Count B. Depend C. Congratulate D. Focus
5.A. friends B. teachers C. colleagues D. partners
6.A. concluded B. realized C. considered D. described
7.A. talent B. spirit C. character D. power
8.A. happened B. found C. mentioned D. showed
9.A. suggestions B. achievements C. results D. comments
10.A. reported B. attributed C. forced D. addicted
11.A. failure B. change C. adaptation D. growth
12.A. catching B. arranging C. learning D. holding
13.A. important B. flexible C. permanent D. useful
14.A. prepared B. compared C. intended D. provided
15.A. break out B. figure C. bring out D. give out
16.A. prevent B. master C. interrupt D. influence
17.A. unreasonable B. uncertain C. unwilling D. undoubted
18.A. stupid B. upset C. crazy D. ugly
19.A. clearly B. presently C. continually D. occasionally
20.A. write B. read C. listen D. speak
How to Turn Your Goals into Habits
First we make our habits, then our habits make us. It’s such a simple concept, yet it’s something we don’t always do.
I believe that having ONE goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals. By putting the belief into practice, I have achieved a lot of personal goals over time. 1. My answer takes a little explaining. I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so, I put my goals on autopilot. Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it for at least a month. The more you can focus, the more it'll be on autopilot. 2. You’ll still do it, but you only have to use minimal force to maintain it, and you can focus on your next goal or habit.
Take my marathon goal as an example. I was just starting running and had the brilliant idea to run a marathon within a year. So that was my goal. 3. First, I had to make running a daily habit. Second, I had to report to people in order to have accountability (负责) so that I could not quit easily. I focused on the daily running habit for about a month, and didn’t have any other goals or habits. When the running habit stuck, I started reporting to people I knew and blogging about my running every day.
4. I could focus on new goals without having to worry about the marathon. I still had to do the running, of course, but it didn’t require constant focus. 5. I was able to achieve this because, all year long, I had daily running and accountability habits. I put my marathon goal into autopilot, so instead of struggling with it daily for an entire year, I focused on it for one month and was able to accomplish it while focusing on new habits and goals.
A. And eventually, I ran the first marathon in my life.
B. At the beginning, it was very difficult for me to achieve this goal.
C. But in order to achieve it, I broke it down into two habits.
D. With this accountability, there’s no way I could stop running.
E. Once you put it on autopilot, you don't have to focus on it much.
F. My readers asked me how I was able to achieve them while working on different projects.
G. Once those two habits were established, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot.
How many times do you check your Facebook page in a day to see whether your latest post has got another “like” or “thumbs(拇指) up”?
Although you might be embarrassed to admit how many times you do this, don’t worry—psychological findings have shown it’s completely normal. In fact, the pleasure we derive from receiving a “like” is equal to that of eating chocolate or winning money, and we can’t help wanting more. According to the findings, which observed 32 teens aged between 13 and 18, the feedback circuit (反馈回路) in the teens’ brains is particularly sensitive, and the “social” and “visual” parts of their brains were active when they received “likes” on the social network. The research also showed that though the thumbs up might come from complete strangers, the good they derive from them worked all the same.
So, does it mean we should try our best to win as many thumbs up as possible? Not necessarily so if we know the reasons behind our desire for attention. In “why do people long for attention” by M. Farouk Radwan, he explained several cases in which people naturally longed for attention. Radwan said people who were an only child, who were used to being the center of attention in their house, may try to copy these conditions. Feeling “overlooked and unappreciated” might also lead you to long for attention. Other times, the state of being jealous, or wanting to cover your mistakes may also contribute to such longings.
In fact, too much desire for attention can create anxiety, and in turn ruin your happiness even when you get it. So what can we do about it? The answer is quite simple. “If people could adopt goals not focused on their own self-esteem（自尊）but on something larger than their self, such as what they can create or contribute to others, they would be less sensitive to some of the negative effects of pursuing self-esteem,” wrote psychology professor Jennifer Crocker.
So perhaps the answer to our addiction to “likes” is simply to focus on something larger than ourselves—a hard, but a worthy one.
1.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The thumbs up from complete strangers don’t work.
B. Desire for attention can definitely create anxiety.
C. Feeling ignored might lead you to be in need of attention.
D. The brain of teenagers is seldom sensitive.
2.What’s the reaction of receiving “likes” on the social network to the brain?
A. The social and visual parts become more nervous.
B. The social and visual parts of the brain are active.
C. The physical and sense parts of the brain become less sensitive.
D. The whole brain becomes cleverer.
3.Who wants to get more attention according to the passage?
A. Teens who want to discover their mistakes. B. The old who lives happily with children.
C. The young who feels anxious. D. The one who is the only child.
4.What’s Crocker’s suggestion about the negative effects of getting self-esteem?
A. Doing an interesting matter. B. Working harder than ever before.
C. Having a bigger goal than their self. D. Not checking your Facebook page in a day.
