--- It is said that free health system will soon be carried out in our city.
--- ________!
A. Oh dear B. It couldn’t be worse
C. That couldn’t be better D. It can’t be good
假如你是李华,来自阳光中学,你校乒乓球队应邀去澳大利亚一所中学参加中学生乒乓球友谊赛。请你给举办学校的联系人Mr.Williams写一封邮件询问相关事宜,要点如下:
1.接受邀请,表示感谢;
2.询问食宿、交通及比赛日程等方面的安排;
3.提出相关建议。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3.开头语和结束语已为你写好,不计入总词数。
Dear Mr.Williams,
I am Li Hua,a student from Sunshine Middle School.
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Thank you for all your help and look forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
文中共有10处语言错误，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(∧)，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
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. 每处错误仅限1词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
High school is considered the most important stage. As senior three student, it will not be long before I graduated. Now I have many things to share in my fellows. First of all, I’d like to express my thank to those who lent me a hand when I was disappoint. It was their kindness which helped me regain my self-confidence when I lost my heart. Besides, I anxious want to clear up some misunderstanding with my friends in order to keep our friendships forever. With the National College Entrance Examination approached, I strongly recommend that we could value time and redouble efforts to study so that we can get into a key university.
For me personally, I could write for days about many different situations where adversity (逆境) _______my life. Now let me tell you one experience where I almost let adversity _______.
We had a glass studio, which was located 50 feet from our home. A couple of years ago we experienced an _______ winter; we had a lot of snow and ice. The _______ of the ice and snow _______ the roof on our studio, taking with it one of our sources of income. _______ it did fall down, we got on the roof and tried to_______ the snow and ice, but when you have 5 feet of ice and temperatures of minus 20 Celsius, it was pretty _______ to do.
We had a partner come in to help us try to _______ the roof by supporting. In the end, there was ________ that could be done. The roof came down. We had moved a lot of our goods and tools from the studio ________ we lost a lot also: glass, kilns, workbenches, to name only a few of the items. It was a ________experience.
Here we were in the middle of winter with our studio collapsed. We couldn't work as we had almost ________ all the material in a building we were not using. We could have done one of two things: we could simply say that we can no longer ________ our glass business. Let me tell you that this was certainly a thought that ________ our mind. Or we could find a way to get our studio back up and running.
We picked the ________ option. We had a large barn that we were not using. So we renovated (翻新) the barn, ________ our working area and today we have a nicer studio than we ________ had. If the adversity we were ________ had not happened, we probably would ________ be working in the old studio — a studio that was less efficient.
1.A. promoted B. influenced C. destroyed D. prevented
2.A. suffer B. escape C. win D. work
3.A. awkward B. awesome C. agreeable D. awful
4.A. size B. height C. weight D. temperature
5.A. collapsed B. limited C. pressed D. struck
6.A. Before B. Unless C. Although D. When
7.A. replace B. reduce C. recycle D. remove
8.A. worthwhile B. tough C. rewarding D. annoying
9.A. examine B. test C. secure D. restore
10.A. something B. enough C. all D. nothing
11.A. for B. but C. or D. so
12.A. vain B. valid C. disastrous D. treasured
13.A. displayed B. arranged C. piled D. presented
14.A. predict B. conduct C. instruct D. quit
15.A. approached B. crossed C. cleared D. comforted
16.A. latter B. former C. easier D. further
17.A. evaluated B. redesigned C. organized D. reserved
18.A. desperately B. hopefully C. eventually D. previously
19.A. faced with B. concerned about C. cautious about D. aware of
20.A. ever B. already C. even D. still
What to Do when Someone Doesn’t Like You
When someone tells me, “I don’t care if people like me,” they are showing me the emotional wall they use to block the hurt of rejection.
As humans are social animals, all of us care if people like us. Based on the need for social connections, your reactions to rejection and negative judgment can range from minor hurt to breakouts of depression. 1.
The first step to handle a negative situation is to recognize your reaction. Ask yourself, “What am I feeling?”. 2. Any betrayal (背叛) or embarrassment in your heart? Identify what feeling has shown up in your body, so you can choose what to do next.
3. When you sense yourself being shut out or feel defensive, ask yourself what the person actually means to do to you. Does he truly mean to offend you, or make fun of you? Your brain works very hard to keep you safe, so it will judge a situation threatening if there is any possibility of social harm.
When our brains sense a possible threat, we react as if we were personally attacked. Take a breath to relieve (减轻) the stress. 4.
Finally, if you believe the person doesn’t like you, ask yourself if this matters. 5. If not, what can you do to release your need to be liked by this person? And, what can you do to stay neutral and not return the dislike? The more you can come to accept others as who they are, the more you can move forward with your goals regardless of whether someone likes you or not.
A. If you can, look the person in his eyes.
B. Do you feel any fear or anger in your head?
C. Ask yourself what is true about the situation.
D. Often people do not realize the impact of their words.
E. Will the person’s judgment of you impact your work or life?
F. The ability to let a show of dislike roll off your back is a learned skill.
G. This will help you relax at present and take you out of your trembling mind.
Is any economist so dull as to criticize Christmas? At first glance, the holiday season in western economies seems a treat for those concerned with such vagaries(奇思遐想)as GDP growth. After all, everyone is spending; in America, retailers make 25% of their yearly sales and 60% of their profits between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even so, economists find something to worry about in the nature of the purchases being made.
Much of the holiday spending is on gifts for others. At the simplest level, giving gifts involves the giver thinking of something that the recipient would like--he tries to guess her preferences, as economists say--and then buying the gift and delivering it. Yet this guessing of preferences is not easy; indeed, it is often done badly. Every year, ties go unworn and books unread. And even if a gift is enjoyed, it may not be what the recipient would have bought if they had spent the money themselves.
Interested in this mismatch between wants and gifts, in 1993 Joel Waldfogel, then an economist at Yale University, sought to estimate the difference in dollar terms. In a study, he asked students two questions at the end of a holiday season: first, estimate the total amount paid(by the givers) for all the holiday gifts you received; second, apart from the sentimental value of the items, if you did not have them, how much would you be willing to pay to get them? His results were gloomy: on average, a gift was valued by the recipient well below the price paid by the giver.
In addition, recipients may not know their own preferences very well. Some of the best gifts, after all, are unexpected items that you would never have thought of buying, but which turn out to be especially well picked. And preferences can change. So by giving a jazz CD, for example, the giver may be encouraging the recipient to enjoy something that was ignored before. This, a desire to build skills, is possibly the hope held by many parents who ignore their children’s desires for video games and buy them books instead.
Finally, there are items that a recipient would like to receive but not purchase. If someone else buys them, however, they can be enjoyed guilt-free. This might explain the volume of chocolate that changes over the holidays. Thus, the lesson for gift-givers is that you should try hard to guess the preference of each person on your list and then choose a gift that will have high sentimental value.
1.The word “sentimental” in Paragraph 3 is close to “________”.
A. intelligent B. emotional C. social D. practical
2.According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Price is nothing but the factor when you give gifts.
B. Chocolate will be blamed when people receive them as gifts.
C. The receivers often overestimate the values of gifts.
D. Gifts do not always correspond to needs in gift-giving.
3.Which of the following statements can be inferred from the text?
A. The gift-giver tries to neglect the actual needs of the receiver.
B. The best gifts are well picked by the givers.
C. In gift-giving, guessing preferences is often a failure, so it’s the thought that counts.
D. You have to take money into consideration when giving a gift.
4.The text is most likely taken from a ________.
A. users’ handbook B. medical journal C. travel magazine D. consumer-related report
