在我们的成长过程中，我们心中总有特别向往的工作，我们学校将以“My dream job”为题举办演讲比赛。请你根据以下要求写一篇英语演讲稿，要点如下:
1. 你理想的工作；
2. 选择的理由。
注意:
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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（∧），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。
Three years ago I failed an important exam in my life and become a student in an ordinary school. Disappointing as I felt at the shabby campus and the poorly-equipped classroom, I found the teachers patiently and considerate. Besides, I enjoyed the friendly atmosphere in class. I decided make the best of it. I worked hard and got along good with my teachers and classmates. Whenever I had difficulties, they are always available. Soon, I became one of the top student in my class, and which greatly increased my confidence and got me motivated.
My experience tell me that it is not what you are given but how you make use for it that determines who you are.
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。
I had hardly sat down on the train and opened a bar of chocolate 1. a really old man with huge bags sat down across from me. I said hello 2. him, smiling sweetly and then I suddenly thought, “Why not offer him a piece of chocolate？” So I did. He was quite 3.(surprise), but accepted and thanked me. He said that people didn’t usually do things like this for 4.(strange) at least that was what I understood, because he was speaking a really 5. (usual) dialect.
Then he opened one of his bags and gave me 6. handful of freshly picked cherries, 7.(explain) that he had just taken them from his orchard. The cherries were really lovely, better than those in the shops, and I enjoyed them very much. It had been just an impulse (冲动) to offer him a piece of chocolate, but if I 8.(not do) so, I would never have tasted those lovely cherries, 9. I didn’t even know he had at the time. Life is about giving and taking, and it’s 10.(general) true that if you give, you will receive.
Eliza worked in an office with twenty other people, and she liked her job. Getting ahead in her career wasn’t _______ to her. But she suddenly changed ______ the promotion of her friend and co-worker Betty who couldn’t have gotten the _______ if Eliza had tried to. In the eyes of the other co-workers, Betty was ______ cheerful, hardworking and ambitious, while Eliza was low-key and easy-going.
Before Betty got the promotion, Eliza had been satisfied with her ______, even if she had not been ______ happy. But once Betty was made head, Eliza began to fill up with resentment (怨恨) and she disliked her job and ______ Betty. Finally she developed a big mistake ______ she was filled with anger all the time. Eliza began to see Betty as the source of all her problems, and she ________to remember that she had not particularly wanted the promotion anyway. Now she just thought that it should be hers. Instead of ______ herself to see what her real goal was in life, she tried to ______ how to trap Betty and regarded Betty as her enemy. Eliza became ______ focused on her resentment, and she couldn’t get out of the ________ situation.
One of the major problems with resentment is that you ______ that your anger is completely caused by others. You ______ looking for what you can do to improve your situation, because you decide that your ______ feelings are the result of someone else’s fault. You give up trying to find real ______ to solve your problem. Dealing with resentment needs ______. Because of that, you are able to have a clear mind so that you can admit you are feeling resentful. Then try hard to force yourself ______ ready to be less resentful. You believe you are to blame for resentment, and you actively look for the way that can _______the problem in your life.
1.A. ordinary B. important C. simple D. challenging
2.A. during B. before C. until D. after
3.A. chance B. agreement C. prize D. business
4.A. always B. sometimes C. seldom D. never
5.A. partner B. work C. teammates D. leader
6.A. mainly B. perfectly C. exactly D. extremely
7.A. supported B. disclosed C. hated D. forced
8.A. because B. if C. but D. while
9.A. decided B. started C. managed D. failed
10.A. noticing B. warning C. persuading D. ensuring
11.A. get at B. deal with C. figure out D. make up
12.A. partly B. completely C. finally D. usually
13.A. strange B. boring C. funny D. dangerous
14.A. doubt B. analyze C. believe D. find
15.A. mind B. stop C. enjoy D. keep
16.A. negative B. inspiring C. childish D. social
17.A. details B. effects C. solutions D. causes
18.A. freedom B. calmness C. experiment D. courage
19.A. luckily B. hurriedly C. truly D. strongly
20.A. solve B. avoid C. predict D. face
Have you met your “other” self? 1. Lately, she has come alive in 3D and is stronger than ever.
She is insecure. When she sees others succeed, she begins to compare me to them.
2. What’s my purpose in life? What am I good at? Will anyone want to hire me?
She is afraid, so I lose my confidence and anxiety creeps in. I want to stay in bed all day, watch a movie, and forget I exist. I don’t want to be acknowledged, so I walk around campus with my head down, looking at the pavement.
3. She makes me feel that if I give, I lose. She questions everyone’s intentions. She doesn’t want to share. Favors make her feel uncomfortable. She doesn’t deserve them.
She makes me feel that everyone is against me, but how could that be? I realized I sounded paranoid(偏执的). 4. So, I followed advice from the CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt. He says he sometimes goes to bed feeling like a failure, but he has a private practice. Every morning in front of the bathroom mirror, he gracefully says to himself, “Hello handsome,” and is reborn.
The day after I learned about this practice, I started to remind myself to say no to my “other” self. I also found my “happy place” on campus: the lawn between Kresge Auditorium and the Student Center. 5. I am at MIT, my dream school. I look up at the dome, carrying a cup of coffee in the morning, ready for class. Hello handsome!
A. She is selfish.
B. She is ashamed.
C. If so, what is she like?
D. I begin to question myself.
E. I wanted this struggle to end.
F. It’s a place that reminds me where I really am.
G. No one likes to admit they have one, but I am starting to become well-acquainted with mine.
April 2018, Manchester
My dearest daughter,
As I looked across at you sitting on the sofa watching The X Factor, I noticed that you are no longer a child, and that having just celebrated your 14th birthday, you are now a young woman starting a journey into becoming an adult woman. As I looked at you, I remembered myself at 14, and the vastly different places we are beginning this journey from.
Your identity as a mixed-race young woman, with an English father and a Pakistani mother, has already influenced how you place yourself in this world. Until now, you are unaware of the personal struggles that I took at the age of 25 to marry. How it felt when my mother refused to come to my wedding. The sharp criticisms of the Asian community that such marriages do not work out and always end in divorce. The confidence I had to grow, as we chose to live in a multicultural community, as I refused to be shamed into living in the leafier white suburbs.
Then, at the age of 30, I became your mum with all the joys and struggles this brought, as I refused the Asian traditions for a new baby's arrival. From your birth, your life could not have been more different from mine. I was brought up on a council estate, within a tight-knit extended Muslim family, through which poverty, racism and neglect were woven. I was never given the freedoms or the opportunity to experience new things. Now, as I hear you play your piano, I am grateful that you have these opportunities.
So many doors were closed to me as a young person, and as I fought for small steps of freedom, I soon learned that it was better to do what I wanted without the knowledge of my parents, and so deceit and deception(欺骗) became woven into my life too. The pressures to obey, to be a "good Muslim" girl and to keep the family honour were choking. Behind closed doors at home, the neglect and abuse took place. It was hidden; I felt the shame, lived with the fear and suffered alongside my sister and two younger brothers. Oh, the power we thought our parents had over us! I was convinced that one day my father would indeed beat us so hard that leaving us for dead, he would, as his threats said, bury us in the large back garden and tell the school he had taken us back to Pakistan for good. My sister and I longed for a different blue sky to live under.
As a daughter of immigrant parents, I carried their hopes of a better education for their children my own veins(血管) pulsing with the hard-work ethic(道德) and need to be grateful for the opportunity of a free education. And it was education that provided me with the strength to find my own blue sky. I fought to leave home to go to university at the age of 18, and never returned to live with my parents again.
Now as you explore your mixed-race heritage, which I hope we have supported you to do with visits to Pakistan and ensuring you go to multi-cultural schools, I want you to take the very best of all that is Asian with you as you become a woman.
The struggles of identity and belonging will come but I hope that we have given you a strong foundation from which to explore these struggles. All the opportunities and freedoms that I only dreamed of as a young woman, I have offered you. I have chosen a different path of loving you as my daughter, with an unconditional love that many consider "western".
I want you to know that although your journey has been vastly different. I am excited as I watch you standing on the threshold of becoming a woman for all the adventures and possibilities the future holds for you.
May you fly your blue sky with grace, confidence and hope as you find your place in this beautiful and crazy world.
Loving you now and always.
Mommy
1.Mommy's mother refused to attend her wedding probably because _____.
A. she married against the wishes of her family
B. she refused traditional Asian wedding ceremony
C. she would leave the family to settle in the white suburbs
D. she would bring shame to the multicultural community
2.By "your life could not have been more different from mine." Mommy means ______.
A. her childhood was no different from her daughter's
B. her parents treated her the way she does her daughter
C. her daughter experienced the same traditions at birth with her
D. her daughter can enjoy the opportunities which she didn’t
3.What can be inferred from Mommy's Muslim family life?
A. She behaved like a good Muslim girl. B. She fought against her Muslim identity.
C. She suffered much abuse in the family. D. She was forced to drop out of school.
4.Mommy sends her daughter to multi-cultural schools to _____.
A. provide her daughter with more opportunities and freedoms
B. increase her daughter's exposure to different cultures
C. encourage her daughter to grow up to be a better woman
D. ensure her daughter more opportunities to visit Pakistan
5.Mommy writes the letter mainly to _____.
A. uncover the sufferings she had as a teenage girl
B. criticize the social prejudice in her community
C. emphasize the importance of family support
D. encourage her daughter to try to achieve her dream
