假定你是李华，你市将举办国际马拉松赛，请你给外教John发一封电子邮件，邀请他一起报名参加。
内容主要包括：
1.告知马拉松比赛的具体信息；
2.说明邀请理由；
3.希望对方参加。
注意：1. 词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：马拉松marathon
Dear John,
I’m pleased to tell you that an international marathon will take place in our city.
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Yours,
Li Hua
下面短文中有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。
The day before yesterday, my classmates and me went to the park near my school. Can you guess that what we did there? Not for amusement but to take part in a volunteer task. We reached a park at nine o’clock. The whole class was divided three groups. Group One planted trees and water flowers. Group Two picked up litter leaving by the tourists and cleaned all the benches. The group which I was in wiped all the equipments in the Children’s Playground. All of us worked hardly. Before noon we finished work at the task. Each of us felt a little bit tired, so we were happy because we had done a good deed.
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。
On arriving in the United States, I felt everything was different. There were many new things I had to adapt to. One thing that really 1. (take) me a long time to adapt to was speaking the language.
I remember 2. (clear) that I had to struggle to learn English because I couldn’t even write a short paragraph to introduce myself at the first day of my English class.
The teacher asked me 3. it was difficult for me. If it was, I could change to level one! However, I was stubborn and swore that I was going to succeed.
I started to spend many 4. (hour) per day, even though it was stressful, because I wanted to take advantage 5. this special chance to study English in the U.S.A.
I felt depressed because I couldn’t understand 6. people were saying even though I studied hard. However, I still kept 7. (try) and never gave up.
Now, I can tell you that I have improved a lot, but sometimes it is still easy for me to get 8. (lose) if I don’t know what topic people 9. (talk) about. To adapt to this new language, I had to tell 10. ( I ) that I could do it. I really believe I can!
When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work. I __ twenty chickens and asked him to ____ them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would ____ the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken ____ with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was ____ would be his to keep. Gene was _____, thinking he would make his first ____ .
After several weeks’ successful work, I began to ____ that egg production was going down. I ____ nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have ____ money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never ____ a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped ____ eggs.
Then I asked him if he had ____ the amount of feed he had given the chickens. He was ___. It was like he did not think anyone would ever ____ what he had done. After a long ____, he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them ____ food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”
I was just astonished at the question in my own ____. I was dumbfounded at the ____ of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, but you can’t“fool the chickens”, because ____ , you will find out, as the saying goes,“What goes around comes around.”
1.A. sold B. killed C. caught D. bought
2.A. take care of B. observe C. train D. play with
3.A. save B. borrow C. buy D. keep
4.A. nest B. soup C. meat D. feed
5.A. given back B. picked up C. left over D. brought in
6.A. thrilled B. worried C. satisfied D. discouraged
7.A. deal B. contribution C. fortune D. choice
8.A. hear B. notice C. predict D. imagine
9.A. said B. found C. thought D. recalled
10.A. private B. honest C. many D. enough
11.A. missed B. wasted C. enjoyed D. finished
12.A. hatching B. laying C. gathering D. hiding
13.A. balanced B. checked out C. cut down D. measured
14.A. delighted B. shocked C. tired D. disappointed
15.A. forgive B. allow C. discuss D. know
16.A. silence B. absence C. negotiation D. preparation
17.A. heavier B. fresher C. less D. more
18.A. life B. job C. case D. mind
19.A. explanation B. significance C. trick D. example
20.A. in this respect B. in the end C. in contrast D. in addition
Most successful people attach importance to why learning from mistakes is important. Every unsuccessful attempt can help you gain important experience. 1.. Here are some of the top reasons why mistakes are valuable.
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Do you remember your first bad grade for a test? Do you remember an embarrassing moment when a teacher caught you cheating during an exam?
These are common struggles but they are actually a great way to build good future habits. Once you have the experience, you will no longer make the mistakes you did before. 3. .
Encourage different thinking
As we make mistakes, we remove certain ways of reaching our goal. When an approach is proven wrong, people immediately start looking for different ways to resolve a situation. 4.. If your initial idea did not work, you are more likely to take a different stand and think of ideas you wouldn’t have thought if that didn’t happen.
Build characters
This is quite the tricky benefit since people can go either way when it comes to building characters. Very often, too many mistakes make people depressed. Too many failures convince them to just give up on their dreams. However, once you start learning from mistakes, you’ll gain confidence from them. 5.. And they will help you become a more passionate, successful person.
A. Give us experience
B. Reveal weaknesses
C. As we make mistakes, we learn from them
D. We have to practice, fail and rise up again
E. They will help you build a stronger character
F. Basically, mistakes encourage you to find a new solution
G. And mistakes can even be more valuable than achievements
Are you a morning person? You might not like the findings in this new research.
From a lack of air and drinking water to solar radiation, theoretical Mars pioneers face any number of potential obstacles to settling on the red planet. Now, scientists have found something else to add to the list: seriously messed-up biological clocks.
One day on Mars - which scientists refer to as the solar day, or“sol”- is 37 minutes longer than a day on Earth. A team of European scientists recently demonstrated why that could be a problem.
Circadian rhythms are the body’s natural cycles of rest and waking, which tend to follow roughly 24-hour light-dark cycles. These natural rhythms - which play a role in biological functions including brain wave activity and hormone production - can be interrupted by things like jet lag（时差）and night shift work.
For the study, the researchers compared mice with healthy, 24-hour circadian clocks to mice with a genetic change that caused them to have shorter, 20-hour circadian clocks. The mice with healthy biological clocks were more likely to survive and reproduce, while the mice with shorter biological clocks were more likely to die off.
What does this all have to do with space travel? Since the Martian sol is longer than a day on Earth, people with shorter circadian clocks could suffer from health problems as they try to adapt to the rotational speed of the red planet.
Unfortunately, the body is unlikely to adapt to the new conditions or“learn”to develop a longer clock. As Loudon explained,“Learning is not a likely option.”
In other words: Sorry, super-early risers - NASA might not want you for the next Mars mission.
1.From the passage, people can face the following troubles living on Mars EXCEPT ______.
A. absence of air B. a lot of fierce creatures
C. lack of drinking water D. messed-up biological clocks
2.According to scientists, how long does one day on Mars last?
A. 24 hours. B. 23 hours and 23 minutes.
C. 24 hours and 37 minutes. D. 12 hours and 37 minutes.
3.How did the researchers study what effect living on Mars has on sleep?
A. By comparing different mice. B. By analyzing computer data.
C. By experiments in spaceships. D. By observing and judging.
4.Life on Mars would seriously mess with your sleep because ________.
A. the brain wave activity will be interrupted
B. the body’s natural cycles can be shortened
C. hormone production will hurt biological functions
D. the Martian sol is longer than a day on Earth
