假定你是李华，想邀请热心于公益的留学生朋友Bryan一起去你市火车站参加为期两天的志愿服务活动。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1. 活动时间、地点；
2. 志愿服务内容（至少三个方面）。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Bryan,
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Sincerely yours,
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Last Monday, I learned a lesson about tell lies. Early in the morning, I didn’t want to go to the school, but I pretended to feel ill. My mother was very worrying when I told her. She left quickly and I thought she has gone to work. But soon, she came back with a bottle of pill. She said that she had asked for a day off from work to look me. I felt a little guilty but I dared not tell the truth. That afternoon, my teacher came to visit me. I felt so regretfully for telling lies. Finally, I admitted I had lain and promised never to do them again.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
On October 23rd, 2018，President Xi Jinping announced the opening of the Hong Kong– Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) at an opening ceremony in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.
The HZMB, 1. (locate) at the waters of the Lingdingyang of Pearl River Estuary, is a huge sea crossing, linking Hong Kong and Macao to the Chinese mainland city of Zhuhai. As the world’s 2. (long) sea-based project, the 55-kilometre bridge is the result of five years of research and another nine years of building. It has been described as one of the “seven 3. (wonder) of the modern world” by the Guardian.
The project 4. (make) up of a 22.9-kilometer-long main bridge, a 6.7-kilometer-long tunnel and an artificial island off the bridge. It is designed with 5. service life of 120 years. It can withstand a strong wind equal 6. a maximum Beaufort scale 16. The bridge’s engineers had to consider many environmental factors to protect the 7. (surround) environment while building the bridge. Chinese white dolphins, an endangered species that lives in the area, 8. (be) a particular concern.
The HZMB will make 9. much more convenient to travel between the three areas it connects. It will bring people in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong within a “one-hour living circle”, 10. is expected to attract more visitors to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It will be a transport link as well as a social, economic, cultural, and tourism connection among the three areas.
I used to hate running. It seemed too hard, and pushing outside my comfort zone was not what I was ________ to do. My husband Charles had been a serious competitive ________ for many years. After our marriage, he wouldn’t ________talk- ing about how much he missed it. So he picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to ________ him at the track. Just a few weeks later, Charles________ us both up for a five-kilometer race. I ________ about doing it. It was too soon.
But on race day, there I was. The gun ________. Thousands of runners pushed forward. The first kilometer was tough. “I don’t think I’m gonna make it.” I was already breathing ________ and painfully aware of the group of runners pounding past me. “No, you’re doing great,” said Charles. He was trying to encourage me, to get me focused on something else _______ my discomfort. “I can’t,” I said, barely audibly (听得见地). He tried a ________ way to persuade me. “Just make it to that house and let’s see how you __________.”
After another minute I saw the three-kilometer mark. All I could think of was that I was dying and that my husband made me _______. Miserable doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt. “You’ll be fine. You’ve got less than a kilometer to go.” I rounded a corner, and saw both sides of the street ________ with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on. I willed my ________ to keep going. Then I looked up and saw the clock. The seconds ticking away gave me ______. I knew that if I ____
finished this race I would achieve something. ________, I straightened up and kicked it. I had my arms held higher when I passed through the finish line. A volunteer ________ a medal around my neck.
“You did great! I’m so proud of you!” Charles was ________ that I’d made it. “That was AMAZING! I want to do another race. This running stuff is amazing!” I proudly ________ my medal as we walked to the post-race festivities. My lungs and my comfort zone both expanded.
1.A. accepted B. permitted C. pushed D. raised
2.A. runner B. policeman C. doctor D. lawyer
3.A. regret B. mind C. stop D. forget
4.A. follow B. attend C. join D. urge
5.A. signed B. gathered C. involved D. registered
6.A. commented B. hesitated C. wondered D. enquired
7.A. went off B. went out C. broke off D. broke out
8.A. smoothly B. heavily C. quickly D. abruptly
9.A. or rather B. more than C. rather than D. better than
10.A. pleasant B. reasonable C. casual D. different
11.A. react B. describe C. feel D. realize
12.A. ashamed B. painful C. embarrassed D. nervous
13.A. rich B. loose C. ready D. thick
14.A. arms B. mind C. heart D. legs
15.A. strength B. patience C. expectation D. wisdom
16.A. formally B. immediately C. normally D. actually
17.A. However B. Therefore C. Yet D. Instead
18.A. rewarded B. handed C. put D. presented
19.A. thrilled B. amused C. shocked D. frozen
20.A. enjoyed B. hugged C. kept D. seized
If one thing on your wish-list is a stress-free holiday, then here are some shopping tips prepared for you, which will save both your time and money.
Don’t be tough on your brains. 1. Don’t be afraid to look for clues and ask for ideas. First, see whether the folks on your to-buy-for list have already dropped some valuable hints of their dreamed items. If you strike out, encourage your lucky recipients to post items they wish someone would buy for them. You can also find inspiration in the many online gift guides. 2. — Gifts for Dads, Gifts for Golfers and such. Then you’ll get the idea.
3. You really can enlist your own personal helpers. Don’t feel guilty about that—after all, Santa employs helpers too. Many stores have free professional shoppers who can pick out presents for you. We’re not talking just high-end stores such as Blooming-dale’s and Nordstrom. 4. They’re all hungry to win your business away from online retailers. But you’ll likely need an appointment, so call ahead or search stores’ websites for “personal shopping”. You’ll typically find a link on the home page under Contact Us or Services.
Have gifts delivered.Time is money, and for not a lot of money you can save a lot of time by having your gifts delivered right to your door. Some mom-and-pop shops offer delivery service while chain stores tend to charge for that, but it still might be worth paying for the convenience. 5. First go to postmates.com or download the free app and see whether it’s available in your area. Then type the name of a store into the search bar, click on the store, and enter the item you want.
A. Make an appointment ahead.
B. Can’t figure out what to buy?
C. Do you wish for a stress-free holiday?
D. Get someone else to do shopping for you.
E. They are typically organized by recipient, interest, and/or price range.
F. Others like Macy’s and J. Crew will also let you leave the shopping to them.
G. For local stores that don’t offer this convenience, try the Post-mates delivery service.
A pretty face is never forgotten. Do you believe so? But maybe it is untrue! Psychologists believe beautiful people are less likely to be recognized. A new study suggests that attractiveness can actually prevent the recognition of faces, unless a pretty face has particularly distinctive features, such as Angelina Jolie’s.
German psychologists think the recognition of pretty faces is distorted (扭曲) by emotions. Researchers Holger Wiese, Carolin Altmann and Stefan Schweinberger at the University of Jena, Germany, discovered in a study that photos of unattractive people were more easily remembered than pretty ones when they showed them to a group of people.
For the study, which was published in science magazine Neuropsychologia, the psychologists showed photos of faces to test subjects. Half of the faces were considered to be more attractive and the other half as less attractive, but all of them were being thought of as similarly distinctive looking. The test subjects were shown the faces for just a few seconds to memorize them and were shown them again during the test so that they could decide if they recognized them or not.
The researchers were surprised by the result. “Until now we assumed that it was generally easier to memorize faces which are being considered as attractive, just because we prefer looking at beautiful faces,” Dr. Wiese said. But the study showed that such a connection cannot be easily proven. He assumes that remembering pretty faces is distorted by emotional influences, which enhance the sense of recognition at a later time. The researchers’ idea is backed up by evidence from EEG-recordings (脑电图记录) they used during their experiment which show the brains’ electric activity.
The study also revealed that in the case of attractive faces, considerably more false positive results were detected. In other words, people thought they recognized a face without having seen it before. “We obviously tend to believe that we recognize a face just because we find it attractive.” Dr. Wiese said.
1.What do we know about the photos from Paragraph 3?
A. They were all of pretty faces.
B. They were selected at random.
C. They were not distinctive at all.
D. They were showed twice to the test subjects.
2.What does the underlined phrase “false positive results” in the last paragraph mean?
A. People actually only recognize few pretty faces.
B. People recognize more ugly faces than pretty ones.
C. People claim to recognize a face they have never seen.
D. People recognize fewer faces than they have thought.
3.What can be inferred from the new study?
A. People are reluctant to recognize ugly faces.
B. Beautiful people are particularly distinctive.
C. Attractiveness prevents the recognition of faces.
D. Attractive faces are always easy to be recognized.
4.Which word can show the author’s attitude towards the findings of the research?
A. Doubtful. B. Disapproving.
C. Favorable. D. Objective.
