What are the speakers talking about?
A. An article in the newspaper. B. A meeting with the president. C. A speech on television.
假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Tom来信询问你最喜欢的运动项目。请你根据以下提示，通过电子邮件向他介绍你最喜欢的运动。
1.何时开始喜欢此项运动；
2.现在练习的情况；
3.给你带来的益处。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头和结尾已经给出,不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
Nice to have received your e-mail. I’d like to tell you about my favorite sport,
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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（∧），并在其下面写出修改后的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
My swimming experience is extreme interesting. There was a time when I swim like a rock. This went on till one day that I was fishing with a friend of mine at nearby pond. I slipped into one. If my friend had not come to my rescue, I would have been drowned. Ever since then, I had come to know the importance of learning to swim. I decided to learn to swim. I didn’t attend to any training class but learned it all for myself. And now I have no difficulty swimming at all. Because the way I swim looks awkward (笨拙的), at least it can keep me floating. Thinking of this, I feel quite satisfying.
1.The government is launching an advertising c___________ (大战) in order to tell people about the danger of drugs.
2.There is e___________ (事实依据) that Beijing Man used fire to cook food.
3.Usually popular science books explain basic p___________ (法则) of nature in a simple and interesting way.
4.The waste gas the factories create goes into the a___________ (大气) and makes us sick.
5.The airport is designed to a___________ (容纳) 80 million passengers a year.
Antonio and Charles were good friends, and both of them were sailors. One day they ran into each other in a pub._______ a few beers, Antonio told Charles about his last _______. “After a month at sea,” he said, “we _______our masts(桅杆) had been eaten through by white ants! ________ nothing was left of them.”
“That’s terrible,” said Charles.
“That’s what I thought at first too,” Antonio said, “but it turned out to be good luck. As soon as we took the sails down to fix the masts, we were hit by a(n) _____wind so suddenly and so hard, it would _______have blown us over if our sails were up at the time.”
“How lucky!”
“That’s exactly what I thought at the time too. But because our sails were down, we couldn’t _______, and because of the wind, we were blown ________ a reef. The hole in the ship was too big to fix. We were stranded(搁浅).”
“That is bad luck indeed.”
“That’s what I thought, too, when it first ________. But we all ________ it to the beach alive and had plenty to eat. But now here’s the real kicker: We were on the island ________about our terrible fate ______ we discovered a buried treasure!”
____this story proves, you don’t know if an event is “good” or “bad”, and even thinking about a _______event, you don’t really know because ______keeps going.
____, you can simply ______ whatever happens is “good”. If you think an event is good, it’s easy to have a(n) ______ attitude. And your attitude affects the ______ people treat you and how you treat others, and it affects your energy level. And those can help pave the way for things to turn out well. A good attitude is a good thing, while a bad attitude ______ no good to you.
1.A. At B. On C. To D. Over
2.A. story B. voyage C. experience D. event
3.A. discovered B. knew C. realized D. imagined
4.A. Nearly B. Mostly C. Hardly D. Almost
5.A. violent B. abnormal C. immediate D. tough
6.A. probably B. dangerously C. instantly D. surely
7.A. make sense B. change destination C. take control D. make difference
8.A. into B. onto C. up D. off
9.A. blew B. fixed C. sailed D. happened
10.A. found B. brought C. made D. took
11.A. complaining B. thinking C. discussing D. talking
12.A. while B. where C. when D. since
13.A. As B. Although C. Which D. Whatever
14.A. past B. future C. present D. terrible
15.A. ship B. life C. world D. story
16.A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Instead
17.A. guess B. suppose C. suggest D. trust
18.A. difficult B. outgoing C. positive D. different
19.A. attitude B. means C. method D. way
20.A. feels B. does C. gives D. has
Once my mother told me a story. In Africa, when an antelope wakes up every morning, the first thing it thinks about is, “I must be able to run faster than the fastest lion, or I will be killed.” 1. The first thing the lion thinks about is, “I must be able to catch the slowest antelope, or I will starve to death.” So, almost at the same time, they get up and start running toward the rising sun.
This is life: full of chances and challenges. 2. For students, it is just the same. If we do not study hard, sooner or later, we will fall behind the other students. At first, I did not know what the word “exam” meant. Later, I knew an exam was a kind of competition. In competitions, there are always winners and losers. As I grew up, I got to know competition well. 3.
Each time I saw children playing games, and heard their laughter, I wished I were that age again. 4. So I picked up my pen and began to study hard again.
I was still not sure what competition really meant. One day, I was taking part in an English-speaking competition. When I went to the stage, I saw other students looking at me kindly. 5.It is not as cruel as my teacher and parents told me. In fact, competition is the opposite: it is kind and necessary.
A.At the same time, a lion wakes from his dream.
B.I suddenly knew what competition was.
C.Now I understand more about the world.
D.In one’s life, there must be competitions, so people can improve.
E.I learned a lot from realizing this fact.
F.However, I remembered my parents’ words: “You must work very hard in order to have a good future.”
G.Whether you are an antelope or a lion, you must go ahead when the sun rises.
