假定你是李华。本周六是你十八岁生日, 家人将在光明饭店会为你举办一次生日宴会。请你给朋友John写一封信, 邀请他参加。内容包括:
l. 提出邀请;
2. 18岁生日的意义;
3. 宴会情况。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
Dear John,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假如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。
Dear Joy,
How are you doing? Here is an exciting news for you. There will be an invention competition in our school in the 20th of October. However, there is a rule the participants shall be in a group. But I’d like to invite you to be my partners.
I know that you have been longed to design a tiny cooler that people can wear around the wrist. I think it will be a wonderfully idea for the competition. We can make a small air conditioner to controlling the temperature of the wearer.
How do you think of my suggestion? Looking forward to you reply.
Yours,
Zhang Xin
Worried about the 1. (prepare) for her feast, Lala quickly turned for home with her collection of nuts, melons, and other fruit. She had almost reached her destination 2. a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped. The smell of cooking meat filled the air surrounding her, and her senses became dizzy with hunger. Abruptly she sat down, only 3. (scoop) up by her sister Luna. Lala smiled with relief.
Just then Dahu, her husband, came up behind her. He had a large square face, with 4. (strong) pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones. Over his shoulder he carried several fish and some pieces of wood under his arm. Lala smiled and handed some stone scrapers over to Dahu,5. smiled and went outside the cave to begin his task.
First he looked carefully at the scrapers and then went to 6. corner of the cave and pulled out some more tools. He 7. (choose) one large stone and began to use it like a hammer striking the edge of the scraper that needed 8. (sharpen). Now and then Dahu would stop, look at it and try it 9. his hand before continuing his task. He stopped when he felt the scrapers were sharp enough to cut up the meat and scrape the fish. As he passed 10. to Lala, the first of the guests from the neighbouring caves began to arrive for dinner.
My daughter was reading her English. composition aloud. It was titled My Mother. All of a sudden, she _____and walked to the kitchen where I was busy preparing for tea.
“Mom, what does ‘beautiful’ _____?” she asked,
“‘Beautiful’ is someone or something that is very _____to look at,” I explained.
“You mean like all those actresses you see on TV?” she said.
“That’s right ,” I said, hoping to end the _____.
“Are you, beautiful?”. She asked rather _____.
What was one to answer? She was _____my looks with those of some film stars and _____ it was I who treated beauty as good _____.
Suddenly I hit upon an idea to solve her _____. “Why don’t you ask Dad?”
As soon as my _____reached home and had his evening coffee, I saw her _____to her dad, “I have a doubt,” She said,
“What is it, my dear?” my husband asked.
I couldn’t _____my curiosity and I listened to the father-daughter _____.
“Dad, is Mom beautiful?”
“Of course she is. Don’t you think so?”
Well…She began rather doubtfully.
“Let me show you our wedding _____. See here. Isn’t she the most beautiful person in the world”
“See. your mom was _____when she said beautiful is just looking good. When you _____someone, the person becomes beautiful in your eyes.”
My daughter was _____for a while. Then a smile _____climbed into her face as she _____ “Mom. is beautiful…Dad is beautiful because I love you both…”
I was _____to have found someone who loved me enough to think of me as the most beautiful person in the world.
1.A. fell B. bent C. stopped D. awoke
2.A. reward B. mean C. change D. face
3.A. attractive B. concerned C. excited D. particular
4.A. conflict B. model C. argument D. discussion
5.A. doubtfully B. coldly C. carelessly D. impatiently
6.A. mixing B. comparing C. sharing D. charging
7.A. in addition B. above all C. after all D. in turn
8.A. data B. conditions C. majors D. looks
9.A. confusion B. anxiety C. sorrow D. bitterness
10.A. brother B. husband C. cousin D. nephew
11.A. walk B. cycle C. rush D. refer
12.A. accept B. control C. satisfy D. destroy
13.A. conversation B. advice C. laugh D. quarrel
14.A. dinner B. celebration C. album D. church
15.A. right B. wrong C. silly D. pleased
16.A. love B. praise C. hug D. bless
17.A. silent B. active C. satisfied D. grateful
18.A. merely B. slowly C. hardly D. eagerly
19.A. finished B. admitted C. chanted D. heard
20.A. common B. serious C. cautious D. lucky
How to Overcome Depression
Suffering from depression means more than just dealing with a bad week or even a bad month. Depression is a weakening condition that can make it impossible for you to enjoy your daily existence. To overcome your depression, you have to first determine if what you’re feeling are the symptoms of depression. 1.While medications can help relieve symptoms, it is still important for depressed persons to understand the disorder and develop healthier strategies for coping with it.
Keep yourself busy. Fill your schedule with events and activities you love. Keeping a busy schedule will force you to stay active, focused, and thinking about the next thing on your plate. You can draw up a schedule for each day at the start of the week, or simply plan out each day the night before. 2.
Improve your diet. 3.Even if you’re losing your appetite, you need to be determined to eat three meals a day. You don’t need to try to lose weight or be incredibly healthy-conscious when you’re dealing with your depression, but eating healthier food regularly will improve your mental and physical state.
Think positively. Being a more positive thinker will help you look at your life and world in a way that fills you with hope instead of despair. To think more positively, you should learn how to recognize your negative thoughts and to fight them with stronger positive thoughts whenever you can. For a jump start, find at least five things to be grateful for. 4.
5. Neglecting personal hygiene (卫生) is a common side effect of depression. While you will not beat your depression by transforming your looks, if you take time to maintain your appearance and hygiene every day, you will feel better about yourself. Shower daily, brush your teeth and wash your hair.
A. Control your emotions.
B. Improve your appearance.
C. Most importantly be happy about every single day.
D. Whichever method you choose, make a goal of sticking to it.
E. However, not everyone knows depression has a positive side.
F. Eating a healthy, balanced diet can also help you beat depression.
G. If you are feeling sad, lonely, or worthless, you may be suffering from depression.
Biologists believe that love is fundamentally a biological rather than a cultural construct, because the capacity for love is found in all human cultures and similar behavior is found in some other animals. In humans the purpose of all the desire is to focus attention on the raising of offspring. Children demand an unusual amount of parenting, and two parents are better than one. Love is a signal that both partners are committed, and makes it more likely that this commitment will continue as long as necessary for children to reach independence. But what does science have to say about the notion of love at first sight?
In recent years the ability to watch the brain in action has offered a wealth of insight into the mechanics of love. Researchers have shown that when a person falls in love, a dozen different part of brain work together to release chemicals that trigger feelings of euphoria, bonding and excitement. It has also been shown that the unconditional love between a mother and a child is associated with activity in different regions of the brain from those associated with pair-bonding love.
Passionate love is rooted in the reward circuitry of the brain—the same area that is active when humans feel a rush from cocaine. In fact, the desire, motivations and withdrawals involved in love have a great deal in common with addiction. Its most intense forms tend to be associated with the early stages of a relationship, which then give way to a calmer attachment form of love one feels with a long term partner.
What all this means is that one special person can become chemically rewarding to the brain of another. Love at first sight, then, is only possible if the mechanism for generating long-term attachment can be triggered quickly. There are signs that it can be. One line of evidence is that people are able to decide within a second how attractive they find another person. This decision appears to be related to facial attractiveness, although men may favor women with waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7, no matter what their overall weight is. (This ratio may indicate a woman’s reproductive health.)
Another piece of evidence comes from work by a psychologist at Ben-Gurion University, who found in a survey that a small percentage (11%) of people in long-term relationships said that they began with love at first sight. In other words, in some couples the initial favorable impressions of attractiveness triggered love which sustained a lengthy bond. It is also clear that some couples need to form their bonds over a longer period, and popular culture tells many tales of friends who become lovers.
One might also assume that if a person is looking for a partner with traits that cannot be quantified instantly, such as compassion, intellect or a good sense of humor, then it would be hard to form a relationship on the basis of love at first sight. Those more concerned with visual appearances, though, might find this easier. So it appears that love at first sight exists, but is not a very common basis for long-term relationships.
1.When a person falls in love, _____________.
A. he feels as if he were addicted to cocaine.
B. he will be committed to the beloved as long as necessary.
C. he will experience complex feelings brought on by different regions of his brain.
D. he will experience a calmer attachment form of love before he feels the extreme love.
2.We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. pair-bonding love comes from a long stable friendship.
B. the mechanism for creating long-term attachment ensures love at first sight
C. it is impossible for those ordinary-looking people to fall in love at first sight.
D. men may be attracted by a girl whose figure suggests her admirable reproductive capacity.
3.The underlined word “traits” in the last paragraph probably means ______.
A. characteristics
B. something typical in your temper
C. particular quantities in your personality
D. attitudes that show your moral standards
4.Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?
A. The stages of passionate love
B. The science of love at first sight
C. The biological construct of pair-bonding
D. The mechanism for generating long-term love
