假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Peter对中国春联 (Spring Festival couplets）产生了浓厚的兴趣，来信向你了解中国的春联文化。请你回信为他介绍春联的用途、内容和寓意等。
注意：1、词数100左右。2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
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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。
I’m gladly to receive your novel. Thank you for such lovely a gift, for I have been expecting them for a long time. This novel offers to me more understanding of American society and daily life. I know you’re interesting in Chinese festivals, and therefore I have chosen an album of paper cutting for you. Paper cutting is unique form of Chinese cultural relics, that is often used as a decoration for a joyful atmosphere. I hope it will bring happiness and lucks to your family as it always did in China.
I’m expecting you to come to China and experience the rich culture on person.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Long before Barack Obama became president of the United States, he wrote a book1. (call) Dream from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, which has since become2.bestseller. It is an3. (appeal) book that includes what he went through during4. (he) childhood. Obama has little contact with his father5.roots were in Kenya because he left home when Obama was very young. His mother got married6.a student from Indonesia shortly after the family moved to Jakarta. A few years later, Obama came back with his grandparents to Hawaii, where he7. (attend) a private high school. 8. (study) at Columbia in New York City, he then entered Harvard Law School. This autobiography also touches9. (heavy) on Obama’s exposure to racism. Readers will find his reflections of childhood10. (experience) which involved racial discrimination to be especially moving.
It was my first day to Miss Hargrove’s seventh grade. Past “newcomer experiences” had been difficult, so I was very__to fit in. After being introduced to the class, I bravely put on a smile and___my seat.
Lunchtime was a(n)___surprise when the girls all crowded around my table. They were friendly, so I began to___.My new classmates told me about the school, the teachers and the other kids.They___out the class nerd（书呆子）to me: Mary Lou. She was a pretty girl with dark eyes and olive-skin,___she wore a long woolen skirt and an old-fashioned blouse. She looked stupid. The girls whispered and laughed___Mary Lou walked by. She ate alone.
After school, the girls invited me to___them in front of the school. I was___to be a member of the club. We waited. For what, I didn’t know. Then Mary Lou came down the school steps. The girls started____her, shouting rudely, biting comments. I____,and then joined right in. Mean remarks____from my lips. No one could tell I’d never done this before. The other girls stepped back and started cheering for me. Feeling____,I pulled on her backpack and then pushed her. Her backpack broke. Mary Lou fell and I backed off. Everyone was laughing. I____in. I was a leader.
I was not proud. Something inside me hurt. If you’ve ever picked a wing off a butterfly, you know how I felt. Mary Lou got up, gathered her books and left without a tear or saying anything. She held her head____as blood ran down from her knee. I____her struggle away down the street.
I turned to leave with my____friends and noticed a man standing beside his car. He must have been Mary Lou’s father—he had the same olive skin, dark hair and handsome look. He remained still and watched the____girl walk toward him. Only his eyes—shining with both sadness and pride—followed. As I passed, he looked at me in silence with burning tears that reminded me of my____.
Mary Lou’s father’s eyes taught me a good lesson that day. I never again hurt someone for my own____.
1.A. excited B. curious C. frightened D. anxious
2.A. reserved B. had C. took D. put
3.A. pleasant B. terrible C. disappointing D. expected
4.A. relax B. hesitate C. read D. suspect
5.A. found B. picked C. worked D. pointed
6.A. because B. but C. and D. so
7.A. since B. before C. until D. as
8.A. play B. ask C. join D. study
9.A. scared B. thrilled C. careful D. afraid
10.A. making fun of B. speaking well of C. looking up to D. going back to
11.A. refused B. paused C. hurried D. escaped
12.A. said B. received C. fell D. spoke
13.A. ashamed B. guilty C. enthusiastic D. encouraged
14.A. turned B. fitted C. took D. went
15.A. cautiously B. casually C. lowly D. high
16.A. watched B. heard C. glared D. sensed
17.A. caring B. puzzling C. laughing D. satisfying
18.A. lonely B. only C. silly D. friendly
19.A. pain B. shame C. weakness D. pity
20.A. gain B. loss C. effort D. duty
The Four-step Approaches to Managing Anger
If something happens that makes you feel angry, try these following steps.1..Maybe it will help you prevent angry feelings from building up inside.
Identify the problem. Start by noticing what you’re angry about and why. 2.. Ask yourself: What’s got you angry? What’s your feeling and why? You can do this either in your mind or out loud, but it needs to be clear and specific.
Think of potential solutions. This is where you stop for a minute to give yourself time to manage your anger. It’s also where you start thinking of how you might react—but without reacting yet. Ask yourself: What can you do? Think of at least three things. 3.. This is where you think about what is likely to result from each of the different reactions you came up with. Ask yourself: What will happen for each one of these options?
Make a decision. This is where you take action by choosing one of the three things you could do.4.. Ask yourself: What’s your best choice? Once you choose your solution, then it’s time to act.
Check your progress.5.. Ask yourself: How did you do? Did things work out as you expected? If not, why not? Are you satisfied with the choice you made? Taking some time to reflect on how things worked out after it’s all over is a very important step. It helps you learn about yourself and it allows you to test which problem-solving approaches work best in different situations.
A. Learn to receive the fact.
B. They help you cool down when you feel like your anger might explode.
C. Put into words what’s making you upset so you can act rather than react.
D. Look at the list and pick the one that is likely to be the most effective.
E. It’s called a problem-solving approach.
F. After you’ve acted and the situation is over, spend some time thinking about how it went.
G. After that you should consider the consequences of each solution.
Walk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests like the Amazon might have reacted to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.
Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to future climate change? If it gets drier, will it still survive and continue to draw down CO2 ?
Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past. Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake mud. Going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lake sediments （沉淀物）which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled（未取样）.So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.
1.What does the underlined phrase “mopping up” in the second paragraph mean?
A. Giving up. B. Giving out.
C. Wiping out. D. Taking in.
2.How will the Amazon rainforest react to future climate change?
A. It’ll get drier and continue to remove CO2 .
B. There is no exact answer up to present.
C. It’ll get warmer and then colder and drier.
D. It’ll remain steamy, warm, damp and thick.
3.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. It’s important to drill deep down into lake sediments to collect information.
B. It’s impossible to prove how climate changes in the Amazon rainforest.
C. It’s hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the Amazon rainforest.
D. It’s necessary to have specialized equipment and machinery to study the past climate.
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A. Studies of the Rainforests
B. Climates of the Amazon
C. Secrets of the Ice Age
D. Changes of the Rainforests
