最近有人建议缩短中小学期，增设1-2周春秋短假。假定你是李华，请用英语给美国笔友Jack写一封邮件，了解美国有关情况，内容包括：1. 建议内容：2. 你的意见；3. 询问美国是否有类似假期。
注意：1. 词数100左右：
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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。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（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用（\）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。
Dear Tom，
How time flies！Next week is your birthday. Happy birthday for you！I've sent you a can of tea as a gift，which I hope you will like it. Now I will introduce Chinese tea culture to you.
Chinese tea has history of more than 4，000 years. General speaking，there're many kind of tea in China，including green tea，red tea and so on. Drink tea has many benefits. For example，it can make people relaxing. Besides，it has been proved that tea was beneficial to people's healthy. No wonder that tea is become increasingly popular with people around the world.
I hope you will love Chinese tea and tea culture. Happy birthday！
Yours，
Li Hua
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。
Translated fiction sales in the United Kingdom1.（rise）5.5 percent last year，with growing demand for Chinese titles，said Nielsen Book on Wednesday.
British newspaper the Guardian featured Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem and Jin Yong's A Hero Born in its report on this trend，2.（say）that both "sold strongly" in 2018.
The research，by the Man Booker International Prize，shows more than 2.6 million 3.（copy）of translated titles 4.（sell）in 2018，at an estimated value of £20.7 million（$27 million），the highest ever since Nielsen started the study in 2001.
Fiammetta Rocco，from Man Booker International Prize，said，"Reading fiction is one of the best ways we have of putting 5.（we）in other people's shoes. The rise in sales of translated fiction shows 6. hungry so many British readers are for terrific writing from other countries. "
To Anna Holm wood 7.news is a signal that" a new era has arrived". Holmwood，who translated A Hero Born，told China Daily，"It's a big moment8.Chinese fiction abroad. "
Holmwood has worked as a literary agent and9.（translate）for nine years，and has seen firsthand how Chinese titles continue to gain a greater audience worldwide，10.（particular）in the English-speaking world.
Christin Gilmer was once an excellent student in the sixth-grade classroom of Judith Toensing. At the end of the year，Toensing included an extraordinary message on Gilmer's report card_____，"It has been a joy to have you in class. Keep up the good work，and invite me to your Harvard______. "
“She just had the passion（激情）to go _____and make a difference. And I just wanted to set the _____and set the bar high，"said Toensing.
Gilmer______that message for the next twenty years. After receiving her undergrad degree，Gilmer _____made her way to Harvard.
“I had always had a（n）______of it and carried it with me "Gilmer said about the ____. "Anytime I was having anxiety o_______with some cruel injustices in the world，or even just kind of doubting myself，it helps me to remember her______"
After overcoming so many difficulties，and finally______it to graduation，Gilmer knew who she needed to______.
Gilmer recently traveled back to her hometown of Yuma，Arizona to pay a（n）_____visit to her favorite teacher and deliver the invitation in person.
“I would have been there，with no difficulty，"said Toensing. "I would have grown feathers to get there. "
That wouldn't be______，because the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health paid for her airfare to Boston. When it was time for Gilmer to graduate，her teacher from over two decades ago watched her walk across the______and accept her doctorate in public health.
Harvard Dean Michelle Williams even offered a______thank you to Toensing in her speech.
"I can't think of a better way to pay respect or show______to Judith Toensing. She ____me so much，"said Gilmer.
"As a teacher，it's the perfect example of everything we try to _____in the classroom，"said Toensing. who couldn't be prouder of her______student.
1.A. explaining B. reading C. announcing D. praising
2.A. graduation B. wedding C. anniversary D. celebration
3.A. down B. off C. around D. forward
4.A. pace B. date C. scene D. goal
5.A. added to B. left behind C. held onto D. sneezed at
6.A. eventually B. suddenly C. unwillingly D. mysteriously
7.A. imagination B. understanding C. model D. picture
8.A. book B. note C. exercise D. warning
9.A. competing B. starting C. struggling D. comparing
10.A. lessons B. words C. comments D. suggestions
11.A. making B. sending C. taking D. accompanying
12.A. respect B. congratulate C. invite D. comfort
13.A. surprise B. business C. angel D. return
14.A. possible B. Necessary C. Easy D. important
15.A. classroom B. playground C. laboratory D. stage
16.A. quick B. Serious C. Personal D. ridiculous
17.A. thanks B. emotions C. courage D. compromise
18.A. missed B. pleased C. influenced D. Interested
19.A. prepare B. Accomplish C. Discourage D. avoid
20.A. warm-hearted B. easy-going C. famous D. former
How do parents teach children about money？How do you teach them to get rich？Likely，you do not have an answer because you would not call yourself rich.1.Here is what self-made millionaires tell their kids about wealth.
You deserve to have wealth.
This statement could be read as arrogant（傲慢的），when in fact it comes from a place of humbleness. Self-made millionaires teach their children that they deserve to be rich not because they were born into the right family but because they work hard to solve other people's problems.2.
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Having money gets rid of tons of the issues which people find themselves in when they do not have it. Not happy with your current living situation？You can pack up and leave. Do you hate your job？Why not start your own business. Upset about a global disaster？Donate what you can to the cause. Money allows you to enjoy life on your own terms.
Nothing is guaranteed.
4.They must create their own lives and futures. It's important to teach kids about self-reliance. Legally，kids have the right to have more and more things，but it's important to teach against these values.
Solve problems to earn your wealth.
In a free market economy，everyone is looking for a way to make money. If you come up with an idea to solve the world's problem，there will be a demand for it. The bigger the problem the more difficulty you might have getting it off the ground.5.Pairing your skills with problem solving could be the way towards wealth.
A. A big lesson self-made millionaires teach their kids is that the world owes them nothing.
B. Having wealth allows you to do something for others to earn your place.
C. When do you start teaching your children about money？
D. How do the rich approach this question？
E. But it could also make you very rich.
F. Even the blind can see money.
G. Wealth leads to freedom.
Why have so many awards ceremonies appeared recently? Shakespeare never won a prize, nor did Leonardo da Vinci or Adam Smith or Charles Dickens.
It would be possible to say, however, that in the past, scientists and artists could win "patronage" from rich people-a king or a lord would give the artist or scientist money to have them paint their palaces or help them develop new ways of making money. With the change in social systems across the world, this no longer happens. A lot of scientific research is now cither funded by the state or by private companies. Perhaps awards ceremonies are just the most recent face of this process.
However, there is more to it than that. When a film wins an Oscar, many more people will go and see it or buy the DVD. When a writer wins the Nobel prize, many more people buy his books. When a group win the MTV awards, the ceremony is seen by hundreds of thousands of people across the world. The result? The group sell lots more records.
Most awards ceremonies are now sponsored by big organizations or companies. This means that it is not only the person who wins the award who benefits but also the sponsors. The MTV awards, for example, are great for publicising not only music but also MTV itself！
On the surface, it seems to be a "win-win" situation, with everyone being happy, but let me ask you a question-how far do you think that publicity and marketing are winning here, and how much genuine recognition of achievement is taking place?
1.Why are some successful people like Shakespeare mentioned at the very beginning of the passage?
A. To show great admiration. B. To provide the background.
C. To prepare for the topic. D. To answer the question.
2.Artists and scientists used to receive money from______.
A. rich people's support B. ales of their works
C. different awards D. the government
3.The writer thinks awards actually do a better job in____.
A. getting the winners' great achievements recognized
B. financially supporting a scientist's or an artist's work
C. improving the status of the greatest scientists or artists
D. earning more money for the awards ceremony sponsors
4.What is the writer's attitude towards awards ceremonies？
A. Subjective. B. Approving.
C. Doubtful. D. Indifferent.
