Russ Gremel, now 98 years old, decided it was time to donate $2 million to the Illinois Audubon Society, a charity to purchase nearly 400 acres of land for wildlife protection. Gremel was able to make this amazing donation because he purchased $1,000 worth of Walgreens stock seven decades ago whose value has grown recently.
“A single man with no kids, Gremel has lived in the same Chicago house for 95 years, and has always lived simply”, neighbor Patrick Falso told TODAY. Falso said he heard Gremel say many times the “money wasn’t mine to begin with” and that he always intended to give it away.
The Gremel Wildlife shelter was founded on June 4. Illinois Audubon Society president Jim Herkert said Gremel’s donation was extremely generous. “It’s allowing us to protect a really valuable and important possession and realize one of Gremel’s wishes that we could find a place where people could come out and experience nature the way he did as a kid,” Herkert told TODAY.
After doing all this, this past weekend, Gremel adopted an old Chihuahua（吉娃娃犬）. Winnie the dog was picked up as a homeless dog several months ago. She suffered from a kind of cancer, which was treated—and all she needed was a loving home, which Colleen Collins, the founder of Perfect Pooches Adoption Agency, was determined to find.
Gremel had lost his own beloved Chihuahua earlier this year. When he reached out to Collins about Winnie, she felt this could be a good match. That feeling grew when she brought Winnie to his house for a meet and greet, and Winnie was introduced not only to Gremel but also some of his friends and neighbors. One had brought over a lot of fresh strawberries; all said they’d be there to help out in any way needed.
1.Patrick Falso is mentioned in the text mainly to explain _________.
A. how Gremel earned the money B. what kind of person Gremel is
C. why Gremel made the donation D. where Gremel has been living
2.What can we learn about Russ Gremel from the text?
A. He raised many pet dogs in his life.
B. He bought Walgreens stock at age 28.
C. He adopted a young Chihuahua recently.
D. He volunteered in wildlife shelters regularly.
3.What can we infer about Gremel’s neighbors from the text?
A. They live in harmony with animals. B. They are impressed with dog Winnie.
C. They lead a healthy and wealthy life. D. They are caring and kind to each other.
假定你是李华，你收到加拿大笔友David的电子邮件，询问你校体育运动的情况，也特别想知道你最喜欢什么运动，请你根据下列要点给他回复：
1.你们学校平时开展哪些运动；
2.你最喜欢的运动及原因。
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。
删减：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错词下面划一横线，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。
Yesterday I went to see a film with my best friend. We set off at 1:30 in the afternoon and plan to arrive at the cinema before 2:30 so that we could watch the 3:15 show. The traffic was terrible bad. That made it even worse was that our bus broke up on the way. They stopped a taxi but rushed to the cinema, arriving ten minutes before the show. “Two ticket for 3:15,” Kate said, put the money on the courier. The film started at the moment we sat down in the cinema. It was an exciting film and we had great time yesterday afternoon.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Artist Song Peilun is known1.“The Father of Yelang Valley” after spending the last two decades turning a village into an artistic village.
Yelang was an ancient political centre first2.(describe) in the 3rd century BC, and it was centered in3.is now western Guizhou Province, China. Experts believe that many ancient4.(culture) were rooted here,5.there are unfortunately no buildings left standing in the great valley. Inspired by Crazy Horse, a mountain monument in the US slate, Chinese artist Song Peilun devoted his life to building a memorial to the artistic culture of Yelang Valley.
It was in 19966.Song quit his job as a professor and purchased a 200,000 square meter plot of land in a mountainous forest area. Then he began to follow his dream.
When he first arrived in the area, most of the locals7.(mine) in the mountain and selling the stones to make ends meet，but he convinced many of them to help him instead.
So far, Song Peilun and the villagers8.(turn) the forest land that he bought into an artistic village full of stone sculptures,9.were inspired by Chinese Nuo culture. It is now a10.(relative) popular tourist attraction.
There was a businessman who was deep in debt and could see no way out. He sat on the park bench, head in hands,______if anything could save his company from bankruptcy (破产).
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is______you,” he said. After listening to the businessman’s troubles, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a______, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as______as he had come.
The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000,______by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! “I can______my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But______, he decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the______to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed______, he negotiated better deals. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the______with the uncashed check. At the______time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to______the check and share his success story, a ______came running up and grabbed the old man. “I’m so delighted I______him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s______escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller.” And she led the old man away______the arm.
The businessman just stood there,______. All year long he’d been buying and selling,______he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or______, that had turned his life around. It was his______self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
1.A. wondering B. suspecting C. estimating D. hesitating
2.A. attacking B. disturbing C. interrupting D. amusing
3.A. number B. note C. letter D. check
4.A. calmly B. quietly C. quickly D. proudly
5.A. signed B. handed C. drawn D. deposited
6.A. lose B. remove C. face D. ignore
7.A. instead B. therefore C. rather D. meanwhile
8.A. weakness B. belief C. urge D. strength
9.A. creativity B. permission C. optimism D. curiosity
10.A. hospital B. company C. street D. park
11.A. advanced B. appointed C. announced D. delayed
12.A. hand back B. give out C. put out D. turn over
13.A. policeman B. banker C. nurse D. guard
14.A. beat B. cheated C. pushed D. caught
15.A. never B. seldom C. always D. occasionally
16.A. on B. in C. by D. at
17.A. exhausted B. astonished C. disappointed D. excited
18.A. convinced B. informed C. reminded D. warned
19.A. created B. imagined C. discovered D. donated
20.A. long-lost B. non-existent C. ever-lasting D. newly-found
Parents usually teach their children how to cross the street safely, by looking both ways for cars.1.The city of Honolulu, Hawaii wants everyone to learn that lesson.
2.Beginning on October 24, you will be fined from $15 to $99 if you step into a Honolulu street while looking at your phone. Honolulu is the first major U.S. city to ban what is called “distracted walking”. It recently passed a law in a seven to two vote. The law says, “No pedestrian shall cross a street or highway while viewing a mobile electronic device.”3.
The law includes all electronic devices with screens: cellphone, tablets, gaming devices, digital cameras and laptop computers.4.Pedestrians may use such devices in the street to call emergency services and rescue workers, such as firefighters and police officers.
Pedestrian deaths have been increasing as the use of cellphones rises. The Governors Highway Safety Association, or GHSA, says pedestrian deaths in the United States increased 25 percent between 2010 and 2015. That trend continued in 2016 with the number of pedestrian deaths rising to almost 6000, 11% higher than in 2015.
5.The state of Washington was the first to outlaw distracted driving back in 2007. Now, 46 other states as well as D. C. , Puerto Rico, Guam and the U. S.Virgin Islands, have laws against texting while driving.
If you still want to text while walking, you could avoid being fined in Honolulu by using a voice-controlled digital assistant such as Siri or Google Assistant. Or you could just wait until you are again, safely, off the street.
A. The law does permit an exception.
B. Other U. S. cities may follow Honolulu.
C. But do they also teach them to put away their cellphones?
D. Texting while crossing the street will soon be banned in the city.
E. Do you like Honolulu’s new law that bans texting while walking?
F. In other words, do not look at a screen when you cross the street or you could be fined.
G. The law’s creator hope it will lower the number of people hit and killed by cars in the city.
