假定你是李华。近日收到美国朋友Nancy的邮件，说她下周六晚上7点在市图书馆报告厅作题为“美国风俗与文化”的讲座，邀请你来观摩。请给她写封回信，要点如下：
1．婉拒邀请；
2．陈述理由；
3．表达感谢。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Nancy，
I'm so glad to receive your invitation
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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。错误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. 每处错误仅限1词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I've learnt from the notice that you're looking for an English editor for us school paper. I'm written this letter to apply for the position.
I'm Li Hua,Senior Three student in our school. In my view, I met your requirements. For one thing，I'm willing to devote some of my spare time to serve others. For another，I'm good at both English or Fine Arts. I'm either skilled in using computers. I would be glad if you could offer to me an opportunity for an interview.
I'm looking forward to your kindly reply at your convenient.
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Sammy Armstrong was driving to his office when he 1.(notice) a car was stuck on railroad tracks. Then he heard a train whistle. Sammy threw down his sunglasses and keys and ran toward the car.2.elderly man, Jean Papich，eightyfour，sat in the driver's seat，3. (turn) the key and hitting the gas. His wife，Marion，seventyeight, was looking 4.(nervous) at him. Then Sammy walked5.the car and pushed it forward，but his boots slipped on the warm asphalt (沥青)．He could see the train approaching fast.
It might be6.(easy)to push the car backward, Sammy thought. He ran around to the front to the vehicle and shouted at Jean 7.(put)the car in neutral(空挡). Sammy could feel the ground trembling under his feet. He put his boots against the track and pushed forcefully. Finally，the car rolled off the tracks. When Sammy looked up，the train was just a couple of 8.(foot )away. Sammy，shocked and 9.(speech)，went back to work as the crowd gathered at the scene.
Weeks later，Marion called to thank Sammy. He responded，“I just did 10.I had to do.”
How to Be Creative
Most of us think that creativity is a quality belonging only to artists，writers，or dancers，rather than ourselves.1. The following tips are a great beginning for developing our creativity.
1．Get out of your comfort zone
We eagerly accept the familiar and fear the unknown. Break out of your usual patterns and welcome creativity into your life. As stated earlier，the human brain was designed to recognize patterns.2. In fact，our comfort zone is nothing more than a collection of patterns. As we become more efficient at recognizing and using patterns，we rely less on creativity to find new paths. We should force ourselves out of our comfort zones and open up new possibilities.
2．Try different things
If you always do what you've always done，you'll always get what you've always got. We are creatures of habits and routines，and creativity hates routines. If you usually drive to work，take the subway for a few days.3. Interrupt your routine，experiment and try something new. New things are often creative，but the same old thing never is.
3．4.
Having a great idea is not enough；you must work to make it a reality. Have you ever seen a new product and realized that you thought of the same thing long ago？Yet someone else is making money with “your” idea.5. The difference between a dreamer and a doer is action. Do whatever it takes to bring your ideas to life. If you can put them into practice，you are well on your way to improving your creativity in all areas of your life.
A．Take action
B．Seek several options
C．Think from the other person's point of view.
D．If you normally eat in the office，have lunch under a tree.
E．The truth is that we are all born with the capacity to be creative.
F．We continue to create patterns and routines for almost everything we do.
G．We all have great ideas sometimes，but only a few people turn their ideas into realities.
It was August in the US，and the school year had just started，when one parent received an unexpected phone call.
Stacie Dunn had been called to Woodford County High School because her teenage daughter had been caught going against the dress rules. But the offense left Dunn shocked.
She arrived to find her daughter in a set of pretty ordinary clothes：a cardigan，a tank top and jeans. The trouble，administrators indicated，lay with her daughter's exposed collarbone (锁骨)．Bare shoulders and naked collarbones are illegal under Woodford County High School's dress rules. Students who break these rules can receive detention (the punishment of being kept at school for a time after school)—or after multiple violations (违纪)，be prevented from going to school entirely.
Dunn was very shocked and angry.“Parents are being called away from their important jobs，and students are missing important class time because they are showing their collarbones，” she wrote on the social media site Facebook，attaching a picture of her daughter in the offending clothes.“Something needs to change！”
Dress rules vary by school districts and are often decided by teachers and school administrators. Yoga pants and skinny jeans are banned. Certain dress rules also require kneelength pants and skirts.
Some school administrators argue they are simply supporting having a professional standard of dress to prepare their students for their future careers. But others have told students that their clothes present a “distraction” to others.
Certain schools have chosen to reevaluate their dress rules，with input from parents and students. Even Woodford County High School—home of the “collarbone” ban—is reconsidering its policies this month. But，at_least_for_now，the_dress_rule_debate_is_far_from_over.
1.Why was Stacie Dunn called to Woodford County High School?
A. Her daughter went to school with bare shoulders.
B. Her daughter broke her collarbone.
C. Her daughter broke the dress rules of the school.
D. Her daughter received detention.
2.Under the dress rules，which of the following clothes are acceptable?
A. Skinny jeans B. Long skirts.
C. Yoga pants. D. Short pants.
3.How did Stacie Dunn respond to being called to school?
A. She wasn't in favor of what the school did.
B. She turned to Facebook for help.
C. She bought a standard dress for her daughter.
D. She accused the school of wasting her time.
4.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph indicates that ________．
A. the debate between parents and students will never be over
B. few schools will take measures to change their policy
C. the problem of “clothes distractions” will last
D. the argument on what to wear and how to dress will continue
Whether it is Mozart or Miley，your choice of music could determine whether you will perform well at your job. A new study suggests that listening to music in the office improves the speed and accuracy of tasks such as data entry，proofreading and problem solving. an officebased experiment，88 percent of participants were found to produce their most accurate work when listening to music.
The study also found that 81 percent completed their work fastest when music was played. And it matters what type of music you listen to. For instance，if you're doing your tax returns，then classical music is the most effective as it improves maths skills.
Listening to Jessie J or Justin Bieber could also improve your speed，with 58 percent of participants completing data entry tasks faster while listening to pop songs. During proofreading，dance music，such as David Guetta，had the biggest positive impact with participants increasing their speed by 20 percent compared to tests undertaken with no music at all. Dance music also had a positive effect on spellchecking with a 75 percent pass rate compared to 68 percent when no music was played at all.
The research，undertaken by Brightonbased Mindlab International，suggests that silent offices may be the least productive. The Music Works experiment revealed a positive correlation between music and productivity. Overall，it showed that when listening to music，nine out of ten people performed better，said Dr David Lewis，chairman of Mindlab International.
1.Whose music can help you do maths homework according to the study?
A. The music of Justin Bieber.
B. The music of Mozart.
C. The music of David Guetta.
D. The music of David Lewis.
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned according to the passage?
A. Music makes you relaxed.
B. Music helps you to enter data faster.
C. Music improves maths skills.
D. Music has a positive effect on spellchecking.
3.The result of the experiment showed that when music was played，________．
A. 88% of people worked faster
B. 81% of people did their most accurate work
C. 90% of people worked better
D. 75% of people completed data entry task faster
4.What can we conclude from the passage?
A. Music may be helpless to people in office.
B. Silent offices can make people work better.
C. Different kinds of music have the same effect.
D. Silent offices may make people work least profitably.
