假如你是李华，你的美国网友 Peter参加了“中国首届外国留学生软笔书法竞赛”并获得了一等奖，请给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1. 祝贺获奖；
2. 肯定成绩和努力；
3. 约时间在网上交流学习中国软笔书法的心得。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信件开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：
中国首届外国留学生软笔书法竞赛 the First Chinese Calligraphy Contest for Foreign Students
Dear Peter,
I am writing to offer my sincere congratulations
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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。
Today we had the honor of inviting Professor Hudson, a foreign teacher from Beijing University, to give us an English lesson. All of us were deeply impressed on this unforgettable English lesson. The professor began the class with an amazing English story, that attracted our attentions at once. He spoke slowly and clearly so that we could follow her well. Greatly inspiring, most of us took an active part in classroom activities. After class, many students being interviewed spoke high of him. They said that never they experienced such interesting a class. From his lesson, we came to the conclusion what it is not so difficult to learn English if we find a good way.
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。
Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman 1. always dreamed of becoming rich. He wished to become 2. millionaire, and so did his wife. He heard 3. some old men before, that several ships 4. (load) with diamonds and gold had sunk in the nearby seashore. Because of this, for a long time he kept searching that whole area for this treasure.
One day, while he was sitting on the boat daydreaming, he suddenly felt that the fishing rod 5. (weigh) down by a heavy object. He 6. (excite) pulled hard at it, and 7. he saw made him shout, “Wow! A big, shiny gold chain!” He pulled hard at the gold chain to get it into the boat, but 8. seemed to be no end to it. His boat started to get overload and the sea water filled his boat. 9., he had begun dreaming of a big house, a big piece of land and 10. (buy) horses and cows... He kept pulling at the chain while the boat kept sinking. The boat was finally submerged and he struggled to stay afloat. Unfortunately, his feet were caught in the gold chain and he drowned.
I believe that the stories we tell our children shape the future stories of their lives.
As a father of four, I consider storytelling a vital part of family life because it provides ______ nourishment (营养) children need. However, that’s really not ______ I’m talking about.
All the bedtime storytelling I did to my kids was just ______ the groundwork for the lives I wanted them to have. With my kids, the typical bedtime stories, like Snow White and Little Red Cap, ______ the stories of my own life. One ______ like this: Uncle Rick fell asleep on the bus coming home from school. My Dad had to run after the bus, ______ and begging the bus driver to ______ him. My children never tired of hearing them. Soon, the place of the storytelling changed from the ______ to the dinner table.
My stories are ______ of who they’re now. They like to repeat them at family get-togethers and I ______ they’ve learned valuable life ______ during the retelling. They’re beginning to tell their own stories now too. There’s ______ sweeter to my ear than hearing my twenty-one-year-old kids say: “Remember the time when...” It’s like a(n) ______ of the old scenes.
These stories built a ______ of family that could never have been ______ in any school. What my kids were ______ in these stories was the ______ that they were part of something larger. ______ to me, these stories gave me a way to ______ each child with the other and then with me. This is how we ______ present the world to them and finally begin to change it.
1.A. physical B. abundant C. temporary D. imaginative
2.A. what B. how C. that D. when
3.A. recovering B. exploring C. laying D. arranging
4.A. gave way to B. kept in with C. set apart from D. made up for
5.A. moved B. went C. spoke D. passed
6.A. whispering B. cursing C. shouting D. murmuring
7.A. wake B. hit C. amuse D. disturb
8.A. office B. living room C. playground D. bedroom
9.A. whole B. one C. none D. part
10.A. doubt B. remember C. imagine D. believe
11.A. rules B. lessons C. experiences D. purposes
12.A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything
13.A. reappearance B. challenge C. origin D. standard
14.A. change B. future C. sense D. model
15.A. observed B. taught C. ignored D. improved
16.A. playing with B. turning down C. setting aside D. picking up
17.A. explaining B. understanding C. leaving D. teaching
18.A. However B. So C. But D. Though
19.A. unite B. compare C. match D. concern
20.A. last B. secretly C. first D. immediately
Sports offer kids the ability to exercise while having fun, the chance to learn how to play as a team, and a good way to develop athletic skills. Despite these benefits, 70% of kids quit sports by the age of 13. 1..
◆2..
Have you ever watched kindergarteners play soccer against another team of kindergarteners? It is both enjoyable and amusing. No matter what the score, all the kids have a good time and are happy.
3.. The focus changes from having fun to practicing skills. Only the pre-teens with the best skills can get the most time in the game. What was a fun activity at age 5 becomes a source of stress and pressure for a pre-teen. Those who are not among the most talented players tend to quit and find something else they might be good at.
◆ It costs more.
4.. Parents of a pre-teen are going to need to purchase a uniform, gear, and equipment. Teams need to travel to compete against teams from other schools or districts. Parents who want to watch the games now have extra gas costs to deal with.
Therefore, when an activity becomes expensive, parents start pushing their pre-teen to do well in it. Perhaps the parents complain that if their pre-teen is sitting on the bench, or isn’t the star player, the money wasn’t worth it. This adds extra pressure on a pre-teen who might quit the team.
◆ It’s the age.
Parents need to remember that pre-teens are going through a lot of changes. Their bodies are changing School has become more challenging (and requires them to manage a lot of homework). 5. If your pre-teen’s friends quit playing soccer, your pre-teen might quit as well.
A. Their peers are becoming more important to them than their family is.
B. The more money in a sport, the less participation in it.
C. As kids get older, the experience of playing sports changes.
D. The older a player gets, the more expensive the participation in a sport becomes.
E. It stops being fun.
F. Here are some reasons why that happens.
G. Their friends are becoming bored of some sport.
Musicians are said to have better language skills and scientific studies have backed that up. But it’s not clear why that might be the case.
Now, a study of 74 Chinese kindergarteners suggests six months of piano lessons can heighten the brain’s response to changes in pitch (声调). And kids who got piano lessons were also better at telling apart two similar-sounding Mandarin (普通话) words, which contained different consonants (辅音), than were students who got extra reading training or who went through regular kindergarten.
Mandarin is a tonal language — the famous example is the word ma which can mean mother or horse depending on its pitch. So might musical training translate better to Mandarin than it would to English?
Yeah, it’s possible that this influenced the results, said Robert Desimone, a neuroscientist (神经科学家) at the McGovern Institute at MIT. But he says other studies do back up the fact that music lessons benefit language learners, even in countries without tonal languages. “And what our study added on top of that was some idea of the neural basis for those benefits.”
And if you don’t own a piano, don’t despair. The reading group actually did just as well on many measures as the piano group. “Reading’s pretty good actually. We don’t mean to disvalue reading instruction.”
More important, he says, was to show piano wasn’t actually worse than reading for these kills... thus perhaps encouraging cash-strapped schools to bring their music programs alive.
1.Which of the following is true according to the article?
A. It’s obvious why musicians have better language skills.
B. Musicians tend to be better language learners.
C. Reading works better than a piano for language skills.
D. Music lessons are greatly valued in money-tight schools.
2.What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 mean?
A. Musical training makes Mandarin easier than English to understand.
B. Musicians translate Mandarin better than English.
C. Musical training contributes better to learning a tonal language than a non-tonal one.
D. Musical lessons help English learners more than Mandarin learners.
3.From what column of the magazine might the article be taken?
A. Sports. B. Entertainment.
C. Education. D. Economy.
4.What may be the best title of the article?
A. Musicians Are Smarter
B. Reading Helps Language Learning
C. Benefits of Language Learning
D. Piano Lessons Tune Up Language Skills
