为了激发同学们的想象力和对未来生活的猜想,你校的英语报开办了专栏Future Life。请你根据以下提示为专栏撰稿,介绍一下你想象中的未来的汽车:
1.机器人操作,能避免车祸;
2.可以折叠,占用空间小;
3.水、陆、空三用,适用于各种路况;
4.相信你梦想中的汽车会很快成为现实。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可适当增加细节,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。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。
The first time I went to the zoo was several years ago,with parents.Yesterday I went to the zoo with some classmates.Arriving here,we got a guidebook and started walking round a zoo.We all got pretty exciting about visiting the animals.But something in their eyes made me to think they might enjoy live in the wild rather than be kept in a cage.One classmate might have guessed what had come in my mind,as he tells me at least in this way we had a good chance to know more about the animals.I don’t know.Maybe some days there will have a better way to see and study them.
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
One morning,a bus was running,in which were some people 1. (go) to work. Suddenly,a car rushed out from a nearby road;the bus 2. (force) to stop. It was a car taking pictures of a wedding (婚礼),3. (follow) by a line of slow-moving wedding cars.The passengers started to complain that they would be late 4. work,but the bus driver just sat in his seat 5. (quiet) and rang the horn (喇叭) from time to time.
Someone said to the driver,“No use ringing the horn;they won’t make way for you.You’d better rush through the line.”
The driver turned back and said with 6. smile,“I’m ringing the horn not to urge them to make way for 7. (I),but to wish them happiness.”After a second,he added,“Marriage is a happy thing,so we have a chance 8. (make) way for others’ happiness.Isn’t it a happy thing?”
The passengers on the bus calmed down.
9. is a happy thing to make way for others’ happiness.The one 10. has such a feeling is certainly a happy person.
Success doesn’t begin until you start the walk down the pathway towards your goals.And,your walk ______ begins with a baby step.Why do we ______ them baby steps? Are they really more important than our ______ steps down life’s pathway?
Baby steps are the first steps we take as an act of faith.We ______ others stepping out and we claim (声称) our ability to ______ by following them.As we grow,we ______ our development by taking additional baby steps.Sometimes we fall;sometimes we fail.Thereafter,all ______ become an act of faith;we just become more practiced.______ you say to yourself,“I don’t want to ______ myself” or “I won’t try unless I’m sure I will succeed,” you’ll ______ never take the baby steps towards your ______ and end up wallowing in (沉湎) your own self-pity.
In society,we focus on (关注) results.We ______ every risk that must be taken to reach our goals.There are ______ people who are skilful performers of any tasks the first time they ______ them.They fail and succeed.Then,they build upon the ______ they have learned from each successive step.They practice their skills and use their talents through baby steps ______ they are ready to show them to the world.
So,______ to take those baby steps to achieve the goals before you.As you become more ______,your baby steps become a walk,then a jog (慢跑),and ______ a race.That’s how our baby steps ______ us through the marathon of life.
1.A.even B.always C.still D.also
2.A.call B.make C.show D.keep
3.A.last B.first C.past D.next
4.A.suggest B.imagine C.see D.like
5.A.walk B.run C.jump D.ride
6.A.change B.continue C.finish D.choose
7.A.dreams B.chances C.risks D.steps
8.A.Until B.Though C.If D.Unless
9.A.make a fool of B.take pity on C.play jokes on D.make a secret of
10.A.especially B.immediately C.recently D.probably
11.A.acts B.goals C.results D.problems
12.A.consider B.repeat C.recognize D.face
13.A.many B.enough C.few D.no
14.A.reach B.remember C.complete D.try
15.A.hopes B.abilities C.patience D.courage
16.A.although B.because C.before D.when
17.A.learn B.expect C.decide D.agree
18.A.important B.pleased C.popular D.skilled
19.A.suddenly B.finally C.usually D.frequently
20.A.lead B.train C.serve D.pass
New kinds of tourism
People are travelling more than ever before.The World Tourism Organisation says that by 2020 the number of international travellers will be more than 1.6 billion people per year.1. Here are four different kinds of tourism that have appeared recently.
Medical tourism can be for a lot of things,from operations to visits to the dentist.2. A few of the popular countries offering medical tourism are India,Cuba,Thailand and Jordan.
Nearly all tourists eat in restaurants,and dining is one of the top three tourist activities.But if you were in a country famous for its food,would you learn how to cook it? Welcome to the unusual form of culinary (烹饪的) tourism,where people go to another country to learn how to prepare its food.3.
4. Examples include tours to New Orleans after Hurricane (飓风) Katrina,to parts of Thailand after the tsunami (海啸) or tourist visits to ground zero in New York.This kind of tourism is not very popular with local people for understandable reasons.
Another growing area of tourism is literary (文学的) tourism.5. It can be connected to the life of an author,for example,visiting the author’s home or favourite places,or connected to the lives of characters in a story.It can also be a visit to a place where a film was made.
A.Cooking holidays are growing in popularity now.
B.It is known that few sites of disasters can be visited.
C.Many people enjoy these historical tourist attractions.
D.Disaster tourism is the act of visiting the site of a disaster.
E.This is a kind of cultural tourism and there are several types.
F.This kind of tourism includes going to a different country for health care.
G.The increase in the number of tourists also means an increase in the kinds of tourism.
Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’ t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company’ s “ Oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product’ s location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “ We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.
1.How are social robots different from household robots?
A.They can control their emotions.
B.They are more like humans.
C.They do the normal housework.
D.They respond to users more slowly.
2.What can a Jibo robot do according to Paragraph 3?
A.Communicate with you and perform operations.
B.Answer your questions and make requests.
C.Take your family pictures and deliver milk.
D.Obey your orders and remind you to take pills.
3.We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will ______.
A.train employees
B.be our workmates
C.improve technologies
D.take the place of workers
4.What does the passage mainly present?
A.A new design idea of household robots.
B.Marketing strategies for social robots.
C.Information on household robots.
D.An introduction to social robots.