假设你是李华，某国际中学学生。随着科技的发展，iPad已成为中学生的新宠。iPad既可以用来听音乐、下载学习资料、阅读电子书，又可以用来玩电子游戏。请你用英语给校英语报社写一封信，谈谈中学生使用iPad的情况。应包括以下几点：
1. 使用iPad对学习的好处；
2. 对课堂纪律和学习可能产生的负面影响；
3. 提出自己的建议并说明理由。
注意：1. 不要逐字翻译，注意文章的连贯性;
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 词数：120左右。
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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，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在此处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出修改的词。
删除: 把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改: 在错的词下划一横线（），并在其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11处起）不计分；
3. 格式错误本题零分。
Last Saturday I took bike trip to the nature park together with three of my friends in the breeze(微风), there we went for sighting. In the forest, we saw a number of plant and knew a lot about them. And then we go to a patch of grass that was full of wild flowers. We lay in the sun quietly, enjoyed the fresh air. The sight was very beautiful that we didn’t want to leave. We talked about our experiences happy and played several childhood games. Later, we had photos taken together and rode back to home. It was really an unforgettable weekend because they learned a lot about plants. With addition, we relaxed ourselves by enjoying the beauty of nature.
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。
The ancient Olympics Games were held every four years only in Greece. The modern Olympic Games, 1.include the Winter and the Summer Olympics, are held every four years 2.(regular). The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Games. If the athletes have reached the 3.(agree) standard for their event, they 4.(admit) as competitors. Nowadays women can compete 5.the games and there are more events in the modern Olympics. Despite some differences between the ancient and modern Olympic Games, the motto “Swifter, Higher, and Stronger”6.(remain) unchangeable.
A lot of money will be spent in 7.(build) a special village, a main reception building, several 8.(stadium) and a gymnasium for each Olympics. Every country thinks that being chosen 9.(host) the Olympic Games is 10.honor and great responsibility.
Around twenty years ago I was living in York. _____ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree,I could not find _____ work.
I was _____ a school bus to make ends meet and _____ with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had _____ five interviews(面试) with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not _____ the job. “Why has my life become so _____？”I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to _____ a little girl, she handed me an earring _____ I should keep it ______ somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it ______ me—I had been giving all of my ______ to what was going wrong with my ______ rather than what was right！I decided then and there to make a ______ of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to ______ more things to the list.That night there was a phone call for ______ from a lady who was a director at a large ______.She asked me if I would ______ a oneday lecture on stress(压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.
My ______ there went very well, and before long I got a wellpaid job.To this day I know it was because I changed my way of ______ that I completely changed my life.
1.A.As B.Though C.If D.When
2.A.successful B.extra C.satisfying D.convenient
3.A.driving B.repairing C.taking D.designing
4.A.working B.travelling C.discussing D.living
5.A.prepared for B.attended C.asked for D.held
6.A.lose B.like C.find D.get
7.A.hard B.busy C.serious D.short
8.A.wave at B.drop off C.call on D.look for
9.A.ordering B.promising C.saying D.showing
10.A.in case B.or else C.as if D.now that
11.A.hurt B.hit C.caught D.moved
12.A.feelings B.attention C.strength D.interests
13.A.opinions B.education C.experiences D.life
14.A.list B.book C.check D.copy
15.A.connect B.turn C.keep D.add
16.A.her B.a passenger C.me D.my friend
17.A.hospital B.factory C.restaurant D.hotel
18.A.listen to B.review C.give D.talk about
19.A.plan B.choice C.day D.tour
20.A.operation B.speaking C.employment D.thinking
Tips to create great readers
Great readers are made; they are not born. After all, children don’t enter the world knowing how to understand a text or make inferences. 1.Here are some tips for making children great readers by habit.
2.The most important moment in reading instruction is when a student gets something wrong. If the student continues practicing the skill incorrectly, he or she will build weaker habits. Intervene (干预) with a targeted question, such as “How does this part of the text help you understand this character?” Doing so can prevent poor habits from taking root and build great ones in their place.
Build great reading and writing skills hand in hand. Just like adults, students use writing to gather their thoughts about a text and communicate their ideas to others. 3.For example, students can have a discussion about what they’re reading by answering a focus question in writing: “What is the author trying to teach us in this story?”4.By doing this, you can get a better understanding of what guidance the students will need during the discussion.
Make sure students are reading. Independent reading time is important for any reading program. It’s a chance for students to put together everything they’ve learned in reading lessons and fly using their own wings. 5.Providing a rich class library and letting students know that they are expected to read for the entire period will ensure their success as lifelong independent readers.
A. Build habits at the moment of error.
B. Make sure students fall in love with reading.
C. Then, you can review their written responses.
D. They grow into great readers by learning great habits.
E. But it only works if they really do spend that time reading.
F. Specific lines or phrases from the text help to reveal that information.
G. Therefore, you can develop their writing and reading skills at the same time.
When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you’re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.
Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive（使人上瘾的） thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people tocurbtheir wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. It affects us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.
Dr. Chris Knippers, an expert at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality.
Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life?
Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, he points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don’t have as many friends as our parents. “Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances(熟人) through the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says.
If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it’s because it has become very widespread. In 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use. Today, almost 300 million Americans carry them. The number of cell phones is far more than that of wired phones in the United States.
1.Which of the following could probably best explain the title of the passage?
A.Cell phone users smoke less than they used to.
B.More people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes.
C.Cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes.
D.Using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes.
2.The underlined word “curb” in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A.rescue B.control C.develop D.ignore
3.Which idea does the example of a woman talking on the phone in the car support?
A.Women use cell phones more often than men.
B.Talking on the phone while driving is dangerous.
C.Cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easy.
D.Cell phones do not necessarily bring people together.
4.What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?
A.How to make people get closer.
B.The advantages of wired phones.
C.How to use cell phones properly.
D.Giving an example to prove the bad effects of cell phones.
