假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Peter得知你所在的城市将举办一个中学生艺术作品展览会，特来信询问你相关事宜。请给他回信，内容包括：
1. 展览的时间和地点；2. 展览内容；3. 参观时的注意事项。
注意：1.词数80左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：艺术作品展览会 art exhibition
Dear Peter,
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Yours
LiHua
根据所给的首字母或中文完成下列句子
1.This kind of absurd humour is not very funny if you are only listening and not watching the comedian’s p_________ .
2.When the doctors told her that she would never again be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her sorrow by being proud of the things she had a________.
3.Thinking this way gives me the ___________(动力) to work hard now so that I can enjoy my future life.
4.Many foreigners have trouble getting a_______________ to it.
5.We offer you the chance to visit different _____________ (少数民族) cultures and experience for yourself their traditions, customs and way of life.
6.There are lots of w________ programmes like this under the umbrella of the UN that have helped millions of people across the world.
7.Yesterday, my c____________ on the medical team and I (two doctors, one nurse, me and two assistants) found a vacant health centre on the north side of the town.
8.They also make TV accessible to people who live far away from cities, and satellite dishes can often be seen _______(分布) throughout the countryside and remote areas.
9.There are other disadvantages to the telephone, as well. For example, no matter what the c________ when the phone rings, everything stops so that the call can be answered.
10.As a foreigner, he could not understand some of the cultural _______(现象）in this country.
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A Bite of China
No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually, China has various kinds of delicious food,1.(include) a wide variety of local snacks (小吃).
Without a doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking Duck, Dim Sum, Mongolian Hot Pot were the favorite Chinese2.(dish). China is a place3.the food is not only delicious, but the4.(cheap) I’ve ever found.
5.my last night in Beijing before returning to the States, I went to a Peking Duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table,6.(attract) silverware (镀银餐具) and beautiful chopsticks. I was handed7.menu and found most of the prices8.(be) especially low for the high quality of the food. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you’ve ever eaten Peking duck---a little tortilla (玉米饼) to put the sliced duck and vegetables in chopped onion, sauce.
Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought I’d just take the rest back to my hotel 9. (eat) later if I couldn’t finish it. Unbelievably, in the end there was none of the whole duck 10.(leave) on the plate. Umm, yummy!
In October, I told the eight-year-olds in my class about my plan. “I’d like all of you to do _______ jobs around the house to earn some money,” I said. “Then we’ll buy food for a Thanksgiving dinner for someone who might not have a nice dinner _______.”
Early in Thanksgiving week, the boys and girls arrived in the _______, clutching their hard-earned money. I watched them running up and down, busily doing their _______. At last we headed toward the checkout, pushing a cart filled with turkey and all the trimmings (配料). Then someone spotted a “necessity” that sent them racing.
“Flowers!”, Kristine cried. The group _______ toward the holiday plants．
Stuck in the middle was a pot of purple mums. “She’ll like this one.” the children _______, and put the purple plant into the cart.
We finally _______ in front of a small bungalow in the woods. A slightly-built woman with a weary face came to the door to _______ us.
My little group hurried to get the food. As each box was carried in, the old woman oohed and aahed (欢天喜地) — much to her visitors’_______. When Amy put the mums on the counter, the woman seemed surprised. She’s ____________ it was a bag of flour, I thought.
We returned to the car. We could see the kitchen ____________. The woman inside waved ____________, then turned and walked across the room, past the turkey, past the trimmings, straight to the ____________. She put her face in their petals (花瓣). When she raised her head，there was a ____________on her lips.
The children were quiet. In that one brief moment, they had seen for themselves the ____________ they possessed to make another’s life better.
1.A.hard B.extra C.spare D.unique
2.A.otherwise B.always C.occasionally D.however
3.A.house B.classroom C.street D.supermarket
4.A.shopping B.job C.business D.task
5.A.1ooked B.came C.rushed D.made
6.A.chose B.moved C.admired D.agreed
7.A.pulled up B.picked up C.sped up D.called on
8.A.1ead B.welcome C.accept D.answer
9.A.surprise B.disappointment C.relaxation D.pleasure
10.A.wishing B.discovering C.finding D.waiting
11.A.smoke B.window C.shelf D.glass
12.A.hello B.gratitude C.goodbye D.thanks
13.A.door B.flour C.flowers D.woods
14.A.smile B.tear C.color D.change
15.A.help B.power C.attitude D.youth
Things only people who have worked overseas can understand
If you have ever worked or lived overseas, I’m pretty sure you can understand the following things!
We do not automatically become fluent (流利的) in another language. A lot of people believe that changing your geographic location can improve your language learning skills quickly.1. Language application takes time and has a number of factors that play into a person’s level of fluency.
We feel extremely lonely at times. Yes, living abroad can be wonderful.2. Sometimes, we think that no one back at home understands our true feelings and life challenges, but a lot of other people travel long term and work abroad. Maybe they are not facing the same problems as you, but they know exactly how you feel.
We don’t really like our birthdays. Usually, your special day ends with the last phone call you get from home and then you can look through all your greetings on social media.3. You may throw a small party with some of your new friends, but it’s going to be nothing compared with the goodold feasts you used to have with your loved ones back at home.
4. Too often we simply can’t tell you if we will be coming home for holidays this season. Sometimes, our working/living permits require us to stay in the country for at least a year. Adding up the flight costs and additional travel expenses, traveling home becomes quite a challenge for us.
We will change.5. You become more mature, independent and openminded. Usually, you return home as a better person than the one you left as.
A. The truth is: it isn’t like that.
B. We may not plan to move back home.
C. We don’t know when we’ll come home next.
D. However, it can get extremely lonely on some days too.
E. Living abroad makes us value the little things a lot.
F. Living and working abroad shape your personality a lot.
G. After that, you just act as if it’s another ordinary day in your life yet.
I’ve never been the kind of person to say, “it’s the thought that counts” when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when my kids gave me a present that blew me away.
For years now, I’ve been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to me, this house is much more than just a building. In the front room, there’s a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines, marking the progress of my children’s growth. Every growth stage is marked in grey, with each child’s name and the date they were measured. Most people I know have been featured on a wall like this, or at least had a wall like it in their home.
Of all the objects and all the memories, it’s this one thing in a home that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tears, but erasing that evidence of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress, right there for everyone to see.
Over the years, I’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, even though the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing. So one day, while I was at work, my children decided to do something about it.
They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer whose work is about capturing (捕捉) the beautiful things in life, from clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ballgowns. She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, took photos of the hundreds of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints (手印), and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, transforming them into a beautiful history of my family.
Three weeks later, my children’s wonderful gift made its way to me – a life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.
1.The author used her friends’ example in Paragraph 3 to ________.
A. persuade her family to leave the wall as it was
B. stress the meaning of keeping good memories
C. explain why her house badly needed a new paint job
D. share her memory of motherhood with readers
2.According to the article, it was Jacquie Manning who ________.
A. helped the author paint her new house
B. came up with the idea of the photo gift
C. shot pictures to record the author’s growth stage
D. made a copy of the growth marks on the wall
3.We can infer from the article that the author ________.
A. was strongly against selling their home
B. was not happy with the gift from her family
C. kept marks for family members every year
D. put great love and care in raising her children
4.What is the best title for the text?
A. A Gift Made with Love B. Advice on Picking up Gifts for Parents
C. Paintings Count D. Effective Ways to Communicate with Children
