假定你是李华，留学生Sophia发来邮件说她下个月参加普通话水平测试 (Putonghua Proficiency Test)，希望你能给予辅导。请用英语给她回一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 说明意愿；
2. 说明辅导安排(时间，内容等)。
注意: 1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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。
We are all aware of the threats our planet is facing. Experts agree that it’s mainly humans 1. are responsible for the destruction of the environment. Activities such as mass farming and burning 2. (harm) our climate now-and we are suffering too through natural 3. (disaster) such as flooding and droughts.
One of the most destructive activities we are carrying out is deforestation (砍伐森林). This has been most noticeable in Brazil, which is home to the world’s 4. (large) rainforest. Deforestation there 5. (hit) its highest rate in the past decade, according to official data. The result of widespread deforestation has threatened 6. centuries-old way of life. The future of the rainforest could be 7. danger of being damaged.
The amount of deforestation in the Amazon has 8. (actual) seen a decline but the figures are still large. Brazil has taken some steps to try and decrease deforestation by 9.(introduce) government policies including fines for breaking land use regulations. While humans are largely 10. (blame) for the destruction of the rainforest, it seems only humans will tackle this problem and save planet Earth.
I was very fortunate to be chosen by Kindspring to receive $100 for the monthly kindness competition. This past October I ______ some Inspiration Trees and they have helped to make a ______ in people’s lives.
The idea is simple. I took a lot of fallen branches that I had been ______ on walks and hung them from the ceiling with the help of volunteers and friends. Then we ______ strings with pins (大头针) attached to them from the branches. I got a lot of art supplies and as people came in for the art exhibit, they were ______ to create a piece of art or a ______ message to hang from the branches.
The tree changed into this really funny way of ______ positive messages. If you hung a message up, you had to take one down for you to ______. The experience was really ______. People of all ages and from all walks of life were sharing art and inspiration through the ______.
With the $100 I ______ from Kindspring, I made more Inspiration Trees. I’m ______ them all over our community, such as classrooms and youth shelters for homeless teens. The act is to create communication that is positive and can ______ people’s lives by just doing a ______ act of kindness. The message people receive can be kept with them as a reminder of the ______ in the world.
1.A.showed B.bought C.found D.made
2.A.difference B.mark C.rule D.promise
3.A.counting B.collecting C.accepting D.placing
4.A.hung B.bought C.removed D.threw
5.A.ordered B.allowed C.encouraged D.chosen
6.A.short B.hidden C.positive D.important
7.A.carrying B.sending C.leaving D.exchanging
8.A.remember B.keep C.deliver D.rewrite
9.A.amazing B.strange C.direct D.painful
10.A.room B.tree C.card D.pen
11.A.raised B.earned C.borrowed D.received
12.A.running B.organizing C.putting D.storing
13.A.limit B.expand C.influence D.replace
14.A.private B.simple C.creative D.brave
15.A.good B.honesty C.politeness D.richness
Heart disease is the leading cause of disability and death worldwide. 1. With that in mind, if you knew that you could help keep your heart healthy by eating just a little bit less every day- about six standard-size Oreos’ worth of calories-would you?
Researchers have found evidence that just a modest reduction in our daily caloric intake (摄入) could have protective benefits for our hearts. They drew on data from the Long term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (ERIE) study. According to the study, the experiment began with 218 participants, all of whom were normal weight or just slightly overweight and between the ages of 21 and 50. Researchers started 143 participants on a diet that reduced their caloric intake by 25%. 2.. In the end, 188 participants completed the study-117 with caloric restriction and 71 without. Over two years, people in the calorie-cutting group reduced their caloric intake by an average of about 12%.
3.. They lost about 16.5 pounds on average and saw improvements, including lowered cholesterol (胆固醇) and blood pressure, on all six primary factors associated with risks to heart health. “We expected there to be some improvement on cardiometabolic (心血管代谢) factors,” says William Kraus, the study’s lead author. “4..”
Though the weight loss was relatively impressive, it wasn’t responsible for a majority of the heart benefits. After conducting further analysis, researchers determined that caloric restriction can have health benefits above and beyond those normally associated with weight loss. “5..”
A. We need to do exercise to benefit heart.
B. The others were assigned to a normal diet.
C. It can hold back negative effects of aging.
D. But we didn’t expect the degree of improvement we saw.
E. About 2,200 people in the U.S. die per day due to heart problems.
F. The experiment was carried out by comparing two different groups.
G. This reduction in calories had significant effects on the participants who ate less.
If you watched TV in the 1980s, you probably remember the Head &Shoulders advertisement warning, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
Now new research suggests that this isn’t totally true. For a paper called “The Tipping Point of Moral Change: When Do Good and Bad Acts Make Good and Bad Actors? “ published in Social Cognition, Nadav Klein and Ed O’ Brien, psychological scientists at the University of Chicago, ran several experiments designed to discover how quickly people are willing to change impressions.
In one online study of 201 participants, an office worker known as “Barbara” started off, but occasionally committed (做) a series of positive or negative actions. Sometimes she held doors for people. Other times she would cut in line. Subjects answered how long such behavior had to go on for their view of Barbara to tip in various directions.
The result? Barbara had to do nice things for more weeks to become regarded as a good person than the number of weeks she had to do bad things to become bad. Another online experiment involving 200 female participants also found that people were quick to judge when Barbara was doing wrong and much slower to believe she’d changed for the better.
“People only need to commit just a few bad actions to appear greatly changed for the worse, but need to commit many good actions to appear greatly changed for the better,” the authors write.
If you’ve made a good first impression on a group of people, don’t get too comfortable. Flub something, and they’ll quickly change their impression for the worse. But if you made a bad first impression? Then the Head & Shoulders advertisement is on to something because, as Heather Huhman, president of Come Recommended, puts it, “People are always quick to judge, and we like our opinions-we don’t like to change our minds.”
“It is difficult to change a bad first impression, but not impossible. Don’t try to force new relationships. Let relationships develop naturally and don’t do things just to make people like you. Be yourself, “ Huhman advises.
1.What did the Head & Shoulders advertisement show?
A.First impressions are lasting.
B.First impressions are not reliable.
C.First impressions can work wonders.
D.First impressions are the most natural.
2.What are the findings of the studies?
A.People are quick to judge.
B.It takes more time to become bad.
C.It’s hard to change bad impressions.
D.People always focus on bad actions.
3.What does the underlined part “Flub something” in Paragraph 6 refer to?
A.Show something. B.Do something bad.
C.Try something new. D.Keep on doing something.
4.What’s Huhman’s advice?
A.Be the real you. B.Make people like you.
C.Create a good impression. D.Ignore people’s judgements.
A city in South Korea, which has the world’s highest smartphone usage rate, has placed flashing lights at a road crossing to warn “smartphone zombies” (低头族) to look up and drivers to slow down, in the hope of preventing accidents.
The designers of the system were motivated by growing worry that more pedestrians (行人) addicted to their phones will become victims in a country that already has some of the highest injury rates among developed countries.
State-run Korea Institute of Civil Engining and Building Technology believed its system of flashing lights at crossings can warn both pedestrians and drivers.
In addition to red, yellow and blue LED lights on the road, “smartphone zombies” will be warned by flashing lights and a warning sent to the phones by an app that they are about to step into traffic.
“Increasing numbers of accidents are happening at pedestrian crossings, so these lights are needed to prevent these pedestrian accidents,” said KICT senior researcher Kim Jong-hoon.
South Korea has the world’s highest smartphone usage rate, according to Pew Research Center, with about 94 percent of adults owning smartphones in 2017, compared with 77 percent in the United States and 59 percent in Japan.
For now, the warning system is set up only in Ilsan, a city about 30 km northwest of the capital, Seoul, but is expected to go nationwide, according to the institute.
Kim Dan-hee, a 23-year-old citizen of Ilsan, welcomed the system, saying she was often too absorbed in her phone to remember to look at traffic. “This flashing light makes me feel safe as it makes me look around again, and I hope that we can have more of these in town,” she said.
1.What is the purpose of South Korea’s new warning system?
A.To prevent pedestrian accidents. B.To limit the use of phones.
C.To remind pedestrians to look around. D.To ensure drivers’ safety.
2.How does the writer introduce the high smartphone usage rate of South Korea?
A.By describing a scene. B.By making comparison.
C.By explaining a subject. D.By raising a question.
3.What’s Kim Dan-hee’s attitude to the new warning system?
A.Supportive. B.Indifferent. C.Objective. D.Doubtful.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.Flashing lights at the crossing in different countries.
B.Watching out for safety while crossing the road.
C.South Korea ranking the world’s highest phone usage rate.
D.New warning system to prevent accidents in South Korea.
