假如你是李华，你校英语俱乐部将于下周五下午3:00在二楼报告大厅举办舞会（prom）。你是服务志愿者，但因故不能按时参加，请你用英语给组织者Mr.White写一封道歉信，内容包括：
1.表示歉意
2.解释原因
3.已将志愿者工作安排他人完成
注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加内容，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr.White，
I'm Li Hua, volunteer of the English Club.
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Yours sincerely,
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（Λ），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。
Since I was a kid, I’ve considered different job I would like to do. First, I wanted to be a fireman, whose uniform looked so coolly. Then, when I was in the five grade, I wanted to be a teacher because I liked my English teacher very much. When I studied chemistry high school, I reconsidered my goal or decided to be a doctor. They were two reasons for the decision. One was that I was amazing at the fact that a sick person could feel much more better after seeing a doctor. And the another was that I want to help people in need.
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。
China is a big old country，1. has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of 2. (it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world 3. (great), for example, the thought of Confucius. As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays 4. important role in the world, more and more 5. (foreign) learn Mandarin (普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can be tested by the time. It unites the whole nation and no matter 6. kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the country’s future. Today, many young people lose faith in traditional culture and they are crazy 7. the western culture. They follow the western fashion, 8. (think) we are the old style. But some day, they 9. (realize) it is wrong 10. (abandon) traditional culture.
“Look Mom, he paints like me!” Eight-year-old Alexandra Nechita had just discovered Pablo Picasso’s artwork for the first time. The art world ______ and began to call Alexandra the “Petite（小的） Picasso.” This _____ artist has been turning heads in the art world ever since.
Even at age two, Alexandra______nearly all her time on her colouring books. _____their daughter spent too much time alone, Alexandra’s parents took her colouring books away. They _____ she’ d start to jump rope or play with dolls. But taking away her ______was like taking the air out of her life. Alexandra began to colour on paper her mother _______home from office.
When Alexandra was four, her parents began to notice the figures she_______ They were abstract and ______Picasso's work, with four eyes and two faces. She______painting with watercolours and then with other paints.
Alexandra’s classmates would sometimes _____ her paintings. But her ______school teacher saw talent in her drawings. She helped eight-year-old Alexandra organise her first______at a local library.
Within a year, Alexandra had several other exhibitions. By then, she had ______ more than 250 paintings. Her exhibition at the famous Mary Paxon Gallery brought her to the _____of national art critics（评论家）She began to_____ on television, in news and talk shows around America
Today, Alexandra______paints in her special style. Admirers have spent a large amount of money buying her paintings. But the______ doesn’ t seem to have affected her negatively (消极地）.Through various charities, Alexandra shares her wealth with those _____around the world. And ______Alexandra continues to paint, the world will be blessed to experience more of her love for life and art.
1.A. improved B. agreed C. waited D. broke
2.A. friendly B. talented C. worried D. honest
3.A. spent B. forgot C. remembered D. wasted
4.A. Afraid B. Sure C. Proud D. Ashamed
5.A. promised B. proved C. reported D. hoped
6.A. phones B. ropes C. colours D. dolls
7.A. called B. drove C. brought D. sent
8.A. drew B. counted C. explained D. met
9.A. referred to B. looked like C. consisted of D. depended on
10.A. stopped B. started C. suggested D. avoided
11.A. learn from B. seek for C. point at D. laugh at
12.A. medical B. high C. primary D. previous
13.A. conference B. system C. party D. exhibition
14.A. completed B. used C. copied D. lost
15.A. role B. taste C. selection D. attention
16.A. appear B. perform C. shop D. train
17.A. directly B. suddenly C. still D. seldom
18.A. style B. time C. energy D. money
19.A. on holiday B. in power C. on duty D. .in need
20.A. unless B. whether C. as D. though
Most people want to find ways to travel inexpensively. The following are the secrets of traveling on the cheap.
Use cashback websites
According to travel blogger James Cave,using Topcashback.com puts more dollars in your account “Cashback websites like Topcashback .com give you back the commission(回扣) that they would normally get from referring you to a booking website” Cave explains. “1.. It may not seem much, but over a week that could end up being close to ＄100.” Cashback websites also work with car hire, travel insurance companies, and hundreds of other travel companies. “ 2.,”he adds.
Consider house sitting
If you’re a pet owner, what do you do with your beloved pet?3., many pet owners offer their house to travelers in exchange for pet sitting. “In return for feeding the cat, walking the dog, and doing whatever else the homeowner needs, you get to stay in the person’s house for free. "Cave says. Try checking out TrustHousesitters.com to list your own proper（财产) or book a stay abroad.
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World traveler Brian Corsetti says an often overlooked way to save money is to strike up a conversation with a local. Not only is it great to be friendly, but people who live in popular destinations know the best ways to find sales or inexpensive eats, which can help you avoid falling into tourist traps.5. Instead of going to a restaurant, you stop by the home of a local, who will prepare traditional food for much less, giving you a glimpse（一瞥）into how locals really live and eat.
A. Get to know the locals
B. Find the best way to travel
C. Instead of paying for expensive boarding fees
D. Together, it all adds up to big vacation savings
E. Because of so many super-inexpensive airlines
F. You could expect to save around $5 to $ 10 a night on a $100 nightly booking
G. For another one-of-a-kind experience abroad, consider sharing a meal via EatWith
Do you have trouble trying to create the next big idea? Sometimes the answer isn’t to just force an idea out of your mind. Instead, you might want to try sitting back, relaxing and letting your mind wander. Yes, you heard that correctly. If you are in need of a new idea, try daydreaming.
Researchers from the university of California, Santa Barbara, found an association between daydreaming and creative problem-solving. Their study includes having participants first do an “unusual-use task”. They had to try to come up with as many different ways to use an object as they could.
Then, the participants chose to do one of the following four things before doing the “unusual-use task” again: complete a difficult task; complete an easy task; take a 12-minute break; or skip the 12-minute break and move right on to the task exercise again.
Surprisingly, the group that performed best was the one that completed the easy task. Many participants reported that they were daydreaming while performing the easy task. So the researchers believed that this daydreaming might have helped unlock their creativity.
But how could daydreaming help the brain come up with creative ways? The answer is something known as “unconscious thought”. Even when you are not actively working to solve a problem, it is still in the back of your mind. Your brain is still thinking about the problem, but in a much more subtle (不易察觉的) way.
When you daydream, your mind is allowed to think in ways it normally would not. Because it is free of control, it can create completely new and out-of-the-box ideas.
Great ideas never come easily, but that does not mean you always have to work hard to get them. Feel free to do what you want and let your mind wander.
1.The “unusual-use task” in Paragraph 2 means that participants ______.
A. complete an easy task B. complete a very difficult task
C. take a 12-minute break D. think of various ways to use an object
2.Why did the participants who completed the easy task perform best?
A. They were not actively working to solve the easy task.
B. They daydreamed and it helped them be more creative.
C. They were daydreaming while performing the difficult task.
D. They skipped the 12-minute break to complete the task again.
3.What does the underlined phrase “unconscious thought” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. Your brain wander in a subtle way within your control.
B. Your brain knows clearly what you’re thinking and doing.
C. Your brain is thinking about a problem outside of your awareness.
D. Your brain refuses to receive any information from the outside world.
4.The passage mainly wants to tell us that ______.
A. brainstorming is important to creative ideas
B. daydreaming is a way to improve creativity
C. problem-solving skills are important in our lives
D. the more we exercise brains, the more ideas we’ll get
