假如你是高三学生李华，计划12月6日动身前往温哥华 (Vancouver) 姊妹学校交流一个月。请你给该校负责联络工作的布朗先生写一封信询问有关事项。
内容包括：
1.课程开设；2.课外活动；3.其他你关心的问题。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr Brown,
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Yours faithfully,
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（∧），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。
My parents and I visited my uncle in Seattle on last July. My favorite experience was our trip to Mount Rainer, an volcano near Seattle. Before we left, my uncle gave us hats to protect us from getting sunburned, I supposed that it will be very hot. When we drove up the mountain, I found the top covering with snow and ice! My uncle led me to a small path to increase our chances of seeing wildlife. Suddenly there appeared a field that small wild flowers grew up through the snow. Little animal stood still; tiny birds rose highly into the air. It was the most beautiful sight that I'd never seen
In China, a site that amazed me was one 1. (provide) by nature---the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River, the mother river of the country.
The Yellow River was a main source of transportation in the past. Many ports and bridges were built and destroyed by the river’s strong current(水流), and it was 2. (challenge) for the locals back then to build a bridge 3. was strong enough to withstand(承受) the current of the Yellow River.
About 1,500 years ago, the locals of Puzhou, which is now Yongji, 4. (make) several iron oxen anchors, each 5. (weigh) more than seventy metric tons to hold a floating bridge across the Yellow River. It was amazing to see these 6. person and I was astonished by the 7. (wise) and workmanship of people back then.
The hotels that8.(arrange) for us to stay in were among the best in each city we visited, which sums up 9. China was shown to me, with sights both beautiful and amazing10.kind and helpful people.
My husband and I stood there together, _____the lovely table and chairs. They were high-quality pieces of furniture.
“They’re antiques, family heirlooms(传家宝),” our hosts told us. Both husband and wife smiled with satisfaction and obvious _____for these treasures. They invited us to sit and enjoy a meal in this inviting room full of fragile things.
The meal was served, and we _____and grew comfortable. Soon my husband grew a little too comfortable, and without _____, got into a bad habit. He leaned(倚靠)back in his chair,______enough to lift the front legs off the floor…
Oh no. Have I mentioned my husband is a particularly _____man? He’s a lot to put in a chair. It made a terrible sound and even worse______--- that beautiful antique chair was _____and useless.
My husband and I both _____sincerely. Our kind hosts were obviously very sad. But they _____they would have no problem repairing the damage. Then they actually pulled another of the antique chairs and _____my husband to sit in it.
I’m glad to report no more chairs were _____. But one was more than enough, and to our hosts that chair _____so much more than a place to sit. Yet for them _____took priority(优先权)over the priceless chair. They chose people over _____, hospitality(好客)over something they loved.
Sometimes we have to make that kind of _____. The fact is, other people don’t always value what we value _____we value it. They don’t always act carefully. Sometimes they cost us. If we value people, we’d better hold _____to our treasures and be ready to love others,______it costs us something we love.
After all, people can’t be _____either.
1.A.examining B.explaining C.appreciating D.observing
2.A.affection B.feeling C.sense D.eagerness
3.A.gave in B.settled in C.put in D.filled in
4.A.questioning B.opposing C.complaining D.thinking
5.A.long B.short C.far D.near
6.A.small B.large C.considerate D.selfless
7.A.dilemma B.mark C.sight D.moment
8.A.lost B.influenced C.hurt D.broken
9.A.thanked B.admired C.apologized D.forgave
10.A.insisted B.persuaded C..hesitated D.considered
11.A.forced B.invited C.allowed D.demanded
12.A.placed B.needed C.guarded D.harmed
13.A.showed B.left C.represented D.provided
14.A.carefulness B.spirit C.kindness D.value
15.A.possessions B.resources C.money D.situations
16.A.plan B.arrangement C.judgment D.choice
17.A.since B.unless C.as D.when
18.A.loosely B.tightly C.generally D.generously
19.A.while B.because C.as if D.even if
20.A.controlled B.replaced C.chosen D.blamed
Music is an art form which deals with the representation of emotion through the medium of sound. It can have a physical effect on us because it is closely linked with emotion, perhaps even more than the abstract nature of words. The number one reason why people listen to music is to adjust their emotional state. 1.
Numerous studies leave us in no doubt that music can affect our mood state and stress level. 2. For example, they have found that background music shuts out distractions. It calms them before a large task and then they can stay focused for longer. Also it can help their creativity and make studying more enjoyable.
3. Firstly, it depends on what the task it. The more difficult the challenge is, the more likely background music will interrupt the learning process. For less challenging learning tasks, music can greatly assist in providing a positive learning state. Secondly, it depends on the characteristics of the music we'll come to in a moment. And thirdly, extroverts(性格外向者)enjoy and often require more external stimulation(刺激)and are likely to handle background noise better than those who are quiet and shy.
Actually, it's not about the type of music, but the natural musical characteristics which aid or disrupt study. One of these characteristics is the tempo(拍子). The recommended tempo for background music is in the range 70-110 beats per minute, slightly faster than the heartbeat at rest. 4. And very slow music lowers the heartbeat, creating a state that might be too relaxed for study purposes.
In addition, lyrics are the most distracting aspect of background musical listening.5.More particularly, studies have found that the most distracting background is fast and familiar vocal music, chosen and liked by the listener.
A. Music is part of every culture in the world.
B. In a very real sense, music connects us with our inner selves.
C. They compete with the same brain regions that process language.
D. Music, like language, is a unique human form of communication.
E. Fast music raises the heartbeat , making one unable to focus on study.
F. There are a few factors that determine the effects of music on studying.
G. Moreover, those who like studying with background music have found a lot of benefits.
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
1.The new products become more and more time-saving because __________.
A.our love of speed seems never-ending
B.time is limited
C.the prices are increasingly high
D.the manufactures boast a lot
2.What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?
A.Imaginary life.
B.Simple life in the past.
C.Times of inventions.
D.Time for constant activity.
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?
A.Critical. B.Objective. C.Optimistic. D.Negative.
4.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.The present and past times.
B.Machinery and human beings.
C.Imaginations and inventions.
D.Modern technology and its influence.
