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现在许多中学生想到国外学习, 假设你是一名来自加拿大的老师, 某学校请你给学生做一场到国外学习的报告, 请根据如下的内容要点写一篇演讲稿。
1. 做好计划;
2. 选择住的地方;
3. 可以申请奖学金(scholarship)或在校园内打工;
4. 应对文化冲击。(culture shock)
要求: 1. 词数100个左右;
2. 不要逐条翻译;
3. 为使行文流畅, 可适当增加细节。
Hi, boys and girls,
It is a pleasure to meet all of you here. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
That’s all. Thank you for listening
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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（
）,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 name is Ann. I've been in China in a few years. With the help of Li Hua, a good friend of mine, I’ve been used to live in China. Li Hua, like many girls, are beautiful and lively. We became friends after we meet each other a few years ago. Although her English isn't easy to understand, but we enjoy chatting and we usually talk a lot about our favorite books. All of us are surprised that Chinese culture and American culture are so differently. Now we are planning nice party for next Sunday. There, I will introduce Li Hua to my friends, one of who has been to China several time
根据课文内容,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
In August 1996, Peter Hessler, a young American teacher of English, 1.( arrive) In the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. He and a colleague were to spend two years there2.( teach) English at a teacher training college. At the end of January they had four weeks 3.for the Spring Festival. They decided 4.(take) a boat downstream. They bought tickets for the Jiangyou boat. The sun was shining 5.(bright )as they sailed downstream through a hilly region. They slept through the first gorge, 6.is called the Qutang Gorge. The gorge narrows to 350 feet as the river rushes through the two-mile-high mountains. At Wushan they made7.detour up the Daning River. As they came out of the Xiling Gorge, they sailed into the 8.(construct) site of the dam. All the passengers came on deck, took pictures and pointed at the site, but they 9. (not allow) to get off the boat. On a distant mountain was a sign in 20-foot 10.(character)."Build the Three Gorges Dam, Exploit the Yangtze River, "it said.
My life experienced ups and downs. I was never interested in being a_______but things changed. When computers became my companion,I _______ I should start learning about them. I was _______ by this thought that I decided to get a degree in IT
Coming from a middle-class family, the huge tuition was a great _______. My English was poor. And most _______, the courses seemed to be wonders when I had the first glance. But I never _______, and it was my father who pushed me to pursue the _______ I wanted.
I decided to _______ this university which promised its students to help them gain the knowledge _______. During my first month it was difficult to ________ the accent of the Americans. I walked two miles day to the university ________ I could use the travelling money to buy a meal. I started looking for ________and I got an offer to work as a student assistant. As the days passed by, it got ________ when more and more students couldn't understand the subjects and concepts.
I took it as a challenge and never thought about the fact that I didn't have ________ to buy food or I was new to this programming degree. I believed ________ hard work and that’s my strength. And I had many chances to learn the computer in person. Right now I am ________ with a degree and an employment asking me to start right after my graduation
For anyone who feels ________ or thinks you can never achieve anything, you need to believe in yourself and start ________ on your dreams. Hard work always ________ off. To be successful, you need to start from somewhere and always question yourself about how far you would go to ________ your goal.
1.A.cleaner B.barber C.player D.programmer
2.A.confirmed B.decided C.realized D.forgot
3.A.amazed B.Impressed C.puzzled D.ashamed
4.A.promise B.Difficulty C.agreement D.difference
5.A.commonly B.pleasantly C.importantly D.funnily
6.A.gave up B.broke down C.set off D.held on
7.A.card B.score C.degree D.fame
8.A.leave B.choose C.hate D.set
9.A.quickly B.strangely C.practically D.fluently
10.A.support B.take C.care D.understand
11.A.now that B.so that C.as if D.even if
12.A.jobs B.events C.cases D.matters
13.A.deeper B.calmer C.gentler D.tougher
14.A.life B.money C.time D.holiday
15.A.in B.at C.with D.over
16.A.studying B.researching C.Graduating D.chatting
17.A.depressed B.dead C.dangerous D.ill
18.A.counting B.living C.Putting D.working
19.A.gets B.pays C.carries D.goes
20.A.achieve B.finish C..lose D.copy
Children's Games in Ancient China Unlike the children nowadays, the children during ancient times didn't have smart phone, iPad or computer to entertain themselves.1.Let's take a look.
Kicking stone balls
During the Qing Dynasty, kicking a stone ball around was a popular sport in the northern part of China, and it was often played in the winter to keep warm. Stones were carved into small balls and kicked along with feet.
Flying kites
Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite. 2.. For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.
Playing hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. Even nowadays, many children like playing it. There are two ways to play. One way is covering a child's eyes while other kids run around to tease him. 3.
4.
The closest thing to watching a film or television for entertainment during ancient times was going to see a shadow play. Folk artists manipulate puppets behind the screen, narrating stories and accompanied by music.
Setting off firecrackers
Firecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that there was a beast named Nian in ancient China.5.After gunpowder was invented, it gradually replaced the bamboo joint cracker. Crackers are still set off during Spring Festival to symbolize auspiciousness.
A. Watching shadow plays.
B. Each of them has distinctive features.
C. Different materials are used to make the kite.
D. Shadow plays were the popular entertaining form in ancient times.
E. And to scare off the beast, people burnt bamboo joints to make it blast.
F. More commonly, participants hide and one child must try to find them.
G. Instead, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood.
