假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Peter对中国春联 (Spring Festival couplets）产生了浓厚的兴趣，来信向你了解中国的春联文化。请你回信为他介绍春联的用途、内容和寓意等。
注意：1、词数100左右。2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假如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 friend and I always played outdoor when we were young. During spring rains, we climbed up to our comfort tree house and played cards. Then in the amused autumn, we rolled around in the orange leaf. This all end one day, when my friend received video game player for his birthday. In the begin, he sometimes invited me over to play with him. But this began to happen less and less, because of his house was small, and his mother didn’t like visitors. Now we never see each another, as he is always played his video games. I miss my friend.
My most rewarding experience throughout the past two years was volunteering at the swimming competition for Special Olympics where a disabled friend of my community took part. This had special ______for me because experiencing it helped improve my leadership skills, my character, and support my community.
First, my leadership skills developed when I ______directed each swimmer where to line up at the platform and ______each player when they needed to swim. I had to make sure that the swimmers were ______and ready to perform. This kept me on my feet at all times and ______of each event’s time and location. I learned each swimmer’s name, since many of them swam in more than one ______.
Secondly, my ______was greatly improved when I saw the swimmers get their awards for winning each swimming event, I was ______that most swimmers could swim better than I. It astonished me by their ______attitudes, whether they won or lost. This also expanded my horizons, offering me the opportunity to ______people I would normally not come across. I went out of my ______zone and did whatever was needed to be done. It was especially ______when I saw the cheerful faces of the players.
Lastly, I was of ______to my community by lending a hand to this organization in need of ______. To be a ______of it gave me a chance to improve my community and become ______with the people living in this area.
As Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we do, but we make a lite by what we give. ”The
______should be done throughout your life. ______，through the many opportunities my community has offered I was privileged to be ______in this exciting and important event in these players’ lives. I hope to be a(n) ______at this event in years to come.
1.A. purpose B. meaning C. background D. regulation
2.A. equally B. amazingly C. strictly D. independently
3.A. taught B. informed C. awarded D. compared
4.A. positioned B. preserved C. valued D. evaluated
5.A. proud B. certain C. aware D. capable
6.A. decision B. application C. country D. event
7.A. figure B. ability C. character D. technique
8.A. blamed B. impressed C. reminded D. concerned
9.A. changeable B. critical C. various D. positive
10.A. meet B. gather C. introduce D. recommend
11.A. imagination B. availability C. comfort D. development
12.A. embarrassing B. rewarding C. outstanding D. relaxing
13.A. service B. courage C. wisdom D. significance
14.A. help B. money C. sympathy D. attention
15.A. player B. referee C. plot. D. part
16.A. acquainted B. combined C. surrounded D. faced
17.A. traveling B. consulting C. volunteering D. cooperating
18.A. Eventually B. Generally C. Additionally D. Fortunately
19.A. desired B. educated C. involved D. influenced
20.A. judge B. assistant C. trainer D. announcer
You Can Fly More Frequently
When traveling, airfare can take up a large part of your travel budget. What if you could fly practically for free? If it were possible, then you would probably travel more, right? 1.. While it may seem like a lot of work to accumulate miles, it’s pretty easy when you know how.
Sign up for mileage (里程) programs. You can’t gain miles if you don’t sign up. 2.. Pick one or two airlines that you use most often and try to bring all your points into those programs by flying with them.
Buy gifts and have dinner out. Most mileage programs have a business list where you can register several credit or debit cards and then earn miles for each purchase you make through their participating shops or meal you have at restaurant partners. 3., so why not make it count toward future travel?
Use your credit card. Look for a card that gives you rewards. There are a ton of credit card companies that offer mileage cards that give you miles for each dollar you spend. Use it for bills, groceries, gas and anything else you would normally use your bank account for and then pay it off at the end of the month. 4..
Rent a car. Whenever you rent a car, you have the choice to include your frequent flyer member number. 5., but it can be more beneficial to pay less than a dollar a day to earn one or more miles per dollar spent on your rental.
A. Some will charge a fee
B. With frequent flyer programs, you can
C. You’re probably doing these things anyway
D. It’s an easy way to accumulate miles and can add up really fast
E. In fact, you can get a free plane ticket just focusing on certain ones
F. Join frequent flyer programs, so you can start accumulating those miles
G. There are plenty of ways to earn money just by doing things you’re already doing
There is a breakthrough in building aircrafts. Bendable wings covered with overlapping(部分重叠) pieces resembling fish sizes could be used to build swifter, fuel-efficient aircraft, a new study finds.
Nowadays, conventional aircrafts typically rely on ailerons (副翼) to help control the way the planes tip as they fly. However, when the Wright brothers flew the first airplane, Flyer 1, over a century ago, they used no ailerons but wires and pulleys that twisted the wood-and-canvas wings, to control the plane,
Scientists have long sought to develop aircrafts that can alter their wings during flight, just as birds can. However, most previous attempts have failed because they relied on heavy mechanical control structures within the wings. These structures were also complex and unreliable, said Neil Gershenfeld, a physicist and director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The new wing consists of a system of tiny, strong, lightweight modules. The shape of the wing can be changed uniformly along its length using two small motors, which apply a twisting pressure to each wingtip. These wings are covered in “skins” of overlapping strips of flexible material resembling fish sizes. These strips move across each other as the wings alter, providing a smooth outer surface, the researchers explained.
Wind-tunnel tests of these wings showed that they at least matched the aerodynamic properties of conventional wings, at about one-tenth the weight. Initial tests using remotely piloted aircrafts made with these wings have shown great promise, said Benjamin Jenett, a graduate student at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT.
The new modular structures the scientists developed could be manufactured quickly in mass quantities and then installed by teams of small robots. These modular structures also can be disassembled more easily, making repairs simpler.
“Still, the first aircraft built using this strategy will not be a passenger jet, ”Gershenfeld said. “Instead, the technology will likely first be tested on unmanned aircraft, leading to drones (无人机) that can fly for a long time, to help deliver internet access or medicine to remote villages and do some rescue works.”
1.Why did most previous aircrafts fail to fly like birds?
A. The previous wings were complicated and weighed a lot.
B. The previous aircraft relied on ailerons to control directions.
C. There were few scientists to do research on the lighter wings.
D. There was little fuel in the aircrafts to make them fly in the air.
2.What is the fourth paragraph mainly about?
A. The shape of the new wings.
B. The result of the tested wings.
C. The function of the small motors.
D. The working principle of the new wings.
3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word“disassembled”in Paragraph 6?
A. put away
B. taken apart
C. invented
D. analyzed
4.What will the drones made by the new wings be firstly used to do?
A. Carry passengers.
B. Save people in danger.
C. Test planes.
D. Monitor the villages.
Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you re using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random.
One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley(有轨电车) problem”: A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a-set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33. 5 percent of smartphone users chose, compared to 22.3 percent of PC users.
“What we round in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma, “Dr Albert Barque-Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.”
As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque-Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are asked to engage in moral behavior have changed, and the impact this could have on the hundreds of millions of people who use such devices daily. “it’s clear that we need more research on how our devices affect our moral decision making because we’re using screens at an ever increasing rate.
1.Why did the author mention the trolley problem?
A.To introduce a difficult problem to readers.
B.To introduce the aim of carrying out the study.
C.To show an example of the questions in the study
D.To show the difficulty in dealing with dilemmas.
2.How do the smartphone users of the study behave in dealing with emotional dilemmas?
A.Calmly. B.Cruelly.
C.Hesitantly. D.Enthusiastically.
3.Dr Albert believes that compared with PCs, smartphones .
A.help people bear more pressure
B.help people make decisions quick
C.make people feel more mentally distant
D.make people stay happier to solve problems
4.What can we infer from the text?
A.Shopping online has a great effect on making moral decisions.
B.The people using smartphones are more than those using PCs.
C.People who often use smartphones or PCs always meet with dilemmas,
D.It is common for people to be involved in making moral decisions in daily life.
