假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Paul为了更好地学习汉语，来信请你向他推荐一部中文名著，就此请你给他写一封回信。
要点：1. 简要介绍这部名著；
2. 说明推荐该名著的原因。
注意：1. 词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Paul,
How are you?
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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（∧），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。
Nowadays, stand-up comedy is popular all over the world. Doctors have been researched what effect stand-up and other forms of comedy have to us. They have discovered people laugh a lot live longer. They say this is because when you laugh, your brain sends chemical around your body that are good for you. Laughing helps your body stay health and can even helped you fight pain. Maybe this explains the long lives of men like Bob Hope or George Burns. Whichever the reason is, research shows in the end, the English saying, ‘Laughter is the best medicine’, may be true after all. So, go and make someone to laugh—it just might help you live much longest.
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。
Facebook has a new idea to keep users 1. (engage) in its social network. It connects them with strangers. The firm is testing a feature in the United States 2. shows interests, employment history and public groups that you share in common with random users.
When someone you don’t know comments on a public post, Facebook will show information on 3. you live in the same city or want to go to the same school.
Facebook hopes the feature, which is being tested currently by 4. number of users, will spark conversations with people you might otherwise have never met. Facebook emphasizes that the tool, which 5. (know) as Things in Common, will only use data that is already available 6. (public) on your profile.
Above the 7. (name) of people who have left comments, Facebook will highlight things you have in common with each user. Next 8. one name a label might read “You both went to the University of Manchester” or “You were both born in Bristol”. The feature is part of Facebook’s efforts 9. (make) public discussions on its network more 10. (meaning).
I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us _________ chasing the same thing.
One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell _________ I found myself homeless and alone. I only had my truck and $56. I _________ the countryside for some place I could rent for the _________ possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road _________ the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was _________, full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner, rented it, and _________ a corner to camp in.
The locals knew nothing about me, _________ slowly, they started teaching me the _________ of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began ____________ around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a ____________ American Dream-not the one of individual achievement but of ____________.
What I have believed in, all those things I thought were ____________ for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place. ____________ on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my ____________ with my neighbors.
Four years later, I moved back into ____________ I saw many people were having a really hard time, ____________ their jobs and homes. I managed to rent a big enough house to ____________ a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people come in and move on to other places. We’d all be in ____________ if we hadn’t banded together.
The American Dream I believe in now is a ____________ one. It’s not so much about what I can get for myself; it’s about what we can all get by together.
1.A.naturally B.equally C.severely D.separately
2.A.off B.apart C.over D.out
3.A.searched B.left C.toured D.crossed
4.A.fullest B.largest C.fairest D.cheapest
5.A.at B.through C.over D.round
6.A.occupied B.emptied C.abandoned D.robbed
7.A.turned B.approached C.cleared D.cut
8.A.but B.although C.otherwise D.for
9.A.benefit B.lesson C.nature D.art
10.A.swinging B.looking C.crowding D.turning
11.A.different B.real C.wild D.steady
12.A.neighborliness B.toughness C.happiness D.tolerance
13.A.unique B.expensive C.rare D.necessary
14.A.Up B.Down C.Deep D.Along
15.A.cooperation B.relationship C.satisfaction D.appointments
16.A.reality B.town C.society D.life
17.A.creating B.quitting C.undertaking D.offering
18.A.put in B.turn in C.take in D.get in
19.A.yards B.cottages C.camps D.shelters
20.A.desperate B.shared C.complicated D.flexible
The running of the bulls is a nine-day traditional Spanish festival in honor of Saint Fermin in Pamplona. Every year, at midday on July 6th, the Mayor of Pamplona shoots a rocket. 1. The participants are usually dressed in white and wear red neckchiefs and belts. They open champagne(香槟酒) mostly used for sprinkling(撒) other people.
2. It starts every day at eight in the morning and the runners run, sometimes wildly, sometimes less. As a sign that the run has begun they shoot the first rocket. Then they shoot the second one when the bulls are out in the streets. Six bulls which are trying to attack the participants from behind run down the 900-meter-long street to the bullring with a lot of spectators. 3. All of the six bulls are going to be killed at the bullfight in the stadium.
The bullfight in the stadium begins at half past six in the afternoon. First, there comes the first bull. There is also a person called “picador”.4.That makes the bull very wild and it starts to run all over the stadium. Later when the bull is tired, there comes another person----a “matador” who kills it with an arrow. 5. At the end of the celebration, another rocket is shot as a sign that the bullfight is finished.
A. It makes the bull very nervous.
B. It is one of the greatest events in the city.
C. The main event is the running of the bulls.
D. He waves a red cloth in front of the bull.
E. This is a sign that the celebration has started.
F. The participants can get hurt or even killed.
G. The same thing happens with the other five bulls.
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism. I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger.
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’n-head Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
1.How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A.Twain was more willing to deal with racism.
B.Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.
C.Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots.
D.Twain was openly concerned with racism.
2.Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its ________.
A.target readers at the bottom
B.anti slavery attitude
C.rather impolite language
D.frequent use of “nigger”
3.What best proves Twain’s anti slavery stand according to the author?
A.Jim’s search for his family was described in detail.
B.The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.
C.Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
D.Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
4.The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that ________.
A.slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B.slaves babies could pick up slave holders way of speaking
C.blacks social position was shaped by how they were brought up
D.blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
