假定你是学校学生会主席李华。你们计划举办一个“中国年”聚会，欢迎来学校访问的澳大利亚学生。请你给领队Mr. Smith写一封邀请邮件，内容包括：
1. 发出邀请；
2. 聚会的时间和地点；
3. 简要介绍活动内容。
注意：1. 词数80左右；开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. Smith,
Welcome to our school and I have some good news to tell you.
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Yours,
Li Hua
阅读下面材料，在题后空白处填入适当的内容（每空一词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Café Yeonnam is a uniquely-designed café in Seoul which makes visitors feel like 1. (step) into a world of comics (漫画). Located in one of the most 2. (fashion) neighborhoods in Seoul, the café recently became famous all over the world for its original 3. (decorate). It was inspired by ''W-Two Worlds'', 4. popular fantasy drama series that aired in South Korea in 2016 and 5. (focus) on the conflicts between the real world and a fantasy one. It was this drama series 6. inspired the interior design of this super café.
Ever since its opening 2017, the café 7. (consider) one of the most popular cafes in Seoul. From the walls and the floor to the furniture and tableware, everything seems taken out of a comic. When a Korean magazine visited the Café back in April, they found it a small room capable 8. sitting around 20 people. Even so, café-goers could expect 9. (wait) a while for their orders as the café only had a staff of one, the owner. 10. that may change soon with hundreds of tourists coming here especially.
Occasionally, I long to be lost in a ''memory meal, '' biting into one of the nostalgic foods I enjoyed as a child. As a vegetarian, some tasty food like fried bacon is no longer my _______, but old memories die hard. One day, after a meal of locally grown organic food, I found myself _______ something fatty, crisp — bacon.
Back then, bacon came _______ into our household. When it did, it was an event. I would stand excitedly in the kitchen, watching mum complete the _______ work with a strong woody scent. When it was ready, I always slowly took every _______ of the little fatty curls and wanted more. It would be months before the next bacon _______ entered our household.
I had not tasted bacon in years, but the moment I _______ my desire for it, my husband began _______ the grocery stores for the best ''fake bacon'' that could bring us back to the carefree eating of our childhoods. How could he cook that soy(豆制品)so that it would _______ the tatstes of our younger years? __________, Ron did the next morning.
After Ron __________ the bacon to me as if he were handing me a golden crown, I closed my eyes and took a big bite. The soy actually smelled and tasted like __________. I thought of my late parents. My mother was never a morning person, but she __________ to the cooking occasion when bacon was on the menu. My father would delay half an hour to work and share this __________ luxury with us. Suddenly I realized it didn't matter whether I was eating pork or soy: the __________ themselves were just delicious.
1.A.problem B.exception C.option D.condition
2.A.expecting B.resisting C.cooking D.handling
3.A.frequently B.rarely C.roughly D.completely
4.A.eye-catching B.mouth-watering C.heart-breaking D.time-consuming
5.A.step B.grab C.idea D.bite
6.A.study B.treat C.deal D.purchase
7.A.forgot B.distracted C.mentioned D.reflected
8.A.adopting B.buying C.combing D.heading
9.A.shift B.hide C.influence D.resemble
10.A.Incredibly B.Probably C.Constantly D.Practically
11.A.threw B.preserved C.selected D.presented
12.A.fruit B.bacon C.vegetable D.sugar
13.A.rose B.failed C.objected D.meant
14.A.usual B.regular C.occasional D.normal
15.A.attempts B.memories C.benefits D.offers
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
We all agree that we should recycle more — at home, in the office or when out and about. But for materials to be recycled, they first need to find their way to the right waste stream. 1. This is what the process of sorting allows us to do.
For effective recycling we need effective sorting. And this needs to happen first, in our own home and second, in sorting plants to which waste collected from our doorstep is taken. When you put a plastic bottle in the right recycling bin, you are helping sort recyclables. So the right material can be fed into the right recycling process. 2. They can be a loss of valuable resources from our economy.
3. For instance, in Brussels, Belgium, consumers put plastic packaging, cans and beverage cartons in blue bags designed for recyclable packaging; paper in yellow bags for recycling; and glass needs to be taken to specific collection bins. Somewhat differently, in Vienna (Austria), citizens can expect their paper, metal, glass and plastic to be separately collected in different weeks of the year. 4. In this way, they can sort their recyclables at home more effectively.
Once recyclable materials are collected from your doorstep, they are further sorted in specialized facilities which ensure the quality of the recycling process. 5. Traditionally, sorting has been done either manually with workers sorting what can be recycled and picking out the materials to be discarded or mechanically. Today, however, new technologies are being developed in order to speed up the process of sorting but to also yield better results. Exciting technologies using magnets or optical systems are being used to effectively sort materials so more of it can be recycled.
A.If sorting doesn't happen, recyclable materials can end up in landfills.
B.This is where different sorting techniques come into play.
C.In Europe, collection systems vary from country to country.
D.So citizens need to be aware of their local collection system.
E.Then they can be collected and taken to the right place for recycling.
F.The rest, though they could be recycled and reused, were landfilled or burned.
G.In recent years, Europe has seen a 25% growth in recycling secondary raw materials.
When Denis wants to relax at work, he steps into a quiet room, sits in a chair, slips on a virtual-reality headset, and escapes to the beach. For Denis, those minutes are a tool he relies on regularly to both relieve and prevent stress.
He's not the only one at his company to use the room, where workers can also use a headset to watch a moon walk, take a virtual roller-coaster ride or access a meditation (冥想) app.
Research shows VR can help reduce pain and anxiety. But it's not yet clear why it works. Experts believe it's related to the technology's power to distract.
''Whatever their problems are, whatever their stresses are, they can literally neglect them and have a different emotional pulse, '' Denis said.
Virtual-reality headsets haven't taken off with consumers, but they're now powerful and inexpensive enough for companies to consider investing in them to help make workers and customers happier.
The headsets may help people take a virtual break from their surroundings, but there are challenges to consider. Ramon Llamas, a tech market researcher, noted that there could be challenges in handing out headsets. Some people get sick or dizzy while using virtual reality, and the headsets may get dirty or broken. There's also the task of quickly familiarizing people with using the headsets, especially since VR adoption has been so limited and the ways they are controlled can vary.
For now, Llamas said, he's concerned about privacy and security. What if, for instance, someone manages to back into a headset and insert some content into what you're watching?
Another potential issue is the managing of the headsets and software that goes along with them. This is likely not a complication for an office like Umber Realty's, where people can simply take a headset off if they feel something wrong. But it could be more of a problem if you're stuck in a dentist's chair. ''The last thing you want is that in the middle of extracting a tooth something goes wrong.'' Llamas said.
1.What does Denis's company use Virtual Reality for?
A.Improving the customers' experience.
B.Displaying the schedule of his company.
C.Relieving the staff's work pressure.
D.Saving the trouble of transportation.
2.How can the VR devices help the users by Denis?
A.Ignoring reality for the moment. B.Improving their thinking.
C.Designing work for the company. D.Investing in a new industry.
3.What does the author focus on in the last three paragraphs?
A.The potential problems with VR.
B.The privacy policy available for VR.
C.The management of these devices in the market.
D.The standards the VR technology is to follow.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A.VR, a promising business in future! B.Is VR always making us relax?
C.The adoption of VR needs investments. D.Are we saying ''goodbye'' to VR?
Having hundreds of friends online is no substitute for a handful of close friends in real life. Researchers discovered that people with only a few friends were at least as happy as those with far more if many of theirs were online. The number of ''peripheral others'', someone connected with online — former classmates and coworkers, for example — had no connection with how satisfied they felt.
Scientists did their study using data from two online surveys conducted on 1,496 people by a non-profit research organization. People taking part in the study revealed their ages, the make-up of their social networks, how often they had different types of social interactions, and their own feelings of well-being. They included details of how often and how they interacted with family or neighbours, and whether they included people who provided services for them in their networks. The number of close friends someone had was the only thing that influenced how satisfied they were with their social life.
''Loneliness has less to do with the number of friends you have, and more to do with how you feel about your friends,'' said Dr Bruine, an expert of the study. ''If you feel lonely, it may be more helpful to make a positive connection with a friend than to try and seek out new people to meet.''
In the study, they found older people tended to have smaller social networks. Younger people's were larger but this was mostly made up of ''peripheral others'' — not true friends, just people they knew — and did not contribute to their happiness.
Even variations in the number of family members or neighbours somebody spent time with did not affect how happy they were with their social life. Dr Bruine said her research echoed other findings showing people would be happier if a larger proportion of their online friends were actually their friends in reality.
She added, ''Stereotypes of aging tend to paint older adults in many cultures as sad and lonely. But the research shows that older adults' smaller networks didn't weaken social satisfaction and well-being. In fact, older adults tend to report better well-being than younger adults.''
1.What has a good influence on one's happiness according to the study?
A.Having impersonal networks of friends.
B.Meeting with close friends face to face.
C.Helping familiar coworkers.
D.Keeping in touch with family members online.
2.What did the 1,496 people taking part in the study have to do?
A.Keep off using the Internet.
B.Show their attitudes to happiness.
C.Reveal their social life thoroughly.
D.Find ''peripheral others'' from their friends.
3.Who is more likely to be attacked by loneliness from the study?
A.Parents living with their children.
B.Older adults with fewer friends online.
C.Those having fewer relatives or neighbours.
D.Young people without friends in reality.
4.What does the underlined word ''paint'' mean in the last paragraph?
A.treat B.draw
C.describe D.criticize
