洪水、火山爆发、地震和海啸等自然灾害经常会不期而至。面对自然灾害我们应该怎么做呢？请你根据以下要点提示以How to deal with natural disasters为题写一篇英语短文。
1. 自然灾害造成的损失惨重；
2. 我们应该掌握有关自然灾害的知识并做好充分准备；当自然灾害来临时，要坚定信念，并团结一致，保持镇静，努力自救和帮助他人。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
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。
It was cloudy day with little rain in the air. I stood at the roadside waiting for a taxi while suddenly I felt a voice beside me. It was a boy who was wearing poor cloth. I felt very disgusted that I tried to pull myself away. The boy kept follow me shouting out "Big brother! Big brother!" and I didn't answer him at all. I heard him call out again, which makes me angry. So I shouted at him that we had no money to spare. However, the boy said to me, "Brother, will you please to help me cross the road?" I held the boy’s hand firm and helped him cross the road.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
I worked in a professional training company. My job was 1. (interview) as many people as possible and fill at least 30 questionnaires within 6 hours. The lunch was well fast, the boss said we had only 15 minutes 2. lunch. But on a Saturday morning, I was the target of a 3. (beauty) and selfless act of a guy. Not all people wanted to respond to the questionnaire and on Saturdays it was much 4. (hard) to get support from people.
I was in a square near a bus station,5. was the busiest place in town on Saturdays. I saw him 6. (sit) on the bench, a simple guy. I 7. (speak) to him and he agreed to answer to my questionary.8. (sudden) he took a package and offered me an apple. I was quite 9. (surprise), but he insisted so I ended up giving in and I thanked him.
He saw that I worked hard and he decided to give me a gift,10. simple gift but that was from his heart.
One day an old woman’s youngest son went to find work in the city but had no luck. On his way home, he saw a dead _______ .He picked it up and took it back to his mother. But knowing that the snake would not make a good _______ for them all, she threw it onto the _______.
On that same day, when the queen was having a _______ in a beautiful lake, her expensive _______ was taken away by an eagle. After flying for a while, the eagle _______ the dead snake on the roof. She _______ the necklace there and _______ the dead snake as supper.
The next day, the old woman _______ the shining necklace. She understood that this was the queen’s ________ necklace and that the queen ________ wanted it back. So At Diwali festival (排灯节), she went to the queen’s palace. ________ the queen saw her necklace, she was very ________ and promised to give the old woman a large amount of money.
But the old woman ________ . Instead she requested that on the night of Diwali only her household be allowed to ________ oil lamps.
The queen was surprised but was so ________ for her help that she agreed.
At midnight, the Goddess of Wealth came for her yearly visit. She was ________ to see darkness everywhere in the kingdom. Then she saw ________ lights shining from the old woman’s house and quickly ________ her way straight there and knocked on the door and stayed in her house forever so that the old woman’s family lived ________ prosperity (繁荣) and happiness.
1.A.body B.eagle C.snake D.woman
2.A.meal B.fame C.decision D.deal
3.A.table B.roof C.street D.rock
4.A.rest B.bath C.ride D.sleep
5.A.treasure B.dress C.ring D.necklace
6.A.saw B.missed C.needed D.remembered
7.A.enjoyed B.buried C.left D.destroyed
8.A.woke up B.put aside C.looked for D.took away
9.A.spotted B.wore C.caught D.tested
10.A.stolen B.hidden C.broken D.deserted
11.A.hardly B.never C.badly D.quickly
12.A.Unless B.When C.While D.Although
13.A.sad B.proud C.happy D.careless
14.A.left B.declined C.defeated D.accepted
15.A.sell B.exhibit C.make D.light
16.A.angry B.general C.grateful D.wealthy
17.A.delighted B.satisfied C.shocked D.disappointed
18.A.beautiful B.strange C.weak D.electric
19.A.pushed B.made C.felt D.fought
20.A.in B.on C.without D.by
An obvious reason for learning a new language is to be able to communicate with the people who speak it.1. People in every country prefer it when tourists make an effort to speak the local language, even if all you can say in it is “hello” and “please”.
Cultural understanding
Speaking a new language helps you to get to know another people and culture, as language and culture go hand in hand.2. It shows new ways of looking at the world. In addition, when you speak another language, you can enjoy literature, film, and music in the original language. It is extremely difficult for a translation to be a perfect replica (复制品) of the original. 3..
Business and careers
4. Schools and employers tend to prefer candidates who speak one or more foreign languages. Even though English is widely spoken in much of the world, the fact is that the global economy depends on communication. When dealing with France, for example, someone who speaks French will have an obvious advantage over someone who doesn’t.
Language improvement
Learning another language can help you to understand your own. Many languages have contributed to the development of English.5. Also, in learning how another language differs from your own, you will increase your understanding of your own language. For many people, language is innate (与生俱来的) — we know how to say something, but we don’t necessarily know why we say it that way. Learning another language can change that.
A.Language is helpful in making foreign friends.
B.The best way is to read what the author actually wrote.
C.Learning another language opens one’s mind to new ideas.
D.Your trip will be comfortable if you speak the local language.
E.Speaking more than one language will increase your market ability.
F.It is true that mastering another foreign language is very beneficial.
G.Learning those will teach you where words and even grammatical structures are from.
Curiosity is what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how does one generate (产生) curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, offered an answer in the classic1994 paper, “The Psychology of Curiosity.”
Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one's knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation (匮乏) labeled curiosity. The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of deprivation.” Loewenstein's theory helps explain why curiosity is such a force: it's not only a mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward.
Scientist Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often “so eager to get to the answer that we do not devote enough time to developing the question.” Yet it's the question that stimulates (刺激) curiosity; being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going.
In his 1994 paper, George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge. We're not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about. But as soon as we know even a little bit, our curiosity is aroused and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge: the more we know, the more we want to know. To get this process started, Loewenstein suggests, take steps with some interesting but incomplete information.
Language teachers have long used communication in exercises that open an information gap and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one student might be given a series of pictures for the beginning of the story, while the student's partner is given a series of pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other (in the foreign language they are learning, of course) can the students fill in each others' information gaps.
1.When one notices a gap in his knowledge, he .
A.desires to fill it
B.tends to be afraid
C.might get tired and sad
D.will become focused on his learning
2.What does Daniel Willingham imply in the article?
A.Answers are more important than questions.
B.Teachers should be eager to get to the answer.
C.Teachers know how to stimulate students’ curiosity.
D.Teachers are partly to blame for students’ hating school.
3.According to George Loewenstein’s paper, curiosity about something occurs only when you .
A.have read a lot of books B.know little about something
C.have some related information D.are given incomplete information
4.What is the article mainly about?
A.Why students hate school.
B.Why curiosity is important.
C.How to stimulate curiosity.
D.What makes people hungry for knowledge.
