When I got home I saw a message pinned to the door ____ “Sorry to miss you, will
call you later.”
A.read B.reading C.reads D.to read
The purpose of the new plan is to make life easier, ______ it more difficult.
A.not make B.not to make C.not making D.do not make
European football is played in 80 countries, ____ it the most popular sport in the world.
A.making B.makes C.made D.to make
假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Alex发来邮件，提到他总是因为缺乏耐心而和家人争吵，这让他感到非常苦恼。请你根据所给提示，用英语给他回封邮件，内容包括：
1、表示理解；2、提出建议
注意：1、词数100左右；
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Alex,
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Yours,
Li Hua
请改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每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。
There lives 8-year-old boy name Sam in our neighborhood. He is suffering from a rare ill, which make him unable to move around. He wanted to go to the beach this year, but he wasn’t good enough to make such a trip. People living in our neighborhood decided to make his dream to come true. They bring some sand and seashells to his family’s backyard to make a beach for him. That they did surprised Tom a lot. You can’t imagine how exciting Sam was when he lay on the “beach”. See this, all of us were also very happy.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
On August 14, 1996, a tiny drop 1. a very toxic（有毒的）chemical called dimethyl-mercury（二甲基汞）fell onto the left hand-of Karen Wetterhahn, a toxicologist and professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College. Wetterhahn was an expert on 2. toxic metals cause cancer. When the poisonous drop fell onto her hand, she wasn’t 3. (worry); she was wearing protective gloves.
4. (unfortunate) the dimethyl-mercury went through her glove. After a while, Wetterhahn 5. (have) difficulty walking and speaking. After three weeks, she was in a state of deep unconsciousness. Karen Wetterhahn died five months later. She was 48 years old, a wife and mother of two.
You might say that a toxicologist studies substances that lead to 6. (die). But toxicology is also about saving lives. What can kill, can cure. Medical 7. (research) such as Weterhahn risk their lives daily for the benefit of others. Their work is dangerous, but it has the potential 8. (save) lives. In memory of Wetterhahn’s life and work, Dartmouth College created the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award. The award 9. (give) to female science students 10. receive money to continue their scientific research.
