假定你是李华，你校英文报社将举办主题为自然灾害的征文活动。请你给美国朋友Bruce Alpert写一封邮件，邀请他参加。内容包括：
1. 说明缘由；
2. 请他介绍美国的自然灾害并谈谈影响，应对措施等；
3.告知征文截稿日期。
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限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday evening I went out for a walk without my parents in a nearby park after a long day of study.
There were many people especially women dancing with music happily and energetically. Suddenly, no music was heard. It seemed what their equipment didn’t work. A young man came up into the crowd and offered to examine them. However, all the efforts he made seem in vain. People began to get a little impatience with it. Just at the moment a little boy had noticed the electrical socket(插座) was disconnected. After the unexpecting accident, people enjoyed themselves once again. Seen this, my parents and I smiled in relief. What nice evening！
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。
Will cash disappear from our neighborhoods? Cash will likely become less popular, thanks to the high cost of using cash and the 1.(grow) number of alternatives. The future will be ＂less cash＂rather than cashless.
Cash is unique among payment instruments in that anyone can transact(交易), any time, any place, with no third parties 2. (involve). With this freedom 3.(come) strong privacy protection. Currency neither knows nor cares who holds it or when and where a transaction occurred. People have 4. sense of security when they have cash with them. These entries will, of course, evolve(进化) as our societies become more 5.(digital) native. However, old habits and viewpoints take a long time 6. (turn)over. Some 7.(merchant)will resist the costs of new equipment or fees that accompany cash alternatives. Cash 8.(consider) more convenient and universal, while with digital transactions there’s always concerns about hacking and fraud(诈骗).
So, no matter where we are in the world, let us celebrate the ATM’s half-century of service. Though cash may become less popular, rest assured that there will always be someone 9. will stop you in the street asking for directions 10. the nearest ATM.
I learned this lesson a couple of years ago. That day, I took a _______ to Grand Central Station. We were driving in the _______ lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right _______ us. My taxi driver slammed (猛踩) on his brakes and almost _______ the car’s back end by just ten _______!
The driver of the other car, who almost caused a big accident, _______ his car and started yelling bad _______ at us. The taxi driver just smiled and _______ at the guy. And I mean he was _______. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ________ your car and sent us to ________!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call “the law of the garbage truck.”
Many people are like garbage trucks. They ________ around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of ________, and full of disappointment. As their garbage ________ up, they need a place to dump it, and if you agree, they’ll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump their ________ on you, don’t take it ________. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and ________. You’ll be happy at what you do.
I started thinking, how often do I let garbage trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and ________ it to other people? That day I said, “I’m not going to do that anymore.”
What about you? What will happen in your life if you let more garbage ________ pass you by? Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with ________.
1.A.bike B.bus C.subway D.taxi
2.A.flat B.wide C.clear D.right
3.A.in back of B.in front of C.beside D.beneath
4.A.opened B.removed C.missed D.observed
5.A.meters B.inches C.miles D.yards
6.A.got out of B.broke away from C.squeezed D.kicked
7.A.means B.solutions C.languages D.words
8.A.waved B.pointed C.aimed D.glared
9.A.friendly B.aggressive C.merciful D.grateful
10.A.handled B.undertook C.abused D.ruined
11.A.prison B.police C.hospital D.school
12.A.run B.turn C.show D.gather
13.A.imagination B.anger C.confidence D.pride
14.A.puts B.takes C.piles D.makes
15.A.happiness B.problems C.expectation D.will
16.A.differently B.attentively C.seriously D.purposefully
17.A.fight B.weep C.flee away D.move on
18.A.pass B.spread C.convey D.offer
19.A.trucks B.cans C.collectors D.bags
20.A.hopes B.indifference C.regrets D.ambitions
Moving to a foreign country is an amazing, life-changing experience. There are some practical decisions that need to be made. 1. For me, choosing to live with a French with a French family was the best choice I made, and here is why.
2. When you’re in anew environment with people you don’t know who are speaking a language you’re still not fluent in, you might feel lost, tired and homesick—I know I did. 3. They showed me which buses to take to get to work, cooked dinner for me so we could eat together, and took me with them on trips to the beach, the theatre and even a bullfight. These were great opportunities to experience French culture and build relationships. They helped me feel more comfortable and welcome.
Living with French people has improved my language skills. Being constantly exposed to real French conversation has allowed me to learn new phrases, widen my vocabulary and even improve my accent. My host family are happy to answer my questions and correct me when I say things wrong. 4.
The experience of living abroad is one that you will remember forever. Perhaps the friendships, like the memories, will also last. 5. You might return for their birthdays, weddings, holidays, and much more. I hope to remain in contact with my host family long after I leave France because when I was away from my friends and loves ones, they welcomed me and made me part of their family.
A.One such decision is choosing where to live.
B.You can stay in your own space and privacy.
C.Your host family might become your life-long friends.
D.It makes me a better and more confident French speaker.
E.However, my host family was wonderful and welcoming.
F.A family can help you settle in, stopping you from feeling lonely.
G.It’s an opportunity to meet new people, a different culture and another language.
How do the world’s only flying mammals communicate? Researchers have observed young bats adopting new “dialects” simply by hearing them repeatedly, making them one of the few animals known to have a capacity for vocal (声音的) learning. “These bats may help us clarify the evolution of speech acquisition (习得) skills,” says Yosef Prat, a PhD at Tel Aviv University (TAU).
For one year, researchers raised 14 Egyptian fruit bat pups with their mothers in controlled area, exposing each young bat to two different vocalizations: the natural call of its mother and a separate recording that varied in pitch (音高) or frequency. They found that the pups in each group developed a dialect like the recording. “The general assumption in this field is that most animals develop their born vocalizations regardless of what they hear, and that human vocal learning abilities have developed during evolution,” says Mr Prat. “The finding that bats learn the common dialect in their rest place was unusual.”
Scientists know little about the origin of spoken language, which is believed to have appeared in humans within the past 500,000 years. Dozens of theories attempt to explain the complexity of this skill, but none have done so conclusively.
“Studying vocal communication and vocal learning in animal models is a very useful way to approach the problem,” says Olga Feher, an assistant professor at the University of Warwick in England.
But animal vocalizations and human speech are very different things, says Jamin Pelkey, a professor at Ryerson University. “All species communicate. Unlike other animals, though, human beings are able to use sound patterns for functions that are far stranger—functions that are imaginative, theoretical, and critical. When speech is involved in these stranger functions, that is what we mean by spoken ‘language’.”
1.How do young bats acquire their “language” according to the research?
A.Flying in the air slowly.
B.Hearing it again and again.
C.Communicating with partners.
D.Repeating it with their mothers.
2.What was the general view about animal vocalization?
A.Most animals are born with it
B.Its process was unusual.
C.It is easier than human speech.
D.What animals heard doesn’t affect their learning.
3.What does the underlined word “problem” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A.The difference between animals and humans.
B.The complexity of spoken language.
C.The origin of spoken language.
D.The study of animal models.
4.What does professor Pelkey think of researching young bats?
A.It is far from the fact
B.Its result is beyond doubt.
C.It is of great scientific value.
D.It doesn’t relate to human speech much.
