假定你是李华，你校将举办书法比赛，参赛学生同场竞技书写校名，优胜者的书法作品将被展览一周。请给你校热爱书法的英国交换生Joe写一封电子邮件，邀请他参加这一比赛。要点如下：
1. 比赛的时间和地点；
2. 比赛的要求和细节；
3. 预祝取得胜利。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇： 书法比赛 calligraphy contest
Dear Joe,
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Yours,
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、删改或修改。
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。
It was Monday morning, and the writing class had just begin. Everyone was silent, wait to see who would be called upon to read his and her paragraph aloud. Some of us were confident and eager take part in the class activity, others were nervous and anxious. I had done myself homework but I was shy. I was afraid that to speak in front of a larger group of people. At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, "The classroom is a place for learning and that include learning from textbooks, and mistake as well." Immediate, I raised my hand.
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。
Most people at present are so busy with their lives that they do not have time 1.(enjoy) a healthy and balanced diet. For most individuals, as 2. result of eating foods rich in fat and sugar for several years, they choose to go on a diet but fail at the end. Be sure to be with a strong awareness that you are 3. you eat! Therefore, maintaining a healthy diet 4. (provide) your body with not only energy but also numerous health benefits. The first one is that you will meet your everyday nutritional 5. (require). As we all know, we have to take in various nutrition every day to keep fit. 6. (basic) speaking, you should make sure that you take a good amount of vegetables, grains, milk and proteins. Another benefit is that it is the easiest and most 7. (benefit) way in which you can be energetic and protect yourself 8. a number of diseases when growing old. In most cases, a healthy diet can help you decrease the risk of 9. (get) some diseases like diabetes and cancer. And for those who want to lose weight, there 10. (come) good news! Keep a healthy diet and you will finally keep a healthy weight!
For a long time, a little boy was wondering why his deskmate could rank 1st in the class whenever he wanted to, while he himself failed to: he only ranked 21st.
At home, he asked his Mom, “Mom, am I more _____than others? I feel I am obedient (听话的) and as careful as him, but _____I always fall behind?” Hearing the words, Mom was aware that her son began to _____the sense of self-respect, which was now being injured by the ranking system. _____at him, she went wordless, not knowing _____to explain.
In another test, the son ranked 17th, while his deskmate remained 1st. Back home he ____ the same question. Mom really wanted to inform his son that _____differs, which means that students ranking 1st are supposed to be cleverer than normal ones. ____, was this discouraging answer the one that her son was constantly _____about? Thank goodness she did not open her mouth.
How to answer her son’s question? There were times when she felt an urge to equivocate (搪塞), “ You are too lazy. You are not as hard working as others…” but she stopped _____imagining her son suffering from the pains of unsatisfied grades and rankings. She thought it _____to put any additional burden on his son and was trying to find out a perfect answer.
Time passing swiftly, the son _____primary school. Despite studying harder and better, he was still unable to keep up with his deskmate. To show her pride of him, Mom decided to _____him to the sea. During the trip, she managed to give an answer.
Now, the son no longer worries about his _____, and there are no boring guys who would inquire his rankings in primary school, because, _____the 1st ranking, he was admitted to Tsinghua University. Back home in winter vacation, he was invited to _____the students and parents in his high school. In the speech, he mentioned a valuable experience in his childhood, “… When my mother and I were sitting on the _____, she pointed to the front and said, ‘Do you see the sea birds struggling for food over there? When the waves come near, little birds can rise _____while “awkward” seagulls will take more time to complete the process. However, have you noticed birds that finally fly _____the endless ocean are none other than the “awkward” seagulls?’” The speech ______many mothers present to tears, including his mother.
1.A.considerate B.careless C.stupid D.clever
2.A.what if B.how come C.how about D.what for
3.A.lose B.have C.win D.beat
4.A.Shouting B.Glaring C.Staring D.Pointing
5.A.which B.why C.when D.how
6.A.raised B.met C.answered D.solved
7.A.intelligence B.right C.knowledge D.strength
8.A.Therefore B.Instead C.Thus D.However
9.A.enthusiastic B.curious C.crazy D.clear
10.A.if B.before C.unless D.when
11.A.cruel B.important C.disappointed D.necessary
12.A.attended B.started C.finished D.entered
13.A.direct B.take C.bring D.push
14.A.homework B.belongings C.health D.rankings
15.A.in B.about C.with D.on
16.A.teach B.deliver C.address D.face
17.A.floor B.road C.bank D.beach
18.A.quickly B.suddenly C.slowly D.sharply
19.A.into B.through C.across D.throughout
20.A.made B.moved C.impressed D.inspired
Some people are so rude. Who sends an e-mail or a text message that just says “Thank you?” Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on the Internet? 1.
Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little courtesies(礼节). But many social norms(规范) just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.
Take the thank-you note. Daniel Post Senning, a coauthor of Emily Post’s Etiquette，asked, “At what point does showing appreciation outweigh the cost?”
2. Think of how long it takes to listen to one of those messages. In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E-mail, too, is slower than a text. The worst are those who leave a voice mail and then send an e-mail message to tell you they left a voice mail.
This isn’t the first time technology has changed our manners, 3. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, suggested that people say, " Ahoy! "Finally, hello won out, and the victory sped up the greeting's use in face-to-face communications.
In the age of the smart phone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions about:the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, or an office, which can be easily found on a digital map. 4. And when you answer, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.
How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people,especially older ones, appreciate a thank-you message. 5. In traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here's hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.
A. Then there is voice mail.
B. Others, like me, want no reply.
C. But people still ask these things.
D. Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?
E. Won't new technology bring about changes in our daily life?
F. Face-to-face communication makes comprehension much easier.
G. When the telephone was invented, people didn't know how to greet a caller.
We may think we're a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices(装置) well after they go out of style. That’s bad news for the environment — and our wallets — as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.
To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life — from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s. Devices were grouped by generation — Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997. And MP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.
As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones. "The living-room television is replaced and gets planted in the kids' room, and suddenly one day, you have a TV in every room of the house," said one researcher. The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007. We're not just keeping these old devices — we continue to use them. According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions（排放）more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.
So what's the solution（解决方案）? The team's data only went up to 2007, but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.
1.What does the author think of new devices?
A.They are environment-friendly. B.They are no better than the old.
C.They cost more to use at home. D.They go out of style quickly.
2.Why did Babbitt's team conduct the research?
A.To reduce the cost of minerals.
B.To test the life cycle of a product.
C.To update consumers on new technology.
D.To find out electricity consumption of the devices.
3.Which of the following uses the least energy?
A.The box-set TV. B.The tablet.
C.The LCD TV. D.The desktop computer.
4.What does the text suggest people do about old electronic devices?
A.Stop using them. B.Take them apart.
C.Upgrade them. D.Recycle them.
