为了帮助中学生健康成长，某中学英文报开辟了“HEARTTOHEART”专栏。假设你是该栏目的编辑Jim，收到一封署名为Worried的求助信。信中该同学向你诉说了自己的困扰：近日容易发脾气，使正常的学习和生活受到了影响。请用英文给该同学写一封回信。
内容要点如下：1．表示理解并给予安慰；2．提出建议并说明理由。
注意：1．词数100左右；2．信的开头与结尾已为你拟好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：temper n．脾气，情绪
Dear Worried,
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Yours truly,
Jim
请修改下面的短文。短文中共有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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1.每句不超过两个错误；
2.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
3.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Tom,
I haven’t heard from you for a long time. What is everything going with you? To be honest, I amnot used the food here and the weather always makes me uncomfortably. Therefore, I find that difficult to concentrate on my studies. The new teachers are friendly and they speak so fast that I can’t quite understand them. This often discourages from me in class. What’s bad, I always feel lonely after school. I really want to go back to my previous school, studied together with you.
I was very worried, Can you give me some advices? I'm looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Jack
阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Researchers in China have explained why basking (沐浴)in the sun can make people smart. It is known to everybody that the sun is very important and nothing in the world can survive 1.it. Science has already proved that sunny days can help 2.(strong) a person’s mood, intelligence and memory.
A team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province discovers that UV light, an element of sunshine, makes a change in the brain that can make 3.(we) smarter.
Tests on mice show that moods and learning can be improved due to enough exposure to UV light, according to Xiong Wei, 4.professor at the university 's School of Life Sciences who led the study. He says that mice 5.(expose) to UV light, which is equal to 20 to 30 minutes of midday sun in Florida in summer. Exposure to UV light 6.(increase) the level of a substance in blood, which reacts with brain cells 7.(promote) functions such as learning and memory. Xiong says previous research has 8.(actual) found that this substance will change in our body and do good to our 9.(fit), but this is the first time that it has been showed that the process can happen in the brain, which is a finding 10.surprises the team.
In his second grade, my son has learned to read the saying in English: Open my lips to good words, and open my heart to _______.
At any age, the _______ of the spoken word can’t be overstated. And yet sometimes the _______ of the words that pass our lips is less than what we hope for or _______ from ourselves. When stress or worry _______ on us, we can find ourselves saying things we don’t _______. We often use our remarkable power of speech in _______ ways.
To keep my language in check, I _______ a simple, elegant technique I also _______ from my son—the idea that we should stop and “THINK” to make sure our ________ are true, hopeful, important, necessary and kind before we ________. In the speedy pace of everyday life, it can be ________ to examine each word choice this closely. However, ________ over time, THINK can become an automatic guide that ________ drives our words in a positive direction.
It’s the combination of the THINK ________ that strikes me most. ________ is high value, but remember that true words can save us from being directly ________ to someone we care about. Information can be important, but it’s not helpful in the moment to someone who is ________, it’s not worth saying aloud. ________ is powerful, but if you can’t truthfully say something kind in a heated moment, it’s better to take a ________ from speaking.
It’s an invitation to think before we speak, and to make our words wise, positive statements for all to hear.
1.A.interest B.love C.respect D.sorrow
2.A.power B.faith C.touch D.support
3.A.condition B.quality C.nature D.talent
4.A.expect B.accept C.share D.require
5.A.bases B.counts C.weighs D.lives
6.A.decide B.believe C.need D.mean
7.A.usual B.strange C.negative D.reasonable
8.A.hold on B.aim at C.search for D.turn to
9.A.borrowed B.learned C.separated D.freed
10.A.analyses B.instructions C.words D.images
11.A.speak B.tell C.explain D.act
12.A.relaxing B.exciting C.boring D.hard
13.A.designed B.practised C.answered D.explored
14.A.highly B.politely C.happily D.easily
15.A.opinions B.excuses C.ideas D.memories
16.A.Honesty B.Helpfulness C.Devotion D.Generosity
17.A.hurtful B.pitiful C.shameful D.doubtful
18.A.regretting B.struggling C.joking D.recovering
19.A.Trust B.Necessity C.Kindness D.Importance
20.A.seat B.walk C.rest D.break
Male frogs use territorial calls to warn off frogs that are entering their territory. 1.. So they do not waste energy by making territorial calls when they detect those frogs near their territory. However, if an unknown frog approaches the land they claim as their own, males will aggressively let out a territorial call.2..
Warning calls are employed to warn other frogs of some nearby danger and are commonly heard when an attacker comes near.3.. If an attacker attacks a frog, the frog will make a call almost like a scream, which is intended to scare the attacker. This scream is almost always made when the attacker succeeds in grasping the frog because, should it be greatly surprised, the attacker may release the frog, which might permit the animal to make its escape.
4., which is employed when another frog is caught hold of by mistake. This regularly happens during the mating season, when male frogs eager for a mate wrongly grasp another male. In other cases, females that have already mated may make this call when different male frogs catch them.5..Whenever a male catches a female of another species, the female gives the release call to inform the male that he has made a mistake and should let go.
A.Frog calls further differ between species
B.The final major call made by frogs is the release call
C.To the human ear, frog mating calls may all sound similar
D.Frogs make short, sharp, loud sounds while they hurry away
E.Males can recognize the calls their neighbors make from afar
F.If the strange frog does not leave immediately, it may be attacked
G.There are some special occasions when frogs belonging to different species mix with one another
Although we live in an era where everything seems to be available immediately, our study suggests that today’s kids can delay gratification(满足感) longer than children in the 1960s and 1980s,“ said University of Minnesota psychologist Stephanie M. Carlson.” This finding stands in great contrast with the assumption by adults that today’s children have less self-control than previous generations.
The original marshmallow(棉花糖) test conducted by researchers at Stanford University involved a series of experiments in which children aged between 3 and 5 years were offered one treat that they could eat immediately or a larger treat if they waited. Researchers then left the room to see how long the children would wait and watched from behind a one-way mirror.
Interestingly, today's adults thought that children nowadays would be more impulsive and less able to wait, Carlson found. "Our findings serve as an example of how our beliefs can be wrong and how it's important to do research,” said co-author Yuichi Shoda, PhD at the University of Washington.
The researchers offered several possible explanations for why children in the 2000s waited longer than those in prior decades. They noted a statistically significant increase in IQ scores in the last several decades. Another explanation may be society's increased focus on the importance of early education, according to Carlson. The primary objective of preschool changed from largely custodial care (监护) to school readiness in the 1980s. Parenting also has changed in ways that help promote the development of executive function, such as being more supportive of children's self-control, the researchers noted.
Walter Mischel of Columbia University, who co-authored this paper, noted that “while the results indicate that the children’s ability to delay is not weakened on the marshmallow test, the findings do not speak to their willingness to delay gratification when faced with the many temptations now available in everyday life.”
1.According to the passage, what is the adults' assumption about today's children?
A.They are not easy to please.
B.They are less able to control themselves.
C.They don't like things that are easy to get.
D.They have different personalities from previous generations.
2.What does the underlined word "impulsive " in Paragraph 3 mean?
A.productive B.considerate
C.clear-minded D.hot-headed
3.What did the researchers find about children in the 2000s?
A.They are more prepared to go to school.
B.They are not as clever as previous generations.
C.They are taught self-control only by their teachers.
D.They don’t need any custodial care in their early childhood.
4.What does the author want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
A.Most children nowadays can't resist the temptations of everyday life.
B.Children chose to delay gratification willingly in the marshmallow test.
C.The test can’t accurately measure children's willingness to delay gratification.
D.Children’s ability to delay gratification is weakened because there are many temptations.
