假定你是李华,你的英国朋友Mark希望向你了解国画的有关知识,但原定见面时间因故需要推迟,请给Mark写一封邮件,说明情况。要点包括:
1. 表示歉意并说明原因;
2. 重约见面讨论的时间;
3. 推荐先参观国画展览。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇:国画 traditional Chinese paintings
Dear Mark,
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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。
In December 30th, after two weeks’ training, we finally began our work as volunteer guide in a museum. During the first two weeks, I was learnt a lot about the stories behind the artworks. In order to do good in the work, my teammates and me made full preparations. We first worked out a careful plan. Then we practiced use proper body language to explain the artworks better. The month-long volunteer work has now come to end, from what I understand that it isn’t easy to be a good guide. Besides, I also realized how important teamwork is. I believe that I will get lifelong benefits from the short and meaningful experience.
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。
When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be very difficult to let go 1. your anger. But forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly 2. (benefit) to your physical and mental health. So far, research 3. (show) that people who forgive can have more energy and better sleep.
So when 4. (hurt) by someone, cool down first. 5. (take) a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love. Don’t wait for an apology. “Many times the person who hurts you may never think of apologizing,” says Dr. Frederic Luskin, 6. wrote the book Forgive for Good. “They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things 7. same way. So if you wait for people 8. (say) sorry, you could be waiting a very long time.” Next keep in mind that forgiveness does not 9. (necessary) mean accepting the action of the person who upsets you. Instead, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you. Finally, try to see things from the other person’s position. You may realize that he or she was acting out of 10. (careless).
13-year-old Madison was studying at home when her mother burst in. She said a boy had fallen into a septic tank (化粪池) and made an urgent ____ for Madison’s help.
They ran to a neighbor yard, where the ____ adults surrounded the septic tank opening ____wider than a basketball. The boy, aged only 2, had slipped in and was ____.
Madison quickly ____ the situation. She was the only one who could ____ through the small opening. Without ____, she got close to the opening and said, “____ me in.”
Some people held her waist and ____. She wiggled (扭动) arms and shoulders until she ____ the opening. Inside, the tank was dark and the air smelly. When she stuck her arms into the dirty water, she jammed her left wrist against a hidden stick, ____ it severely.
____ tend to her injury, Madison scanned the surface of the dirty water, hoping to ____ the underwater boy. Suddenly she saw his little toes stick out. When spotting the vague ____ of his foot again, Madison shot out her ____ hand, grasped the foot tightly and shouted, “Pull me up!”
As they nearly reached the surface, the boy’s other foot got stuck. She wiggled his foot until it was ____. Eventually they were lifted out.
____, the kid wasn’t out of trouble. Having suffered from lack of ____ that long, he wasn’t breathing. He was then given hard hits on the back until he coughed up water. At the sight of this, Madison sighed with ____.
Madison received months of treatment for her wrist, which made her ____ actions more impressive.
1.A. appointment B. attempt C. choice D. request
2.A. anxious B. curious C. annoyed D. merciful
3.A. partly B. previously C. slightly D. dramatically
4.A. floating B. weeping C. trembling D. drowning
5.A. controlled B. examined C. took part in D. gave up
6.A. look B. jump C. fill D. fit
7.A. time B. permission C. hesitation D. judgment
8.A. Throw B. Lower C. Force D. Push
9.A. legs B. arms C. head D. hands
10.A. adjusted to B. got through C. tore down D. held on to
11.A. touching B. trapping C. injuring D. striking
12.A. In an effort to B. Rather than C. Likely to D. Ready to
13.A. feel B. smell C. follow D. attract
14.A. skin B. gesture C. picture D. outline
15.A. left B. single C. good D. clumsy
16.A. frozen B. free C. flexible D. bare
17.A. However B. Instead C. Therefore D. Personally
18.A. protection B. oxygen C. gravity D. energy
19.A. fright B. cold C. relief D. respect
20.A. unselfish B. thoughtless C. unconscious D. random
Much of the work in today’s world is accomplished(完成) in teams. Most people believe the best way to build a great team is to gather a group of the most talented individuals. 1.Companies spend millions hiring top business people. Is their money well spent?
2.They focused on football, basketball and baseball. The results are mixed. For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team’s performance begins to decline. Interestingly, this trend isn’t evident in baseball, where additional individual talent keeps improving the team’s performance.
To explain this phenomenon, the researchers explored the degree to which a good performance by a team requires its members to coordinate(协调) their actions. 3.In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates. They conclude that when task interdependence is high, team performance will suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positive effects on team performance when task interdependence is lower. If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team’s performance. Young children learning to play team sports are often told, “There is no I in TEAM.” 4.
Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort. Just as in a game of tug-of-war(拔河比赛), whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.
5. An A-team may require a balance——not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.
A. It’s not a simple matter to determine the nature of talent.
B. Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.
C. The group interaction and its effect drew the researchers’ attention.
D. Stars apparently do not follow this basic principle of sportsmanship.
E. Several recent studies examined the role of talent in the sports world.
F. Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the best talent.
G. This task interdependence distinguishes baseball from football and basketball.
If you’re a book lover,you have a pile of books on your bedside,or a bookshelf in your library with a“to read”sign on it.Yet you can’t stop yourself from adding to the pile.This can lead to feelings of guilt over your new purchases.But I’m here to tell you to stop worrying.
What you have is an antilibrary,and it’s a very good thing.The term comes from writer Umberto Eco.He is the owner of a large personal library.He separates visitors into two groups:those who react with“Wow! What a library you have! How many of these books have you read?”and the others who get the point that a private library is not something to show off but a research too1.Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.Indeed,the more you know,the larger the rows of unread books.Let us call this collection an antilibrary.
If you think you already know everything about a subject,you’re cutting yourself off from a stream of information at an artificial point.So a growing library of books you haven’t read means you’re consistently curious about the unknown.And that attitude is a great foundation for a lifelong love of 1earning.
So don’t feel guilt over your unread books.Those books will be there for you when you do want them,and as you build your library of read and unread books,you can start using it as you would use a bigger library.Certain books may become references more than read-throughs.Or you may find that a book you bought five years ago has special relevance today.Letting the role of books evolve in your life is a healthy sign of curiosity.That’s good for you and good for the world around you.
1.What does the underlined word“antilibrary”in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Feelings of guilt over new books.
B. A pile of books on the bookshelf.
C. The collection of unread books.
D. A large personal library.
2.According to the author,more unread books mean________.
A. your wrong lifelong learning attitude
B. you limit yourself from the unknown
C. your have no interest in the new world
D. your strong desire about new information
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards having an antilibrary?
A. Favorable. B. Doubtful.
C. Ambiguous. D. Contradictory.
4.What can we know from the last paragraph?
A. Curiosity is a sign of high IQ.
B. Books are the ladder in our life.
C. Unread books are surely relevant to the present.
D. We should read through every book.