假定你是李华。你在攀枝花日报上看到一则书法培训课程广告，你在攀枝花学院留学的 外国朋友 John 对中国书法非常感兴趣，于是你给他写封邮件，向他推荐该课程，内容包括：
1、写信原因；
2、培训课程的时间、地点；
3、报名方式及截止日期。
注意： 1. 词数 100 左右，文章开头已给出，不计入总词数;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：汉字书法 Chinese Calligraphy
Dear John,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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。作文中共有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。
Graduation finally came. My classmates and I made up our mind do something. Someone suggested make a video to record our experiences at school and we agreed. Material collecting took us a whole week, during it we interviewed our teachers and took picture of every aspect of school life. The editing part after that was tough. We debated over what to put them into the video. Some disagreements were unavoidable, and the video turned out perfect. Several days later, when the video was played on a graduation ceremony, it was very popular for everyone. What a wonderfully time the students and teachers shared! That surely gives us a great sense of achievement.
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。
I have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life wasn’t always so great. I had a learning disability from 1.early age and suffered a lot in public schools.
My life improved 2.(surprising) when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at 3.(produce) things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: 4.I was disabled in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.
I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the 5. (begin). I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I 6.(find) myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you love something and do it all the time, you will get much 7.(good) at it.
Later I practiced reading and writing every day,8.I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate (能读会写的).
After I 9.(go) through the long process over the years, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I’m smart enough 10.(dive) into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.
How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the ___to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first ___drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a ____ that, in the past, would have started him ___again.For a few years we were afraid to bring it up ___this addiction would begin again.
“I had this little poem that I would ___to myself at least four to five times a day,”was Dad’s reply to my 18-year-old unasked question.“The words were a constant ___to me that things were ____so hard that I could not deal with them,”Dad said. Then he ___the poem with me. The poem’s ____, yet profound words immediately became ___of my daily routine as well.
About a month after this ____with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a ___of daily sayings of wisdom with one listed for each day of the year.
It has been my ___that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own ____.
I ___opened the book to April 17 to see ____words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was ____when I looked at the page, and then ____of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my cheek. There, on my birthday, was the very poem that had _____my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静的心) Prayer.
God grant me
The serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
1.A.opportunity B.courage C.desire D.interest
2.A.gave up B.took up C.went on D.held on
3.A.company B.habit C.situation D.group
4.A.working B.disappearing C.smoking D.drinking
5.A.even though B.for fear that C.as far as D.as long as
6.A.recite B.write C.send D.introduce
7.A.challenge B.pressure C.warning D.reminder
8.A.never B.even C.always D.still
9.A.discussed B.shared C.analysed D.polished
10.A.extraordinary B.well-written C.simple D.moving
11.A.all B.that C.none D.part
12.A.conversation B.conflict C.argument D.lesson
13.A.number B.book C.pack D.calendar
14.A.habit B.practice C.experience D.advice
15.A.favorite B.birthday C.schedule D.vacations
16.A.hesitatingly B.precisely C.suddenly D.hurriedly
17.A.where B.whether C.what D.how
18.A.astonished B.delighted C.confused D.relieved
19.A.eyesight B.feelings C.tears D.looks
20.A.troubled B.attracted C.pleased D.benefited
It’s easy to make a fitness decision on New Year’s Eve. 1. According to a recent study, 60 percent of people give up on their decision by February. However, you can increase your chances of success with these stick-with-it strategies (策略).
●Start by asking yourself,“Why?”
A fitness decision is rarely about fitness. It’s important to ask yourself why this fitness decision is important to you on a deeper level. 2. Discover exactly what that something is and use it to push yourself to keep going when you feel like giving up.
●3.
You’re far more likely to stick to your goal if you make it as specific as possible. Determine exactly what you’re going to do and when you’re going to achieve it. Deadline are necessary, if you’re serious about making your fitness decision stick.
● Start small and build motivation.
4. Instead, break your fitness goal into a series of smaller challenges, and celebrate every victory along the way. Fitness resolution is hard. Focus on the progress you’re making, no matter how small it seems.
● Focus on fun.
When it comes to making a long-term change, fun is fundamental. It’s hard to consistently force yourself to do something you hate. 5. Listen to your favorite music at the gym. Do everything you can to make your physical activity enjoyable, because that’s the only way you’re going to want to keep doing it.
A.What’s motivating you to make a change?
B.So, if you hate running, try cycling instead.
C.New Year’s Eve is a great opportunity to have fun.
D.Be specific about what you want to accomplish and set a deadline.
E.Write down your fitness decision and share it with your family and friends.
F.If you try to change too much too quickly, you’re setting yourself up for failure.
G.The challenge lies in putting it into practice and sticking with it for the long-term.
Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the classical writers like Shakespeare and Wordsworth has a great effect on the mind, catches the reader’s attention and triggers moments of self-examination.
Using a special machine, they monitored the brain activity of 30 volunteers as they read works by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot and others.
In the first part of the research, the brain activity of 30 volunteers was monitored as they read passages from Shakespeare’s plays, including King Lear, Othello, Coriolanus and Macbeth, and again as they read the text rewritten in a simpler form or modern language.
While reading the common texts, normal levels of electrical activity were shown in their brains. When they read the works of Shakespeare, however, the levels of activity jumped because of his use of words which were unfamiliar to them. The result of the test showed that the more challenging passages cause a greater degree of electrical activity in the brain than the common ones.
Scientists went on to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and recorded how it lit up as the readers came across unusual words, surprising phrases or difficult sentences in the classical works. As a result, this lightening up process of the mind lasted longer than that when volunteers read common texts, encouraging further reading.
The research also found that reading poetry especially increases activity in the right hemisphere (半球) of the brain, an area connected with “autobiographical memory”, driving the readers to think carefully about their own experiences based on what they have read. The academics said this meant the classical works of literature are more useful than self-help books.
Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study in the university’s magnetic resonance center, announced this week: “Classical literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain, which provides extra power for the brain. You may never imagine how powerful it is. The research shows such kind of literature can create new thoughts and connections in the young and the old.”
1.The underlined word “triggers” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to“_______”.
A.stops B.keeps
C.interrupts D.causes
2.Which of the following is NOT true about reading classical literature?
A.It’s helpful for readers to come up with new ideas.
B.It’s an activity that is suitable for people of all ages.
C.It makes readers’ electrical activity of brain return to normal.
D.It makes readers’ brain more active than reading common texts.
3.From the research, we can learn that _______.
A.poetry increases left-brain activity more than other literary forms
B.the readers prefer Shakespeare’s works to the other writers’works
C.the words of classical works make it hard for volunteers to read further
D.reading classical works produces a good and long-lasting effect on the mind
4.What does the author mainly tell us in this passage?
A.Classical works help the brain develop better.
B.Poetry is useful for developing people’s brain.
C.Common books are unpopular anymore.
D.Shakespeare’s plays are worth reading.
