The World 's Greatest Bookstores
Getting lost in a great bookstore can take you on travels around the world. Put a bookmark beside the names of these booksellers for your next trip.
Atlantis Books, Santorini, Greece
Atlantis books is on the sun-washed islands of Santorini. It was started by university friends with little more than a cat, a dog, and an Idea brought by a bottle of wine. Today, Atlantis takes up the basement of a big house, offering everything bestsellers to books on Greek history and culture.
Barter Books, Northumberland, Northeast England
The store is in Ainwick, a Victorian railway station that dates back to 1887, and model railway sits overhead. Pull up a chair to the working fireplace to eat a cookie and have a cup of coffee, or search the shelves for a wide variety of titles.
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France
From its home by the Seine River, Shakespeare and Company often has a line of customers and tourists waiting to get in, eager to search its collection of rare books new reads and self-published titles. When you enter this English-speaking store which opened during the 1950syou get a sense of stepping back in time
Ealite Taipei, China
Of all the stores in the Eslite chain, the 24-hour Eslite Dunnan branch is the most popular. With more than 250,000 books to choose from, the store draws tourists and locals who stay for hours, reading books (as if they are in a library), listening to music or watching dance performances and films.
1.How was Atlantis books build up?
A.It was a student’s graduation project.
B.It began during a chat among friends.
C.It was set up by a famous university.
D.It was a collection of the big house’s owner.
2.Where is the Barter Books?
A.By a river B.On a street
C.In a basement D.Under a railroad
3.Which bookstore provides entertainments besides reading?
A.Eslite B.Barter Books
C.Atlantis Books D.Shakespeare and Company
假如你是校汉服(Han costume)俱乐部主席李华。近期俱乐部将举办一场有外国交换生参加的汉服设计大赛.你将代表主办方在开幕式上发言。请根据以下要点写一篇发言稿：
1. 大赛目的；
2. 大赛规则；
3. 对选手的祝福。
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。
Last summer I decided to get my first job. This was possible one of the hardest tasks.
For me, it was another step moved from a dependent child to a fairly independent adult. 1 bad never hold a job before because of my parents wanted me to focus on school. So I had never worked the day in my life. At first, it is extremely tough. I sent applications hoping to get my first couple of choice. Yet I got neither calls or emails. Luckily halfway through the third week, I finally got a call. It was not my first choice, but we could not say no. And after the interview, I was more than ready start working the following Monday.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
For some in China, the aim of travel is to create 15-second videos. It's not about where you've been, but about where you're seen to have been.
Situated on cliffs above a river. Hongyadong is a stilt-house complex in 1. city of Chongqing. The bars, restaurants and golden neon lights 2. (be) a popular draw since it was built in 2006. Last year the number of visitors increased 3. (sharp).
The main reason, it see med, was Hongyadong's sudden popularity on a social-media app. Douyin, 4. aim is not to produce a well-crafted video or beautiful photograph, but simply 5.(show) that you have also been to the popular places. The beauty of the 6. (attract) is less important than the fact that people are flocking there to daka.
A subculture has developed of young people who embrace daka as a lifestyle. So-called Daka Zu—— “daka tribes"——can 7. (find) roaming various scenic spots, 8. (check) in at as many hot local ions as possible within a single day.
The daka craze may have 9. (practice) origins. China's young urban professionals don't have so much free lime. Sometimes. they reed to work overtime. So they have to make the most of their 10.(limit) leisure time. Douyin captures the mood with it's slogan： "Make every second count."
Jim McGee was an American Air Force pilot. One day after he retired, he found himself ____ and then was told by the doctor that his kidneys（肾）were gone.
Jim, 69, _____ started dialysis（化疗），which didn't work well. The doctor said the transplant （移植）was a long-shot alternative. However, after several months' searching, no suitable _____ was found. Jim was so _____ that, in early 2018, he even _____ not attending a reunion of some Air Force companions in Monterey・ California. Finally, with Shirley's _______, he decided to go, and that turned out to be a life-changing _____.
In California, Jim _____ with six fellow airmen, including one he hadn't seen in nearly 50 years； Doug Coffman. Jim told them about his ______. “I asked him what his blood type is, and it _____ to be mine,” says Doug. "I was immediately thinking, 'Gosh. I might be able to _____.'"
Doug, then 70, was healthy and energetic. ____ , when he told Shirley that he wanted to donate a kidney to her husband, she worried that he might be too _____ . But Doug really wanted to help and _____ to have a try. He sent his _____ records to where Jim was treated and soon, he was asked to lake a series of physical examinations. _____, the result showed that he was a perfect match.
The doctors gave him the OK to _____, and the surgery was a success. "It's pretty amazing to be able to take a（n） _____ organ out of one person's body, put it in another person's body, and have it _____，” Doug says. "And there's nothing _____ than helping another person live a better life."
1.A.depressed B.exhausted C.nervous D.upset
2.A.immediately B.suddenly C.happily D.simply
3.A.doctor B.hospital C.plan D.match
4.A.stubborn B.angry C.discouraged D.confused
5.A.suggested B.regretted C.forgot D.considered
6.A.permission B.recommendation C.invitation D.encouragement
7.A.support B.decision C.reunion D.success
8.A.reunited B.cooperated C.connected D.discussed
9.A.idea B.achievement C.situation D.ambition
10.A.tends B.needs C.seems D.happens
11.A.come B.help C.change D.participate
12.A.Therefore B.Besides C.However D.Meanwhile
13.A.old B.far C.thin D.kind
14.A.refused B.determined C.hesitated D.promised
15.A.medical B.military C.service D.consuming
16.A.Hopefully B.Honestly C.Obviously D.Luckily
17.A.remove B.operate C.donate D.return
18.A.living B.precious C.extra D.special
19.A.grow B.move C.pause D.work
20.A.stranger B.finer C.funnier D.harder
A grateful heart is a satisfied heart. A satisfied heart is a simple heart which leads to a simplified life. Gratitude opens the door to simplicity. But we live in a culture that addresses dissatisfaction. 1.
Intentionally choose it. Gratitude will never be a result of your next purchase, success, or accomplishment. 2.And you will never find it in life until you intentionally decide to choose it.
Count your blessings. A new day, a warm bed, a unique personality, or a special talent.... 3. Gratitude quickly sets in when we begin to spend a quiet moment each day remembering them. This practice alone has the potential to change your heart and life immeasurably.
4. Almost hall the world live on less than $ 2. 50 a day. 1. 1 billion people have inadequate access to clean water. Let those facts sink in for just a moment and slowly allow gratitude and a desire to become part of the solution to take their place.
Find gratitude in difficulty. 5. It can be more difficult during the trials of life： death, disease, or failure. The truth is that no one is exempt（豁免）from the sufferings. However good can be found even in the worst of times. Being grateful during those difficulties may get you through them.
In daily life we must see it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
A.Ignore what you don't have.
B.We can learn how to be grateful.
C.Open your eyes to those with less.
D.Gratitude is available in your heart right now.
E.You have wonderful things in your life already.
F.It's easy to be grateful when things are going well.
G.How can we find gratitude in a world that seeks to destroy it?
