假如你叫李华, 你们班计划在六一儿童节前夕去幸福小学慰问聋哑儿童（deaf-mute children)。 请你用英语给学校的交流生July写一封电子邮件, 询问她是否愿意参加。内容包括：
1. 提出邀请；
2. 说明时间、地点和交通方式等；
3. 简要介绍活动内容和注意事项。
注意：1. 词数100左右。格式已给出, 不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
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The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape has long been regarded as a wonder of ancient engineering. The water system in Australia1. (build)more than 6, 000 years ago- long before even the Egyptian pyramids took shape.
Ancient inhabitants of the region made the system of channels and dams as an 2.（extraordinary)complex trap for the eels(鳗鱼）that locals depended on for food. Budj Bim was recognized as3.World Heritage site today, but few suspected the system ran so far and so deep.
In fact, it took a disaster for Budj Bim 4.(reveal)itself in all its former glory. Bushfires, 5.(spark)by record temperatures and lasting drought, have burned away the thick leaves covering the water system, 6.(allow)the full scale of Budj Bim to emerge from the flames.
The Egyptian pyramids were made with materials that were plentiful nearby, and7.was Budj Bim. It was made with the area's most ready resource: volcanic rock. That building block came from the lava of a now-inactive volcano, 8. the ancient people used to redirect waters from Lake Condah-waters heavy with eels.
Now the Aboriginals still call parts of the area home, and their population 9.（decline)dramatically since Europeans arrived on the continent. But their10.（achieve)stand the test of time-even if it took a tragedy to reveal them. It's an important acknowledgement of the work their ancestors have done.
There he was, turning the corner of Hawley and Main Street like clockwork. His red hair seemed to catch the sunlight, giving his head a soft candle-flame glow. He caught my eye, and up went his arm in his usual wave. As usual, I _______back and gave him a warm smile. I didn’t know his name, but he was very _______to everybody. No matter the weather, I saw him walking out there almost every day.
Having moved from a larger city, I wasn’t used to waves from _______. Actually, wherever we were, people hardly_______each other. We simply passed by each other, heads down, minding our own_______.
Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed these daily waves. It felt great to be _______and receive that message of “Hello!”. On days when we didn’t _______ to pass each other, I missed him and wondered if he was all right. The next day, I’d find myself driving with one eye on the _______. It was a happy reunion when I spotted him, and I’d wave first in my _________.
One night I was walking in the street, my thoughts traveled to “The Waver”, wondering if I could be________enough to wave at people I didn’t know. Just at the point.
I heard a car ________. I made eye contact with the person in the car, smiled and waved at her. The woman’s face____________, and she waved back. I was a little surprised. I reminded myself, “It’s okay. It’s actually kind of ________!” I waved to everyone I saw the rest of the way home.
Everyone at some point in their lives wonders if they’ve made any ________on the world. I can tell you that you don’t have to change the world ________. It’s enough to help sweeten it a little, even simply by a heart-warming wave.
1.A.waved B.took C.saluted D.glanced
2.A.cautious B.reliable C.friendly D.thankful
3.A.strangers B.relatives C.colleagues D.employers
4.A.informed B.encouraged C.encountered D.acknowledged
5.A.behaviors B.business C.appearance D.manners
6.A.worried B.noticed C.relieved D.checked
7.A.agree B.attempt C.promise D.happen
8.A.pedestrians B.buildings C.street D.children
9.A.mildness B.kindness C.eagerness D.brightness
10.A.brave B.mature C.lucky D.crazy
11.A.attacking B.escaping C.following D.approaching
12.A.lengthened B.softened C.worsened D.tightened
13.A.cool B.tough C.fresh D.curious
14.A.comment B.impact C.decision D.sense
15.A.accurately B.slightly C.thoroughly D.generally
We know that a smart phone app can bring us a lot of benefits when we learn another language. 1. Many of us have to endure hours of school lessons with our heads buried in textbooks. It's no wonder then that technology appears to be providing a better way of learning.
Having a smartphone means you can have a virtual teacher with you wherever you go, and there is certainly a huge demand for language learning apps. Many app developers are keen to cash in on the demand, hoping to share a piece of the app market. 2.One of many popular apps, Duolingo, offers 91 courses in 30 languages and has more than 300 million users.
3.They offer languages not popular enough to be taught at evening classes, or at most universities. And others offer' invented' language courses in Esperanto, Elvish and Star Trek's Klingon-lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom. Whatever you want to learn, apps allow you to go at your own pace and fit learning around other commitments. But they're not perfect-you might not get your head round the grammar. Lacking the peer support you could get in a classroom environment is a challenge, too.
So, does technology spell the end of traditional classrooms and teachers? Guy Baron, head of modern languages at Aberystwyth University, thinks not. He told the BBC that the apps are very conversational. . . they're not designed for degrees, but they could be additional resources. 4.
Certainly technology is going to help in and outside the classroom. But motivation can be a problem when using an app. 5.Of course, if you have a genuine reason to learn another language, you will no doubt stick with it.
A.There are numerous learning apps available.
B.Some educational apps are targeted at specific small groups.
C.A coming message may easily get distracted from your online lessons.
D.The content may be not what you really want and it is quite a waste of time.
E.Apps should be used alongside classroom methods, not separated from traditional teaching.
F.It opens doors, makes you more employable, helps you make new friends, and it's fun too.
G.Attending a real lesson, facing a real teacher, probably helps you to be more devoted.
There has been a lot of such news lately. As far as the problems with today's schools are concerned, we can go back to how our culture has evolved.
In general, our culture, as represented in the media, gets excited by famous stars, and stresses that it's what you have, not what you are, that counts. Parents are encouraged to be away from even very small children for most of the day. Too many people vote for politicians who would rather cut school funding than stop tax cuts for the wealthy. All contribute greatly to the problems of educating our children.
Today's teachers have to deal with a culture that is vastly different than in the past. They report that there is, among more children than ever, a lack of motivation, no drive to succeed or even try. In the media, the role models that boys see mostly consist of men in comedies and other shows, who are rude and often extremely childish; self-centered overpaid athletes; men in movies, television or video games, who are violent and powerful. As Leonard Sax wrote in Boys Adrift, "Teenage boys are looking for models of mature adulthood, but we no longer make any collective effort to provide such models."
Girls are attacked not only with such annoying images of males, but also with women who are extremely materialistic.
In such a cultural environment, it is more important than ever to have responsible parents who are devoted to their children and see to it as their duty to model for them and raise them with high standards of honesty and responsibility. They need to care enough to see that their children are not attacked with the rubbish that comes from movie, television and computer screens.
In today's culture, they are basically alone in this effort since, unfortunately, so much is working against them. Until we, as a culture, face the truth about ourselves- that we are not providing adequately for a great many of our children, as Jim Taylor titled his book "Your Children are Under Attack”。
1.What does "such news" in the beginning most probably involve?
A.Cultural evolution. B.Financial risk from tax cuts.
C.Problems in education. D.Social influence of the media.
2.What does today's culture bring to the children?
A.Narrow access to entertainment. B.Poor social abilities.
C.Few materialistic models. D.Too much negative effect.
3.What do parents have to do in today's culture?
A.Find more models for their children.
B.Keep their kids from the bad effect of the media.
C.Forbid their children to use computers.
D.Encourage their children to stay at school.
4.What is the author's attitude towards today's culture?
A.Indifferent. B.Ambiguous.
C.Dissatisfied. D.Approving.
As doctors performed surgery on Dagmar Turner's brain, the sound of a violin filled the operating room. The music came from the patient on the operating table. In a video from the surgery, the violinist was moving her bow(琴弓)up and down as surgeons behind a plastic sheet worked to remove her brain tumor(肿瘤).The King's College Hospital surgeons woke her up in the middle of the operation in order to ensure they did not damage parts of the brain necessary for playing the violin and keep her hand's functions intact.
Turner, 53, learned that she had a slow-growing tumor. Later doctors found that it had become more aggressive and the violinist decided to have surgery to remove it. Turner recalled doctors telling her, "Your tumor is on the right-hand side, so it will not affect your right hand, it will affect your left hand. "Staring down at her left hand, she said, “This is my most important part. My job these days is playing the violin, which is my passion. ”
" We knew how important the violin is to Turner, so it was vital that we preserved function in the delicate areas of her brain that allowed her to play, "Keyoumars Ashkan, a doctor at King's College Hospital, said in a press release.
Before Turner's operation, Ashkan and his colleagues spent two hours carefully mapping her brain to identify areas that were active when she played the violin and those controlling language and movement. Waking her up during surgery then allowed doctors to monitor whether those parts were suffering damage. The surgery was a success. Ashkan said, "We managed to remove over 90 percent of the tumour, including all areas suspicious of aggressive activity, while retaining full function of her left hand."
Brad Mahon, expert at Carnegie Mellon University, said the basic features of an "awake craniotomy"-the type of brain surgery where patients are awake in order to avoid damage to critical brain areas--have remained largely unchanged for decades. For example, doctors have long used simple tests such as asking a patient to name what they're seeing in pictures to make sure language ability is preserved.
But he said that doctors are now able to map the patient's brain activity in great detail before the surgery, using an imaging technique called functional MRI. That means surgeons are coming into the operating room with tar more information about a specific patient's brain. That kind of information helps doctors tailor tests to a patient's particular needs.
1.What does the underlined word “intact" mean in the first paragraph?
A.strong B.sound
C.talented D.influential
2.Why did Ashkan and his colleagues map Turner's brain before operation?
A.To keep her brain more active when she played the violin.
B.To monitor whether her brain had suffered damage severely.
C.To recognize the areas related to music and movement precisely.
D.To remove the tumor while keeping all function of her brain.
3.What can we know according to Brad Mahon?
A.Doctors are using an imaging technique to monitor the surgery.
B.Patients are asleep to protect critical brain areas in a surgery.
C.A patient's language ability couldn't be preserved before.
D.Surgeons can personalize a patient's operation by mapping his brain.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Musician joined in her own brain surgery
B.Mapping a brain is realized after surgery
C.The violinist suffers from a brain tumor
D.Doctors perform surgery on a brain
