假如你是李华，暑假期间准备和父母一起去云南旅游，你想选择自助游，而你父母想随团出行。得知你的英国笔友Michael去年到过云南，请你根据以下内容给他写一封邮件：
1. 描述分歧和各自的理由；
2. 询问他的建议。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：自助游：independent travel 随团游 package tour
Dear Michael,
How is everything going?
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Yours,
Li Hua
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One evening after work, I found a beautiful little fox with a injured leg. He was like a Disney fox. Then I feed her some fish. A couple of weeks later, the fox was back, much better and had often come ever since. She was comfortable enough to come really close me. She allowed me to take photo of her, the best of them I posted on social media. Soon after, she took her cubs together to visit to me, which was really unexpected. It’s amazing to have this connection with something so wildly in this busy city, but happily the loving fox still keeps turning up.
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。
After five decades since it created a new way people 1. (obtain) and used cash, the world’s first ATM (automated teller machine) was turned into gold for celebrations of its 2. (fifty) anniversary. The invention of Scottish inventor Shepherd-Barron, 3. first ATM was opened on June 27, 1967 at a branch of Barclays bank in Enfield, north London.
English actor Reg Varney, 4. starred in the British TV comedy show On The Buses, was the first person 5. (take) cash from the new machine. Now there are an estimated three million cash machines across the globe 6. some 70,000 cash machines in the UK alone which operated 175 billion pounds in 2016. The world’s most northerly machine is at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway 7. the most southerly is located at the McMurdo station at the South Pole.
To celebrate the anniversary, Barclays transformed the ATM at its Enfield branch into gold, and placed a red carpet in front for its 8. (user). “Even though recent years 9. (see) a huge increase of digital banking and card payments, cash 10. (remain) an important part of most people’s day-to-day lives.” said Raheel Ahmed, Head of Customer Experience and Channels at Barclays.
My Perfect Imperfect Life
A few years ago, I was standing at the barre (扶手杠) waiting for my adult ballet class when I heard a voice behind me. “So, do you have this perfect life?”
My first reaction was to _______ who was being asked such an odd question. Then I remembered there were only two of us in the room. When I turned _______, the other woman was looking straight at me.
I had no idea how to answer it. Was she _______? Who has a perfect life? Sure, occasionally I did find the perfect dress or the perfect pair of shoes, _______ never would I use that word to describe anything about me or my life. I felt a twinge of guilt for somehow giving her that _______.
She watched me. I finally _______ to whisper a quick “No”.
By then, the teacher had entered the room and turned on the music to start class. With a sigh of _________, I moved my feet into the best position. But as soon as my knees bent for our first pose, I realized my _______ had been disturbed. This woman’s words wouldn’t _______ echoing in my thoughts.
I wanted to know how she came up with her very mistaken _______. If she knew anything about my life, she never would have had the _______ to ask me that question.
I did my best to do our floor exercises in front of the mirror. For a few moments, I didn’t see the usual _______ of my older self attempting to use a beautiful art form to _______ my gracefulness. I only saw the little girl whose father died when she was two, the child who walked home from elementary school every day to an empty house, who learned to sew her own clothes to _______ money.
Perfect. My life had been far from it.
When those memories ________, I was left with a vision of the woman I had become, the woman _______ by all those things I considered imperfect. I now saw the woman who had learned to be self-reliant, who _______ her family and her friends, who didn’t take life for granted. Was that the “perfect” this woman had detected?
I still don’t know, but I no longer feel _______ or feel like I must keep track of all the difficult times to prove my life isn’t _______. If ever again asked whether my life is perfect, I would have a different _______. Because now I see that, despite all its imperfection, it is.
1.A.notice B.understand C.wonder D.expect
2.A.up B.away C.over D.around
3.A.fair B.serious C.anxious D.wise
4.A.but B.or C.for D.and
5.A.intention B.instruction C.impression D.information
6.A.learned B.managed C.agreed D.planned
7.A.sadness B.surprise C.pleasure D.relief
8.A.concentration B.patience C.confidence D.effort
9.A.escape B.keep C.stop D.stand
10.A.idea B.advice C.reason D.theory
11.A.right B.urge C.excuse D.honor
12.A.reflection B.preference C.appearance D.expression
13.A.experience B.describe C.replace D.improve
14.A.collect B.earn C.spend D.save
15.A.faded B.failed C.floated D.flashed
16.A.buried B.shaped C.watched D.followed
17.A.changed B.welcomed C.valued D.protected
18.A.worried B.guilty C.cautious D.desperate
19.A.comfortable B.ordinary C.perfect D.meaningful
20.A.solution B.message C.approach D.answer
Sleep has become a big deal in working life. Thanks to high-profile figures including Arianna Huffington, sleeping is no longer seen as a sign of weakness among competitive colleagues.
1.A US study has found that in areas where the sun sets earlier, people sleep longer — and this translates into higher earnings. In the long term, just one extra hour of sleep a week increases wages by 4.9%. 2.But don’t move house — the higher wages correspond almost exactly with higher house prices. Actually, if you want to sleep more, there are better ways to do it than moving house — just buy better curtains.
3.Each extra hour of sleep should be taken away from working time. So how can sleeping earn you money? The answer is productivity. The biggest effects come through employees who work on commission. If you go to work well rested, you are livelier and happier, and can sell more to increase your earnings.
Even small amounts of sleep deprivation (缺乏) can have large effects. Another study found that sleeping six hours a night for two weeks produced the same results in cognitive tests as being totally sleep-deprived for up to two days straight. 4.If you struggle to get eight hours of sleep a night, a siesta（午休）can have a “reset” effect, and your productivity improves afterward.
Lack of sleep has already been shown to be worse for productivity than being overweight or underweight. So, why are you still reading this? 5.
A.You should go back to bed.
B.But a mid-afternoon nap can help.
C.Therefore, you should get enough sleep.
D.This goes against conventional economics.
E.Research shows that more sleep can lead to us earning more money.
F.So if you live in an area that gets darker earlier, you should be richer.
G.You are supposed to get down to business as quickly as possible.
Want to get your package delivered via robots? Now there’s an app for that. If you live in Washington D. C. , or Redwood, you may have glimpsed a small, boxy robot rolling along a local sidewalk, minding its own business, but attracting the attention of many curious onlookers.
The autonomous machines were part of a pilot program last year by Starship Technologies focusing on delivering meals from local restaurants in dozens of cities around the world. This week, the company unveiled plans to broaden its delivery service beyond food to include package, a move that led it to declare itself “the world’s first robot package delivery service”. The next time you order food, this cute robot might roll up to deliver it. The package delivery service is not available to everyone yet.
The wheeled robots have a top speed of 4mph and can detect obstacles from 30 feet away. “The robot can operate through anything,” Nick Handrick, head of operations for Starship’s D.C. office, said. “ If you had something in the way — a stick — it’s able to climb sticks.”
To sign up for the service, which costs a little more than $ 10 per month, customers need to download the company’s app. Customers then create a “Starship Delivery Address”, a unique address inside a Starship facility, where they can have package sent from places such as Amazon.com. Once a package is delivered to the Starship address, customers receive a text notification that allows them to schedule a home delivery via robot. The robots are opened by customers via a mobile phone code.
Barriers exist for robotic ground delivery, with many states requiring that humans be in control of delivery robots. Those regulations haven’t stopped Starship Technologies from accumulating experience on streets around the globe ahead of the company’s latest launch. The company says its robots have covered more than 125,000 miles in more than 100 cities in 20 countries.
1.What can we know about the robotic delivery?
A.It is part of a trial project by Starship Technologies.
B.You can use the service free of charge via smart phones.
C.The robots are opened by customers with a text notification.
D.The robotic delivery is available to everyone at present.
2.What does the underlined word “unveiled” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Revised B.Released
C.Restored D.Reset
3.What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A.The good news of the service.
B.The disadvantages of the robotic delivery.
C.How the robotic delivery works.
D.Robotic delivery develops despite challenges.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.A New Robot Was Invented B.Wheelless Robots Are on the Way
C.How Robots Deliver Packages D.Packages Will Be Delivered by Robots
