The Deep Roots
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any_____ I’d ever known. Every time I saw him, he wore ______ and a straw hat. I remember him as someone who was a lot ______ than most of the adults in our community.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t ______ lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a ______.
The good doctor had some ______ theories concerning plant care and growth. He _____watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional ______. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled (宠坏) them so that each ______ would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things ______ for them and weed out the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for ______ roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in ______ of water. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.
He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he ______ it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s ______.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d ______ him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and strong since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden swung in a cold wind although I had ______ them for several years.
It seems that ______ benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought. Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the ______ and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be ______. But I think that it’s time to ______ my prayer because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship.
1.A.gardener B.farmer C.doctor D.professor
2.A.uniform B.overcoat C.suit D.dress
3.A.nicer B.tender C.richer D.stronger
4.A.encouraging B.discovering C.saving D.protecting
5.A.landmark B.castle C.yard D.forest
6.A.interesting B.embarrassing C.puzzling D.expecting
7.A.usually B.never C.sometimes D.always
8.A.labour B.dignity C.habit D.wisdom
9.A.generation B.structure C.resource D.pressure
10.A.sensitive B.particular C.rough D.positive
11.A.shallow B.intensive C.muddy D.flexible
12.A.search B.charge C.case D.control
13.A.cover B.beat C.push D.clean
14.A.permission B.admiration C.expectation D.attention
15.A.heard B.helped C.made D.watched
16.A.planted B.watered C.burdened D.firmed
17.A.surroundings B.sufferings C.suggestions D.opportunities
18.A.marking B.sharing C.sailing D.rising
19.A.brave B.successful C.easy D.confident
20.A.observe B.reveal C.change D.mind
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As we live in social groups, there 1. (be) many benefits of friendship that we can enjoy. Generally speaking, close friendships have three “fruits”: they may comfort the heart, advise the head and help us achieve the goals we set for ourselves. Through friendship, we can become happier, wiser, and more 2. (satisfy) humans. It should be pointed that 3. (enjoy) the company of a crowd is not the same as being with friends. So friends should be carefully chosen 4. relationships should be well developed.
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The World Health Organization has said the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) does not spread as 1. (effective) as flu. As the WHO gathers more data, the organization understands more about the novel coronavirus, 2. causes more severe disease than seasonal flu. At the moment, there is no specific treatment for the new virus. Globally, about 3.4 percent of people with reported COVID-19 cases have died. In comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far 3. (few) than 1 percent of those infected (感染).
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I gave a dress to my granddaughter Anne for her birthday. With a pause at the dress, she smiled lovingly at me and 1. (tell) me it was beautiful. I was happy that she liked it. One day, passing Anne’s bedroom, I heard her talking2.the phone. “My grandma gave me this very pink dress,” she said. “I really appreciate it, but who wears pink these days?” I stood there in awkward silence. Then I walked away, 3. (pretend) not to have heard anything.
假定你是某某中学校学生会主席李华，针对目前同学们逐渐返校，但是新型冠状病毒仍然没有得到完全的控制，于是你受学生会委托，面向全校学生写一封倡议信，号召同学们在学校一定要做好自我保护。
内容包括：
1. 养成良好的个人卫生习惯；
2. 避免同学之间的密切接触，遵守学校公共秩序。
注意：1. 字数100字左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：新型冠状病毒novel coronavirus
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英语课上，老师要求同桌之间相互修改作文。假设以下短文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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(A)，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。
You must have heard about Dolly and have been amazed by the first cloned animal. But here came a problem; should we clone humans? When being asked about this question, a large number of people which are interested in the topic hold the view that it’s beneficial to clone humans. Therefore, some other people, me including, are against this idea. Cloning humans can bring negative effects and wrong informations. In the first place, they may not be treated equal as normal people, which I believe will make him suffer a lot. In second place, human cloning may lead in some social disorder, and it is quite dangerous.
