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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），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
I hate to say sorry, and there’s an unexpected change in my school arrangements. Besides, I’m afraid I cannot keep my appointment to discuss about Chinese paintings with you this Thursday. I sincerely apologized to you for any inconvenience causing by the change. Good news is that an exhibition of Chinese paintings are to be held on Sunday. The exhibits cover works by Qi Baishi, which works have influenced the development of Chinese paintings. I suggest we put off until Sunday because the exhibition is worth the visit. In this way, we can have a discussion while enjoying works from some famous painter. Will that be fine?
Hashtag, a pet dog as a gift from a friend to 1. (bright) up my day, saved my life — not once, but twice.
My husband and I had been expecting the exciting 2. (arrive) of him for months before Hashtag came into our home in the winter. I was struggling with depression and suddenly I had something else 3. (require) my attention. I had been overcome by negative thoughts completely, but now I had 4. sense of purpose. I couldn’t give up. Once realizing that, I became 5. (energy). I focused on giving him training and affection, and walking with him. Finally, I got over my depression 18 months later. There’s no doubt 6. Hashtag played an important role in my recovery. Then, last December, we 7. (sleep) deeply when a fire started in our living room. Barking downstairs 8. (unusual), Hashtag woke us up and allowed us 9. (grasp) the seriousness of our situation.
Within moments, we were standing outside. There’s no telling what could have happened 10.Hashtag’s warning. I don’t have the words to describe how grateful I feel for the warning to him.
The past 10 months has been the most influential months of my life.
As a junior, I left my comfortable home in Illinois and _______ going to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. There I attended a local poorly-equipped school and _______ for an adventure. I experienced so many _______when I arrived, fighting each day to _______ in a new social environment — overcoming racial differences, handling social _______ and being challenged by the polluted environment. However, I _______ that I could create change as well later on.
During the summer vacation I _______ to be a counselor (顾问) at an Easter Seals camp for people with _______ needs who require assistance because of disabilities — improving their ability to do things alone — instead of choosing a _______ teen summer job. It was the most tiring work I’d ever experienced but the most __________ I knew that I’d helped improve over 850 campers’ __________.
As the new school year began, our department had a renovation (翻新). I offered to help clean up all the __________ books. Instead of recycling hundreds of those books, I __________ the department that the books could serve a higher __________. This simple act resulted in an all-out book drive ____________ the schools in Arizona. We currently have boxes of books waiting to be shipped. These books will make a __________ to the entire community’s educational system, enabling teachers and students to get __________ to invaluable resources.
The 10-month experience in Arizona __________ me greatly. It made me become a person with patience, appreciation, determination, and __________ enthusiasm. I trust that it is through enthusiasm, ideas and action that all changes can __________.
1.A.required B.risked C.escaped D.considered
2.A.settled on B.settled back C.settled up D.settled in
3.A.pleasures B.wonders C.blows D.burdens
4.A.survive B.succeed C.recover D.return
5.A.cases B.communications C.conflicts D.responsibilities
6.A.discovered B.expected C.admitted D.remembered
7.A.promised B.decided C.afforded D.learned
8.A.basic B.normal C.special D.natural
9.A.unique B.practical C.popular D.common
10.A.interesting B.rewarding C.demanding D.appealing
11.A.patience B.independence C.intelligence D.confidence
12.A.unturned B.valuable C.useful D.unwanted
13.A.reminded B.comforted C.informed D.convinced
14.A.plan B.target C.purpose D.standard
15.A.benefiting B.satisfying C.representing D.observing
16.A.difference B.point C.request D.reservation
17.A.connection B.permission C.access D.reference
18.A.transformed B.defeated C.tricked D.impressed
19.A.after all B.above all C.at large D.at least
20.A.help B.spread C.matter D.occur
Everyone is born with the ability to learn. There are normally two types of learning in our daily life and study — active learning and passive (被动的) learning. 1. This will help you develop a habit of active learning gradually.
2. I bet that no one sits down to read with the purpose of not getting the contents. But I’m sure that some of you have been in a situation, probably more than once, where you read an assignment, closed the book and thought “what the word was about”. 3. Active readers, on the other hand, set goals and check their understanding as they read. When they finish, they can explain the main points and know that they’ve seen what they have read.
Active learners think about information deeply and critically. Being thoughtful is an important part of active learning, because it means that you are analyzing and absorbing the information. 4. For instance, you may make connections between the new information and what you already know, identify concepts that you may not understand very well, or evaluate the importance of what you are reading. An active learner considers constantly in this way. In contrast, passive learners may read the text and listen to lectures and even understand most of what is read and heard. 5.
All in all, behavior of an active learner and a passive one varies greatly. Equipping yourself with study strategies (策略) of active learners may eventually help you become one of them
A.Passive learners won’t be strict with themselves.
B.You need to know some differences between them.
C.In other words, you are processing what you read.
D.However, that important step of reflecting on it is not taken.
E.Active learners accept much of the responsibility for learning.
F.When interacting with the text in this way, you are doing passively.
G.Active learners study with the purpose of grasping and memorizing information.
Though plastic shopping bags are cheap and useful, they cause widespread pollution. Now, we may have an unlikely helper to help clean up our garbage — a small wax worm.
The worm’s hidden skills were discovered by accident. About two years ago, Federica Bertocchini, a developmental biologist at the Spanish National Research Council and an amateur beekeeper, was cleaning out bees’ nest that had been filled with worms. She removed the worms and put them in a plastic bag while doing the cleaning. After finishing, she went back to the room where she had left the worms, and found they had escaped from the bag. When she checked, she saw that the bag was full of holes.
Realizing she may have made an important discovery, Bertocchini teamed up with other researchers to conduct further research. They began by placing 100 worms on some plastic bags and discovered that over a 24-hour period, the worms managed to chew through 92 milligrams of plastic. The researchers make an appropriate judgment that at this rate, the group of worms could degrade (降解) an average-sized 5.5-gram plastic bag within a month. To rule out the possibility that chewing was causing the degradation, the researchers spread the soft wet substance inside the body of some recently dead worms on a sheet of plastic. Sure enough, even the liquid was able to eat through the material, confirming that the worms have plastic-digesting enzymes (酶).
While the news is certainly encouraging, not everyone is convinced. The Michigan State University’s Ramani Narayan believes the tiny pieces of microplastics released by the plastic-eating worms would pick up harmful substances and transport them up the food chain, causing, even more, harm to the environment and human health. Susan Selke, director of Michigan State University School of Packaging, is concerned that the worms will not be able to survive in an oxygen-free landfills where large amounts of waste material are buried under the earth.
However, Bertocchini is not planning to transport worm armies to landfills. Instead, the researcher wants to identify the enzyme that helps degrade the plastic. The researcher says, maybe we can find the molecule (分子) and produce it on an industrial level, rather than using a million worms in a plastic bag.
1.What did the experiment of using dead worms find out?
A.Worms’ chewing may cause the degradation.
B.A plastic-eating chemical exists in wax worms.
C.Dead worms are effective in dealing with plastic.
D.It takes a long time for worms to degrade plastic.
2.What is Ramani Naravan's attitude to Bertocchini's finding?
A.Objective B.Convinced C.Questioning. D.Optimistic.
3.What might Bertocchini focus her later research on?
A.The structure of plastic-degrading enzymes.
B.The use of other worms in disposing plastic.
C.Wax worms’ adaptability to the landfill environment.
D.The chance of producing wax worms on a large scale.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.Can wax worms save the environment?
B.Wax worms have an appetite for plastic.
C.Why do wax worms have plastic-eating skills?
D.Hungry worms join the fight against plastic pollution
It’s common knowledge that some countries have higher life expectancies (预期寿命) than others, but the city you live in can also affect your health.
Some cities are hard on their citizens. In places with poor city planning — Lagos was called out recently by the Economist Intelligence Unit — public spaces are few and far between, making outdoor activities hard. Lack of infrastructure (基础设施) jams the streets with cars and the air with pollutants, and people work long hours for little money
These are just some of the factors concluded by Spotahome, a rental agency. They’ve analyzed data from a range of sources, including the World Health Organization, Tripadvisor and the CIA World Factbook to score each city on health, gym availability and quality, life expectancy, obesity (肥胖), green space and other elements to work out a list of the world's healthiest cities
The list is certainly Euro-centric but continuous sunshine is seen as a positive thing, even if it may be more of a disadvantage in other regions. But it does go some way towards suggesting which cities are getting it right in providing a good life for their inhabitants.
It may not be surprising to learn that most of the healthiest cities are in northern Europe, known for its people-first approach to city planning. Australia and Canada also do well — but Alaska, the first U.S. city is only in 34th place. The U.K. doesn’t fare too well either — its only city in the top 50 list is London, in 40th.
Whether you’re planning a wholesome holiday, or simply wondering what your city can do better, this list of the 50 healthiest cities will give you pause for thought. Here are the attractive, healthy-eating, clean-aired cities that are getting it right.
1.Why are some cities difficult to live in according to the text?
A.The air is heavily polluted. B.There is no city planning.
C.Outdoor activities aren’t available. D.Public places are limited.
2.How did Spotahome list the world’s healthiest cities?
A.By figuring out the city’s green area.
B.By gaining information via various people.
C.By analyzing different aspects of the cities.
D.By selecting those with the highest life expectancy.
3.What does the list aim to help people do?
A.Form healthy eating habits.
B.Choose a right place for a holiday.
C.Become aware of attractiveness of cities.
D.Reflect the future of the city planning.
4.Where is this text most likely from?
A.A diary. B.A guidebook. C.A novel. D.A magazine.
