假定你是李华，你校将于5月23日组织一次校外植树劳动体验活动，打算邀请外教James参加。请你写封邀请信，内容包括:
1. 写信目的；
2. 活动内容；
3. 活动意义；
4. 表达期待。
注意:
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇: 劳动 labor
Dear James,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
To raise students’ awareness of road safety, a traffic police officer were invited to give us lecture in the school’s hall on May 20th. At first, the officer present us with some cases of traffic accidents. It great shocked the students present. Then, the officer analyzed that led to the accidents and stressed the important of following traffic rules. Finally, he detailed some traffic regulation and instructed us not to breaking them.
The lecture was a valuable opportunity for them, from which all the students benefited a lot of. We realized that we should obey the traffic rules strictly.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Dutch government has announced it will stop 1. (use) the nick name Holland in favor of its 2. (office) name the Netherlands. The €200,000 ($319,000) rebrand is part of an update of the country’s international image. The image includes a push to more sustainably manage large numbers of tourists 3. visit the country each year.
Holland refers to two of the 12 4. (province), North Holland, which includes Amsterdam and Haarlem, and South Holland, where The Hague, Rotterdam and Leiden 5. (situate). The tourism industry started promoting the nation using the nickname 25 years ago but now 6. (want) to present the commerce, science and politics of the whole country.
The change of image was part of a renewed tourism strategy that aims 7. (put) an end to large numbers of visitors on cheap flights, particularly to Amsterdam. Minister of Economic Affairs Eric Wiebes said the Netherlands had the 8. (much) competitive economy in Europe and the fourth in the world.
It said it expected the number of international visitors to reach 30 million in 2030, which will increase the pressure 9. the quality of life and the environment, and makes 10. necessary not only to promote the country, but also to emphasis a big development of the Netherlands.
My family and I belonged to a country club located across the street from the Long Island Sound. Each summer, the big _______ for us was the pool. I learned how to swim and _______the swimming team. However, swimming in my _______ days was a way to keep cool, and swimming on a team gave me identity and a sense of _______. It also became _______ many years later.
Fast-forward (快进) to 1973 — I was _______, pregnant and had a home. What made our little home even more _______ was that I discovered that four _______ away was Rath Park Pool! For the next 30 years, most of our summer days were _______ around that pool. Each of my five kids took swimming lessons and learned all the __________ swimming strokes (姿势).
As much as I would have liked to have life stand __________, it doesn’t. My children outgrew their pool days and moved on with their own life. But the pool was still four blocks from my home, so I began to __________ swimming again. I got so much out of it that I joined the local pool, so I could swim year-round. Whenever I swam, I would __________ come out feeling physically and mentally__________. I often felt that if I looked hard enough, I would be able to see all of the __________and problems I’ve had in life, sitting at the bottom of the pool!
What has swimming __________ me? I’ve learned that __________ is the key to being a good__________. If you are balanced in the water, you have no resistance. Working on staying balanced made me realize the __________ between life in and out of the swim lane. If you work on keeping yourself balanced, you will be able to swim right __________ the stress and problems life throws at you.
1.A.attraction B.activity C.holiday D.building
2.A.refused B.managed C.founded D.joined
3.A.busier B.younger C.tiring D.exciting
4.A.belonging B.duty C.beauty D.loss
5.A.impressive B.difficult C.invaluable D.boring
6.A.employed B.worn C.dismissed D.married
7.A.disappointing B.encouraging C.wonderful D.hopeful
8.A.blocks B.miles C.hours D.meters
9.A.wasted B.spent C.stopped D.remembered
10.A.clumsy B.strange C.funny D.different
11.A.straight B.still C.away D.high
12.A.take up B.give up C.learn from D.worry about
13.A.yet B.never C.always D.sometimes
14.A.sensitive B.refreshed C.nervous D.weakened
15.A.days B.children C.worries D.dreams
16.A.helped B.taught C.encouraged D.made
17.A.experience B.challenge C.training D.balance
18.A.family B.mother C.kid D.swimmer
19.A.similarities B.activities C.exercises D.skills
20.A.with B.over C.through D.to
When we are born,we are given names that stay with us for our whole lives. Some names include good wishes and hopes from parents, while others may be unique and easy to remember.
1.
According to International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, an organization responsible for naming new viruses,the task of naming a virus is no less important than naming a person.
When a disease breaks out, people focus on the public health response 2. But that may lead to many problems. The most obvious one is that different media organizations may use different names for the same virus in their reports. We are now in the internet era. 3. This means different names can take hold quickly and be hard to take back, which may confuse those who know little about the virus.
4. Over the past decade, some improper names have caused problems. In 2009, the “swine flu” was widely used before the official name, HINI virus, was announced. This led Egypt to kill all of its pigs. In 2015, MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)caused a backlash (强烈抵制)against the nations and people of this region. So in 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the names of viruses should avoid being named after geographic locations, people, species or classes of animals and foods.
5. The new coronavirus we are suffering from was named “COV-ID-19” on Feb 11. In this name, “CO” means “corona”, “VI” stands for “virus” and “D” means “disease”. Next time you read about a virus you don't know, you may get some clues about it from its name.
A.But naming a virus is never easy.
B.The WHO followed these principles this time .
C.News can spread to every household in seconds.
D.They often don’t know how to protect themselves.
E.The official naming of a new virus is often delayed.
F.Do you have a name which is easy to remember?
G.But do you know how the new coronavirus got its name?
Today we know Antarctica as an extreme environment containing ice and snow. But new research provides evidence that the area was very different in the past.
The evidence was found inside a piece of earth sediment(沉积物) collected by researchers from a depth of about 30 meters below the ocean floor off the coast of Antarctica. In the sediment, they found forest soil estimated to be about 90 million years old. This would have been in the Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs were the main land animals.
Johann Klages is a geologist, working in the Institute's Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. He said an examination showed that the material formed on land, not in the ocean.
The researchers estimate that the area – about 900 kilometers from the South Pole – had average yearly temperatures of about 12 to 13 degrees Celsius. During the warmest summer months, average temperatures likely reached between 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. The average yearly temperature in that area is about 40 degrees below zero Celsius.
The examination results showed “a dense network of roots that spread through the entire soil layer,” the Helmholtz Center said in a statement.
The dark brownish-gray soil included fine dirt particles and hard clay, as well as substances linked to at least 65 different kinds of plants, the study found. Klages put that the plants included trees, ferns and flowering plants and while no animal remains were found, there were likely dinosaurs, flying reptiles and many insects in the environment.
The researchers said that the rainforest environment in Antarctica was especially surprising because each year, the area experiences a four-month polar night when there is no sunlight to fuel plant life.
1.According to the passage, we can learn that ________.
A.dinosaurs were from Antarctica
B.Antarctica was always extremely cold
C.the ocean floor is made up of sediment
D.the area has been experiencing climate changes
2.What surprised the researchers?
A.No animals left.
B.No fertilizer to fuel plants.
C.Roots spreading through the soil.
D.The rainforest experiencing polar night.
3.Which column is the passage probably from?
A.Science. B.Entertainment. C.Society. D.Fiction.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Antarctica, Once a Warm Rainforest
B.Earth Sediment Found in Antarctica
C.Antarctica - an Extreme Environment
D.New Antarctica Found by Researchers
