HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020
The competition is open to anyone. Your story can be set anywhere, feature any characters, and be written in any style. This year's theme is "Vision". There are no entry fees for those aged 21 and under. Over 21s must pay an entry fee of￡10 or￡5 for those with student ID.
There are two prizes:
￡1,000 for writers aged 21 and under
￡500 for writers aged over 21
NursinglnFocus Photo Contest 2020
This year we're celebrating the Year of the Nurse. The aim of the NursingInFocus Photo Contest is to put the spotlight on the work of nurses around the world. The competition is open to anyone 18 years old or older. The competition is free to enter.
Prizes:
Overall Winner: $ 1,000
Category Winners: $ 200
People's Choice: $ 500
2020 Posterheroes Contest
Posterheroes Contest is an international poster competition on social and environmental themes. This year's theme is HUMANS AT WORK. The competition is free to enter.
The winner will receive a cash prize of 
2，500
Rijksstudio Design Award 2020
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites everyone to create their own masterpiece inspired by the Rijksmuseum's collection. Alf art forms are possible, such as photos, videos, animations, products, fashion, collages or poems. The competition is free to enter.
The winner of the Rijksstudio Design Award will receive 
7，500.
1.What is special about HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020?
A.It's not open to everyone.
B.It limits stories to one style.
C.It accepts stories of all themes.
D.It's not free for all participants.
2.How much can the winner of 2020 Posterheroes Contest get as a prize?
A.$ 1,000. B.$ 2,000.
C.2,500. D.7,500.
3.Which competition may accept a poem?
A.2020 Posterheroes Contest.
B.Rijksstudio Design Award 2020.
C.NursingInFocus Photo Contest 2020.
D.HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020.
假定你是李华，你的外国朋友Jack在微信朋友圈看到了你在疫情期间做家务的照片，发来邮件想了解你的相关情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括:
1. 你做的家务；
2. 家人的态度；
3. 你的感受。
注意：
1. 词 数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jack,
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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、删改或修改。
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；
2.只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。
Growing up in a small town, J.K. Rowling seems to have led a rather unremarkably life. Many of his former teachers said there was nothing which they could really remember about that girl. After graduated from the University of Exert as French major in 1987, she went to Portugal and lived there for years. She had been worked at various teaching positions after she finally became a full-time writer. Rowling became well-known for writing chapter of the first Harry Potter book in a cafe with her baby slept in a carriage beside her. Rowling’s books have been translated from more than 55 languages and are available in more than 200 countries.
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。
A new bill has been 1.(official) passed in the Philippines that requires students to plant 10 trees each before graduation. According to the details outlined in the bill, the rule applies 2. all students who are to graduate from primary school, high school, and college. Trees can be planted in either forests, reserves, urban areas, 3.(abandon) mining sites, or in communities.
Over the past decades, the Philippines 4.(lose) more than 30% of its forest cover due to illegal logging (伐木), but the new bill means that the younger generation can help to address 5. problem. Under the new rule, 175 million new trees could be planted by students each year. If only 10% of them 6.(survival), that means that 525 billion trees can grow up over the course of one generation.
In fact, this isn’t the only positive rule 7.concerns the younger generation. One school in India made its students pay their school fees by collecting, bringing to school, and 8.(recycle) plastic waste that was lying across the town. This helped raise 9.(aware) of plastic waste in Asian 10.(country). It also allowed more students to seek education and even helped the students to earn some money so they wouldn’t have to rely on child labour for a living.
Surrell was the last person who should have run into a burning building — he has lung disease. But that didn’t _______him.
At first, Michael Surrell didn’t see the black smoke _______from the windows of his neighbors’ home. He was parking the car when his daughter in his car shouted, “The house next to our home is on fire!” He _______and saw some thick smoke above them. He went to find out. That’s when he saw two _______crying on their porch (走廊).
“The _______is in there!” one of the women cried. Entering the _______house, he found thick smoke made it impossible to _______. The conditions would have been _______for anyone, but for Surrell with disease, they were life-threatening.
After a few minutes in the smoke-filled house, he _______outside to catch his breath. “Where is Tiara?” he asked ________. “The second floor,” her aunt shouted back.
Surrell ________he couldn’t hold his breath for long. So he took a ________breath, and went in a second time.
Finally, he ________something, a shoe, then a(n) ________and part of her body above the waist. He ________Tiara toward him. However, she wasn’t breathing. He ________the little girl and fought through the smoke and ran to the ________. At the front door, Surrell put Tiara down and then started CPR (心肺复苏术). Soon a cough came from Tiara’s ________. Surrell gave five more breaths. She opened her ________and took a breath on her own. Their eyes met. Surrell hugged her ________and said, “Uncle’s got you.” Soon after, his throat closed off.
1.A.hit B.stop C.kill D.leave
2.A.shooting B.gathering C.disappearing D.decorating
3.A.looked down B.looked back C.looked around D.looked up
4.A.children B.cooks C.women D.passengers
5.A.pet B.parent C.girl D.money
6.A.burning B.expensive C.comfortable D.safe
7.A.sleep B.breathe C.study D.work
8.A.normal B.calm C.lucky D.dangerous
9.A.looked B.returned C.relaxed D.wandered
10.A.coldly B.gratefully C.embarrassedly D.anxiously
11.A.explained B.proved C.knew D.heard
12.A.deep B.constant C.shallow D.painful
13.A.bought B.touched C.borrowed D.missed
14.A.arm B.ear C.ankle D.mouth
15.A.pulled B.drove C.waved D.pushed
16.A.caught up with B.picked up C.left behind D.made way for
17.A.bathroom B.bedroom C.door D.kitchen
18.A.neighbor B.classmate C.friend D.throat
19.A.eyes B.heart C.fingers D.window
20.A.nervously B.tightly C.curiously D.thankfully
The Science of Risk-Seeking
Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth taking. 1. Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us. Why? Experts say it may have to do with how our brains work?
The reason why any of us take any risks al all might have to do with early humans. Risk-takers were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring. 2. As the quality of risk-taking was passed from one generation to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.
So why aren’t we all jumping out of airplanes then? Well, even 200,000 years ago, too much risk-taking could get one killed. A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types. As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today. So maybe you love car racing, or maybe you hate it. 3.
No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years. 4. To help you do that, your brain increases your hunger for new experiences. New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.
5. For the risk-seekers a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.
As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we’ll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.
A.It all depends on your character.
B.Those are the risks you should jump to take.
C.Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.
D.Thus, these well-equipped people survived because they were the fittest.
E.This is when you start to move away from your family and into the bigger world.
F.However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards.
G.New brain research suggests our brains work differently when we face a nervous situation.
