假定你是李华，你校绘画俱乐部将举办国际中学生绘画展。请给你的美国朋友John写封信。请他提供作品。信的内容包括：
1.主题：最美劳动者；
2.作品要求及画展时间；
3. 交作品地址：教学楼一楼305教室。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头和结尾不计入总词数。
Dear John,
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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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Five years ago, my father, who was in his forty, lost his job. At first, he was in low spirits and often gets drunk. One day, he read a story about Ren Zhengfei, which was greatly inspired him. He turned to a friend, with which help he set up a factory. In his factory waste materials were made full use to produce environmentally friendly packing bags. With these bags well receiving, his factory went smooth. Now, he has extra money because he often helps those in need. So far, he has donated as many as $10,000. How a great father I have!
阅读小面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的档次或括号内单词的正确形式。
By now it’s almost common knowledge that spending time in nature is good for you. Areas with 1.(many) trees tend to be less polluted, so spending time there allows you to breathe easier. Spending time outdoors contributes to good health, with blood pressure and stress 2.(reduce), and seems to motivate people 3.(exercise) more.
A survey showed that people 4.spend 2 hours in nature — either all at once or totaled over several shorter 5.(visit) — were more likely to report good health and psychological well-being than those with no nature 6.(expose). Remarkably, the researchers found that less than two hours offered no significant benefits. The two-hour benchmark (临界值) 7.(apply) to men and women, to older and younger folks and so on. Even people8.long-term illnesses or disabilities benefited from time 9.(spend) in nature — as long as it was at least 120 minutes per week.
While the findings are based on 10.tremendous number of people, scientists caution that it’s really just a correlation. Nobody knows why or how nature has this benefit or even if the findings will stand up to stricter investigation.
The View from the Slow Lane
As we pulled into the driveway, I noticed that something seemed different about my mom. She was _______away from me, her shoulders dropped and her hands relaxed. I parked the car and she turned toward me.
“Okay, we’re home,” I said, _______that now was her time to get out and let me be on my own. She sniffled and brushed her hair behind her ears to reveal her bloodshot eyes and moist cheeks. She had been crying.
“Mom!” I whined (嘀咕着说), surprised by the tears running down her face. “Why are you crying?” I asked, _______I already knew the answer.
I had just got my _______, which I’d been looking forward to for months. I was free — able to drive myself where I needed to go. But now that I had it in my pocket, I suddenly felt _______. I had been so quick to grow up, completely ignoring the emotions that my mom must be experiencing with her firstborn _______adulthood.
“My baby boy is growing up too fast,” she _______to say between deep breaths.
My heart ached. I hated to see my mom cry, and I hated more that I had been so ignorant toward her _______. I had been counting down the days,_______waiting to enter the next stage of my life, ________she counted down with fear and headache. The ________and freedom I had previously felt were gone, replaced by an odd sense of mourning.
We hugged. Then she looked me in the eye and told me to drive carefully. “Of course I will,” I reassured her. She unbuckled her seat belt, opened the door, and stepped out. I waved goodbye and pulled out of the driveway.
I had been so ________to start speeding and skirting around corners that I’d ________just how beautiful the ride is. Now I cruised (漫游) down the peaceful two -lane road, ________the sights, sounds, and smells of the nature that surrounds me. At that moment I made a promise to myself, a promise to take things ________and to never, never, catch myself speeding again.
Life had passed me by while I lived my days in fast ________, ignorantly wishing for tomorrow and ________to notice all the beautiful things along the way. Friendships, victories, heartbreaks — have sped by me because I was too busy looking toward the ________. It seems life also has its own ________, and if you find yourself going too fast, you risk ________ the moments that make it so special.
Moments like this.
1.A.facing B.running C.escaping D.breaking
2.A.implying B.fearing C.asking D.considering
3.A.in that B.now that C.even though D.as though
4.A.car B.license C.offer D.scholarship
5.A.anxious B.guilty C.annoyed D.disappointed
6.A.nearing B.spending C.crossing D.delaying
7.A.tried B.intended C.managed D.decided
8.A.waiting B.warning C.greetings D.feelings
9.A.unwillingly B.nervously C.impatiently D.thankfully
10.A.while B.and C.for D.so
11.A.luck B.delight C.honor D.gratitude
12.A.afraid B.confident C.excited D.reluctant
13.A.denied B.forgotten C.realized D.discovered
14.A.following B.imagining C.enjoying D.recognizing
15.A.easy B.wrong C.personal D.slow
16.A.forward B.downward C.backward D.upward
17.A.trying B.refusing C.pretending D.failing
18.A.fortune B.scenery C.past D.future
19.A.fast track B.speed limit C.comfort zone D.daily routine
20.A.deleting B.wasting C.losing D.missing
Let's face it: The last hour of anyone's workday is not always fruitful. As the hours of peak productivity start to decline, most people begin watching the clock, waiting for nothing.1.“How positively you end your professional day can promote success both inside and outside of the office,” says Randi Levin, a transitional life strategist. Let's see how successful people end their workday with a bang.
Successful people reflect on their accomplishments. While many of us spend our last hour of work making a to-do list for tomorrow, they review the day they just had, instead.2.Similarly, Levin recommends writing down the day's wins rather than setbacks or to-dos, as well as reviewing your list of successes once a month. It will prove your professional growth and bring more joy into your job.
Also, successful people brainstorm solutions for today's setbacks.3.Instead, they end their day by thinking carefully about the problems they met, brainstorming possible solutions, and then leaving it for tomorrow. They will settle those problems after a good night's sleep.
4.Rather than detailing the tasks that need to get done, this kind of list encourages people to focus on finding solutions for their projects. “Forget the horrible 'to-do' list,” Levin says, “before heading to happy hour, write down three to five goals you have for the next 24 hours.5.It will provide you with not only a concrete and positive way to begin tomorrow, but also it will allow you to see much more possibilities.”
A.This list is a promise to yourself.
B.Successful people make a to-do list.
C.It will make people understand the problems better.
D.They never bring the day's failures home with them.
E.Another work these people do is to create an action list.
F.But ending the workday with purpose can make a difference.
G.They typically choose a case and consider what led to that success.
Camaraderie over Competence
The importance of liking people is the subject of an article in the Harvard Business Review, which has carried out an experiment to find out who we’d rather work with. Hardly surprisingly, the people we want most as our workmates are both: brilliant at their jobs and delightful human beings. And the people we want least are both unpleasant and useless. More interestingly, the authors found that, given the choice between working with lovable fools and competent jerks (性情古怪的人), we irresistibly choose the former. Anyway, who likes those stupid men who annoy or hurt other people? We might insist that competence matters more, but our behavior shows we stay close to the people we like and sharing information with them.
What companies should therefore do is get people to like each other more. The trick here is apparently to make sure staffs come across each other as often as possible during the day. They also should be sent on bonding courses and so on to encourage friendliness and break down displeasure. However, more outdoor-activity weekends and shared coffee machines inspire no confidence at all.
The reality is that people either like each other or they don’t. You can’t force it. Possibly you can make offices friendlier by tolerating a lot of chat, but there is a productivity cost to that. In my experience, the question of lovable fool against competent jerk may not be the right one. The two are interrelated: we tend not to like our workmates when they are completely hopeless. I was once quite friendly with a woman whom I later worked with. I found her to be so outstandingly bad at her job that I lost respect for her and ended up not really liking her at all. Then is there anything that companies should be doing about it?
By far the most effective strategy would be to hire people who are all pretty much the same, given that similarity is one of the main determinants of whether we like each other. I think this is a pretty good idea, but no one dares recommend this anymore without offending the diversity lobby group. There is only one acceptable view on this subject: teams of similar people are bad because they stop creativity. This may be true, though I have never seen any conclusive proof of it.
Not only do we like similar people, we like people who like us. So if companies want to promote more liking, they should encourage a culture where we are all nice to each other. The trouble is that this needs to be done with some skill.
1.According to the research, which kind of colleagues would most people tend to choose?
A.Nice but unintelligent.
B.Creative but unattractive.
C.Competent but unfriendly.
D.Humorous but unambitious.
2.The author talks about her experience to show that ______.
A.people respect outstanding leaders
B.people tend to like optimistic workmates
C.a workmate’s working ability is important
D.talkative workmates makes offices friendlier
3.Some people think that similar people working together may ______
A.offend each other
B.create fewer new ideas
C.talk more and work less
D.be likely to stick together
4.To encourage workmates to like each other, companies could ______.
A.set more coffee machines in the work place
B.organize team-building activities outside the office
C.encourage a diversity of opinions in workplace
D.employ staff who have a lot in common
