假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Frankie给你来信，说现在越来越多的外国人也开始庆祝中国的春节，他希望能对春节有更多的了解，请你就此给他写一封信。要点如下：
1. 庆祝春节的传统方式；
2. 目前庆祝方式的改变。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增减细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Frankie,
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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(∧)，并在其下面写岀该加的词。
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。
I was so proud that I heard my team won the ice hockey competition. It made me feeling like I could achieve anything. Only three years before, I was terrified of walking or skating on ice. To deal with this, I decided to join skating club. My teacher was great but before I knew it, I was able to skate. He then persuades me to try ice hockey. I loved it and was soon practising with my local team on almost every evening. We’re now training hardly for national competitions and hope to be champion one day, but his ultimate goal is to be an ice hockey teacher and help people learn to play this game.
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 female Arctic fox traveled nearly 2, 200 miles in 76 days—from Norway to Canada—and surprised Norwegian scientists in the process.
The fox 1. (equip) with a satellite transmitter by scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute, where scientists wanted 2. (survey) just how far Arctic foxes travel from their birthplace. They found their answer: In less than three months, it went from Spitsbergen, 3. island in northern Norway, to Ellesmere Island in the northeastern part of Canada.
The fox moved 4. a rate of 29 miles a day. At its fastest, it traveled nearly 100 miles in a single day while 5. (cross) Greenland. It set a record for the fastest movement rate ever 6. (document) in an Arctic fox. ''This is among the longest 7. (event) ever recorded for an Arctic fox, covering extensive stretches of sea ice and glaciers, '' wrote Norwegian scientists Eva Fuglei and Arnaud Tarroux in a report.
The journey was among the longest recorded by scientists, 8. it also raises questions of the effects 9. climate changes have on sea ice and animals that navigate the Arctic. The Arctic 10. (current) faces ''its most excellent transition in human history'', said Emily Osborne of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Facial expressions _______ meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example in American culture the smile is _______ an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman’s smile at a police officer does not have the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also _______ true feelings. It often causes _______ across cultures. For example, many people in Russia _______ smiling at strangers in public to be _______ and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the _______ places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures, a smile is frequently used to _______ painful feelings. _______ people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.
Our __________ show emotions (情感), but we should not __________ to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. The __________ that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as members of another do does not mean that they do not __________ emotions.
__________, there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressions permitted. For example, in public and in __________ situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions __________.
It is __________ to generalize about Americans and facial expressiveness __________ personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more __________ expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotions are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the __________ of “reading” the other person incorrectly.
1.A.speak B.carry C.expose D.bring
2.A.on the basis B.in return C.on the contrary D.in general
3.A.hide B.deliver C.convey D.escape
4.A.offence B.doubt C.confusion D.curiosity
5.A.claim B.admit C.discover D.consider
6.A.unusual B.normal C.common D.meaningless
7.A.public B.wrong C.certain D.proper
8.A.cover B.avoid C.ignore D.stop
9.A.Americans B.Germans C.Vietnamese D.Russians
10.A.bodies B.eyes C.faces D.gestures
11.A.manage B.attempt C.encourage D.advise
12.A.fact B.story C.truth D.habit
13.A.deserve B.survive C.suffer D.experience
14.A.Then B.Rather C.Therefore D.Instead
15.A.casual B.private C.hard D.formal
16.A.differently B.willingly C.similarly D.personally
17.A.easy B.difficult C.impossible D.important
18.A.at the risk of B.regardless of C.in spite of D.because of
19.A.facially B.physically C.mentally D.psychologically
20.A.point B.difference C.mistake D.effort
How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered? 1. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed significantly.
Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships. 2.
The digital age also enables us to find people who share our interests, such as collecting model cars or playing an unusual instrument. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.
But when you “friend” people online, does this mean that they really are your friends?
3.
If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to keep in mind that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person.
On social media sites, people tend to post only positive updates that make them appear happy and friendly. But smiling photos can hide real problems. 4. A young person could be old; a woman could be a man; we could even be sharing our information with criminals.
5. Although technology has changed the way we acquire friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods.
A.It depends.
B.All you need is a Wi-Fi connection.
C.It’s a problem that’s getting a lot of coverage.
D.This was how things worked not very long ago.
E.Remember the saying: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
F.But that doesn’t mean that a higher percentage of people feel lonely now.
G.But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
They say that ''a picture is worth a thousand words'', but the briefest look at books and the movies based on them would have anyone questioning this common saying. All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic ''turkeys''.
Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer's The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it? Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as ''great''? Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as ''interesting''?
One of the key reasons behind this is that while a book usually takes a few days to read, a movie typically lasts under two hours. This means that great books can lose plot details and characters when they move to the big screen. This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can't escape from, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favorite characters in the movie versions.
Movies also disappoint us when things don't look the way we imagined them in the books. Take, for example, the epic movie Troy, which is in part based on Homer's The Iliad and was met with mixed reviews from the audience. The most questionable issue was the actress chosen to play the part of Helen. Many people thought she didn't live up to Helen's title of ''the most beautiful woman in the world'', influencing opinions of the movie to some extent.
There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. Furthermore, books and movies are two different forms of media and therefore have different rules. With this in mind, perhaps we should judge a movie in its own right, and not against its original source. Interestingly, audiences have in recent years turned to television series such as Sherlock or Mad Men, which can have many characters and gradual plot development. Perhaps, one day, readers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.
1.Which of the following statements about the movie adaptation is true?
A.The characters in The Odyssey do not stand out.
B.The movie Troy doesn't look the way we visualized while reading the book.
C.The visual images are not as striking as the descriptions in the book The Great Gatsby.
D.Some parts of the story and characters are missing in the movie Alice in Wonderland.
2.One of the reasons why adaptations disappoint the audience is that ________.
A.they lack good storytelling
B.the images are not impressive enough
C.the characters in the movies are not strong and interesting
D.there is not enough time for movies to fully present the whole story
3.What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A.Every shoe fits not every foot.
B.Birds of a feather flock together.
C.Reading is a matter of personal taste.
D.Different people have different ideas about the books and movies.
4.What does the text mainly talk about?
A.People are dissatisfied with the current movies.
B.Reading books is better than watching movies.
C.Good books may not be adapted for great movies.
D.People are expressing their preference to reading books.
