假定你是李华，你想邀请在中国留学的英国好友Peter观看京剧表演，但Peter不在家，你给他写张留言条，内容要点包括：
1.你到Peter家的目的；
2.介绍京剧
3.询问什么时候方便，再约时间观看。
注意：1.词数100字左右
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
3.开头和结尾语已为你写出。
参考词汇：quintessence精华、精粹；ornate华丽的
Dear Peter,
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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.
China and Western country may have different cultural beliefs about certain animals. But when it comes to mice, we somehow reach an agreement that mice are timid, ugly, shortsightedly, tricky and thievish﹣looking.
Neither of these words describing mice are exactly positive. Moreover, the truth is what mice have some good qualities. And there's probably no good time to clear their names than now， with the arrival of the Year of the Mouse on Chinese Spring Festival, which fell January 25 this year. According to a paper publishing in 2017, mice have meticulous thoughts or are part of ecosystem. Perhaps these are the qualities of mice to keep it in mind﹣their intelligence, acuity and sense of responsibility.
Chinese oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文) over 3,000 years old are now being widely used as emojis by young WeChat users, thanks to a person who made them 1. (close) to people’s life than before.
“The ancient characters are not as cool and distant 2. they are supposed to be,” said the 3. (create) Chen Nan. “In fact, they are cute and humorous, and they could totally serve our needs for online expression.” 4. 46-year-old professor of fine art at Tsinghua University has been working to make oracle bone inscriptions into emojis. For example, the character for “zui,” 5. means “drunk” in English, was created 6.(look) like a stumbling figure.
Chen has also combined the ancient Chinese characters with cartoon figures. A cartoon video clip 7. (feature) oracle bone inscriptions designed by him was viewed 31 million times and shared 140,000 times.
Chen worked on the road of innovation 19 years ago. In 2016, the ancient typeface 8. (include) into the font library under his efforts to let the ancient words walk into people’s life. Now the library has as many as 3,500 characters, 9.Chen’s research on the project still continues, as he plans to extend the library to 7,000 characters. In the future, he will apply the ancient characters 10.education and development of games and apps.
‘‘You're too small, Ginny. You'll never make an Olympic team,” said my first-ever rowing ___, way back in the late winter of 1978. I had just confessed(承认)my ____, which was admittedly outsized at that point, to somebody whose emotional ____ could play a key role.
Maybe my dream wasn't ____reality. After all, I had tried out for the national team for the first time the previous year and been cut, and I lacked the____that most Olympic rowers possess, not to mention much experience as an athlete, but____,1 was shocked by my coach's response.
1 left the gym in a panic. As I walked, I began to____my future, making room for my coach's opinion, pushing my dream aside into a dark corner. A small inner voice had joined forces with the coach's. “Maybe he's ____.”
But then, another voice ____. "What does he know? Why does he get to decide?" My coach didn't have faith ____me but that didn't necessarily mean I had to give up on myself so quickly. By the time I arrived back at my apartment,1 was ____at my coach and my dream was back on center stage.
___came easy when it came to fulfilling that dream. But l was____by my love of the beauty of rowing. I wanted to row among the best and I refused to stop____ I achieved my goal.
I made that 1980 team,____not getting to compete at the Olympics. I kept____four more years, and finally won silver at the 1984 Olympics.
Everything I have today is a(n) ____of sticking with that dream, all those hours on the water, in the weight room, and in the stadium. They got me here,____I know now that big ambitions need not just time to develop, but firm____in them. And I will not allow anyone else to____ for me what's possible.
1.A.athlete B.coach C.director D.fellow
2.A.situation B.view C.idea D.dream
3.A.state B.support C.judgment D.intelligence
4.A.involved in B.connected with C.devoted to D.based on
5.A.talent B.determination C.height D.effort
6.A.even B.still C.never D.seldom
7.A.design B.expect C.hide D.rethink
8.A.right B.wrong C.modest D.cruel
9.A.argued B.repeated C.agreed D.whispered
10.A.at B.on C.in D.for
11.A.shocked B.disappointed C.bored D.mad
12.A.Nothing B.Everything C.Anything D.Something
13.A.struck B.changed C.driven D.caught
14.A.when B.until C.after D.since
15.A.in spite of B.in terms of C.in control of D.in place of
16.A.training B.teaching C.defending D.exploring
17.A.sense B.awareness C.award D.result
18.A.which B.where C.when D.that
19.A.interest B.hope C.belief D.pleasure
20.A.pretend B.promise C.decide D.manage
Here’s a new reason to be an optimist. 1. Pessimists, of course, might have suspected this all along-but now there’s actual research behind it.
Boston-area scientists found the most optimistic people live an average of 11 to 15 percent longer than their more pessimistic peers.
In previous studies, researchers have found that more optimistic people tend to have lower risk of diseases and early death, said Lewina Lee, the lead researcher and a psychiatry professor at Boston University School of Medicine. “2.“
Optimists generally expect good things to happen in the future and feel like they can control important outcomes. They tend to stay positive whatever comes their way.
3. There’s good news: The mind-set is about 25 percent hereditary (遗传的). Lee said, meaning people have some control over their level of good thoughts. She said people can become more optimistic by imagining a future in which their goals have been reached.
To conduct their research. Lee and the other scientists compared results from two independently conducted studies-one that followed nearly 70,000 women for a decade and another that followed about 1,400 men for 30 years. 4. They ranked themselves on statements including in uncertain times, “I usually expect the best” or “I'm always optimistic about my future.”
The conclusion that optimistic people tend to live longer holds true regardless of other factors, Lee said.
The study leaves one question unanswered: 5. Although it's unclear, the researchers believe optimists may be better at regulating stressors and bouncing (反弹) back I from upsetting events. Optimists also generally have healthier habits, like exercising more and smoking less.
A.Not a natural optimist?
B.Our study took it one step further.
C.Why are optimists likely to live longer?
D.Why do women generally live longer than men?
E.An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
F.People self-reported their optimism on questionnaires.
G.Those who see the glass as half full, according to a new study, live longer.
At first glance,price-comparison websites are an example of capitalism at its best.But it has caused fierce competition on price and eviscerated profits.Towers Watson,a consultancy,said that "unnecessary" price competition following the rise of comparison sites in Britain had cost insurers ￡1 billion a year.
Consumers should celebrate that;the firms' losses are their gains.But there is a catch.Comparison sites introduce a new layer of costs,including their own advertising campaigns.In theory,competition in the market for comparison sites ought to keep those costs down.But David Ronayne of Warwick University argues that consumers often lose out from comparison sites.They earn a commission for each shopper who uses them for consumption such as buying insurance.That referral（委托）cost is included in the price the consumer ends up paying.If the increased costs outweigh the saving the comparison enables,consumers end up worse off.
These worries are not just theoretical.In 2014,Britain's competition regulator found that many comparison sites were using their contracts with retailers（零售商）to ban them from offering lower prices elsewhere.That weakened rivals' incentive（对手的动机）to cut fees,because prices on their site could not fall.By keeping prices similar,the contracts also reduced the incentive for consumers to search on multiple sites,thus helping sites retain their users.
Weaker incentives to lower commissions mean weaker incentives to lower costs,too.That might explain why comparison websites advertise so heavily,and sometimes offer free gifts to those who use them.In a recent paper,Ben Edelman of Harvard Business School and Julian Wright of the National University of Singapore argue that when a site knows that the prices merchants provide through it will always be the lowest available,it increases investment in attracting customers,safe in the knowledge that the merchants and at last consumers will bear the cost.
Is there any way to ensure the market for price comparison is competitive?Asking consumers to check multiple websites defeats the point of using them.One solution is to have only one site,but regulate it as a public utility（功用）. Alternatively,the governments could run the site itself.But creating good search and comparison sites may be too hard for them.It is much better to acknowledge that consumers will always have to do some comparison themselves to "keep the system honest".
Websites that compare the comparison sites can help,although it is easy to see how they could fall prey to the same problems.Any firm with captive users（被动用户）,be it a comparison site a search engine,or a social-media platform,can charge a high price for access to the eyes of its customers.For all their innovation,Internet middlemen are not unlike supermarkets.Shoppers would never imagine that a single store had the lowest price for all the items they need.
1.According to the first two paragraphs,price-comparison websites______.
A.will offer smart consumers the best deals
B.will bring insurance firms increased profits
C.can help keep the costs of insurance firms down
D.may raise the price that consumers pay for their purchases
2.Current comparison sites tend to put most of their efforts in______.
A.lowering commissions B.contracting with retailers
C.attracting consumers D.cutting operating costs
3.According to the last two paragraphs,the author probably agrees that______.
A.it's desirable to have only one comparison site and have it run by the government
B.it's advisable that comparison sites with captive users charge a high price for its service
C.consumers should check multiple comparison sites before making a purchasing decision
D.websites that compare the comparison websites can help to build a competitive market
4.The passage mainly conveys the idea that comparison sites______.
A.create an effective channel for smart consumers
B.are competition's friends and enemies at the same time
C.offer win-win deals between consumers and retailers
D.have caused a new form of competition among retailers
