阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. She was ready for me. “No Santa Claus !” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don't believe it.” That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad.
“Now, put on your coat, and let's go.”
“Go where, Grandma?” I asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money.” she said, “and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's.
I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten﹣dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs Pollock's grade﹣two class.
Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough, and he didn't have a coat. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I settled on a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.
“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. “Yes.”
The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.
Para 1:
That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper.
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Para 2:
Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker's front door to open and finally it opened.
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假设你是李津，你的美国朋友Chris就读于天津某国际学校。他熟悉中国文化，特别是戏曲文化。8月5日下午2：00在新落成的天津大剧院将上演越剧《梁山伯与祝英台》。请你根据以下提示，用英语给Chris写一封电子邮件，邀请他一起观看演出。
*提出邀请并简述原因；
*提出观剧后活动建议（如参观附近的博物馆或美术馆等）
*请求对方回复
注意：
1.请使用规范英语，词数不少于100；
2.可适当加入细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：
越剧：Shaoxing Opera 《梁山伯与祝英台》 Butterfly Lovers
天津大剧院Tianjin Grand Theater
Dear Chris,
I have good news to tell
you.___________________________________________________
Yours, Li Jin
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的恰当形式。
Cultural TV programmes experienced a come-back at the start of 2017. Two weeks after the 1. (conclude) of the hit show Chinese Poetry Competition 2, a new programme, Readers, has become 2. (wide) popular, inspiring fresh enthusiasm for literature in China.
The weekly talk show, produced and hosted by renowned TV personality Dong Qing, 3. (invite) people from all walks of life to read aloud excerpts of poems, essays and books they like or wrote. The 4. (participate) also share stories from their own life explaining why particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives.
Three days after 5. (it) first broadcast on CCTV-1, Readers has enjoyed 6. instant success and struck thousands of people. Through the poetic words, Readers has brought the 7.(lose) habit of reading aloud back into the public spotlight.
Readers is one of the culture-themed TV programs to restore the country’s passion 8. literature in recent years. Its success is very encouraging in today’s television world 9. reality shows have played a leading part so far.
With more people 10.(reflect) on their own reading habits, the question now is: when is the last time you read a poem or book excerpts aloud?
Mary, 16, was suffering from cancer. As a father, Mitchell always stayed home to care for her. He said the _________left them financially worse off. Then a group called Growing Hope _______in with $1,800 to help with his living costs.
_______, he wanted to pay it back. In his youth, he had been a _________. So at age 40, Mitchell took up the _________again, participating in two fights in Fairfax. During this time, he _________ his daughter. And for six months he did little but mourn.
One day, Mitchell _________ a Mark Twain quote —The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you _______ why. “After I read that quote, I was going to spend the rest of my life helping kids with cancer and their families,” he said.
Mitchell thought of creating a foundation, yet boxing did not seem_______any more for fundraising due to his age. Then he found that ________ could be a source to raise money. In the Corps Marathon he cut a striking figure on the course. ________ by this success, he set his sight higher. He __________ each of the miles of the race to a different child with cancer, and he carried their________ with him. Years after his daughter’s death, Mitchell now________ up in the morning knowing his________.
1.A.atmosphere B.crisis C.situation D.poverty
2.A.brought B.stepped C.took D.broke
3.A.Grateful B.Hopeful C.Sorrowful D.Regretful
4.A.runner B.singer C.boxer D.fighter
5.A.helmets B.gloves C.boxes D.sneakers
6.A.cured B.accompanied C.comforted D.lost
7.A.came upon B.agreed on C.looked to D.count on
8.A.consider B.negotiate C.discover D.launch
9.A.abstract B.realistic C.energetic D.critical
10.A.funding B.singing C.running D.projecting
11.A.Depressed B.Embarrassed C.Shocked D.Motivated
12.A.emerged B.donated C.enhanced D.conveyed
13.A.smiles B.parents C.strengths D.pictures
14.A.stands B.goes C.wakes D.climbs
15.A.passion B.destination C.course D.purpose
What do employers want from business graduates?
Prospective employers have always expected business-school graduates to possess a certain set of skills, such as strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities. Today, employers are looking for even more一technical expertise paired with interpersonal and intrapersonal（内在） skills.
1. You can learn the technical skills on the job or in school, but the soft skills are more challenging to get.
2. That can make you the type of employee that companies want to hire and promote. Recent data in The Financial Times 2018 Skills Gap Study agrees that soft skills, like the ability to work well in a team, were rated as "most important" by 64 percent of respondents.
During your business-school experience, you'll have the opportunity to build these skills as you work on group projects, interact with teachers, and participate in internships（实习）.When you reflect on your personal and professional lives, the people who have mastered skills like communication, listening, and cooperation are the people who stand out to you.3.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't other skills on the top of many companies' wish lists.4. The first is "combine", which is the ability to combine and deal with information from multiple sources to solve complex problems. The second is "organize", or the ability to organize information to see relationships and to solve multiple, interrelated problems. 5.
A.Market yourself as someone with soft skills.
B.And they stand out to prospective employers too.
C.So these skills in high demand have great value in the hiring market.
D.What you may not realize is the lasting impact of developing skills like leadership.
E.Soft skills like flexibility and teamwork are in high demand among employers.
F.The skills you gain while earning your MBA help prepare you for various careers.
G.The skills that employers have the most difficulty finding often have the most value in the marketplace.
It's common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.
A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an angle that's 15.4 degrees off to the observer's right—well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, ''She's not looking at you. '' This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person's gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the ''Mona Lisa effect''. That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.
Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars(虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the ''Mona Lisa'' and realized she wasn't looking at him. To make sure it wasn't just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the ''Mona Lisa'' on a computer screen.
So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn't sure. It's possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term ''Mona Lisa effect'' just thought it was a cool name.
1.What is generally believed about the woman in the painting ''Mona Lisa''?
A.She attracts the viewers to look back.
B.She seems mysterious because of her eyes.
C.She fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers.
D.She looks at the viewers wherever they stand.
2.What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?
A.
B.
C.
D.
3.Why was the experiment involving 24 people conducted?
A.To confirm Horstmann's belief.
B.To create artificial-intelligence avatars.
C.To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa's gaze.
D.To explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied.
4.What can we learn from the text?
A.Horstmann thinks it's cool to coin the term “Mona Lisa effect”.
B.The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.
C.Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.
D.The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers' judgment.
