There are plenty of things you can do right now to prepare if you live in an area where earthquakes often happen.
① Make sure each member of your family knows what to do no matter where they are when earthquakes happen:
Agree on a meeting place where you can all reunite afterward.
Find out about earthquake plans developed by children’s school or day care.
Remember transportation may be affected, so keep some emergency supplies--food, liquids, and comfortable shoes, for example—at work.
② Make sure all family members know where your gas, electric and water main shutoffs are and how to turn them off if there is a leak or electrical short.
③ Find the exact position of your nearest fire and police stations and emergency medical places.
④ Talk to your neighbors--how could they help you, or you them after an earthquake?
⑤ Take Red Cross First Aid and CPR Training Course.
⑥ Make your disaster supply bag. Beyond the usual flashlights, batteries and radios, include a first-aid bag; work gloves; shoes or boots; a week’s supply of medicine you or your family might need; credit card and cash; personal identification; extra set of keys; matches in a waterproof container; map of your area; phone numbers of family and other important people; copies of insurance policies and other important documents; a certain amount of water per person; three-day supply of food per person; hand tools; something for joy (toys, books, coloring books and crayons, playing cards)
⑦ Make sure bookcases, cupboards, tall furniture, and etc. stand well. Move the items which are heavy or easy to break to lower shelves. Fasten drawers and cabinet doors with latches or locks. Look for other steps you can take in your home and workplace to reduce your chances for injury and loss.
⑧ Ask about the safety of your home and/or business. It’s well known that some brick buildings can fail quickly during earthquakes. A check by an engineer now can help you decide what to do so that your buildings can withstand shaking.
1.How can you prepare your family for a possible gas leak caused by an earquake?
A.Keep food and liquid supplies at work.
B.Tell them where the main shutoffs are and how to shut them off.
C.Find the exact position of your nearest fire station.
D.Make agreement with the neighbors to help each other.
2.According to the passage, the following items should be included in the disaster supply bag EXCEPT ________.
A.Flashlights B.Some medicine
C.Some water and food D.Bookcases and cupboards
3.If you have doubt about the safety of your building, you should ________.
A.make sure the heavy items do not fall B.add more bricks to your building
C.go to your company and raise some questions D.ask an engineer to check it
假定你是李华，正在英国某市做交换生，想到该市的一家图书馆办理一张借书卡（library card），请用英语给该图书馆的工作人员写一封电子邮件，询问相关信息。
内容包括：1.可借阅图书范围；
2.借阅制度及费用；
3.办理时间及地点。
注意：1.词数100左右。
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3.文中不得透露个人和学校信息；
4.信的开头和结尾已为你写出。
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am Li Hua, an exchange student from China. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Your sincerely,
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。
On Sunday we woke up early and had a nice breakfast. We then headed to a church which I also met with some of my other relative. I tried to catch up what was going on in their lives and work out how we could spend more time together. My father take us to a nice restaurant for a wonderful lunch. Spend time with my family is very important to me and also to themselves. My father spends a plenty of time working outside. Whenever he is at holiday，we make it much special and we play happily. I am really gratefully to my family.
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。
Tea is one of the1.(much) popular drinks in the world. You make it by pouring hot water over the dried leaves of a tea plant. For 2. (hundred) of years people believed that tea could cure illnesses, and they used 3.as medicine. Today scientists know that tea contains chemicals that prevent cells from dying. Most teas have caffeine in them, 4.makes you feel more active. Some people have problems5.(drink) tea because it can cause sleeplessness.
The tea plant6.(grow) best in tropical and temperate places where rain falls throughout the year. Teas can be grown from sea level7.about 2,000 metres, but the best quality grows in higher regions.
Tea comes from the leaves and buds of tea plants. Wild plants can be up to 9 metres high, however, on tea plantations,8.( pull ) the leaves 9. (easy) , people cut them back to a bush of about a metre in height. It takes a plant three to five years before it is ready for picking.
A picker can harvest about 20 kg of tea10.day. On large tea plantations the leaves are harvested by machines, but the quality of tea is higher when the leaves are picked by hand.
It was a cold and rainy day. I had no _______ to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she _______ I come to see something at the top of the mountain.
_______ as I was, I made the two﹣hour journey _______ the fog that hung like veils(面纱). By the time I saw how _______ it was near the summit, I had gone too far away. Nothing could be worth this, I _______ as I drove slowly along the dangerous highway.
“I'll stay for lunch, but I'm heading back as soon as the fog _______.” I announced. “But I want you to drive me to the garage to pick _______ my car.” Carolyn said. “How far is it?” I asked. She replied: “About three minutes and I'll drive you there.”
After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her _______. “I thought you said three minutes.” She smiled. “This is a detour(绕行路线).” Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out. We walked a long path that was thick with pine trees. Gradually the peace and silence of the place began to fill my mind. Then we turned a corner and stopped. I was ________.
From the top of the mountain to the valleys ________ several acres of daffodils(水仙花) rich in a variety of colors. It looked as if God had painted something gorgeous in front of us. Many questions ________ into my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How? As we approached the home that stood in the centre of the property, we saw a ________ that read: “Answers to the Questions I know you are asking.” The first answer was: “One Woman﹣Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” The second was: “One at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”
As we drove home, I was so ________ by what we had seen. I could ________ speak. “She changed the world.” I finally said, “one bulb(水仙球茎) at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, and she ________ at it.”
The ________ of it would not let me go. I said: “Imagine if I'd had a ________ and worked on it, just a little bit every day, what might I have ________?” Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “________ tomorrow,” she said. “Better yet, start today.”
1.A.ambition B.desire C.challenge D.way
2.A.invited B.wished C.insisted D.hoped
3.A.Cautious B.Surprised C.Eager D.Unwilling
4.A.through B.over C.across D.beyond
5.A.fresh B.bright C.thick D.cloudy
6.A.doubted B.declared C.hesitated D.thought
7.A.lifts B.cleans C.raises D.sinks
8.A.out B.up C.off D.on
9.A.eagerly B.desperately C.anxiously D.calmly
10.A.frightened B.amazed C.amused D.concerned
11.A.contained B.lay C.presented D.located
12.A.flashed B.rushed C.occurred D.entered
13.A.signal B.symbol C.note D.sign
14.A.encouraged B.satisfied C.moved D.thrilled
15.A.hardly B.rarely C.simply D.totally
16.A.brought B.stopped C.made D.kept
17.A.wonder B.doubt C.mystery D.idea
18.A.view B.vision C.sight D.scene
19.A.predicted B.expected C.accomplished D.explored
20.A.Behave B.Take C.Set D.Start
I just counted how many foreign languages I've studied so far in my life and it's been twelve!
I always follow my interests and find ways to put my language learning into things I'm already interested in.I like to read blogs(博客)in other languages.1. .For the most part，bloggers tend to write the same way they speak，so I don’t have to worry much about adopting strange terms that are only used in writing.
Movies are also a really good tool，especially if you can find subtitles in the language you’re learning.2.，they will still keep your brain listening and reading in the same language.Music is another way to start listening to things in your new language.Personally，I'm so bad at understanding lyrics(歌词)even in English，so this one doesn’t really work for me，but I have friends who learn a language through lyrics.Games are of course also an excellent way of studying a new language.A lot of language learning computer programs include games.I'm super competitive and if I play any of them，I can be hooked for hours.3. .
When the initial excitement of learning a new language begins to fade，it can be hard to stick with it.The hardest bit for me is when I'm comfortable enough with a language to understand most things and make myself understood.I'm actually stuck at this stage in Norwegian.4. .Ideally I should sign up to take a big language exam.Each time I start getting self-satisfied，it's time to take a new course or sign up for online lessons，or take up some sort of challenge that will require me to level up my skills.
5. .The best language class I've ever taken was my beginner’s Russian course at university where my professor never used any English.It got to the point where I would kind of just forget about English while in Russian class，which helped me to really immerse myself in the Russian language and do a whole lot with the limited Russian I had.
A.That’s really uncomfortable
B.Whatever languages they’re translated into
C.I also try to think in the language I'm learning
D.It’s time well spent if I'm learning the language
E.Computer games always make me feel worn out
F.Though they don’t always exactly match what’s being said
G.I found them the perfect learning tool because they’re usually written in oral language
