假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Eric希望参加你校组织的古筝兴趣班。请根据以下要点，用英语给他回一封电子邮件。
1. 古筝兴趣班成立的宗旨；
2. 古筝兴趣班的每周活动安排；
3. 愿意提供帮助。
注意： 1、词数100左右；
2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3、开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。 参考词汇：兴趣班 Interest Class
Dear Eric,
How’s everything going?
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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。
We should know how to avoid illnesses. Keeping hands clean are one of the most basic ways to prevent illnesses, especial when COVID-19 is widely spreading. Yesterday I taught my 3-year-old sister what to wash hands properly. Firstly, I made her to wet her hands under running water and apply soap to them. After she rubbed her hands well with soap to at least twenty second, I told her to wash off all of the soap. Lastly, I gave him a clean towel to dry her hands. She was very glad but showed me her clean hands. Look at her smiling face, I felt so happy that I gave her new storybook.
It was a bitter, cold evening in Virginia years ago. An old man was waiting for a ride _______the river. The wait seemed _______. His body became stiff from the chilly wind.
_______, he watched as several horsemen approached. He let the first one pass by without an effort to attract his _______. Then another passed by, and another. Finally, as the last rider _______ him, the old man _______ the rider’s eye and said, “Sir, would you mind giving an old man a ride to the other side? ”
Pausing his horse, the rider replied, “Sure! Hop aboard.” Seeing the old man _______ to lift his half-frozen body from the ground, the horseman helped him _______ the horse.
As they got close to the destination, the horseman’s _______ caused him to ask, “Sir, I’m curious why? On such a bitter winter night, I ________ that you let several other riders pass by. You would wait and ask the last rider. ________ I had refused and left you there?”
The old man replied, “I ________ the eyes of the other riders and immediately saw there was no ________ for my situation. It was ________ to ask them for a ride. But when I met your eyes, ________ was obvious. I knew, your gentle spirit would give me ________ in my time of need.”
Those heartwarming comments ________ the horseman deeply. “I’m most grateful for what you have said,” he told the old man. “May I never get too ________ in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the ________ of others with kindness.” With that, Thomas Jefferson turned his horse around and ________ his way to the White House.
1.A.above B.through C.across D.past
2.A.hopeful B.interesting C.exciting D.endless
3.A.Anxiously B.Surprisingly C.Dramatically D.Unluckily
4.A.ride B.score C.interest D.attention
5.A.begged B.neared C.ignored D.asked
6.A.caught B.escaped C.focused D.missed
7.A.unable B.easy C.modest D.stubborn
8.A.under B.by C.onto D.toward
9.A.confidence B.conscience C.creativity D.curiosity
10.A.realize B.notice C.know D.recognize
11.A.What ever B.So what C.What with D.What if
12.A.looked up B.looked into C.turned up D.turned into
13.A.respect B.response C.concern D.passion
14.A.serious B.useless C.helpful D.cautious
15.A.grace B.honesty C.kindness D.justice
16.A.help B.happiness C.advice D.money
17.A.praised B.hurt C.touched D.ruined
18.A.busy B.stuck C.strict D.lazy
19.A.feelings B.demands C.obligations D.complaints
20.A.lost B.felt C.forced D.made
Small talk is stressful for even the most easy-going people. 1. Below, small-talk experts share their best advice on developing good chatting skills.
Ask questions.
The key to good small talk is asking the other person a lot of questions. But avoid rapid-fire questions. 2. Be sure to express your own feelings in response to what they share.
Avoid conversation starters like “How have you been?”
You could not ask a more awkward question. A better way to produce meaningful conversation is to add “What is new in your life since the last time I saw you?
Avoid one-word answers.
3. When someone asks you a question, give them something to talk about with you, not a word or two. Fine said, if someone asks you, “How was your summer?”, you can answer, for instance. My summer was great. I’m excited about my vegetable garden. That will give the person something else to ask you about.
4.
Your facial expression and body language should let the other person know you’re truly listening to them. A recent study showed that people who used hand or head gestures received responses to their questions faster than those who didn’t.
Small talk may help you connect with someone new with whom you want to have a more serious talk. 5.
A.You don’t have to be a reporter.
B.Don’t worry about it too much, though.
C.You could not ask a more inconvenient question.
D.It’s the first step to any meaningful relationship.
E.Use your hands to keep the conversation flowing.
F.Don’t be a disappointing person in a conversation.
G.You should make a conversation with people you like.
A team of over 30 Chinese surveyors left the base camp at Mount Qomolangma for a higher spot on its journey to the peak on Wednesday as part of the country’s mission to remeasure the height of the world’s highest mountain.
The remeasurement of the peak’s height is a part of China’s latest large-scale scientific survey of Qomolangma. Preparation of the project was started in early March, with 53 surveyors from the First Geodetic Surveying Brigade (大地测量旅) getting stationed near Qomolangma to carry out adaptive climbing and training in other technical skills, and they are going to the survey on the top of the mountain.
To ensure the accuracy of the measurement, and to work it in a more scientific way, experts from the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, the Shaanxi Bureau of Surveying, and the China Geological Survey were invited to assist in the technical design and planning of the project from the beginning.
The technical innovation and breakthrough applied in the latest survey include the application of the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System and advanced domestic surveying and mapping instruments.
The Chinese government has conducted six large-scale surveys and measurements on Qomolangma in the past few decades; it had successfully measured and announced the height the mountain in 1975 and 2005. Chinese mountaineers and researchers climbed Mount Qomolangma in 1975 to determine its height and concluded that the rock height of the peak was about 8,848.13 meters, and in 2005, the summit measured 8,844.43 meters (29,017 feet).
1.Where does the text come from?
A.A story book. B.A science fiction.
C.A news report. D.A travel guidebook.
2.What ensures the accuracy of the measurement according to Paragraph 3?
A.Inviting many experts to support.
B.Applying adaptive climbing skills.
C.Planning the project in early March.
D.Using the most advanced mapping instruments.
3.Which of the following about the survey is true?
A.83 surveyors worked for the remeasurement.
B.This is the 7th large-scale survey of Qomolangma.
C.30 Surveyors were stationed near Qomolangma.
D.The height of Qomolangma must be shorter than before.
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.The ways of remeasuring Qomolangma.
B.The results of measuring Qomolangma.
C.The technologies applied in remeasuring.
D.China’s remeasurement of Qomolangma.
Smart cities promise to bring better lives, faster transport, cleaner air and lower crime, all through the intelligent use of connected technology, said experts, and after huge investment in the field, China is leading the way.
“China’s smart cities market increases about 30 percent year-on-year in 2018, and all the provinces have begun development and construction for smart cities, with more to follow,” said an expert.
“Although most cities have started a smart city project, there is no globally unified thinking on the concept and operation of smart cities,” said Franco.
Alibaba is now involved in dozens of pilot projects across China, with its open AI (人工智能) platform Tianqing for the ET City Brain system officially launched in September. Set up by its cloud computing subsidiary (子公司), the Brain looks to make the city “think” through AI and cloud computing technologies, and help make the best of public services in real time.
Since introducing the technology, Hangzhou’s traffic jam has fallen from the fifth-worst in China in 2016, all the way to 57th place this year. “Now our experiments are mostly for government use, but we truly expect our open AI platform to enter more areas and help citizens live, work and entertain better,” said Hua.
In McKinsey Global Institute recent report Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more livable future, they find cities can use smart technologies to improve some key quality life by 10 to 30 percent — numbers that translate into lives saved, fewer crime incidents, a reduced health burden, and carbon emissions.
1.What can we say about the smart city?
A.Its concept has not been accepted by people.
B.It can be achieved only by lots of investment.
C.The worldwide standard for it has been established.
D.Its progress in China is among the best in the world.
2.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A.Traffic jam. B.Traffic flow.
C.AI platform. D.Public services.
3.Hangzhou is mentioned as an example to show that _______.
A.its traffic problem has been settled
B.the city has become more intelligent
C.its public services have greatly improved
D.it has made achievements in smart city construction
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.Smart Cities are on the Way
B.Outline of the Future Smart Cities
C.Hangzhou’s Construction of Smart Cities
D.Alibaba Contributes More to Smart Cities
