现在，许多中学生做作业时经常上网搜索答案，《21世纪报》就此话题展开征文比赛，请你根据以下表格内容写一篇英语文章，向报社投稿。
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注意：1.内容应包括表格中列出的要点；可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.词数100左右；
3.开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
Nowadays, many students often go on line to search for answers to their homework. _____________________
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下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在下面加上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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。
This summer holiday, which I’m looking forward for, is coming. What great fun that it is to go fishing! Play football is one of my hobby. I can ride my bike, climb high mountains, and go swimming. Sometimes I can play chess with your grandfather. How interested my holiday will be! But my father was always afraid I might be hurt: drop from water, fall off a tree, hurt by a truck or something. But if I’m careless enough, how will these things happen? I must try best to persuade him.
The Amber Room was first designed as a palace for Frederick I. When first finished, it was in the f 1.style and was d 2.with gold and jewels. Then the next king of Prussia, Frederick William I, gave it to Peter the Great as a gift. In r 3., he was given a troop of soldiers. The room s 4.as a small reception hall at that time. After that, Catherine II, asked her artists to add more d 5.to the Amber Room, which made it one of the w 6.of the world. Later, the Amber Room b 7.to Katherine was missing and it was said to have been stolen by German Nazi. However, what happened to the Amber Room remains a m 8.. Recently, the Amber Room has been r 9.by the artists by studying old photos of the former one. It was made to c 10.the 300th birthday of the city of St Petersburg.
根据短文内容，从A-F选项中选出能概括每段主题的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余项。
A. Be yourself.
B. Be humorous.
C. Have a big heart.
D. Don’t try to be popular.
E. Reduce your sense of your own value.
F. Think of others more than yourself.
Secrets of Being Popular
To be honest, most people liked to be respected and admired by other people. These are some suggestions which can help you win popularity naturally:
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It is a big mistake try to be liked by all people. When you want to impress other people and please them, it is impossible to avoid insincere praise. This will impress people for a short time, but it can not be continued for a long time. You have to base friendship on being your natural self and avoid always trying to win other people’s respect and admiration.
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People appreciate those who are considerate of others. If you only talk about yourself and your achievements, people will try to avoid you. People naturally respect those who are willing to spend time listening to others. Only when we put other people’s needs before our own can we become well received by them.
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There is no need to pretend to be someone you are actually not. If you are satisfied with who you are, you will allow your natural qualities to be noticed by other people, and this is what will naturally attract them. All real happiness and success come from inside. Besides, people will like you only when you accept yourself.
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Learn to be generous and forgiving when you deal with other people. Forget their small mistakes, but appreciate their good points. If you go out of your way to appreciate the good qualities of others, then people will begin to like your generous spirit and be friendly with you.
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Some people try to impress people by appearing to be wise and talking all about their own achievements. But when you enlarge your sense of your own value, you only increase your popularity with yourself. If you really do good things, there is no need for you to make your wonderful performance known to the public yourself. Others will do it for you.
Jerry Morris died on 28 October 2009. He was 99 years old. You have probably never heard of him. He was a professor of public health. More than 50 years ago he produced one of the most famous epidemiological (流行病学) papers of the 20th century.
His study showed that bus conductors were much less likely to die of heart disease than bus drivers. Why? Because the conductors spent their working day walking. It seems obvious now but in the middle of the last century doctors were puzzled by the rising numbers of people who got heart diseases. Jerry Morris found one of the main causes: a sedentary (久坐不动的) lifestyle. He started exercising for a few minutes each day and lived until his 100th year.
If you wish to protect your heart, you have to do more than wander in the garden. The exercise needs to be reasonable. Jogging is not for everyone and a round trip to the gym takes a couple of hours, plus the monthly membership fee is only good value if you visit regularly. The answer is simple: walk.
A half-hour purposeful walk five times a week will lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Older people sometimes feel they have left it too late. But it is never too late to start and there are no upper age limits. Start gently. Take your time: a 15-minute flat walk in the nearest park, four or five times a week. Within a month or so, you are already beginning to protect your heart. Build the walks up. When you can comfortably walk for half an hour in the park, go further: try following rivers and canals.
Regular walkers have their own natural gymnasium. There is no membership fee, just some of the finest scenery in the world. Great Britain is the walker’s gym. When you have followed the rivers and canals, and are enjoying walking for a couple of hours, head for the coast. Once again, build it up slowly. When you are comfortable with long coastal walks, you can think of our national parks.
1.Jerry Morris is mentioned in the first paragraph mainly to __________.
A. make his epidemiological message known to the public
B. praise his research into ways of improving public health
C. introduce the topic of doing exercise and keeping healthy
D. give an example of a person who lives a healthy and long life
2.We can learn from the passage that __________.
A. bus conductors are more likely to die of heart disease than bus drivers.
B. doctors in the 1950s knew why heart diseases kept happening to people.
C. walking is better than doing sports in a gym because it saves time and money.
D. British people love walking because they have free gymnasium with finest scenery.
3.What suggestion does the writer give about walking?
A. Parks are the best place for walking.
B. Starters should not push themselves too hard.
C. A two-quarter walk a day is suitable for starters.
D. People of old age might not be fit enough to start walking.
4.What might be the best title for this passage?
A. Long Life Comes from Walking
B. Walking Helps Cure Heart Disease
C. A Walk a Day Keeps the Doctors away
D. An Hour’s Walk in Nature is Worth Two in the Gym
There is no question that fewer teenagers are on the roads in the US.
In 1978, 50% of 16-year-olds had got their first driving licence. In 2008, according to the US Transportation Department, it was just 30%. The number of those aged 19 and under with driving licences has also been declining since 1978, when 11, 989, 000 had licence. In 2010, it was 9, 932, 441, or 4.1% of American drivers.
In the UK, 683, 273 teenagers have driving licences- just 1.85% of total licence holders, according to Department of Transport figures from September 2010.
But the decline in the US may have more to do with tougher tests and the introduction of the new rule in many states, which force drivers aged under 16 to be with licensed drivers of 21 years and older when driving.
In recent years, the annual number of journeys being made by American drivers of all ages has declined clearly for the first time ever. Car use began falling in 2007, when average petrol prices almost doubled to $4.12 a gallon, and the economy became worse.
But there are signs that it is getting back to normal and American remains a country on wheels. It has a higher number of cars per head of population than any other country in the world.
“Cars will always be a popular means of transportation in America. You have to take into consideration some places don’t have access to public transportation. Cars are the only way some people can get around,” says Kristin Nevels. This makes driving necessary in some rural states, where about twice as many teenagers are on the road than in big cities.
1.The underlined word “declining” in the second paragraph most probably means “__________”.
A. rising B. dropping C. improving D. holding
2.In recent years cars are used less than before mainly because of __________.
A. traffic jams B. harder tests C. expensive petrol D. worst economy
3.We can learn from the last paragraph that Kristin Nevels __________.
A. doubts the popularity of the car use in the future.
B. thinks American people can not live without cars.
C. holds confident attitude to the cars’ future in America.
D. believes America should build up its public transportation.
4.What can be inferred from the text?
A. The UK has more teenager drivers than the US.
B. A 15-year-old boy cannot drive alone in the US.
C. The US has very developed bus transportation system.
D. Big cities have more teenager drivers than rural areas in the US.
