It doesn’t _____ to set off fireworks on holidays since the smog(雾霾) is so severe at present.
A. make a difference B. make sense C. make progress D. make a choice
Two years ago, she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy _______.
A. this B. that C. it D. one
He is such ____ social failure that many colleagues don’t like him.
A. the B. an C. a D. 不填
假如你是新华中学的学生李华，偶然看到在你市求学的美国学生Tom在网上发帖，要大家给他推荐一本学习汉语的书。你手头正好有一本合适的书可以借给他。请你给他发一封电子邮件，要点如下：
1．说明写信原因；
2．描述书的情况；
3．约定见面时间和地点。
注意：
1.词数：120 -150；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
I'm Ii Hua, a student of Xinhua Middle School._______________________________
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Best wishes.
Yours
Li Hua
阅读下面的短文并用英语回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的词数要求）。
[1] Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since it was founded in 1901.
[2] Munro,82, only the 13th woman given the award, was praised by the Swedish Academy during the Nobel announcement in Stockholm as the "master of the contemporary short story. " "We're not saying just that she can say a lot in just 20 pages---more than an average novel writer can---but also that she can cover ground. She can have a single short story that covers decades, and it works, " said Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
[ 3] Munro said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as " one of those pipe dreams" that "might happen, but it probably wouldn't. " Munro's daughter woke her up to tell her the news. "It just seems impossible. A splendid thing to happen…More than I can say, " she said, overcome with emotion. " My stories have gotten around quite remarkably for short stories. I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not something you play around with until you got a novel written. "
[4] Born in Ontario in 193I,Alice Anne Laidlaw studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario in London before dropping out to marry James Munro, a fellow student. She became a full-time housewife and mother of their children. She then moved to Victoria with her first husband and later returned to Ontario following their divorce. She married Fremlin in 1976.
[5] Three years ago, in an interview at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, Munro said she had battled cancer, but did not provide specifics. In June, she told the National Post she was "probably not going to write anymore. " Asked on Thursday whether she would reconsider that statement, Munro said______, " because I am getting rather old. "
1.What is the text mainly about? ( no more than 15 words)
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2.What is Peter Englund mainly talking about in paragraph two? ( no more than 5 words)
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3.Please explain the underlined sentence in paragraph three.
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4.How did Alice Munro get the news that she won the Nobel Prize? ( no more than 10 words)
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5.Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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Fahad Azad, an engineer in India, invented a robot named DuctBot．The toy-car sized DuctBot measured 23 centimeters in length, 19 centimeters in width and 9 centimeters in height and weighs just two kilograms．
The robot is designed to snake through dark, narrow air conditioning ducts （管道） and clean them．A pair of LEDs fitted on the robot light up the dirty scenery, so it can be captured （抓拍） by a camera．
In order to control it more easily, Mr. Azad chooses to fix DuctBot on wheels．The robot can clean off lots of dirt, as well as dead pigeons and insects．Keeping indoor air in good quality and monitoring carbon-dioxide levels in buildings with central air conditioning is a challenge．It is important in some places where clean air can mean a difference between life and death, such as hospitals．Dirty air has a bad influence on people's health．
EPSCO, a Dubai-based company which specializes in improving indoor air quality, read about Mr. Azad's invention in a national newspaper after he had won an international robotics competition．EPSCO had cleaning equipment, but it needed someone to get into those ducts to do the dirty, dangerous work．Across India, for example, the task still falls to children．They are small enough to go through those ducts．
In 2005, Mr. Azad who was still at university decided to do something about it．Six years later his own company, Robosoft Systems, has Bluestar, EPSCO and the Indian Navy, some leading air condition makers, as partners．
Mr. Azad and his ten employees are currently exploring robot designs to examine oil tanks or sewage （污水）pipes．Their biggest challenge is to make the robots user-friendly enough．Mr. Azad hopes that the robot could eventually be operated not by engineers but by workers．There will be lots of difficulties they need to overcome in the future．
1.What can we learn about Ductbot?
A．It is a toy car and popular with children．
B．It is designed to move like a snake in the ducts．
C．many LEDs are fitted on it to tell its location．
D．It is actually a camera to capture dirty scenery．
2.The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to "____"．
A．the camera B．the conditioning duct
C．the LED light D．the dirty scenery
3.What can the Ductbot do for us?
A．Clean off the dirt in the ducts．
B．Control the central conditioning．
C．Reduce carbon-dioxide in buildings．
D．Protect more animals in city．
4.According to the text, EPSCO____．
A．has won an international robotics competition
B．hired children to clean the dirty ducts in the past
C．is the only partner of Robosoft Systems
D．specializes in improving people's health
5.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A．Only engineers can operate the Ductbot now．
B．New ways have been found to examine oil tanks．
C．Azad's difficulties are impossible to overcome．
D．Azad's team are working to improve their robot designs．
