The thing that ________ is not whether you fail or not, but whether you try or not.
A. matters B. cares
C. minds D. considers
—There is still a copy of the book in the library. Will you go and borrow ____?
—No, I’d rather buy ____ in the bookstore.
A. it; one B. one; one
C. one; it D. it; it
生活中.你白己或他人曾有过物品不慎丢失而又找回的经历，其间有烦恼、有惊喜、有感慨……请就此写一篇英语短文。
主要内容包括: 1)丢失的物品; 2)物品失而复得的经过; 3) 你的感想。
注意：
1.词数100个;
2.不能使用真实姓名和学校名称.
假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10
处语言错误， 要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在其下面写上该加的词。
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11处起）不记分。
Dear Susan,
I'm very glad to hear you are coming to visit me the next Friday. Unfortunate, I won't be able
to meet you at the airport as I had classes in the afternoon. Therefore, you won't find difficult
to get to the city center. The airport bus leaves every 30 minute and will take us right to the
Friendship Hotel. My classes will be over by then or I will pick you up there. I will take you
to a hot pot restaurant for dinner and we'll talk with our plan for the weekend over dinner.
Having a pleasant trip and see you Friday.
Yours,
Zhang Ming
“Hey, who wants a drink?”
“OH, come on, just one drink won’t hurt you. It’s fun.”
“It’s cool. Everybody drinks, right?”
Drinking alcohol is dangerous for teens and sometimes for adults. It's easy for kids to get the wrong message about alcohol. They might see their parents drink or watch TV commercials that make drinking look like a lot of fun. But alcohol is actually a depressant(镇静剂). 1. Like many drugs, alcohol changes a person’s ability to think, speak and see things as they really are.
2. A person might lose his or her balance and have trouble walking properly. He might hurt himself or other people, especially if he drives a car. Someone who drinks too much also might throw up and could wake up the next day feeling awful.
Drinking too much alcohol can lead to alcohol poisoning, which can kill a person. Over time, people who abuse alcohol can do serious damage to their bodies. 3.
Keeping drinking as a habit can also develop a problem called alcoholism(酗酒). Someone who has a alcoholism is eager for alcohol. 4. A person who starts drinking alcohol at a young age is more likely to develop alcoholism.
Alcoholism can continue over time. It often gets worse, too, because the person may start to experience health problems related to drinking. In addition to liver problems, long-term drinking can damage the pancreas(胰腺), heart and brain.
5. As a teenager, help yourself by not starting in the first place.
A. The liver, which removes poisons from the blood, is especially at risk.
B. But with help, anyone who has a problem with alcohol can be successful at stopping.
C. It's normal to be curious about new things, especially if it seems like everyone is doing it.
D. When people drink too much, they might do or say crazy things.
E. You might see people drinking and watching sports together or having a big party.
F. That means it’s a drug that slows down or depresses the brain.
G. The person has little control over his or her drinking and can’t stop without help.
It is "one of the few bright spots in the Chinese economy," says Zeng Ming．He is talking about e-commerce．Mr Zeng, the chief strategy officer for Alibaba, a giant Chinese Internet firm, predicts that digital transactions on his firm's platforms will top l trillion yuan（$159 billion）this year-more than Amazon's and eBay's combined．That is a bold claim, but consider what happened on Singles Sunday．
Invented a few years ago by students and seized upon by digital marketers, this festival for lonely hearts falls annually on the llth day of the llth month （since l is the loneliest number）．It is like St Valentine's Day, only worse．Singletons shower each other with tender gifts: a barrage of pearls; a storm of sweets．
This November llth they spent a surprising 19 billion yuan on Alibaba's online platforms ----- a fourfold increase on a year ago, and more than double what Americans spent online last Cyber Monday（the Monday after Thanksgiving, when retailers urge Americans to shop online）．About 100m purchases were logged, accounting for 80% of the packages shipped that day．Couriers（怏递员） were buried in parcels．
So life is good for China's e-tailers, then? Not exactly．The number of digital marketers is increasing and online sales are booming．Consumers are enjoying lower prices, better service and more variety．The problem? The pressure on profits in Chinese e-commerce is worse than in America, reckons Elinor Leung of CLSA, a broker． "Almost no one makes money," she says．
The fiercest battles are being fought between online retailers and their bricks-and-mortar（实体的） rivals．Dangdang, a firm, that resembles Amazon,and 360buy, another online retailer, have cut prices fiercely． Tencent, a cash-rich online giant known for its instant-messaging software, is splashing out to win market share．360buy has also just raised $400m from investors to do the same．But it is unclear how much longer such firms can burn through capital．
1.What's the best title of this passage?
A．The Ambition of Alibaba
B． Fierce Competition between Retailers
C． A Newly Sprung Festival for the Singles
D． Chinese Booming and Developing E-commerce
2.According to Zeng Ming, this year Alibaba will ．
A． outweigh Amazon and eBay in worldwide influence
B． rank top among all the Internet firms
C． have more than 159 billion dollars' sale
D． create another sales miracle just like the one on Singles Day
3. How many packages were shipped on November ll th from Alibaba's online platforms?
A． About 80 million． B． About 100 million．
C． About 125 million． C． About 180 million．
4.What's the author's attitude towards online retailers in China?
A． Optimistic． B． Concerned．
C． Sympathetic． D． Indifferent．
