假如你是李华，你班的留学生Charles即将结束三周的假期从美国返回。你想委托他为你代购一个剃须刀，作为生日礼物送给爸爸。请按照以下要求给他写一封电子邮件：
1．品牌：Gillette： 2．价格：30美元左右。 参考词汇：剃须刀shaver
注意: 1．词数100左右：
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：
3．开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Charles，
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Yours，
Li Hua
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
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
处错误，每句中最多有两处，错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(A)，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。
Tom’s parents are very diligent. His father is the kind of person who never gets boring. He is always doing repair jobs around the house. It’s never been the problem for him to repair a broken hairdryer and to make wooden shelves. He spends a lot time in his workshop, where he’s got a lathe and all his tools there. His mother likes to work in the garden. Her flower garden is the more beautiful one in our street. It always made her happy to harvest the fruit and vegetables, that she often uses for her second passion: cooking. She enjoys try new recipes, and she likes to bake either.
Mary: What do you hope to do when you finish University?
John: I’d like to go into __1._ (manage). I’ve applied fo
r several jobs already and I’m _2.__(hope) that I’ll get some job offers. How about you?
Mary: After I graduate, I have to do some more studies to pass exams _3.__ (become) a lawyer. I think I’ve got a good chance of passing. There’s a possibility __4.__getting a job with a firm in London if I do well.
John: We both have to overcome several __5. (difficult) if we are to achieve our ambitions.
Mary: If life were easy, then we’d achieve our ambitions quickly and then get bored.
John: unfortunately, some people always work hard yet they never succeed.
Mary: That’s __6.__ambitions need to be realistic. You can’t achieve __7.__ that’s totally unrealistic.
John: As long as you plan carefully, most things are possible.
Mary: I think it’s important to be successful in a field you are _8.__ (true) interested in, not something that other people force you to be interested in.
John: My father __9.__ (want) me to become a doctor, but I know it will be impossible for me.
Mary: I hope my parents won’t try to force me to do 10.__favorite job.
I am anything but adventurous. So, when I actually ____ the courage to learn driving and, even more ____, passed the test, I fancied being a free spirit at last.
I mistakenly thought I would ____new roads and drive to the farthest horizons. But, gathering the courage to try new highways was next to ____ for me. The time I tried, I got hopelessly ____ and found myself going around in circles. When I eventually found the way home, I ____ this was the end of the adventurous life. I _____ the known routes. When a friend ____ me to make the most of weekend when the traffic was ____ to make new discoveries, I ___ at her with horror. Was I going to ____ a perfectly good weekend to raise my blood pressure or was I going to spend it doing as little as possible? _____, I chose the latter option.
After some years of battling the Sharjah-Dubai ___ , I told myself it wasn’t worth ____ my peace of mind. Now I had the Metro, buses and ____ to choose from. Taking taxi was one of the best ____ I have made from a traffic point of view. There was an unbelievable sense of lightness _____ I jumped into a taxi, taken to my destination without being worried.
All one has to do is give directions. I am good at that. Giving directions, I mean. And I am very _____ when I issue these, with no effect on the part of the person driving. As soon as I sit inside, I start the description of the _____ to be taken in great detail so as to _____ the possibility of being taken for a ride.
1.A. set up B. broke up C. pick
ed up D. put up
2.A. enthusiastically B. surprisingly C. importantly D. dramatically
3.A. discover B. get C. invent D. purchase
4.A. invisible B. useful C. practical D. impossible
5.A. lost B. amazed C. puzzled D. moved
6.A. refused B. hoped C. replied D. vowed
7.A. added to B. stuck to C. got to D. referred to
8.A. suggested B. ordered C. advised D. persuaded
9.A. light B. heavy C. slow D. safe
10.A. glared B. stared C. glanced D. peered
11.A. use B. spare C. waste D. devote
12.A. Of course B. In short C. In case D. Of all
13.A. system B. atmosphere C. society D. traffic
14.A. weighing B. disturbing C. reserving D. restoring
15.A. cars B. trains C. trucks D. cabs
16.A. dreams B. discoveries C. choices D. challenges
17.A. while B. when C. until D. before
18.A. considerate B. ignorant C. stubborn D. accurate
19.A. route B. map C. design D. course
20.A. increase B. extend C. minimize D. expand
How to stop sleeping in Class?
Sleeping in class prevents you from paying attention to the teacher as well as stops you from learning abo
ut the material that is being taught. It can also 
get you in trouble with your teachers. It is important to determine why you are falling asleep in class ant try to change the situation so that you are able to stay awake and pass all of your classes. __1.__
__2.__ It is reported that teenagers may need more sleep than adults. Go to bed earlier and ,make sure you get as many hours of sleep as your body needs. This is a key to staying awake in class. If you are not tired, you are unlikely to fall asleep.
Eat a healthy breakfast full of nutritious foods. _3.__ If you get hungry or tired in the middle of the day, try eating a healthy snack like a piece of fruit or some biscuits.
Get involved during class. __4.__ Taking notes, asking questions and otherwise getting involved in classroom activities and discussions will make you far less likely to doze off.
__5.__ If you have a medical condition that is causing you to fall asleep in class, it will need to be treated by a professional. Prescription drugs may also cause sleepiness as a side effect, so discuss any medicine you are taking with your doctor.
A. Early to bed and early to rise.
B. Enough sleep helps a lot in your studies.
C. Get a full night’s sleep on school nights.
D. It can provide you with enough protein to fuel your body.
E. There are a number of different tricks you can use to try to stay awake.
F. Contact your doctor in order to rule out medical conditions that can cause you to fall asleep.
G. If you are actively engaged in the information the teacher is pressing, you are less likely to doze off.
Its well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also remember things incorrectly, with damaging consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the first time that bumblebees(大黄蜂) can be unreliable witnesses too.
Bumblebees are rather clever animals, which explains why Chittka has been studying learning and memory in the insects for the last 20 years.
Most times when people have studied memory in animals, errors in performance have been taken to mean that the animals failed to learn the task or perhaps learned it and then forgot. But what if animals can experience a more interesting type of memory failure?
To find out, Chittka first trained bumblebees to expect a reward when visiting a yellow artificial flower followed by one with black-and-white rings. During subsequent tests, bees were given a choice between three types of flowers. Two were the types they’d seen in the training before. The third had yellow-and-white rings, representing a mixed-up version of the other two. Minutes after the training, the bees showed a clear preference for the flower that recently rewarded them.
One or three days later, however, something very different happened when the bumblebees’ memory was put to the test. At first, the bees showed the same preference displayed in the earlier tests, but as the time went on, they began selecting the flower with yellow rings, even though they’d never actually seen that one in training before.
Chittka says that insects make similar errors in the conjunction (结合) of long-term memories as humans do. The ability to extract (提取) common features between different events in the environment might come at the expense of remembering every detail correctly. In bees, with their limited brain capacity (容量), the pressure to store main features of several objects rather than each individual object might be much greater, compared with humans.
1.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Human memory can fail sometimes.
B. Bumblebees make false memories too.
C. Humans are not as clever as bumblebees.
D. Bumblebees have extraordinary memory.
2.Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word subsequent?
A. scientific B. accurate
C. following D. exceptional
3.What does the test mentioned in Paragraph 4 tell us?
A. Short-term memories serve the bees well.
B. The yellow artificial flower appeals to the bees.
C. Bumblebees like the flowers with yellow-and-white rings.
D. Bees have remarkable abilities to distinguish colors.
4. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Chittka thinks that bumblebees failed to remember the color of the flowers
B. Researchers have learned that bumblebees are unreliable animals
C. There exist no similarities between the memory errors in humans and bees.
D. It is less challenging for humans than bees to store main features of several objects.
