假如你叫李华，你的加拿大笔友James想了解一下你要参加的2012年全国中学生英语夏令营的有关情况，请根据以下信息给他写一封回信，并邀请他参加你们的活动。
营址 | 大连 |
活动时间 | 2012年7月底，共4天 |
参加人员 | 1.全国中学生英语能力竞赛获奖者 2.中国，美国和澳大利亚的英语老师 |
活动内容 | 1.举行英语演讲比赛 2.观看学生表演 3.游览大连风景名胜 4.交流英语学习经验 |
注意：1.信须包括以上提供的内容要点，可以适当增加细节，使内容连贯；
2．词数：100左右；
3．参考词汇：全国中学生英语能力竞赛NEPC
Dear James,
Nice to hear from you again!
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Best wishes,
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处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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（∧），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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
I was only 12 since we moved to California. I remembered that I enjoyed flying non-stop across a whole country and that I wasn’t very happy about leave my friends. But Dad think it would be good for us all to live in a suburb instead in the middle of a city. And Uncle Jeff, his brother, who’d been living in California for about 20 years, were always telling us how wonderful California it was. He said it would be easily for Dad to get a job driving a taxi, that had been Dad’s job in New York. Thus, we all agreed to try them for one year.
单词拼写。
1.The bridge was ____________(设计) in a unique style.
2.Many people believed that world ____________(文明) started in the ancient Rome.
3.Steel and iron are ____________(工业) products.
4.With the development of _________(旅游业), more and more foreigners visit China.
5.____________(有希望), it will be fine tomorrow.
6.There wasn’t enough ____________(证据) to prove that he was wrong.
7.It’s ____________(绝对) impossible for us to finish the work on time.
8.Edison is a famous ___________(发明家) all over the world.
9.Many drivers think the ____________(收费) should be much lower.
10.This book is the most ____________(印象深刻) novel。
11.There is a ____________(现场直播) concert.
12.His ____________(同事) were interested in his story.
13.The result of the match was ____________(不可预测)
14.Have you ____________(适应) to your new life?
15.The leader went to look at the ____________(毁坏) by the earthquake.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
There was no one quite like my father. When any other man had an extra dollar, he bought a drink; when Father had an extra dollar, he bought a book. Other people had pictures on their walls, or at least a calendar; we had books, 3000 of them, 1. (line) every surface of our little four-room house 2. every subject. Father was the 3. (more) persistent (固执的) scholar I ever knew. Every summer he took a month or so off to attend classes. Eventually, he earned seven degrees, attended 11 different colleges and universities. My sister and I were the immediate beneficiaries of Father’s insatiable (不能满足的) 4. (hungry) to learn.
Before I was three, my father was reading aloud to me. Thereafter, I read aloud to him so he’d work on my 5. (pronounce). By the time I was in the fifth grade, I’d recite 6. classical literature to poetry and had to be prepared to do 7.. Then Father would warn by quoting a saying from Shakespeare, “8. all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious(乏味的) as to work. “Obviously, his efforts weren’t 9. (entire) in vain, for my voice has enable me to earn a fair livelihood. But that fact doesn’t begin to define the most debt 10. I owe my father.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I have a blind friend who lives in New York City. ______ we have never met face to face, we still ______ each other frequently. She is a ______ lady and has become like a sister to me. Her ______ and enthusiastic letters always ______ my spirits and the inspiring poems she shares with the world always bring a ______ to my face. She is all the more ______ due to the fact that she lost her ______ halfway through her life. She had to ______ her career and relearn to do everything that most of us take for granted. Many would have given up after such a ______ but not her. ______, she started a glorious new life full of award winning volunteer work. Her ______ are full of teaching English to new immigrants, giving comfort to ______ hearts, writing, serving her religious community, and helping others in ______ way she can.
The light of my friend’s example is a beacon (灯塔) that I try to ______ as well. Whenever I feel too ______ in my own life I look at the challenges that she has ______ in hers. She may have lost her sight but she ______ lost her soul. She knows that the eyes that really see are the eyes of the heart, and she does her best every day to follow the ______ vision that they give to her. I am sure too that their eyes of the angels watching over her are always filled with tears of ______ and that their faces are always full of shining smile.
1.A. When B. As C. Since D. Although
2.A. call B. write C. email D. encourage
3.A. remarkable B. humorous C. funny D. considerate
4.A. constant B. brief C. optimistic D. beautiful
5.A. attract B. reach C. improve D. lift
6.A. smile B. cloud C. puzzle D. look
7.A. helpful B. amazing C. sensitive D. disappointing
8.A. way B. parents C. sight D. heart
9.A. put off B. depend on C. keep on D. give up
10.A. loss B. failure C. break D. challenge
11.A. However B. Therefore C. Instead D. Then
12.A. plans B. days C. ideas D. thoughts
13.A. feeling B. touching C. breaking D. hurting
14.A. every B. some C. no D. possible
15.A. examine B. copy C. follow D. complete
16.A. cheated B. bored C. nervous D. challenged
17.A. controlled B. overcome C. passed D. overlooked
18.A. never B. still C. also D. already
19.A. lasting B. caring C. loving D. continuing
20.A. pity B. joy C. sorrow D. surprise
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Most people buy a lot of gifts just before Christmas. But some people think we buy too much. They have started a special day called Buy Nothing Day. 1..
Buy Nothing Day is November 29. It’s 25 days before Christmas. It’s after Thanksgiving and often the first day of Christmas shopping. 2..
The idea for Buy Nothing Day started in Vancouver, British Columbia. 3.. In California, parents and children get together to read stories, sing songs, and paint pictures. The children talk about why they don’t need a lot of toys. This year, in Manchester, England, people dressed up in costumes to tell people that we buy too much.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, high school students wanted to tell other students about Buy Nothing Day. They organized a spaghetti dinner to give people information about Buy Nothing Day. 4.. They made posters and talked to other students about it. 5.. The students at high schools liked the idea of this new tradition. Next year, they want to have another dinner to tell more people about Buy Nothing Day.
A. They asked restaurants in the neighborhood to donate the food.
B. At this time, we see ads in Newspapers and, on TV telling us to “buy, buy, buy!”
C. Buy Nothing Day has successfully persuaded people not buy anything.
D. Many people think highly of the idea of Buy Nothing Day.
E. They don’t want anyone to go shopping on that day.
F. Now people all over the world celebrate Buy Nothing Day.
G. The dinner was a big success, and many students agreed not to buy anything on November 29.
