假定你是武汉晨光中学的李华，你的澳大利亚笔友Mark最近给你发来邮件，说他准备参加武汉12月31日举办的冬季马拉松比赛(marathon race)，希望你帮助他预定好旅馆，并带他游览市内著名景点（如黄鹤楼 the Yellow Crane Tower, 东湖 East Lake）。请你给他写封回信，内容包括：
1.回复他的要求；
2.询问他到达的具体时间，呆多久，以便你作具体安排。
注意：
①词数100左右；
②可适当添加细节，使行文连贯；
③开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mark,
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Yours
Li Hua
短文改错
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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
It was on a warm autumn day that my father and I walk into my new high school. After registered in the classroom, the volunteer took me to my dormitory. Altogether I had five roommates, two of which arrived later. I got to know my new roommate immediately. Although I was quite unwilling to say “Goodbye” to my father, but he had to leave to my hometown in the evening. I suddenly realized I had grown up and that I had to look after me and live independently. Not until then I know my senior high school life had real begun.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（ 1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
I have recently returned from 1. extended 26-day trip to China. I made two earlier trips to China in 2012. On my previous visits my travel 2. (limit) to the three major cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing. This time I, together with my family, was able to visit some of the more remote cities and holiday destinations 3. (miss) on the previous trips and revisit Beijing and Shanghai to observe the great changes there in just four short years.
The many contradictions and 4. (struggle) within China today are very impressive. No one can ignore the rich culture 5. (date) back to ancient times changing into the modern age at a speed and scale that has never been witnessed. 6. happens in China, the third 7.(large) country in the world with 20 percent of the world’s population, will 8. (certain) shape the immediate and distant futures of 9. (we) all.
On this blog(博客) I will be posting a travel journal 10. photographs and drawings. Marked on the map are the cities and villages I visited while in China.
Two years ago, Dubuque, Iowa, started its first annual "Back to School Bash" program. It offered needy families an opportunity to learn about free in the community. Holmes decided to by providing help to kids. He was two jobs at the time, one of which was working as a barber. Saturday was his day, but he chose to his time and gave free haircuts to lower class kids on condition that the kids should their free haircut by having to read a book to him.
The idea was so that he continued it for the next two years. Many kids would a favorite book, settle into the barber chair, and read aloud Holmes was doing their hair. After the haircut, they'd review the book, from the and vocabulary to the themes—just like in school, only more fun.
Holmes, who is married two sons, recognizes that not every parent has the time to with their kids. So he hopes to offer some in this way. And he admits he, , benefits from doing that.
There was a seven-year-old kid who stuttered(结巴) over words while reading. He had the boy take the book home and . When the child came back a few days later, he read it with no problems. That Holmes to do more.
Holmes and his family have recently moved to a Chicago suburb. When they get , he plans to restart his as the Storybook Barber. "Today’s world is full of guns and violence," he says, "The barbershop is a place for the kids to come and read books."
1.A. materials B. resourcesC. methodsD. connections
2.A. participate B. performC. developD. withdraw
3.A. faced with B. caught inC. presented with D. engaged in
4.A. happiest B. worst C. busiest D. best
5.A. spend B. waste C. save D. donate
6.A. receive B. earn C. demandD. request
7.A. popular B. ordinaryC. complexD. rigid
8.A. put away B. take overC. pick upD. give out
9.A. before B. after C. while D. until
10.A. kidsB. heroinesC. barbersD. characters
11.A. withB. to C. for D. about
12.A. stayB. read C. talk D. learn
13.A. guidance B. judgmentC. assistanceD. insurance
14.A. again B. still C. then D. too
15.A. usually B. hardly C. merely D. necessarily[来
16.A. write B. practiceC. remark D. reflect
17.A. surprised B. excitedC. inspiredD. impressed
18.A. settled B. relaxedC. pleasedD. refreshed
19.A. ownership B. hobby C. promiseD. role
20.A. secret B. safe C. rough D. crowded
Chopsticks
1. When chopsticks were invented?
In fact, before the invention of chopsticks, Chinese ancestors actually used hands to eat, but how did they eat soup and porridge? 1. Chinese started to use chopsticks about 3,000 years ago in Shang Dynasty.
2. Who invented chopsticks?
The records of using chopsticks have been found in many written books but lack physical evidence. However many stories are about the invention of chopsticks. One says that Jiang Ziya, an ancient wise man, created chopsticks. 2. But there is no exact history record about the invention. We can only say that smart ancient Chinese invented chopsticks.
3. How to use Chinese chopsticks.
Using two slim sticks to pick up food is actually not difficult. You can do it if you practice it for some time, even if you are a foreigner. The key to managing chopsticks is keeping one chopstick in position while moving the other to pick up food. 3.
4. Chopsticks Manners
Chopsticks are usually held in the right hand, and left-handed chopstick use is considered as improper in China. Playing with chopsticks is thought to be impolite. 4.
5. The philosophy of Chinese chopsticks
Chinese philosopher Confucius advised people to use chopsticks instead of knives because the metal knives remind people of cold weapons, which mean killing and violence.
6. A chopsticks-themed museum can be found in Shanghai
If you are truly interested in chopsticks, you can pay a visit to the Shanghai Chopsticks Museum. The museum gathered more than 1,200 pairs of chopsticks from China, Korea, Japan and Thailand. 5.
A. Chopsticks were introduced to many other neighbor countries due to its lightness and convenience.
B .It is considered to be polite and thoughtful to pick up food for the elderly and children.
C. Bamboo chopsticks are most frequently used in Chinese daily life.
D. The oldest one was from the Tang Dynasty.
E. There also go around some other stories.
F. Remember to practice with patience.
G. They had to use sticks to eat them.
I was born on the 17th of November 1828, in the village of Nam Ping, which is about four miles southwest of the Portuguese Colony (殖民地) of Macao, and is located on Pedro Island lying west of Macao, from which it is separated by a channel of half a mile wide.
As early as 1834, an English lady, Mrs. Gutzlaff, wife of a missionary to China, came to Macao. Supported by the Ladies’ Association in London for the promotion of female education in India and the East, she immediately took up the work of starting a girls’ school for Chinese girls, which was soon followed by the opening of a boys’ school.
Mrs. Gutzlaff’s comprador(买办) happened to come from my village and was actually my father’s friend and neighbor. It was through him that my parents heard about Mrs. Gutzlaff’s school and it was doubtlessly through his influence and means that my father got me admitted into the school. It has always been a mystery to me why my parents should put me into a foreign school, instead of a traditional Confucian school, where my big brother was placed. Most certainly such a step would have been more suitable for Chinese public opinion, taste, and the wants of the country, than to allow me to attend an English school. Moreover, a Chinese belief is the only avenue in China that leads to political promotion, influence, power and wealth. I can only guess that as foreign communication with China was just beginning to grow, my parents hoped that it might be worthwhile to put one of their sons to learning English. In this way he might become an interpreter and have a more advantageous position to enter the business and diplomatic world. I am wondering if that influenced my parents to put me into Mrs. Gutzlaff’s School. As to what other sequences it has eventually brought about in my later life, they were entirely left in the hands of God.
1.How was the author admitted to Mrs. Gutzlaff’s school?
A. Through his father’s request.
B. Through his father’s friend’s help.
C. Through his own efforts to exams.
D. Through Mrs. Gutzlaff’s influence.
2.Why did the author’s parents put him into an English school？
A. It met with Chinese public opinion.
B. An English school was more influential.
C. He could become a successful interpreter.
D. Foreign trade with China was developing fast.
3.What did the author think of his parents’ decision to put him into an English school?
A. It was skeptical. B. It was wonderful.
C. It was thoughtful. D. It was mysterious.
4.What does the underlined word “sequences” in the last sentence probably mean ?
A. Results. B. Order. C. Series.D. Progress.
