假如你是李夏。你看到美国留学生Sharon在网上发贴，希望有人能帮助她提高普通话(Mandarin)水平，她可以教英语作为回报。请根据以下提示用英语给她写一封电子邮件。
1．表达给她提供帮助的意愿；
2．说明你能胜任辅导的理由；
3．给出讲好普通话的两点建议；
4．提出你学习英语的具体需求。
注意：
1．词数100左右，开头语已为你写好；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Hi Sharon,
This is Li Xia. I learned from your post that you want to improve your Mandarin
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Yours,
Li Hua
Americans think a great deal of about time. From childhood they learn to value time. As children, they were taught to be on time to go to school, to do work and to do everything. When they are having good time, they say that time flies. When a person is dying, they say he is living on borrowing time.
Time is money, is knowledge, and is everything in America. A working American must work hard for 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week, that is the working time. On his spare time he also works for less money. Even Saturdays and Sundays are filled of activities. In the street you can hardly see a man who walk slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Street art is a very popular form of art 1. is spreading quickly all over the world.
You can find it on 2.(building), sidewalks and street signs. Now even art museums and galleries 3.(collect) the works of street artists.
People often have different opinions about street art. Some think it is a kind of destruction (破坏) and 4. think it is a very beautiful new form of culture.
In the street art world graffiti (涂鸦）can be the most popular. It began in New York in the 1960s. First some young people painted words and images on the walls. They found the paintings could show their 5.(disagree) against society. Later, this colorful, energetic style of writing became 6.(know) as graffiti.
Street artists do this for 7.reason. Some of them think they are closer to the people, while others try to express their 8.(politics) opinions.
In today’s world, the Internet has a big influence 9. street art. Artists can show their pictures to audiences all over the world. The street art movement lives with the energy and life of cities. It will continue 10.(change) and grow.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
You may be surprised to see "making sure children never suffer" as a mistake. The following ________ may help you understand how rescuing children from all suffering ________ weakness.
A little boy felt sorry for a butterfly struggling to ________ from its chrysalis（蛹）．He decided to ________ the butterfly. So he peeled（剥开）the chrysalis open for the butterfly. The little boy was so ________ to watch the butterfly spread its wings and fly off, into the sky.
Then he was horrified ________ he watched the butterfly fall to the ground and die because it did not have the muscle ________ to keep flying. In fact，the butterfly’s struggle to ________ the chrysalis helps the butterfly become stronger.
Like the little boy ________ too often want to protect their children from struggle in the ________ of love. They don’t realize that their children need to struggle, to experience ________, to deal with disappointment，and to solve their own problems. Only in this way can children ________ their emotional strength，become strong-willed and develop the skills necessary for the even bigger struggles they will meet ________ their lives. Children experiencing sufferings can ________ the ups and downs of life.
However it isn’t helpful either in this case when parents ________ lecture（训斥），blame and shame to what the child is experiencing. Mothers ________ to say，“Stop crying and act-ing like a spoiled boy. You can’t always get what you want:，， These ________ words should be avoided.
Instead, parents can offer loving support. You can say, "Don’t lose ________. Be brave！You will succeed if you try again.”Then comes the tough part — no ________ and no lectures. Simply allow him to discover that he can get over his disappointment and ________ what he can do to get what he wants in the future.
1.A. storyB. proverbC. sayingD. experiment
2.A. damagesB. burnsC. createsD. experiences
3.A. bearB. sufferC. dateD. emerge
4.A. skillB. feedC. helpD. rescue
5.A. depressedB. movedC. puzzledD. excited
6.A. sinceB. asC. beforeD. until
7.A. powerB. energyC. strengthD. force
8.A. come up withB. do away with
C. keep up withD. break away from
9.A. teachersB. parentsC. relativesD. friends
10.A. caseB. chargeC. nameD. course
11.A. friendshipsB. scholarshipsC relationshipsD. hardships
12.A. build upB. come upC. hung upD. turn up
13.A. fromB. throughoutC. atD. on
14.A. expectB. predictC. surviveD. avoid
15.A. addB. adaptC. devoteD. contribute
16.A. pretendB. happenC. tendD. seem
17.A. discouragingB. inspiringC. interestingD. touching
18.A. faceB. heartC. sightD. weight
19.A. parkingB. smokingC. drinkingD. rescuing
20.A. figure outB. carry outC. rule outD. drop out
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，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Five Steps to Better Handwriting
Some kids love handwriting, but others hate when it’s time to put their pen to paper. Maybe they are worried about their handwriting. Are you one of them？ 1. Here are five steps that really work!
Get a great grasp
Try this—hold your pencil at the top and try to write your name. Pretty hard？But when you hold your pencil the correct way, writing is much easier. 2.Hold it in place with your thumb, and your index(食指) and middle fingers.
Let the lines be your guide
Lined paper is your friend！Those lines can help you create letters that are the right size and proportion(均衡)．3. Also be sure to fill up the lined space completely. Those capital letters should be from the bottom line to the top one.
Slow down
If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little. If you rush, it’s hard to control where you stop and start your letters.
Lower the pressure
4. That makes it harder to make the smooth lines. Try easing up and don’t hold the pencil too tightly.
5.
Lots of games require you to write or draw pictures. So even though it’s not schoolwork, you’re still using the skills you need to control your pen better.
A. Play games.
B. Ask for more advice.
C. So “a” should be half the height of a capital “A”.
D. You’ve been writing since you were a little kid.
E. Some kids press down really hard when they write.
F. The good news is that just about everyone can improve their handwriting.
G. The best way to hold a pen or pencil is to let it rest next to the base of your thumb.
For hundreds of millions of years, turtles (海龟) have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings (幼龟) down to the water’s edge lest (for fear that) they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking lot instead. A formidable wall of bureaucracy has been erected to protect their prime nesting on the Atlantic coastlines. With all that attention paid to them, you’d think these creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct (die out).
But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds. The South Florida nesting population, the largest, has declined by 50% in the last decade, according to Elizabeth Griffin, a marine biologist with the environmental group Oceana. The figures prompted Oceana to petition the government to upgrade the level of protection for the North Atlantic loggerheads from “threatened” to “endangered”— meaning they are in danger of disappearing without additional help.
Which raises the obvious question: what else do these turtles want from us, anyway? It turns out, according to Griffin, that while we have done a good job of protecting the turtles for the weeks they spend on land (as egg-laying females, as eggs and as hatchlings), we have neglected the years spend in the ocean. “The threat is from commercial fishing,” says Griffin. Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and longline fishers (which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles.
Of course, like every other environmental issue today, this is playing out against the background of global warming and human interference with natural ecosystems. The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm. Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs (恐龙) will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how creature so ugly could have won so much affection.
1.We can learn from the first paragraph that ________.
A．human activities have changed the way turtles survive
B．efforts have been made to protect turtles from dying out
C．government bureaucracy has contributed to turtles’ extinction
D．marine biologists are looking for the secret of turtles’ reproduction
2.What does the author mean by “Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness” (Line 1, Para. 2)?
A．Nature is quite fair regarding the survival of turtles.
B．Turtles are by nature indifferent to human activities.
C．The course of nature will not be changed by human interference.
D．The turtle population has decreased in spite of human protection.
3.What constitutes a major threat to the survival of turtles according to Elizabeth Griffin?
A．Their inadequate food supply.
B．Unregulated commercial fishing.
C．Their lower reproductively ability.
D．Contamination(pollution) of sea water
4.How does global warming affect the survival of turtles?
A．It threatens the sandy beaches on which they lay eggs.
B．The changing climate makes it difficult for their eggs to hatch.
C．The rising sea levels make it harder for their hatchlings to grow.
D．It takes them longer to adapt to the high beach temperature.
