假定你是学生会主席李华, 你们学校将在外国留学生中举行“中文演讲比赛”活动。 请你写一封英文电子邮件通知你校的外国留学生。内容包括：
1. 比赛时间：5月1日
2. 报名时间：即日起至4月20日
3. 报名地点: 学校阅览室202室
注意: 1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear friends,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改短文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文，文中 共存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（∧），并在其下而写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线 (\) 划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在其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，
When I was having lunch in a restaurant, I noticed a young man. Dressing in black, he was playing with a smartphone while eating. She smiled at everyone that walked by. All of a sudden, a boy ran into him, making some food dropping on his trousers, what I thought would make him annoyed with the boy. Instead, he laughs it off when the mother made the apology to him. “Never mind!” he said polite. Seeing this, I touched and appreciated the kindness he brought to the world. On the way out, I handed to him a Smile Card which said, “Best wish and good luck to you!”
For the last 20 years, Elizabeth Eaton Rosenthal, 1. fine artist in New York, has been dressing from head to toe in2. (variety) shades of green. To her, green is the happiest, most positive color in the world, so she can’t imagine 3. (wear) anything else.
4. is most widely known, Elizabeth, “The Green Lady of Carroll Gardens”, has always had a thing for experimenting. At one point in her life she 5. (choose) to wear only the 1930s print dresses. Her6. (prefer) for green started in her fifties with some home-mixed green nail polish. But it quickly spread to her clothing and her home.
Elizabeth’s house is mostly green as well, 7. the front door to her backyard, and everywhere in between.
She knows that green makes her happy and helps her deal with daily8. (problem) , so she won’ t dream of wearing any other color. 9., that’s not her only motivation for wearing green. The 75-year-old artist also does it because it makes other people happy.
When10. (ask) if she ever gets tired of green, Elizabeth Sweetheart said, “Oh no, never. It keeps getting better every day.”
Lost & Found
That night, when I arrived at the door of my building, I noticed a man walking behind me. I thought he was a neighbor I hadn’t met. I did a _______ neighborly thing and held the door for him. But when I turned, he took away everything I had and ran away. I was _______. From then on, I looked over my _______, never fully at ease. It cost me my sense of trust in my _______.
A year passed, I got home one night and found an envelope under my door. Inside was a _______ weather-beaten driver’s license. I could _______ make it out because the address was nearly worn away. But the face on that _______ was mine. And the note in it said; Sarah Sweeney, if you still live here, call us at this _______.
Feeling _______, I walked up and down in my living room trying to think of ________ someone would contact (联系) me like this. If there’s a Mugger Playbook (抢劫犯剧本) this was the final long game! Now he’s checking my ________ to get more money?
But I called the number.
Then a(n) ________ voice of a little girl got on, “Hello! Are you Sarah Sweeney? My sister and I found your purse in the woods!”
I could ________ she was jumping up and down as she spoke. She and her younger sister carefully ________ bits of paper, pieced together the clues to find me and ________ my wallet and everything inside. I was completely ________. They were giving me a sense of relief.
I asked her, “How can I ________ you?”
“Hang on!” She pulled the phone away and ________ with her sister; then I heard “ICE CREAM!"
Twenty minutes later, I was at their door. I ________ a box of ice cream. And these two little girls gave my wallet and a renewed sense of ________.
1.A. meaningful B. smart C. polite D. necessary
2.A. robbed B. cheated C. suspected D. caught
3.A. head B. shoulder C. door D. neck
4.A. colleagues B. friends C. neighbors D. family
5.A. rotted B. new C. useful D. cheap
6.A. easily B. merely C. probably D. hardly
7.A. envelope B. license C. wallet D. note
8.A. point B. time C. number D. place
9.A. worried B. sad C. satisfied D. disappointed
10.A. why B. whether C. how D. when
11.A. room B. wallet C. address D. account
12.A. angry B. sweet C. rough D. cold
13.A. see B. notice C. understand D. tell
14.A. replaced B. unfolded C. counted D. selected
15.A. return B. check C. repair D. clean
16.A. confused B. lost C. discouraged D. moved
17.A. treat B. find C. reward D. inform
18.A. discussed B. agreed C. argued D. competed
19.A. contributed to B. handed over C. paid for D. packed up
20.A. loss B. duty C. trust D. direction
How to Stay Positive
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle (奇迹). The other is as though everything is a miracle. If you choose to be positive, these ideas can be helpful.
♦ 1.
Who in your life seems filled with positivity? Who inspires and challenges you to up your game? Consciously build a network of people who motivate you to be your best, then spend your time with them. Be that source of light for others, too.
♦ Feed yourself with positivity.
2. Similarly, how you fuel yourself will determine your experience as well. Read inspiring books. Watch encouraging movies. Follow positive people on social media. You can also create a physical environment of positivity.
♦ Focus on what you can control.
So much is out of our hands, isn’t it?3. Determine what you can control and put your energy there. For example, you can control your responses, actions, words, and thoughts; you can be the change you wish to see in the world. You have more power than you realize. 4.
♦ Watch your vocabulary.
Mother Teresa declined participation in an anti-war meet. When asked why, she replied that she did not want to give any attention to war, but she’d gladly participate in a pro-peace meet. 5. They can help you mend broken hearts and reach amazing goals.
Continue to feed that positive world—like Einstein said, living as though everything is a miracle—and watch life change accordingly.
A. Pay attention to your words.
B. Seek advice from positive and active people.
C. Surround yourself with positive people.
D. Focusing on that, however, can leave you feeling helpless.
E. And when you keep your focus there, that power expands.
F. Putting poor quality gas in your car will not help it run at best performance.
G. If you focus on that change, then everything will change for the better.
Since 2013, Torobo, a robotic arm designed to test the limits of artificial intelligence, has had one ambition—to be admitted to the University of Tokyo. However, it has repeatedly failed. This year was no exception.
In early November, Torobo took an exam to prepare for an all-important standardized test. While Torobo’s overall score of 525 out of 950 was 14 points higher than in 2015, its standard score of 57.1% was slightly lower, because human students did better in the 2016 test.
Though the score, which is higher than the national average, is enough to get the robot admitted to many other famous Japanese universities, it falls short of the minimum required for the University of Tokyo.
A closer analysis of the results showed that Torobo’s newly programmed ability to solve complex physics problems helped increase its year-over-year physics score from 46.5% to 59%. The robot also dug deep into its database of information from textbooks and websites to obtain an impressive 66.3% in world history. The average 60% scores acquired in the two math sections, were not too shabby, either.
But, while Torobo is able to handle knowledge-based questions and ones involving complex mathematical calculations, it has a hard time thinking independently. As a result, the robot is unable to comprehend multiple sentences and phrases to arrive at the logical conclusions required in the English language tests. This weakness was reflected in the weak oral and writing scores, which came in at 36.2% and 50.5%, respectively.
Fortunately, after four grueling years, the robot’s creators have decided to free Torobo from its annual test-taking suffering. The research team will instead focus on improving the robot’s ability to pick out specific answers from massive sets of data—a skill that led to its excellent history scores. They believe the expertise (专门技术) will help Torobo succeed as an industrial robot.
1.What is the disadvantage of Torobo?
A. It has weak independent thinking ability. B. It couldn’t sit through the exams.
C. It has much difficulty searching for facts. D. It doesn’t own language skills.
2.What does the underlined word “grueling” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. happy B. tiring C. successful D. independent
3.What did the exam results show?
A. Torobo was admitted to a university.
B. Torobo did well in the history exam.
C. Torobo’s score didn’t reach the national average.
D. Torobo’s programmed ability improved its math score.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Subjects a robot is good at. B. Majors that are suitable for a robot.
C. A robot’s ways to deal with exams. D. A robot’s performances in exams.
