Robert Ballard is probably the most famous deep-sea explorer in the past 100 years. While he is best known for his historic discovery of the wreckage(残骸) of the R.M.S. Titanic which sank to the bottom of the sea in 1912, he also discovered the wreckage of the Bismarck and the Yorktown. Over his career, Dr. Ballard has completed over 120 deep-sea journeys and continues to push exploration to new depths with new technologies and strategies. His new high-tech Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island links scientists all over the world and makes it possible to identify new discoveries in realtime.
Reporter: What were you like as a kid?
Ballard: I was a very “active” kid with lots of interests including sports (football, basketball, and tennis), fishing, and studies.
Reporter: Do you have a hero?
Ballard: My hero is Captain Nemo from the book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and his submarine the Nautilus.
Reporter: What do you daydream about?
Ballard: I dream about undersea exploration.
Reporter: How did you get into your field of work?
Ballard: It started with a scholarship to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in the summer of 1959 when I was a junior in high school. That summer, I went to sea on two separate expeditions in Baja California with various oceanographers(海洋学家). During one of those expeditions, I met Dr. Robert Norris, a Scripps graduate with a Ph. D. in marine geology, who invited me to come to the University of California, Santa Barbara where I ended up getting my undergraduate degree in Geology and Chemistry with minors in Math and Physics.
Reporter: What’s the best piece of advice that anyone has ever given you that you can share with us?
Ballard: Follow your dreams and don’t let anyone talk you out of them.
Reporter: Do you have any good jokes?
Ballard: I prefer sayings to jokes. My favorite is, “Never get into the thick of thin things.”
1.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Robert Ballard ________.
A. is president of a university and travels a lot
B. is the most famous deep-sea explorer in history
C. is still contributing to the development of deep-sea exploration
D. is best famous for the discovery of the wreckages of three ships
2.From the passage we know Nemo ________.
A. is Jules Verne’s nickname B. is the name of a ship
C. is a sailor on a submarine D. is a character in a book
3.What can we know about Ballard?
A. He was lucky to meet Dr. Robert Norris.
B. He once wrote a book about the sea.
C. He loves jokes more than proverbs.
D. He used to be tired of studying.
4.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. The great achievements of Robert Ballard.
B. An interview with a famous deep-sea explorer.
C. A brief introduction to famous Robert Ballard.
D. What a famous deep-sea explorer is like.
假定你是李华，你收到了你的美国朋友Peter寄来的最新英文小说。请给他回信，告诉他礼物己收到，并回赠他一件礼物以及说明礼物的意义，并邀请他来中国旅游。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
During the holiday I take part in a special summer camp. There I met a girl from Canvey, a town on the Thames, where is to the east of London. As a host, I showed him around such place as the Great Wall and the Summer Palace. She was deeply impressing by the great sights. I also told her about the great changes that had been taken place in the past few decades. She said Beijing was quite different from that she had expected and that it was very beautifully. Meanwhile, I improved my spoken English in her help. I think summer camp is very valuable.
1.They talked friendly as if they ______ (be) friends for many years.
2.Tired of the city life, her husband suggested ______ (settle) down in the country after they retired.
3.As one of the most famous tourist ______ (attract), the Great Wall is a symbol of our profound Chinese culture.
4.With his attention ______ (focus) on the computer games, he didn’t notice his mom come in.
5.The novel is said to ______ (translate) into several foreign languages and sells well abroad.
6.I do hope everybody can become the backbone of our nation and make great ______ (contribute) to society.
7.So ______ (challenge) was the task that he had to apply himself to it.
8.______ (struggle) for months 10 find a job since graduation, he finally took a position in a local company.
9.The write couldn’t stand ______ (wake) up by the outside at midnight.
10.The shops have sinned to put ______ Christmas decorations.
My online friend Steve 1.(frequent) comments on how fathers are often not included in the conversation when 2.Comes to parenting. When someone posts an article about how moms spend a large amount of time 3.(help) with homework each night, he will comment that it isn’t just moms 4. are right there with their sleeves 5.(roll) up; fathers are doing all the same things that moms do. However, they 6.(award) none of the credit for their performance.
Of course he is right. Steve and millions 7. Other dads are there with their kids every day. They are there making a special hairstyle for Crazy Hair Day. They read bedtime stories to their kids. They volunteer at the preschool. They make sandwiches cut into funny 8.(shape).
So for Steve and those dads who do the dirty work of parenting and love it as well as those who can’t to see little faces each morning, we wish you 9.Happy Father’s Day. You are awesome. Your little kid and your wife are 10.(fortune) to have you. Enjoy your time on this special day!
Our family’s first hosting experience began in January of 2015 with our Italian daughter Victoria. We had so much fun with her that we could not___________to experience a new, different country, so we__________to host another World Heritage Exchange Student.
As soon as we saw Merna’s information, we knew she was_________,a YES Scholarship student, and Egyptian. We began to fall in love with our Egyptain__________right away. We Skyped, and emailed for five months________she arrived in the US. When she__________got off the plane, it was as if we were finally a(n)________family again.
My husband and I grew up believing that other cultures_______us, and hosting a foreign Exchange Student just seems so_________for us. We felt it would be a__________experience for our children to grow up seeing other cultures and learning to love others as a(n)_________. Our small children are enjoying the experience vastly, learning a new language________, and realizing that the other side of the world is not all that________our country.
Merna is small, loving, helpful, charming, caring and a real__________to our lives. She has ________us all so much. We cannot__________our lives without our Italian and Egyptain daughters. We do plan to travel to________countries because of them, and we will be sending our children as exchange students to live with our new_________families.
I want to thank World Heritage for_________a chance for our family to grow from four children to six children all in one year. We are all excited at this experience of a lifetime and will forever________it.
1.A. help B. choose C. wait D. intend
2.A. applied B. afforded C. managed D. remembered
3.A. brilliant B. ambitious C. cute D. loyal
4.A. friend B. student C. daughter D. relative
5.A. once B. after C. since D. before
6.A. even B. already C. just D. ever
7.A. big B. foreign C. free D. whole
8.A. appeal to B. stick to C. belong to D. take to
9.A. common B. natural C. apparent D. simple
10.A. normal B. personal C. promising D. rewarding
11.A. companion B. reminder C. equal D. individual
12.A. little by little B. few by few C. one by one D. side by side
13.A. amongst B. unlike C. opposite D. about
14.A. guest B. heroine C. believer D. blessing
15.A. offered B. warned C. taught D. left
16.A. live B. enjoy C. imagine D. continue
17.A. other B. another C. all D. both
18.A. extended B. increased C. formed D. loved
19.A. having B. providing C. getting D. allowing
20.A. conduct B. appreciate C. desire D. adore
