假如你是李华，你班的留学生Charles即将结束三周的假期从美国返回。你想委托他为你代购一个剃须刀，作为生日礼物送给爸爸。请按照以下要求给他写一封电子邮件：
1．品牌：Gillette：
2．价格：30美元左右。
参考词汇：剃须刀shaver
注意：
1．词数100左右：
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：
3．开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Charles，
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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。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(＼)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。
Dear Peter,
I’m very glad to receive your e-mail asking for information about the host family we have arranged you to stay with．
Locating in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood, the house was big enough to enable you to have a room of your own．Apart from the convenient public transportation, our private car will make your visits easy．Because all the family members can speak fluently English and have outgoing personalities, I’m sure you will have no trouble communicate with them．Above all, they hosted the American student last year, through that they gained lots of experience．In addition to, the hostess cooking will guarantee you a wonderful chance of tasting delicious Chinese food．
I can well remember that I was once asked to deliver a speech titled “A Real Test in My Life” before the whole class at the age of 9! You can imagine how 1. (terrible) shy I was with so many eyes 2. (fix) upon me. I had no 3. (choose) but to prepare for it, though. First of all, I was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But the hardest part 4. (lie) in my oral presentation from my memory— for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began 5. I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my listeners were waiting patiently without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found myself back, 6. (deliver) my speech with difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding— I made 7.! From then on, my fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with my 8. (confident) building up, I now turn out to be a great speaker. Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way 9. success is our fear. Overcome it 10. we will be able to achieve our goals.
In the fourth grade, I discovered my one true love—acting. It is not only fun, but it ______ teamwork and empathy, things I think the world should have more of.
However, I never expected that acting would also teach me to ______!
In the first semester of my freshman year of high school, my school ______ the play Frankenstein. It’s about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster, and ______ the monster destroys the scientist’s life.
I got the lead female ______ of Frankenstein’s girlfriend, Elizabeth. I had been in plays before, so I was very ______ to the rehearsal(排练) process of memorizing lines and then ______ a character with help from the director. But this play was different from ______ one I had ever done before, because Frankenstein and Elizabeth had to kiss in the play a lot. The boy who ______ Frankenstein was very cute, I must say. There was a(n) ______ in which our characters shared “15 kisses”. ______, the director removed it. But there were still some kissing scenes.
Would we __ to kiss, or would we actually kiss? Our director __ having us kiss for real, and for the first few times, it was very ______. My lips barely touched the boy’s. Many of the other actors and actresses laughed at us.
__, one thing about stage kissing that you have to understand is that you are not being yourself. That goes for any ______. After that experience, I feel like I can ______ any role. It was a big event in my ______ toward becoming a better actress. I feel more ______ being onstage and showing my character’s personality to the ______. And that is important for getting the message of a play across.
1.A. 1earns B. teaches C. directs D. explains
2.A. kiss B. hug C. bow D. pray
3.A. prepared for B. carded out C. put on D. took up
4.A. when B. where C. whether D. how
5.A. star B. role C. maid D. keeper
6.A. used B. addicted C. related D. devoted
7.A. imagining B. convincing C. developing D. revising
8.A. each B. no C. some D. any
9.A. played B. served C. created D. replaced
10.A. space B. part C. area D. interval
11.A. Eventually B. Surprisingly C. Fortunately D. Regrettably
12.A. intend B. mean C. try D. pretend
13.A. applied to B. ended up C. objected to D. gave up
14.A. fierce B. romantic C. awkward D. pitiful
15.A. However B. Therefore C. Meanwhile D. Otherwise
16.A. behaving B. acting C. touching D. moving
17.A. change B. design C. handle D. assess
18.A. way B. journey C. tour D. trip
19.A. comfortable B. practical C. optimistic D. hopeful
20.A. readers B. actresses C. actors D. audiences
Article writing has been a way of conveying information through the web. If you’re a writer, being able to let them stay on your article for more than two seconds is already a success. Your writing style can create more readers for your content if you know how to capture the attention of readers. 1.
Be Direct-to-the-Point
Website writing differs from print writing. People do not want to spend much time on a website because they want to get the information they need. 2.
Be Informative
Articles for web content are briefly written. They flesh out the information without decorations. Be sure that your articles are not confusingly worded. 3. Make sure you organize your facts logically so that your reader can effectively process them.
Be Conversational
4. Be conversational so that readers can grasp what you mean in your article. With quality content, engage your readers so that your article will have that personal and human touch.
Be Connected
Most article writers just place sentences that state a certain fact to form a paragraph. However, in readers’ hopes, these writers fail to establish a human connection. 5. So it is important to make the connection smooth and not abrupt.
A. Stay away from decorations when writing online content.
B. Most readers like to read articles that “speak” to them.
C. Connection will allow the readers’ minds to effectively process what is written.
D. Get to your point directly so that your readers can process the information.
E. Here are some important points to consider before writing online.
F. Article writing is a fun way of establishing a connection with a reader and a writer.
G. Complex sentences tend to wrongly lead your reader and make them confused.
We’ve been covering standing desks for a long time now because experts agree that sitting all day is killing us. We want to be productive while also keeping our bodies healthy. Over the years, there have been several solutions to this from fixed standing desks to adjustable ones, portable desks to ones that change into shelves.
However, the most high tech and elegant solution has to be this new smart desk called The Stir Kinetic Desk. The desk learns your daily behaviors and moves between a sitting and standing height regularly throughout the day to keep you moving without interrupting your work flow.
You can program specific sitting and standing intervals or let the desk set the schedule. If you tend to sit while returning emails in the morning, but always want to stand during that afternoon conference call, the desk will learn those regular habits and adjust the schedule to fit them. Of course, the desk can always be manually lowered or raised by using the touch screen on the lower left comer of the desk.
When switching positions, the desk gently dips and rises to let you know that a change is coming up. If you’re not ready to switch positions at that time, you can tap the touchscreen to stay sitting or standing for a while longer.
The built-in touchscreen also keeps track of your daily sitting and standing times and tells you how many calories you’ve burned. You can even set goals for how long or often you want to stand. The desk also works with fitness devices like the FitBit to track your movements.
All of that smart tech doesn’t come cheap though. The M1 desk, which is the everyday model, runs a steep $2,990, while the more executive model with added features, the F1, goes for$4,190.
While expensive, it’s worth thinking of how much time we spend at our desks. Much like a good mattress(床垫), a good desk that works with you is worth the investment. Hopefully in a few years these smart, integrated desks will be more common and less expensive.
1.The Stir Kinetic Desk has been designed to_______.
A. help users with their work
B. keep users moving all the time
C. get users to exercise while working
D. remind users of their working schedule
2.Which is the feature of the touchscreen of the desk?
A. It can tell users when to change positions.
B. It can track users’changes of positions.
C. It can keep users in a fixed position.
D. It can detect users’ health condition.
3.Which of the following can best describe the desk?
A. Productive but challenging.
B. Convenient but unaffordable.
C. Complex and impractical.
D. Multi-functional and intelligent.
4.What does the author intend to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. To spend money on such a desk is rewarding.
B. We should get such a desk as soon as possible.
C. It won’t be long before the desk is widely used.
D. Desks play a very important role in our daily life.
