"Guinness" is on Tuesday nights on Fox. It is a disgusting show that I regret watching. The producers seem to show the sickest records. There is nothing wrong with the book, and it's an honor to be in it, for the most part. The program, however, doesn't show the record for the person who lifted the most weight. Instead, they show the person who lifted 30 pounds with his ears and tongue, which was truly disgusting. Television can do without a show like this.
"Saturday Night Live" is not the same show that it once was. Now the weekly comedy show struggles to come up with a single funny scene. Despite the good acting and the interesting hosts, the humor is simply not there. As the ratings continue to drop, the show must find a solution to its growing problem of lack of funny material. Until then, it will probably get worse. "Saturday Night Live" can be seen on NBC on Saturday nights from 11:30 p.m—1.00 a.m.
"The Wayans Bros.", an exciting comedy starring Shawn and Marion Wayans, airs every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. In the show, Shawn and Marion play brothers who live together and own a news stand. Shawn, the smooth-talking one of the two, and Marion, the younger brother who is forever acting like a five-year-old, seem to have a conflict every week, but always resolve it with a brotherly hug.
"Gilmore Girls", now in its seventh (and final) season, is an amazing television show that follows the lives of the mother/daughter team of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Lorelai got pregnant with Rory at the age of 16 and decided to move out of Hartford, Connecticut, to seek refuge in a small town nearby. She and Rory have a close relationship and share everything.
1.What makes the author regard "Guinness" as disgusting?
A. The time the program is shown. B. The mood the show presents.
C. The record the book contains. D. The way they lift weight.
2.What type of show is "Saturday Night Live" supposed to be?
A. Comedy. B. Tragedy. C. Cartoon. D. Thriller.
3.Which of the following tells stories between different generations?
A. Guinness B. Saturday Night Live C. The Wayans Bros D. Gilmore Girls
4.Where does the article most probably come from?
A. TV forecast. B. TV review. C. TV advertisement. D. TV news.
假定你是李华。为了提高学生汉字书写水平，你校上周举办了“汉字听写大赛”和“书法大赛”。请你给你的美国笔友Peter写一封信，介绍该活动。要点如下：
1.举办该活动的原因；
2.活动主要内容；
3.你的感想。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：汉字听写大赛Chinese characters dictation competition; 书法大赛handwriting competition
Dear Peter,
How are you doing these days? I’m writing to tell you
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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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的间用斜线（\）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，多若(从第11处起）不计分。
As a small children in primary school, I enjoyed sport very much. I could play freely. Move on to high school marked a big change in this respect. I was no longer encouraging to play with friends at a break. Instead, I sat and chatted, or if I particular wanted to learn I studied. As a teenager, I became more aware about what other people thought of me or how I looked. Sport became something I have to do to stay healthy and pass my PE test. The fun element had taken away from it. Last year, I practiced yoga, that has helped me change my attitude towards sport.
China is the birthplace of silk. Raising silkworms for silk production 1.(have) a history of over 6,000 years. Legend has it that the wife of the Yellow Emperor was having tea under a mulberry tree（桑树）2. a cocoon（蚕茧）fell into her cup. As she watched, the cocoon spun a strong white thread. She unwound the string onto her finger, 3. (realize) that it could be used as weaving thread. Thus an industry was born. She taught her people how to raise silkworms, and 4. (late) invented the loom(织布机). Silk production reached 5. high level during the Shang Dynasty (1600BC—1046BC).
For more than two thousand years, the Chinese kept the secret of silk to 6. (they). It was one of the most guarded 7. (secret) in history. Anyone found guilty of taking silkworm eggs, cocoons, or mulberry seeds was put to death. Silk clothes were worn by emperors and rich people and became a symbol 8. wealth. Common people were prohibited from wearing silk. With the creases of travels and trading, sericulture 9. (slow) reached the outside world from Asia to Europe. Now most of silk 10. (produce) in the south of the Yangtze River Delta, such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Shaoxing.
One morning, the door opened and a new teacher, Mrs Cosby, walked in. She looked too _______ to handle us. And we surely gave her a _______ time, but she never lost her temper. And then came the last day of the first month. She _______ a bunch of papers. We feared the worst — a test. But oh no, it was something that _______ surprised us.
Mrs Cosby asked us to come to the front of the class, and gave each of us a _______, in which she had written what the student in question had been _______ at during the last month.
You see no one had ever _______ us. No one ever liked us. We were constantly told how good-for-nothing we were. And here, _______, was someone who had been _______ us closely for a month. We made things as difficult for her as we could. And yet she could find something ________ to say about each of us.
Mrs Cosby did this every ________ from then on. Each month we got a paper that emphasized our ________. She commented on my courage, how punctual I was, how good to ________ arguments if I wanted. Her ________ influenced our class. We did not want to ________ her feelings anymore. We actually started to ________.
At the graduation ceremony, Mrs Cosby hugged us and told us with tears in her eyes how ________ she was of us. Then she ________ each one of us a book. All the encouraging letters through the years wee there, in hard covers.
She said, “I want you each to keep this book and if you feel ________, open this and read how good you are. You can be anything you want to be ________ you believe in yourself. Promise me you’ll remember that!”
1.A. soft B. short C. foolish D. ordinary
2.A. happy B. hard C. beautiful D. valuable
3.A. took back B. took out C. took on D. took off
4.A. partly B. nearly C. hardly D. totally
5.A. sentence B. comment C. paper D. letter
6.A. poor B. angry C. glad D. good
7.A. forgotten about B. played with C. believed in D. looked for
8.A. naturally B. generally C. suddenly D. gradually
9.A. teaching B. praising C. following D. observing
10.A. strange B. positive C. negative D. interesting
11.A. day B. week C. month D. year
12.A. shortcomings B. mistakes C. strengths D. wishes
13.A. start B. continue C. settle D. write
14.A. attitude B. thinking C. reaction D. effect
15.A. understand B. know C. share D. hurt
16.A. study B. play C. fight D. joke
17.A. tired B. proud C. ashamed D. kind
18.A. promised B. bought C. handed D. suggested
19.A. energetic B. unlucky C. unworthy D. worthy
20.A. even if B. as long as C. unless D. as though
How to Say “Help Me” in American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is the standard sign language used by the deaf community in the United States. ASL is a means for the deaf to communicate. ASL is not a replication(复制) of English. It is vastly different from British Sign Language (BSL). 1. To sign the phrase “help me” in American Sign Language, use these steps.
★Make the “help” sign. Place the right first on top of the flat left palm（手掌）. Elbows should be slightly out. Raise hands together. 2. Some people do this sign by placing the left fist on the right palm. Do it however your local teachers or deaf friends do it.
★Combine with movement. 3. In this phrase, start the movement toward the person being addressed. If you are talking to someone in front of you and start the sign to your right and bring it nearer to you, it means “He helps me.” If you start the sign near to the other person and bring it toward yourself, it means “You help me.” However, the sign can be made without having to sign each word.
★Add facial expressions. American Sign Language is a visual language. 4. Raised eyebrows, for example, usually convey a question, such as “You help me?” or “Will you help me?” A harsh or frowning expression means importance or urgency, as in “Help me!”
★5. American Sign Language has an entire alphabet using finger signs. By learning the entire alphabet, an individual can use his/her fingers to spell any word, as in this case “Help!”
★Tips & Warnings: Signing should be comfortable. Hold hands and arms where they are most comfortable; for older people, this may be lower.
A. Learn to fingerspell.
B. Ask someone for help.
C. Facial expression add greatly to the meaning.
D. This is similar to the gesture of assisting something upwards.
E. ASL has a clear vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure.
F. We acquire sign language in the same way as we acquire spoken language.
G. ASL uses the direction of the movement to determine the subject of the phrase.
