下面是一个中学生给某报编辑部写的一封信，仔细阅读并就信的内容以编辑部的名义给此中学生用英语写一封回信。
注意：1）回信需就原信内容给出至少三条建议（如谈心，相互理解，参加她的生日party，谈论共同话题，分享快乐等等）。
2）词数：100左右
Dear editor,
I am an active girl, and I speak and laugh loudly in the classroom, like a boy. I don’t care about small matters. On the contrary, my neighbor, the girl who sits next to me, speaks quietly and dare not do the things I often do. I can understand this. What I can’t stand is that she often gets angry with me about small things. How can I get along with her?
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Yours,
Sunny
假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。
修改：在错词下面划一横线，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仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Nowadays, many teenagers spend too many time on computers. The number of students who come to school in the morning are already completely exhausting. The cause of this is staying late at night playing computer games and chat with their friends online. Most of them don’t realize just how damaging to their healthy this is, let alone the effect it has on their grades. I recently read an article about the damage that playing computer games are doing to kids. The article claimed for that lots of the games kids play are extremely harmful. It said that at best they are turning teens into dull people which have no social life and at worst into potential killer!
As I write this I’m sitting on a bus back to Santiago in Chile where I am currently working as a language assistant. I’ve just spent the weekend in a city 1. (call) La Serena north of Santiago. I was lucky enough to see the flowering desert, a natural phenomenon that 2. (occur) around every five years here in the Atacama Desert.
3. (follow) a particularly large amount of rainfall earlier, a(n) 4.(vary) of flowers come into blossom. Bright purple flowers create 5. unbelievably beautiful scene at the base of the surrounding mountains.
6. (catch) a glimpse of this magnificent treasure of nature, we took a bus from La Serena to a nearby town and then rented a car to go to the desert. 7. we saw did not disappoint us, and as expected it was even more fascinating than the pictures we had seen online. The bloom was particularly 8. (impress) this year due to the strong presence of El Niño (a band of warm water in the Pacific Ocean that changes the temperatures and increases the rainfall in certain areas). The vast carpet of colour 9. spread into the distance towards the contrasting green hills was 10. (simple) breathtaking and deserved a large amount of photos! A real reminder of the beauty our planet can provide.
My Emotional (感人的) Experience in Jaipur
I came to India in February 2016 to complete a volunteer practicum requirement with some friends. It was really an unforgettable experience!
Before we set off, I thought it would be a hard job,______ that I could not adapt to the poor living conditions. After arriving in Jaipur, we went straight to the hotel that the Center had ______ for us; a relief to us as we were tired from the ______. During the following days we were ______ to the city and had Hindi lessons with our guide Ravi.
On our fourth day in Jaipur we were taken to the head office. There we were ______ for the Child Development Program and over the course we ______ two studies related to child work and child rights. We focused on the experiences of the children who were working and the ______ that pushed them into work. The experience was entirely new for me and I learned so much through the ______. The best part of the work, however, was ______ being in the communities and interacting with the children and their parents. I was ______ to a way of life completely different from my own. In spite of the poor living situations, people in Jaipur were ______. We found that the parents communicated openly with each other and they were always ______ to share their own thoughts and feelings with their children. I could ______ that people in Jaipur have positive relationships with their family and community members. Talking with the people there and hearing their stories was something that had a strong effect on my worldview, continuing to ______ how I understand everything around me now. I have been ______ by the people that I met through this experience.
On the weekends I spent time in Jaipur,______ the city and shopping. We were ______ enough to be there during Holi, an exciting and colorful celebration in February end or early March in India! We really ______ every minute of the life in Jaipur!
Generally, my practicum experience with Volunteering India was extremely ______. I know that I will be thinking about everything that I saw, learned and ______ in India and look forward to the day that I can return to this amazing country.
1.A. expecting B. worrying C. determining D. promising
2.A. booked B. covered C. reported D. designed
3.A. distance B. program C. movement D. journey
4.A. limited B. arranged C. introduced D. pointed
5.A. responsible B. available C. famous D. powerful
6.A. described B. conducted C. exchanged D. benefited
7.A. standards B. chances C. fears D. causes
8.A. adventure B. memory C. process D. discovery
9.A. really B. simply C. properly D. generally
10.A. exposed B. selected C. compared D. delivered
11.A. independent B. attractive C. comfortable D. cheerful
12.A. careful B. willing C. upset D. ashamed
13.A. predict B. advise C. sense D. wonder
14.A. influence B. reflect C. analyze D. test
15.A. reminded B. witnessed C. admitted D. inspired
16.A. identifying B. exploring C. representing D. charging
17.A. curious B. energetic C. lucky D. generous
18.A. valued B. delayed C. confirmed D. permitted
19.A. complex B. reasonable C. reliable D. positive
20.A. declared B. imagined C. experienced D. promoted
Americans use the term “college students” to mean students either in colleges or universities. Not only that, Americans almost never say “going off to university” or “when I was in university.” That sounds British. 1.
College, university: what’s the difference? 2. Both offer undergraduate degrees in the arts and sciences, for example. And both can help prepare young people to earn a living.
But many colleges do not offer graduate studies. Another difference is that universities are generally bigger. 3.
Another place of higher education, especially in technical areas, is an institute, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yet even an institute of technology can offer a wide choice of programs and activities.
Modern universities developed from those of Europe in the Middle Ages. The word “university” came from the Latin universities, describing a group of people organized for a common purpose.4. In England, colleges were formed to provide students with places to live. Usually each group was studying the same thing. So college came to mean an area of study.
The first American universities divided their studies into a number of areas and called each one a college. This is still true. 5. For example, Harvard College is the undergraduate part of Harvard University.
Programs in higher learning can also be called schools, like a school of engineering or a medical school within a college or university. You know, learning all these terms is an education in itself.
A. A college can also be a part of a university.
B. There are more universities than colleges in the USA.
C. They offer more programs and do more research.
D. “College” came from collegium, a Latin word with a similar meaning.
E. Universities and colleges offer students different opportunities.
F. Instead, they say “going off to college” and “when I was in college.”
G. Colleges and universities have many things in common.
It was the American sitcom that influenced a generation. The six stars of Friends went their separate ways after 237 episodes and a decade together as flatmates, sharing their lives, loves and careers in a New York apartment.
“Friends had a huge influence on American TV history”, said Steve Beverly, professor of communication arts. “This group of six reflected what people their age experienced in their daily lives, so viewers could understand them easily.”
We all wanted a life like theirs——the cool New York flat with table football and easy chairs, and the social circle of beautiful, supportive friends. We also wanted to drink endless coffee, which was one example of how the show changed our lives. Even the haircut of Rachel——one of the six——was copied by millions of women.
The show has been credited with influencing how many of us speak. Researchers analysed every episode to explore whether popular culture influenced how we speak. Before the show, people usually put very or really before an adjective. On Friends, they used so. “This guy is so cool,” they said, and now we all say it.
The show enjoyed a huge increase in ratings after the 11 September terrorist attacks, as sad New Yorkers struggled to make sense of the real horrors that had unfolded around them. In the show, they sought the return of a feel-good factor, according to Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture. “Friends is set not in the real New York, but in the fantasy New York where everybody leaves their doors unlocked and people don’t fly planes into buildings,” he said.
Friends is more than just a sitcom; it’s a way of life. Our attitudes to the Friends’ lives is a mixture of envy—— ‘How do they get to sit on sofas all day drinking coffee? ——” and disdain: “Don’t they have anything better to do with their time, like earn a living to pay for that Manhattan apartment?” Anyway, although Friends came to an end long ago, it will last forever.
1.According to Steve Beverly, why did many people like Friends？
A. Because its actors were very attractive.
B. Because it was the first American sitcom.
C. Because it described American dream life.
D. Because viewers could relate to its characters.
2.What’s Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A. Researchers’ interest in the show.
B. The show’s influence on language.
C. The relation between the show and culture.
D. The way the show’s characters use adjectives.
3.What do we know about the show after 9/11?
A. It helped people face terrorist attacks. B. It stopped being set in New York.
C. It provided people with comfort. D. It attracted fewer viewers.
4.When you show disdain for something, you_______.
A. have no respect for it B. pay no attention to it
C. are curious about it D. are surprised at it
