After the terrible earthquake, the rescue teams from all over the country came to Ya’an right away, where they rescued the injured and put up for those who lost their homes.
A. identities B. shelters
C. blocks D. events
假定你是李华，你所在的学校将在暑假期间举办”英国文化展”。请你根据以下要点给英国朋友Peterson写一封信，邀请他前来给你们做一次讲座。
1.讲座目的及内容。
2.讲座的时间及地点。
3.邀请对方参加的原因及对方的意向。
注意：可增加细节，使结构完整，词数不少于100。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Peterson,
Our school is planning to hold
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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仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
About two years ago, I worked hard and entered a locally key school, which my parents were proud of it. From then up, I got up early and got to the school on time. After school, I went back home in time to help my parents do some housework while enjoy some light music. However, one day my mother persuading me to live at school to learn to be independent, preparing the future life. As I was unhappy, I understood my parents and follow their advice. Before living at school, I found it helped me save time and learn what to get on with others.
1.George didn’t find it difficult at all, but it was really a ______ (challenge) task for me.
2.______ (blame) for the breakdown of the computer, Alice was in low spirits.
3.Your statement is in conflict ______ the rest of the evidence.
4.The town hall ______ (complete) in the 1800’s was the most distinguished building at that time.
5.I keep my reference books near my desk ______ convenience.
6.I’ve been told that the medical team,______ (consist) of five doctors, is to be sent.
7.The West Lake is very beautiful and it is beyond ______(describe).
8.He was surprised to find the room ______ (furnish) with modern equipment.
9.Under the ______(guide) of the local guide, we had a tour of the small town.
10.______ (lack) enthusiasm for sports, rejected the invitation to a football game.
I learned my first lesson at a meeting. As we sat around the table I heard Meg, who was ______ a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for ______ my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” “Don’t mention it,” Judith says, “It was nothing.”
Knowing how ______ Judith’s schedule is, with her work, kids and aging parents, I found her driving Meg’s children to lessons unbelievably ______. I was about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, entered the room ______. She apologized for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who are over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I say,______ how busy she was, how she didn’t like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she said, waving her hand, “It was nothing.”______, I could still tell the ______ in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.
Seeing their ______ to help others selflessly, I started thinking about the concept of “nothing”, this peaceful and generous way of living--- had it really been nothing or were they simply saying that? It ______ to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend ______ a speech. I ______ her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more ______. After the fifth try, she finally ______ it. She hugged me with ______, saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing.
Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesn’t ______ mean sacrifice and hard work. The ______ is finding something we love to do and finding someone who ______ that something. Our generosity pan benefit others ______ ourselves. Once you have a good ______ of it, it’s nothing. And it’s really something.
1.A. adapting to B. recovering from C. going through D. taking up
2.A. guiding B. fetching C. driving D. dragging
3.A. tight B. common C. strange D. practical
4.A. ridiculous B. cautious C. tiresome D. generous
5.A. disappointedly B. hurriedly C. angrily D. unexpectedly
6.A. ignoring B. forgetting C. knowing D. predicting
7.A. Somehow B. Therefore C. Otherwise D. Moreover
8.A. regret B. sadness C. surprise D. pleasure
9.A. willingness B. ambition C. promise D. progress
10.A. referred B. occurred C. appeared D. seemed
11.A. put up B. give away C. prepare for D. deal with
12.A. begged B. invited C. recommended D. sponsored
13.A. sensible B. confusing C. subjective D. typical
14.A. got B. meant C. caught D. made
15.A. gratitude B. worry C. concern D. apology
16.A. normally B. accidentally C. possibly D. necessarily
17.A. treat B. trick C. plot D. plan
18.A. needs B. admires C. loves D. defends
19.A. on account of B. as well as C. except for D. regardless of
20.A. order B. glimpse C. command D. impression
Today we eat on the go, at our desks and even in front of computers. We eat takeout, delivered and packaged meals. 1.
“Over the past three decades, people have started eating out more than ever before and purchasing more prepared foods at the grocery store, which tend to contain more fat, salt and sugar than their home-made foods,” noted US healthy living website Spark People.
2. It encourages us to value the time we spend preparing, sharing and consuming food, as a recent USA today article put it. It all started in 1986 with the efforts of Slow Food’s founding father, Italian activist Carlo Petrini, who wanted to bring back food varieties and flavors that had gone dark in the face of industrialization.3. Now his idea is almost the mainstream.
Starting at the table, the movement promotes an unhurried way of life founded on the idea that everyone has a right to cooking pleasure, and that everyone must also take responsibility to “protect the heritage (遗产) of food, tradition and culture that make this celebration of the senses possible”, wrote The Phnom Penh Post.
“4.. It means turning down the speed at which we eat and increasing the amount of time we spend dining together with other people,” Althea Zanecosky, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, told The Huf fington Post.”5. Dinner table conversations keep families together,” noted the Belgian non-profit organization Greenfudge.
A. It is a way to bring back the social togetherness of yesterday.
B. It seems that we have adapted our foods to our fast-paced lives.
C. So the Slow Food Movement has occurred against this fast-food trend.
D. Slow Food doesn’t necessarily mean food that takes a long time to cook.
E. It is based on the idea that we should spend as much time as possible on cooking.
F. It’s not only the food itself but also the time we spend dining together that matters.
G. At that time, he asked people to follow a more sustainable (可持续的) living model.
