Discovering Tasmania
The island of Tasmania a place of natural beauty and has more than 2,000 km of walking tracks and 18 national parks. If you go on a tour, you'll discover a wild and beautiful place where the people are friendly and the food is delicious. If you don't like walking, there are other tours you can choose from including a river cruise(巡游) and cycling. You can also enjoy fishing, sailing or sunbathing on the beach.
The Tarkine coast is located in the northwest of Tasmania. It's such a wild and remote(偏僻) area that you can easily complete your walk without seeing anyone apart from the members of your group and your two guides. The area contains the largest rainforest in Australia which is home to more than 50 endangered species. It is also home to many Aboriginal Heritage Sites. During your tour, you'll come across rivers, mountain ranges, waterfalls, wildlife and long wild beaches.
Tour Itinerary：
Day 1：
You're picked up from your hotel in Launceston and driven to the Tarkine. You then complete a threehour walk through the forest before arriving at your camp at Mystery Creek. There you will enjoy a delicious meal cooked by your guides.
Day 2：
After breakfast, you continue deeper into the rainforest, passing some of the tallest trees in the world as you go, and stopping for lunch and then camp in the evening.
Day 3：
The exciting part of today's tour is the Tarkine Falls, a beautiful 15metre waterfall.
Day 4：
You can stay at the camp and bathe in the Tarkine Falls, or you can go for a walk for more fantastic views of the forest.
Day 5：
After a last journey through the forest, you are picked up at about 4：00 p．m. and you arrive in Launceston at around 7：00 p．m.
The tour includes two professional guides, transport to and from the rainforest, all food while on the tours and all safety equipment. You should buy or hire(租用) recommended camping equipment including: backpacks, sleeping bags, rain coats and trousers.
1.The island of Tasmania____________.
A. is the most-visited tourist spot in Australia
B. lies in the northwest of Australia
C. offers visitors plenty of activities
D. is always crowded with tourists
2.On the Tarkine coast, visitors can __________.
A. meet many people from around the world
B. see wildlife in the largest rainforest in Australia
C. learn how to protect endangered species
D. camp on the heritage sites
3.We know from the text that visitors ___________.
A. will have two days to experience the rainforest
B. must stay in the hotel at night
C. have to pay extra for the meats on the tours
D. are expected to prepare camping on the tours
4.On which day can a tourist catch sight of the tallest trees in the world?
A. Day 1 B. Day 2
C. Day 4 D. Day 5
假定你是李华，你校注意：1. 词数外教Mr. Brown对中国文化很感兴趣。请写封邮件邀请他一起参加城市图书馆的传统文化日。内容包括：
1.时间和地点；
2.活动介绍：中国餐桌礼仪讲座；使用筷子chopsticks比赛；粤剧Cantonese Opera表演等。
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仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The structure of houses have changed a lot since the first hut was building in ancient times. I often imagine what houses in the future will like. I am sure it will be greatly different from that they are today. First, houses in the future can adjust the room temperature with the changes of season. Second, they prevent waste by producing energy through their solar panels, that can be used to provide hot water in winder and cool air in summer. Beside, they can change their colors at any time to satisfy with their owners.
In short, living in a future house will be amazed.
Teenagers are famous for being on the cutting edge of current fads(时尚)and trends. They are working on their identity. They want to identify with something that makes them feel good about 1.(them). When something new comes out, all the teens and their peers check it out. If it sticks for a little while, it’s a fad. If it sticks around a 2.(long)time, it becomes a trend.
Many fads are3.(harm). Back in my day, people cut the sleeves and collars of sweat shirts off and 4.(wear)them inside out. No big deal.
This fad did not become a trend. Today, everyone owns 5.iPod and texts friends on their cell phones. These fads will either fade with new technology 6.become a trend and stay around a while. We’ll have to wait and see.
While keeping up with teen fads can sometimes be exhausting for parents, 7.(especial) for parents of preteens who are just getting 8.(start), it is a worthwhile effort. 9.you can’t pick and choose which fads or trends your teens will pick up, it doesn’t mean you don’t get to add your opinion and use the fad10.a teachable moment.
Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelop fell from one. Inside was an undated ______and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was ______it, it meant the author had died.
Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a_______woman’s last words to her child. He had to_____ Bethany. “Whoever it is will _______this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t ______a letter like that.”
He supposed if the_______ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he_______recognized the little girl’s face. Even if she’d since left the area, there might be someone in town who would recognize the______.
He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the_______letter.
______, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n)______herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the ______. As she read her mother’s ______, words she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be_____ .
Gash was only 4 when her mother ______. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally ______ .
She remembers unpacking and looking for the letter, and then_______searching through everything in hopes that it was there. “That’s when I realized it was _____gone by now and I’d never see it again,” she said.
Draper_______the letter in person. He also brought her a children’s book for her son. Gash was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger’s kindness.
1.A. message B. email C. postcard D. letter
2.A. reading B. destroying C. forgetting D. copying
3.A. determined B. kind C. selfish D. dying
4.A. find B. introduce C. phone D. comfort
5.A. understand B. avoid C. want D. like
6.A. tear open B. cut up C. throw away D. pull out
7.A. girl B. book C. reporter D. news
8.A. hardly B. actually C. unfortunately D. accidentally
9.A. author B. teacher C. picture D. stranger
10.A. lost B. valuable C. wet D. broken
11.A. Meanwhile B. Therefore C. However D. Eventually
12.A. editor B. mother C. daughter D. assistant
13.A. ticket B. magazine C. article D. homework
14.A. vocabularies B. terms C. languages D. words
15.A. writing B. joking C. playing D. dreaming
16.A. came back B. passed away C. died out D. calmed down
17.A. donated B. burned C. dirtied D. robbed
18.A. secretly B. suddenly C. madly D. regularly
19.A. almost B. never C. still D. long
20.A. kept B. delivered C. composed D. published
Many of us are hardwired NOT to ask for help. We think it makes us appear weak. We think people will say no. we think we have to do everything ourselves.1.. We have to get over that, and there’s how:
Get over yourself
No one—and I mean NO ONE----got anywhere alone. You cannot and should not do everything yourself. You are not, in fact, always the best person for the job, or the “only” person who can do it. asking for help is sign of strength, not weakness. Asking for help clears space for you and frees your time and energy. 2..
Rebuild your thinking
Rebuild what it means to ask for help from “I am a weak, incompetent loser” to “I am strategically allocating my time to focus on what matters most.” Don’t focus on the fact that you can’t do something or don’t have the time. 3.. It’s a chance to connect, a chance to value a colleague, a chance to get something done faster or better, a chance to optimize your own time and talents.
4.
Asking for help is about tapping valuable resources to get the best outcome the most quickly with the fewest resources expended. That’s a fancy way of saying “get the right people for the job.” 5.. And the best way to do that is to know your colleagues, and proactively build relationships.
A. Know your colleagues.
B. Think about your colleagues.
C. Your energy can’t be wasted.
D. It’s a smart strategy.
E. It’s all about building the right team.
F. Instead, think about what you will gain from the ask.
G. Whatever the reason, we don’t ask for the help we need.
