假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Mary在电子邮件中邀请你暑假期间赴美国参加她的生日聚会，请用英语给她写一封回信，包括以下要点：
1. 表示感谢；2. 礼貌但委婉地拒绝她的邀请并解释原因；3. 邀请她来中国玩。
注意：1. 字数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使文章行文连贯。
Dear Mary,
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Yours,
Lihua
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。
Yesterday our club held a English speech contest “Challenging Myself”. Many students take part in it and delivered their wonderful speech. A great many of teachers and students crowded into the hall in order that see their performances. On the stage, no matter what pressure the speakers was facing, they bravely overcame them to achieve great success. What’s more, they impressed us deep with unusual confidence. Through such an activity, we gained a lot. However, our club is growing stronger and attractive.
Many people may think the Forbidden city, or the Palace Museum as it’s also called, is 1. great, old-fashioned museum. 2., in recent years, the museum has been working hard 3. (promote) Chinese cultural heritage among the young people.
The museum’s online store now offers special cultural and creative 4. (product). For example, in 2014, it 5. (begin) to sell earphones that look like the necklaces worn by ancient officials, which even brought in 6. (rough) 1 billion yuan a year.
Last year, a documentary 7.(name) Masters in the Forbidden City became popular online. It is about the people 8. job is to repair the relics in the museum. Many of these workers are very young and some are even 9. their 20s.
Some other museums across the country, such as the National Museum of China, 10. (inspire) by the Palace Museum’s efforts and are working on similar projects of their own.
I was sitting at the kitchen table finishing my morning meal. A little taste of autumn ____ had risen in my soul. The ____ air and falling leaves all ____ the coming of the winter. I took my last drink of meal and carried my ____ bowl over to the sink to clean it. My two cats sat on top of the kitchen counter, ____ above them. I saw that they were both eyeing a tiny spider on a single web from the light above. Just as the spider came near, ____ cats were well prepared to catch and eat him. I quickly took a paper towel and ____ the little guy before he became a kitty ____. I walked out of the back door to let him ____. As soon as I set him down he quickly crawled to ____ on the wall. As I shut the door, I noticed something too. I was ____ and my sadness was gone.
Now I know a lot of people would be ____ about how saving the eight-legged animal could have ____ my spirits, so quickly. After all, it was just a spider. As I thought about it, two sentences I had recently read ____ me. The first was: “The only true thing is ____.” The second was: “ Do everything out of love.” I realized then that no act of love is ____. I had only spared a spider to live another day, but it had ____ my heart and improved my spirit.
Make your life full of love. When you do so, you will ____ not only yourself, but others and this world. Your soul will ____ the cheers of other people. ____ people’s eyes every smile you share is a treasure, and every kind act you do is a triumph(胜利).
1.A. pleasure B. curiosity C. happiness D. sadness
2.A. warm B. cooling C. freezing D. fresh
3.A. mean B. decide C. prove D. consider
4.A. large B. expensive C. white D. empty
5.A. jumping B. playing C. staring D. eating
6.A. both B. neither C. all D. each
7.A. covered B. surrounded C. threw D. saved
8.A. food B. toy C. bed D. enemy
9.A. return B. go C. continue D. catch
10.A. strength B. independence C. importance D. safety
11.A. smiling B. shouting C. reading D. eating
12.A. worried B. shocked C. confused D. satisfied
13.A. lifted B. pressed C. shook D. tapped
14.A. occurred B. hit C. missed D. invented
15.A. pity B. sorry C. apology D. love
16.A. small B. expensive C. far D. dangerous
17.A. cured B. touched C. fed D. hurt
18.A. lose B. help C. endanger D. harm
19.A. draw B. watch C. observe D. hear
20.A. At B. With C. In D. For
Car sickness is a common problem faced by many people. 1. The ears tell the brain that the body is moving, but the eyes say that the body isn’t moving. This leads to many symptoms of car sickness. Though there is no solution to this problem, there are some ways to make it less unpleasant.
Get fresh air. Some people may find fresh air can make car sickness less serious. 2. If symptoms remain, stop the car and get out to breathe in fresh air if possible. The air may help, and stopping the drive should help, too.
3. Often, car sickness is caused by movements outside the car. For this reason, you may feel better when you block your view. Simply closing your eyes may help, especially if you can fall asleep. You can also try sunglasses to achieve the same result.
Use ginger (姜) products. Some people benefit from ginger products to reduce car sickness. You can try ginger chews, ginger cookies, and many other ginger products. 4.
Try pressure. Putting pressure on a particular point of your body may help treat the symptoms of car sickness. Specifically, Nei Guan—a point on the underside of the wrist—may be pressed to help with an upset stomach. 5. Then I believe you will feel better.
A. Fall asleep as soon as possible.
B. Try to stop yourself from seeing outside.
C. It is caused by a disagreement between eyes and ears.
D. Simply opening a window may help reduce your symptoms.
E. Pressing your fingertips there would offer relief in about 10 seconds.
F. If you always have car sickness, keep one or more of these products on hand.
G. Some data has shown that eating something dry may help reduce the symptoms.
“Most children,” Asher Svidensky says, “are a little afraid of golden eagles. However, Kazakh boys in western Mongolia start learning how to use the huge birds to hunt for foxes and hares at the age of 13.” Svidensky, a photographer and travel writer, shot five boys learning the skill as well as the girl, Ashol Pan. “To see her with the eagle was amazing,” he recalls. “She was a lot more comfortable with it, a lot more powerful with it and a lot more at ease with it.”
The Kazakhs in western Mongolia are the only people that hunt with golden eagles, and today there are around 400 practising eagle hunters. Ashol Pan, the daughter of a famous hunter, may well be the country’s only girl hunter.
They hunt in winter, when the temperatures can drop to -40℃. A hunt begins with days of traveling on horseback through a snow mountain or ridge (山脉) giving an excellent view of prey for miles around. Hunters generally work in teams. After a fox is discovered, riders rush to frighten it into the open, and an eagle is released (释放). If the eagle fails to make a kill, another is released.
“The skill of hunting with eagles,” Svidensky says, “lies in bringing an unexpected force of nature under control. You don’t really control the eagle. You can try and make her hunt an animal, and then it’s a matter of nature. What will the eagle do? Will she make it? How will you get her back afterwards?”
Svidensky describes Ashol Pan as a smiling, sweet and shy girl. “Ashol Pan stands for something about Mongolia in the 21st century,” says Svidensky. “Everything there is going to change and is going to be redefined (重新定义), and the possibility is amazing.”
1.What makes Asher Svidensky much surprised?
A. The colorful and powerful eagles.
B. The special way of hunting by the Kazakhs.
C. The wonderful performance of Ashol Pan.
D. The young age of Kazakh eagle hunters.
2.What does the underlined word “prey” in the third paragraph mean?
A. The scenery to be enjoyed.
B. The creature to be caught.
C. The option to be argued.
D. The future to be expected.
3.What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?
A. Man can overcome nature.
B. All efforts will pay off one day.
C. Making use of existing resources is important.
D. Never think about controlling others.
4.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. A photographer and travel writer’s traveling experience.
B. A girl eagle hunter in Mongolia.
C. The true life of the eagle hunters in Mongolia.
D. The future of the traditional way of eagle hunting.
