假设你是校英语报的记者，请你根据以下信息，写一篇新闻报道：昨日夜间本市遭遇特大暴雨袭击，导致西村附近发生泥石流灾害，造成一人死亡，五人失踪；灾情发生后，一些村民同官兵一起积极参与搜救；此次灾害造成直接经济损失约一千多万元。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：泥石流 mudslide
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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。
I’m a fat girl. It’s said that if a girl was fat, she has no chance to look beautifully.
I used to think so much. I didn’t even feel like trying different hairstyles, just wear my hair very short. One day when I was in library, I read a book that showed the important of being grateful. I started to be grateful for all that we had. Gradually many change happened. And I started to take a positive attitude for life.
Now I still look fat, so I’m no longer as sad as before. I believe a fat but happy girl can also be attractive.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Audio books (有声图书) are becoming more and more popular these years. One of the 1. (reason) is that audio books can be “read” in many places. The place that many people like to listen to audio books best 2. (be) in bed. They like to just lie in bed in 3. dark before they fall asleep at night.
This would be the perfect time 4. (listen) to an audio book. If you read an ordinary book, the lights have to be turned on 5. you have to turn the pages with your hand. An audio book can just be listened to while a person is lying 6. (comfortable) in bed. The kitchen is also a good place to listen to audio books. For some people kitchen chores are 7. (bore). Audio books provide good 8. (entertain), and people don’t need to turn pages.
An audio book is a favorite while a person is gardening. It can help take a person’s mind 9. the job at hand. An audio book is also a favorite while a person is exercising. It allows the mind to be free while the legs, body and arms 10. (keep) busy.
At the very beginning of this school year, I got myself into a regretful situation. It was a Wednesday _______ and I went to see a friend to watch the sunrise before school. It was about 4:30 a.m. and we were _______ outside next to my car. To our _______, someone in a neighboring house had gotten in his _______ and shown the headlights on us, yelling at us to _______ . As we got into my car, he had called the policemen. Since I had my _______ for only about 6 months and not a full year, I was charged for _______ a passenger.
This was the first time that I had ever got in _______. For about two months, I was _______ and had no one to _______. I kept everything to myself because I was not _______ talking about everything that had _______. I didn’t even talk to my head teacher and lied to him by saying everything was _______. But my attendance and _______ became worse. I was among the top 30% of my class _______ my rank had dropped by about 6 marks. I was under lots of stress and lacked _______ to do well in school. My biology teacher noticed I didn’t try my _______ and talked with me. She made me realize the last two months was not me.
Now, my working habits have been much better and I know what I want to do with my _______. I plan to take courses in graphic design (平面设计) in university because I can express my thoughts in a _______ way. I’ll work to my fullest potential (潜能). This is what I _______ and I know that now.
1.A. midnight B. afternoon C. evening D. morning
2.A. playing B. sleeping C. sitting D. studying
3.A. surprise B. regret C. relief D. shame
4.A. bed B. truck C. room D. office
5.A. leave B. apologize C. hide D. hurry
6.A. degree B. license C. card D. course
7.A. injuring B. visiting C. disturbing D. carrying
8.A. test B. debt C. trouble D. danger
9.A. embarrassed B. shocked C. delighted D. depressed
10.A. care about B. attend to C. turn to D. listen to
11.A. comfortable with B. curious about C. mad about D. ready for
12.A. changed B. happened C. worked D. stopped
13.A. important B. different C. fine D. useful
14.A. skills B. memories C. examples D. grades
15.A. for B. but C. because D. though
16.A. determination B. time C. sight D. acquirement
17.A. luck B. hand C. best D. fullest
18.A. power B. adventure C. job D. future
19.A. short B. creative C. friendly D. familiar
20.A. want B. discover C. give D. prove
Lots of people stress out about talking in front of the class or getting laughed at if they make a mistake in front of an audience. 1. And it’s part of your body’s way of helping you do your best. However, when you feel too stressed about performing, it can cause you to feel cold or sweaty or to feel like you can’t think straight. Luckily, here are some tips that can help you manage that feeling.
● Be prepared. Rehearse (排练) as much as you can — alone or in front of others — at every opportunity. 2. Nothing calms you like the confidence that comes from knowing you’re prepared.
● Instead of focusing on what could go wrong, increase some positive energy. Watch a football team before they run onto the field. They get in a group and sing a team song to pump themselves up with positive energy and team spirit. 3. For example, you can tell yourself “I got this!” “I’m ready to do this — here goes!” or “This is going to be fun!”
● Don’t be afraid of the nervous feeling. 4. Just let it be there. Meanwhile, manage it by using your positive pep talks (鼓励士气的讲话) and calming ways.
●5. You’ll look and feel your best if you get enough sleep and eat healthy meals before your performance. Along with sleep and nutrition, exercise is also an excellent way of keeping your stress under control.
A. Remind yourself that it’s natural.
B. Practice until you feel relaxed and ready.
C. Take care of yourself before big performances.
D. Feeling nervous before a performance is natural.
E. Some need to be active to relax while others need to be still and calm.
F. You can do this whether you’re performing alone or as part of a group.
G. When you feel nervous before a performance, don’t let the feeling stop you.
When an earthquake hit the Los Angeles area on Monday morning at 6:25 am, the Los Angeles Times had their story published in about three minutes. It was the first media to report on the breaking news. How?
It used a robot. Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the LA Times said that an algorithm (算法) he created called Quakebot was behind the story. It’s the latest example of robot journalism, a developing practice that has interested many news organizations as it could change the game of breaking news.
Schwencke said that when he was woken by the earthquake on Monday morning, he simply got out of bed, opened his computer, and found the robot-written story already finished in the system. All he had to do was click (点击) “publish”.
The algorithms can produce news stories on earthquakes and crime in the city, and it is then the job of the paper’s staff to determine which stories should be developed further. For this reason, Schwencke disagrees with the guess that robo-journalism could replace human writers. “It saves people a lot of time, and for certain types of stories, it gets the information out there in usually about as good a way as anybody else would. It doesn’t eliminate anybody’s job as much as it makes everybody’s job more interesting,” he said.
Check out the robot’s original report below: An earthquake measuring 4.7 was reported five miles from Westwood, California on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake happened at 6:25 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.0 miles. In the past ten days, there have been no earthquakes measuring 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
This information came from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author.
1.In covering the earthquake, the Los Angeles Times was _______.
A. very serious B. open-minded
C. well informed D. highly efficient
2.What do we know about Quakebot?
A. It makes printing much easier.
B. It writes news reports all by itself.
C. It’s a game designed for journalists.
D. It’s used to entertain people at work.
3.What does the word “eliminate” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Affect. B. Handle.
C. Remove. D. Defend.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. How a robot journalist does its work
B. Programs created for predicting earthquakes
C. LA hit by an earthquake on Monday morning
D. Robot writes earthquake breaking news articles
