Anywhere Australians get together, the conversation quickly turns to sport. It can be an ______ of how teams are placing in the various sports leagues, or a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of different players and their teams.
A. appointment B. assistance
C. assessment D. analysis
假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Bob来信希望你介绍一下中秋节。请你写一封回信，介绍这一中国传统文化，并邀请Bob来中国旅行。
要点包括：1.介绍中秋节的传统习俗及庆祝方式。
2.邀请对方到中国旅行，切身感受中国文化。
注 意：1.词数100--120词。
2.信的开头和结尾已经给出。
3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Bob,
I’m glad you have written to ask about the China’s traditional festival--- Mid-Autumn Day.
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Waiting for your early reply！
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。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。
Dear Mr. Smith,
Glad to know that you ' re very interested in Chinese calligraphy that you want to learn it. I ' m happy to recommend to you an outstanding professional teacher.
Professor Wang Ming is famous Chinese calligraphy master, that not only teaches Chinese calligraphy at university and also works as a Chinese calligraphy trainer at home when he ' s free. There are buses running frequent from our school to her home and it took only about 20 minutes. Professor Wang Ming is free from 2: 30 to 5 : 30 every Sunday afternoon and the training fee is 200 yuan for a period of three hour. Is it suitable to you?
Looking forward to receive your reply soon.
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。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
A desert doesn't sound like the most promising place to plant a tree. Yet, since 1978, China1. （plant）at least 66 billion of them across its desert northern territories, hoping to transform its sandy dry land and yellow dunes 2. a Great Green Wall.
Ian Teh 3.（record）this amazing undertaking while traveling through northern China last year. His expansive photographs show workers tending young trees,blasting them with water and 4.（fill）irrigation tanks. “Planting trees sounds great on paper, 5. you can feel doubtful,” Teh says. “But when seeing in person, it was impressive.”
The tree-planting strategy is a massive attempt to help fight desertification. 6. (rough) a million square miles of China—a quarter of the country—7.（cover）in sand. Drought, deforestation, overgrazing and other8. （problem）threaten an additional 115,000 square miles, fueling very cruel and 9.（violence）sandstorms that regularly blast cities like Beijing and Dunhuang. Many scientists are feeling doubt that planting trees will make a difference in 10. long run. But China’s State Forestry Administration claims the measure has reduced sandstorms by 20 percent and desertification by nearly 5,000 miles in recent years.
The 92-year-old, thin, calm and proud lady, moved to a nursing home today.She is fully______each morning by eight o’clock,______ she is nearly blind. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move ______.
After many hours of waiting______in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her______ was ready.As she walked slowly to the elevator, I provided a true _____of her tiny room, _____ the old sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she stated with the ____of an eight-year-old having just been______ with a new puppy.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just_____ .”
“That doesn’t matter,” she replied. “Happiness is ______ you decide ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the ______ is arranged,it’s how I arranged my mind. I have already______to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I ______ up. Each day is a gift, and ______my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy ______I’ve stored away.”
She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank _____. You take what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to put in a lot of ______ in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in _____ my memory bank.” And with a smile, she said: “Remember the following simple_____to be happy:Free your heart from hatred, free your mind from worries.Live simply,give more,and expect less.
1.A. attended B. dressed C. observed D. watched:
2.A. even though B. as though C. only if D. in case
3.A. difficult B. possible C. necessary D. comfortable
4.A. eagerly B. nervously C. angrily D. patiently
5.A. dinner B. clothes C. room D. service
6.A. consideration B. love C. story D. description
7.A. including B. containing C. reminding D. offering
8.A. curiosity B. terror C. enthusiasm D. attraction
9.A. rewarded B. presented C. attacked D. awarded
10.A. stay B. pay C. enjoy D. wait
11.A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything
12.A. window B. furniture C. appliances D. bedding
13.A. decided B. reduced C. afforded D. prevented
14.A. look B. ring C. stand D. wake
15.A. as soon as B. as long as C. as much as D. as well as
16.A. memories B. pictures C. words D. years
17.A. cheque B. office C. account D. machine
18.A. pain B. happiness C. money D. fortune
19.A. visiting B. enjoying C. considering D. filling
20.A. rules B. relation C. regulations D. laws
Living in a culture that is different from your own can be both an exciting and challenging experience. You have to learn different cultural practices and try to adapt to them.
1. They talk about topics such as ages, income or marital status, which Americans think is annoying and intrusive.
In China, elders are traditionally treated with enormous respect and dignity while the young are cherished and nurtured. In America, the goal of the family is to encourage independence, particularly that of the children.2..
Chinese people have different meanings to define friends. 3.Friendship means lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other whatever help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends and drinking friends.
As is well known, the Chinese like to save. 4. It is different in the USA, where far fewer families are saving money for emergencies and education than their Chinese counterparts.5. If you achieve something in the US, it's because you were great. While in China, if you achieve something in China it's because the team, or family, or company is great. Everything you do gets attributed to the greater whole, while in America individual merits are celebrated.
A. Just hanging out together time to time is not friendship.
B. Chinese people put more emphasis on good character and faith.
C.Chinese people value education and career more than Americans.
D. They are always conservative when they are planning to spend money.
E. Basically China values the community and the US values the individual.
F. Chinese people do not have the same concept of privacy as Americans do
G.Unlike the Chinese, older Americans seldom live with their children.
