假如你是李华，你校学生会将举行一次主题为“我爱中国古典诗词”的读书活动。你将代表全体学生，在启动仪式上发言。请根据以下提示，用英文写一篇发言稿。内容包括：
1.说明活动的目的；
2.从中国诗词特点的角度陈述热爱它的理由；
3.学习中国古典诗词的意义。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头语已经为你写好，不计入总词数。
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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10处语言错误，每句中最多有二处。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。
We have lived in the house for ten years, so the kitchen is the heart of our home. For us, the kitchen is where holds special sounds, smells and memories. We enjoy the sound of my grandmother sings old songs coming from her childhood as she cooks. Every week he prepares a delicious meal to us. We often sit in the kitchen talking while we waited for the food to be ready. It may seem like a special place to someone else, but when I am in low spirit, it warms me like a big blanket on a winter morning. Before the school, we say goodbye to our parents and hug them cheerful when we get home.
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。
In human history, many ancient and splendid civilizations were developed and died. China is the only country 1. uninterrupted human civilization. Chinese civilization originated on the shores of the Yellow River. And the rich land 2. Chinese civilization began is Henan Province.
The Yellow River goes across 3. (center) Henan. It is China’s main north-to-south and east-to-west artery (干线). China’s most ancient 4. (lead), the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, 5.(bear) here. Even today, Chinese people all over the world still 6. (proud) call themselves the children of these two emperors.
The river holds 7. unshakable position in the heart of every Chinese, 8. (respect) by every generation and called “the Mother River”. With intelligence, hard work and determination, Chinese people try to achieve co-existence and common success on this land. The 5,464-km-long Yellow River breaks the last barrier and flows into the broad plain, 9. (form) the cradle of Chinese civilization.
Till now, the Yellow River has raised 13 dynasties’ capital Luoyang, 8 dynasties’ capital Kaifeng and the biggest economic center in 10. (it) area—Zhengzhou.
Hello, Mr. Wi-Fi. Life without you is next to impossible. We’re happy to sing your name from morning till evening, sometimes till dawn. ______ I know you help me, sometimes you’re making me do things with ______ attention. Many times I promise myself that I’ll ______ my feelings towards you, but you’re ______ me closer and closer… You’ve entered both my home and my ______. You’re just a window for our ______ and information. But we people aren’t ______ only with the window. So we open all our ______ for you. Is this a(n) ______ or some kind of attachment? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment will you ______ me to the lifelong togetherness?
We want you 24/7. Can’t you take a few days off so that both you and I can ______? You’re a poison — not a slow one but a super ______ poison which holds our mind and makes us dance ______ its tune. Nowadays you’re so ______ that anyone can buy and make you our ______. You’ll never be bothered about our health but we’ll ______ be concerned about your “health”. Because you accompany us everywhere and never let us be alone.
If you were a ______ person made of flesh and blood, would we love you the same? You ______ us with your numerous talents and we even can’t get rid of you. We’re all your ______. Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations ______, but if they did why can’t we?
1.A. Though B. Only if C. Now that D. When
2.A. praised B. increased C. divided D. focused
3.A. bring back B. hold back C. approve of D. give away
4.A. observing B. pushing C. forcing D. drawing
5.A. space B. workplace C. society D. soul
6.A. entertainment B. argument C. expansion D. struggle
7.A. strict B. generous C. satisfied D. busy
8.A. thoughts B. eyes C. exits D. doors
9.A. scene B. inspiration C. routine D. disease
10.A. recommend B. instruct C. commit D. adapt
11.A. insist B. relax C. progress D. balance
12.A. raw B. ambiguous C. fast D. strong
13.A. to B. against C. from D. within
14.A. advanced B. valuable C. affordable D. attractive
15.A. companion B. expert C. addition D. instrument
16.A. sometimes B. never C. always D. seldom
17.A. selfish B. real C. responsible D. dishonest
18.A. scold B. control C. comfort D. challenge
19.A. friends B. slaves C. colleagues D. employers
20.A. suffered B. surfed C. connected D. survived
Some people describe American society as a salad bowl while others think of it as a melting pot.
In a bowl of salad, all the ingredients (原料) are mixed together. 1. Together, however, the ingredients make up a unity. All the ingredients of a salad contribute to the finished product. They may be covered with the same dressing (调味酱), but the green vegetables, tomatoes and cooked corn can all be seen for what they are.
From this point of view, America is very much like a salad bowl where individual ethnic groups mix together, yet maintain their cultural uniqueness. People may work together during the day at similar jobs and in the same companies, but at night they may return to their ethnic groups where their own individual culture directs their way of life. 2. Each ethnic group has its own special customs, language, food and traditions to protect and defend. This idea of the salad bowl is referred to as cultural diversity; that is, American society is a collection of various cultures living together in harmony within one country.
3. Here, society is like one large pot of soup. All cultural aspects are mixed together, sacrificing their original identity and keeping a bit of what they were to become a new reality. The longer the soup is cooked, the better the taste and the more likely it will be for the mixture to be cooked. In this sense, America can surely be seen as a melting pot where people from all over the world come to live and work together creating one nation. There are dozens of shared symbols. 4. In such a culture, symbols like the flag and the nation’s official song serve to break down the walls which separate ethnic groups.
Whether a salad bowl or a melting pot, America can be best described as a mixture of both. 5.
A. They never lose their shapes, colors or tastes.
B. Both are ridiculous.
C. This is why there is so much diversity within America.
D. Thus, one needs to abandon one’s culture to be considered “American”.
E. In other words, America is a nation where there is unity in diversity.
F. The other theory, which is also used to describe American society, is the melting pot.
G. They serve to develop the various ethnic groups to create a new American culture.
Birds Can “Read” Human Gaze
We all know that people sometimes change their behavior when someone is looking their way. Now, a new study reported online on April 2nd in Current Biology shows that jackdaws (寒鸦) — birds related to crows with eyes that appear similar to human eyes — can do the same.
“Jackdaws seem to recognize the eye’s role in visual perception (视觉), or at the very least they are extremely sensitive to the way that human eyes are directed,” said Auguste von Bayern, formerly of the University of Cambridge and now at the University of Oxford.
When presented with a preferred food, hand-raised jackdaws took longer to get the reward when a person was directing his eyes towards the food than when he was looking away, according to the research team led by Nathan Emery of the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. The birds hesitated only when the person was not known to them and thus potentially threatening.
In addition, the birds were able to understand human communicative gestures, such as stare change and pointing, to help them find hidden food, they found. The birds were unsuccessful in using unmoving signals, including eye stare or head direction.
Unlike most birds, jackdaws’ eyes have a dark pupil (瞳孔) surrounded by a silvery white iris (虹膜). The researchers said they believe jackdaws are probably sensitive to human eyes because, as in humans, eyes are an important means of communication for them. The hand-raised birds examined in the study may be even better than wild jackdaws at attending to human stare and responding to the gestures of the people who have raised them.
The findings are particularly notable given that most other species examined so far, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and “man’s best friend,” the dog, are not particularly sensitive to eye direction and eye stare, von Bayern said. Rather, she continued, chimps and dogs seem to rely on other signals such as head or body direction in determining the looking direction of others. The results suggest that birds may deserve more respect for their mental abilities.
“We may have understated the psychological world of birds,” von Bayern said. “Jackdaws, among many other birds, form pair ties for life and need to have much in common and work together with their partner, which requires an efficient way of communicating and sensitivity to their partner’s viewpoint.”
1.A hand-raised jackdaw hesitates to take a preferred food when the feeder ______.
A. is unfamiliar to the bird B. is looking away from the food
C. holds the food in his hand D. is looking at the food
2.According to the researchers, jackdaws can notice human eye direction probably because ______.
A. their eyes also have a dark pupil
B. they are far more intelligent than other birds
C. they are mostly hand-raised by humans
D. like humans, they also use eyes to communicate
3.Why does the author refer to chimpanzees and dogs?
A. To suggest that they are much better at understanding stare change.
B. To make clear that they rely on other means in determining people’s intention.
C. To show that they communicate more frequently with humans than jackdaws.
D. To reflect how unique jackdaws are in being able to notice stare direction.
4.What does the research finding suggest?
A. We know embarrassingly less about birds than we assume.
B. Not all jackdaws are good at attending to human stare.
C. We may have understated jackdaws’ mental abilities.
D. The closer we communicate with animals, the better we understand them.
