Temporary failure is not to be feared. We must bear it in mind that the pains-taking effort we have will ______ in the long run.
A. pay off B. take off
C. break off D. kick off
假设你是李华,你的美国笔友玛丽最近在中国学习。她写信向你述说了她的困扰：不适应新环境，想家，感到焦虑。请你根据以下要点提示给她写一封回信。
1.表示理解并给予安慰 2. 提出建议并说明理由。
注意：字数120左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总数.）
想家的，homesick
Dear Mary,
I’m sorry to learn that you are having such a bad time.
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短文改错,文中共有10处语言错误，
I tried a new lifestyle. I gave up the Internet, but even didn’t watch TV. I thought I would feel very boring. However, I had very different day. I wrote two article that morning. In the past, I always want to write one, but I didn’t have time. While I was separated from the net and TV, I could devote me to writing. I once read an article, that said that every morning the writer spent two hours wrote without the net. At that time, I thought up she was too strict. After I tried the method myself, I found it real worthwhile.
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入适当的词，并将答案填写在相应位置上。
Alice always wanted to be a singer. Music was the1.important thing in her life. To tell you the 2. (true), she took lessons for years and practised every day, 3. her voice didn't improve. 4. (honest), it didn’t get better, it just got louder.
Her teacher finally5.（give）up and stopped the lessons, but Alice refused 6.quit)(停止), and one day she decided to give a concert and invited her former teacher to attend.
The teacher was very worried about 7.to say after the performance. She knew it would be terrible and it was. She didn't want to tell a lie, but she didn’t want to hurt Alice’s feelings 8. . Finally, she got an idea and went backstage(后台) to greet her former pupil.
“Well”, said Alice, “what did you think of 9. performance?”
“My dear,” said the teacher, “you’ll 10. be better than you were tonight.”
One year after Tom was born, his parents had a car accident. They never ___. Tom's 85-year-old grandmother was too ___ to take care of him. As a result he was put up for adoption (领养).He was adopted by a middle-aged couple who had no __ of their own. They were not rich and received little education, but they were __ people.
As Tom was growing up: he __ a lot of problems at school. He didn't learn __ and had trouble in reading. His __ sometimes laughed at him. What they said made Tom ___.
As he couldn't __ the other students at school, he dropped out of school and came back home. But he didn't stop learning. He had big dreams. Though he didn't learn fast he kept __ himself at home.
After many years of learning at home, he __ overcame (克服）his difficulties. Today he is a very __ speaker and author. While he was growing up: his self-esteem(自尊) and __ were low because of others' making fun of him. It took him many __ to realize his dreams.
When listening to his videos and tapes, he shows confidence. He tells about his __ and how he overcame the challenges in his life. He has a very __ sentence: “You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present situations __ you change.”
For those who have low self-confidence, I suggest you __ reading about Tom's world. Many people have so much potential（潜能）to be discovered. If you have a dream, then start today to __ yourself towards it. If someone like Tom who has __ in learning can make such achievements, why can't you succeed?
1.A. returned B. called C. imagined D. planned
2.A. busy B. old C. poor D. mean
3.A. friends B. kids C. students D. parents
4.A. brave B. famous C. confident D. kind-hearted
5.A. explored B. brought C. faced D. solved
6.A. willingly B. proudly C. carefully D. quickly
7.A. sisters B. classmates C. brothers D. teaches
8.A. sad B. bored C. tired D. confused
9.A. compete with B. get along with C. catch up with D. agree with
10.A. proving B. cheering C. entertaining D. teaching
11.A. strangely B. immediately C. finally D. luckily
12.A. honest B. successful C. smart D. strong
13.A. confidence B. mood C. grade D. talent
14.A. hours B. days C. months D. years
15.A. family B. habit C. story D. hobby
16.A. long B. encouraging C. simple D. interesting
17.A. unless B. when C. since D. although
18.A. continue B. keep C. start D. enjoy
19.A. force B. discover C. send D. move
20.A. difficulty B. gift C. dreams D. fun
Children grow quickly, especially their feet, but many families cannot buy new shoes each time a child needs them. As a result, about 300 million children around the world go barefoot. Those children risk picking up diseases and parasites(寄生虫) from the soil.
An American man may have a solution for those barefoot kids—a shoe that grows with the child. Kenton Lee is the creator of The Shoe That Grows. He explains how the shoe works and how it is able to last so long.
“It grows in three places: the front; it can also grow on the side with Velcro; and on the back with our buckle. It can last up to five years. The bottom is compressed(压缩的) rubber like tire rubber. The top is just high-quality leather.” The shoe comes in two sizes: small that fits children aged 4 to 9 and large for children aged 9 to 14.
Lee says he got the idea for the shoe while working as a volunteer in an orphanage in Kenya.“...and there was a little girl in a white dress walking next to me. And I just remember looking down and seeing how small her shoes were. They were so small that she had to cut open the front of her shoes to let her toes stick out. And I just remember thinking, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a pair of shoes that could grow with her feet?”
However, Lee says it was not easy to turn his idea into a reality. “I kept writing down I should do this because of this or because of that.” Finally, in 2009 Lee founded a non-profit organization called Because International. In the office of Because International, Lee keeps a pair of his own shoes to help him remember his promise. “I told myself I would not get new shoes until the idea was done. So, those are the shoes that I wore for a little over five years.”
1.Which of the following is the characteristic of the newly invented shoes?
A. They are more expensive. B. They are not so comfortable.
C. They can grow with a child. D. They come in different sizes.
2.Who is this kind of newly invented shoes intended for?
A. All the teenagers. B. Children aged 4 to 14.
C. Middle-aged women in Africa. D. Senior citizens with low income.
3.Why does Kenton Lee keep a pair of his own shoes in the office?
A. To remind him of his promise. B. To copy the design of them.
C. To get a change conveniently. D. To use them as an example.
