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假如你是李华。你的英国朋友Bill想在中国给他的父亲买一个特别的生日礼物，来邮件向你咨询在茶叶、小米移动电源(MI Power Bank)和丝绸衬衫这三样东西中应该选哪一个更好。请你给他回复邮件，从这三样东西里选择一个推荐给Bill并说明你的理由。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

Dear Bill,

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Sincerely,

Li Hua

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The famous musician，as well as his students，________ to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Taipei Flower Expo.

A. were invited B. was invited

C. have been invited D. has been invited

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business.Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.

1.What do the underlined words “ chrome-plated contraptions” in the first paragraph refer to?

A. Baskets. B. Private cars.

C. Suitcases. D. Shopping carts.

2.What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention?

A. It was to prove him to be a good inventor.

B. It was to reduce the burden of his employees' work.

C. It was to make shopping easier and attract more business.

D. It was to help the disabled make shopping easily in his market.

3.Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market in order to

A. attract people to buy things in his market

B. encourage people to use his shopping carts

C. make his market different from the others

D. keep the groceries from being stolen

4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. Goldman will become very famous because of his invention.

B. Goldman's invention will be regarded as the greatest one in the world.

C. Supermarket business has benefited a lot from Goldman's invention.

D. There will be nothing that can replace Goldman's invention.

Make A Difference Day is the largest national day of community service in the USA, which takes place on the fourth Saturday of October.

Who takes part in Make A Difference Day?

Anyone! Young and old, individuals and groups, anyone can carry out a volunteer project that helps others. It might be as ambitious as collecting truckloads of clothing for the homeless, or as personal as spending an afternoon helping an elderly neighbor or relative. USA WEEKEND covers volunteers and their projects in articles and photos.

How do I get started?

Look around your community. Are people hungry, homeless or ill? Are parks or schools dirty or neglected? No matter where you live, there’s a need nearby. And on Make A Difference Day, millions of Americans are expected to roll up their sleeves to help others. You can act alone or enlist your friends, family and co-workers. You can also call the Make A Difference Day Hot Line, 1-800-416-3824, for information. Or use the ideas on this website for inspiration.

What do I do after I’ve selected a project?

Tell others what you’re doing and enlist help. Several weeks before the day, tell us about your plans in the Make A Difference DAYtaBANK, a national listing of local projects that will be viewed by interested volunteers, other people looking for good project ideas and news media looking for good stories to tell. It will only take a few minutes to post your plans in the DAYtaBANK hosted by HandsOn Network.

Do it!

Carry out your plans to help others on Make A Difference Day. Be sure to take lots of pictures and share them on the Make A Difference Day Photo Album.

1.Where does the text probably come from?

A. A magazine. B. A website.

C. A newspaper. D. A festival brochure.

2.Make A Difference Day ________.

A. is a celebration of helpful neighbors

B. is a service provided by the community

C. is a national day of doing good in America

D. is a festival celebrated every year in the world

3.It can be inferred from the text that volunteers ________.

A. are chosen carefully by USA WEEKEND

B. need to dress up on Make A Difference Day

C. can get good project ideas from HandsOn Network

D. take pictures to send them to news media for money

4.The main purpose of the text is to ________.

A. introduce the origin of Make A Difference Day

B. direct people how to select a proper project idea

C. promote Make A Difference Day to other countries

D. encourage people to join in Make A Difference Day

Tips for cooking on a Tight Schedule

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time.1.. Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:

1.Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials（材料） ready?2.

2.Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?3.It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.

3.4.This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation(实验). It gives you the chance to come up with new ideas and recipes（食谱） that can work well with your appetite（食欲） and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.

Hopefully that gives you a good start. 5.And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!

A. Try new things.

B. Make three or four instead.

C. Ability is easily improved.

D. Understand your food better.

E. Cooking is a burden for many people.

F. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

G. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.

Children who spend more time outdoors may have a lower risk of becoming nearsighted, new research suggests.

In the study, researchers looked at about 1,900 schoolchildren. The scientists found that the kids who had been instructed to spend more time outdoors over three years were 23 percent less likely to develop nearsightedness during this time than those who had not been instructed to spend more time outdoors. Moreover, among the kids who did become nearsighted during the study, the degree to which their eyesight worsened was slightly smaller among those who spent more time outdoors.

The researchers selected six schools and required the children, whose average age was 7 at the start of the study, to attend one additional 60-minute class of outdoor activities during each school day for three years. The parents of these children were also encouraged to engage their children in outdoor activities after school, especially during weekends and holidays. The other half of the children, from another six schools, continued their usual activity patterns. After three years, 30.4 percent of the kids in the intervention(干预) group had become nearsighted, compared with 38.5 percent of the kids in the other group.

It is not clear exactly why spending more time outside would benefit children’s eyesight, the researchers said. However, some research has suggested that the higher levels of light intensity found outdoors may increase the release of the chemical dopamine(多巴胺) of the eye. In turn, dopamine is known to restrain（抑制） the type of growth in the eye that is associated with nearsightedness.

Based on the new results, the researchers recommend that children spend more time outdoors because of the potential benefits to their eyesight. However, it’s important to protect kids’ skin and eyes from UV light, which can be damaging.

1.What did the children in the intervention group do during each school day?

A. Attend an extra class of outdoor activities.

B. Continue to do their usual activities.

C. Spend one hour in doing eye exercises.

D. Participate in outdoor activities with parents.

2.What can be inferred about the chemical dopamine?

A. It can contribute to poor sight.

B. It can damage people’s brain.

C. It is beneficial to eyesight.

D. It means low levels of light intensity.

3.What may be discussed in the following paragraph?

A. How to design outdoor activities for kids.

B. How to prevent kids becoming nearsighted.

C. How to protect kids’ skin and eyes from UV light.

D. How to encourage kids to join in outdoor activities.

4.Which can serve as the best title for the passage?

A. The More Time Outdoors, the Better

B. Kids May See Better if They Play Outside

C. It’s Time to Engage Kids in Outdoor Activities

D. Researchers Found a Cure for Nearsightedness

How can we all get more laughter into our lives? Here is what the experts suggest:

1. Nancy, a teacher in New York, was once painfully shy and had a hard time laughing. Then she married a circus clown (小丑). “I became interested in the clowns,” she recalls “One day I put on a costume and paint my face. That afternoon my whole life changed. I learned to laugh and enjoy life in a way I had never done before.”2. To this day, she still makes it a rule to be with people who enjoy life and laughing.

3. It doesn’t take you too much time and can be easy. Collect favorite cartoons and jokes. Also, keep a paper for writing down humor you find in everyday life. “Good ideas come and go fast, you have to catch them quickly or they are gone,” says Tooper.

Laugh when you need it most. “4.” says comedian Bill. “And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might by, you can survive it,” he insists.

Gray, a sociology professor, claims that laughter is a skill we can all gain - because it comes naturally.5. Just remember: we are just here for a period, so get a few laughs.

A. Mix with people who laugh.

B. You can lessen your pain through humor.

C. Practise the art of laughing.

D. But it’s also something that has to be developed.

E. He who laughs last laughs best.

F. People’s joy can affect those around them.

G. Keep a laughter file.

Hua Mulan was a brave girl in the Northern Wei dynasty. She disguised (假扮)1. (her) as a man, and joined the army in place of her father. Mulan’s father, once 2. soldier, taught his daughter military (军事的) skills, 3. (include)horse riding and how to fight. Hua Mulan also read her father’s books 4. military science.

5. (drive) away the Rouran nomads (游牧民族), the 6. (rule) of Northern Wei ordered that every family should send a man off to war against them. Mulan’s old father, as well as her young brother, was not able to go and fight. So Mulan 7. (decide) to join the army instead of her father. Mulan fought for 12 years 8. (successful) without her true identity being discovered. Mulan became a hero, 9. bravery moved people greatly, and she 10. (offer) a high position, but she refused it.

Even though her story might be no more than a legend, Hua Mulan has been respected as a filial (孝顺的) daughter by Chinese people for hundreds of years.

Dear Windows Internet Explorer．

Our relationship has been strained(紧张的)for a long time．Of course. it’s not all your fault,and nor is it a11 mine．Our intermediary is also to blame；my hated Gate-way PC. which runs far too slowly. But that does not get you off the hook．

You see，Windows Internet Explorer．I can no longer deal with your ridiculous loading time.Sure，at one time I found it attractive--even--sexy for my browser to take ages to log in or load a web page．But not any more My life is fuller than it was, and I don’t have time for you to semi-load and then stop．

Also．as much as I loved it when we got together, your refusal to log me into some of my necessary accounts．such as email and MySpace．has become a problem. It was unfair of you, and I should not have submitted to your cruelty and mistreatment.

A third reason for my leaving you may seem mean：you are simply far too sickly. You are constantly contracting new viruses．and your immune system is terrible·I don’t have the time or the money to care for you any more. It may seem unfair，but you will have to survive on your own. I cannot keep curing you．going through and finding all your corrupted(损坏的)files，cleansing our intermediary’s system because you have given it some virus，bug or spyware. It takes far too much time and energy，which I do not have．

Windows Internet Explorer，you did wonderful things for me that，at the time，no other could do．But，my dear．times have changed，and while you have，too，you have not changed enough. I am 16 now，nearly a grown woman，and I cannot tolerate your childish ways As much as I once cared about you，I fear that the time has come for us to part.

Your former friend，

Kirsty

1.What is the intermediary．according to the passage?

A. The computer． B. The network speed

C. A virus D. An account．

2.Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why the author doesn’t use Wmdows Internet Explorer?

A. Its immune system is really bad

B. The author cannot log into her accounts

C. It cannot find corrupted files automatically

D. It takes the author too much time to open a web page

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the subject of this letter?

A. Cautious B. Skeptical．

C. Critical D. Contradictory·

4.What kind of letter is this reading material?

A. A thank-you letter． B. A break-up letter．

C. A warning letter D. A consultation letter．

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