题目内容
某海外学校举办英语训练营，开设了以下课程：园艺（gardening），烹饪（cooking），防身术（self-defense），护理（nursing ）。假设你是李华，写封申请信，报名参加其中一门课程的学习。
内容要点：1. 你感兴趣的课程；2. 你期望从中学到什么；3.为什么想学这些内容
Dear sir /madam,
Li Hua
Dear sir /madam,
I am very glad that your school will hold the English summer camp which contains many courses, such as gardening, cooking, self-defense, nursing and so on.
I want to register to attend a course about gardening because I have liked flowers, grasses etc since I was a little child. I especially like playing in the garden where I can enjoy the beauty of nature. For one thing, I want to gain a bit more knowledge of gardening so that it can help me to major in the gardening after attending college. For another, I can realize the bitterness of the gardeners and treasure plants much more consequently. What‘s more, after graduation, I plan to devote my life to cultivate flowers and grasses to turn our country into a more beautiful state, attracting more foreigners to come to visit it.
Yours,
Li Hua
【解析】考察应用文
【写作指导】
本文属于应用文写作，要求写一封申请信，报名参加一项课程。使用第三人称和一般现在时。要点：1. 你感兴趣的课程：园艺；2.希这个课程让我了解到更多与园艺有关的知识。3.为什么想学这些内容：期望园艺能够帮助我在大学里的专业学的更好，而且未来自己也想从事于园艺有关的事业；
写作时不要仅仅对要点进行生硬的翻译，而是要添加些内容，使文章看起来更充实，要组成一篇通顺连贯的短文。需要注意紧扣文章主题，给出的要点都需要包括，缺一不可。写作时注意准确运用时态，上下文意思连贯，符合逻辑关系，一定要契合给出的开头，不能出现文章脱节问题。
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而且，毕业以后，我计划把我的时间花在种植花草，让我们的祖国更加漂亮吸引更多的人来参观。
①[What‘s more, after graduation, I plan to devote my life to cultivate flowers and grasses to turn our country into a more beautiful state, attracting more foreigners to come to visit it.
②What‘s more, after graduation, I plan to devote my life to cultivate flowers and grasses to turn our country into a more beautiful state to attract more foreigners to come to visit it.
Losing weight comes with a lot of health benefits—including making your brain sharper.
Yes, it turns out that overweight may damage cognitive functions (认知功能) such as memory and attention. There have been few studies of overweight and cognitive functioning, possibly because it is generally believed that it is not a primary risk cause for poor cognitive performance. Losing weight, therefore, may help improve these mental functions, according to a new research led by John Gunstad, assistant professor of psychology at Kent State University.
Growing evidence suggests that being fat is linked to cognitive deficits (缺陷). So Gunstad and his team guessed that losing weight might improve mental function. For their study, they measured memory and attention in a group of 150 overweight participants, some of whom had some kind of operation for weight loss and some did not. All of the volunteers completed mental skills tests to assess their abilities of memory and attention at the beginning of the study, and again 12 weeks later. To begin with, about 24% of the patients showed damaged learning and 23% showed signs of poor memory when tested. At the end of the study, those who had lost weight after operation improved their scores into the average or above average range for cognitive functions. Scores for the volunteers who didn’t lose weight dropped even further.
The study helped Gunstad to find out whether losing weight had any effect on mental function. Now that he’s seen the positive effect that weight loss can have on memory and attention, he says he will next study those who choose to lose weight by the traditional way—eating healthier and getting more active. He expects that losing weight in this way will have a similarly positive effect on the brain. “If we can improve the condition with operations, then we can probably produce the same change with behavioral weight loss as well,” he says.
1. There is less research on overweight and cognitive functions because researchers _____.
A. believe overweight only affects our body |
B. have focused on ways to sharpen people’s mind |
C. do not consider overweight a main cause for low cognitive ability |
D. are clear about the relation between weight and mental functions |
2. The result of Gunstad’s study shows that ______.
A. losing weight has little effect on people’s memory |
B. losing weight can improve people’s mental functions |
C. overweight people are likely to have psychology problems |
D. overweight people’s abilities of concentration differ greatly |
3. What is Gunstad planning to prove next in his research?
A. Slim people are smarter than overweight people. |
B. Healthy diet is better than exercise in losing weight. |
C. Traditional ways of losing weight are better than operation. |
D. Overweight people will get smarter by taking more exercise. |
4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. Body Weight and Health |
B. Losing Weight by Operation |
C. Ways to Improve Mental Functions |
D. Losing Weight to Sharpen Your Mind |
（2014重庆一中高三下第三次月考）4. —Why! I couldn’t get you on the phone yesterday afternoon?
—We _____ kites in the yard when you phoned.
A. could be flying | B. might have flied |
C. must have been flying | D. should be flying |