题目内容
你校的外教Thomas想了解刚刚结束的英语口语培训班效果，以便制订下一步的培训计划。假如你是李明，是该培训班学员，想再参加写作培训，请按照所给提示用英语给Thomas写一封电子邮件。
1．说明收获 2．表达谢意 3．提出建议或要求
注意：
1．词数：120~150：
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Thomas，
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely，
Li Ming
Dear Thomas,
I’m so thankful to you for your kindness and help in the oral English training course. My spoken English has greatly improved owing to the effective training program, during which I made many new friends.
I used to be shy and un-talkative. When staying with my classmates, I tried to communicate with them in English, but I often made mistakes. Whenever I met with native speakers, I had a strong willing to practise English, but I wasn’t brave enough to open my mouth，which worried me for a long time. Luckily enough, your training course smoothed away all the difficulties. I have benefited from it.
Now, I’m glad to learn you are to organize more training courses, and I hope I can get your advice on how to improve my writing. In short, I’m looking forward to more new things in our future courses.
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming
【解析】考察半开放性作文
【写作指导】
本文是一封书信，属于应用文格式。要求以李明的口吻给外教Thomas写信，告知本次培训班的收获，并提出建议和要求。所以要使用第一人称，在描述过去这一次培训时，使用一般过去时。在提出建议或者要求时可以使用一般将来时。
要点：1.说明收获。口语得到提高，并交到新朋友；2.表示感谢，希望对方能够再次开设这样的培训班；3.提出建议或者要求：建议对方增加写作方面的培训。
完成本文时要充分发挥自己的想象力，灵活运用英语知识，采用不同的表达方式将各要点完整地表述出来，注意主次分明，详略得当。语言力求准确、简洁。根据情景的发展，按顺序安排好材料。同时应选用合适的连接词或过渡词，使文章具有一定的连贯性。考生必须认真查验是否有漏写情况，有无拼写错误及标点误用等。
【一句多译】
当我和同学一起的时候，我努力用英语和他们交流，但是我总是犯错误
①When staying with my classmates, I tried to communicate with them in English, but I often made mistakes.
②Staying with my classmates, I tried to communicate with them in English, however, I often made mistakes.
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 |