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    A woman was sitting by herself in a movie theatre. The movie she was about to see was a musical version (版本)of a very successful book that had sold a million copies that year.

    As the woman was waiting for the movie to begin, she noticed that the theatre was very crowded but the two seats next to her were empty.

    Suddenly a large man carrying a big fur coat walked down the aisle (走廊) and sat down, placing the fur coat on the seat next to her.

    When the lights went out, the fur coat began to move, and the woman realized it was not a coat but a large furry dog. He was sitting up in the seat, watching the movie screen with great interest. As soon as the movie started, the dog began to nod his head and beat his paws（爪） in perfect time to the music.

    When the movie was over, the woman turned to the man and said, "Excuse me, sir, but I've never seen such a well-behaved dog in a movie theatre before. Does he go to the movies often?"

    "Oh, yes," replied the man.

    "And he seemed to enjoy everything so much," she said, "It was just amazing!"

    "As a matter of fact, it surprised me, too," said the man. "He hated the book!"

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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

My single mother used to take on several jobs just in order to make ends meet. When I was fifteen years old, she started her own business, and things began to get easier financially. There was no longer a question as to whether she would be able to afford groceries for the week.

The following spring, when I was sixteen years old, a new family moved into our neighborhood. The wife, Melissa, quickly made friends with my mother, and the children, though younger than me, became my pals soon. They lived within walking distance of my house, and in summer vacation, I would walk over to their house to watch Disney movies while my mother was at work.

One afternoon, I was at their house during lunchtime, and they were generous enough to include me in the meal. Their daughter, ten at the time, requested a glass of milk with her food. Melissa stated, "We are out of milk, and we don't have any more money for groceries this week." She suddenly realized that I was present and explained with a defeated look, "Money has been really tight."

The family had recently moved here from California because Melissa had been offered a good job. However, the position had not worked out, and her husband had to take the first job he could find. They had uprooted their children and moved across the country, leaving behind their relatives and friends, only to end up in trouble. I thought about our own circumstances just a year earlier.

Later, I came home with a heavy heart as I reflected on their hardship. I told my mother about the rough time Melissa was experiencing. "Do you think we could help them?" I asked. In response, she immediately opened the cupboard doors and started pulling out food. We searched each cabinet, grabbing bag after bag, can after can. Then we ended in front of the shelf where my mother's precious homemade goods were stored. We found a sizable box and packed it with a lot of groceries.

注意：1）续写词数应为150左右；

2）请按如下格式作答。

Then we drove to our friends' house, made our way to the door with our box and bags, and knocked eagerly.

……

Looking at my mother, I felt proud to be the daughter of this incredible woman.

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    Will there be a time in our lives when cars don't crash? When we can just sit back and relax and our cars will drive themselves. Auto technology experts say “yes”. And they say that some of those advances may happen quicker than you might think.

    They will require the users to input the name of the destination or the complete address of the location that they want to go and the cars' artificial intelligence takes them there automatically without a driver. They will run on solar power in the daytime and ethanol fuel (乙醇燃料) at night. Toyota, BMW and Honda will completely control the trade of driverless car business together and will have the cheapest driverless cars. Fossil fuels will be completely incompatible (不相配的) with these cars.

    Driverless cars will not require a driver's license of any grade to operate. Anyone with basic literacy and computer skills who are at least 16 years of age will be legally allowed to operate the vehicle with absolutely no limits.This would give the young users permission to operate the driverless cars on major highways as well as secondary roads without needing a separate classification. In addition to all this, drunken people will be able to use their own automobiles to return home because they are not “driving”, the vehicle.

    What's more, car insurance will become obsolete(淘汰的) because there will be no more automobile accidents after the year 2025. This is because the driverless car will have all safety methods in place by the car's artificial intelligence to prevent automobile accidents. Global positioning systems will become mandatory (强制的) in all newly-produced cars after 2010, and will be the most important part in the driverless car.

Babies need a lot of sleep and this is  particularly________the newborn.

假如你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，给校刊“英语角”写一篇英文稿件，以“A New-year Gift for Our Motherland”为题，介绍你和同学参加2020年元旦快闪活动全过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

提示词：快闪flash mob

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    A man died and was on his way to another1, either the Heaven or the Hell. He saw an extremely2palace half way and the owner of the palace3him to stay and live in the palace.

    The man said, "I have been working4during my life and now I just want to eat and sleep 5any work."

    The owner of the palace said, "6, there is nowhere else better than here for you. There are a wealth of 7in my palace and you can eat whatever you want without anyone8you. 9, there is10that needs to be done by you." Then, the man settled down in the palace.

    At the beginning, the man felt very11at the rotation（轮流）of eating and sleeping. But 12, he felt a bit lonely and empty. So he went to the owner and complained, "It is13to live by just eating and sleeping every day. Now I show no14in this kind of life any more. Could you help me find a15?"

    The owner replied, "16, there is no job here at all."

    After another several months, the man could not 17 the present life and went to the owner 18, "I really could not stand this sort of life any more. If you do not offer me a job, I would19to go to the Hell instead of living here."

    The owner of the palace smiled contemptuously（轻蔑地）, "Do you think it is the Heaven here? It is20the Hell!"

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    People have been wondering why elephants do not develop cancer even though they have lifespans (寿命) that are similar to humans, jiving for around 50 to 70 years.

    Now scientists believe they know why. A team at the University of Chicago, US has found that elephants carry a large number of genes that stop tumors (肿瘤) developing. To be precise, they found 20 copies of an anti-tumor gene called TP53 in elephants. Most other species, including humans, only carry one copy.

    According to the research, the extra copies of the gene improved the animal's sensitivity to DNA damage, which lets the cells quickly kill themselves when damaged before they can go on to form deadly tumors.

    "An increased risk of developing cancer has stood in the way of the evolution of large body sizes in many animals," the study author Dr Vincent Lynch told The Guardian. If every living cell has the same chance of becoming cancerous (癌变的), large creatures with a long lifespan like whales and elephants should have a greater risk of developing cancer than humans and mice. But across species, the risk of cancer does not show a connection with body mass.

    This phenomenon was found by Oxford University scientist Richard Peto in the 1970s and later named "Peto's paradox (悖论)”". Biologists believe it results from larger animals using protection that many smaller animals do not. In the elephant's case, the making of TP53 is nature's way of keeping this species alive.

    The study also found that when the same genes were brought to life in mice, they had the same cancer resistance as elephants. This means researchers could use the discovery to develop new treatments that can help stop cancers spreading or even developing in the first place.

    "Nature has already figured out how to prevent cancer," said Joshua Schiffman, a biologist at the School of Medicine, University of Utah, US. "It's up to us to learn how different animals deal with the problem so that we can use those strategies to prevent cancer in people."

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。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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。

    Last month while I was walking in the street, the foreigner came towards me. She seemed to be losing. She asked me if I could help him. I said yes, but when she started talking, I couldn't understand that she said. I could only say ＂I don't know＂, and then slowly walk away. Though I have studied English for six years, but I still can't understand English good enough. I know I'm not interested in English and I've also been very lazy to study it. Now I know the importances of learning English. I've decided change my attitude towards English and work hard on it.

When we met again 20 years later, we chatted a lot _______ tea.

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Imagine turning on the GPS and seeing an image of your car from above. As the car drives, the map follows along in real time, informing you of any traffic, pedestrians, animals or other things nearby. Routes and names of road appear over the live stream. It's like the map has come to life.

This type of map isn't available yet. But it could be very soon. In 2014, the WorldView-3 satellite was sent into space. Even though it orbits Earth at more than 370 miles (600km) away, it can take images of objects on Earth that are just 10 inches (25cm) across. Looking all the way from outer space, it can make out a smart phone held in your hand. It can tell what types of cars are travelling down a road. But it can't identify your face or read the cars' license plate numbers.

According to some reports, this satellite and other US satellites have the technology to take even sharper images, with a resolution of up to around 4 inches (10cm). But US law forbids making these super-sharp pictures public. But the idea that anybody might be able to spy on the entire Earth in such detail may seem scary. Live, high-detail satellite mapping could be used to keep tabs on anybody at any time, without the person's knowledge. Ray Purdy of University College London told CNN that he couldn't imagine what this could mean for privacy. "Most satellites are commercially owned, so if you have money, you can have that imagery. It means anyone can spy on anyone." he said.

At the same time, live, detailed maps of the Earth's surface could aid humanity in amazing ways. Satellite images can help experts track storms as they form and chart their paths. At high detail, live maps of a disaster area could quickly reveal people in need of rescue as well as the safest routes in or out. Satellites images are already helping the police catch illegal fishing operations. Higher detail may make it possible to catch other criminals in the act. The images could also make it easier for farmers to watch over their crops or for scientists to find minerals. Also, these images play a very important role in monitoring the health of forests and other landscapes.

What do you think? Would you like to see everyone accessing high-detail live maps of the Earth's surface? Please share your idea with us on the website.

Now many people on the Internet.

Honestly, he was rather unwilling to take part in your program.（同义改写）

, he was rather unwilling to take part in your program.

I sent him a long email, saying I didn't need a (女仆).

假如你叫李明，有一位来自英国的朋友Mike。他与父母一道来到了中国。初来乍到，他发现自己在家时所学的汉语根本就不够用。因此，他给你发来一封电子邮件，向你请教如何提高汉语听说能力。请根据下面的提示，给他回一封邮件。邮件的内容包含如下要点：①邮件已收到，理解他所遇到的问题。②提出如下建议：在课内课外要多说汉语，应尽可能与同学交流，不要担心犯错误；在家看电视时，多注意节目主持人的发音，以便提高听力水平。③祝愿他学习取得进步。

注意：①内容应包括以上要点，可适当增加细节，以使内容连贯；②词数：80词左右。

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David Lean was born in London in 1908. His move into full-scale directing came in 1942 when he worked on In Which We Serve with Noel Coward. Lean went on to direct fifteen films in forty-nine years, often also taking on writing and editing responsibilities. That may seem like a surprisingly small number of films; however, he was proposed for an Academy Award for Best Director for seven of his films and won twice. In its list of the best British films ever made, the British Film Institute includes eleven of his films.

A film directed by David Lean has a sense of place, whether the film is set in the deserts of Arabia or the workhouses of Dickens' London. Lean makes us understand the effects these places have on the people who inhabit them. There is a shot early in Lawrence of Arabia that illustrates this clearly: Lawrence is making his first try on camel into the Arabian Desert. With him is his guide. As the two move on, Lean allows the camera to rise gently. This tiny movement transforms what could be simply a narrative link or an observation of the vast stretch of the desert into a comment about the central character. Lawrence is entering into his social environment, calmly and acceptingly.

Lean's career reached a peak with the spectacular successes of The Bridge over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to Indha. However, his real success was a black-and-white British film he made in 1945 and titled Brief Encounter. It is a quiet examination of a married woman and a stranger whom she briefly meets in the snack bar of a local train station. It is truly a piece of classic cinema, full of silent observation and interpretation.

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。   

My wife and I moved to a small town along the coast. Our three-bedroom, two-bath home can (comfortable) accommodate a total of about eight people, us  (include).

Here is the problem: We have some close friends who occasionally come to visit. On one previous visit, they announced at dinner that a close friend of  (they) would be "drop-ping by" the following day.

The next day, their friend showed up with her two children, her older sister and her dog. It was obvious  they intended to stay with us, because they dragged in pillows from their car.

My wife welcomed them with open arms. We then set about  (try) to find space for them, many of whom slept on the floor or the sofa. This brought  number of people from seven to 11, plus an additional dog.

When everyone left  the end of the three-day holiday, my wife and I had a long discussion about what (happen) and what we would do about it. We agreed that our friends took advantage of us, and we decided  (change) the visiting rules.

As a result, our friends' visits are less frequent, which makes my wife  (happy).She wants to throw the new rules out. I totally disagree. What is the way out?