Regarded as one of the English language's most gifted poets, John Keats wrote poetry that concentrated on imagery, human nature, and philosophy. Although Keats didn't receive much formal literary education, his own studies and passion brought him much success. Additionally, his own life situation influenced his poetry greatly.
Growing up as a young boy in London in a lower middle-class family, the young John didn't attend a private school, but went to a public one. His teachers and his family's friends regarded him as an optimistic boy who favored playing and fighting much more than minding his studies. After his father's death in the early 1800s, followed by his mother's passing due to tuberculosis (肺结核), he began viewing life differently. He wanted to escape the world and did so by reading anything he could get his hands on.
At around the age of 16, the teenage John Keats began studying under a surgeon so that he too might become a doctor. However, his literary appetite had taken too much of his fancy, especially with his addiction to the poetry of Ehmund Spenser. He was able to have his first full poem published in the Examiner in 1816, entitledO Solitude!If I Must With Thee Dwell. Within two months in 1817, Keats had written an entire volume of poetry, but was sharply criticized by a magazine. However, the negative response didn't stop his pursuit of rhythm.
John Keats' next work was Endymion, which was published in May 1818. The story involves a shepherd who falls in love with the moon goddess and leads him on an adventure of one boy's hope to overcome the limitations of being human. Following Engymion, however, he tried something more narrative-based and wrote Isabella. During this time, John Keats began seeing his limitations in poetry due to his own limit in life experiences. He would have to have the “knowledge” associated with his poems. His next work wasHyperionthat would attempt to combine all that he learned. However, a bout (发作) with tuberculosis while visiting Italy would keep him from his work and eventually take his life in 1821.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏符号（∧），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。
John, a heavy smoker, once feel bad-tempered. His hands started shaking and he coughed a lot, so he turned to his doctor for help. “Quit smoking,” the doctor advised. Find the advice sensible from several points, such as money, healthy, and cleanliness, John decided to give up smoking. However, for several hour without a cigarette, John was nervous and had a difficulty in concentrating, inability to sleep, what made him more hungry for a cigarette. He said to himself, “One more, I will quit it tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a suitable day of me to break away from the bad habit…” Then he picked up a cigarette which made her relaxed. Again and again John made up his mind to do it “tomorrow”. Today John is still addicted for smoking.
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。
增加： 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^）,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次；
2）. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
It is good to see that today more people have realized the importance exercising and are playing sports regular. But the problem is that there are not enough sports facilities to meet the public growing demand. I love playing basketball and often play with my friends on weekends. Therefore, it is difficult to rent a basketball field and possible to find a free one. It seems that all courts in the city were always full. Weather permitted, we can play in outdoors. But on rainy days or in winter we have to turn to indoor courts. There are not much in my city, and the charge is high. The government should build more public sports facilities, so easier access will encourage more people participate in sports.
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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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限一词。
2）.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Mike,
How are you doing these days?
Aimed at providing a platform there students can have a chance to exchange and make use of their books, the annual campus books fair will soon held in our school. The fair will attract a huge crowd from the entirely school, who are to sell, purchase but exchange their second-hand books with their peers.
As a regular visitor, I've found myself increasingly drawing by the fair. For one thing, the fair exhibits books of hundreds of type on diverse topics, motivating us to further develop their reading habits and help to broaden our horizons. For other, most books are sold at a low price than what the bookstores offer.
Please let me to know if you have any suggestions on how to host such a book fair better.
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact 1 a child's language development than mothers, a new study 2. Researchers 3 92 families from 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, 4 of education and child care arrangements. 5, it was a group of welleducated middleclass families, 6 married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in freeplay sessions with both parents, recording all of their 7. The study will appear in the November 8 of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
The scientists 9 the total number of utterances of the parents, the number of different words they used, the 10 of their sentences and other aspects of their speech. 11 average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not 12 in the length of utterances or proportion(比例)of questions asked.
Finally, the researchers 13 the children's speech at age 3, using a standardized language test. The only predictors of high 14 on the test were the mother's level of education, the15 of child care and the number of different words the father used.
The researchers are 16 why the father's speech, and not the mother's, had an effect. "It's well 17 that the mother's language does have an impact," said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. "It 18 be that the highfunctioning mothers in the study had already had a strong influence 19 their children's speech development, or it may be that mothers are 20 in a way we didn't measure in the study."
The graph showed at the time the people were suffering inequality . There was not abundant food for the poor people, while some rich people often deposited much money in the bank. Some poor people's ownership of the land was taken away. They were often in rags . What's worse, some women who were pregnant had not enough food to eat.
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time or it (consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties．But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming．Some think it may be a very (health) thing to do．Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health．Daydreaming, they tell us, a good means of relaxation．But its benefits go this．A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some (surprise) conclusion．
Dr．Joan T．Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes growth．It also improves (concentrate),attention span, and the ability to get along with others．Industrialist Henry J．Kaiser believed that much of his success was due the positive use of daydreaming．Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse．The young Thomas Edison pictured as an inventor．
For these notable achievers, it appears that their daydreams came ．Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself…in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it．Picture yourself (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible．
1）表达写信意图；
2）陈述当志愿者的目的；
3）陈述自己的条件(性格、英语能力等)。
注意:
1）词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir/Madam,
I'm Li Hua, a student from Xinhua High School.
Looking forward to your early reply if possible.
Best wishes.
Yours truly,
Li Hua
We already know the fastest, least expensive way to slow climate change: Use less energy. With a little effort, and not much money, most of us could reduce our energy diets by 25 percent or more—doing the Earth a favor while also helping our wallets.
Not long ago, my wife, PJ, and I tried a new diet—not to lose a little weight but to answer an annoying question about climate change. Scientists have reported recently that the world is bending up even faster than predicted only a few years ago, and that the consequences could be severe if we don't keep reducing emissions(排放) of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and other greenhouse gases that are trapping heat in our atmosphere.
We decided to try an experiment. For one month we recorded our personal emissions of CO2. We wanted to see how much we could cut back, so we went on a strict diet. The average US household(家庭) produces about 150 pounds of CO2 a day by doing common-place things like turning on air-conditioning or driving cars. That's more than twice the European average and almost five times the global average, mostly because Americans drive more and have bigger houses. But how much should we try to reduce?
For an answer, I checked with Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. In his book, he had challenged readers to make deep cuts in personal emissions to keep the world from reaching extremely important tipping points, such as the melting(融化) of the ice sheets in Greenland or West Antarctica. "To stay below that point, we need to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent," he said.
Good advice, I thought. I'd opened our bedroom windows to let in the wind. We'd gotten so used to keeping our air-conditioning going around the clock. I'd almost forgotten the windows even opened. We should not let this happen again. It's time for us to change our habits if necessary.
One day a rich man took his son on a trip to the country so he could have his son see how poor country people were.
They stayed one day and one night in the farm-house of very poor farm. the way back home at the end of the trip the father asked the son, “ did you think of the trip?”
The son (reply), “Very nice, Dad.”
The father then asked, “Did you notice how poor they were?”
The son said, “Yes, I guess so.”
The father then added, “What did you learn?”
To question, the son thought for a moment and answered (slow), “I learned that we have one dog and they have four. We have a fountain in the garden and they have a small river has no end. We have brightly colored (lantern) in our garden, while they have the stars. Our garden (go) to the edge of our yard, but for their back yard they have the whole horizon.”
At the son's reply, the rich father was speechless (无语的). His son then said, “Thanks, Dad, for (show) me how poor we really are.”
What's On?
Trouble in Mind
Alice Childress won an Off-Broadway award in 1956 for this story of a black actress rehearsing（排练） a play with a white director who increasingly finds it impossible for the show to go on. Tanya Moodie and Joseph Marcell star in the play directed by Laurence Boswell.
8.30p.m.—10.30p.m., Theatre Royal. Box office: 01225 448844.
Lazarus
Inspired by the sci-fi (science fiction) novel and movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, this musical deals with a hero, Thomas Newton. Likely to be the autumn's hottest ticket, the score includes new songs composed by Bowie.
7.00p.m.—9.00p.m., King's Cross theatre. Box office: 0844 871 7604.
The Gaul
On the night of 8 February 1974, a fisherman FV Gaul disappeared off the coast of Norway. For people on board, waiting for news was great suffering. Theories began to come up, including the possibility that the boat had fallen victim to cold war. Even when he was discovered, many still felt there were questions that remained unanswered. Mark Babych directs Janet Plater's play.
8.00p.m.—11.00 p.m., Royal Shakespeare theatre. Box office: 01482 323638.
The Suppliant Women
It is a new version of Aeschylus's 2,500-year-old play about a group of women seeking shelter who make the long journey to escape forced marriage. It was written by David Greigand directed by Ramin Gray. An ancient piece asks a contemporary question: when we are introuble, who will open their doors and give us a harbor?
8.30p.m.—10.00p.m., Hampstead theatre. Box office: 0131 248 4848.
