Apple Seeds

    Circulation（发行量）: 1 Year, 9 Issues（—期）

    Cover Price: $44.55

    Price for You: $33.95

    Product Description: Apple Seeds is an award winning magazine filled with stories for kids aged from 7 to 9. The cover is very soft, providing durability（耐用性）that allows each issue to be enjoyed for many years to come. Besides, there is a big surprise for you－it's being sold at a more favorable discount than usual.

    Better Life

    Circulation: 1 Year, 12 Issues

    Cover Price: $44.55

    Price for You: $15.00

    Product Description: Designed for those who have a strong interest in personal lifestyle. Better life is an America's complete home and family service magazine. It offers help with food, recipes, decorating（装潢）, building, gardening, family health, money management and education.

    Humor Times

    Circulation: 1 Year, 12 Issues

    Cover Price: $36.00

    Price for You: $11.95

    Product Description: Humor Times is for those who love to laugh! Full of cartoons and humor columns, it shows up in your mailbox once a month and keeps you smiling all year round! In today's world, you need a reason to laugh. So let's find it in Humor Times.

    News China

    Circulation: I Year, 12 Issues

    Cover Price: $47.88

    Price for You: $19.99

    Product Description: News China is the English edition of China Newsweek. The magazine covers the latest Chinese domestic news in politics, society, environment, culture, sports and travels, etc. It is the first comprehensive news magazine for readers interested in China.

    Long long ago there were a lot of donkeys. The donkeys worked hard every day. They had no time to play or to relax, but they never felt appreciated（得到赏识的）for the work they did.

    One day two donkeys got bored. They wanted to live a comfortable life, so the donkeys went to see a wise old man. They told him their problem. The wise old man agreed they worked too hard, and he wanted to help the donkeys. “I have an idea,” he said.

    “What is your idea?” asked the donkeys.

    “I will paint you and no one will know you are donkeys,” said the man.

    The man went off to find some paint and he returned in just a matter of minutes. He had two pots of paints. One pot was filled with white paint, and the other black paint.

    The old man first painted them white, and then painted stripes（斑纹）over the white paint. When he finished, the donkeys did not look like donkeys at all. “You no longer look like donkeys,” the old man said. “Everyone will be fooled（欺骗）. I will call you something else, zebras（斑马）.”

    The zebras went to a field to eat grass. Now they did not have to work.

    Soon, other donkeys saw the zebras. They asked the zebras where they came from. When the zebras told the donkeys their secret, the donkeys all rushed to see the old man.

    “Please make us into zebras, too,” they pleaded. So the wise old man painted more donkeys. As he did, more and more donkeys came.

    The old man could not paint fast enough. Soon the donkeys became impatient （不耐烦的）. They began to kick about, and they knocked over the paint pots.

    There was no more paint. The painted donkeys ran off to become zebras. The unpainted donkeys, because of their impatience, had to return to work.

    Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply rooted in the culture that it is the reason for Christmas Book Flood, when the majority of books in Iceland are sold between September and December in preparation for Christmas giving.

    “Books get attention here.” says Baldur Bjarnason, a researcher who has written about the Icelandic book industry.

    The small Nordic island, with a population of only 329,000 people, is extraordinarily literary（文学的）. They love to read and write. According to a BBC article, “The country has more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else in the world... One in 10 Icelanders will publish a book.”

    It seems there is more value placed on physical, paper books than in North America, where e-books have grown in popularity. One bookstore manager said, “The book in Iceland is such an enormous gift —you give a physical book. You don't give e-books here” The book industry is driven by the majority of people buying several books each year, rather than the North American pattern of a few people buying lots of books.

    It sounds like a wonderful tradition, perfect for a winter evening. It is something that I would love to incorporate（吸收）into my own family's celebration of Christmas.

    I wandered into the small store where I usually buy milk, when the store owner received a call from a customer. The customer and his wife had shopped there several months earlier.

    He noticed that his wife really liked one thing in the store, so he wanted to buy it as a surprise.

    But the customer was in Tennessee, far away from the store which was in Maine. What's more, he had been to the store several months earlier, and it was difficult to believe that the store owner would remember him, or what he was looking for.

    The store owner took a few close-up photos with her camera, and e-mailed them to the customer on the computer. The customer looked at the photos, decided which one he wanted. They talked and discussed a price over the phone. She took care of the credit card transaction（交易）online, and promised the gift would be shipped out that afternoon.

    The store owner was really smart. She was willing to push herself to find new ways to make the transaction actually happen. And it did work. However, it was the first time she had ever done it.

    I was amazed that the store owner discovered a creative solution that could lead to a new way of doing business. I was impressed by what she did—so easily, but how difficult it is for many of us to make that leap （飞跃，跳跃）. I'm not just talking about technology, but about learning how to adapt to change.

    Most people hate or fear change unless they get to know exactly what change needs to be made. However, we should realize that challenge and opportunity go hand in hand.

    Why do people travel? There are many reasons one can think of when asked questions like this.

    To travel far enough to meet yourself

    Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere.        You find out your abilities. When you are offered a different lifestyle, you can find out what you are made of. The farther you go from your home, the nearer you come to your true self.

    If you look back at all the amazing memories of your life, you will realize that most of them were out of your comfort zone. Traveling is dangerous, full of life threatening possibilities and will not always be comfortable, but at the same time, it gives irreplaceable memories.

    To slow down and relax

    A wise man once said that never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. Money is worth nothing if you cannot spend it on a little adventure. While we are deeply involved in making money, we forget that time is going through our fingers.        The feeling of being away from your workplace is pure happiness. The feeling of not having to worry about the never ending piles of files is pure joy.       

    To celebrate life

    Life is short and the world is wide. One day you might wake up and realize that you don't have time to do everything that you have always wanted to do, anymore. Once in a while, make time to appreciate the fact that you are alive, young, free and healthy.       

A. To break through your comfort zone.

B. To become a storyteller.

C. Escape life for a little while because experience is far more valuable than money.

D. You can relate to the world and connect to others.

E. And the feeling of being away from your boss for a few days is pure pleasure.

F. So, go traveling to celebrate life itself.

G. Traveling lets you discover yourself.

    From the first week of high school, my best friend, Trisha, was always going out with the popular girls. 1 I thought, “It's okay; she's just making new friends.” But soon I realized that Trisha wasn't interested in me anymore. I'd 2 my best friend. It really hurt.

    One day, I told Trisha that we should 3 pretending（假装）to be friends when we really weren't anymore. I wasn't trying to make her mad, 4 she was. After that, Trisha started talking about me behind my back, telling people that I was 5. Some of our friends 6 with her. I felt like she was taking them away from me.

    The more I thought about it, the 7 I got. Finally, I 8 a picture of Trisha and drew lines on her face. I wrote, “I 9 this person” across the bottom. And then I did something I'll always 10: I put it on a website I thought was 11. I thought people would see it, and it felt good to vent（发泄）.

    A week later, Trisha's mom saw the 12. She called my mom, who made me take it off the website right away. However, it was already too 13. Lots of people had seen it, and I was in a lot of 14.

    That whole day, I felt 15. I had to say sorry to Trisha face to face. She said she accepted my apology, but I felt she was16 angry with me.

    Posting that picture was one of the worst 17 I've ever made. I realize now I could have found a much better way to deal with my 18. If I'd just told Trisha how much I 19 her, maybe things would have turned out20. It's too late for me to change things, but I hope you'll learn from my mistake.

    Charlie Chaplin was considered to be one of the most popular        (star) in the early days of films. He brightened the lives of people throughout the world       (use) his perfect acting. Charlie was born in a poor family and lived        hard life in his childhood. His parents were both poor hall performers,       didn't make much money. Therefore, at a very young age, Charlie had to learn        (sing) and dance. By his teens, his subtle acting had become so entertaining        no one in England was ever bored watching him mime and act the fool doing ordinary everyday tasks. In 1972, he won a special Oscar       his outstanding work in the films that he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. He made people laugh even when they felt depressed. And no one has done        (well) than him up to now.

    Charlie lived in England and the USA but       (spend) his last years in Switzerland, where he died of        (nature) causes on December 25, 1977.

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仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

    There are various kind of theme parks in the world. Some parks are famous for having the biggest or long roller coasters. But the theme park you are probable most familiar with is Disneyland, at which can he found throughout the world. It can bring you into the magical world. No wonder tourism is increased wherever there is a Disneyland. Other theme park is Dollywood. Its main attraction is it's culture. You can see beautiful bald eagles in the world's largest bald eagle preserve. If you want experience the ancient days and great deeds of English knights and ladies, princes and queens, you can go to Camelot Park. And there you can learn what people in ancient England ran their farms and took care of their animals.

1）饮食要健康；多吃水果、蔬菜，因为它们富含纤维素和维生素；少吃黄油、奶酪、咖啡和巧克力，因为它们含糖和脂肪太多，糖和脂肪使你迅速变胖。

2）要有良好的生活习惯：一方面，定期锻炼；另一方面，充足的睡眠，不要过度劳累，不抽烟等等。

要求：1）词数约100左右。

2）可以适当增加细节，使短文连贯。

3）信的开头及结尾已给出，不计入总次数。

Dear Jane,

    I'm sorry to hear that you are not very well these days. In your letter you asked me how to adjust yourself

    Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua