假如你是李华,你们学校下周将举办“校园读书节”系列活动,你想邀请英国交换生Jim一起参加活动。请根据下面提供的信息,给Jim写封E-mail,介绍活动情况,并询问他是否参加。
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Activities:
·exchange books
·attend lectures on Chinese literature
·take part in Chinese poetry reading competition
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
2 . Writing across Time
When students today need to take notes, they simply reach for their ballpoint pens. For students in the past, writing instruments were not so convenient.
Quill pens
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Quill pens were made from large bird feathers. Students sharpened the quills with knives and then dipped them into pots of ink to write. The points needed constant re-sharpening and each dip of the quill provided only enough ink to write one word. Besides these problems, drops of ink often stained the page. Yet, people used quill pens for more than a thousand years. Can you imagine writing with a quill pen?
Brush pens
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Chinese students traditionally used brush pens to practice writing characters. Unlike quill pens, brush pens had soft bristles that made smooth lines. Students dipped their brush pens in a pool of ink on an inkstone and then wrote.
Chalk
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, when paper was not easily available, chalk was widely used in classrooms. Teachers wrote with chalk on blackboards while students practiced writing and maths on their own slates (石板).
Fountain pens
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Fountain pens were the first pens that stored ink inside, from where it flowed through the metal tip or nib (笔尖) for writing. In the 19th century, they finally replaced quills on school desks. However, even with fountain pens, ink still often spilt out, leaving stains everywhere.
Ballpoint pens
Early ballpoint pens leaked and wrote poorly. Three inventors took almost sixty years to finally solve these problems in the early 1950s. Today two of them, Hungarian journalist Josef Laszlo Biro and French Baron Bich, are known for making the ballpoint pen cheap and reliable. Biro and Bic pens are still hugely popular and useful today.
1. The passage mainly talks about ______.A.the origins of writing instruments | B.the quality of writing instruments |
C.the development of writing instruments | D.the materials of writing instruments |
A.Quill pens. | B.Brush pens. |
C.Ballpoint pens. | D.Fountain pens. |
A.save ink and paper | B.cost less and work well |
C.leak when used | D.write poorly |
A.provide information | B.give advice |
C.offer an opinion | D.tell a story |
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