[单项选择]One friend once said to me, "Do you know that most college students can’t even put semi-colons(分号) in the right place" Emphatic voices like his have recently made writing courses popular, strangely popular because of their hard-nosed attitude toward correct writing. Most administrators and teachers extend this medicinal metaphor (隐喻), they agree that students are suffering from a serious disease. Many tests identify increasing numbers of student writers as skills cripples(跛子), and they need treatment. Remedial courses are given every- where. More writing labs are appearing and expanding.
Many students are wining to believe that there is really something wrong with them. More students than ever before tell me and my colleagues that they are indeed bad writers and need lots of help with grammar and punctuation. I feel like a doctor, my job is to diagnose (诊断) the disease and prescribe cures whenever I read student writing. It would be easy enough for me to circle spelling err
A. is seriously ill
B. has a rich imagination
C. is a bad writer
D. has a serious injury to the leg

[单项选择]One friend once said to me, "Do you know that most college students can’t even put semi-colons(分号) in the right place" Emphatic voices like his have recently made writing courses popular, strangely popular because of their hard-nosed attitude toward correct writing. Most administrators and teachers extend this medicinal metaphor (隐喻), they agree that students are suffering from a serious disease. Many tests identify increasing numbers of student writers as skills cripples(跛子), and they need treatment. Remedial courses are given every- where. More writing labs are appearing and expanding.
Many students are wining to believe that there is really something wrong with them. More students than ever before tell me and my colleagues that they are indeed bad writers and need lots of help with grammar and punctuation. I feel like a doctor, my job is to diagnose (诊断) the disease and prescribe cures whenever I read student writing. It would be easy enough for me to circle spelling err
A. To describe some successful doctors
B. To compare poor writers with diseased people
C. To tell the teachers why some students are poor in health
D. To show the importance of a teacher’s job

[简答题]Most of us take life for granted．We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future．When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable．We seldom think of it．The days stretch out in an endless future．So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life．

[单项选择]Most shoppers know the feeling. You stand in front of piles of organic produce and wonder what those premium prices(溢价)are buying you over and above what you get from standard foods. Not a lot nutrition-wise, it seems. Organic farming may not even be more sustainable.
Understanding nutrition is, of course, vital when it comes to choosing food. In a report published last week, a team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine examined 162 papers that compared organic and conventionally produced food. They concluded that there was no evidence to back up claims that organic food is more nutritious,
But this is only one of the aspects of organic food that shoppers care about, and things get even more complicated when other factors are brought into the equation. Many buy organic fruit and vegetables because they are not sprayed with pesticides. We know these can cause birth defects, cancer, and endocrine disruption (内分泌失调), and even the diabetes epidemic. But it remains
A. They feel organic produce is more nutritious.
B. They feel piles of organic produce is sustainable.
C. They are suspicious about why organic produce is over-priced.
D. They will benefit more from organic produce than from standard foods.

[单项选择]Please let me know （）you find any mistakes in my essay
A. if   
B. while  
C. so   
D. as

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