Every bride wants her wedding to be the most wonderful day of her life. However, perfect weddings require careful planning, whether the bride and groom are planning a traditional wedding or just a registry office ceremony. Paying for the wedding, which is always a problem, will partly decide the choice.

    The bride's clothes, which are usually expensive, require careful selection. Many brides choose to wear a white wedding dress for a Western ceremony, and a red Chinese wedding gown for a traditional evening banquet. Both are costly to buy, but there are shops from which they can be hired.  These can also supply the groom's outfits(服装): a dinner jacket for the Western ceremony and traditional Chinese clothes for the banquet.

    Flowers are important to most weddings. The bride and the bridesmaids usually carry bouquets. Centuries ago, Western brides carried bunches of flowers, some of which were bad-smelling, to keep evil spirits away. Nowadays, couples prefer more fragrant flowers, so they should contact a good florist(花商).

    The wedding stationery(婚礼用品) may include invitations, photo albums, menus, etc. The best idea is that the couple consult a specialist printer, who can give helpful advice.

    Many people travel to a wedding by car. It would be terrible if the car broke down on the way to the ceremony, so the couple should remember to book a good limousine(豪华轿车).

    After the wedding, the bride and groom may have a traditional banquet or a Western-style reception. We suggest that they reserve the restaurant and select the menu months before the wedding. People who want to be different could hold the event in a park or on a boat.

    Years afterwards, the married couple will want to look back at their wedding photos. It is essential that they resist the temptation to ask a favourite uncle to take the photographs. Otherwise, later, they may wish that they had booked a photographer who specializes in weddings.

    The couple should also think about the place where the photographer will take the photos. It does not always have to be on the steps of the registry office. For example, one couple decided to have theirs taken in a swimming pool!

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With the development of economy, an increasing number of Chinese people travel abroad as a way of relaxation.

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请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Big or small, rejection affects us all. Harry Potter was rejected. So was The Twilight Saga. If authors J. K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer hadn’t kept trying with publisher after publisher, we’d all have missed out on some great adventures.

Rejection doesn’t have to be about the big thing like not getting into your top college, not making the team, or not getting asked to the prom (舞会). Everyday situations can lead to the feeling of rejection, too, like if your joke doesn’t get a laugh, if no one remembers to save you a seat at the lunch table, or if the person you really like talks to everyone but you.

Feeling rejected is the opposite of feeling accepted. But being rejected (and we will all be at times) doesn’t mean someone isn’t liked, valued, or important. It just means that one time, in one situation, with one person, things didn’t work out.

Rejection hurts. But it’s impossible to avoid it altogether. In fact, you don’t want to— people who become too afraid of rejection might hold back from going after something they want. Sure, they avoid rejection, but they’re also 100% guaranteed to miss out on what they want but won’t try for.

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1.以约3 0个词概括上文的主要内容。

2.以约120个词就“How to deal with rejection”这一话题发表你的看法，内容包括：

 (1)讲述一次你被拒绝的经历；(2)你当时的感受；(3)你认为应该如何正确面对拒绝。

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     Does your local town have a nickname (绰号)? If so, what does it say about the area and the people who live there?

     Many cities are recognized across the world by their unofficial names. New York is the Big Apple, London is the Big Smoke, and Los Angeles is famously called La La Land.

     A project has been carried out to make a survey on how the nicknames of some places came about. The University of Winchester’s Professor Bill Lucas is a patron (赞助者) of the English Project. He explains that unofficial place names often show what people think about a place.

  “The name that people create for a place forms a connection with feelings,” he says.

     Basingstoke is a town in central England. The local nickname, Amazingstoke, shows the love that locals seem to have for the area.

Swindon, on the other hand, is sometimes called Swindump, showing that some people think it’s a dump (垃圾场). Stanford Le Hope in Essex is called Stanford No Hope by locals. And Padstow in Cornwall is so closely connected with the local famous person Rick Stein that it’s become known as Padstein.

      Some people say that the project may have a practical use. Glen Hart, the survey’s head of research, says the information could be very helpful to the emergency services, for example. “By having the most complete set of nicknames we could help the emergency services（应急服务机构）quickly locate the right place as soon as possible, for people usually remember the nicknames of some places instead of their official names. And this will take the helpers less time to reach the places.” he says.

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How do people traditionally manufacture (制造) things? They usually start with a sheet of metal, wood or other material and cut, drill (钻) and shave it to create a desired shape. Sometimes, they use a mold (模具) made of metal or sand, pour liquid plastic or metal into it and let it cool to create a solid part.
   Now, a completely different method is gaining popularity.
   On Oct. 9, 2015, London Science Museum kicked off its new exhibition, 3-D: Printing the Future, with over 600 3 -D printed objects on display, including space probes (探测器), toy dolls and even human organs – basically any product you can think of, reported Live Science.
   You might find it hard to believe that an object can actually be “printed out” like a picture. But it is not that hard to understand how it works. Just as a traditional printer sprays(喷洒) ink onto paper line by line, modern 3-D printers spread material onto a surface layer by layer, from the bottom to the top, gradually building up a shape.
   Instead of ink, the materials the 3-D printer uses are mainly plastic, resin (树脂) and certain metals. The thinner each layer is – from a millimeter to less than the width of a hair – the smoother and finer the object will be. And objects always come out in one piece, sparing you the trouble of putting different parts together afterward.
   For example, 10 years ago a desktop 3-D printer might have cost￡20,000 (200,000 yuan), while now it costs only about￡1,000, according to the BBC. In fact, 3-D printers have been around for some time, but until recently they hadn’t been very popular since few people could afford them. Last year, though, saw a big decrease in the price of 3-D printers.
   However, as 3-D printing technology becomes more commonplace(普通的), it may trigger(引起) certain problems. One of them is piracy (盗版). “Once you can download a coffee maker, or print out a new set of kitchen utensils (餐具) on your personal 3-D printer, who will visit a retail (零售的) store again?” an expert on 3-D printing told Forbes News.
   Even more frightening, the world’s first 3-D printed gun was successfully fired in the US in May of this year, which means that 3-D printing could potentially give more people access to weapons.

Wishing Away

Have you ever noticed how people always want to be something they’re not?

Tall want to be short, young long to age, single dream of marriage, and no matter what body shape, everyone wants to lose at least another five pounds.

It’s almost like a natural preoccupation (天性), this wishing away of our lives.

Think about it. When was the last time you heard someone say, “I am totally satisfied with myself and my life. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

It just doesn’t happen. So, I have this idea to create a virtual reality machine that would allow people to actually experience the life of their dreams. For instance, for all the women who live with the unanswered hope that their husband will one day wait at the back door with a dozen roses and a cool bottle of Dom Perignon... the opportunity to live with Prince Charming.

Or, for sports fans, how about the chance to score the winning goal, kick the overtime field goal, drive the victory lap, or hit that “must-win” two pointer at the buzzer? Music fans might choose to jump onstage and perform with their favorite rock band or conduct a full orchestral symphony.

The possibilities are endless.

But I wonder about the down side to such an invention. Would experiencing the dreams of a lifetime really make us better people? Iˈm not sure of that answer, or of the true possibility of such an invention.

But what I am sure of is that perfection is often over-evaluated.

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(1) 陈述你对上文的观点；

(2) 用2～3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。

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  What is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we learn our language well when we were children. If we could learn a second language in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say and tries to imitate (模仿) what he hears. When he wants something he has to ask for it. He is using the language, talking   in it, thinking in it all the time. If people had to use a second language all the time they would learn it quickly.

   We learn our own language by hearing people speak it, not by seeing eat they write. We imitate what we hear. In school, though you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is best to learn all the  new words through the ear. You can read them, spell them and write them later.