书面表达综合练(一)

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假如你叫李华，你的美国网友Jim发来一封e­mail，向你了解我国传统节日端午节的情况，请你根据中文提示和图片利用本单元学过的词汇写一封图文并茂的电子文档发给他。

节日日期：中国农历五月初五

节日由来：爱国诗人屈原——投江自尽——划船找他的尸体——往江中投粽子(以免鱼损伤他的躯体)。

节日活动：家人团聚，观看龙船比赛，吃粽子，纪念先人。

参考词汇：端午节The Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival；农历Lunar calendar；自杀commit suicide；汨罗江Miluo River

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Receiving a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation can change a person’s life forever.In September 2009，the organization，based in Chicago，Illinois，told twenty­four people that they had been chosen for the yearly fellowship award.Each winner receives 500,000 dollars over five years.The organization sees the award as an investment in that person’s interesting work and future efforts.

Lawyers，doctors，writers and artists are among the winners of last year’s MacArthur Fellowship.The Haitian­American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the winners.Her books describe the experiences of Haitian immigrants(移民)．Danticat says the thing artists need most is time and that the award money will help her work greatly.

Several of last year’s fellows are scientists.Peter Huybers is a scientist at Harvard University.He uses math，physics and statistics(统计学)to study climate change patterns.Lin He at the University of California，Berkeley，is a biologist.She has made valuable discoveries about cell behavior that could lead to future cancer treatments.

Artists who won the fellowship include thirty­five­year­old photographer Lynsey