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This contest from the Winchester Poetry Festival is intended for “surprise and delight”. However, don't try to surprise and delight them with a short story or a photo of your cat dancing in a Tutu. Stick to a poem of up to 40 lines.
Closing: Quarterly.
Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250.
Entry Fee: £5.
Starts Theatre One-Act Play Competition
This annual contest from Strerts Theatre in Cornwall is for plays for up to four adult actors, with a running time of between 25 and 35 minutes. Plays can be on any theme; you need to be 18 or over to enter.
Closing: Annually.
Prizes: £100 plus performance of your play in Sterns Studio.
Entry Fee: £7.
Artificium Short Stories & Poetry Prizes
This one from Artificium, a journal of new fiction and poetry, has two categories: Short Stories and In Brief. The former is for stories of between 2,000 and 8,000 words in any genre（体裁）. The latter is for poetry of between 500 and 1,000 words.
Closing: End of each month.
Prizes: £200, £100, £50.
Entry Fee: £5 for one, £9 for two.
PENfro Open Poetry Competition.
This contest from the PENfro Book Festival is for poems of up to 40 lines on any subject and in any style. Costa Award winning poet Jonathan Edwards, whose taste in poetry is broad-ranging, will be judging.
Closing: End of each month. Prizes: £300, £100, £75. The top ten winners will be invited to read their works at a spoken word event at which Jonathan Edwards will present the prizes.
Entry Fee: £4.
Afternoon tea is quite a new tradition in England. Drinking tea dates as far back as 3,000 BC in China, yet it made its first appearance in England in the mid 17th century.
Afternoon tea was introduced in the country by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840. The Duchess would become hungry around four o'clock in the afternoon. The evening meal in her family was usually served late at eight o'clock, thus leaving a long period of time between lunch and dinner. The Duchess asked that a tray（盘）of tea, bread and butter and cakes should be brought to her room during the late afternoon. This became a habit of hers and she began inviting friends to join her.
Traditional afternoon tea is made up of a choice of nice sandwiches, scones served with cream and jam. Cakes and pastries are also served. Tea grown in India or Ceylon is poured（倾倒）from silver teapots into bone china cups.
Nowadays, however, in the average suburban home, afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a cup of tea, usually produced using a teabag.
For those hoping to try an afternoon tea, there are many tea rooms up and down the country. The UK has a variety of holiday destinations, and whether you choose a stay in the villages of Yorkshire or the coastal resorts of the south, afternoon tea is never far away.
（I）It was a surprising announcement: SpaceX, a private company（私人公司）, said it would fly two people to the moon next year (2019). This has not been attempted since NASA's Apollo moon landings about 45 years ago. In the news conference, Elon Musk. SpaceX founder said two people have already paid SpaceX a “wonderful” amount of money to send them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon.
（II）Exercise reduces the risks of dying from all causes, including cancer and heart disease. But many people who work all week have little time for exercise. They try to take exercise or do chores to increase their heart rates over the weekend. A new study suggests that it is healthy to do that, which can reduce their risk of cancer and cardiovascular（心血管疾病）disease.
（III）Scientists in London have found a possible way to solve the problem of plastic bottle waste. They have made a water bottle you can eat. The product is called Ooho, made of seaweed, a plant that grows in the ocean. Oohos are tasteless and look like bubbles or balls. They can hold water or any other liquid（液体）inside. When people drink Oohos, the outside bursts in the mouth and can be eaten. Even if you throw it away, it will degrade in about four weeks. It is good for the environment.
Do you know that you have “body amour（防弹衣）”? Yes, you do. Here are three protective body parts and how they work.
Skin
Your skin might not feel much like the outside of an armoured tank, but it really gives you a lot of protection. Skin also protects our bones, muscles and insides by covering them up. Our skin may not be that tough when we touch it, but it can be very tough when it counts. The skin may get scraped（擦伤）and become bruised（青肿的）, but it helps to keep our bones safe so that they don't break easily.
Eyelashes（眼睫毛）and Eyelids
The little soft eyelashes attached to our eyelids are constantly working to blink（眨眼）away dust that would hurt our eyes. Our eyelashes and eyelids use reflex actions to close when danger comes near. Actually if we had to tell our eyelids to close, we could not do it fast enough to offer any real protection for our eyes. When our eyes and brain notice something that might be dangerous, they use lightening fast reflexes to close..
Hair
This is a kind of body amour that is very useful, since the sun shines down on our heads all day. Without this covering of hair it would be easy for us to get sunburnt on the top of our heads. We lose about 50 individual hairs from our scalp every day. But most of us have lots of new ones that are replacing them.
A. Think about what happens when we fall.
B. This protection keeps our eyes safe and sound.
C. But you might not know how the armour works.
D. Some of your personal armour might affect you.
E. The hair on our heads protects our soft scalps（头皮）.
F. By closing eyes, your eyelashes block out light closer to you.
G. Our skin is the biggest organ in our entire body and it helps to keep us safe.
I believe in the power of hugging. It's a quiet but 1 moment we share when we hug. It's the 2 that flows from my heart to yours when I want to say something but 3 just won't do sometimes. Hugging is the power we possess when we put our arms 4 someone. It can change 5, making a patient a person, a familiar person a friend.
My grandmother taught me about hugging, whenever she 6 me in her strong, loving Irish arms. She always hugged seriously even when her back had become 7 and her strength had weakened. My mother hugs my children the same way——heart open and arms 8, breathing them into her soul.
Once I became aware of its 9, I started experimenting: I held my mother-in-law then moved onto my sisters-in-law, aunts and cousins. I tried it with a friend who had 10 my life with laughter, but I was too 11 to tell her, and acquaintances（熟人）that I wanted to be friends with. Some were confused, 12 others accepted. But all had one thing 13, that is, the next time I hugged them, they 14 me back.
For me, hugging has become 15 a physical interaction. It has become a way of thinking, the answer to life's 16 and tough choices. I've often wondered how 17my life would have been if I hadn't learned the power of hugging! I believe that a hug is like a battery 18 —— a good one can keep me going for a long time.
Never take the giving or receiving of a hug 19. That small gesture of putting arms around someone else 20 love, acceptance, and sometimes even forgiveness. I believe that a hug can change the world.
What (be) English for? Some people seem to think it's for practicing grammar rules and (learn) lists of words—the (long) the lists, the better. That's wrong. Many students know hundreds of grammar rules, they can't speak correctly or (fluent). They are afraid of making mistakes. English is the working language. It is widely (speak) and used in the world. Businessmen and tourists often come to China without being able to speak Chinese. Chinese businessmen, taxi drivers and students talk with them using English. English is also the language of global culture. You can listen to English songs the radio use English to communicate with people around the world through the Item. With so many people (communicate) in English every day, will become more and more important to have a good knowledge of English.
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。
Growing up, I didn't have much ambition and I was wasted a lot of time on video games. One day, with no reason I picked up a book, that was about seven habits of highly successful teenagers. We don't remember much about the story, but one key concept that true impressed me was the idea of time. The book stressed the importance of use our time wisely. I know it sounds crazily, but during that time I was aimless person. However, after I read that book, I made a decision to spend as many time as possible just reading. Believe it or not, I've made great progresses since then.
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