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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

    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。

    My hometown is a small village. Small as it is, but it’s very beautiful.

　 There are a number of hill around my hometown and they are very beautiful. In spring, we fly kites are made by themselves on the top of the hills. The kites fly very highly. In summer, the trees and grass are green and the flowers are bright on the hills. Beside, the wild apples are nice to eating. In autumn, corns at the foot of the hills were ripe. In winter, when it snows, something is covered with snow. We play with snow and make snowmen.

    In my hometown there are blue sky, fresh air, sweet water and kind people. I love my hometown!

Question: Why is it so hard for some people to apologize after they’ve done something wrong? I have made every effort to persuade my uncle to be nice to people that he knows he’s hurt.  71   How I wish things would be better if he’d just say he’s sorry and ask them to forgive him.

    Answer: 72  It’s just easier for him to pretend nothing happened than to face the embarrassment of admitting he was wrong. You’ve probably done the same thing yourself at some time. In fact, most of us have. Furthermore, what if others won’t forgive him even if he apologizes?

     73  Pride blinds us to our mistakes or faults. Or at least it makes us pay less attention to their seriousness.

    Pride also makes us unwilling to admit to others that we were wrong. Perhaps we’re afraid they will look down on us if we admit it.  74

    But others see through our pride. And things would be far better if we admitted our faults and asked for forgiveness.  75

    Now you know why your uncle refuses to apologize, talk to him again. Help him to learn how to apologize and ask for forgiveness from others.

    A. But a deeper reason is pride.

    B. But he just refuses to do that.

    C. We may even hope that somehow they will overlook it.

    D. As a result, you would offend others and hurt their feelings.

    E. There are a variety of reasons for your uncle’s refusal to apologize.

    F. Otherwise our pride would only hurt us and cause conflict with others.

G. One reason your uncle finds it hard to apologize could be embarrassment.

根据汉语完成句子。(请将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。)

1.老师讲英式英语和美式英语没有太大区别。

It ________ ________ ________ ________ a difference whether a teacher speaks British or American English.   

2.每天早晨,他带着一个圆形木板爬到拐弯处.

Every morning he climbs up to the bend _______a large circular board ________ ________ ________.

3.但经常他们只是从他们身边驶过,把人体交通标志看作理所当然的事.

But often they just pass by, ________ the ________ ________ ________ for granted

4.到19世纪50年代，它每年能卖出100万册，这使它成为迄今为止最受欢迎的教科书之一。

________ the 1850s, it ________ ________ one million copies a year, ________ it one of the most  popular school books ever.

5.应工人们的要求，老板向遇难者的家属道了歉。

________ ________ to the workers’ ________,the boss ________ an apology to the relatives of  victims.

用方框内单词的适当形式填空。(请将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。)

1.His speech was so ________ that few people could understand it.

2.More than 300 police were sent to _______ the traffic.

3.There are many ________ of English in the world.

4.He is not ________ to be a doctor.

5.Now think of some more questions to ask people _______for these jobs.

6.For people doing this job , common sense is _________ to be more important than computer skills.

7.She is looking for a ________ assistant with good organized skills.

8.His disease is ________ to his bad habit of diet.

9.The piano my father bought for me ________ up too much room..

10.Running Marathons requires a high level of ________ fitness.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many skin colors in the world? Do you know why people living in particular areas usually have a certain color? Biology and history are the two reasons for this.

Skin contains something called melanin, which determines a person’s skin color. The more melanin a person has, the darker his or her skin will be. The amount of and the production of melanin are controlled by genetics, but can be affected by other things, such as sunlight. If a person lives in a place with less sunlight, a person’s body will produce less melanin, making the skin lighter.

Skin color is also affected by another source ---- vitamin D. humans all need vitamin D to build bones. People can get it by eating foods such as fish and milk, or from sunlight, so sunlight absorbed by melanin cannot be used for vitamin D production. Therefore, a dark—skinned person will produce less vitamin D than a light—skinned person when they received the same amount of sunlight.

The connection between vitamin D production and skin color is clear when we look at evolution. The earliest humans lived in Africa, their dark skin produced less vitamin D because of their dark skin. As a result, their skin made less melanin, so they could get enough sunlight to produce vitamin D. their skin gradually got lighter and they lost hair. Now, people living in areas with strong sunlight like Africa, have darker skin, while people living in other areas have lighter skin. The exception to this is the Inuit, who live in a place with little sunlight, but have dark skin because they eat a lot of fish and have enough vitamin D.

Evolution has given us a rainbow of skin colors. Humans have always had melanin to determine our skin color. What has changed through history is the environment where we have lived. This has in turn changed our melanin production, and eventually, skin color.