_____ I can see what you mean, even though I don’t share your point of view.
A. In the way B. On the way
C. In no way D. In a way
---How do you like a birthday party outdoors this weekend?
--- _____.
A.Ver much B. With pleasure
C. Have fun D. Good idea
It is generally accepted that_____ boy must learn to fight like_____ man.
A. a, a B. a, the
C. the, the D. The, /
阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Language follows power. In an increasingly globalized world, some languages become the kings in terms of trade and communication. They jump geographic boundaries, pushing smaller languages toward 1. .
According to National Geographic magazine, one language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth are 2. to disappear as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin or Spanish.
This is 3. Google.org is launching a new campaign called the Endangered Languages Project. It aims to digitally record the world’s little-known tongues and the heritages to which they are central.
What kind of languages are disappearing? Languages like Arogonese, which can be found in northern Spain, for example. Spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, this language seems to 4. (disappear) within a few generations. Navajo and Ojibwa, both native to the Americans, are also close to extinction. Koro is the native language of a small population 5. in the mountains of northeast India. It’s spoken by about 4,000 people.
The Endangered Languages website will record roughly 3,500 of the world’s little-spoken tongues. “ 6. every language that dies, humans are in danger of losing an enormous cultural heritage”, writes Loek Essers on the website Computerworld.com.
“As each one disappears, an understanding of how humans relate to the world around them, as well as scientific, medical, and botanical（植物的）knowledge, are all lost, 7. is the expression of a community’s humor, love, and life.”
Users of the website can find 8. which can be identified by their location on a map, or reached by means of a list that has been broken down into four categories: at risk, endangered, severely endangered, or unknown. 9. can upload video or audio samples as well as share their knowledge of a language.
“Languages are alive and in constant change, and their extinction is not new,” write the site’s creators. “ 10. today we have the tools and technology that could become a game changer.”
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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11处起）不计分。
Once a king asked an artist to paint a picture for him. He told the artist he didn’t want to any shadows in the picture, just sunshine, but the artist did so. When the king saw the finish picture, he was disappointed. Without shadows, everything in the picture looked flat and real. The point of the story was that we need both shadows and sunshine to have a completely picture, just as we need both rain and sun to have living world. People, too, need both sadness and happiness. We often learn some important lesson during sad times. So when we feel sad, we should try to stop and think about that we might learn of the experience.
句子翻译 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
1.罗伯特·彭斯是苏格兰的文学巨匠，他的诗歌作品往往运用想象触及强烈的情感。
Robert Burns is Scotland’s __________ _________ _________ whose poetry tends to use imagination and _________ __________ ________ _________.
2.在文莱用食指来指东西会对人们造成冒犯，因此当我们在文莱时应该努力适应用拇指来指东西。
Pointing with one’s first finger can __________ ___________ to people in Brunei, so we should try to _________ _________ using our thumb to point when we are in Brunei.
3.大风过后使得村庄一片混乱，但是所幸的是它并未对人们的生活造成影响。
The strong winds left the village _________ __________
, but luckily it didn’t __________ __________ ___________ __________ people’s lives.
4.根据查尔斯·狄更斯的小说《远大前程》改编的这部现代影片是以19世纪初的英格兰为背景。
The modern film _________ _________ Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations is set in
England _________ __________ __________ __________.
5.联合国的职能不仅仅只是局限于解决国际间的政治冲突，另外，它还能促进对人权的尊重。
The function of the UN _________ _________ __________ __________ solving international political conflicts. __________ __________, it also promotes respect for human rights.
