_____ to get a ticket for the concert, George has been standing in a queue for two hours.
A. Determining B. To be determined
C. Determined D. To determine
— I’m terribly sorry to have put you to so much trouble.
— _____. You didn’t mean to, did you?
A. Forget it B. I’m afraid not
C. All right D. You are welcome
随着电脑普及率的提高，老师、家长和学生对字迹的重视程度降低了。据一项调查显示，有85.8%的中学生说自己的字迹不好看，而他们又不想改善字迹，其理由有很大差别。
请根据下图的百分比信息写一篇120词左右的英文短文，说明该现象并发表自己的看法。开头段已给出。
Nowadays, with the growing popularity of computers, teachers, students and their parents are paying less and less attention to handwriting.
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短文改错（共10处错误；每处错误1分，满分10分）
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： 在错词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
Mr. Johnson is a hardworking teacher. Every day, he spends too much time with his work. With little sleep and hardly any break, so he works from morning till night. Hard work has made him very illness. “He has ruined his health. We are worried about him.” That is which other teachers say. Yesterday afternoon. I paid visit to Mr. Johnson. I was eager to see her, but outside his room I stopped. I had to calm me down. Quietly I step into the room. I saw him lying in bed, looked some of the pictures we had taken together. I understood that he missed us just as many as we missed him.
My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel _1.___(encourage) by his compliments。
One day, _2._ we learned the new word “eccentric” in class, we __3.__(ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy __4.__ clothes never fit him。” _5.__(Hear) this, the whole class burst into __6._(laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. __7.__ class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped out of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must__8._(hurt) him deeply。
Not until then did I realize words could be powerful in_9.__positive and negative ways. We should avoid hurting _10.__(other) if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak。
In general, I don’t cry very often. But in early August 2011, I did a lot of crying. All these ____were for one simple reason: I really, really didn’t want to leave China. But, I already had my plane ticket, and my work visa was ____, so I had no ____ but to go back to America.
For a while, I was ____ to be reunited with my family, my friends, and most importantly, my dog. I also enjoyed catching up on all the films, TV shows, and music I’d ____.Soon after I arrived home, I began ____ with my family and my friends. I told them how I loved my ____ in China, and how I hoped to come back one day. They said, “Maybe you can go again next year.” And now here I am, ____ one whole year teaching oral English at Harbin No. 1 High School.
My ____ teaching experience gave me much ___ that I am now putting to use. I now feel____ about my teaching abilities that I even have a teaching philosophy. My philosophy is one simple word: interact. I try to make the students ____for much more of the class period. I also like to play games in class ,as well as doing art projects, acting, and ____ having discussions.
To teach English as a foreign language in a non-English-speaking country can be quite ____ at times. I feel it is probably more difficult for students to relate to the material if they are not often ____ by English. Making things even more difficult is the ____ that the English they do come across is often ____, or, while grammatically correct, is not at all native-sounding. This kind of English, I think, can actually be ____ to students’ learning. ____,maybe “Chinglish,” both written and spoken, is just one of the ____ to building a country full of English speakers.
1.A. stories B. talks C. tears D. dreams
2.A. due B. ready C. lost D. special
3.A. idea B. choice C. right D. time
4.A. excited B. worried C. surprised D. curious
5.A. ignored B. heard C. forgotten D. missed
6.A. working B. talking C. living D. arguing
7.A. research B. stay C. business D. condition
8.A. spending B. wasting C. finding D. finishing
9.A. everyday B. recent C. previous D. wide
10.A. wisdom B. pleasure C. wealth D. knowledge
11.A. careful B. concerned C. certain D. anxious
12.A. speak B. write C. listen D. read
13.A. naturally B. generally C. hardly D. simply
14.A. amazing B. challenging C. interesting D. disappointing
15.A. questioned B. encouraged C. supported D. surrounded
16.A. message B. fact C. feeling D. thought
17.A. impossible B. unusual C. incorrect D. unknown
18.A. harmful B. important C. suitable D. valuable
19.A. Otherwise B. Besides C. Therefore D. However
20.A. problems B. steps C. rules D. aspects
