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短文中共有10处语言错误，请把它们找出来，并改正过来。
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：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
Mary was an university student. She didn’t have much money and her parents were not rich, but she had an uncle who had been luck enough to collect great wealth. He always gave her valuable Christmas and birthday present .When her uncle’s birthday came round, Mary want to buy him something real special , but because he was so rich, she did not know how to get him. She went into the best shop in her town and explained that what her problem was to one of the helpful shop assistant. Finally she asked, “What do you have for someone has already got everything he wants or needs?” The girl sighed deep and answered, “Envy(忌妒), only envy.”
语法填空
Jack and I went fishing yesterday morning. Jack
kept on catching fish, but I just sat there waiting ______1._____some fish to bite my line. After 2.______ had caught five fish, I only caught a small fish. 3.L____ at my fish, I didn’t feel4. _______(舒服). But later on, I finally felt a fish was biting my line. I5. t______ that it was going to be a big fish for I had a hard6. t_____ bringing it up. Finally it turned out to be an old 7.________(鞋)，which was pretty funny. Both of us began to laugh 8.l_____. Before we went home, I only caught two fish9. _______ Jack had nine fish. Although we were10. ________(疲倦) out, we felt very happy.
完形填空
It happened to me several years ago when I was with my parents and sister on _________ on a farm close to Medellin. We were in a car, and it was 2:00 in the morning. We came across a car _________
As is known to all, it is _________ in some places in Colombia to stop and help strangers because it can be risky (危险的)；you can be _________ . Actually, I have heard of so many _________ in which people have been robbed just because they stopped and tried to help people who _________ to need help from the passers-by.
_________ , we didn't know whether to stop or not ; but in the end , _________ , we decided to do it. They had really had a car accident and some of them were _________ . We took them to the hospital. They were really _________ , and we also felt very good about helping them.
I remember the next day when we 51 my grandfathers and uncles about that, they said we shouldn’t have _________ because it was too dangerous. They thought we were _________ because we were able to tell the _________ and still take a vacation on the farm. They _________ us never to do that again.
I think it was risky, but it was worth taking the _________ . Otherwise, we would always have _________ if it was real. Also, if we hadn’t helped them, who knows what would have _________to them.
I believe that one of the reasons why we made up our mind _________ to stop was the fact that we were four people in the car. Maybe if I had been by myself_________I wouldn’t have stopped.
1.A. duty B. time C. show D. vacation
2.A. robbery B. accident C. trade D. race
3.A. convenient B. dangerous C. kind D. difficult
4.A. robbed B. praised C. appreciated D. punished
5.A. passers-by B. cars C. cases D. problems
6.A. refused B. offered C. pretended D. decided
7.A. However B. So C. Otherwise D. Yet
8.A. unluckily B. unwillingly C. unexpectedly D.luckily
9.A.caught B.wounded C. killed D. injured
10.A.thankful B. risky C. peaceful D. frightened
11.A.told B. spoke C. informed D. reminded
12.A.survived B. stopped C. driven D. run
13.A.brave B. kind C. lucky D. stubborn
14.A message B. report C. joke D. story
15.A. advised B. suggested C. persuaded D. forced
16.A. advice B. trouble C. risk D. trip
17.A. wandered B. wondered C. remembered D.regretted
18.A. happened B. faced C. meant D. given
19.A. brains B. decisions C. intentions D. minds
20.A. in the future B. at that time C. at times D. time and again
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个答案中选出五个填入空白处。选项中有两个为多余选项。
There is one thing that everyone wants more than anything else. 1. They think that when they have enough money to buy such things as houses, farms, and cars, they will have the one thing that everyone wants.
Other people believe that if they know enough they will find this thing. 2. Still others think that if they have power, they will find this thing. Some people keep telling themselves,” When I am a boss, I will no longer have to search for this thing.”
“What’s it that everyone wants more than anything else? What’s it that all of us keep working and struggling for each day? 3.
Happiness is a strange thing. 4. What will make one man happy may not make another man happy. Some men say that happiness comes from helping others; other men say that happiness comes from making life more pleasant for everyone. What do you mean when you say “That makes me happy.”
5. Perhaps you will learn something that will bring you peace of mind, comfort, money or it may be what you search for—happiness.
A. It is happiness.
B. It does not mean the same to all men.
C. They study all their life in search of it.
D. Happiness means the same to everyone.
E. Some people try to get it by making money.
F. Read what different people have said about happiness.
G. When one man feels happy, another man will feel sad.
Have you ever noticed how much the number twelve is used? A ruler that is a foot long has twelve inches. A yardstick(尺码) has three times twelves inches, or thirty-six inches.
On a canlender you will see twelve months in each year. A clock face is numbered from one to twelve for the hours. The time span from noon to midnight is twelve hours; from midnight to noon there are twelve more hours. Each day is two times twelve, or twenty-four hours long.
We buy eggs by the dozen, which means twelve at once. Sometimes we buy other things by the dozen. The stores sell different things by the dozen. In a store you may have seen a dozen pencils held together by a paper wrapping or a dozen oranges in a sack. Stores also buy things in lots of twelve dozens, or by the gross（罗，12 打） . One gross consists of twelve dozens, or one hundred and forty-four items.
1.An outside cover is a _______.
A. bag B. sack C. number D. wrapping
2._______ means a space of time.
A. Span B. Gross C. Room D. Canlender
3.A foot-long ruler has _______ inches.
A. six B. twelve C. twenty-four D. thirty-six
Pat came over from Ireland to England with his wife one year ago to find work. He got quite a good job with a building company, and as he did not drink or smoke, he saved up quite a lot of money.
His wife’s parents were still in Ireland, and one day she got a telegram saying that her mother was ill, so Pat gave her some money and she went to Ireland to see her mother.
After a week, Pat wanted to write a letter to her, but he could not read or write very well, so he went to his priest and asked him to do it for him. Pat told the priest what he wanted to say, and the priest wrote it down. After a few minutes Pat stopped, and the priest said,” Do you want to say more?”
“Only ,” ‘Please excuse the bad writing and spelling’,” Pat said.
1.Why did Pat come to Ireland?
A. To travel there. B. To save money.
C. To see his wife. D. To make money
2. Pat’s wife had to go back to Ireland _______.
A. to see her father B. to see his mother
C. to see her mother D. to see her husband
3. At the end of the letter Pat wanted his wife to excuse_______.
A. the priest’s bad writing and spelling
B. his own bad writing and spelling
C. both the priest’s and his own writing and spelling
D. neither the priest’s nor his own writing and spelling
4.Who really made a mistake in the story?
A. Pat. B. The priest. C. Pat’s wife. D. None of them.
