阅读下列材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
I am a junior in high school. There is a lady at my school 1. job is to hand out call slips(借书单)and prevent students from leaving campus 2._ permission. Before today I had never seen her smile. The other day my friends and I were eating in the cafeteria and I saw her3. (walk) around. When she came 4. (close) to us I could see that she was crying. She pulled out a tissue and quickly wiped her eyes. I thought to myself that this lady is so under—appreciated(未被赏识的) and needs recognizing for all her hard work. So I 5.(write) a note telling her that the students appreciated everything she did and 6._her contribution to our school made a difference in all of our lives. I signed it “some thankful students” and slipped it into 7._envelope. Then I realized I didn’t even know her name. I asked all of my professors but no one knew her name I finally went to ask the lady at student services and 8. (tell) that her name was Kathy. I brought her a bunch of 9.(color) sunflowers and taped the envelope to it. I brought the flowers to school and left 10.in her office. She came into my third period class shortly afterwards to deliver a call slip, and there it was a smile on her face!
“Paul must have been trying to carry his waste paper to garbage can and dropped a few pieces.” I______picking them up. _______later I found more pieces. No quiet sighing this time. I _____ ,“Who is throwing garbage?” No answer. Instead, I saw more bits of paper silently floating______from upstairs. Looking up, I saw my seven-year-old son, Paul.
“Stop making a mess.” “It’s not a mess. They’re______ .” “Sorry, what did you say?” I hadn’t heard him clearly.
He didn’t answer me. Paul has autism (自闭症) and_______answers a question, especially when he’s _______attentively on something else. He ran down the stairs. “Where are my other butterflies?” he asked,_______around. Every time Paul _______five or more words together, my heart says a _______of thanks. But lately he seems to _______that the benefits of forming complete sentences when communicating are________of the effort.
Butterflies. Of course. I rushed to_______them from the garbage,_______them off and handed them to my young artist. “Want to see them________again?” he asked with a shy smile. “Oh yes! They’re beautiful.” I whispered. He ran back upstairs to float his _____ down again. They really did look like beautiful butterflies.
That day Paul _______me to look up at ______instead of down at garbage. How many other masterpieces (杰作) do I miss because I’m too caught up in my _______to take time to appreciate what’s right in front of me? Life is not what happens to us. It’s ______we look at it. Now, I look up.
1.A. laughed B. sighed C. amazed D. shouted
2.A. Days B. Years C. Moments D. Weeks
3.A. called out B. turned up C. got in D. added to
4.A. up B. down C. away D. off
5.A. planes B. papers C. leaves D. butterflies
6.A. rarely B. frequently C. willingly D. eagerly
7.A. devoted B. depended C. focused D. addicted
8.A. showing B. looking C. playing D. drawing
9.A. spells B. puts C. pushes D. accumulates
10.A. sound B. remark C. report D. prayer
11.A. refuse B. hear C. mind D. realize
12.A. worthy B. aware C. fond D. typical
13.A. hide B. destroy C. rescue D. remove
14.A. tore B. dusted C. cut D. seized
15.A. throw B. flow C. land D. fly
16.A. masterpieces B. schoolwork C. inventions D. imagination
17.A. reminded B. forced C. intended D. permitted
18.A. mistakes B. weaknesses C. beauty D. scenery
19.A. amusement B. housework C. communication D. homework
20.A. when B. whether C. where D. how
假定你是李华,你所喜爱的English Readers周报创刊五周年之际征集读者意见。请你依据以下内容给主编写封信,内容主要包括:
1. 该刊的优点:语言完美,内容新鲜,图文并茂;
2. 你的建议:刊登名人故事,指导英语学习。
注意: 1. 词数100左右;开头结尾已给出,不计入总词数;
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:刊登 carry
Dear Sir or Madam,
Congratulations on the tenth anniversary of English Readers! ________________
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I hope my suggestions will be taken into consideration.
Yours faithfully,
Li Hua
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(∧),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 grandpa has a lifelong friends and they are very close. Unfortunate, one day doctors said Grandpa’s friend had cancer. Grandpa quickly pointed out that there were still time for them to doing the things they had always wanted. Grandpa’s friend had always wanted to tour the world, so Grandpa had suggested they went on a world tour cruise together. At firstly, other friends tried to talk them out of it, and when they explained that it was a lifetime’s ambition, everyone wished them well. The funny thing was that when they came back from a cruise, the doctors announced that Grandpa’s friend had fully recovered his cancer.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号中单词的正确形式。
Many of us know people who are always working and never seem to stop. Have you ever heard of anyone who is allergic 1._________ vacations? It’s not really an allergy and it is called leisure sickness. It happens like this—you are hoping to take 2. _________vacation and all ready for it, and when it finally begins, you get sick 3. _________ (immediate).
It’s a bit of a mystery. However, there are a few possible explanations. One theory is 4. _________ people have no time to get sick when focusing on work, and their bodies ignore the problems until they take a break. Another possibility is that 5. _________ is actually healthier to be very busy, for people become stronger and are less likely 6. _________ (fall) ill when they are always working. When extremely hard-working people go on vacation, their bodies relax and stop fighting illness the way that they usually do. That’s to say, they can’t adjust to 7. _________ (be) on vacation. When people are 8. _________ (occupy) with their work, they might forget how to relax, and the 9. _________ (press) of their sudden vacation makes them get ill. For most of us, however, vacations are fun, and leisure sickness is one problem about 10. _________ we do not have to worry.
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper. Ben, the ________, had also invited his girlfriend Marina, and another colleague called Alistair. We were all a little surprised by the ________. It’s not that Ben is ________, or a bad cook, but he never spends more than he has to. Money has been hard earned and so should be spent ________. So why was he inviting us round for a ________?
Ben greeted us at the door with a grin(露齿笑), and as we ________, a laid table was waiting for us. He was still smiling in a strange way. “Nothing but the best for my friends!” said Ben. We sat down and looked ________ at each other—what was he up to?
Ben returned with four bowls of soup. It was a mixture of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. The next ________ was just another mixture of things. There was some bread too, but it was a little stale(不新鲜的).
“Did you follow a set of ________ that tells you how to cook this,” asked Marina, “or did you just make it up yourself?” Ben put his fork down. “What I cooked depended on what I could ________.” Marina was surprised. “________ you can find anything in British supermarkets these days.” “But there is less choice ________ supermarkets,” he replied.
We all ________ at him in amazement. “What do you mean by outside supermarkets?” asked Alistair.
Seeing that we had all ________ the food, Ben decided that it was time to tell the ________. He had read recently that a lot of ________ was thrown away by supermarkets every day, because they only want to sell ________ food. So Ben found those vegetables and bread inside his local supermarket bins.
We were all ________ . Ben said he can afford not to eat ________ food so he would not do this regularly. However, he also said, “There are many poor people who ________ the food, and the amount of food thrown away is enough to feed millions of people.”
1.A. cookB. bossC. waiterD. host
2.A. invitationB. introductionC. educationD. position
3.A. naughtyB. unsociableC. lonelyD. unhappy
4.A. quicklyB. foolishlyC. wiselyD. honestly
5.A. tripB. gameC. mealD. lesson
6.A. enteredB. leftC. movedD. started
7.A. excitedlyB. happilyC. nervouslyD. calmly
8.A. chanceB. courseC. secretD. present
9.A. rewardsB. instructionsC. regulationsD. promises
10.A. borrowB. buyC. produceD. find
11.A. ThoughB. UnlessC. ButD. And
12.A. alongB. throughC. insideD. outside
13.A. aimedB. laughedC. noddedD. stared
14.A. finishedB. enjoyedC. servedD. prepared
15.A. differenceB. truthC. decisionD. story
16.A. moneyB. waterC. foodD. time
17.A. freshB. cheapC. basicD. special
18.A. inspiredB. scaredC. worriedD. shocked
19.A. expensiveB. deliciousC. freeD. simple
20.A. needB. sellC. ignoreD. order