美国某刊物向你约稿，请你用英语写一则笑话，字数100-120。笑话大意：有人穿错一双靴子，一只底厚一只底薄，走路一瘸一跛。他想：“奇怪，我今天怎么一条腿长一条腿短呢？可能是路不平吧。”有人说：“你是把靴子穿错了吧？”他低头一看，果然如此。就叫仆人回家另取一双，一会儿仆人空手而归，说：“家里那双也是一样，所以我没有拿来。”
参考词汇：1. 靴子 boot；
2. 瘸或跛 limp（n./vi）; lame (adj./ vi.)
3. (鞋)底 bottom-pad
4. (路)不平 not even / uneven
短文改错
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处错误，各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（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改的词。
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。
We all enjoy read short stories by O. Henry, such as “The last leaf” and “The Gift of Magi”.
Fewer writers in the world have ever put into prison. And even fewer took great success in prison. While O. Henry, the famous short story writer, was one of him. O. Henry, his real name was William Sidney Porter, was born on September 11, 1862.
In 1884, O. Henry entered the First National Bank as teller (出纳). On February 10, 1896, Henry was said to have something to do with the disappearance of $1,150 from the bank. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment
In order to make money support his family, O. Henry began write stories to magazines. These stories became quiet popular with readers.
O. Henry died in New York in January 5, 1910. He was buried in North Carolina, the state where he was born.
July 20, 1969 was an important day. Two 1.(美国) astronauts planted the first human footstep on the moon. 2. (他们的) names were Armstrong and Aldrin. They went into a spaceship whose name was Apollo. As Armstrong reached his left foot 3. （touch） the moon’s surface, he said, “That’s one small step for a man, but one big leap for mankind.”
4. two hours and twenty-one minutes, the man carefully at first and then 5.(勇敢), walked on the moon, 【小题6（take）photos and picking stones.
After eight 6. (day) stay in space, Apollo returned to the earth successfully. People everywhere were 7. (excite) by this moon trip. “This is the 8. (伟大) week in the history of the world since the Creation(创世),” President Nixon told the travelers. “9.（多亏，由于）what you have done, the world has never been closer together before.”
English seems ________ the passport(护照) to our modern society. About half the world’s newspapers and 75 ________ of the world’s mail is ________ English. Many countries have special shortwave radio broadcasts in English and some have ________ English-language newspapers. Most scientific books and magazines ________ first in English. Many jobs ________ a reading or speaking knowledge of the ________.
English has a large ________ of speakers. Even ________ there are more ________ speakers of Chinese ________ English, the use of English is ________ widespread. It is spoken ________ a native language in ________ seven countries, and there are more than 35 countries ________ have English as one of their official languages. That ________ that the government publishes laws and information in ________, and sometimes classes at schools ________ in English. In countries that ________ speakers of many languages, English is sometimes the unofficial language. In these countries English is used ________ in business, education, and government.
1.A. to haveB. to have becomeC. beD. being
2.A. peopleB. numbersC. percentD. pieces
3.A. forB. inC. withD. about
4.A. one or moreB. fewC. one by oneD. no
5.A. are printedB. are producingC. are makingD. are made
6.A. haveB. getC. requireD. take
7.A. EnglishB. magazinesC. booksD. language
8.A. dealB. amountC. manyD. number
9.A. throughB. thoughC. thatD. because
10.A. nativeB. foreignC. people’sD. good
11.A. thanB. withC. whichD. as
12.A. muchB. veryC. moreD. many
13.A. asB. to beC. beingD. for
14.A. moreB. at leastC. above allD. in the end
15.A. whereB. whoseC. whomD. that
16.A. saidB. meansC. followsD. thinks
17.A. languagesB. ChineseC. EnglishD. words
18.A. gaveB. had givenC. teachesD. are taught
19.A. becomeB. areC. isD. have
20.A. manyB. a great dealC. littleD. less
All animals produce waste. We call it “waste,” but we all know it can be very useful. In some parts of the world, animal waste, or poop, is collected, dried, and burned for cooking and heating. 1.
The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Center has an unusual way of using animal “waste.” The center’s 40 pandas produce about two tons of poop a day. This material is being turned into a new product called Panda Poop Paper. 2. After all, paper is made from plant fiber, which cannot be digested and simply goes through the body as waste.
Since pandas eat nothing but bamboo, their “waste” is perfect paper material. 3.
Their stomachs haven’t fully developed for their vegetarian diet, so their bodies make use of just 20% of what they eat. The other 80% comes out as poop: very high in fiber and perfect for paper.
Once the poop is collected, it is cleaned with chemicals, crushed(碾碎), and put into frames(框架) to dry. 4. Because of its good quality as well as the worldwide popularity of the panda, gift products made from the paper sell well.
5.They got the idea from the elephant dung(大象粪) paper made at Elephant Conservation Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. And Creative Paper Wales in the U.K. sell paper gifts made from sheep waste.
A. But do you know some paper from poop?
B. Where does the paper come from?
C. After these steps, good, strong paper comes into being.
D. Moreover, there is more special about pandas.
E. It’s not really that strange!
F. Yet, the Chinese weren’t the first people producing paper from animal waste.
G. Farmers have been using animal and human waste for a long time.
In most languages, a greeting is usually followed by “small talk”. Small talk means the little things we talk about at the start of a conversation. In English-speaking countries people often make small talk about the weather: “Nice day isn’t it?” “Terrible weather, isn’t it?” But there is something special about small talk. It must be about something that both people have the same opinion about. The purpose of small talk is to let both people agree on something. This makes meeting people easier and more comfortable. People usually agree about the weather, so it is a safe topic for small talk. But people often disagree about religion or politics so these are not suitable topics for small talk in English. The topics for small talk also depend on where the conversation is taking place. At football matches, people make small talk about the game they are watching, “Great game, isn’t it?” At bus-stops, people may comment about the transport system, “The bus service is terrible, isn’t it?”
Greetings and small talk are an important part of conversation in any language. The way people greet each other and the things they talk about, however, may be different from one language to another. This shows that there is much more to learn when we learn a language than just the vocabulary and the grammar of the language. We also have to learn the social behavior of the people who speak it.
1.Small talk is ________.
A. a kind of conversation with short words
B. a greeting when people meet each other
C. to let people disagree about something
D. something we talk about to start with a conversation
2.The passage suggests that when we learn a language, we should ________.
A. learn about the transport system of the country
B. only master the grammar and vocabulary
C. know the culture about the country
D. grasp the importance of the language
3.When we say “Great game isn’t it?” we are actually ________.
A. asking a questionB. having a conversation
C. greeting each otherD. beginning a small talk
4.What we learn from the passage is that ________.
A. different language has different grammar
B. small talk is an important part in a language
C. small talk depends on the purpose of the conversation
D. in English speaking countries we should talk about the weather
