短文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处错误。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧),并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词的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 time travel trip was certainly an exhausting one. A company, well-known as its expertise, transported us into a future in a time capsule. It swung gentle sideways as we lay relaxing and dreaming. However, as soon as we arrived, we were shocked at the terrible surrounding and hit by a lack of fresh air. Besides, “time lag” kept me got flashbacks from my previous time period for the first few days, that made me nervous. Flying a carriage was not easy, either. Problems arose the moment when we reached a large market. With too many carriages flying by in all directions, my friend and guide, Wang Ping, swept up into the centre of it! What was I supposed to do?
1.If you don’t want to do that, r______ them completely.
2.Life c_______ of not only sunshine but also hard times.
3.An o______ person is always hopeful about the future.
4.He asked us to a______ him in moving the furniture, because it was too heavy.
5.You can’t imagine how d______ I was when I received the admission letter from Peking University!
6.Martins now faces the biggest ______(挑战) of his career.
7.It can be very hard to accept ______(失败).
8.He walked impatiently with his arms ______(折叠).
9.They would ______(告知) him of any progress they had made.
10.The experiment made a deep ______(印象) on me.
①The porter, however, could not understand me. I 1. my question several times and at last he understood. He answered me, but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly. 'I am a 2.,' I said.3. he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him.
②Many people pretend that they understand modern art. They always tell you 4. a picture is 'about'. Of course, many pictures are not 'about' anything. They are just pretty patterns. We like them in the same way that we like pretty curtain 5.. I think that young children often 6. modern pictures better than anyone else.
③Late in the afternoon, the boys put up their tent in the middle of a field. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal 7. an open fire. They were all hungry and the food smelled good. After a wonderful meal, they told stories and sang songs by the campfire. But some time later it began to rain. The boys felt tired so they put 8. the fire and crept into their tent. Their sleeping bags were warm and comfortable, so they all slept 9.. In the middle of the night, two boys woke up and began shouting. The tent was full of water! They all leapt out of their sleeping bags and 10. outside. It was raining heavily and they found that a stream had formed in the field. The stream wound its way across the field and then flowed right under their tent!
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand car for £200 so that he could travel to and from work more ________ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him________ much in repairs that he decided that he had better________ it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_______ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so ________of them had any desire to buy it.
Dave's friend Sam saw that he was ________ when they met one evening, and said, “What's ________, Dave?” Dave told him and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may________ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's ________was sensible, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read: “For sale: small car, _______very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at £50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ________. But then on Saturday evening a man rang up and said he would like to ________ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o’clock the next morning would be ________or not. “Fine,” the man said. “And I'll ________ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ________ it.”
The next morning, at ten quarter, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ______ to wait there for the person who had ______ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ______ that the car really looked like a wreck (残骸). Then soon after he had got the car as ______ as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave’s car and then said, “Have you reported this ______ to us yet, sir?”
1.A. directly B. safely C. properly D. easily
2.A. so B. such C. very D. too
3.A. keep B. repair C. sell D. throw
4.A. anxious B. lucky C. ashamed D. generous
5.A. some B. neither C. none D. most
6.A. delighted B. upset C. calm D. astonished
7.A. on B. up C. it D. that
8.A. learn B. miss C. get D. find
9.A. message B. advice C. request D. description
10.A. uses B. loses C. has D. spends
11.A. doubt B. help C. trouble D. answer
12.A. tell B. see C. agree D. call
13.A. exact B. suitable C. early D. late
14.A. follow B. meet C. bring D. introduce
15.A. recognize B. gain C. admire D. test
16.A. happening B. meaning C. turning D. failing
17.A. read B. posted C. answered D. placed
18.A. forget B. show C. disagree D. admit
19.A. clean B. admit C. fast D. light
20.A. bargain B. sale C. accident D. result
How to Do Man-on-the Street Interviews
The man-on-the-street interview is an interview in which a reporter hits the streets with a cameraman to interview people on the spot. 1. But with these tips, your first man-on-the-street interview experience can be easy.
• When your boss or professor sends you out to do man-on-the –street interviews for a story, think about the topic and develop a list of about ten general questions relating to it. For example, if your topic is about environmental problems in America, you might ask, “Why do you think environmental protection is important in America?” 2.
• Hit the streets with confidence. 3. Say, “Excuse me, I work for XYZ News, and I was wondering if you could share your opinion about this topic,” This is a quick way to get people to warm up to you.
• Move on to the next person if someone tells you she is not interested in talking on camera. Don’t get discouraged.
• 4. Each interview that you get on the street shouldn’t be longer than ten minutes. As soon as you get the answer you need, move on to the next person. Make sure that as you go from interview to interview, you are getting a variety of answers. If everyone is giving you the same answer, you won’t be able to use it. A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten. 5.
• If your news station or school requires interviewees to sign release forms to appear on the air, don’t leave work without them.
A. Limit your time.
B. As you approach people, be polite.
C. If you don’t own a camera, you can buy one.
D. For new reporters, this can seem like a challenging task.
E. To get good and useful results, ask them the same question.
F. That number of interviews should give you all the answers you need.
G. With a question like this, you will get more than a ‘Yes” or “No” reply.
Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality (永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate (保守的估计).”
At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology (纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
1.By saying “we are knocking at the door of immortality”, Michael Zey means .
A. they believe that there is no limit of living
B. they are sure to find the truth about long living
C. they have got some ideas about living forever
D. they are able to make people live past the present life span
2.Donald Louria’s attitude towards long living is that .
A. people can live from 120 to 180
B. it is still doubtful how long humans can live
C. the human body is designed to last past about 120 years
D. it is possible for humans to live longer in the future
3.The underlined “it” (in paragraph 4) refers to .
A. a great effort
B. the idea of living beyond the present life span
C. the idea of living from 200 to 300 years
D. the conservative estimate
4.What would be the best title for this text?
A. Living Longer or Not
B. Science, Technology and Long Living
C. No Limit for Human Life
D. Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living