Your class starts in 10 minutes, but you find yourself 1. (stick) in traffic. Don’t panic. With just a press of a button, your car will lift off the ground and fly to school. What’s your 2.(impress)? It seems like science fiction, but it isn’t. Engineers have taken 3. the research of flying cars, and they have already found 4. (solve) to many of the big challenges. They predict that we’ll all be using these amazing vehicles one day. According to Car Trends Magazine, one model, 5. is part car and part plane, is going to be on the market in 6. not-so-distant future. It will look like a regular car when it’s on the road, but its wings will unfold when the driver 7. (decide) to take to the sky. And 8. (operate) by a computer, all controls will be automatic. Imagine this: You’ll be doing your homework while your car is getting you to school 9. (safe). And what does this future dream car cost? Well, at first it will be about a million dollars, but after a few years, you’ll be able to buy 10. for “only” $60,000. Don’t throw away your old driver’s license just yet!
每句话中的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:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
1.Her health broke up under the pressure of work.
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2.They lacked of money to send him to university, so he found a part-time job to support himself.
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3.The drug is suspected causing over 200 deaths.
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4.This book contributes little for our understanding of the subject.
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5.Which driver was to be blame for the accident?
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6.He received a set of china consisted of sixty pieces.
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7.I recognized her at the instant I saw her.
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8.However, I lost sight of Wang Ping when we reached that looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying by in all directions.
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9.These units leaves children expose to many viewpoints of a given issue.
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10.Only if a teacher has given permission a student allowed to leave the room.
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1.“Scared stiff” is an appropriate __________ (描述) of how I felt at that moment.
2.She has a teenage daughter from a __________ (以前的) marriage.
3.What are they __________ (争吵) about?
4.The government __________ (宣布) to the media plans to create a million new jobs.
5.He __________ (不断地) writes articles for the local paper.
6.Personal __________ (特征), such as age and sex are taken into account.
7.It seems certain there will be new restrictions placed on the use of animals in __________ (科学的) experiments.
8.He left a note at the scene of the crime, __________ (挑战) detectives to catch him.
9.They were busy, so they had their wedding __________ (安排) by a company.
10.The family thought it was more __________ (方便的) to eat in the kitchen.
My 9-year-old daughter and I were flying from our home in Carolina to spend a week with my husband in Florida. We were ________ about the trip because we hadn’t seen him for five months, and my daughter ___________ her Dad terribly.
As usual on the Charlotte-to-Miami flight，the plane was totally ________. Because we did not get our boarding passes until we ________ at the gate, Kallie and I could not get seats together and were __________ by the aisle (过道). I asked two passengers in my row if they would switch places with Kallie and me, _________ we could be together. They ________, saying they thought they should stay in their assigned seats. Meanwhile, a mother and her three children were in a ________ several rows ahead of us. There had been a mistake in their boarding passes, and ________ the whole family had been split up. The passengers in her row________ refused to move elsewhere. She was very ________ about the younger boy sitting with strangers. She was in tears, yet nobody _______ to help her. There were a troop of Boy Scouts(童子军) on ___________. Suddenly the Scout leader stood up and said, “Ma’am, I think we can help you.” He then_________ five minutes rearranging his group so that enough space was ______ for the family. The boys followed his directions cheerfully and without _______, and the mother’s relief was obvious.
Kallie, however, was beginning to panic at the ______of not being next to me. I told her that there wasn’t anything I could do. ______, the man sitting next to the Scoutmaster, ______to me and asked, “Would you and your daughter like our seats?” ______ to himself and the Scoutmaster. We traded seats and continued our trip, very much relieved to be together and watch the scenery from Kallie’s window sea.
1.A. eager B. anxious C. excited D. worried
2.A. loved B. considered C. imagined D. missed
3.A. full B. crowded C. empty D. overweight
4.A. reached B. arrived C. landed D. knocked
5.A. divided B. blocked C. separated D. connected
6.A. in case B. even if C. as if D. so that
7.A. prevented B. refused C. agreed D. promised
8.A. panic B. hurry C. rush D. seat
9.A. however B. otherwise C. therefore D. instead
10.A. too B. also C. ever D. even
11.A. concerned B. curious C. particular D. content
12.A. suggested B. offered C. provided D. supplied
13.A. duty B. watch C. board D. spot
14.A. took B. cost C. paid D. spent
15.A. suitable B. available C. probable D. comfortable
16.A. permission B. excuse C. apology D. complaint
17.A. thought B. end C. feeling D. sense
18.A. Immediately B. Puzzlingly C. Clearly D. Amazingly
19.A. turned up B. turned around C. turned out D. turned away
20.A. sticking B. keeping C. waving D. referring
I live in Japan, where electronic items are a way of life, so it is no surprise that many students carry these little electronic dictionaries. E-dictionaries may be lighter and compacter (简洁的) than any paper dictionary. 1. However, to me, these are pretty much the limits to their advantages. I think e-dictionaries should be limited in their use in classrooms.2.
E-dictionaries are much more expensive. In Japan, they cost as little as 10,000 yen (US$100) much as 40,000 yen, depending on how many functions you want and depending on how fashionable you are. My trusty Random House paper dictionary is copyrighted at 1995, cost me a mere US$12.95 plus tax.
E-dictionaries are more easily broken or damaged. Drop your paper dictionary. Go ahead. Hold it above your head and drop it.3.
E-dictionaries need batteries. Batteries are temperature sensitive. Batteries cost money, too.
E-dictionaries have keypads. Typing in the spelling of a word is harder and more time consuming than looking through pages and using the index at the top of each page.
4.Sound. Little devices beep (嘟嘟声) when you press the buttons, but it is very disturbing to some people in a classroom situation or library.
Finally, let’s consider making corrections or additions. No dictionary is perfect, paper version or electronic. However, when you find something you’d like to change in the e-dictionary, you can’t do anything about it. You can pencil in some notes with the paper type. Similarly, if you learn a word that isn’t in the dictionary, a few notes of a pencil make it easy to increase its memory capacity.5.And, for those students whose habit is to mark certain words with a highlight pen for ease of future reference, again, the paper dictionary wins out.
A.Now, try this with any lightweight plastic e-dictionary, and you’ll be picking up the pieces.
B.Let me add a statement about one that really troubles me.
C.They may even contain more words and expressions.
D.But it is impossible to do so with a keypad model.
E.That huge, heavy paper dictionary that you see in your library looks like a building block in size and weight.
F.E-dictionaries have advantages as well as disadvantages.
G.Let’s take a look at the following reasons.
Tiredness, coughing, a runny nose and a sore throat—among all sicknesses there is probably none more common than the flu (流感), which we all get now and then. However, bird flu is a completely different story.
In 2003, the H5N1 bird flu swept across 15 countries, including China, with sufferers reporting chest pain, difficulty breathing, fever and severe coughing. More than 600 people were infected, and about 60 percent died. Now, another type of bird flu hit Shanghai and three neighboring provinces, and this time the virus is called H7N9. By the afternoon of April 11, the new virus had taken nine lives out of 35 infected, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The “H” and “N” in the virus’ name refer to two kinds of proteins (蛋白质) on the surface of the virus. Any change of the numbers of the two proteins indicates a new mutation(变异). Most of the mutations only affect birds, such as chickens and pigeons, and don’t normally spread to humans. But once they do, the results can be disastrous.
“Any time an animal influenza virus crosses to humans, it is a cause for concern, ” Malik Peiris, virologist (病毒学家) at the University of Hong Kong, told Nature magazine. Take the SARS epidemic (传染病) in 2003 as an example. The virus behind the disease is thought to have jumped to humans from animals. The virus was a complete “stranger” to human bodies, which hadn’t developed an immunity (免疫力) against it.
But there is something more about the new H7N9 bird flu. Unlike the H5N1 bird flu, which causes severe sickness in birds, the H7N9 has been evolving under the radar(悄悄地) since it travels between birds without causing noticeable illness. That makes it difficult to keep track of the disease.
The good news is that there’s so far no sign that the virus is spreading from person to person. But since there is no vaccine (疫苗) for the disease yet, the World Health Organization recommends that you wash your hands after meeting with sick people and before and after you eat or prepare food, and they also suggest avoiding contact with birds or their eggs.
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
A. The H5N1 bird flu turned out to have something to do with the SARS epidemic.
B. More than 600 people across the world died from the H5N1 bird flu in 2003.
C. Most of the mutations of the proteins in the bird flu virus are harmful to both birds and humans.
D. The name, H7N9 bird flu, shows that there have been new mutations of the proteins in the virus.
2.With the example of the SARS epidemic in Paragraph 5, the author intends to .
A. introduce where the SARS virus came from
B. inform us of the harmful effects of the SARS epidemic ten years ago
C. show the horrible effects an animal influenza virus can have once it spreads to humans
D. compare the differences between the SARS epidemic and the H7N9 bird flu
3.What makes the H7N9 bird flu more frightening than the H5N1 bird flu according to the text?
A. It can cause severe sickness in birds.
B. It can spread from person to person.
C. It affects a greater number of birds.
D. It doesn’t sicken birds and thus can spread unnoticed.
4.What are people advised to do to protect themselves against the H7N9 bird flu?
a. To get vaccinated for the disease. b. To keep away from birds and their eggs.
c. To stop eating chickens and ducks. d. To avoid meeting with sick people.
e. To wash hands thoroughly and regularly.
A. a, b B. c, d C. b, e D. a, e
