假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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。
Hi, Mike. How are you going to celebrate your birthday the next month? If you hadn’t arranged anything , come to the concert to be holding by my favorite band in the city stadium. I’m sure you will not regret it. The concert will be held a Sunday evening. Clearly it will be popular, because the ticket are selling very well. The only problem is when the performance starts quite lately---at nine pm. We can take a bus there, so there will be no bus when the concert is over. I will ask your dad to pick us up and you could stay in my home for the night.
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Last weekend our school held a sports meeting. 1.(realize) it was our last high school sports meeting, we decided to make 2. an unforgettable experience for all of us.
We first attended the opening parade, for 3.our class had made a lot of 4.(prepare). 5. our excitement, our parade performance was a great success. After the parade, the games started. My classmates attended various events such as running, high jump and long jump. Due to the hard training they 6.(do) before, their performances were very 7.(impress). On the stand, my classmates applauded and cheered for the athletes, some raising their cameras to capture the exciting moments. Finally, the result 8.( announce). It was amazing that our class won the second place. Our efforts paid off! Cup in hand, we took 9. picture together.
I believe this sports meeting will remain a precious memory for all of us10.time goes by.
Whenever I felt disappointed I often thought of what my mother had said to me, "Everything happens for the best. If you______, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened but for that previous______. "
As it______, mother was right. In 1932, I ended my college life. ______ that, I had decided to try for a job in radio, and then could work my way up to a sports ______. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every______－but got turned down every time. In one studio, a ______ lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring a person who lacked ______. "Go to ______ town and find a little station that will give you a chance," she said. I then ______ to Dixon. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted an athlete to ______ its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I ______. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't ______.
My disappointment must have ______. "Everything happens for the best, " Mom ______ me. Then I ______ WOC Radio in Davenport. The program director named Peter MacArthur told me they had already ______ a contract with another announcer.
As I left his office, my disappointment ______ over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow become a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the lift when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? You know something about football?” Then he stood me before a ______and asked me to broadcast a live game.
I often ______ what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward and if I didn't persist.
1.A. look on B. get on C. carry on D. stay on
2.A. successes B. results C. lives D. disappointments
3.A. carried out B. turned out C. figured out D. looked out
4.A. Before B. After C. Since D. Although
5.A. hostess B. athlete C. announcer D. performer
6.A. firm B. school C. store D. station
7.A. beautiful B. strict C. kind D. cruel
8.A. money B. experience C. appearance D. knowledge
9.A. busy B. distant C. big D. small
10.A. turned B. saw C. walked D. added
11.A. buy B. manage C. sell D. show
12.A. applied B. refused C. agreed D. appealed
13.A. employed B. fired C. fitted D. satisfied
14.A. disappeared B. shown C. fallen D. responded
15.A. recited B. persuaded C. advised D. reminded
16.A. tried B. visited C. passed D. poured
17.A. assigned B. signed C. designed D. resigned
18.A. appeared B. disappeared C. boiled D. removed
19.A. radio B. station C. studio D. microphone
20.A. doubted B. intended C. wondered D. expected
The Seven Cs of a Good Letter
What is the secret of writing a good letter? Here are two main ones. Don't try to be fancy. Don't try to impress your reader. You will be successful if you follow these seven Cs.
Clear. Use short, direct sentences.1.Try your tone as if the reader were right there with you. Above all, don't use an introduction.
Correct.2.Don't guess, even for spelling. Refer to your dictionary. If you need to, check a reference book too. Use them as much as you need to.
Complete. Don't scatter(分散) your points.3.This is good organization too.
Courteous. Be friendly rather than overly casual. Present your information nicely even if you are complaining about something. In all letters, treat others as you want them to treat you.
Concise. Make each point as clearly and briefly as you can.
Conversational. This is really the secret of good writing.4.Such a letter has a natural, friendly tone. Let your personality come through naturally.
Considerate.5.Write about what you believe the reader needs or wants to know. Try to be helpful. This will build good feeling toward you.
The seven Cs are about writing letters. But how about school papers? Use the seven Cs. Write as if you are talking to your teacher or professor. You'll be surprised. You'll almost instantly become a good writer. And you might even enjoy writing from now on.
A. Just "talk" to the person.
B. Make them easy to understand.
C. Make sure what you say is correct.
D. Include long sentences in your letter.
E. Writing should not be taken too seriously.
F. Think of the readers' point of view as you write.
G. Finish one point completely before going on to the next.
To be sure, only children experienced some things differently from those with sisters and brothers. Many feel more pressure to succeed. They also tend to look only to their parents as role models in the absence of brothers and sisters.
In India, 10-year-old Saviraj Sankpal founded a support group for the tiny minority(少数) of only children. Among other things, the group does volunteer work to fight against the false idea that they are not responsible. "People think we’re treated too kindly and ruined," says Sankpal, a computer engineering student. "But I'd like to remind them how lonely it can get."
Most only children, however, say they wish for sisters or brothers only when it comes to caring for aging, unhealthy parents. Britain's David Emerson, co-author of the book The Only Child, says that such a person has to make all the decisions alone. Emerson knows from experience. After his father died, he chose to move his elderly mother from their family home, where she was vulnerable (易受攻击的) to house breakers, to a new one with more safety. "The move was quite hard on her, and she might feel that I pushed her into it, "he says, "After all, I am left with that responsibility."
In the future, more and more only children will probably face similar choices. With working mothers increasing, many families are finding they simply don't have the time, money or energy to have more than one child. As only children become common, perhaps the world will realize that the charge made against them is unfair.
1.The author’s attitude towards only children is .
A. Critical B. Objective
C. Hostile D. Unjust
2.It can be inferred from the passage that only children's parents should ___________.
A. found a support group for their only children
B. do volunteer work to help their only children
C. let their only children make all the decisions alone
D. set good examples for their only children
3.Emerson decided to move his elderly mother to a new house because he ___________.
A. is the only one who cares about her
B. doesn't want to leave her alone
C. wants to share the responsibility with her
D. is worried about her safety
4.The main idea of the passage is that ________.
A. only children are ruined and irresponsible
B. only children have to face many challenges
C. most only children want to have brothers and sisters
D. most only children share their responsibility with their parents
Dogs are our best friends. That’s especially true after a disaster, such as an earthquake. When buildings fall down, search and rescue dogs help find trapped people. Dogs’ amazing noses can pick up the smell of survivors. Now scientists have developed an electronic tool that does the same thing. It’s taking smell detection(探测) to a whole new level.
The new invention is a sort of electronic nose, which can detect extremely low levels of many compounds(化合物) from people’s skin. This isn’t the first time engineers have developed such an object. Earlier models, however, have been bulky and expensive. They could not detect low levels of target compounds either. The new one is inexpensive and small enough to fit inside hand-held equipment.
The electronic nose can detect extremely slight smell of more than one compound at the same time. "Being able to do this, in such a small object, is the significant discovery," says Sotiris E. Pratsinis, Professor of Process Engineering&Materials Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. His team tested it in special spaces. They were like the small spaces where people might be trapped. Chemicals given off by the volunteers built up inside. The electronic equipment detected those compounds at unbelievably low levels.
The results were good news for the research team. But they may be not for our four-legged friends, who could soon be out of a job. "Ideally, this technology could replace search and rescue dogs," Pratsinis says.
Stephen Taylor, an electrical engineer, agrees that the new technology has some benefits over dogs. Still, he thinks it may be too soon to have our trusty friends retire. He suspects, "I foresee that such an object could add to the fine work done by the dogs." Taylor also pointed out some potential limitations of the new invention. "E-noses are useful, but can be very likely to be affected by unstable readings and interruption," he says.
1.Why does the author talk about dogs at the beginning?
A. To catch the readers’ attention.
B. To introduce the topic about e-noses.
C. To show what search and rescue dogs do.
D. To add background information for discussion.
2.Which of the following best explains "bulky" underlined in paragraph 2?
A. Complex B. Fragile
C. Handy D. Large
3.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. What e-noses’ working principle is.
B. How e-noses are made.
C. What differences between dogs and e-noses are.
D. How powerful e-noses are.
4.What does Stephen Taylor mean?
A. Dogs and e-noses could work together.
B. Search and rescue dogs will retire soon.
C. E-noses are more reliable than noses of dogs.
D. Dogs are better at finding out trapped people.
