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。
It was The Dragon Boat Festival on last Thursday. My parents and me visited my grandparents and spend the day with them. When we arrived, they were making Zongzi, what is kind of traditional food for the festival. I was such curious about it that wanted to have a try. So my grandma taught me how to wrap glutinous rices in bamboo leaves as well as tell the story of Qu Yuan to me. I was moved because Qu Yuan was true loyal to his state. The wrapping job was difficult, and I managed to make some.
Not only did I enjoy a great time with my family but also I learned a new skill. How exciting experience it was!
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Czech people are really good at celebrating and holding 1.(party）. As I graduated this year, I experienced a lot of this firsthand. The greatest event for us was the prom(毕业舞会)2.(intend)for graduating students. Many girls started to get their gowns(礼服)ready a month 3. advance. Graduating students also needed to give their ''Midnight Surprise'', a group 4.(perform).
At the end of April, we held the traditional activity called ''The Last Ringing'', which lasted for two days.5. impressed us most was that some graduates prepared 6.(taste)desserts and food to sell, wearing different costumes.
By the end of May, we had finished all of the final exams and we started preparing for the graduation ceremony. It 7.(hold)successfully in the conference hall in our school. Many parents came, too. At 8. ceremony, we got our graduation certificate from our class teacher. When 9.(receive)my certificate, I tried 10.(fight)back my tears-I didn't want to say goodbye to my teachers and classmates.
It's graduation season, and I think of Fran, a student years ago. She worked hard, but she _______. So I tutored Fran during lunches, but then, she stopped _______. I asked why she no longer came. She said, "It's no use. I'm not going to college _______ Mum says I'd go to trade school and work."
"Is that what you want?" I asked. She looked up and the _______ in her eyes shook me.
_______, I didn't know what to say. Platitudes（陈词滥调）about the value of college seemed _______ at the moment. So I turned to _______. "Fran, you must pass my class. So, I am _______ you at lunch time tomorrow. No _______.”
She nodded and walked away.
When Fran ________ turned up, I said, "You can go to ________ if you want to. You're getting much better at writing." But she kept ________. I wasn't getting through to her. After reflection, I changed my ________. Instead of insisting she consider college, I helped her ________ what college would be like.
At graduation, I watched proudly as she marched ________ the stage. After the ceremony, I ________ to congratulate several students. Fran rushed to me “Mr Jackson, I thank you for ________ me. I wanted badly to go to college, but no one told me I could except you. Now I made it."
I was so ________ of Fran at that moment and it often ________ me of why we do what we do. Schools should be places where students discover they have options and ________ their options. That is why we're here.
1.A.improved B.struggled C.withdrew D.conflicted
2.A.showing up B.moving off C.coming up D.dropping by
3.A.anyway B.otherwise C.instead D.yet
4.A.enthusiasm B.pity C.pain D.flames
5.A.Surprisingly B.Generally C.Honestly D.Strangely
6.A.vague B.practical C.natural D.empty
7.A.authority B.argument C.standard D.consensus
8.A.requiring B.instructing C.expecting D.checking
9.A.explanation B.excuse C.escape D.way
10.A.dutifully B.consistently C.cheerfully D.accidentally
11.A.work B.class C.school D.college
12.A.calm B.silent C.clumsy D.still
13.A.approach B.attitude C.decision D.principle
14.A.relate B.experience C.picture D.reflect
15.A.through B.across C.over D.beyond
16.A.turned around B.looked on C.held back D.stuck around
17.A.choosing B.trusting C.comforting D.persuading
18.A.confident B.certain C.thoughtful D.proud
19.A.informs B.warns C.reminds D.convinces
20.A.transform B.simplify C.share D.expand
Set your clocks for 4:32 pm(eastern time)on May 27th, 2020. If everything goes as planned, a rocket will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1. So what’s the big deal? The big deal is collection of firsts set to blast off on the 27th of May. The first humans carried aboard a rocket developed by a private company. The first humans aboard a reusable rocket.
Ever since the opening days of the space age, NASA has designed, built, and flown its very own rockets, and capsules. 2. The privately-held company Space X will be providing the big rocket boost(加湿器)needed to get NASA’s astronauts to the space, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Dragon crew capsule.
3. It is trying to make access to space cheaper, chiefly through the use of reusable rockets- once the payload is delivered into orbit, bring the rocket back down the Earth and polish it up for another ride.
In the meantime, NASA has spent the past decade in a highly bureaucratic version of hell. After the sad end of the space shuttle program in 2011, the American space agency was forced to rent seats on Russian made and Russian launched Soyuz rockets to get astronauts up to the International Space Station.
4. And now, if everything goes as planned on May 27th, we will make human access to space cheaper, more reliable, and absolutely easier. 5. Space tourism? Moon bases? I would say that the sky is limit, but the sky is just the start.
A.But this time, it’s different.
B.Rockets go off all the time from the Earth.
C.This made for great wounded national pride.
D.Most of the astronauts haven’t made it up into space.
E.Space X has spent the past decades working tirelessly.
F.NASA has been developing a new space launch system.
G.It’s impossible to say what kind of revolutions that might lead to.
Although you can possibly get by as a tourist in weeks, mastering a language is a long-term commitment taking years, not months. The FSI has classified languages in degrees of difficulty for English speakers. Chinese takes approximately 88 weeks or 2,200 hours ranking top 5 along with Arabic, Korean and Japanese.
Each Chinese dialect is effectively another language but Mandarin(Putonghua in Chinese, which means the common language)is considered the official tongue in modern China. They all share roughly one evolving writing system, referred to as written language invented for administering a large, diverse empire.
To complicate(使复杂)the matter further, there are two main types of written Chinese characters under the same writing system: the traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan and the simplified Chinese in mainland China. For example, fly is written as 飛 in traditional Chinese and 飞 in simplified Chinese. They’re basically the same character written in two different ways but pronounced differently when spoken in different dialects.
Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.
Every word must be memorized separately as you can’t guess its pronunciation from the script-but one could say the same of English if you consider plough, dough and tough.
Meanwhile, dictionaries list words according to stroke(笔画)count. These go from one to over 60 strokes. The archaic character zhé- which appropriately, means “verbose” - has 64 strokes.
And then there are the pronunciation challenges. There are four tones in Mandarin: high pitch (say G in a musical scale), rising pitch(like from C to G), falling(from G to C)and falling low then rising(C to B to G)- and if you think that’s difficult, there are nine tones in Cantonese. In Mandarin, there is a whole poem, “The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den” with just the syllable “shi” repeated 107 times in various tones. In other words, if you are tone-deaf you might as well give up now.
1.What do all Chinese dialects have in common?
A.They were invented by the emperor.
B.They have the same writing system.
C.They evolve in the same way.
D.They serve the same purpose.
2.Why does the author mention the symbol “9” in Paragraph 4?
A.To prove different pronunciations of Chinese dialects
B.To indicate the similarities in all languages.
C.To show that Chinese is an odd language.
D.To compare English with Slovenian.
3.What challenge does the author think is difficult to overcome?
A.Complicated scripts and strokes.
B.Different types of characters.
C.Various tones.
D.Too many dialects.
4.What is the main idea of this passage?
A.Chinese has different dialects.
B.Chinese is very difficult to learn.
C.Chinese is an ever-developing language.
D.Chinese sounds like music and poems.
Ever since the beginning of human civilization, we are trying to reduce manual efforts by making simple to extremely complex machines. The next step in the same process is robotics and automation. Robotics and automation is a field with abundant potential. It expands its scope from household applications to solving mysteries of the Universe to curing untreatable medical conditions.
Up until the beginning of 2020, robots of any kind are made up of nor-living materials. Recently scientists from the University of Vermont & Tufts University introduced Xenobots, which have opened a whole new Universe for this field. Xenobots are the world’s first living and self-healing microbots. These robots are designed with the help of computer-generated- evolutionary algorithm(算法). The living cells used for its creation are skin, heart and stem cell from the African frog embryos(胚胎).
These microbots are very basic in nature, made up entirely from the organic substance. They can move forward, turn around, spin in circles and flip over. They are smaller than a millimetre and can travel inside the human body. Just imagine the possibilities we will have, once scientist is able to teach Xenobots to do the desired task. One day they even might be able to fight cancer cells. They will be able to clear microplastics in the oceans and lots more.
But if these bots are a life form, why are we calling them robots? This is because scientists are designing them to move or work according to their wills. A certain arrangement for skin and heart cells in an Xenobot will make it move in a straight line, while a different arrangement of the same cells will be required to move them in circular motions.
Xenobots are positively a great step. Scientists are also calling them a brand new life form on the planet. The future is unseen but is undoubtedly full of countless possibilities.
1.Which of the following is the potential of the robotics?
A.Making complex machines. B.Reducing manual efforts.
C.Expanding our scopes. D.Clearing space mysteries.
2.Where do Xenobots differ from the other previous robots?
A.In nature. B.In size. C.In movement. D.In materials.
3.What are Xenobots able to do already now?
A.Travel inside the human body. B.Create new life.
C.Fight cancer cells. D.Clear microplastics in the oceans.
4.What is the author’s attitude towards the future of Xenobots?
A.Doubtful. B.Positive. C.Ambiguous. D.Disapproving.
