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---- Have you heard of the North Korea’s nuclear test ? ---- Yes, _____ news came as _____ shock to me.
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When you rewrite the paragraph, I advise you to _____ the last sentence as it is rather boring.
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_____ in 1936, Harvard is one of the most famous universities in the United States.
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It’s in the village ________ he was born.
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The suggestion that the president _____ the meeting was accepted.
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Look! __________.
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Only after you have reached eighteen _______the army.
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---- Could you turn the TV down a little bit? ---- _____. It is disturbing you.
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Harry was so outgoing that he ___ the other children very well in kindergarten.
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He focused his effort ____the house ___sale for fear that the prices of them would go up suddenly.
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I ____to her for stepping on her foot.
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The long speech given by that old professor seemed _____ and endless. He felt so _____ that he nearly fell asleep.
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To keep the air clean, this hospital _____ all the patients ____ in and around it.
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The hotel has been enlarged; ____, it’s service is improving.
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--- Have we ______ water? --- Yes, _____. We’d better get some.
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James sat outside the office waiting for the interview（面试）. He felt so 36 that he didn’t know what to do with37 .The person who had gone in 38 him had been there for nearly an hour. And she looked so confident when she went in. 39 James. He felt 40 that she had already got the 41 . The problem was that he wanted this job 42 .It meant 43 to him. He had 44 it such a lot before the day of the interview. He had imagined himself 45 brilliantly at the interview and 46 the job immediately. But now here he was feeling 47 .He couldn’t48 all those things he had 49 to say. At that moment, he almost decided to get up and 50 .But no—he had to do this. He had spent so much time considering it that he couldn’t 51 like that. His hands were hot and sticky and his mouth felt dry. At last the door of the office opened . The woman who had gone in an hour earlier came out looking very 52 with herself. She smiled sympathetically at James. At that moment James 53 her. The managing director then appeared at the office door. “Would you like to come in now, Mr Davis? I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.” James suddenly 54 that he had gone home after all. He got up, legs 55 and forehead sweating and wondered whether he looked as terrified as he felt.
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Bolivia has a population three and a half million . About one tenth of the total population are white ; one-fourth are mixed Indians and white ; and more than half are full-blooded Indians . The government and the industries are under the control of the white people . The Indians today live in much the same way as their ancestors . Most of them are farmers . Many work in the mines , for mining is the most important industry on Bolivia’s . Of all the mining products , tin is the most important , which makes up three-fourths of all Bolivia’s exports . The eastern slopes of the Andes , since there are very few roads there , are fertile but not highly developed . The two primary means of transportation are river boats and porters . East of the hill region are the great plains where tropical plants are grown . A serious problem for Bolivia is the transport of food from the warm regions , where it is grown to the mountainous regions , where most of the people live . Bolivia gained its independence from Spain about a hundred years ago . It has been slow in developing , but its rich resources promise a better future in it . 1.The majority of the Bolivian population are .
2.The Indian’s way of life today is
3.The main product Bolivia exports is
4.Bolivia has been slow in developing , but it has hope for a better future because of its .
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John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks. Fortunately he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.” These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago. Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words---as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks. While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try. ” She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine for blacks. It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind.: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!” Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America---worth $150 million. 1.John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because_______.
2.John’s mother________.
3.The sentence “Nothing beats a failure but a try” means _______.
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When Albert Einstein was young, he was a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to talk and had difficulty in learning to read. When Albert was five years old, his father gave him a compass. Albert was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same direction ---- the north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused the needle to move. Their answers were difficult for Albert to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time thinking about them. He said later that he felt something must be hidden behind things. Albert didn’t like school. The German schools of that time were not pleasant. Students couldn’t ask questions. Albert said he felt as if he were in prison.. One day Albert told his uncle Jacob how much he hated school, especially mathematics. His uncle told him to solve mathematical problems by pretending to be a policeman. “You are looking for someone,” he said, “but you don’t know who he is. Call him X. Find him by using your mathematical tools.” Albert learned to love mathematics. He was studying the complex mathematics of calculus while all his friends were still studying simple mathematics. Instead of playing with his friends he thought about things such as “What would happen if people could travel at the speed of his light?” Albert wanted to teach mathematics and physics. He graduated with honors, but it was a pity that he could not get a teaching job. 1.According to Paragraph 2, we can learn that Albert Einstein ________.
2.Why did Albert Einstein hate school?
3.What does the underlined word ‘complex’ probably mean?
4.We can learn from the passage that ________.
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Thanksgiving is an important festival in North America. We interviewed several students from the US and Canada. Here is what they have told us about their Thanksgiving experiences. Josie from New York, USA “In America, Thanksgiving is celebrated every year at the end of November. It is to remember the first group of people from Europe to live in America. When they first arrived, they found the environment strange. But they learned to survive after some native American friends showed them how to grow and find food. Thanksgiving is meant to be a traditional celebration.” Todd from California, USA “Thanksgiving is the first day of Christmas shopping. That means we have four weeks to buy Christmas presents for our families and friends. For me and my friends, the most important part of the festival is the big football game on TV. The match is watched by millions of people all over America. Thanksgiving is seen as an exciting day for football!” Ian from Saskatoon, Canada In Canada, Thanksgiving is held on the 2nd Monday in October. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day, many people go to church. Thanks is given for all the good things that happened to them during the year. I always give thanks for the nice big turkey I’m going to have at the family dinner! Like all festivals, Thanksgiving is about food! Katie from Maritimes, Canada On Thanksgiving Day, we have dinner with all our cousins, aunts and uncles. It is always very busy. Sometimes we have two Thanksgiving dinners because we go to both our grandparents’ houses. The dinner is usually attended by more than twenty people at each house! My mother and my aunts do all the cooking but the washing-up is done by me and my cousins. And that’s not an easy job! But I don’t mind because Thanksgiving is meant to be a time to give thanks. 1.People in the USA and Canada ____________.
2.Which of the people interviewed feels that Thanksgiving is all about football?
3.Where does the person who thinks that Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration come from?
4.For what reasons do people give thanks at Thanksgiving?
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Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 and was a son of a musical director. __ 51 He is remembered as a master of opera. 52 Many early forerunners of Impressionistic Music including Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss, Schoenberg and Stravinsky, inspired him greatly. Turandot, an opera based on an Italian drama by the same name, is by far considered to be one of Puccini’s most popular and most performed works. It’s a pity that Puccini had no chance to watch his own great opera himself. 53 In this opera you can hear a traditional Chinese folk song, which is titled Molihua（茉莉花）or Jasmine Flower. _____54____ Among them the version sung in Jiangsu, a province in south China, is the most popular one. By admiring the jasmine flower, the song celebrates the sweetness and beauty of romantic love. 55 In 1804 the song was published in a book by a British diplomat(外交官), making it the first Chinese folk song that gained popularity outside China.
E. Turandot is performed regularly all over the world. F. The opera was first performed in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death. G. There are many different versions of Molihua or Jasmine Flower in different parts of China.
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文中共有l0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(入)，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限一词。 ’ 2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。 John is studying in his room when he heard screaming. He or his father rushed to see how had happed. They discovered a woman was lying in her front garden bleeding very heavy. Her hands had almost cut off. It was John’s quick action and knowledges of fist aid that saved the woman’s life. He asked the number of nearby people for bandages and his father got some tea towels and tape from their house. John used these to treat the much severe injuries. He slowed the bleeding by apply pressure to the wounds until the police arrived. “ I am proud in what I did,” John said.
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以“Smoking”为题目写一篇短文，词数100左右，内容要求包括： 1、现状：中国吸烟者约占总人口的一半，吸烟者越来越年轻，甚至有少数中学生也在抽烟。 2、原因：有的人认为是时髦（a kind of fashion），有的人认为是乐趣，有的人认为可以提神（refresh oneself）。 3、害处：吸烟有害健康，可导致多种疾病，是一种金钱的浪费。 4、劝告大家不要吸烟。
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