在短文的空格中填入恰当的词 (每个空格只能填一个单词)，使全文意义完整、通顺。
Last summer my family moved to a new neighborhood. Ramon, a boy living right across the street from our new house, came by to ___1.___ hello. When school started, I was happy that Ramon was in my class. One day Mr. Rosen, our teacher, told us about the big Art and Music Festival coming up at school. He said, “Who wants to be in the show? Raise your hands.” The class became restless. About a dozen hands went up. I started to raise my hand, ___2.___ I stopped and put it down. I couldn’t say a word. I just sat there while the others volunteered. “There is a piano in the hall. We could use a piano player,” said Mr. Rosen. Still I said nothing. And ___3.___ asked me to perform at the festival, for I had never even told anyone that I could play the piano. Every day when I went home to learn the sonata in C Major(C 大调奏鸣曲) by Mozart , I told Ramon I had to do my homework. Every day it ___4.___ better and better and I grew more and more disappointed that I had not ___5.___ to play at the festival. One afternoon I was practicing as usual. Suddenly there was a ___6.___ at the door. I was in the middle of Mozart’s Sonata, so I kept on playing. My mom opened the door and told me it was Ramon. “What nice ___7.__! ” I heard him say. Then he walked into the living room and saw me ___8.___ the piano. When I finished, Ramon jumped up and clapped. He ran over to me and gave me a pat on the back. “Matthew,” he said, “that was great! I never even knew you could play the piano! ___9.___ were you keeping this a secret?” I kept quiet for a minute. I felt foolish. Ramon had stopped by to borrow my math book because he had left his at school ___10.__ mistake. Now he knew I played the piano. The next day in school, Ramon told Mr. Rosen that I was a great pianist. The rest is history.
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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11处起）不计分。
When I walked into the classroom, the teacher is handing out the papers. I was feeling very nervously. I had not studied at all at the weekend as I had thought it would be easy test. I went through the papers many times but I could only answer three out of the twenty questions. I did not want to fail the exam. Then I put my book under my desk, opening it and started looking for the answer. The teacher wasn't looking at me, but I copied something. Suddenly, I felt a hand on his shoulder! The teacher caught me cheat. I didn’t know how to say. Luckily, the teacher did not punish me for cheating but gave me a second chance instead of.
句子翻译 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
1.汉语和西方语言不同，区别在于它不使用字母，而是用汉字表示思想、物体和行为。
The Chinese language is different from Western languages ______ ______, instead of an alphabet, it uses characters which ______ ______ ideas, objects or deeds.
2.与我们的预计恰恰相反，这个系统太过复杂，并不实用。
______ ______ what we expected, the system was too difficult to ______ ______ ______ ______.
3.在日本对珍珠港进行突袭后，美国总统对日宣战。
After the Japanese ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ on Pearl Harbor, US President Franklin Roosevelt ______ ______ ______ Japan.
4.毫无疑问，这个地区要置于政府保护之下。
______ ______ ______ ______ that this area should be put ______ ______ ______.
5.他们没能逃出这个城市, 这使得情况变得更糟了。
They ______ ______ ______ the city, which ______ ______ ______ ______ ______.
单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1.Xiaoshi High School, f______ in 1912, is home to a number of great figures.
2.Helen Keller lost her sense of sight and h______ before she could learn how to speak.
3.It isn’t c______ to talk with you at the moment; I’m in the middle of a meeting.
4.Luckily two passers-by came to her a______ when they saw her trapped in the car.
5.Mary felt in her bag for the key, but it was n______ to be found.
6.All her spare time is fully o______ with her three children.
7.In the past, wood was one of the most important building m______ for houses.
8.Many people became homeless after the big fire d______ their houses.
9.By asking questions, Socrates made his students a______ of their own errors.
10.In the good care of the nurses, the patient is g______ recovering from the heart operation.
If English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.
The study also found the younger people learn a second language, the greater the effect is.
A team led by Dr Andrea Mechelli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.
Scans showed that grey matter density(密度)in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.
“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. “Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible(灵活的),”he said. “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of two and 34. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.
1.The main subject talked about in this passage is ______.
A. science on learning a second language
B. language can help brain power
C. man's ability of learning a second language
D. language learning and maths study
2.In the second paragraph, the writer mentions “exercise” in order to ______.
A. make people believe language learning helps grey matter work well
B. prove that one needs more practice when he (she) is learning a language
C. to show the importance of using the language when you learn the language
D. say language is also a kind of physical labor
3.The underlined word “bilingual” probably means ______.
A. a researcher on language learning
B. an English native speaker
C. an active language learner
D. a person who can speak two languages
4.We may know from the scientific findings that ______.
A. the ability of learning a second language is changing all the time
B. there is no difference between a later second language learner and one who doesn't know a second language
C. the experience of learning a second language has bad effect on people's brain
D. the earlier you start to learn a second language, the higher the grey matter density is
5.In the last two paragraphs, the author wants to tell us that ______.
A. early learning of a second language helps you a great deal in studying other subjects
B. learning a second language is the same as studying maths
C. Italian is the best choice for you as a second language
D. you’d better choose the ages between 2 and 34 to learn a second language
In the kitchen of my mother's houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.
I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can't be the same pencil. The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.
“I'm just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Can’t you afford a pen?”
My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly well. I've always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen these days. ”
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”
This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.
1.Why has the author's mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?
A. To leave messages.
B. To list her everyday tasks.
C. To note down maths problems.
D. To write down a flash of inspiration（灵感）.
2.What is the author's original opinion about the wooden stand?
A. It has great value for the family.
B. It needs to be replaced by a better one.
C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood.
D. It should be passed on to the next generation.
3.The author feels embarrassed for ______.
A. blaming her mother wrongly
B. giving her mother a lot of trouble
C. not making good use of time as her mother did
D. not making any breakthrough in her field
4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. The mother is successful in her career.
B. The family members like traveling.
C. The author had little time to play when young.
D. The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.
5.In the author's mind, her mother is ______.
A. strange in behavior
B. enthusiastic about her research
C. fond of collecting old things
D. careless about her appearance
