— Martin was brave enough to dive from that 10-meter-high bridge.
— Yes. It is in his _______ to like taking risks.
A. attempt B. intention
C. nature D. quality
Mr. Samuel, _______ president of our company, is now in _______ possession of many branches across China.
A. the; the B. /; /
C. a; the D. a; /
你堂兄建华在国外学习, 你们经常用英文通信。他即将完成学业, 不久前来信就是否回国工作征求你的意见。请根据下列提示回信：
1．建议他回国；
2．你的理由是：1）学有所用, 就业容易；2）照顾父母。
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．行文应连贯, 内容应完整；
3．开头语与落款已为你写好。
Dear Jianhua,
I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks ago.
Best wishes
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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。
As a middle school student of Senior Three．I do sports one and two hours a day, such as doing morning exercises, playing basketball, long-distance running and so on．I think it is very helpfully in me．Take exercise makes me even more healthier so that I won't be ill very often. What's more, I also get myself relaxing in different kinds of sports. Only in this way I do a better job in my study in high spirits．For doing physical exercise, I'm becoming stronger and more confident than ago．I did think it is necessary for everyone to spend some time on sports every day so people's health is important in modern life．
My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he called and told me he was going away for a week.He asked me to feed _1._ birds for him and said that he would leave the key_2._ his front door in my mailbox.
_3._ (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse,_ 4._ was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Verson gave me could not unlock either the front door _5._ _the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of6._ _Vernon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up7._ _I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb 8._ _and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone _9._ (shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon’s neighbors. “What are you doing up there?: said the policeman._ 10._ _(feel)like a complete fool, I replied,”I was just going to feed Mr Davies’ birds.
I was a reporter of an evening paper in London. One day I was to write a few articles on begging in London. It was then that all my adventures . I decided that the best of collecting facts for my articles is that I would become a beggar myself for just one day. At one time I was an actor, of course, I had all the skills of make-up and I now made good use of them. I painted my face and my upper lip on an ugly twist (扭曲). Red hair and shabby (破旧的)clothes were the only other things . I then myself in one of the busiest streets. I pretended to be a beggar. At home that night I was to find that I had received more than a pound.
Well, you can imagine how it was to settle down to work hard on the at two pounds a week, I knew that I could make as much as that in a single day! I gave my job, though my was hurt. I had advantages. My of make-up helped me a great deal and my clever answers quickly made me a public character. All day and every day, the money into my cap. I usually received at least two pounds in a day. In the end I buy a large house in the country. Nobody had any idea where my money really came from. My dear wife knew that I had business in London: That was .
1.A．invited B．asked C．suggested D．hoped
2.A．went B．happened C．started D．ended
3.A．fun B．idea C．plan D．way
4.A．when B．although C．because D．since
5.A．played B．shown C．learnt D．acted
6.A．changed B．fixed C．bent D．fitted
7.A．necessary B．proper C．important D．usual
8.A．found B．expressed C．placed D．begged
9.A．unhappy B．surprised C．disappointed D．ready
10.A．hard B．interesting C．sad D．tiring
11.A．streets B．newspaper C．office D．articles
12.A．unless B．while C．when D．if
13.A．in B．out C．up D．off
14.A．character B．pride C．heart D．future
15.A．unusual B．ordinary C．good D．excellent
16.A．love B．knowledge C．research D．study
17.A．already B．hardly C．possibly D．almost
18.A．poured B．ran C．came D．threw
19.A．was able to B．could C．should D．would
20.A．why B．too much C．all D．my story
