短文改错
文中共有10处错误, 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：把多余的词用斜钱（\）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 raining hardly outside, that made it difficult for me to go home for lunch. Just as I was wondering what I should eat at noon, I saw a familiar figure passed by our classroom. I rushed out and it was my mother, who is already in the fifties, that brought me lunch, in spite the heavy rain. In China, many parents make great sacrifices for our children. But what had the children done in return？All too often, most children just take it for granted that their parents should serve for them unconditionally. My dear mum or dad, thank you very much for bringing me up. How shall I do for you?
阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Suddenly all the lights on that crowded underground train went out. Then it stopped in that dark tunnel. We waited. We expected the lights to come on again. 1.________ nothing happened.
Then I began to smell 2.________. People around me then began to cry out in fear. “The train is on fire!” they cried. The woman 3.______ (stand) next to me 4._______ (sudden) fell on the floor. I realized she was overcome by the smoke. Then I saw flames appearing. “If something does not happen soon,” I said to 5._______, “I 6._______ (burn) alive!” But as I stood there in the dark in that crowded burning train, I could see no way to escape. So I cried, “God, if it is not my time to die, please help me!” I heard a noise. It was on my right side. I at once began to push my way forward to7.______ that noise came from. 【小题8________ two hours I kept walking in that dark train tunnel. At last I saw8.________ light in the distance. “Thank God!” I cried. “God must have a purpose for saving my life. He must want me to help 9.______ people experience what he could do for them.” I decided.
根据所给首字母, 汉语提示或语境写出符合句意的单词或词组, 每空一词。
1.I thought he l_____ to me, but on the contrary, he told me the truth.
2.Mark Twain went to the south of America, hoping to _____ _____ _____. (发财)
3.There is no doubt that all the teaching staff are _______ (称职的) for their jobs.
4.Strawberries don’t taste nice if they’ve been _______ (冻住).
5.Our school library is in great need of v________ who can offer to clean the desks without being paid.
6.C________ this new house with the old one, you will know for sure which is better.
7.This is a famous school with every class in it c_________ of about 50 lovely students.
8.You can’t imagine what difficulty I had p______ (陈述) my idea to the boss.
9.Highly intelligent men who major in science and technology are ____ ____ ___ (称作) science geeks (理工男).
10.We’d better ___ ____, or we will not catch the early bus.
完形填空
Mr White with his wife living at a small Italian hotel, they had stayed in Italy for months on holiday. One night he went out for a walk . It was late. The small street was dark and . Suddenly he heard behind him. He his head and saw a middle-aged man with wild hair, who quickly walked him. The man was nearly out of sight when Mr White suddenly found that his watch . He thought it was the man who had taken his watch, so he ran quickly after him and soon caught up with him. As he knew Italian, Mr White had to ask the man the watch in another way. He showed the man his strong arms and to his watch pocket. The man thought a while and gave watch to Mr White.
Mr. White returned home and told his wife had happened. He was greatly surprised when Mrs. White pointed to the watch on the table. Now he found it was that had taken the Italian’s watch.
1.A. is B. was C. are D. were
2.A. where B. which C. that D. who
3.A. separate B. lonely C. alone D. loneliness
4.A. noisy B. crowded C. silent D. quiet
5.A. voice B. sound C. feet D. steps
6.A. rose B. moved C. turned D. put
7.A. past B. passed C. through D. over
8.A. had lost B. gone C. was missing D. had gone
9.A. very B. proper C. same D. just
10.A. much B. no C. enough D. little of
11.A. to lend B. to tell C. to return D. return
12.A. pointed B. listened C. shouted D. spoke
13.A. their B. the other C. the D. another
14.A. what B. that C. why D. how
15.A. he B. him C. himself D. herself
七选五
Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China. 1.
Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team, California, says “One of the programming problems was trying to figure out how to break a chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible. 2. ”
The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. 3. They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanhai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in 14th place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.
4. . It began in 1970 at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.
The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. 5.
A. The competitors show great interest in IBM.
B. Then they figured out the requirements of each.
C. And that’s probably the simplest of all of them.
D. This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.
E. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.
F. The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
G. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment with IBM.
Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of aging on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20--25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
“Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the aging process.”
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.
They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.
The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.
1.The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to ______.
A. health B. long life C. aging D. effect
2.The text mainly talks about ______.
A. men’s heart cells B. women’s aging process
C. the gender difference D. hearts and long life
3.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ______________.
A. women have more cells than men when they are born
B. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat
C. the female heart loses few of the cells with age
D. women never lose their pumping power with age
4.If you want to live longer, you should ___________.
A. enable your heart to beat much faster
B. find out the reason for aging
C. exercise regularly to keep your heart healthy
D. prevent your cells from being lost
5.We can know from the passage that __________.
A. the reason why aging takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out
B. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells
C. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss
D. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20
