短文改错
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。
There’s an old man in our village calling Old Joe who said to be 110 years old.This can’t be proved though he doesn’t have a birth certificate.All his personal papers were destroy during the World War Ⅱ. I don’t know if he really is so old, and it doesn’t matter.He certainly looks very old.Of course, he is often asked question by people who want to be told the secret of long life.Old Joe always answered them like this, “If you are offered a cigarette, never accept it; if you are annoyed by someone, never lose his temper; and if you are asked foolishly questions, never answer them.”
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。
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time or it 1. (consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very 2. (health) thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us, 3. a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go 4. this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some 5. (surprise) conclusion.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes growth. It also improves 6.(concentrate),attention span, and the ability to get along with others. Industrialist Henry J.Kaiser believed that much of his success was due 7. the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured 8. as an inventor.
For these notable achievers, it appears that their daydreams came 9. .Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself…in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself 10. (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and was hooked on his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his unconventional and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so to me and had such a big on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would look to Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to my own Cancer experience ?
I’m an ambitious , and when I started going through chemo( 化疗 ),even though I’m a very ________ person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the . One day, while waiting to go in for , I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in hand. Another patient what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me ________ he had one of his books with me as well. It ________ that among other things, he was an eighty—year---old writer. He was ________ a published author, and he was currently ________ on a new book.
We would see each other at various times and ________ friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a ( n ) ________ of Dr. Berline. He really put a ________ on my face. He unfortunately ________ last year due to his cancer, ________ he left a deep impression on me and gave me the ________ to pick up my pen again. I ________ to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I. ”
1.A.ideas B.tastes C.notes D.memories
2.A.amazing B.shocking C.amusing D.strange
3.A. strike B. push C. challenge D. impact
4.A. learn from B. get through C. go over D. refer to
5.A. reader B. writer C. editor D. doctor
6.A. honest B. agreeable C. humorous D. positive
7.A. state B. position C. mood D. way
8.A. advice B. reference C. protection D. treatment
9.A. viewed B. knew C. noticed D. wondered
10.A. because B. while C. although D. providing
11.A. came out B. turned out C. proved out D. worked out
12.A. naturally B. merely C. hopefully D. actually
13.A. deciding B. investing C. relying D. working
14.A. became B. helped C. missed D. visited
15.A. patient B. operator C. fan D. publisher
16.A. smile B. sign C. mark D. mask
17.A. showed up B. passed away C. fell down D. set off
18.A. since B. but C. so D. for
19.A. guidance B. trust C. opportunity D. inspiration
20.A. promised B. swore C. replied D. thought
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Millions of people all over the world use the word OK.In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world.OK means all right or acceptable.It expresses agreement or approval.
1. Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw(乔克托语).The Choctaw word “okeh” means the same as the American word okay.Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century.
But many people doubt this.Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in reports published in the 1960s.He said the word began being used in the 1830s. 2. Some foreign-born people wrote “ all correct” as “o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters OK.Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago.They said he put the first letters of his name---O and K---on each object people gave him to send on the train.
3. The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840.They called their group the OK club.The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born---Old Kinderhook, New York.
Then there is the expression A-OK.It is a space-age expression.It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard.He was the first American to be launched into space.His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned.Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.” 4. One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.
There are also funny ways to say okay. 5. These expressions were first used in the 1930s.Today, a character on the American television series “The Simpsons” says it another way.He says okely-doke.
A.Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.
B.Still others say a political organization invented the word.
C.Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.
D.But many experts don’t agree on what the expression means.
E.Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
F.It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word “all correct”.
G.However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age.
It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.
The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries(食品杂货), saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live.
I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.
People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity(人性)as a whole. And it has influenced(影响)us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting.
1.Why was the bike so important to the couple?
A.The man’s job was bike racing.
B.It was their only possession.
C.It was a nice Kona 18 speed.
D.They used it for work and daily life.
2.We can infer from the text that ____________.
A.the couple worked 60 hours a week.
B.people were busy before Christmas
C.the stranger brought over the bike
D.life was hard for the young family.
3.How did people get to know the couple’s problem?
A.From radio broadcasts.
B.From a newspaper.
C.From TV news.
D.From a stranger.
A couple had two little boys aged 8 and 10 who were very naughty.They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that if any trouble occurred in their town their sons were probably involved.
The boys' mother heard that a clergyman(牧师) in the town had been successful in educating children so she asked if he would speak with her boys.The clergyman agreed but asked to see them individually.So the mother sent her 8-year-old first in the morning with the elder boy to see the clergyman in the afternoon.
The clergyman, a huge man with a booming (嗡嗡) voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him strictly, "Where is God?"
The boy's mouth dropped open but he made no answer, sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed.So the clergyman repeated the question in an even stricter tone "Where is God?" Again the boy made no attempt to answer.So the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and shouted" Where is God?"
The boy screamed and escaped from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him.When his elder brother found him in the closet, he asked "What happened?"
The younger brother replied out of breath, "We are in big trouble this time.God is missing--and they think we did it."
1.What were the two boys like?
A.They always made trouble. B.They were brave.
C.They were easygoing. D.They were honest.
2.What did their parents plan to do?
A.They gave up their children.
B.They liked their children very much.
C.They wanted the clergyman to persuade their children.
D.They helped their children to make trouble.
3.What do you suppose the boy felt when he was asked by the clergyman?
A.Happy. B.Sad.
C.Afraid. D.Surprised.
4.What do you think the underlined word "slamming" in Paragraph 5 means?
A.Open. B.Shut. C.Knock. D.Pull.