短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。
文中共有10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（∧），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。
Here is my idea about how a friend is like. Firstly, a friend is someone you can share your secrets . If you tell him a secret, he will never talks about it with anybody else. Besides, a friend is always good listener when you need one. After hear your sad stories, he will say some words that is nice and warm. Still, your happiness makes him happily too. What’s more, a good friend is willing to offer the help to which you need, or can at least give you some advices. In a word, friends are those you like and trust, and you will enjoy every minute that you spent with them.
语篇填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。
My first football 1.________(compete) was in Nagoya, Japan several years ago. Last year 2.________(we) team went to Seattle, Washington in the USA. We won second place. 3._______(Person), I think the team that won4._______(one) place cheated. They had developed a new type of program just before the game. So we need to encourage our programmer to improve our intelligence too. We are determined to create 5.________ even better system. In a way our programmer is like our coach. She programs us with all the possible moves she has seen while 6._______(watch) human games. Then she prepares reliable moves to use if a new situation 7.____(arise). In this way I can make up new moves using my “artificial intelligence”. I would really like to play 8.______ a human team, for I 9._______( program ) to act just like them. After all, with the help of my electronic brain 10.________ never forgets anything, using my intelligence is what I’m all about !
完形填空
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory____course 20 years ago.
The professor ____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and invited the students to ____how many beans the jar contained. After ____shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the ____ answer, and went on saying, ”You have just ____an important lesson about science. That is: Never____ your own senses.” Twenty years later, the ____could guess what the professor had in mind. He ____himself,perhaps,as inviting his students to start an exciting ____into an unknown world invisible（无形的）to the ,which can be discovered only through scientific .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be true .The professor, however, said that it was .he was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute替代.“I remember feeling small and ,”the women says,“and I did the only thing I could do. I the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”
1.A.art B.history C.science D.math
2.A.searched for B.looked at C.got through D.marched into
3.A.count B.guess C.report D.watch
4.A.warning B.giving C.turning away D.listening to
5.A.ready B.possible C.correct D.difficult
6.A.learned B.prepared C.taught D.taken
7.A.lose B.trust C.sharpen D.show
8.A.lecturer B.scientist C.speaker D.woman
9.A.described B.respected C.saw D.served
10.A.voyage B.movement C.change D.rush
11.A.professor B.eye C.knowledge D.light
12.A.model B.senses C.spirit D.methods
13.A.hear B.make C.present D.refuse
14.A.suggesting B.beginning C.pretending D.waiting
15.A.believed B.doubted C.proved D.explained
16.A.growth B.strength C.faith D.truth
17.A.firm B.interesting C.wrong D.acceptable
18.A.task B.tool C.success D.connection
19.A.cruel B.proud C.frightened D.brave
20.A.dropped B.started C. passed D.missed
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，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Culture means any human behavior that is learned in human society. All of the meaningful parts of a culture are passed on to different generations through tradition or social learning. 1. Culture exists in agricultural as well as industrialized societies.
Culture is necessary for the survival and existence of human beings as human beings. Practically everything humans know, think, value, feel, and do is learned through taking part in a sociocultural system. 2. Here is one of the cases of children growing up apart from human society. In the province of Midnapore in India, the director of a children’s home was told by local villagers that there were “ghost” in the forest. Upon looking into the case, the director found that two children, one about eight years old and the other about six years old, appeared to have been living with a pack of wolves in the forest. 3. In his diary, the director describes his first view of Kamala (as the older child was named) and Amala ( the name given to the younger child):
Kamala was a terrible-looking being, the head, a big ball of something covering the shoulders. 4. Their eyes were bright and sharp, unlike human eyes. They were very fond of raw meat and raw milk. Gradually, as they got stronger, they began going on all fours, and afterwards began to run on all fours, just like squirrels松鼠.Children learn human language in the same way they learn other kinds of human behavior——by taking part in a cultural community. 5.
A. From this viewpoint, all human groups have a culture.
B. Close at its heels there came another terrible creature exactly like the first, but smaller in size.
C. Human beings can only develop human abilities by the local people.
D. This statement is well supported by some well-written cases.
E. These children were the ghosts described by the local people.
F. Culture refers only to the high art and classical music of a particular society.
G. They learn a certain human languages as well as certain kinds of human behavior
through their membership in a certain cultural community.
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For some people, music is no fun at all. About four percent of the population is what scientists call “amusic.” People who are amusic are born without the ability to recognize or reproduce musical notes (音调). Amusic people often cannot tell the difference between two songs. Amusics can only hear the difference between two notes if they are very far apart on the musical scale.
As a result, songs sound like noise to an amusic. Many amusics compare the sound of music to pieces of metal hitting each other. Life can be hard for amusics. Their inability to enjoy music set them apart from others. It can be difficult for other people to identify识别 with their condition. In fact, most people cannot begin to grasp what it feels like to be amusic. Just going to a restaurant or a shopping mall can be uncomfortable or even painful. That is why many amusics intentionally stay away from places where there is music. However, this can result in withdrawal and social isolation隔离. “I used to hate parties,” says Margaret, a seventy-year-old woman who only recently discovered that she was amusic. By studying people like Margaret, scientists are finally learning how to identify this unusual condition.
Scientists say that the brains of amusics are different from the brains of people who can appreciate music. The difference is complex, and it doesn’t involve defective hearing. Amusics can understand other nonmusical sounds well. They also have no problems understanding ordinary speech. Scientists compare amusics to people who just can’t see certain colors.
Many amusics are happy when their condition is finally diagnosed (诊断). For years, Margaret felt embarrassed about her problem with music. Now she knows that she is not alone. There is a name for her condition. That makes it easier for her to explain. “When people invite me to a concert, I just say, ‘No thanks, I’m amusic,’” says Margaret. “I just wish I had learned to say that when I was seventeen and not seventy.”
1.Which of the following is true of amusics?
A．Listening to music is far from enjoyable for them.
B．They love places where they are likely to hear music.
C．They can easily tell two different songs apart.
D．Their situation is well understood by musicians.
2.According to paragraph 3, a person with “defective hearing” is probably one who __________.
A．dislikes listening to speeches
B．can hear anything nonmusical
C．has a hearing problem
D．lacks a complex hearing system
3. In the last paragraph, Margaret expressed her wish that __________.
A．her problem with music had been diagnosed earlier
B．she were seventeen years old rather than seventy
C．her problem could be easily explained
D．she were able to meet other amusics
4.What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A．Amusics’ strange behaviours.
B．Some people’s inability to enjoy music.
C．Musical talent and brain structure.
D．Identification and treatment of amusics.
