Don’t take it seriously, Alice. I wasn’t making _____ fun of you — it’s nothing but _____ joke.
A. /; the B. the; theC. the; a D. /; a
书面表达
假定你是王华，目前正在英国做交换生。你的英国朋友Debbie送了你一张Ceilidh Dance舞会票。现在，请给她写封邮件致谢，并询问有关情况（箭头所指内容）。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Last Friday,1 was standing near a subway exit, tried to call a taxi. But no luck.
Then I thought of the taxi-booking app my friend has recommended and I booked a taxi through my cell-phone. Soon it came, and l stepped in, feeling pretty proudly of my high-tech way and satisfied with the convenience brought by the app. So later,1 was upset to find that the driver was busy looking his cell-phone to get the next order. It was just then when I began to worry about my safety. What’s bad, the driver’s informations might be unreliable. How can we passengers' legal rights be protecting if something bad happens? So be careful when you use the taxi-booking app the next time.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
As is known to us, the year 2016 has one extra day in it — February 29th. This is because it’s 1. we call “a leap year”. Every four years, the year has 366 days in 2. instead of 365.
It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn’t 3. (legal) recognized. There is a well-known tradition in the UK4. (associate) with 29th February, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with tradition and propose(求婚）to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the 5. (five) century, when a famous Irish saint made a 6. (complain) that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend，Saint Patrick said any female dreaming of a proposal could ask her boyfriend to marry her on this additional day in February. This so-called tradition was 7. (write) in law in the thirteenth century. Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year. It was said that if the men refused, they had to pay a fine!
Now in 2016，there are calls 8. 29th February to become As is known to us the year 2016 has one extraa public holiday. Some people believe that it should be an 9. (office) day off, because no one gets 10. (many) payments for working an extra day in a leap year. For the moment though, the British still have to go to work on this day.
完形填空，阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A.B.C和D)中，选出可填人空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was eight, I had to cross a crime-filled neighborhood to school. Nobody got involved when there was a ____，not even if a killing was happening directly across from our ____ ： “What’s that, Mom? Someone is screaming!”“Turn off the light! Stay ____! Keep your voice down!” Mom would ____.
Usually, I would see other girls that I knew, and I would catch up and we would____ together.
Along this route was an old grey house with a ____. It never caught my attention ____ a kind and lovely elderly lady ____us with a musical voice and a smile. “Look in my apple tree!” she said. “Do you see the Cedar Waxwings?” Well, I had never known what the ____ was called. My friends and I would, ____，look for the old lady to see if she was____ . She had taken this little yard and made it a small paradise of flower beds ： so ____that she probably had lived there for many years. She enjoyed our frequent visits and told us all kinds of things about birds and nature. We ____to love her.
But one day, we didn’t____ her. Though we looked, there was never a ____ of her： her garden began to look ____ and the greyness of the house seemed to take over the colorful When I was eight I had to cross a crime-filledmood. One of us ____to open the gate and knocked at the door, but the dear old woman would never greet us again. It was to be my first experience with death, though I didn’t know it then, a death to my childhood ____.
Every time I ____a bird，especially a Cedar Waxwing, I think of her. Every time I face a hardship, I remember her grace and dignity. Her____ in the old house made it beautiful.
1.A. gathering B. celebration C. murder D. crime
2.A. school B. house C. neighborhood D. town
3.A. awake B. low C. asleep D. active
4.A. reply B. shout C. announce D. whisper
5.A. walk B. play C.fight D. study
6.A. view B. pond C.yard D. mystery
7.A. until B. when C. because D. where
8.A. begged B. treated C. ordered D. greeted
9.A. fruit B. tree C. bird D.flower
10.A. once a year B. every school day C. occasionally D. rarely
11.A. gardening B. smiling C.reading D. watchlng
12.A. old-fashioned B.established C.tidy D. large
13.A. agreed B. expected C. tried D. grew
14.A. visit B. miss C. see D. love
15.A. sign B.story C. memory D.photo
16.A. fresh B. wild C. dirty D.green
17.A. promised B. planned C.threatened D.dared
18.A. pleasure B. innocence C. independence D. friendship
19.A. admire B.draw C. keep D. catch
20.A. death B. Labor C. presence D. Interest
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。
Some people describe American society as a salad bowl while others think of it as a melting pot.
In a bowl of salad，all the ingredients are mixed together. 1.____ Together, however, the ingredients make up a unity. All the ingredients of a salad contribute to the finished product. They may be covered with the same dressing (调味酱），but the green vegetables, tomatoes and cooked corn can all be seen for what they are.
From this point of view, America is very much like a salad bowl where individual ethnic groups mix together, yet maintain their cultural uniqueness. People may work together during the day at similar jobs and in the same companies, but at night they may return to their ethnic groups where their own individual culture directs their way of life.
2.____ Each ethnic group has its own special customs, language, food and traditions to protect and defend. This idea of the salad bowl is referred to as cultural diversity； that is， American society is a collection of various cultures living together in harmony within one country.
3.____Here, society is like one large pot of soup. All cultural aspects are mixed together, sacrificing their original identity and keeping a bit of what they were to become a new reality. The Some people describe American society as a saladlonger the soup is cooked, the better the taste and the more likely it will be for the mixture to dissolve. In this sense, America can surely be seen as a melting pot where people from all over the world come to live and work together forming one nation. There are dozens of shared symbols. 4.____In such a culture, symbols like the flag and the nation’s official song serve to break down the walls which separate ethnic groups.
Whether a salad bowl or a melting pot, America can be best described as a mixture of both. 5.____
A. Both are correct depending on one-s point of view.
B. They never lose their shapes, colors or tastes.
C. This is why there is so much diversity within America.
D, In other words, America is a nation where there is unity in diversity.
E. Thus, one needs to abandon one's culture to be considered "American".
F. They serve to develop the various ethnic groups to create a new American culture.
G. The other theory, which is also used to describe American society, is the melting pot.
