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。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。
I’d like to introduce Sarah to you. She is a good friend of me. Actually she is an exchange student from Ireland, which has been studying in my school for two month. Wanting to take an advantage of her short time here, Sarah works hardly. She had not studied Chinese before arriving here, but she has some difficulty communicating with people. She woke up early morning to study a bit before class. I admire her independence for doing all of this while live so far away from her family. Besides, Sarah is in great help. Busy as she is, she often takes time help classmates with their English homework. A lovely girl, isn’t she?
If you are interested in getting university education in China and 1.(run) of the university program, you may need to register in the high school. Starting your education at high school level in China gives you an advantage since you will be well 2.(prepare) before joining the university. You will have learnt Chinese Mandarin(普通话)3.will make your daily conversations smooth. You will also have familiarized with the surrounding, making 4.easy to get your way around.
With a high school admission, you will also 5.(introduce) to a Chinese way of learning and education at 6.early age. Getting a high school 7.(admit) in China is easy. You only need to look for schools which are offering high school education to the international students. Most of them offer instructions both in English 8.Chinese. Choose a right environment that will allow you to learn the local language, choose an area that is 9.(convenience) to you and select a school that allows a foreign student to 10.(easy) adapt to a new culture.
Many years ago, I drove my seven-six-old daughter to school in our car. This _______day, we passed by many_______people who were begging. She asked why the same people were_______help every day and why no one was_______.
I really didn’t have a(n)_______answer to this question. So I decided to ask her how she thought she could help.
My little girl always had _______ideas flowing out of her which I couldn’t keep_______. The next day on the morning _______to school, my daughter asked me to stop at each_______where a homeless person stood. I asked why, but was quickly________to wait and see.
I ________my window and asked the gentleman to________. My daughter handed him 50 cents ________told him she would see him every morning. This went on for three blocks. I asked her where all of the money came________and she immediately informed me that her classmates took up a ________of coins and love for her to pass on to the “people on the corner.”
Every school day for two more wonderful years we stopped and ________ coins or a good morning wish to the “people on the corner”. She could always get everyone to ________ even if just for a quick second.
Times have changed, and many people________of giving money to homeless people on the corner but everyone deserve to be________, so my “people on the corner” get a “good morning and a smile” every day. I get the same________ every day.
1.A. particular B. curious C. anxious D. enthusiastic
2.A. hopeless B. aimless C. homeless D. friendless
3.A. apologizing for B. standing for C. working for D. asking for
4.A. helping B. sparing C. observing D. paying
5.A. difficult B. easy C. possible D. abstract
6.A. such many B. such much C. so many D. so much
7.A. out of B. away from C. in touch D. up with
8.A. breakfast B. trip C. sun D. rain
9.A. house B. corner C. highway D. garage
10.A. identified B. confirmed C. informed D. proved
11.A. rolled down B. put down C. broken down D. cut down
12.A. fall over B. go over C. turn over D. come over
13.A. but B. so C. or D. and
14.A. out B. from C. down D. about
15.A. collection B. fund C. action D. account
16.A. awarded B. rewarded C. afforded D. offered
17.A. laugh B. cry C. smile D. sob
18.A. dislike B. support C. disapprove D. agree
19.A. permitted B. acknowledged C. abandoned D. embarrassed
20.A. in return B. by turns C. in case D. by accident
Why is pink or purple a color for girls and blue or brown for boys? 1.To the Egyptians, green was a color that represented the hope and joy of spring, while for Muslims, it means heaven. Red is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. In China, children are given money in a red envelope to bring good fortune in the New Year. For many nations, blue is a symbol of protection and religious beliefs. 2.
People’s choice of colors is also influenced by their bodies’ reactions(反应) toward them. Green is said to be the most restful color. 3.People who work in green environment have been found to have fewer stomach aches.
4. So many decorators will include different shades of red in the restaurant. Similarly, many commercial websites will have a red “Buy Now” button because red is a color that easily catches a person’s eye.
Blue is another calming color. Unlike red, blue can cause people to lose appetite. 5.
The next time you are deciding on what to wear or what color to decorate your room, think about the color carefully.
A. It has the ability to reduce pain and relax people both mentally and physically.
B. Red can cause a person’s blood pressure to rise and increase people’s appetites（食欲）.
C. The answer depends largely on cultural values as well as personal experiences.
D. Red can cause people to be excited and encourage them to make a purchase.
E. Greek people often wear a blue necklace hoping to protect themselves against evils.
F. So if you want to eat less, some suggest that eating from blue plates can help.
G. Because girls like pink or purple while boys blue or brown.
I was desperately nervous about becoming car-free. But eight months ago our car was hit by a passing vehicle and it was destroyed. No problem, I thought: we’ll buy another. But the insurance payout didn’t even begin to cover the costs of buying a new car—I worked out that, with the loan we’d need plus petrol, insurance, parking permits and tax, we would make a payment as much as ￡600 a month.
And that’s when I had my fancy idea. Why not just give up having a car at all? I live in London. We have a railway station behind our house, a tube station 10 minutes’ walk away, and a bus stop at the end of the street. A new car club had just opened in our area, and one of its shiny little red Peugeots was parked nearby. If any family in Britain could live without a car, I reasoned, then surely we were that family.
But my new car-free idea, sadly, wasn’t shared by my family. My teenage daughters were horrified. What would their friends think about our family being “too poor to afford a car”? (I wasn’t that bothered what they thought, and I suggested the girls should take the same approach.)
My friends, too, were astonished at our plan. What would happen if someone got seriously ill overnight and needed to go to hospital? (an ambulance) How would the children get to and from their many events? (buses and trains) People smiled as though this was another of my mad ideas, before saying they were sure I’d soon realize that a car was a necessity.
Eight months on, I wonder whether we’ll ever own a car again. The idea that you “have to” own a car, especially if you live in a city, is all in the mind. I live—and many other citizens do too—in a place that has never been better served by public transport, and yet car ownership has never been higher. We worry about rising car costs, but we’d be better off asking something much more basic: do I really need a car? Certainly the answer is no, and I’m a lot richer because I dared to ask the question.
1.The author decided to live a car-free life partly because ________.
A. most families chose to go car-free B. the cost of a new car was too much
C. he was hurt in a terrible car accident D. the traffic jam was unbearable for him
2.What is the attitude of the author’s family toward his plan?
A. Disapproving. B. Supportive.
C. Optimistic. D. Unconcerned.
3.What did the author suggest his daughters do about their friends’ opinion?
A. Argue against it. B. Take their advice.
C. Leave it alone. D. Think it over.
4.What conclusion did the author draw after the eight-month car-free life?
A. Life cannot go without a car.
B. Life without a car is a little bit hard.
C. His life gets improved without a car.
D. A car-free life does not suit everyone.
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. As some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble（结巴）over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on its message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
1.The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ________.
A. be smarter than you
B. know what you are talking about
C. do better than you
D. notice your mistakes
2.You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ________.
A. you find the way of speech-making more important
B. you don’t fully understand the speech
C. you don’t know what the speaker plans to say
D. your attention is on the content
3.From the last two paragraphs, the author means that ________.
A. giving a speech is like giving a performance
B. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
C. one to two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be
4.What would be the best title of the passage?
A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker
B. Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech
C. Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech
D. How to Make a Perfect Speech
