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。
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删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
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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 October, while tending her garden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw it away. At that moment, a shiny object catch her attention. Surprisingly, she saw her long-lost wedding ring beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot.
One day sixteen years early, Pahlsson removed diamond ring to cook a meal. When she wanted to put the rings back on later, it was gone. She thought that whether one of her three daughters —then ten, eight, and six— had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, check every corner, but for vain. “I gave up hope of finding my ring,” she said. She never replaced it.
Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probable got swept into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, which it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was a wonder.
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Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors.
A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit it. When he arrived, he climbed1.(happy) up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears 2.(lift) high and his tail wagging as fast as it could.3. his great surprise, he found himself staring at 10004.happy little dogs wagging their tails just as fast. He smiled a great smile, and5.(answer) with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to6.(he), “This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.”
In the same village, another little dog,7.was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and8.(hang) his head low as he looked into the door.
When he saw the 10009.(friendly) looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought, “That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again.”
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of10.(reflect) do you see in the faces of the people you meet?
“My wallet! Where is it? ” were my first words when I found out my wallet was lost. I searched my memory for a few good seconds, and then________that I had left my precious wallet in the library. To be________, it was in the public toilet of the library!
_____the library was then closed, I had to wait until the next morning to begin my________. When I got there early the next day, all I found was a______bathroom.
At that time, all I could________was that the person who cleaned the restroom had________my wallet. So I________approached an old lady at the front desk. “Excuse me, is there a wallet found in the restroom yesterday? ” She walked through a door and________for a moment. Then she came back to the desk. “No, ” she said. I quickly thanked her and walked off,________.
Finally, I painfully________the fact that my wallet had gone.
A week later, I received a mysterious________in the mail. Sure enough, it was my________! And most surprisingly,________in it was missing! And there was a little yellow piece of paper folded up inside. I slowly unfolded it and a little medal of Christ fell off. The paper________like this:
Always________this medal with you, whatever your religion is, so the angel that was watching over you last________will always be close.
This person didn’t even leave a return________, so I couldn’t thank whoever it was.
From that day on, I promised myself to follow this example when I was in a________situation. I will make others as________as I was when I opened that package!
1.A. predicted B. realized C. explained D. imagined
2.A. obvious B. honest C. exact D. clear
3.A. Because B. Although C. Unless D. Even
4.A. work B. reading C. research D. search
5.A. crowded B. noisy C. clean D. deserted
6.A. run after B. hope for C. remember D. declare
7.A. hidden B. picked C. ignored D. found
8.A. secretly B. aimlessly C. politely D. angrily
9.A. disappeared B. hesitated C. rested D. escaped
10.A. surprised B. disappointed C. satisfied D. ashamed
11.A. accepted B. considered C. changed D. covered
12.A. present B. invitation C. notice D. package
13.A. wallet B. book C. reward D. treasure
14.A. something B. nothing C. everything D. anything
15.A. exposed B. described C. read D. announced
16.A. keep B. equip C. compare D. connect
17.A. month B. fortnight C. week D. year
18.A. reminder B. date C. message D. address
19.A. disappointing B. similar C. different D. difficult
20.A. annoyed B. puzzled C. crazy D. happy
Chuck was in my high-school English class.1.So, when he told me he had been accepted into the journalism program at the University of Missouri, I wasn’t surprised.
During the first year at college, Chuck stopped by school a few times. We talked about our work together several years before. We had raised money together for twenty-three sick and abandoned babies.2.. It was an activity that in some ways changed our formal relationship into a friendship.
In his second year in college, it was discovered that Chuck had lung cancer and had only a short while to live. So he left school and came home to be near to his loved ones.
About six weeks later, Chuck died.3.The youngest of nine children, Chuck was talented and full of promise. More importantly, he was a good person, a just man.
When I went to his funeral, his father asked to speak with me. He told me that before Chuck’s death, he chose six items to bury with him.4.He told me that Chuck had always kept the piece because he liked the message I had written to him at the bottom of the last page. In that little note, I affirmed his talent as a writer and I encouraged him to be responsible for the gift.
5.His taking my note with him forever offered me a great opportunity for influencing students’ lives. I felt inspired with a sense of purpose that was greater than ever: teachers have the power to affect hearts and minds for a long time.
A. It was a great loss for everyone, especially for his family.
B. Chuck helped to raise several thousand dollars.
C. Whenever I forget my purpose, I think of Chuck.
D. He was a writer of great promise.
E. My spirits were lifted up as Chuck was filled with the joy of life.
F. One of them was an essay he had written in my class some years before.
G. I was touched and grateful to Chuck who gave me a special gift that would change my life.
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to explore how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of a teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something strange: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the“hand talk”his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people considered their signing as “substandard”. Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).
It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades, educators fought against his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. “What I said,” Stokoe explains, “is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff.”
1.What aroused the present growing interest in sign language?
A. A famous scholar in the study of the human brain.
B. A leading specialist in the study of liberal arts.
C. An English teacher in a university for the deaf.
D. Some senior experts in American Sign Language.
2.According to Stokoe, sign language is ________.
A. a substandard language B. a genuine language
C. an artificial language D. an international language
3.Most educators objected to Stokoe’s idea because they thought ________.
A. sign language was not widely used even by deaf people
B. sign language was too artificial to be widely accepted
C. a language should be easy to use and understand
D. a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds
4.Stokoe’s argument is based on his belief that ________.
A. sign language is as efficient as any other language
B. sign language originated from natural language
C. language is a system of meaningful codes
D. language is a product of the brain
Once, African lions were the kings of the jungle. But every day, they lose more and more of their home to humans. A new study done by Duke University shows that humans have taken over much of the lions habitat.
Lions live on the African plains, which are called savannas. In the past 5 years, the number of people living on the Savannas African plains has grown rapidly. At the same time, the number of lions has dwindled quickly.
The research team at Duke University used detailed pictures taken by satellite to carefully examine the African landscape. They were able to see very small farms and towns that are taking over the once-open plains. Lions need wide-open spaces to hunt. As the number of people and towns has increased, the African plains have become less welcoming to lions. The number of lions has dropped from about 100, 000 in 1960 to 32,000 today. West Africa has seen the largest drop ——fewer than 500 lions remain there.
Researchers worry that the number of lions will decrease even more as the number of humans moving onto the savannas increases. People and lions living closely together have to compete for natural resources like water and food. Towns and farms that take over hunting grounds could force the lions out of those areas completely. Often, lions with no other sources of food will kill farm animals. Farmers will then kill the lions to protect their animals. African lions are also threatened by poachers, who hunt animals illegally. Many poachers hunt lions for sport or to take their fur.
One of the authors of the Duke University study is conservationist Stuart Pimm. Pimm believes the group’s research can be helpful in planning ways for people and lions to share the African plains. One solution is to build higher fences to keep lions away from farm animals. African countries can also expand and better protect their wildlife reserves so that lions have safe places to hunt.
1.The underlined word“dwindled”in Paragraph 2 can be best replaced by______________.
A. grown B. changed
C. doubled D. decreased
2.According to the study done by Duke University,______________.
A. there are 100, 000 lions on the African plains
B. African lions are losing their habitat to humans
C. more and more people are moving out of Africa
D. the number of lions in West Africa has increased
3.The following are solutions mentioned in the passage to protect lions EXCEPT________.
A. expanding wildlife reserves
B. avoiding conflict between lions and farmers
C. preventing people from hunting lions illegally
D. stopping people from moving into the African plains
4.Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A. Losing African lions B. Moving out of Africa
C. The kings of the jungle D. The problems of Africa
