A 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the 1 – five dollars was far beyond Reuben Earle’s money. Five dollars would 2 almost a week’s food for his family.
But hearing the sound of hammering (捶打的声音) from a side street, Reuben had a(n) 3 . He ran towards the sound and discovered he could 4 the hessian sacks (麻袋) which were thrown away and sell them for five cents a piece.
Every day 5 , Reuben walked down the town, collecting 6 . On the day the school closed for the summer, no student was more 7 than Reuben, for he had more time for his “work”. Then one day the time had 8 .
Reuben ran down Water Street to the 9 . “Please, Mister. I have to sell the sacks now.” The man took the sacks, 10 into his pocket and placed four coins in Reuben’s hand. Reuben said a thank you and 11 home. On arriving home, Reuben uncovered the tin can 12 he kept the money. He poured the coins out and began to count. He had 13 .
Then he headed for the shop. “I have the money,” he told the owner 14 . The man went to the window and 15 Reuben’s treasure. He wiped the dust off, carefully wrapped (包裹) it in brown paper and 16 it to Reuben.
Racing home, Reuben shouted, “Here, Mom! Here!” He placed a small 17 in her hands. She unwrapped it carefully. A jewel box 18 . Dora lifted the lid (盖子), tears beginning to fill her eyes. Dora had 19 received such a gift; she had no jewelry 20 her wedding ring. Speechless, she smiled and gathered her son into her arms.
1. A．price B．cost C．worth D．value
2. A．buy B．offer C．enjoy D．expect
3. A．question B．try C．idea D．schedule
4. A．sell B．collect C．fetch D．bury
5. A．before dinner B．in class C．at church D．after school
6. A．the money B．the sacks C．the paper D．the tin cans
7. A．pleased B．surprised C．worried D．tired
8. A．passed B．ended C．come D．wasted
9. A．hotel B．school C．bank D．store
10. A．hid B．reached C．stole D．put
11. A．stayed B．walked C．got D．ran
12. A．when B．which C．while D．where
13. A．none B．enough C．little D．much
14. A．calmly B．honestly C．proudly D．angrily
15. A．took out B．gave out C．set out D．left out
16. A．lent B．threw C．handed D．took
17. A．box B．ring C．book D．letter
18. A．opened B．dropped C．appeared D．broke
19. A．often B．never C．just D．ever
20. A．including B．with C．as well as D．except for
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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。
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At first I was not quite willing to sit down and watched the 90-minute football match. Usually I just checked the results because I thought that was dull to watch a game in which players kicked a ball each other. Therefore, my father loves football. During the World Cup in 2002, my dad stays up late just to watch his favorite sport. Seen his strong interest in this game of 22 man running after a ball, I decided to sit down to watch the game. I found the game excited, and my dad explained for the rules. We shared our joy. Football is not too badly as long as I watch it with my dad!
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Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job？”__1__.
There are people who can answer an insignificant（无关紧要的） advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, and never seem to get a reply at all. Still others believe that the in person, doortodoor approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. __2__. He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them. His father was a farmer, and being a sailor could never be anything for the boy but an idle dream. One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of the ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick. Without stopping to think, the lad(少年)offered to take his place. __3__.
__4__. If the lad had gone home to ponder(考虑)his decision for a week, he may have missed his chance. It is one thing to be offered an opportunity; it is another thing to take it and use it well.
Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs(美差). When you go for a job interview or fill out an application, you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying. __5__. And within a year this person had become general manger of the company.
A．This story also illustrates the importance of seizing an opportunity when it presents itself.
B．People find jobs in an infinite number of ways.
C．It’s almost impossible to find a good job by answering advertisement in newspapers
D．Take for example the young man who wanted to be a sailor.
E．But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the company's faults.
F．He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved.
G．It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.
The law has a great many rules, showing when and how far a man is to be punished, or if he should be made to hand over money or property to his neighbors, and so on. These rules are contained in books. A lawyer learns them mainly by reading books.
He begins by doing little else than reading, and after he has prepared himself by three years’ study, still, he has to, almost every day, read more about some new questions which he has to answer.
The power to use books, then, is a special skill which a would-be lawyer ought to possess. He ought to have enough flexibility（灵活性）to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words. He ought to have some readiness to find what a book contains, and something of an instinct（直觉）for where to look for what he wants.
But although this is the power which he will first feel in need of, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to recite it; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life. His business is to try cases in court and to advise people what to do in order to keep out or get out of trouble.
1.The first thing a law student has to do is to _______.
A．read books B．hand over money
C．practice law D．answer questions
2.The major business of a lawyer is ________.
A．to discuss the material he has read
B．to advise people who have law problems
C．to learn about real life
D．to study the law
3.What is the most important to a lawyer?
A．To possess a lot of books.
B．To have enough flexibility when collecting ideas from printed words.
C．To be able to quickly find out what a book contains.
D．To be able to use his book knowledge in the right way in his future business.
4.According to the passage, a good lawyer should know how to ________.
A．understand and use what he reads
B．be effective in everything
C．collect ideas from different sources
D．be effective in court
Just as the English language has changed quickly in the previous century, so has the use of it.
After the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was founded in 1927, the particular style of speech of the BBC announcers was recognized as standard English or Received Pronunciation (RP) English. Now, most people still consider that the pronunciation and delivery of BBC announcers is the clearest and most understandable spoken English.
English has had a strong relationship with classes and social positions. However, since the Second World War there has been a clear change of attitude towards speech snobbery(自我优越感), and marks of class distinction(区别) such as styles of speech have been gradually diminishing, especially in the younger generation.
By the end of the 1960s, it had become clear that it was not necessary to speak standard English or even correct grammar to become popular, successful and rich. The fashionable speech of the day was no longer the special right of a special class but rather a defiant(反抗的) expression of classlessness.
The greatest single influence of the shaping of the English language in modern times is the American English. Over the last 25 years the English used by many people, particularly by those in the media, advertising and show business, has become more and more mid-Atlantic in style, delivery and accent.
In the 1970s, fashion favored careless pronunciation and a language full of jargon, slang and “in” words, a great quantity of which couldn’t be understood by the outside world. What is considered modern and fashionable in Britain today is often not the kind of English taught in schools and colleges.
1.Which of the following is NOT true?
A．The use of the English language has not changed much in the previous century.
B．BBC announcers speak standard English.
C．English has no relationship with classes and social positions now.
D．Young people don’t like class distinction.
2.What does the author imply by saying “there has been a clear change of attitude towards speech snobbery”?
A．Everyone speaks English as the BBC announcers do.
B．There has been a great change of attitudes towards the status of English.
C．Most people don’t believe the way of speaking by BBC announcers is much better than that of other people.
D．It is necessary to speak standard English with correct grammar.
3.According to the author, there was a trend in the US for young people ________.
A．to speak standard English
B．to speak English with grammatical mistakes
C．to speak old English
D．to speak English without class distinction
4.It can be concluded from the passage that________.
A．standard English is taught only in schools and colleges
B．there has been a great change in the English language in the previous century
C．the English language has not been influenced by the American English in the last 25 years
D．young people are defiant because they refuse to speak standard English
