下面短文中有10处语法错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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11处起）不计分。
Once upon a time there was a boy who fond of reading. However, he was very poor to buy any books. That was the reason that he had to borrow books from a rich man who owned a lot of books. The boy knew clearly that he has to finish reading the books he had borrowed them and return them to the owner as soon as possible. A rich man, who was ready to lend any of his book to the boy, read few of his own books. With time going on, the boy read a lots but finally became a famous writer in his time. Though the rich man had so many books, he remained a man with little knowledge because of he seldom read his books.

It was the end of the school term and my son Tom had less than three months left before he would finish his six years at high school. During this time he had developed a love for basketball. Sadly, because of my work over the last twelve months, I had only been able to attend a few of his games; however, I was determined to get to his last game for the school term.

Tom’s team came out in the first 10 minutes with a burst of goals that saw them leading by just over 20 points at the end of the first half. The second half changed as the other team quickly played themselves back into the game. Tom’s team started to miss an increasing number of shots. It was at that point that the coach called his first time out.

The noise of the spectators (观众) became quiet as the coach spoke to them. He had the team standing in a half circle, but he squatted (蹲) down, looking up at them and fiving some very calm and clear instructions on what they needed to do in the last couple of minutes. As he stood up to allow the team to return to the court, I saw him give some further words of encouragement to all of them.

You could see that he knew that the team was fighting to save the game and that he needed to lift them up. By squatting down he placed himself in a position where he was talking up to them, rather than down or at them, and as the players went back onto the court his words of encouragement served to lift their energy and spirits.

Well, Tom’s team went on to win the final by 5 points. As I drove away I thought about what can happen to us all in our everyday life. One of my favourite quotes is about the half filled glass of water --- “Is it half full or is it half empty?” Like the coach, the answer to this quote all depends on how you look at things.

1.Why did the writer come to see his son play basketball?

A. Because his son would graduate from high school.

B. Because he felt sorry for never watching his son play.

C. Because it was a final his son played a key role in.

D. Because he had a strong interest in basketball himself.

2.By squatting down, the coach wanted to _____ .

A. talk about what the players were doing wrong

B. make the players feel better

C. prevent spectators from hearing what he said

D. show his anger at the bad performance of the players

3.What is the writer’s attitude towards the coach?

A. Negative.   B. Supportive.   C. Interested.   D. Unconcerned.

4.What can we infer from the passage?

A. A father should care about his son at school.

B. Playing hard is rewarded with a close match.

C. What a coach says has the most influence on players.

D. Looking at things positively is important in hard times.

There is much more to growing up in a bilingual(双语的) family than learning two languages, and the cultural influences from both cultures are just as important.
In July we had a curious incident that shows the slight differences between cultures. My son has already changed a few of his baby teeth and since we lived in Italy we decided to go with the Italian version(版本) of the Tooth Fairy, which is not a fairy(仙女) but a little mouse. So last year when he lost his first tooth we had a visit from the little mouse who took the tooth away and left a rather good amount of coins --- when he lost the second tooth a few days later, however, the amount was significantly less! That in itself caused quite a few questions, but the real questions started when in July during a visit to the UK another tooth left my son’s mouth in Tooth Fairy land! The grandparents made a real problem out of it --- it was their first grandson’s tooth they got to say Goodbye to, so it was Tooth Fairy and rather generous, too!
The Qs & As
Son: Mum, how is the little mouse going to smell my tooth all this way? (as the story goes the little mouse smells a milk tooth and comes to collect it)
Me: No dear, it won’t! We are in England now so the Tooth Fairy will come.
Son: Oh, is she stronger than the little mouse? (I knew where this was going)
Me: She is very strong, and she is magic.
Son: What does the Tooth Fairy bring? (straight to the point)
Me: I am not sure. We’ll find out maybe a nice message.
Son: So is the little mouse coming too?
Me: No, it won’t make it all the way from Italy.
Son: But why don’t they have little mice in England?
Me: Because here the Tooth Fairy collects all baby teeth and she’s too fast, so the little mouse would always get there late.
Son: Oh!?
【小题1】Italian kids are supposed to believe ________ will come and collect the milk teeth.

完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。  
A couple of weeks ago, my friend offered to sell some of our things for us. I thought it was a good chance to   26 my 7-year-old son’s room and   27 some toys that were no longer suitable for him to play with. We   28  that all the money we got from selling the toys would be his money.
The night before the   29 , we loaded up the truck with toys and a little bike that was too   30  for him. In the yard he   31 the bike for the last time and then happily put it onto the truck. This little bike had at least two previous（以前的） owners as far as we   32 . It wasn’t in the best   33  and was certainly not new, but the tires were   34 good.
We put a price of $10 on it, but it didn’t sell. So, after the sale was  35 , my friend put it on the sidewalk, with a sign that   36 “FREE BIKE”. Within five minutes her doorbell rang. A little boy was   37_ there. In poor English he asked whether the bike was   38  free. She said yes and that he could have it for   39 . He smiled, got on the bike and rode away.
Later that evening when I told my son how much money he had made at the sale, he was very   40 , shouting happily. He asked about a few of his things, wondering   41  they had been sold. When he asked about the bike, I told him about the little boy and that made him   42 . He was much happier than when I told him how much he had   43 . He was so happy to   44 that someone else would make good  45  of that little bike!

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请您修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语文错误，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（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

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除起）不计分。

One day, there was a blind man sat on the steps of a building with a sign by his feet that read: "I am blind, please help." The kind and creative artist was walking by the blind man and stopped to observing that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat, and with stopping to ask for permission, took the sign, turned it around, and wrote a new message. He had then placed the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left. Late that afternoon the artist returned by the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost complete full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footstep and asked if it was her who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know why the man wrote on it. The blind man didn't know that his new sign read as this: "It's spring now, but I can't see it.