短文改错（共１０小题，每小题1.5分，满分１5分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

    此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

    此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

    此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

    注意：原行没有错的不要改。

My friend Kate was a pretty girl whose sweet voice

drew others’ attentions. Last year, she left to study at a music        1.______

school. Yesterday she called to say that she wants to see me but      2.______

not at my house. So we fixed a time and a place and then hung.       3.______

Today I met her at a given time and place. Greatly                 4.______

to my surprise, I found her so much changing. She                    5.______

looked very sorrowful and worrying. She said she had made              6.______

such little progress that she was almost hopeless of success.            7.______

She wondered that whether she had been wasting her                       8.______

time doing nothing. I knew she just needed some encouragement.        9.______

So I did what I could persuade her to gain her courage again.            10.______

Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded of an incident in my own childhooD．When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.

We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.

I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have my own private musician.

I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured, the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.

I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of the bird’s captivity my new pet’s mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.

The following morning when I went to see how my captive was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.

Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had occurred. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”

Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.

64．Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?

A．He had just got a new cage.         B．He liked its beautiful feather.

C．He wanted it to sing for him.         D．He wanted a pet for a companion.

65．The mockingbird died because it ______.

A．was frightened to death          B．ate the poisonous food its mother gave it

C．refused to eat anything            D．drank the poisonous water by mistake

66．An ornithologist probably means ______.

A．a religious person                 B．a kind person

C．a schoolmaster                   D．a expert in birds

67．What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?

A．Freedom is very valuable to all creatures.

B．All birds put in a cage won’t live long.

C．You should keep the birds from their mother.

D．Be careful about food you give to baby birds.

 

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she was certainly not afraid of the dark.   36  , it was only a 15 – minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish she hadn’t been so   37  .

As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly   38  cold – very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it was hard for her to ride.

With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move __39__ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also __40__. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something __41__. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear,” said the old lady. “I need __42__. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes.”

“Airport? You __43__ are lost,” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers __44__ you reach the T-junction. Turn left and __45__ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the __46__ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no __47__ you’ll get there in five minutes!”

“Thank you very much, dear,” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll __48__ in time.”

The __49__ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it __50__ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something __51__ happened. The car began changing. First, its color __52__from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, __53__ just above the ground. As the car __54__ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint(微弱的) whistling __55__, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…

36．A．However          B．Besides               C．Therefore      D．Otherwise

37．A．brave          B．excited            C．curious                D．certain

38．A．fell                   B．seemed              C．proved              D．grew

39．A．aside                B．around               C．forward      D．backward

40．A．arrived               B．stopped               C．stayed                D．started

41．A．gathered             B．existed                C．dropped              D．moved

42．A．help           B．gas              C．rest                 D．water

43．A．necessarily             B．normally               C．basically              D．certainly

44．A．if             B．until                C．unless               D．as

45．A．drive                 B．walk                 C．follow                 D．march

46．A．address              B．signs                  C．notices               D．guidance

47．A．doubt          B room               C．time                 D．way

48．A．have it                B．get it        C．make it               D．finish it

49．A．door                 B．window              C．headlight              D．wheel

50．A．passed               B．rushed                C．turned               D．continued

51．A．strange              B．sensitive       C．imaginable            D．terrible

52．A．developed             B．appeared             C．spread              D．faded (become paler)

53．A．rolling                 B．floating        C．drawing               D．flashing

54．A．pointed              B．returned               C．broke                 D．rose

55．A．tune           B．voice             C．sound                D．tone

 

 

选择恰当的主题句

Read the following text and choose the most suitable topic sentence from A—E for each paragraph. There is an extra one which you do not need.

A. l don’t really know my daughter，for she isn’t easy to get on with. B. We were closest when she was about four，which I think is a wonderful age for a child. C. I’m very pleased to have Carmen. D. My first wife and I only had one child. E. I’ve always wanted the best for her.

Family Matters

Oliver Darrow, actor, talks about his daughter, Carmen．

72   It might have been nice to have more. I would have liked a son，but we just had Carmen.

I see her as my best friend. I think she always comes to me first if she has a problem. We have the same sense of humour and share many interests，except that she’s crazy about animals，obsessed with them-she has always had dogs，cats，and horses in her life.

73    That’s when they need their parents most．But as soon as Carmen went to school，she seemed to grow up and grow apart from her family, and any father finds it difficult with a teenage daughter. She was very moody and had an odd group of friends. There was an endless stream of strange young men coming to our house. I remember I once got annoyed with her in front of her friends and she didn’t talk to me for days. 

74  We sent her to a good school, but she wasn’t happy there. She left because she  wanted to become an actress. So with my connections I got her into drama school. but she didn’t like that either. She worked for a while，doing small roles in films, but she must have found it boring because she gave it up，though she never really said why. She got married a few years ago; her husband’s a vet.  They must be happy because they work together. and she loves animals.

We have the same tastes in books and music，When she was younger I used to take her to the opera-that’s nay passion-but she can’t have liked it very much because she hasn’t come with me for years. I don’t think she goes to the cinema or watches TV much. She might watch my films. but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she talks to me about.

75  ．She’s a good daughter, but I don’t think she likes my new wife very much because she doesn’t visit us very often. I’m looking forward to being a grandfather one day. I hope she’ll have a son.