短文改错（共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分）

The village was always very quietly .The people living     1.______

there were busy about working in their fields during the    2.______

day and went to bed early at night, tiring after a                    3.______

long day ’s hard work. All of them had lived in a                   4.__ 

village for all their life and had never left for less than       5.______

one day at a time. On these days how they left, they got    6.___

up early in the morning .They filled with their cart of               7._____

fruit ,vegetables and sheeps, and went to the                    8._______

market in the town beyond their valley .They come            9._______

back in the evening with some money and perhaps a           10.____

present for their children. That was their life－hard and

simple, but not unhappy 

The village was always very quietly ．The people living                      1.______

there were busy about working in their fields during the                     2.______

day and went to bed early at night, tiring after a                              3.______

long day ’s hard work． All of them had lived in a                             4.______ 

village for all their life and had never left for less than                          5.______

one day at a time． On these days how they left, they got                  6.______

up early in the morning ．They filled with their cart of                       7.______

fruit ,vegetables and sheeps, and went to the                                     8.______

market in the town beyond their valley ．They come                         9.______

back in the evening with some money and perhaps a                           10.______

present for their children． That was their life－hard and

simple, but not unhappy 

When Charles Strattion was five, he stopped growing. His mother took him to see the famous showman, P.T.Barnum, and thought a small person would be the perfect addition to his show. He hired Charles’ parents along with him, and they traveled around the world together.
He gave the two-foot-tall Charles a new name, general Tom Thumb. He taught Tom how to sing, dance, act, and tell jokes. When he felt Tom was ready to perform on stage, he made up ads. To stir up great interest, he said that Tom was eleven years old and had come from England.
During the show, Tom fought battles pretendedly with tall people. He also danced upon a wooden plate held by a person who was eight feet tall.
Tom’s act was very popular and brought in a lot of money. By the time Tom was an adult, he had grown very rich. He had become a billionaire at the age of twenty-five.
Fortunately for Tom, Mr. Barnum added more little people to his show, and Tom became lucky in love as well. One of the little people was Lavinia Warren, a school teacher. Tom was able to win her love, and they married.
The ceremony and reception were the talk of the town. They were attended by many rich and famous people and by about two thousand guests. Crowds filled the streets of New York to have a look at their tiny wedding carriage. The couple even met with President Abraham Lincoln on their honeymoon, just before going to live in Tom’s house in Connecticut.
Their wedding, which took place during the Civil War, provided a welcome escape from the sad problems of war. Not willing to let this bit of sunshine fade, communities throughout the country sponsored “Tom Thumb” weddings. In these weddings, small boys and girls, all dressed up, went through marriage ceremony for fun.
【小题1】“the talk of the town” means _________ .

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入
空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid, when I 41 becoming a doctor.
My mother was a 42 . Through her work, she observed that 43 people spent a lot more time 44 than they did watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three 45 TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each week from the Detroit Public Library and 46 written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check markers and underline the 47 parts. Years later we realized her marks were a 48 . My mother was illiterate(文盲). Although we had no money, 49 the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be anybody.
When I entered high school, I was an A-student, but not for 50 . I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student and to a C-student, but I didn’t 51 . I was cool.
One night my mother came home after her several jobs and I 52 about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you the money I 53 this week by rubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With 54 left over, you can have all that you want.” I was very 55 with that arrangement. But once I got through 56 money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a(n) 57 over our heads and any kind of food on the table. I was also 58 that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success 59 intellectual(知识上的) preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again, and 60 I realized my dream and I became a doctor.