第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分；满分20分）阅读下-优题课

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）（见答题卡）
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一下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误只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(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词，每句中最多有两处错误；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11出）不计分。
Volunteers Wanted
The Voluntary Service Club of our school will set up on March 25th. The main purpose of it is to call on and organize students to serve for society better and develop our ability to cooperate to others. The volunteers are required to work at weekends to visit the elderly in the nursing homes in our city, keep public places clean and offer some guidances to the passengers in some stations and so on. The students which are healthy, patience, warm-hearted and willing to help others are welcome to join the club. Whether you are interested and want to become a member of it, please sent your application to the Students’ Union before March 15th. The office of the Students’ Union will contact the choosing candidates for a interview in a few days.
March 8th
The Students’ Union

This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat ____ his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle(一滩水) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop. He knew ______ would happen when his classmates found out. He looked up and there came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he ____ (discover).
As the teacher was walking towards _____, a classmate named Susie was carrying _____ goldfish bowl full of water to her desk. Suddenly, Susie tripped(绊倒) and, ______ (strange), dumped the whole bowl of water in Jim's lap. He pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying deep in his heart, “Thank you!”
Jim became the object of sympathy instead of ridicule(嘲笑). The teacher brought him gym shorts to put on. All the others crawled(爬) on their hands and knees, ___ (clean) up around his desk. But _____ life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred(转移) to Susie. She tried to help, _____ they told her to leave the room. ____ school was over, Jim walked over to Susie and whispered, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”
Susie whispered back, “I wet my trousers once, too!”

One lunchtime when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had painstakingly my lines with me. But no matter how easily I them at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word from my head.
Finally my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s part to the play, and asked me to switch . Her words, delivered, still stung(刺耳), especially when I saw my go to another girl.
I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she my unease, and instead of suggesting we practice my , she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.
It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine(枝条)was turning . We could see yellow dandelions(蒲公英)popping through the grass in bunches.
I watched my mother bend down by one of the clumps(丛), “I think I’m going to all these weeds.’’ she said. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden. ” “But I like dandelions.’’ I . “All flowers are beautiful—even dandelions. ”
My mother looked at me seriously. "Yes, every flower gives in its own way, doesn’t it?”She asked thoughtfully. “And that is of people too, ”she added. “Not everyone can be a , but there is no shame in that. ”
Relieved that she had guessed my , I started to cry as I told her what had happened.
“But you will be a narrator, ”she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her, “The narrator’s part is as as the part of the princess.’’
Over the next few weeks, with her constant , I learned to take pride in the role. Lunchtimes were spent reading over my lines and talking about what I would wear.

A．trained B．picked C．tested D．expected

A．rewritten B．changed C．questioned D．practiced

A．replaced B．selected C．delivered D．designed

A．disappeared B．came C．failed D．shone

A．seats B．roles C．tasks D．ideas

A．secretly B．exactly C．fully D．kindly

A．goal B．duty C．part D．work

A．sensed B．ignored C．admitted D．controlled

A．speeds B．skills C．1ines D．questions

A．empty B．dry C．green D．soft

A．proudly B．angrily C．joyfully D．casually

A．give out B．dig up C．turn over D．set down

A．cried B．nodded C．added D．sighed

A．pleasure B．heat C．favor D．fortune

A．equal B．wise C．possible D．true

A．princess B．host C．director D．king

A．trick B．joy C．pain D．anger

A．thankful B．beautiful C．cheerful D．merciful

A．important B．useful C．exciting D．strange

A．challenge B．encouragement C．competition D．agreement

Britain’s high streets are dying slowly
Twenty years ago, the prosperous high street(繁华商业区) was the heart of most cities. It was crowded with customers. ____ Nowadays, high streets are declining, with very few shops and shoppers. With about 14 shops down every day, Britain’s high streets are dying little by little.
____ It’s fairly easy to understand. To start with, people are spending less because of the economic recession(衰退). On top of that, more and more people are using the Internet to do their shopping. And it is not easy for shopkeepers in the high streets, either. ____ Finally, there are the out-of-town retail parks with free car parking that sell just about everything at very low prices.
What can be done? Prime Minister David Cameron has hired Mary Portas, a British business woman and star of TV show Mary Queen of Shops, to bring some life back into Britain’s high streets. She's talked about creating “magnets(磁石)” to attract people back to the centre. ______ In one town, a bicycle rickshaw(人力车) service is delivering people's shopping to their homes. ____, where children can be cared for while parents are shopping.
Members of the public have also voiced their opinions. “My ideal shopping center is one where there’s a wide selection of attractive looking shops, with cheap parking and good public transport links,” said a 28-year-old man. “I’d like to see Night Shopping evenings where shops are open through to 10 pm or later,” said a 22-year-old girl.

A．They have to pay increasing high rents.

B．But he is not the only one to solve the problem.

C．But that’s all changed.

D．In another town, they set up a nursery,

E. In another town, they set up night shopping centers,
F. They can make a fortune overnight.
G. Why are high streets in such a desperate situation?

A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man — the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual(体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously (豪华地) furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.
From paragraph 1, we can know that in America _________.

A．people feel painful to mention their fathers as laborers

B．people can always rise to the top through their won efforts

C．college professors win great respect from common workers

D．people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man

According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _________.

A．servants in American are hard to get

B．she takes pride in what she can do herself

C．she can hardly afford servants

D．It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food

The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “_________”.

A．wait to lay the table

B．keep accounts for a bar

C．serve customers in a restaurant

D．work in a furniture shop

Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?

A．American Attitude toward Manual Labor

B．A Respectable Self-made Family

C．Characteristics of American Culture

D．The Development of Manual Labor