下面短文中有10处语言错误。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（从第11处起）不计分中学

Great changes have been taken place in the way people communicate with each other. In the

past people write letters to share informations and later they talked with each other in the telephone

Now more and more people use our own mobile phones to communicating. And instead writing on

the paper, they e-mail to each other on the computer. As a result, people find that quicker and easier

to communicate, and at the same time some people feel that they become poorer in writing. They

worry about whether people can be as closely as before.

I don’t know whether the computer was lost or stolen；        , it’s gone．

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A, B, C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. Money was always tight, but we had a    21    over our head, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always    22   . Not knowing we were poor, my kids just thought I was strict. I’ve always been glad about that.

It was Christmas time, and although there wasn’t money for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a family party. But the big   23   for the kids was the fun of Christmas. Fortunately, I had saved $120 for    24    to share by all five of us.

The big    25   arrived. I gave each kid a twenty – dollar bill and    26    them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered. We had two hours to shop; then we would meet back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.

Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, except my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually    27   . She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies － fifty – cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything until we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed as the door, ready to be angry again. This is what she told me.

“ I was looking around    28   of what to buy, and I stopped to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees’. One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she wanted for Christmas was a doll. So I took the card off the tree and    29   the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”

I never felt so   30   as I did that day.

21.   A. roof    B. hat      C. sky     D. star

22.   A. little   B. less     C. enough       D. more

23.   A. improvement     B. problem     C. surprise      D. excitement

24.   A. toys    B. clothes       C. presents      D. bills

25. A. day     B. chance       C. cheque       D. tree

26.   A. forced B. reminded    C. invited       D. begged

27.   A. quiet   B. excited       C. happy D. ashamed

28. A. learning     B. thinking     C. knowing     D. telling

29.   A. made  B. searched     C. bought       D. fetched

30.   A. angry  B. rich    C. patient       D. bitter

           the exploration of the botanical world            on a large scale.

       A．It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that; had begun

       B．It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when; began

       C．Not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did; begin

       D．Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; began

Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in for an unwelcome surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobiliser (锁止器), and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.

The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro- processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle's engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted.

In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. 'The pattern of vehicle crime has changed,’ says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.

Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won't allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.

But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner's keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system.

If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen. The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal.

Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle's movements via the car's GPS unit.

51. What's the function of the remote immobilizer fitted to a car?

 A .To allow the car to lock automatically when stolen.

B. To prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops.

C. To help the police make a surprise attack on the car thief.

D. To prevent car theft by sending a radio signal to the car owner.

52. By saying 'The pattern of vehicle crime has changed' (Lines 1-2. Para. 3). Martyn Randall suggests that ____.

A. self-prepared tools are no longer enough for car theft

B. the thief has to make use of computer technology

C. it takes a longer time for the car thief to do the stealing

D. the thief has lost interest in stealing cars over 10 years old

53. What is essential in making a modern car tougher to steal?

A. A GPS satellite positioning receiver.　      B. A unique ID card.   

C. A special cellphone signal.                D. A coded ignition key.

54. Why does the tracking system set a 100-metre minimum before sending an alarm to the operations centre?

A. To give the driver time to contact the operations centre.

B. To allow for possible errors in the GPS system.

C. To keep police informed of the car's movements.

D. To leave time for the operations centre to give an alarm.

55. What will the operations centre do first after receiving an alarm?

A. Start the tracking system.         B. Locate the missing car.

C. Contact the car owner.　         D. Block the car engine.

第一节  完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A sudden large increase in interest in reading among children is preventing them from suffering accidents, British researchers say.

The  21  looked at the number of children attending casualty John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on weekends of Saturday, 21 June, 2003 and Saturday, 16 July this year – the   22   dates of the two most recent Harry Potter books, The Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince.

     They found that only 36 and 37 kids respectively needed treatment   23   with an average of 67 children on "normal" weekends.

     The doctors said while   24    did keep children away from dangerous games, it could lead to a    25   in obesity.

     The authors of the study suggested that   26   more book reading might be a   27   way to combat childhood accidents.

     "It may be hypothesized (假设）that there is a place for a committee of safety conscious, and talented writers who could produce high quality books for the   28   of injury prevention," they wrote in the British Medical Journal.

      However they acknowledged there could be a downside to a strategy that seeks to turn

  29  children into bookworms.

  30   problems could include "an unpredictable increase in childhood obesity, ( 肥胖症 )，rickets （ 软骨病 ）and loss of cardiovascular fitness ( 心血管病 ).

21. A. researchers            B. writers                      C. parents               D. doctors

22. A. open                  B. launch               C. show                D. publish

23. A. dealt                  B. interfere             C. compared            D. meet

24. A. reading                B. fighting              C. playing               D. seeing

25. A. high                  B. growth              C. behavior              D. condition

26. A. increasing             B. improving            C. urging               D. encouraging

27. A. useful                 B. careful               C. delightful             D. thoughtful

28. A. object                 B. purpose              C. principle              D. attention

29. A. beautiful               B. small                C. honest               D. active

30. A. Likely                 B. Forgetful             C. Potential              D. Suitable

 Our .English teacher is our favorite. She's kind and humorous, but____, she is strict with us.

      A. in other words   B. on the other hand   C. after all             D. in all

—Is the experiment easy?

　　　　— ________ . I’ll just do my bit.

　　A. I think so　　　　B. Certainly　  　C. Not a little　　　　 D. Anything but

第二部分：阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）

第一节  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Grandfather was from Italy and was the only one in his family who settled down in the United States. The rest of his family remained in Europe. When World War I broke out, he seemed to have become another man, downhearted. Such obvious change was not born out of his welfare, but out of fear: if his only son, my uncle, had to go to war, it would be cousin fighting against cousin. 

One day in 1918, my Uncle Milton received his draft notice. My grandparents were very upset. But my mother, at the age of 10, felt on top of the world about her soldier brother going off to war. Realizing how he was regarded by his little sister and all of her friends, my uncle brought them all service pins, which meant that they had a loved one in the service. All the little girls were delighted. 

Then the moment came when my uncle and the other soldiers, without any training but all in uniforms, boarded the train. The band played and the crowd cheered. Although no one noticed, I’m sure my grandmother had a tear in her eyes for the only son. The train slowly pulled out, but not about a thousand yards when it suddenly paused. Everyone stared in wonder as the train slowly returned to the station. There was a dead silence before the doors opened and the men started to step out. Someone shouted,“The war is over”. For a moment, nobody moved, but then the people heard someone bark orders at the soldiers. The men lined up in two lines, walked down the steps, and with the band playing, marched down the street, as returning heroes, to be welcomed home. My mother said it was a great day, but she was just a little disappointed that it didn’t last a tiny bit longer. 

41. My grandfather most worried about          . 

A. the spread of the world war            B. the safety of his living two cousins

C. a drop in his living standards          D. his relatives killing each other

42. The underlined phrase “draft notice” means “        “

A. a letter of rejection                  B. a train ticket for Europe

C. an order for army service       D. a note of warning

43. What did the “service pins”（in Para. 2）stand for in the eyes of the little girls?

A. Honor   B. Courage.   C. Victory.   D. Strength.

44. Which of the following words can best describe the ending of the story?

A. Disappointing.  B. Inspiring   C. Uncertain.  D. Unexpected.

第Ⅱ卷（满分 35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10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。

Robert Burns, a famous Scottish poet, was born in the poor              76.         

farmer’s family. Although he only received two or a half years’          77.          

schooling, but he managed to read a large number of poems and         78.                

novels in his spare time. His first collection of poems were             79.          

completed in 1786. Once publishing, it attracted the attention of         80.   

readers and poets because its simple style. And soon Burns’            81.         

work stood out among the other Scottish poems at that time.            82.             

Despite his short life, he wrote many poems and contributed           83.              

great to the development of English literature. His poem,         84.            

A Red, Red Rose, had been translated into many languages.            85.