根据短文内容，从短文后的A-G选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。

Without plants, people could not live. We eat plants.______ 1_____ And we need plants for another reason---we need them beacause they are beautiful.

____2      Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colours and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we are not able to hear the leaves of the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.

____3____ That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why

people always like houses with room for some grass and a garden.

    Do you talk to your plants? _____4____  Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird,

writers of a book called The Street of Plants, tell of an experiment in which two

seeds were planted in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant

was given love and hopeful ideas. ___5____ Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves.

A.  Plants get energy from the sun.

B.  Do you give them love and take care of them? 

C.  After six months, The deserted plant faded(凋谢) away.

D.  After six months, the beloved plant was bigger.

E.  We take in oxygen that plants make.

F.  Everywhere people need beautiful plants.

G.  Imagine a world without plants.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加上一个漏字符号（∧），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。

Thank you very much for invite me to your birthday party in Saturday morning. I’d like to come and I have to go to my hometown to see my grandparents. They were very old and luckily they are not in good health recently. My mother has already made a telephone calling to them and promised visit them with me this Saturday. My mother said we will stay at my grandparents’ the whole weekend. So I’m real sorry I can’t attend your party. I do hope you will understand all this. Now I wish you a lot fun on your birthday and many happy returns of the day.

书面表达（满分25分）

假如你是洋浦电视电视台的工作人员Li Hua，你收到一封来自于一个名叫小明的人的来信。他向你询问如何交友。请给他写一封信, 并提出建议。要点提示：

1. 每个人都需要朋友，如何交友极为重要。

2. 要交朋友，首先对别人要友好真诚。

3. 设法记住别人的名字。

4. 与别人有分歧时，不要争吵，要商讨。

5. 其它。

要求：适当增加内容以使行文连贯。词数100左右。

Xiao Ming,

___________________________________________________________________________

                                                                 Yours truly,

                                                                   Li Hua

The carnival celebrations in Venice are ________ good chance to have _______ fun.

A. /; the      B. a; a       C. the; /        D. a; /

They _______ to come to the meeting on time，but they were late again

 A．meant    B．had meant    C．means    D．have meant

Does John know any other foreign language _____ French?

A. except         B. but              C. besides         D. beside

John as well as the other children who _______ no parents _______ good care of in the village.

A. have; is being taken           B. have; has taken  

C. has; is taken                 D. has; have been taken

_____ in the queue for half an hour, Tom suddenly realized that he had left his wallet at home.

A. To wait    B. Have waited      C. Having waited      D. To have waited

Science and technology __________ nowadays in our socialist construction.

A. plays an important part           B. play an important part

C. play important parts              D. take important parts

In developed countries, farm workers _________ only a small section of the population.

A. pick up     B. make up     C. hold up      D. keep up