Long before the white man came to the America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations, The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.

After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible; there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.

In 1830, the US congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?

The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4000 had died. It was in deed a march of death.

The Cherokee Nation used to live____________.

A. on the American continent        B. in the southeastern part of the US

C. beyond the Mississippi River         D. in the western territory

One of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way of__________.

A. writing down the spoken language         B. making word pictures

C. teaching his people reading               D. printing their own newspaper

A law was passed in 1830 to__________.

A. allow the Cherokees to stay where they were    

B. send the army to help the Cherokees

C. force the Cherokees to move westward         

D. forbid the Cherokees to read their newspaper

When the Cherokees began to leave their lands, __________.

A. they went in carts            B. they went on horseback

C. they marched on foot         D. all of the above

Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because________.

A. they were not willing to go there

B. the government did not provide transportation

C. they did not have enough food and clothes

D. the journey was long and boring

短文改错（共10 小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

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篇作文。文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

    This morning Wang Hua and I went school on foot together. In the way Wang Hua saw Li Lin riding a bike on the other side of the street. He was too anxious to join Li Lin that he left me in a hurry and ran across the street in the front of a car. Luckily the driver stopped his car quickly.  What dangerous! Wang Hua jumped onto Li Lin’s bike but they went on. But when they come to the school gate , they were knocked down by a car. We were both injured and sent to hospital immediately. Fortunately, they escaped being killed. We should draw a lesson from this accident and strict obey the traffic rule in everyday life.

 

B

The hostess was to have a party and entertain guests at home. She busied herself so early in the morning, cleaning the house. She was so tired ____26___ she felt pain in her waist and on the back. Drops of sweat fell from her forehead. She did not finish cleaning the house _____27____ dusk.

_____28_____(look) at the clean and tidy drawing room, she released a sigh with a smile on her face. The guests were coming! Entering the drawing room, they_____29_____(attract) by the fresh flowers. Surprisingly pleased, they cheered in praise, "Oh, what beautiful flowers!"

"How colorful and fragrant!"

"Just a look at it, and life is full of pleasure!"

Then they went on to express their thanks ____30_____ the hostess for her _____31_____(delicate) arranged flowers.

With an embarrassed smile, the hostess said," I am glad you like it. Thank you for your praise. I was ___32_____ bit surprised about it. I _____33_____ make detailed arrangement for your honor. I was busy the whole day cleaning and mopping. As to the flowers in the vase, it is a piece of cake. I did it by just lifting my hand. Now you are ______34______(aware) of my hard work and praise _____35____highly for my easiest effort. It is beyond my expectation."

 

_____by the running , they went on running after the thief.

A．Exhausting

B．Having exhausted

C．Exhausted

D．To exhaust

 

We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over(被迫停车). A middle-aged policeman came up to the ear and was really being troublesome at first. He said, "You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?" Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. Then his way towards us totally changed. He asked, "Oh, so you boys are in a band?" We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual band questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it.
Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don't you?" Tim said, "Yes. " So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn' t know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Then the policeman put Tim in the back of the police car and threw the car into reverse(倒车), stopping a few feet in back of our car.
Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn't know if we were all going to prison. Suddenly, the policeman's voice came over in a loudspeaker. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90." Later we knew, the policeman had told Tim that if he sang one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car, we would get out of the ticket. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.
【小题1】Why did the policeman stop the boys?

A．Because they drove too fast.

B．Because they were late for their show.

C．Because they didn't see the policeman.

D．Because they had to answer the band questions.

【小题2】The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they ______.

A．had long been at the band

B．played the music he loved

C．were driving for a show

D．promised him a performance

【小题3】The underlined word "ticket" in paragraph 2 means "a piece of paper that ______".

A．allows you to enter a cinema

B．shows the price or size in a shop

C．shows that you have paid to travel on a bus

D．orders you to pay money because you have done something wrong

【小题4】How did the boys probably feel when they went on their way again?

A．Happy.

B．Calm.

C．Angry.

D．Frightened.