Light for the City
Edison and his assistants came to New York to set up an electric power system. They hoped it would provide enough electricity to light up a part of the great city.
They bought several machines with them. These were called generators(发电机), which produced electricity power for lamps in Edison’s building.
Soon there were lights for the building. Edison lived in a room facing the street and he often worked over night. The light burned brightly and steadily and he often worked over night. People often came and stopped their horse-drawn carriage to look. Everyone knew that Thomas Edison was in town.
First, the inventor and his assistants produced several large generators. A great deal of power would be needed to light up even a small part of the city. Then the workers were busy digging deep trenches in the hard earth below the city streets, and Edison had fourteen miles of wire laid into the trenches. The wire connected each building to a generator.
Setting up an electric power system was not an easy job. It took a year and a half. In September, 1882, the job was finished.
A small group of men stood around Edison inside the power house. The big moment came at last. The inventor, taking a deep breath, pulled a switch. The electric lights flashed up.
“Very good! Very good!” a man nearby shouted to praise Edison for what he had done.
“Sir,” said Edison, “this is only the beginning!” And Edison was right. Soon Edison’s lamp were lighting up cities all over the world.                
【小题1】The generators they brought with them could produce as much as electricity as ______ needed.

We all have weaknesses and strengths—no matter who we are .Some get sick easily.

Some are  36  people in communication, struggling with  37 .

Sometimes weaknesses seem to outweigh (胜过)the strengths and sometimes it’s the other way around.  38  ,facing huge limitations, many people tend to  39  it  as just bad luck ---but not everyone. Those who rise over their weaknesses can still manage to  40  extraordinary things.

I  41  a school prize –giving ceremony and the guest speaker was Andrew Becroft,  42 had a severe stutter (结巴 ) as a child .  43  allowing this to limit  him , he chose to overcome it. Now he is a famous judge . Not only  44  he become  successful, but he did so in a profession  45  he had to speak before others regularly. Had he not worked on his  46  ability, it would have been very limiting to his success in life and work.

Many people face far huger limitations, such as loss  47  legs or arms , being born extremely poor,  48 you do. But whatever the limitation, you’ll  49 find people who have overcome it. Helen Keller, who fell  50 and lost  her sight and hearing at 19 months old, worked hard to be a famous woman with great  51  . Mark Inglis lost both his legs in a mountain climbing accident,  52  has since climbed Mt. Everest.

If one of them had told you what they hoped to achieve, you would have nodded kindly while  53  thinking to yourself that they had no chance . And yet the results speak for  54  .

Though most of us will never have to face such challenges , yet most of us will never achieve to the  55  that these people have either if we never seriously think of what we can do.

19.A. yourself        B, ourselves         C. themselves       D. itself

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第一节：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，错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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The school sports meeting took the place on November 2. More than a thousand students competed for over 50 events. These students have been preparing for the sports meeting for weeks but they hoped to perform well in this grand competition. After the wonderful opened ceremony , the competition time arrived. A lot of student were so excited that they gathered in a certain area , cheered for the players. When they saw my classmates , they started shouting at the top of their voice. The sports meeting was lasted until November 4. It was great success .

We thought we had it all---a beautiful house, three healthy children and one more on the way, two cars, a couple of four-wheelers for entertainment---and we loved it. Then, the market turned and my husband’s job at a construction company was gone. The company was closing down for good.We both started looking for jobs right away, but there weren’t any to be found. With each passing day we were getting increasingly worried and we continued to work together in order to pull our family through. The more we pulled together, the closer we got. I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn’t felt in years.

That’s why it was so hard for me to watch him blame himself for our present situation. I continually asked him to stop, but he seemed to want to punish himself for not having a job.

Finally, one afternoon I pulled him aside and said, “We have four healthy children and each other. That’s what’s important. That makes you a rich man.”

“ But what if we lose the house? They’ll hate me—you’ll hate me,” he replied.

I smiled at him and put my hands on both sides of his face to make him look me in the eye. “No matter where we live I will be happy –as long as I have you.” I smiled again. In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said “I do”.

I could see his shoulders and neck relaxed. He held me close and we were able to talk and plan and dream together in a way that we hadn’t for quite some time. It was a turning point for us as a couple and a family.

We are still struggling for out better life, but I consider us well-off because we have something that money can’t buy and no one can take away from us.

1.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph means that________.

2.We can learn from the passage that________.

3.Which of the following can best describe their present life?

4.The best title of the passage might be________         .

It was a market day, so people and traffic had been pouring into the town since early morning.  16  it was an old town, even the main street was very  17  and soon became overcrowded. There was not enough  18  for all the people on the sidewalk at the roadside,  19  they overflowed into the road, 20   danger to their lives from  21  cars and buses, the drivers of  42  were constantly blowing their horns (喇叭) to 23  people to get out of their  24 .

　   Yet it was a(n)  25  scene. Peasants walked along the street, their heads piled high with baskets or beautifully woven blankets which they hoped to   26  to the townsfolk. Men with carts  27  their way along, shouting their goods at the top of their  28 . They were selling apples, oranges and grapes -- the 29  of their fields. 30  it all, women in bright summer clothes made their way, laughing and talking, 31  children rushed in and out of the crowds screaming with laughter when they did’t ask for something they could not have, or crying with  32  because they were lost.

    The noise went on all day. People did not even stop for a meal, but preferred to buy bits of meat cooked over a fire or bread or ice-cream from the street sellers. The  33  from this and from all the activities of the day began to collect in the street. And finally, when night at last came, the street 34   and only the rubbish  35   sadly blowing in the cooling night wind.