题目内容
短文改错Dear Peter,I’m very much delighted that you are coming here for the holiday. But I’ll be able to meet you at the airport aswe planned, as I will be host a speech contest at that time. I’m terribly sorry about that. But I had asked my best friend to go to an airport at 6:00 on Saturday afternoon to meet you. He will be the airport while you arrive, hold a board with your name on it. Then he will take you by taxi to the hotel that we have booked a room for you. I will call you late. Wish you a pleasant journey. And I’m looking forward seeing you soon.Yours, truly,LiHua
Dear Peter,
Thanks very much on inviting me to your birthday party on Sunday. I’d like very much come but I will had an examination on Monday morning. It is a very important exam but I can’t afford to fail it. I’ll spend all the whole weekend reading and prepare for it. So I’m really sorry that I won’t be able to come in this time. Hope you can understand. I’ll take this chance to wish you wonderful time on your birthday. Happy birthday, Peter, and many happy return of the day!
Yours,
Li Ming
短文改错
I’m very much delighted that you are coming here for the holiday. But I’ll be able to meet you at the airport as
we planned, as I will be host a speech contest at that time. I’m terribly sorry about that. But I had asked my best friend to go to an airport at 6:00 on Saturday afternoon to meet you. He will be the airport while you arrive, hold a board with your name on it. Then he will take you by taxi to the hotel that we have booked a room for you. I will call you late. Wish you a pleasant journey. And I’m looking forward seeing you soon.
Yours, truly,
LiHua
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：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。
I’m very much delighted that you are coming here for 76.______
the holiday. But I’ll be able to meet you at the airport 77.______
as we planned, as I will be hosting a speech contest at 78.______
that time. I’m terribly sorry about that. But I had asked 79.______
my best friend to go to an airport at 6:00 on Saturday 80.______
afternoon to meet you. He will be the airport while you 81.______
arrive, hold a board with your name on it. Then he 82.______
will take you by taxi to the hotel that we have booked 83.______
a room for you. I will call you late. Wish you a pleasant 84.______
journey. And I’m looking forward seeing you soon. 85.______
There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at — paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For the moment, though, he will stick to the skill that he has been delighted to make perfect over the past ten years: making delicate and unusual objects out of shells.
As he leads me round his apartment showing me his work, he points to a pair of shell-covered ornaments(装饰品) above a fireplace. “I shan’t be at all bothered if people don’t buy them because I have got so used to them, and to me they’re lovely. I never meant to sell my work commercially. Some friends came to see me about five years ago and said, ‘You must have an exhibition — people ought to see these. We’ll talk to a man who owns an art gallery’”. The result was an exhibition in London, at which 70 per cent of the objects were sold. His second exhibition opened at the gallery yesterday. Considering the enormous prices the pieces command —around ￡2,000 for the ornaments — an empty space above the fireplace would seem a small sacrifice for Cooke to make.
There are 86 pieces in the exhibition, with prices starting at￡225 for a shell-flower in a crystal vase. Cooke insists that he has nothing to do with the prices and is cheerily open about their level: he claims there is nobody else in the world who produces work like his, and, as the gallery-owner told him, “Well, you’re going to stop one day and everybody will want your pieces because there won’t be any more.”
“I do wish, though,” says Cooke, “that I’d taken this up a lot earlier, because then I would have been able to produce really wonderful things — at least the potential would have been there. Although the ideas are still there and I’m doing the best I can now, I’m more limited physically than I was when I started.” Still, the work that he has managed to produce is a long way from the common shell constructions that can be found in seaside shops. “I have a miniature(微型的) mind,” he says, and this has resulted in boxes covered in thousands of tiny shells, little shaded pictures made from shells and baskets of astonishingly realistic flowers.?
Cooke’s quest(追求) for beautiful, and especially tiny, shells has taken him further than his Norfolk shore: to France, Thailand, Mexico, South Africa and the Philippines, to name but a few of the beaches where he has lain on his stomach and looked for beauties to bring home. He is insistent that he only collects dead shells and defends himself against people who write him letters accusing him of stripping the world’s beaches. “When I am collecting shells, I hear people’s great fat feet crunching(嘎吱嘎吱地踩) them up far faster than I can collect them; and the ones that are left, the sea breaks up. I would not dream of collecting shells with living creatures in them or diving for them, but once their occupants have left, why should I not collect them?” If one bases this argument on the amount of luggage that can be carried home by one man, the beauty of whose work is often greater than its natural parts, it becomes very convincing indeed.
1.What does the reader learn about Peter Cooke in the first paragraph?
A. He has produced hand-made objects in different materials.?
B. He hopes to work with other materials in the future.?
C. He has written about his love of making shell objects.?
D. He was praised for his shell objects many years ago.
2.When mentioning the cost of his shell objects, Cooke ____.
A. cleverly changes the subject.
B. defends the prices charged for his work.
C. says he has no idea why the level is so high.
D. notes that his work will not always be so popular.
3.The “small sacrifice” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.?
A. the loss of Cooke’s ornaments? B. the display of Cooke’s ornaments?
C. the cost of keeping Cooke’s ornaments D. the space required to store Cooke’s ornaments
4.What does Cooke regret about his work?
A. He is not as famous as he should have been.?B. He makes less money than he should make.
C. He is less imaginative than he used to be.? D. He is not as skillful as he used to be. ?
5.What does the reader learn about Cooke's shell-collecting activities?
A. Not everyone approves of what he does.
B. Other methods might make his work easier.
C. Other tourists get in the way of his collecting.
D. Not all shells are the right size and shape for his work
