题目内容
Funny English Errors and Insights
Laugh...And Learn!
Welcome to the website for Funny English Errors and Insights (2010), a new book of unconscious humour published by the National Library of Australia.
Funny English Errors and Insights will be launched at the National Library in Canberra on 29th, October 2010.
In the meantime, explore this website for other collections of real-life English language mistakes, including funny answers to exam questions, media misprints, and silly signs.
See Funny English Errors: The B List for more than a hundred examples of funny English gaffes(失言).For more funny English errors, read author Troy Simpson's blog.For still more examples, join this website to download a free PDF version of English As She Is Taught, which lists our top 250 funny English language mistakes from that classic howlers book.
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Features
Follows in the tradition of the runaway best-seller Howlers books of the 1920s and 1930s
Includes quotes(引文) that have never been published before in this way
Includes more than 30 carefully selected funny photos
Topics include English, science, history, geography, religion, mathematics, and more
A perfect gift for students, teachers, parents, grandparents, public speakers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergy and religious, and anyone with a sense of humour!
The word launched in the second paragraph is closest to the meaning:
A.sent up for the first time. B.written for the first time.
C.for sale for the first time. D.printed for the first time.
On the website, you can do the following things except .
A.read some funny news
B.know something about this book previously
C.find a lot of examples about English errors
D.express your opinions freely
About this book, you know that .
A.it only includes English, science, history
B.it is quite different from Howlers books
C.all the quotes in it are familiar with us
D.it is intended for people all walks of life
The text is aimed at introducing
A.a popular website B.some selected funny photos
C.a new book D.some funny English errors
【小题1】C
【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】C
解析:
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Julio loves to visit his grandmother.He doesn’t get to visit her very often because his family lives in a city that is six hours away.His grandmother lives in a big wooden house on a farm .It is old and looks as if it has secret hiding places .
On the third Sunday of June ,Julio’s parents took him to his grandmother’s .Since it was summer vacation ,he was going to stay at grandmother’s for a whole mother ! His cousins Mario and Linda would soon be arriving .They would also be staying at their grandmother’s this summer.
A big porch(走廊)wraps around two sides of the house .Julio sat in the porch swing .He could see the trees that circle the house.They had been planted as a windbreak .They protect the house from the wind and blowing dirt .The house is in the middle of a large ,flat field.
Julio watched the dirt road that leads to the house .He couldn’t wait for his cousins to get there !Mario was his age ,and Linda was a year younger .They had fun together .Last summer they spent one whole morning making a fort out of sacks of seed .Then Uncle Henry had taken them on a tractor ride.
Julio remembered another time with his cousins .They had gone out to explode the fields.Julio touched an electric fence and got a shock .Then they found an old snakeskin .Nothing like that ever happened at his own home!
Julio could smell the dinner that his grandmother was cooking .It made him hungry.
Finally he saw a cloud of dust coming up the road.“They ‘re here! There’re here!” He shouted.
The story tells about Julio and his cousins doing all of the following except_______.
A.watching old movies B.taking a tractor ride
C.finding a snakeskin D.making a fort from seed sacks
How do you think Julio felt when he saw his cousins arriving?
A.He was worried B.He was excited C.He was angry D.He was sad.
After Julio’s cousins arrived ,what would probably happen next?______.
A.They would build a fort on the hill.
B.They would look for snake skins.
C.They would climb the trees in their grandmother’s yard
D.They would eat dinner at their grandmother’s house.
These boxes show events that happened in the story .What is in box 2?
Julio went to Grandmother’s house | Julio thought about Another visit to grandmother's |
A.Julio’s cousins arrived at Grandmother’s house.
B.Julio could smell dinner cooking.
C.Julio sat in the porch swing.
D.Julio saw a cloud of dust coming up the road.