短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。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。
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：在错的词下划一横线，并在其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（从第11处起）不计分。
My car just wouldn’t move any farther. It was complete dead, and I was a few
miles away from anywhere in that cold, wet night. I decided walk around a little before
accepting I’d have to spend the night in the car. Maybe I can find a telephone. Actually,
I didn’t have to walk far before I found the small house standing in a field with a light
shone from the sitting room. I knocked at the door and was delighting when a pleasant
old man opened the door but listened to my story carefully. He said he had no
telephone, and it wasn’t any within walking distance, but the old man who offered to
go to repair my car.

完成句子 (共10小题；每小题l分，共10分)

1. 她是被宠坏了，但又能怎么样呢？她毕竟还是个孩子。

She is quite __________ but what can you do ? _____ ________ she is a child.

2. 他喜欢开玩笑，因此在同学中很有人缘。

He likes to _________ _______, so he is very _______ __________ his classmates.

3. 他躲在门后， 直到脚步声逐渐消失。

He ___________  ____________ the door until the footsteps had ________  ___________ .

4. 不要以貌取人，而应该看他（她）讲话和做事的方式。

Don’t judge a person by his or her _______, but look at ______ _____ he or she speaks or acts.

5. 我一直在看笔记， 这样一来我就不会忘记我要说的话。

I kept ___________  ____________ my notes ________ ______ I wouldn’t forget what I wanted to say.

6. 没有人知道这样的风俗是何时形成的。

No one knows when such a custom first __________  __________  ___________.

7. 如果你能开车顺便带我一下， 我会表示感激。 我的车在回家的路上坏了。

I’d appreciate ______ if you can give me a lift. My car ______ ______ on the way back home.

8.  中国的新年在一月底和二月底之间， 取决于阴历。

The date of the Chinese New Year falls somewhere between late January and late February, _______ _________ the __________ calendar.

9.万圣节已经变成了开联欢的日子， 孩子们装扮成巫婆做各种特别的游戏。

Halloween has become a time for parties, ________ children __________ _________ _________ witches and play all kinds of special games.

10. 游客们说他们从来没有梦想到有这么美的风景。

The visitors said that they had never ________ _________ _________ _________ such a beautiful scenery.

短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）       

 此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：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 had to stay later at the hospital that night to          76.                

do an operation. I finally 1eft about 11 p.m. I                   77.                

drove to home slowly because the weather was                 78.                

terrible -- a strong wind was blown and it was                  79.                

raining heavy. I was turning into our road when                80.                

a man suddenly run in front of my car. I almost                81.                

hit him but he stopped just in time. I was very                  82.                

frightened and the man looked frightened too. I                83.                

got out of the car, but he ran away after I could                84.                

ask him if he was right. It was very strange.                      85.                

SECTION B
Directions ； For each blank in the following passage there are four words of phrases marked with A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word that best fits the context.
This is a true story about something that happened between a customer of General Motors and its Customer - Care Executive (客服主管).The following complaint was received by General Motors. "???It may sound crazy, but it's a fact that every time I buy a  36   ice cream, and come back from the store, my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts   37   fine, why?" The executive was    38    about the letter, but sent an engineer to check it out anyway.
The   39   made three visits to the store with the customer. The first time, he got chocolate ice cream. The car started. The second time, he ordered strawberry. The car started. The third time he got vanilla. The car failed to start. The engineer   40   to believe that the man's car was allergic (过敏的)to vanilla ice cream. He 41   his visits, and noted all sorts of data: the types of gas used and the time it took to drive back and forth.
Soon he came a clue: it took the man less   42   to buy vanilla than any other flavor (味道). Why? The answer was in the layout (布局)of the store. Vanilla, as the most   43   flavor, was in the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept further back, where it took longer to buy them.
Time was now the   44   not the vanilla ice cream！ The engineer quickly put forward an answer: “engine trouble." The extra time taken to get any other flavor   45   the engine to cool down longer. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot to start.
Even crazy 一 looking problems can be real. What really    46     is your attitude to the problem.
Don't just say something is "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort into    47    it out. If you look closer, you may discover that it's possible after all.
36.   A.    chocolate B. strawberry  C. vanilla       D. banana
37.   A.    just  B. only    C. still     D. ever
38.   A.    worried   B. crazy  C. doubtful     D. cheerful
39.   A.    customer B. engineer     C. executive    D. shopkeeper
40.   A.    pretended       B. decided      C. struggled    D. refused
41.   A.    stopped   B. continued   C. valued D. repeated
42.   A.    time B. effort  C. cost    D. speed
43.   A.    strange    B. familiar      C. terrible       D. popular
44.   A.    effect      B. reason C. problem     D. solution
45.   A.    prevented       B. encouraged C. let      D. allowed
46.   A.    matters    B. impresses   C. bothers -    D, concerns
47.   A.    looking   B. figuring     C, trying D. testing

下列每个句子中均有一处错误，请找出并改正。

1. We don’t know that we can do about it.

2.Could you tell me how I could get to the nearest post office?

3.The old man said he had joined the army in 1965.

4.Mary said she did not heard from her old classmate since September.

5. Charles asked he could use my car.

6.Mother asked me where I will go the next day.

7.Do you have a friend whom you could tell everything, like your deepest feelings and thoughts.

8.Don’t look at someone else paper, John. You should do it by yourself.

9. In order to improve your English, you can try writing an English diary every day.

10. The teacher gave a series of example in her lecture in order that everybody could understand.