I will not wait for him for a second – he may have something else to do, so he could not _____ here.

As darkness fell, hundreds of people in the Swiss village left their houses. They were staring      36   at the mountain top in the distance. It was covered with  37  , beautiful and dangerous.

The huge mountain is called Matterhorn. Mountain climbers had   38   the top, using the southern route. But no one had ever dared to try a winter climbing up the   39   side. But now one man was daring to try the   40   route. He was Walter Bonatti, a great mountain climber from Italy.

For two days he had climbed. The village people had watched him   41  . Now they were waiting to see his   42  . If he planned to   43   the next day, he would light a green signal. A red light would mean that he was   44  .

A tiny green light   45  high on the mountain side. Bonatti was not giving up! The people      46  .

The next day he   47   his way upward. He was so lonely and so tired! But he would not give up. Again that night he lit the   48  light.

In the morning, Bonatti looked up. He could not see the top, but he knew he was   49   there.   50   the climb was painful, he moved up.

Bonatti had spent months   51   for the climb. Was the training enough? Did he have the strength and   52   to climb to the top?

He was finally at the top! News about his   53  was radioed to the world.

The trip down the southern  54  was easy. He was warmly welcomed in the village. He had done the "  55  ", and would be well remembered as a climber of all time.

1... A. up              B. down                 C. back             D. forward

2... A. green trees     B. flowers             C. rocks                D. ice and snow

3..  A. passed          B. reached          C. climbed             D. watched  

4..  A. eastern         B. western              C. northern             D. southern 

5..  A. different      B. difficult           C. easy             D. same  

6..  A. anxiously       B. carefully            C. patiently            D. eagerly

7..  A. signal          B. flag                C. face             D. figure

8..  A. go down     B. come back            C. go on            D. give up

9..  A. turning around B. turning back     C. moving up       D. in danger  

10..  A. raised         B. rose             C. disappeared        D. appeared

11..  A. cheered        B. shouted          C. laughed              D. jumped

12..  A. stopped        B. abandoned            C. continued            D. ended 

13..  A. green         B. yellow               C. blue             D. red 

14..  A. already        B. surely               C. almost           D. no longer

15..  A. Because           B. Though               C. Since            D. When

16..  A. asking        B. planning             C. preparing       D. training

17... A. money          B. wish             C. effort               D. skill

18.. A. victory           B. climb            C. courage             D. thing  

19... A. pace          B. route               C. path            D. passage

20... A. necessary       B. great              C. important           D. impossible 

Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."

 "OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it now and then.

 Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

 The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more."

 The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?"

 "Burnt yesterday evening."

Mr Brown told his son that _____.

A. he would be away from home for four days

B. he would be back in seven days

C. he would be back in a month

D. he liked a cup of tea

Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.

A. the wall B. the door

C. a piece of paper D. his son's pocket

A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.

A. the second day B. the third day C. the fourth day D. the fifth day

What was burnt? ___________.

The piece of paper B. Mr Smith C. The visitor D. The boy

短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

One day a child was playing with a vase in great value．           1.       

He careless put his hand into it．Hard as he tried,               2.      

he could not pull it out．His father tried his best, too．            3.      

but their efforts were in a vain．They were thinking of breaking  4.      

the vase when the father said, "Now, my son, why have            5.．       

one more try? Open your hand or hold your fingers out         6.      

straight as you see I doing, and then pull．" To his                7.   

surprise, the child says, "I can't hold my fingers straight           8.

like that, because I don't want to drop my penny．" The．sand of us  9.       

sometimes are so busy hold on to the world's worthless ．       10.

penny that we cannot achieve liberation．

文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

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。

A boy who was cleaning the shoes in the street said to a young man passed by,“Let me clean your boots. It just spends you only a penny.”But the man refused. Then the boy told him that he will clean his boots for nothing. The man agreed, and soon one of the boot shone brightly. Then he put the other boot on the box, and the boy refused to clean it if he was paid two pence for his work. The young man refused pay anything and went away. But the well-cleaning boot made the dirty one so bad that he could not walk on. He returned back and gave the boy two pence.