He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, while he was so normal. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, and she thought to herself, “Please let me go home… ”

Suddenly he asked the waiter, “Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee. ” Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but, still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously, “Why do you have this hobby?” He replied, “When I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee. I always think of my childhood and hometown.” While saying that, tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. A man who can tell out his homesickness, must be a man who has responsibility of home. Then she started to speak about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family.

That was a really nice beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her damands. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thank to his salty coffee! They got married. Every time she made coffee, she put some salt in the coffee, as she know that’s the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said, “My dearest, please forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you—the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I went ahead. I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything. I'm afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth; I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. If I call live for a second time. I still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again.”

Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her, “What's the taste of salty coffee?” she replied. “sweet,”

1.The reason why the woman wanted to leave is that _______．

    A．the man was normal while the woman was outstanding

    B．the woman was too nervous to stay

    C．the woman felt uncomfortable to be with the man

    D．the man asked for salty coffee

2.Why did she think the salty coffee tasted sweet?

    A．Because the salty coffee represented her husband's endless love for her．

    B．Because she mistook the sugar for salt．

    C．Because her husband switched salt with sugar in her coffee．

    D．Because the salty coffee was a white lie with a good intention．

3.What can we learn from the man's letter?      

    A．The man wasn't brave enough to tell the truth because he was scared of the woman,

    B．The man had never thought of telling the truth before he was dying．

    C．The man fell in love with the salty coffee gradually after many years of taking it out of his love for his wife．

    D．The man would still, choose to drink salty coffee if he had to know and have her through it．

4.In what way does the writer develop this story?     

    A．Cause and effect．                   B．Problem reasoning．

    C．The time order．                     D．Statistics analyzing,

1.   He was such _____ good speaker that he held our attention every minute of _____ three-hour lecture.

A. /, the       B. a, /      C. a, the D. a, a

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中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。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，并在该词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。

Yesterday morning, I was surprising to hear that my best friend Allee has been

hit by a car and was in hospital. The other day when he was going to cross a street,

he was such careful that he didn’t go until he saw the traffic light to turn green. But

hardly had he got to the middle of the street while he saw a car suddenly appear on

his right-hand side and come directly towards them. It was too late for Allee to

escape. He was hit by the car or was thrown a few meters away. He was sent to the

nearest hospital immediately and had operation. When I went to see him, he was

out of dangers but still looked pale. I sincere hope he will recover and return to

normal as soon as possible.

Edward Sims was born in 1892. He was the fifth child and only son of Herbert and Dora Sims. Herbert was a blacksmith(铁匠), and had a thriving trade making horseshoes. He was determined that his first-born son would follow him into the blacksmith. For this reason, Edward had to leave school at the age of 12,and worked with his father.
However, Edward was not cut out to be a blacksmith. Although he has an athletic body, he didn't have strong arms like his father, and he felt dizzy in the heat of the smithy.  When he tried to find alternative employment, he found it difficult because he had never learnt to read or write.
One day, he went for an interview at a solictior’s office. The job was a runner, taking documents from the office to other offices in the city. The solicitor was pleased to see that Edward was physically fit, but when he discovered that the young man couldn't read or write, he decided against employing him. "How can you deliver documents to other offices," he asked, "if you can't read the addresses on them?"
Bitterly disappointed, Edward left the building and went to wait for a tram to take him back to the suburb where his father’s smithy was. Next to the bus stop, a man was selling newspapers from a stand .
"Excuse me, son?" he said. "Would you look after my stand for a moment?"
For the next 20 minutes, Edward sold newspapers, lots of them. When the man came back, he was so delighted with his new assistant's honesty, that he offered him a job. Edward took it immediately.
In the next few months, the two men progressed from working on newspaper stands to selling newspapers, tobacco,confectionery（糖果点心）and other goods in a shop. Then they opened a second shop, and a third. Eventually, they had a chain of 25 shops in three cities.
Edward became very rich, so he employed a tutor to teach him to read and write. The tutor  was amazed at what Edward had achieved. "Imagine what you could do if you’d been able to read and write when you were younger!" he said.
“Yes!” said Edward. “I could have run myself to exhaustion delivering documents for a solicitor!”
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When Pat Jones finished college，she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could  21  she was young．Pat wanted to visit Latin America  22 ，so she got a job  23  an English teacher in a school in Bolivia．Pat spoke a little Spanish  24  she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn't  25  much English．
A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind：if you dream  26  a foreign language, you have really mastered(掌握)it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and  27 that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in  28 ．
One day，one of her  29  students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had  30  early, but had slept   31 .
“What does this have to do with your  32  ?” Pat asked．
“I dreamed all night，Miss Jones. and my dream was in English?”
“In English?” Pat was very  33  ，since he was such a bad student．She was  34  secretly jealous(嫉妒的)．Her  35  was still not in Spanish．But she encouraged(鼓励)her young student．“Well，36  me about your dream．”
“All the people in my dream  37  English.” the student said．“And all the signs were in English．All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English．”
“Great. That's  38  ，”said Pat．“What did all the people say to you?”
“I'm sorry，Miss Jones．That's  39  I slept so badly．1 didn't  40  a word they said．It was a nightmare(噩梦)!”