When I was four years old I got ill. I took medicine twice

a day. The medicine had so a bitter taste that I took it mixed in   1. _____

orange juice. The problem was that I can’t still taste the medicine.2. ______

In a particular afternoon my mother brought the drink in. As       3. ____

she gave it to me, the phone rang and she went to answer           4. ____

it. I looked at the orange drink and decided I couldn’t face them, 5. ____

so I hid the glass behind a pile magazines. Of course, when        6. ____

my mother was asked, “Have you already taken your medicine?”     7. ____

I said, “Yes.” I felt very pleased with me. The next day, my     8. ____

mother found drink when she was doing the housework. She           9. ____

looked at me serious and said, “It’s bad to tell lies !”        10. ____

Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.

Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air    pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.

Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.

Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.

We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.

Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.

1.Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.

2.What is the biggest problem in today’s life?

3.The most serious kind of pollution is ______.

4.Factories must clean their water ______.

5.From the passage we know that ______.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。短文中有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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（Λ），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。

Recently we have a hot discussion on if people should keep pets at home in cities or not.                             

Some students think it is a good idea to keep pets because of many old people living alone can get

comfort from them. Beside, getting along well with animals will make our life interested. On the

other hand, other students are against the idea. In their opinions, if too many people keep pets at

home, it’s bad to the environment. What is worse, pets may make too much noisy and even attack

people. I like animals, but I don’t think it bad to keep pets at home. But we must take measures to

keep them polluting our environment.

The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means. Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago; but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute mean to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.

Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.

Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad to all living things in the world, but it is not only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air.

The pollution of SO₂ is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. It is sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must keep careful of the rise in pollution at the same time.

1.Our world is becoming much smaller ___________.

2.Pollution comes in many ways. We can even hear it. Here “it” means ___________.

3. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because __________.

4.Which of the following is not true?

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。短文中有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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（Λ），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。
Recently we have a hot discussion on if people should keep pets at home in cities or not.                             
Some students think it is a good idea to keep pets because of many old people living alone can get
comfort from them. Beside, getting along well with animals will make our life interested. On the
other hand, other students are against the idea. In their opinions, if too many people keep pets at
home, it’s bad to the environment. What is worse, pets may make too much noisy and even attack
people. I like animals, but I don’t think it bad to keep pets at home. But we must take measures to
keep them polluting our environment.