— I was wondering if you could lend me some more money?

   — Sorry, I’ve got _____ at hand myself. You know the MP4 player cost me all I had just now.

A. neither         B. nothing         C. none             D. few   

Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had ___36____ from just the two of us in a ___37____ into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just ___38___ our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you ___39___? Well, as Apple grew we ___40___ someone who I thought was very talented to ___41___ the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge (分歧) and ___42___ we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors ___43___with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. ___44___ had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating（毁灭性的）.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to ___45___ for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to ___46___ on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been ___47___, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn’t see it then, but it ___48___ that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the ___49___ of being a ___50____ again, less sure about everything. It freed me to ___51___ one of the most creative periods of my life.

I’m pretty sure _ _52___ of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was ___53___ tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Don’t lose ___54___. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t ___55___. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.                                      

 －By Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer

1.A. grown          B. begun                C. removed          D. kept

2. A. bedroom       B. farm             C. garage               D. kitchen

3.A. announced      B. declared         C. released         D. coped

4.A. managed        B. started              C. installed            D. entitled

5.A. provided       B. sorted               C. promoted         D. hired

6.A. run            B. involve          C. open             D. engage

7.A. instantly      B. constantly           C. eventually           D. frequently

8. A. risked            B. supported            C. pleased          D. sided

9.A. Which          B. What             C. Whichever            D. Whatever

10. A. apologize        B. reveal               C. head             D. stand

11.A. imply         B. put              C. impress          D. dawn

12.A. resisted          B. rejected         C. solved               D. interrupted

13.A. made out      B. come out         C. turned out           D. tried out

14.A. darkness      B. lightness            C. carelessness     D. business

15.A. waiter            B. pioneer          C. beginner         D. visitor

16.A. enter         B. relieve              C. preview          D. expect

17.A. something     B. none             C. everything           D. anything

18. A. careful          B. acceptable           C. hopeful          D. awful

19.A. courage           B. patience         C. imagination          D. faith

20.A. settle            B. recall               C. claim                D. deny

短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满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作出判断：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合(^)，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—横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
　　注意：1)原行没有错的不要改。2)不按规范格式完成的不得分。
Dear Kang Li,
I haven't heard you for a long time. How           1._____________
are you? I had just finished the exams. Now I'm         2._____________
glad I have time to write for you. Our teacher         3._____________
tells us that China is a big country has the           4._____________
most population in the world. It's on the other        5._____________
side of the world. Now the sun is shining bright         6._____________
here and perhaps you're sleeping in the dark           7._____________
night. I wish to know anything more about the          8._____________
Chinese way of living. I wonder at if you can          9._____________
tell me about it in your next letter. Please write soon.     10.____________

It was a cold winter’s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work. I was tired and had a slight   16   .

I worked in a   17   doctor’s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run   18   than usual. It seemed I was going to be late  19 home and my husband, being the   20   person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again. Maybe if I hurried, I could still _21 __it home.

I was heading inside to   22   for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter. I heard them asking for   23   to the local hospital. It was the same hospital that I had just _24_ a few minutes ago.

The young man at the counter was trying to be   25  in explaining how to get there, with two other people making   26  . One of them was   27   trying to give them a whole different route back. It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, “Would you like to follow me to the   28  ?”

A look of   29   crossed the woman’s face.

“I’m going right by there,” I said, which wasn’t a (an)   30   since I had just made up my mind to do   31   that.

I got in my car and began the journey back. I was trying to watch to be sure they were right   32   me. It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to   33  . I felt better than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone.

Later, as I arrived home, my husband   34  me, “So you aren’t ever late any more.”

I said, “Sometimes it’s   35   to be late.”

1.A. break          B. cold         C. fever         D. headache

2.A. foreign        B. common           C. noisy          D. busy

3.A. later          B. earlier          C. easier         D. simpler

4.A. getting        B. cooking          C. calling        D. working

5.A. tough          B. generous     C. punctual      D. rough

6.A. get               B. take              C. arrive           D. make

7.A. pay               B. charge            C. wait         D. search

8. A. opinions     B. trouble       C. directions      D. instructions

9.A. reached        B. visited          C. called           D. left

10.A. skilled       B. helpful          C. experienced  D. active

11.A. comments      B. promises     C. jokes            D. offers

12. A. only         B. still            C. even         D. ever

13. A. station      B. office           C. hospital     D. hotel

14.A. happiness     B. relief           C. sadness          D. peace

15.A. lie              B. fact          C. reason           D. duty

16. A. partly       B. voluntarily      C. exactly          D. perfectly

17.A. across            B. before           C. beside           D. behind

18. A. go up            B. die down     C. take up      D.get through

19.A. teased            B. yelled           C. joked            D. laughed

20.A. possible      B. special          C. good            D. safe

    It was a bright spring afternoon when Fieda told me she wouldn’t need me any more. I had just finished my four-hour work － 36    up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dishes. She was 37    jeans and a sweater, sitting at the table I had just 38    . a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’  39    was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had 40   happened. I felt sorry for her. but I also felt a sense of 41   .

     I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had 42    an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just 43    I had become an expert at scraping（刮掉）dirt stuck to their wooden floor, 44    that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was  45    than that, for I felt I had become a part of their 46   .Freda stayed at home with the kids, 47    I would often see her in the morning 48   them to school. And I’d be there when they 49   home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had 50   them grow up. Now I was tired, but the  51 thing was that I still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family.  

     I left Freda’s house that day, wondering about the 52     of my relationship with my clients（主顾）. Who am I  53    them? As a matter of fact, I’m  54     an employee － the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted  55   of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.

36.A.stepping         B.coming                    C.jumping              D.moving

37.A.hanging               B.making                     C.wearing                    D.changing

38.A.cleaned               B.washed               C.swept                       D.brushed

39.A.duty                    B.money                      C.work                        D.pay

40.A.already                B.seldom                     C.never                       D.yet

41.A.regret                  B.surprise                    C.fear                          D.loss

42.A.started                 B.developed           C.improved            D.broken

43.A.why                     B.what                        C.that                          D.which

44.A.but                      B.and                          C.or                            D.for

45.A.less                     B.least                         C.more                        D.most

46.A.life                      B.story                        C.activity                     D.experience

47.A.as                        B.so                            C.since                        D.however

48.A.taking                  B.bringing                    C.meeting                    D.calling

49.A.left                      B.returned                   C.went                        D.marched

50.A.found                  B.noticed                     C.watched                    D.realized

51.A.possible         B.great                       C.proper                      D.strange

52.A.meaning               B.nature                      C.result                       D.importance

53.A.for                  B.to                         C.with                         D.at

54.A.hardly            B.certainly                 C.probably                   D.merely

55.A.member         B.person                     C.relative              D.companion