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Far from a Family Christmas

My Air Force room in Florida was   36  and quiet—I was alone．My five roommates were gone for the holidays; I had chosen to    37  behind in the camp．Being young and far from my home, I felt   38  ．My room was comfortable enough,   39  I hadn’t realized until then what made it so—the   40  of others walking, joking or just lying on their beds．

I was not able to sleep．I was    41  of being on my own—in fact, preferred it at times—but tonight was   42  ．Tossing and turning in the darkened room gave no   43  ．The last sign of daylight had disappeared,   44  my inner depression．  45  , the glow of Christmas lights on the tall pines would only   46  me of my great misery.

Suddenly, I heard weak sound of men   47  to sing．Yes, the voices grew louder and came my way．I  48  still, enjoying the sound.

In the corridor(通道，走廊)   49  my room, voices came near enough for me to hear Christmas carols（颂歌） being   50  ．Suddenly, there, four airmen, identities unknown, were slightly unsteadied by holiday   51  ．The first held a Coke bottle with a lit candle   52  its top．The others formed a dancing line behind him.

  53  I was in the room, with joyful faces in the flickering(摇曳的) light, they sang me several carols, wished me a   54  and left as fast as they had arrived.

I slept soundly soon after, burying my face in my pillow,   55  that someone had cared.

I. 单词拼写。 根据汉语或首字母的提示写出单词，使句子完整与正确。1. C__________ （好奇心）can drive children to know more about the world around them.

2. People with good ____________(礼貌) will be welcome everywhere.　　

3. Mr. Green a___________ to Mrs. Brown yesterday for destroying some flowers in her garden.

4. As they had been ____________(包围）by our army for a week, the enemy had no choice but to surrender (投降).

5. Millions of people in Africa are still s_________to death at present because of hunger.

6. Why should I say sorry when it’s not my f_________.

7. A new computer s__________(系统) was introduced into our school last year.

8. It was the first time that he had lived ___________（独立地）.

9. It is o________ that foods, such as rice, sugar, butter, oils and so on can give us energy.

10. We ____________ (寻找) for somewhere to live but failed.

As they had no children of their own, they_______ a child.

       A. adapted    B. received    C. adopted    D. provided

Fifty years from now the world’s population will be declining, with no end in sight. Unless people’s values change greatly, several centuries from now there could be fewer people living in the entire world than live in the United States today. The big surprise of the past twenty years is that in not one country did fertility (生育能力) stop falling when it reached the replacement rate（出生率）—2.1 children per woman. In Italy, for example, the rate has fallen to 1.2. In Western Europe as a whole and in Japan it is down to 1.5. The evidence now indicates that within fifty years or so world population will peak at about eight billion before starting a fairly rapid decline.
Because in the past two centuries world population has increased from one billion to nearly six billion, many people still fear that it will keep “exploding” until there are too many people for the earth to support. But that is like fearing that your baby will grow to 1,000 pounds because its weight doubles three times in its first seven years. World population was growing by two percent a year in the 1960s; the rate is now down to one percent a year, and if the patterns of the past century don’t change completely, it will head into negative numbers. This view is coming to be widely accepted among population experts, even as the public continues to focus on the threat of uncontrolled population growth.
As long ago as September of 1974 Scientific American published a special issue on population that described what demographers (人口统计学家) had begun calling the “demographic transition” from traditional high rates of birth and death to the low ones of modern society. The experts believed that birth and death rates would be more or less equal in the future, as they had been in the past, keeping total population stable after a level of 10-12 billion people was reached during the transition.
56. Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The world’s population in the future will be reducing endlessly.
B. When the earth population reaches 8 billion, it will see a rapid decrease.
C. In modern society the birth and death rates will be more or less equal in the future.
D. The public now pay little attention to the threat of uncontrolled population growth.
57. What’s reason for the sharp increase of world population in the past two centuries?
A. Because people fear that the world will explode.
B. Because the world’s replacement rate keeps falling.
C. Because people’s values has greatly changed.
D. The passage doesn't mention it.
58. The expression “demographic transition” (Paragraph 3) probably means _______.
A. high death rate to the low one
B. high birth rate to the low one
C. high rates of birth and death to the low ones
D. low rates of birth and death to the high ones
59. We can learn from the passage that _______.
A. in the near future there will be a rapid decline of the world population
B. the birth and death rates of modern society will be unequal in the future
C. there would be the same population living in the world than it in the US today
D. in Western Europe the replacement rate has declined to a negative number

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你的同桌写的以下作文，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: 在所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,并在该词的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)不记分.

It is five years now since I graduate from No.3 High School. Last Saturday, the class that I was on held a get-together, which took us a long time prepare. It was indeed not easy to get in the touch with everybody and set a well time for all of us. We all enjoyed this precious day greatly, remember the time we spent together and the people they were familiar with. It was a pity which some of us were not present as they had gone to abroad for further studies, but they called back or sent greeting card from different places.