---Did your car break down again this morning?

       ---Yes．That’s ____ I was late．

       A．why      B．because         C．how       D．for

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( ＾), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。

Last Sunday I saw a worst storm in years. It came sudden and went on for over three hours. After lunch, I went into my room to have a rest. The air was hot, but all was quiet. Then a strong wind started to blow into my room. Pieces of paper on my desk flew high into the air and some flew out the open window. As I ran out to catch it, big drop of rain began to fall. When I come back into my house, it was raining more harder and harder. Then I heard a loud crashing sound from the back of the house. When I ran out of my room to find out that had happened, a big tree had fallen down and broke the top of the backroom.

Time is life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, ______ master your time and master your life.

       A．and   B．for    C．so            D．or   

When Jack arrived he learned Mary _______ for almost an hour.

A. had gone   B. had set off     C. had left     D. had been away

All his friends’ encouragement _____ his confidence in winning the game.

A. added up to    B. added up    C. added to    D. added

He has a habit of keeping his arms ______ when talking to others, which I personally think _____impolite to his audience.

A. to be folded; it     B. being folded; X    C. folded; it    D. folded; X

Obama , the first black president in American history , _______ presidency on January 20^th ,2009.

       A．held up  B．took up     C．picked up      D．set up

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Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

     "We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

     According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

     The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

     It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

     In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

The discovery shows that Westerners      .

    A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

    B. consider facial expressions universally reliable

    C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions                                     

What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. The participants in the study.        B. The researchers of the study.

C. The errors made during the study.    D. The data collected from the study.                    

In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to         .

A. do translation more successfully       

B. study the mouth more frequently

C. examine the eyes more attentively      

D. read facial expressions more correctly    

What can be the best title for the passage?

    A. The Eye as the Window to the Soul

B. Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

C. Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

D. How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding                                              

假如你是李晓华，住在江城。你的加拿大笔友Bob来信谈到了他所居住的城市，并希望了解你家乡江城的情况。请你用英语写一封回信。回信须包括下表中的内容。  

自然情况①位于长江边、风景优美、适合居住   

    成就 ②经济发展迅速③新建了不少工厂、住房、道路等。

    存在问题 ④水、空气污染 ⑤交通拥挤

    对江城发展的看法⑥(内容由考生自己拟定)                    

2.词数 100 左右。信的开头与结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。

Dear Bob,

It’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I’d like to tell you something about my hometown, Jiangcheng. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________                                         

Yours,

Xiaohua