Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded of an incident in my own childhood．When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.
We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have my own private musician.
I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured, the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.
I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of the bird’s captivity my new pet’s mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.
The following morning when I went to see how my captive was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.
Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had occurred. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”
Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.
【小题1】Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?

I caught a _____ of the car before it disappeared around the bend.

A. glance  B. glimpse  C. glare  D. gleam

该自我介绍中共有十处错误,每句中最多有两处,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。

My hobby is reading. I like reading novels, newspapers, magazines and so on. When I was 9 year old. I caught bad cold. I have to stay at home for several weeks. My mother bought to me some novels. Soon I was attracting by the stories. Since then I have made use of any time to read. And reading does give me many help. Recently, I have surfed the Internet at home, on that I’ve found that many students like read as I do. We exchange our reading experience online but we become good friends. Reading brings me all happiness and friendship.

I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o’clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

1. 1.

   The writer is probably ______.

   1. A.
      a worker
   2. B.
      a college teacher
   3. C.
      a boss of a company
   4. D.
      a secretary
2. 2.

   He learned ______ that there would be a concert last Friday.

   1. A.
      from his friends
   2. B.
      from one of his colleagues
   3. C.
      over the radio
   4. D.
      from the newspaper
3. 3.

   He could go and buy the ticket ______.

   1. A.
      any day before work hours
   2. B.
      both before and after work hours
   3. C.
      only during lunch time
   4. D.
      on Saturday and Sunday
4. 4.

   The word “relieved” in the last two sentences may best be replaced by “______”.

   1. A.
      surprised
   2. B.
      pleased
   3. C.
      puzzled
   4. D.
      sorry
5. 5.

      The story is about ______.

   1. A.
      a good concert
   2. B.
      someone enjoying a good concert
   3. C.
      someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends
   4. D.
      someone failing to buy the concert ticket

The day before the speech contest(比赛) English teacher        86. _________

talked to me. She said that she and my schoolmate all          87. _________

wished me success, but it didn't matter that I would           88. _________

win or not. When I was on the stage the next day, I felt so    89. _________

nervous as I shook like a leaf. There were so many people      90. _________

present! Suddenly, I caught a sight of my English teacher in   91. _________

the crowd. She was smiling but nodding at me. I remembered     92. _________

her words and calm down. I did a good job and won the first    93. _________

prize. Now my picture and the prize is hanging in the library. 94. _________

Whenever I see them I will often think of my English teacher.   95. _________