2 . 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。文中共有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。

My favorite English novel is Pride and Prejudice, which author is Jane Austen. In this novel, there is a girl called Elizabeth and rich gentleman naming Mr. Darcy. At first, they don’t like each other, especially Elizabeth. She thinks Mr. Darcy is rather proud and had done something cruel, so she hates Mr. Darcy. Thus, Mr. Darcy, somehow, falls in love with her and proposes to her. To her surprise, Elizabeth refuses, because she has made up her mind that she will never marry with the man no matter how rich he is unless she truly loves him. Later, Elizabeth realizes what Mr. Darcy is very kind and not proud at all. She hates him just due to her prejudice. Maybe you can guess the end of this novel: they get married and led a happy life.

It’s said Pride and Prejudice is the most popular English novel in the world. If you haven’t read it, I strong recommend it to you.

3 . Why are some people successful and others aren’t? What’s the secret of success?     1    .   

Many of Gladwell’s ideas appear in his social psychology bestseller Outliers.    2    . Gladwell thinks that this is just an excuse for not trying and if you really want to be good at something, you have to work at it. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good,” Gladwell writes. “It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Central to the book is the “10,000-hour rule”. It means that if you want to be among the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours.    3    . For example, the Beatles played live in Hamburg more than 1,200 times between 1960 and 1964, which is more than 10,000 hours of playing time. And when Bill Gates was 13, he was given access to a high school computer, allowing him to practise computer programming for more than 10,000 hours.

    4    . Take the example of Christopher Langan, who’s mentioned in the book. He’s got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein’s IQ was estimated to have been between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was able to take an exam in a foreign language he’d never studied and pass it after just skim-reading a text book for three minutes. However, Langan never graduated from university and worked in labour-intensive jobs his whole life. This proves that intelligence alone will not lead to success—you need hard work, support, finance and opportunities. Gladwell adds, “No one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses—ever makes it alone.”

    5    . Even after you’ve put in your 10,000 hours of practice, you still need one other key ingredient—luck. So, you could be the most amazing guitarist in the world, but unless you’re lucky enough to play in front of a record company executive who sees a way of exploiting that talent, you aren’t going to be seeing your name in lights.

A．It isn’t just a question of time and support.

B．Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.

C．That’s equal to three hours a day for 10 years.

D．Of course, many people argue that you can create your own “luck”.

E．The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren’t.

F．The interesting thing is that success is not closely related to intelligence.

G．Someone who’s willing to practise something for 10.000 hours is probably active.

4 . The Pew report—which was based on surveys carried out in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland and the Czech Republic—concluded that the European Union was “ the new sick man of Europe”.

The percentage of Europeans with a favorable view of the EU has plunged from 60 percent last year to 45 percent now.

The UK may be considered the most Eurosceptic（欧洲怀疑论者）country, but its support for the union has barely changed in the past 12 months, slipping only two points to 43 percent.

By contrast, France’s backing for the EU has slipped sharply, from 60 percent last year to 41 percent today.

On the question of whether to remain in the EU, 46 percent of the British want to leave the union and surprisingly, the same percentage want to stay.

The Pew report’s authors said, “The long-drawn economic crisis has created bad forces that are pulling European public opinion apart, separating the French from the Germans and Germans from everyone else.”

They added, “The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the main disaster of the euro crisis. The European project now stands in a bad reputation across much of Europe.”

The only European leader rated highly by their own voters was the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with 74 percent voters in favor of her.

Prime Minister David Cameron was the next highest with a positive score of 37 percent among the British public, although he can take some comfort from the fact that 58 percent of Poles（波兰人）and half of all French people think he is doing a good job.

In spite of the dark economic future and growing doubt of the EU, there were strong majorities of more than 60 percent in favor of keeping the euro in the five countries surveyed that use the single currency.

1. Which of the following is TRUE about the recent Pew report?

A．The UK has the smallest number of people against the EU.

B．There’s a slight change of the UK’s support for the EU.

C．More than half the Germans raise doubt about the EU.

D．A vast majority of French people are in favor of the EU.

2. As to whether to remain in the EU, ______.

A．The British are divided equally	B．few British want to stay
C．half British want to leave	D．many British don’t care about it

3. What’s the Pew report’s authors’ attitude towards the relation between France and
Germany?

A．Enthusiastic.	B．Optimistic.
C．Negative.	D．Neutral.

4. Why does Prime Minister David Cameron feel a little bit comfortable?

A．Only a score of 37 percent of Britons go against him.

B．Many of the Poles and French think well of him.

C．More than 60 percent of the Europeans are in favor of keeping the euro.

D．Angela Merkel has 74 percent voters supporting her.

5 . Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, is twenty four miles long and, at one point, one mile wide. It has an average depth of four hundred and fifty feet and at times drops close to a thousand. It is cold and murky(浑浊的), with dangerous currents. In short, it is the perfect place to hide a monster from even the sharpest eyes of science.
The Loch Ness Monster, also called Nessie, is supposedly living in this area. The earliest recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in the biography of Life of St. Columba by Adamnan in the year AD 565. The monster apparently attacked a man who was swimming in the River Ness.
The monster didn’t make headlines again until August 27, 1930, when 3 fishermen reported seeing a creature with 20 feet long approaching their boat, throwing water in the air. In 1933, after a new road was built along the edge of the Loch, the number of reports rose suddenly. Early in 1934, Author Grant, a young student, was out on his motorcycle one evening when he almost ran into the monster as it crossed the road. Grant’s description of the thing — small head, long thin neck and tail with a big body, seemed to match the appearance of the plesiosaur(蛇颈龙), an aquatic(水生的) type of dinosaur that has been extinct(已灭绝的)for 65 million years.
The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was formed in 1962 to act as a research organization for information about the creature. Even now, efforts have continued to find the monster. A great deal of information was discovered about the Loch, but they haven’t yet to produce any specific evidence of a monster.
Skeptics(怀疑论者) argue that the water in the Loch is too cold for a plesiosaur to live in. They also argue that an air-breathing animal, like a whale or seal, would spend much more time on the surface than the creature seems to, and would be spotted more often.
Some scientists have wondered if the sightings might be caused by an underwater wave which is known to sometimes occur in deep, long, and cold lakes, like Loch Ness. Such a wave might push debris(废弃物)to the surface that might look like a strange animal.
However, none of these is identified.
1. According to the skeptics, which of the following is TRUE?

A．It is impossible for a monster to live in cold water.

B．The Loch Ness Monster often stays under the water.

C．The Loch Ness Monster is an air-breathing animal.

D．There is no so-called monster in Loch Ness.

2. The purpose of setting up the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau is to .

A．research the plesiosaur in the Loch Ness

B．protect the Nessie in the lake

C．collect some information about the Nessie

D．catch the Loch Ness Monster

3. Which of the following is the correct order for the things that happened in the passage?
a. A young student met with a monster crossing the road.
b. A swimmer was attacked by a monster in Loch Ness.
c. A new road was built along the edge of the Loch.
d. The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was set up.
e. Three fishermen saw a creature swimming towards their boat.

A．b, e, c, a, d	B．a, b, e, d, c
C．b, d, a, c, e	D．d, c, e, b, a

4. We can infer from the passage that .

A．Nessie is an aquatic type of dinosaur

B．Nessie has a 20-foot-long body

C．Nessie is an underwater wave

D．Nessie is still a mystery

5. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．The natural scenery of Loch Ness.

B．The Nessie.

C．Skeptics’ opinions on Loch Ness Monster.

D．The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau’s research results.