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Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.Hearing the bad news that their only son died in the earthquake,the couple burst into tears.
2.Buried(bury)in his study,he wasn't aware that all the others had left.
3.Now a great number of college graduates are seeking to get a highpaid job.But the number of posts available for them is often not enough.(be)
4.She walked here and there on the playground as if looking(look)for something.
5.To our joy,the long hot summer was at last at an end.
6.Many high buildings have arisen where there was nothing a year ago but ruins(ruin).
7.It's shocking(shock)that hospitals can deny help to older people.
8.On arriving there,we expressed our congratulations(congratulate)to him on his success.
9.His house was__destroyed(destroy)in the earthquake last year and he had to build a new one.
10.He went through a lot of sufferings(suffer)before new China was founded.
Ⅱ.单句改错
1.This frightening boy whose mother was lost in the disaster is looking for her now.frightening→frightened
2.Judged from his accent,he must be from Australia.
Judged→Judging
3.The girl was sitting on the bench in the park,buried her head in the novel.buried→burying
4.He has three daughters,all of who went abroad for further study.who→whom
5.Mr.Brown's honeymoon came to end this time last year.end前加an
Ⅲ.阅读理解
Mandara seemed to know something big was about to happen.So she let out a yell,caught hold of her 2yearold daughter Kibibi and climbed up into a tree.She lives at the National Zoo in Washington,D.C.
And on Tuesday,August 23rd,witnesses said she seemed to sense the big earthquake that shook much of the East Coast before any humans knew what was going on.And she's not the only one.In the moments before the quake,an orangutan(猩猩)let out a loud call and then climbed to the top of her shelter.
“It's very different from their normal call,” said Brandie Smith,the zookeeper.“The lemurs(monkeylike animals of Madagascar)will sound an alarm if they see or hear something highly unusual.”
But you can't see or