第一节 短文改错 此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正: 多一个词:把多余的词用横线(—)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用横线划掉。 缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。 错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。 注意:原行没有错的不要改。Naturalists have long known that the apes, our nearest relative in the animal 76. ______kingdom, communicate with one and another through gestures, sounds and facial 77. ______expressions. But it was always thought that only human beings can use words 78. ______and sentences. In the 1960s, however, researchers set themselves the task of reach 79. ______chimpanzees to communicate with humans. At first the scientists tried make them 80. ______to speak. But no chimp ever managed to acquire a vocabulary of more than four words 81. ______and even these were spoken with great difficult. The breakthrough came when two 82. ______scientists from the University of Nevada decided to try America Sign Language, 83. ______system of gestures used by deaf people. After four years, they had taught their first 84. ______chimpanzees to use 132 signs correctly to communicate their wants and needs. 85. ______
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 As she walked round the large shop, Edith realized how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas (36) for her father. She (37) that he were as easy to please as her mother, who was (38) satisfied with perfume. (39) , shopping at this time of the year was a most (40) job. People (41) on your feet, pushed you with their shoulders and almost (42) you over in their hurry in order to (43) something cheap ahead of you. Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter, where some beautiful ties were on (44) . "They are (45) silk," the shop assistant told her with a smile trying to (46) her to buy one. But Edith knew from past (47) that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father. She moved on slowly and then, quite by chance, (48) where a small crowd of men had gathered round a counter. She found some fine pipes on sale and the (49) were very beautiful. Edith did not hesitate for long. Although her father (50) smoked a pipe once in a while, she believed this was (51) to please him. When she got home, with her small but (52) present hidden in her handbag, it was time for supper and her parents were already (53) table. Her mother was in great (54) . "Your father has at last decided to stop smoking," she told her daughter happily. Edith was so (55) that she could not say a single word.
A. glad
B. happy
C. surprised
D. excited