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一、句子改错（共5道小题，共25.0分） Those of us who work in chemical laboratories should have their lungs checked quite regularly.A B C DA B C D知识点:Identification1学生答案:[C;]标准答案:C得分:[5]试题分值:5.0提示:答案：C.改为our, 代指前面的thoseof us。本句大意是“我们中的那些在化学实验室工作的人应该定期检查自己的肺部。”With the sun setting, we stopped working, putting away our tools and were going to go home.A B C DA B C D知识点:Identification1学生答案:[C;]标准答案:C得分:[5]试题分值:5.0提示:答案：C.改为put。And前后的动词要用同样的形式即平行结构，本句前面的动词是stopped，后面的动词是weregoing to，所以此处的putting应该改为put（put的过去式还是put）。本句大意是“日落时分，我们停止了工作，收起了工具，准备回家。”The reporter was very pleased when the chairman allowed him to ask few questions.A B C DA B C D知识点:Identification1学生答案:[D;]标准答案:D得分:[5]试题分值:5.0提示:答案：D.改为a few。“a few”的意思是“有几个，有一些”（表示肯定），“few”的意思是“很少，几乎没有”（表示否定）。本句大意是“这名记者非常高兴，因为主席允许他提几个问题。”There was too much dust that we couldn’t see what was happening.A B C DA B C D知识点:Identification1学生答案:[B;]标准答案:B得分:[5]试题分值:5.0提示:答案：B.改为so，因为“so…that…”是一个固定结构，意思是“如此……以致……”。本句大意是“灰尘太多了，以致于我们根本看不清发生了什么？”Two woman teachers and four girl students were praised at the meeting yesterday.A B C DA B C D知识点:Identification1学生答案:[A;]标准答案:A得分:[5]试题分值:5.0提示:答案：A.改为women。Woman修饰复数名词的时候得用women。本句大意是“昨天的会上有两名女教师和四个女学生受到了表扬。”二、阅读理解（共1道小题，共50.0分） Scientists in the United States have developed a method that may help to predict earthquakes earlier. They say it could give people who live in deadly earthquake areas enough warning to leave before an earthquake hits.Currently, the most modern systems for predicting earthquakes find them only a short time before the event. Like most strong earthquakes, the one that hit southwestern China in May was not identified early enough for people to flee the area. That earthquake killed sixty-nine thousand people.But scientists who study earthquakes are reporting that new technology could measure very small changes in the Earths surface. Their report was published this month in Nature magazine.Fenglin Niu is a seismologist （地震学家）with Rice University in Houston, Texas. He and his team performed