閱讀下面材料，在空白處填人適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

As is known to us, the year 2016 has one extra day in it — February 29th. This is because it’s 1. we call “a leap year”. Every four years, the year has 366 days in 2. instead of 365.

It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn’t 3. (legal) recognized. There is a well-known tradition in the UK4. (associate) with 29th February, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with tradition and propose(求婚）to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the 5. (five) century, when a famous Irish saint made a 6. (complain) that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend，Saint Patrick said any female dreaming of a proposal could ask her boyfriend to marry her on this additional day in February. This so-called tradition was 7. (write) in law in the thirteenth century. Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year. It was said that if the men refused, they had to pay a fine!

Now in 2016，there are calls 8. 29th February to become As is known to us the year 2016 has one extraa public holiday. Some people believe that it should be an 9. (office) day off, because no one gets 10. (many) payments for working an extra day in a leap year. For the moment though, the British still have to go to work on this day.

短文改錯

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號()，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用(＼)劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。注意：1．每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2．只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Last Friday,1 was standing near a subway exit, tried to call a taxi. But no luck.

Then I thought of the taxi-booking app my friend has recommended and I booked a taxi through my cell-phone. Soon it came, and l stepped in, feeling pretty proudly of my high-tech way and satisfied with the convenience brought by the app. So later,1 was upset to find that the driver was busy looking his cell-phone to get the next order. It was just then when I began to worry about my safety. What’s bad, the driver’s informations might be unreliable. How can we passengers' legal rights be protecting if something bad happens? So be careful when you use the taxi-booking app the next time.

書面表達(dá)

假定你是王華，目前正在英國做交換生。你的英國朋友Debbie送了你一張Ceilidh Dance舞會票�，F(xiàn)在，請給她寫封郵件致謝，并詢問有關(guān)情況（箭頭所指內(nèi)容）。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

2．可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Don’t take it seriously, Alice. I wasn’t making _____ fun of you — it’s nothing but _____ joke.

A. /; the B. the; theC. the; a D. /; a

Jack is late again. It is ______ of him to keep others waiting.

A. normal B. ordinaryC. common D. typical

This winter, one of the largest ______ snowstorms hit many areas.

A. recordingB. recorded

C. being recordedD. to record

—It’s too complex, I think.

—______. So we’d better make it easier for students to get involved.

A. That’s ridiculousB. That’s the point

C. That’s settledD. That’s all right

Male nurses are difficult to hire as many men reject this______ out of the long-existing discrimination.

A. conceptB.responsibility

C. identityD. personality

Opposite our school ______, where a lot of people play or take exercise at any time.

A. does a park lieB. is a park lie

C. a park liesD. lies a park

It suddenly occurred to him ____ he had left his keys in the office.

A. that B. what C. whereD. which