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环球时代 模拟试题（九） I. Grammar 25 points Put the words in brackets into the correct forms. (10 points) When F Scott Fitzgerald (1) (observe) that “the very rich (2) (be) different from you and me”, the novelist (3) (not clearly think) of people like Warren Buffett. (4) (proclaim) the world’s richest man last week, the American investment strategist (5) eats at his local grill and drives to work from the modest home that he (6) (buy) in unfashionable Omaha, Nebraska, in 1958, which today (7) (value) at about ￡350,000. Such is the frugality of the 77-year-old “sage of Omaha”, whose wealth (increase) by ￡5billion last year to ￡31billion, that when he married in 2006 he bought a discount ring from his own jewellery company. He (8) (vow) to pass on only a small chunk of his fortune to his children, Susie, Howard and Peter. He (9) (want) them to have “enough to do anything but not (10) (do) nothing”. Correct errors in the following sentences (7 points) (11) Nobody besides little children thinks that a trip by bus is exciting. (12) If they think they are going to win over us by holding up and refusing to make the slightest concession, they are mistaken. (13)The impact of Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” might not have been so far-reaching it had not been for Elizabeth Peabody, who dared to publish the controversial essay. (14) As for the influence of computerization, nowhere we have seen the results more clearly than in the U.S., which really have surprised us all. (15) Huge waves swept over the city; boats were driven inland, and buildings and people were dragged out sea. (16) I regret having left the work unfinished; I should plan everything ahead carefully. (17) The earliest inhabitants of which is now west Virginia used campsites subsequently buried in the Alluvial deposits Of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Paraphrase the following expression(8 points ) (18)War or no war, as the ge