9. Generally speaking, my grandmother is nice and kind, but she can be very stubborn at times. (speak)

总的来说, 我奶奶是一个很善良的人, 但是有时候她可能会很固执。

10. He seized the opportunity and made a fortune trading with foreigners. (fortune)

他抓住机会, 在与外国人做生意时发了财。

Ⅲ. 单句改错

1. She was condemned to leading a life of loneliness.

(leading→lead)

2. A policeman told me that the shop had robbed last night.

(robbed前加been)

3. I made an apology that I had taken your umbrella by mistakes.

(mistakes→mistake)

4. Out of everybody's expectation, she didn't hesitate accept the job.

(hesitate后加to)

5. They didn't draw a correct conclusion because they overlooked on a detail.

(去掉on)

6. Now there are many young men in our society dreaming of making fortune without hard work.

(making后加a)

Ⅳ. 阅读理解

Pygmalion is a drama in which Shaw has made sentiments one of the principle themes of discussion. The Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved a statue and fell in love with it. Aphrodite (the goddess of love) turned the statue into a living woman named Galatea, who then became Pygmalion's wife.

The Shavian Pygmalion is Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who picks up a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, teaches her to speak as educated people do, and then successfully passes her off as a duchess. But she is a human being and cannot be treated as a machine. In the course of all his experiments and exhibitions, the professor only thinks of his own skill success and failure, but never stops to consider how the girl feels. When the experiment is over, he has a profound sense of relief that he has achieved triumph and has won his bet. Even now, the sentiment of the girl is of no account. The girl naturally protests against this dehumanized relationship between her and her teacher. She hurls the professor's slippers at him when he wants them and then leaves his place. But evidently, she has begun to feel for the professor and wants also to be felt for.

Now the question is what is the nature of Eliza's feelings for the professor with whom she has lived in close association for so long? In the last act, the girl says she would not marry him even if he had proposed (求婚) to her. The professor, curiously ineffectual (无效的) to sexual emotions, does not love any girl because he finds them to be rivals (对手) to his own mother. He wonders, if Eliza does not want to marry him, then what does she want from him? Old Mrs Higgins, who knows much about a