短文改错练析
一. Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie 1. ________
Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south 2. ________
of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to 3. ________
get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast
(125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than 4. ________
the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far
more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has 5. ________
been grown up accidently as most big cities have done. 6. ________
It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a7. ________
Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named 8. ________
George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired,
much-respected first president of the United States. 9. ________
In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands. 10. ________
【答案与解析】
1. lie改为lies 。 这是一倒装句, 该句的主语是Washington D.C.。2. in改为to。Washington D. C. 不在New York City 所属范围内。3. ways改为way。主语为单数,从下一行is 可看出。4. spends 改为 costs, 主语为物,作“花费”解。5. city 前加上 a。city 为单数。6. 去掉 been 。句中grow up 的意思是成长,无被动式。7. for 改为 as。是将Washington D.C. 作为首府。 8. named 后加上 after。从后半句看,此句的意思是“以……命名”,而非“名叫……”。9. 此行无错。10. 在which 前或stands后加 for。
二.( I )
I can’t swim because I have a strong fear of water. Look back 1. ________
my childhood experiences, I think that three reasons might 2. ________
explain the fear. The first reason is that I was not allow to go 3. ________
near the water when I was a child, for my mother had a 4. ________
unreasonable fear of it. So, even as a child that I was taught to 5. ________
see the water as something danger. Second, my eyes 6. ________
became bad when I was five. If I took off my glass in the 7. ________
water, I couldn’t see anything, or this increased my fear. 8. ________
The worst part of my experience is that as a child I saw 9. ________
a neighbor drowned. After then I have been more frightened. 10. ________
( II )
Decorate the Christmas tree is usually a family event. For many families, 1. ________
it starts with choosing a tree from either a farm and a store. Then the tree 2. ________
is brought at home and put into a Christmas stand that holds the tree up 3. ________
straight. Then everyone helps to hang balls and light. After the tree is 4. ________
decorated, a Christmas tree skirt rapped around the bottom of the tree. 5. ________
Sometime, people make all of the decorations for the tree by themselves. 6. ________
Many people collect Christmas trees decorations throughout their lifetime, 7. ________
adding a new decoration each year. Beside lights and balls, people may 8. ________
also put flowers, pine cones, strings of pop corn and garlands (花环) on the 9. ________
tree, There are as much different ways to decorate a tree as there are people! 10. ________
【答案与解析】
( I ) 1. Look→Looking。此处应该用现在分词作状语。2. my前面加on / upon。look back on / upon是固定短语,意为“回顾”。3. allow→allowed。此处应该用被动语态。4. 第二个a→an。unreasonable fear是以元音音素开头,故用不定冠词an。 5. 去掉that。此句是简单句,that是多余用词。6. danger→dangerous。形容词修饰复合不定代词。7. glass→glasses。复数名词glasses意为“眼镜”。 8. or→so。此处表达因果关系。9. 本行无错。10. After→Since。介词短语since then常与现在完成时态连用。
( II ) 1. Decorate→Decorating。此处应该用动名词作主语。2. and→or。either... or... 是固定短语,意为“或者……或者……”。3. 去掉at。home在此句中是副词, at属多余用词。 4. light→lights。light意为“灯”,是可数名词,与balls是并列关系。5. rapped前面加is。此处是被动语态。6. Sometime→Sometimes。此处应该用Sometimes表达“有时候”。7. trees→tree。此处是名词作定语,应该用单数形式。8. Beside→Besides。根据语义,此处表达“除了……之外”。9. 本行无错。10. much→many。本句中的ways是可数名词复数形式,故用“as many...as”。
1
A shopkeeper once found that a bag money 56._______
had been stolen from his shop. He went to the 57._______
judge(法官) and tell him about his loss(损失).58._______
The judge ordered all people of the shop 59._______
to come before him. He took a number of the 60._______
sticks of equal length(长度) or gave one stick 61._______
to each person. Then he said, “Come after me 62._______
again tomorrow. I’ll then know which of you are 63._______
the thief because the stick given to a thief 64._______
will be one inch longer than the other.” 65._______
2
Miss Evans taught physics in school in London.Last month 56._____
she was explaining to one of her class about sound ,and 57._____
she decide to test them to see how successful she had 58._____
been in her work. She said to them, “Now I has a sister 59._____
in Washington. If I was calling her by the phone, and 60._____
you were on the other side of the street. Who would 61._____
hear me first, my sister and you? And why?” 62._____
A clever boy at once answered, “You sister, Miss 63._____
Evans, because the electricity travels much faster than sound 64._____
waves.” “Very well,” Miss Evans praised. 65.______
3
It is interested to visit another country, but sometimes 56. ___
there are some questions when we don’t know the language very 57. ___
well. It may be difficult to talk about the people there.We may 58. ___
not know how to use the telephone in the country which are 59. ___
visiting. We may not know what to buy the things we need. 60. ___
In a strange country we may not know where to eat and what 61. ___
to order in a restaurant. It is not easy to decide how many 62. ___
money to tip(付小费) waiters or taxi drivers. When we are 63. ___
helpless, we may not know how to ask help. 64. ___
After a short time later, however, we learn what to do 65. ___
and what to say. We learn to enjoy life in another country, and then we may be
sorry to leave both the place and the people.
4
Long long ago, people had gather leaves and 56._____
fruit of plants to eat with. They didn’t know how 57. _____
to plant crops or how to keep animals for their 58. _____
food. We call them Stone Age people. Thing for 59. _____
them were terrible and hard. Now there have still 60. _____
some people living liked those Stone Age people. 61. _____
They live in places that are hard reach. They do 62. _____
not know of our invention, for they keep themselves 63. _____
away our civilized world. For many years 64. _____
a group of people call Aruntas have lived alone 65. _____
in the center of Australia.
5
How robins(知更鸟) know when it is time 56._____
to go back north? They seem to tell by how
soon daylight lasts. In late winter, daylight 57. _____
begins to last longest each day. When the 58. _____
daylight lasts long enough, robins start north. 59. _____
They fly by day. Each year they follow a same 60. _____
fly-way. At first, they fly only few miles a 61. _____
day. They stop often in the field to eat bugs 62. _____
(小虫子). Late, they seem in a hurry. They fly 63. _____
over 100 miles a day. Some are going so far 64._____
as 180 miles. When they get to home, they 65. _____
always stay together high in a tree.
6
The Internet is playing a important part in 56. _____
our daily life. On the net,we can learn about 57. _____
news both home and abroad and some other 58. _____
informations as well. We can also make phone calls, 59. _____
send messages by e-mails,go to net schools,and 60. _____
learn foreign languages by ourselves. Beside,we 61. _____
can enjoy music,watch sports matches,and play the 62. _____
chess or cards. The net even help us do shopping, 63. _____
make a chat with others and make friends with them. 64. _____
In a word,the Internet has made our life more easier. 65. _____
7
People have different tastes in food. Some
feel they haven't a meal unless they have had 56. ______
pork or other meat;some prefer chickens 57. ______
or fish,and eats one or the other at every meal. 58. ______
Others prefer vegetables and fruits or
grains but would enjoy a meal of potatoes, 59. ______
noodles and carrots and some another fruits. 60. ______
Others could live on the foods are called 61. ______
fast foods,for example,a hamburger or 62. ______
hot dog,French fries and a soft drinks. 63. ______
Food can be prepared by so many ways. 64. ______
Every is satisfactory to different person. 65. ______
8
In the morning of November 18th,1755,an earthquake 56.____
shook Boston.John,a professor at Harvard College felt a quake 57. ____
and woke up.“I rose and found to be fifteen minutes past 58. ____
four.” He hurried to downstairs to the clock. It had stopped 59. ____
three minutes ago. Except for stopping the clock,the quake 60.____
had only thrown a key from the mantel(壁炉架) to the floor. 61. ____
The clock had stopped because John put some long 62. ____
glass tube he was using for an experiment into the case 63. ____
for safekeeping.The quake had been knocked the tubes over and 64. ____
blocked the pendulum(钟摆). So John had the exactly
time of the earthquake. 65. ____
9
Life in the twenty-one century will be very 56.___
different with life today. There will be many 57. __
changes.What can the changes be? The population 58. ___
is grow the world and most of them will live in longer 60. ___
than people live now. Computers will be much 61. ___
more smaller and more useful, and there will 62. ___
be one in every home. People will work few 63. ___
hours than they now and they will have more 64.___
free time for reading books, watch TV and traveling. 65.___
10
Once one year a race is held. A lot 56._____
of cars took part this race last year and there 57. _____
had a lot of experiments just before it began. One 58. _____
of the most beautiful car was a Rolls-Royce 59. _____
Silver Ghost. The most usual car was a Benz 60. _____
which had only three wheels. Built in 1885,it is the 61. _____
oldest car taking part. After a great many loud 62. _____
noises,the race began. Many of cars broke down on 63. _____
the way and some drivers spent much time under 64. _____
their cars than in them. The win car reached at 65. _____
a speed of forty miles an hour.
11
In recently years,dust storms take place more 76. _____
and more often in the north of Chinese. They have 77. _____
brought a great deal of trouble to people’s lives. 78. _____
The strong wind blows up the dust,made the air 79. _____
very dirty. It also stops many of people from going 80. _____
out. In past,people raised a large number of sheep. 81. _____
The sheep eat up a great deal of grass and the land 82. _____
became sandy. Now the government have begun to 83. _____
pay attention to the problem. Each year,a lot of 84. _____
money spent on the improvement of the environment. 85. _____
12
Sleep,as we know, is important to us. And 56. ____
how many sleep do we actually need?For most 57. ____
of us, eight hours seem to be about the right 58. ____
amount. Yet we know that there are a 59. ____
great many people who get along well less 60. ____
sleep ,and some whom may even need more. A 61. ____
great deal depends by the way we live. But 62. ____
a good common rule to follow to is to 63. ____
sleep long as we have to. So we’ll feel 64. ____
happy and be able
to work with our best when we wake. 65. ____
13.
My friend Henry has a most unusually hobby 56. _____
(爱好). He likes plant flowers in strange places. 57. _____
When the spring comes round, you can always tell 58. _____
Henry had been busy working because the dirty sides of 59. _____
canals(沟渠) and railway banks suddenly 60. _____
became filled of flowers. In his spare time, with 61. _____
pockets full of seeds, Henry goes round by his bike. 62. _____
He has a long pipe with him blow seeds into places 63. _____
that is hard to reach. When his flowers fade(凋谢), 64. _____
he goes round again to collect its seeds. In this way 65. _____
he always has a big supply.
参考答案:
56.bag后加of 57.√ 58.tell→told 59.all后加the
60.去掉the 61.or→and 62.after→before 63.are→is
64.a→the 65.other→others
56.第一个in后加a 57.class→classes 58.decide→decided
59.has→have 60.by→on 61. √ 62.and→or
63.You→Your 64.去掉the 65.well→good
56. interested→interesting 57. questions→problems
58. about→with/to 59. which后加we 60. what→how
61. and→or 62. many→much 63.√
64. ask后加for 65. 去掉later
56. had→had to 57.去掉with 58.√ 59. Thing→Things
60. have→are 61. liked→like 62. reach→to reach
63. invention→inventions 64. away后加from 65. call→called
56.How后加do 57.soon→long 58.longest→longer
59.√ 60.a→the 61.few前加a 62.field→fields
63.Late→Later 64.so→as 65.去掉to
56.a→an 57.√ 58.home前加at
59.informations→information 60.e-mails→e-mail
61.Beside→Besides 62.去掉the 63.help→helps
64.第一个make→have 65.more→much
56.haven’t后加had 57.chickens→chicken 58.eats→eat
59.but→and 60.another→other 61.foods后加that或去掉are
62.√ 63.去掉a 64.by→in 65.Every→Each
56.In→On 57.第二个a→the 58.found后加it
59.去掉第一个to 60.ago→before 61.√ 62.put前加had
63.tube→tubes 64.去掉been 65.exactly→exact
56.twenty-one→twenty-first 57.with→from 58.can→will
59.That→There 60.去掉in 61.√ 62.去掉第一个more
63.few→fewer 64.now前加do 65.watch→watching
56.one→every 57.part后加in 58.had→were 59.car→cars
60.usual→unusual 61.is→was 62.√ 63.cars前加the
64.much→more或much后加more 65.win→winning
76.recently→recent 77.Chinese→China 78.lives→life
79.made→making 80.去掉of 81.past前加the 82.eat→ate
83.have→has 84.√ 85.spent前加is
56.And→But 57.many→much 58.seem→seems 59.√
60.well后加with 61.whom→who 62.by→on 63.去掉第二个to
64.long前加as 65.with→at
76. language → languages 77. its → their 78.去掉 not
79. ∨ 80. themselves → itself 81.Peoples → People
82. friend → friends 83. become→becomes
84. few 前加 a 85. other → another
56. unusually→unusual 57. plant→planting或 to plant
58.去掉the 59. had→has 60.√
61. filled→full或 of→with 62. by→on 或去掉his
63. 在him 后加to 64. is→are 65. its→thei
( A )
Attention,please,everyone.We′ve accepted the 1. ______
weather forecast on the radio this morning that 2. ______
there will have a heavy rain tonight. Be sure 3. ______
to shut the windows and doors until you leave 4. ______
your classrooms.The sports meet when we planned to 5. ______
hold it tomorrow will be put off. After it becomes 6. ______
fine, we′ll make other announcement. We will 7. ______
have classes on Wednesday as usually.Since it is 8. ______
colder tomorrow,please dress on more clothes in time. 9. ______
Those come to school by bike, don′t keep your 10.______
umbrellas open while riding.
(B)
We all know the pyramids in Egypt and most of 11. ______
us don’t know the people in Mexico in the old time also 12. ______
built pyramids. They didn’t build them to tombs. The 13. ______
pyramids in Mexico aren’t os high as that in Egypt, but 14. ______
they are big. Each one pyramid has a wide stairway 15. ______
up to the top. There is nothing inside the pyramids, 16. ______
only earth and stones. Scientists think it takes one 17. ______
thousand men more than ten years build the biggest one. 18. ______
How did he people build the pyramids? Scientists had 19. ______
Studied for years, but no one can say what they did it. 20. ______
(C)
One afternoon my father and I go fishing on a 21.______________
riverside. We found the water was very dirty that 22.______________
we could not see the bottom. We also found some 23.______________
rubbish or dead fish flowing on the water. That 24.______________
afternoon, my father and I caught only a smaller fish. 25.______________
Why do the fish in the river die? That was because 26.______________
of a lot of factories along the river always 27.______________
poured its waste water and rubbish into the river 28.______________
and the water got polluting(污染). Thus, most of the 29.______________
fish in the river killed. 30.______________
(D)
Ken is a young man and have a big dog and a small 31.___________
car. Last Sunday he did some shopping for hour in a 32____________
shop and then ran out and jump into a car. His dog 33.____________
came after him, but it jumped into the next one. 34.____________
Ken saw it and shouted it, but the dog still stayed 35.____________
in that car. Ken gave his key into the lock of the car, 36.____________
but the key couldn't turn on. Ken looked at the car 37.____________
again. It was not him! He was in the wrong car, 38.____________
when the dog was in the right one! At last the young 39.____________
man was smiled and got into his car with the dog. 40.____________
答案:
1. accepted改为received 2. √ 3. have改为be 4. until改为when或 before
5. 去掉when或把when改为that/which 6. 去掉it 7. other改为another
8. usually改为usual 9. dress改为put 10.Those后面加上who
11.and→but 12.time→times 13.to→for 14.that→those 15.去掉one
16. √ 17.takes→took 18.build前加to 19.had→have 20.what→how 21. go→went 22.very→so 23.√ 24.or→and 25.smaller→small
26. do→did 27. 删去第一个 “of” 28. its→their 29.polluting→polluted
30.∧were 31. has 32. hours/an hour 33. jumped
34. √ 35. at 36. put 37. on.
38. his 39. while 40. was
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