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1、改错题练习样题The following passage contains several errors, each line with a maximum of one error. And ATTENTION, some lines might be free from error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct the errors in the following way:For a wrong word,underline the wrong w
2、ord and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word,mark the position of the missing word with a “” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word,cross out the unnecessary word with a s
3、lash “” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a correct line,place a tick “” in the blank provided at the end of the line.The foreign student of English may be discouraged and dismayed when he learns that there are over 400,000 words in the English language, without count
4、ing slang. Let him take courage. For more than half of these words are dead. They are not in current use. Besides even Shakespeare used a vocabulary of only some 20,000 words. The average Englishman today probably has a vocabulary of from 12,000 to 13,000 words. It is good to make your vocabulary as
5、 complete as you can, and a great deal can be said and written with the vocabulary of no more than 10,000 words. The important thing is to have a good control and command about the words you do know. It is better to know two words exactly than three ambiguously. A good carpenter is not only distingu
6、ished by the number of his tools, butonlyby the craftsmanship with which he uses them. A good writer, therefore, is not measured by the extent of his vocabulary, but by his skill in finding the mot juste, the word that will hit the nail cleanly on the head.(1)(2) Besides (3) range (4)(5) but (6) a (
7、7)over(8) over (9) vaguely (10)alsoThe following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it as the following way: 1. c an-must 2. not be-to 3. as about-if/though 4.quite o
8、r fairlyTobacco smoking is actually an aerosol-like(1)_bug spray or room deodorizer-composed of invisible particles dispersed in a gas. The deadly mixture contains at least 4000 chemical compounds, which 43 are (2)_known carcinogens.Nonsmokers inhale two very different kinds of smoke without wanting
9、. The first, called exhaled (3)_main-stream smoke, came from the lungs of people (4)_exhaling smoke. The second, called side-stream smoke, wafts from the burned tip of a cigarette. Most (5)_scientists consider side-stream smoke more dangerous to nonsmokers as Main-stream smoke, which is fil-(6)_tere
10、d through someone elses lungs. You can even see the difference. The smoke that curls from a light (7)_cigarette is a hazy blue-grey; the smoke that spills from a smokers lip is pale and yellowish. Whats (8)_more, exhaled main-stream smoke is only generated when the smoker leased a puff-about ten tim
11、es per (9)_cigarette.But side-stream smoke is produced during the entire five or ten minutes the cigarette is lit, but many (10)_of its toxic products stay in the room for hours练习答案1. smoking smoke 2. which of which 3.wanting wanting to 4. came comes 5.burned burning 6.as than 7.light lighted 8.lip lips 9.leased released 10.but and
