中考英语十篇短文改错专项练习（有答案）
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）下面短文中的划线部分可能是错误的，如果错误请改正，如果正确，请打√，如果是多余的用“删除，划掉，去掉。”。如果需要写“词前，词后”加词。并将答案写在右边相应题号后的横线上。( 每空只写一词，并不得改变原句意思。)
1.
Dear Ms. Smith,
I appreciate your help very well. On the first day of 56._______
Camp, you came up to myself while I was sitting alone. After 57._______
That, you always gave me specially attention and inspired 58._______
to me to join in activities. As a result, I gradually got to know 59._______
The other campers. Because the help you gave me that summer, 60._______
My life changed. I gained so much confidence that I go back 61._______
To school as new person. My grades improved. I became 62._______
V ery active but made new friends. Today, I got a letter that 63._______
Said I had been admitting to a college. I am proud of it. I just 64._______
Want to thank you for helping me becoming a different person. 65._______
Yours,
Bob
2.
Dear John.
Last summer I take a part-time job in the International 76.________
Camp for children. I have been told one more worker 77.________
will be needed this year and I think you are fit it. How 78.________
about join as? The camp is at the foot of a small hill 79.________
close to a river. It is so a beautiful place! We can hear 80.________
birds singing happy all around. Everybody sleeps in 81.________
tents, that is very exciting. We usually work only five 82.________ hours a day, so we will have plenty of spare time visit the 83.________ area and have a fun, I am sure it will be an unforgettable 84.________ experience. If you have interests in it, reply to me soon. 85.________ Answers:
3.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he
can no longer expect others to pay his food, his clothes, 76.
or his room, but he has to work till he wants to live 77. comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing 78. about in the way that he used to as a child, they will go 79. hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society that he used 80.
to break the laws of his parents, he may go to the prison. 81.
If, therefore, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has 82. better health, he can have the great happiness of seeing 83. himself to make steady progress in his job and of 84. building up for himself his own position in society. 85.
4.
Growing Up is not easy. Sometimes all that is need 76.________ is someone to rely on. For many years, she was Mum 77.________ My mother was a career woman and had her own 78.________ problems to take care, but when I needed her, she 79.________ was always there. Her strength came frond anywhere 80.________ I don't quite know, somewhere very deep. She
was so strong that she would never break down, even while I 81.________ went to her with all my little-boy problems and shout 82.________ at her. Her strength made me stronger and gave to me 83.________
courage to try things other thought were impossible. A 84.________ helping hand is always stronger enough to lift you up. 85.________
5.
I am very excited to have accepted an e-mail from 76._________ you. I'm glad you have made such a great progress 77._________ that you can wcite your e-mail good Chinese. I read 78._________ your e-mail to my parents and show them the photo you 79._________ sent it to me. How rime flies! Our friendship has lasted 80._________ for several months. We have got to know but learned a 81._________ lot from each other. Yes, it is clearly that your life in 82._________ your country is quite different from me. Thanks again --------- 83._________ for writing to me. I'm looking forward to hear from 84._________ you soon. Best wishes to you and your family. 85._________ 6.
Many students feel that a popular teacher must be kind 76.
and easy going. He and she should make the class very 77.
active for joking with the students. However, the popular 78.
teacher is at same time the one who should be strict with 79 students. Last year, my English teacher proved to be the more 80
popular in our school. She was usual patient with her students 81.
and never made them disappointed. She always stays in full 82.
control of the situations. She always made sure that our 83. homework was finished on time, but she marked strictly 84.
on student’s actual performance. 85.
7.
Dear Ming,
It was very nice to hear from you for such a long time. I’m 76.______
g lad to learn that you’ve been settled down in Boston and are 77.______ getting used to the local ways of life. 78.______
As you know, I’m still buried in books at school you are 79.______
so familiar with. What may surprise you are that I’m going to 80.______ the US this July in a summ er camp! Surely I’m expecting lots 81.______
of sightseeing tours, parties and another exciting things. We must 82.______
d efinitely meet when I’m over. As is planning, I’m coming 83.______
to Boston around the 15th, and I wonder if you’ll free then so 84.______ we could chat about the good older days. 85.______ Hope to see you soon.
8.
Dear Anish,
Here are the information about Manchester University. 76.__________ It is about 200 miles far away from London, and it 77._________ has a very big schoolyard. You can live in the school 78._________ or near the school. They have all sorts of course. 79._________ I’m sure you will find one you like it. I know you 80._________ are particular interested in Human Rights. So I will 81._________ see that there is anything on their website(网址)。82._________ I’ll send my friend Charlie meet you at the airport 83.__________ when you arrived. You met him a few years ago, but he 84.______ has changed a lot since then, Both your aunt or l look 85.______ forward to seeing you again.
See you soon.
Pat
9.
When our six children were young，suppertime is always 76.______
being interrupted by neighborhood children ring the bell. 77.______
They wanted one child or another to come out and played. 78.______
Finally we had good idea. We hung a sign on the front 79.______
door that was read：“We’re having dinner. Come back 80.______ later.” That night，we sat down to what they thought would 81______
be a pleasant, uninterrupted meals. But as soon as we 82.______
began dinner, the doorbell rang. On the front door stood a 83.______
five-year-old boy from across the street. He looked up 84______
at us and said，“I just want to know what the sign say.”85.______
10.
Dear Mr. Donforth,
I’m writing to ask you come to our class for a visit. I’ve76. __________ heard that you have been to Greece. In our Greece unit, we 77. __________ have been learning about it’s rich culture and long history. 78. __________ Since you have visited Greece several times, so I would like to 79. __________ know whether you have seen the old buildings here. We have 80. _________ learned a lot from the text book, but I believe you personal 81. __________ experience will be a lot better. Your knowledges of Greece can 82. __________ help the whole class. Could you share you experiences for 83. __________ us? It will be surely exciting and rewarding. I hoped that you 84. __________ think about my request and visit us as soon as possibly. 85. __________
参考答案1.Answers:
56. well →much 57. myself →me 58. specially →special 59. 去掉第一个to 60. because后加of 61. go →went 62.as后加a 63. but →and 64. admitting →admitted 65. becoming →become
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76. take →took 77. 正确78. fit后加for 79.join→joining
英语改错题 1：There is going to have much beef on the plate. have → be 2: I don’t think his dress is dearer than Kate. Kate → Kate’s 3: I can’t hear you. Could you speak it louder. 去掉it 4: It’s kind for you to help me to do the cleaning. for → of 5: Mr. Black, a good friend of me, likes drawing horses. me → mine 6: Don’t stay at home. You had better to go out for a walk. 去掉to 7: We will hold a sports meeting next Monday if it won’t rain. won’t → doesn’t 8: The boy called Tom was born in the morning of May 2nd, 1990. in → on 9: Jim is much cleverer than any other students in Grade 3, but he doesn’t work hard. students → student 10: Look! Two hundreds students are watching a football match on the playground. hundreds → hundred 11: Is there new anything in this talk. new anything → anything new 12: Neither Ann nor I are a League member. are → am 13: Hurry up, and you won’t catch the train. and → or 14: This story is not so longer as that one. longer → long 15: How long will she be back, in three days or a week. How long → How soon 16: Mrs. Smith found that difficult to study English well. that → it 17: There is little water in the glass, isn’t there. isn’t → is 18：Three fifths of books here is mine. is → are 19: Father told me that light travelled faster than sound. travelled → travels 20: Tom said he was feeling even worst. worst → worse 21: Ann didn’t know how work out the problem in class. work out→to work out 22: How did you do with the bad eggs . How → what 23: I’ve forgotten the number , you should look up it again. look up it → look it up. 24: He will have trouble learn English well in a year. learn → learning 25: I’ll telephone you as soon as he will come back. will come → comes 26: Why not ask for help when you were with trouble. with → in 27: Look! What happy the children are in the garden. what → how 28: You’d better speak as more English as you can. more → much 29: with my help , he finished made the kite at last. made → making 30：We have learned English since two years and a half. since →for 31: I’ll go back home as soon as school will be over. will → is 32: You’d better speak as more English as you can. more → much 33：Could you please to clean the classroom ? to clean → clean 34: Father tells his son how far is it from the earth to the moon. is it → it is 35: Neither he nor I were sending e-mails then. were → was
中考复习改错专项训练 1． Old Sarah was a strange rich woman. He did not 80. ________ hope to see any of her relative. She felt what they 81. ________ were interested in was her money. She was all right 82. ________ After she died, the relatives got together to hear Sarah's 83. ________ lawyer(律师) to read her will (遗嘱). They were sure that 84. ________ Sarah had left many money and they quarreled strongly 85. ________ with each other when they waited the lawyer to arrive. 86. ________ After the lawyer came in the living room, he asked them 87. ________ to sit down. He began to read the will in a seriously 88. ________ voice. Sarah has left all her money to her cats. 89. ________ 2． Mr Green come from England . 81. _________ He teaches English in middle school . 82. _________ He can speak some Chinese. He 83. ________ goes at Chinese classes very week . 84. __________ He likes working in Chinese very much . 85. _________ 3． Have you ever wanted to write a song? Two Sister. 59._________ Mildred and Patty Hill, once write a little song. 60._________ It was a happily song that they loved to sing. It 61._________ was calling "Good Morning to You. "However, most 62._________ other people didn't know the song very well. A day, 63._________ Mildred and Patty had a idea. It turned out (证明) to be 64._________ a very bad idea. They changed the words of the song. They 65.__________ called the new song "Happy Birthday to You." Theirs short 66._________ birthday song is now very famous. Almost every body know 67.__________ the words, Did anyone sing it at your test birthday party? 68.__________ 4. Hundred of years ago, news was carded by 6. _____________ people on foot or by a horse. It took a long 7. _____________ time people to receive news. Now it is possible 8. _____________ to send words and pictures in seconds. Billions of 9. _____________ people learn about news either by watching TV and by reading. 10. ____________ 5. Yesterday I went for shopping for shoes. The largest pair 1. I could find was an size 9 and I wear an 11! Everyone 2.
初中中考英语短文改错考题训练 初中英语短文改错试题解析 初中中考必备短文改错 初中英语短文改错 初中英语短文改错也是初中英语考试中经常看到的题型，下面是小编给大家总结的十篇初中英语短文改错训练题，希望对大家有帮助。 练习一： I have come in China for two years. My friends in 1. __________ England sometimes write to me, ask me how long 2. __________ I’ll stay here, when I’m thinking of returning 3. __________ home. The answer of their questions is simple: I 4. __________ do not know when I return home. At the moment, 5. __________ I have no reason to return back to England. I like 6. __________ living in China; I enjoy meeting Chinese people 7. __________ and travel around the country. My work is very 8. __________ interested, and there are so many things I don’t know 9. __________ about China that I hope to discover it in the future. 10. ________ 【答案解析】 1. 将come改为been。come是终止性动词，不与时间段连用。 2. 将ask改为asking。现在分词作伴随状语。 3. 在when前加and。 when引导的从句与how long引导的从句是两个并列的宾语从句(作asking的宾语)。 4. 将of改为to。在answer, key, way, entrance等名词后，习惯上用介词to。 5. 在return前加will。这是将来时。注意：不要误以为when引导的是时间状语从句，用一般现在时代替将来时。事实上，when引导的是宾语从句。 6. 去掉back或将return改为go。因为return=go back。 7. 此行正确。 8. 将travel改为traveling。因为traveling与meeting并列，作enjoy 的宾语。 9. 将interested改为interesting。表示某事物“令人……的”用-ing 形容词;-ed形容词则表示某人“感到……的”。 10. 将it改为them。因为此处是指many things。 练习二： Mary is my best friend. We’re all from Henan, 1. _____ but now I live in Beijing when she lives in 2. _____ Guangzhou. We don’t look each other very often, 3. _____ but we’re keep in touch all the time. I often write 4. _____ to Mary and telling her about the things that 5. _____
中考英语短文改错专项练习题 A At present, China is Spain's largest trading partner outside the EU, while Spain remains the six biggest trading partner in China within the EU. The bilateral trade volume（双边贸易额）have grown to over $30.9 billion in 2017 from $12 million in 1973 when two countries just established diplomatic ties. In recent year, Spain has witnessed a rising number of Chinese tourists or students, and the interests of the two people in each other’s cultures are too soaring. Earlier this year, Spanish has been officially include in China’s high school curriculum by the Chinese Ministry of Education and will be taught in this fall. B. As the larger developing country, China will always be a active force for safeguarding（维护）world food security. Although China faces quite a few difficulties ahead in its agricultural development, we will continue work tirelessly to deliver on we promise through actions. We will ensure（保证） food enough supply main on our own. We are ready to work for countries around the world to create a world of sustainable（可持续）develop that is free from hunger and poverty（贫困）. C It is reported by People's Daily Online that help the pandas deal with a recent bout of scorching （炎热的）weather, feeders at the zoo have provided them for watermelons, ice and chrysanthemum（菊花）tea, a beverage（饮料）used to clear heat and inflammation（清热消炎）in traditional China medicine. The panda house is also air-conditioned, keep the average（平均的）temperature at a pleasant 23°C. According to the feeders, 6 air-conditioners have were installed（安装）
专题练习一 A (2017·山西省大同市灵丘县模拟) The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military book __1__(date) from the 5th century BC.__2__ (write) by the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (“Master Sun”，also spelled Sunzi), the book consists of 13 chapters, each of __3__ is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is__4__ (common) thought of __5__ a great work on military strategy and tactics(战术). It __6__ (place) at the head of China's Seven Military Classics in 1080 by Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty , __7__ it has long been the most influential strategy text in East Asia. It has had__8__ influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond. Its first complete English translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910. __9__ (leader) such as Mao Zedong, General V o Nguyen Giap, General Douglas MacArthur and so on have drawn__10__ (inspire) from the work. 答案与解析 文章介绍了“孙子兵法”这本中国古代杰出的军事作品，以及对后人的影响。 1．dating考查非谓语动词。此处dating from是现在分词短语作定语，修饰book。 2．Written考查非谓语动词。分析句式可知，write和句子主语the book 之间是被动关系，故用过去分词形式表示被动。 3．which考查关系代词。根据句式可知，此处是一个非限制性
改错训练专项训练 4 One afternoon my father and me went fishing along a river. 1 ________ We found the water too dirty that we could not see the bottom. 2 ________ We also found rubbish and dead fish float on the water . That 3 ________ afternoon my father catches only some small fish. 4 ________ What did the fish in the river die for? That was because a lot of 5 ________ factories along the river always emptied its waste water and rubbish 6 ________ into the river, but the river got polluted. Thus, most of the fish in 7 ________ the river were killed . If all the rivers throughout the country are polluted like this, all 8 ________ living things in the water will killed. Clean water is very important 9 ________ to life. We expect that water in every river will be made more 10 ________ cleaner and cleaner before long. 5 I have been planning to join in our college basketball team 1 ________ next year, so now I am spending as more time as I can 2 ________ with other people who likes to play. They are teaching 3 ________ me the most important rule and techniques of the game, 4 ________ and I am getting the better all the time. We have a 5 ________ neighborhood team that play against other teams in the area. 6 ________ One of my neighbors is helping rest of us 7 ________ improved our skills. Tonight we are playing against 8 ________ one of the best teams in the city , and I think we can 9 ________ beat them if we won't make any mistakes . 10 ________ 6 We were late as usual . My husband had insisted on watering the flowers in the garden by himself. When we 1 ________ realized how he couldn't manage, he asked me for help. 2 ________ But now we had only an hour to get to the airport. Luckily, 3 ________ there were not many more cars or buses on the road and we 4 ________ were able to get here just in time. We checked in and went 5 ________ straight to the big hall to wait for our flight be called, 6 ________ but no announcement is made. A girl there told us the plane 7 ________ hadn't come yet. In the end , there came an announcement told 8 ________ us that the passengers waiting for Flight LJ108 could get the 9 ________ free meal and that the plane hadn't left London for some 10 ________ technical problems. 7 American people have a habit saying " Thank you" 1 ________ whenever something kind is done for them and something 2 ________ polite is said to them , no matter what easy or common the 3 ________
初中英语短文改错 练习一： I have come in China for two years. My friends in 1. __________ England sometimes write to me, ask me how long 2. __________ I’ll stay here, when I’m thinking of returning 3. __________ home. The answer of their questions is simple: I 4. __________ do not know when I return home. At the moment, 5. __________ I have no reason to return back to England. I like 6. __________ living in China; I enjoy meeting Chinese people 7. __________ and travel around the country. My work is very 8. __________ interested, and there are so many things I don’t know 9. __________ about China that I hope to discover it in the future. 10. ________ 【答案解析】 1. 将come改为been。come是终止性动词，不与时间段连用。 2. 将ask改为asking。现在分词作伴随状语。 3. 在when前加and。when引导的从句与how long引导的从句是两个并列的宾语从句(作asking的宾语)。 4. 将of改为to。在answer, key, way, entrance等名词后，习惯上用介词to。 5. 在return前加will。这是将来时。注意：不要误以为when引导的是时间状语从句，用一般现在时代替将来时。事实上，when引导的是宾语从句。 6. 去掉back或将return改为go。因为return=go back。 7. 此行正确。 8. 将travel改为traveling。因为traveling与meeting并列，作enjoy的宾语。 9. 将interested改为interesting。表示某事物“令人……的”用-ing形容词;-ed 形容词则表示某人“感到……的”。 10. 将it改为them。因为此处是指many things。 练习二： Mary is my best friend. We’re all from Henan, 1. _____ but now I live in Beijing when she lives in 2. _____ Guangzhou. We don’t look each other very often, 3. _____ but we’re keep in touch all the time. I often write 4. _____ to Mary and telling her about the things that 5. _____ are happened at my company, and she often 6. _____ writes to me about her work. We talk on phone 7. _____ once a week. Sometime I call her on her 8. _____ car phone, or we send e-mail to each other. 9. _____ We’re really luck. There are so many ways 10. ____ we can keep in touch with each other.
高考英语短文改错专项练习试题 2015 高二级高考英语短文改错练习 【命题趋向】 短文改错是一项主要测试考生的判断能力，观察能力、纠错能力语言基础知识 及语言的综合运用能力。 短文改错的趋势： 1.改错短文以记叙文和说明文为主。 2.文章内容贴近学生生活，没有生僻词汇和复杂的结构，文章简单易懂，错误 设置也很简单，多为学生平常作文中常出现的错误。 3.短文一般 100 词左右，错误有9 处。 4.常见错有三种 : 错词、多词、缺词。错词占60%左右 【错误类型】 1.错词 2. 多词 3. 缺词 4. 正错【考 点透视】 一．错词的热点 1．动词—时态语态非谓语；主谓关系。 2．联系词—关系代词和关系副词；连词；连接词。 3．名词—可数名词、不可数名词，可数名字的单复数变化。 4．介词—介词和动词的搭配错误。 5．形容词 /副词—词类错用。 6．冠词—定冠词和不定冠词的错用。 7．代词—人称代词；物主代词；反身代词。 8．惯用法—固定句型，固定短语。 二．多词和缺词热点 1. 冠词 2.介词 3.副词 4.代词 5.关联词 6.小品词 to 【短文改错主要特点】 1.语言材料取自于学生的习作。 2.短文为贴近学生生活的话题或学生 身边事。 3.短文难度符合学生水平。 4.语言简单易懂。 5.没有生僻的语言现象或繁难的语句结构。 【例题解析】 一．错词 1.动词错误：时态和语态、主谓一致的错误。 【 1】整体时态： *Then I ask him“ Grandma, how come you have so much lines on your hand”全文为故事，故 ask 改为 asked。 *High over the water, they discover a hole in the balloon.The hole became bigger and bigger. 全篇使用过去时态，故改 discover- -discovered 【 2】主谓一致 *Having fun with their friends make them happy. 动名词短语做主语，谓语动词用单数形式makes。 *But the most wonderful thing about jack were his musical ability。 主语为 the most wonderful thing 故此，系词为 was
高一英语短文改错专项练习(一) 命题人：右臂审题人：左膀 2016.11.8 高老师的左膀右臂祝大家期中考顺利~ 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改． 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。 修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。 2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。 A Nearly five years before, and with the help by our father, my sister and I planted some cherry tomatoes(圣女果)in our back garden. Since then for all these year we had been allowing tomatoes to self-seed where they please. As result, the plants are growing somewhere. The fruits are small in size, but juicy and taste. There are so much that we often share them with our neighbors. Although we allow tomato plants to grow in the same place year after year, but we have never had any disease or insect attack problems. We are growing wonderfully tomatoes at no cost! B It is three years now since I graduate from Xinhua High School. Last Sunday, the class that I was on held a get-together, which took us a long time prepare. It was indeed not easy to get in the touch with everybody and set a well time for all of us. We all enjoyed a precious day greatly, remember the time we spent together and the people they were familiar with. It was a pity which some of us were not present as they had gone to abroad for further studies, but they called back or sent greeting card from different places. C I'm an Australian boy aging 17 and I'm crazy about music. It is one of the most important thing in my life. I listen music whenever I can. I have a minidisk player, with it I can have access to music whether walking in the street or ride on the bus. At home, there has a CD player in my room, and the music is on all the time. I like rock music best of all. My favorite band is Rolling Stones, which had produced 40 albums since 1966. It so happened that there was a living concert of Rolling Stones last Sunday. I decided to go. It was a great fun. I am also fond of classical music. I especially enjoy playing Beethoven once I am doing my homework.
2017年中考英语短文改错 1 Many years ago a poor man grew an orange tree. 1. _______ On the tree there were many fine oranges. Some day he found 2. _______ one of them was so big as a football . He took it 3. _______ for the king . The king was so happy that he gave the 4. _______ poor man lots money. When a rich man heard of it , 5. _______ he said for himself ,“I’ll take my gold cup to the king 6. _______ and he will give me much money . Next day the king received 7. _______ from the cup . The king was very fond of the cup and he told 8. _______ the rich man,“I have an orange . It beautiful than the cup, 9. _______ so I have decided to give it to you as the reward instead money. 10. _______ 2 One day a doctor was starting his morning works. Suddenly 1. _______ a man ran his room. His face was red and he could 2. _______ only say“Quick! Quick!”The doctor thought he can be 3. _______ very ill. His assistant helped to get the poor man sit in 4. _______ a chair. The doctor gave the man some medicine to make 5. _______ him to sleep. Then he looked into the man's mouth and 6. _______ pulled out all the bad tooths. As soon as the man woke 7. _______ up, he said“Quick, doctor, Quick,”with a low voice. 8. _______ “It's all over now,”the doctor told him.“You don't understand,”9. _______ said the man:”I came to tell you your house is on the fire.”10.________ 3 Every morning John goes to work by trains. He always 1. _________ buys a newspaper , it helps to make the time pass more quickly . 2. _________ One Thursday morning, he turned on the sports 3. _________ page . He wanted to see the report about an important 4. _________ football match the night before . The report was such 5. _________ interesting that he forgot to get off at his station . He didn’t know it when he saw the sea. He got off 6. _________ at the next station , and had to wait long time for a 7. _________ train to go back . Of course, he arrived very late 8. _________ at the office . His boss were very angry when Tom told him 9. ________ Why he was late. “Work is very more important than football!”10.________ 4 Dear Ralph, I’m a senior student. I have be in love with a boy 1.———— for three years. But he is a shy boy, so I wrote him a letter firstly 2. ————
中考英语10篇短文改错专项练习（含答案） 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）下面短文中的划线部分可能是错误的， 如果错误请改正，如果正确，请打√，如果是多余的用“删除，划掉，去掉。”。如果需要 写“词前，词后”加词。并将答案写在右边相应题号后的横线上。( 每空只写一词，并不得 改变原句意思。) 2. Dear John. Last summer I take a part-time job in the International Camp for children. I have been told one more worker will be needed this year and I think you are fit it. How about join as The camp is at the foot of a small hill close to a river. It is so a beautiful place! We can hear birds singing happy all around. Everybody sleeps in tents, that is very exciting. We usually work only five hours a day, so we will have plenty of spare time visit the area and have a fun, I am sure it will be an unforgettable experience. If you have interests in it, reply to me soon. 3. When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay his food, his clothes, 76. or his room, but he has to work till he wants to live 77. comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing 78. about in the way that he used to as a child, they will go 79.