短文改错练习（1）Rowena and Billy Wrangler are model high schoolstudents . They study hard . They do extreme w ell on 76．achievement tests . And next year , Rowena will attending 77．Harvard University . Billy , her younger brother , hoe to go 78．to Cornell . That makes Rowena and Billy d ifferent from 79．most students is that they don’t go to school . In f act , 80．they've never been to school . Since a kindergarten , they 81．have studied at home . Neither Rowena or Billy feels a s if 82．they have missed out on nothing by being taught at home . 83．As many of the more than one million people w ho receive 84．home schooling in the United States , they feel if they 85．have gotten a good education .短文改错练习（2）Did you enjoy yourself yesterday? I suppose you do. But I’d76．like to tell you what a bad day I had yesterday. Nothing 77．just went wrong. On the morning, my alarm clock didn’t ring, 78．since I woke up an hour late. I was in such a hurry that I burnt my 79．hand when I was cooking the breakfast. Then I ran out of the house 80．to catch the 8:30 buses. This is the bus I usually take. B ut, you 81．may laugh, I missed it of course. I am very unhappy, and scared 82．as well because teacher hates the students coming late to school. 83．So I ran three miles to school only to discover t hat nobody 84．was there. The school was quiet but peaceful. Our classroom was 85．locked. I realized that moment: It was Sunday.短文改错练习（3）Get a good education is more important today than 76．ever before .In Canada mostly children attend public 77．schools. Public schools are mainly found b y governments 78．through tax income. Students in Canada t aught in 79．English and in French. The rests of Canadian children 80．attend private schools, that are supported mainly by fees 81．paying by parents .By law ,the children must attend 82．the school from age 5 to 16. There are s everal different 83．levels in the Canadian education system .The f irst was 84．called Elementary Schools ,which include kindergartens 85．through grade 7 or 8.短文改错练习（4）Yesterday we went to plant trees on the hill n ear to 76. our school. The boys were made dig pits(坑).The 77. girls were told to plant the young trees into t he pits. 78. All of us worked very hardly. Soon we were a ll wet 79.with sweat.After the young trees planted, we 80.began to water it.The water was at the f oot of 81. the hill. But we stood in line to pass pails(桶) 82. of water from one to other up to the hill. 83. We did not finish water the trees until it 84. was dark.Though we were tired,we feel very happy. 85短文改错练习（5）A few months after returning the US from Germany , I took 76.part in a college course in French. Since I have learned to 77. speak German good in Germany, I thought that it might be 78. interested to begin studying another language. At t he first 79. class, the teacher asked us to do a p ronunciation exercise, 80.in which he would say one word or two in French, and each 81. student would do their best to copy. When he got to me, he 82. kept having me to say more words, and I finally a sked him 83. why. “I find it great funs. It’s the first time I’ve heard an 84. American speak French with a German accent.”he explained it. 85.短文改错练习（6）It was fine yesterday. The sun was shining in thesky. I went boating by myself. I didn’t take many 76．friends with me because I wanted to row alone. 77．I hired a boat and rowed slowly to the center o f lake. 78．A fresh breeze was blowing, fish was swimming and birds 79．were singing. When I reached the center, I took up the 80．paddles（桨）and lie down in the boat. With the blue sky 81．over me or green water around me I w as extremely 82．relaxed. Over about two hours passed in this way before I 83．knew them. I came back home very late. I didn’t feel 84．tiring at all, for I had really had a good time. 85．短文改错练习（7）I was anxiously expected your letter, and a t last 76.it has reached to me. I am very glad to know that 77 everyone at home is enjoying good health as usually. 78 Things here are same now as they were b efore. The 79 final examination will take place in next week. So 80I am now busy preparing for my lessons. It’s nice 81to think that the summer vacation is coming 82 near. I can’t say much I want to see you a ll again. 83I am looking forward to spend summer days w ith you. 84 Give my love to Father, Mother and anyone at home. 85短文改错练习（8）One afternoon , when I was on my way home , t he sky 76．changed suddenly . Dark clouds were gathered . I began 77．to feel worried because I didn’t have both a raincoat 78．or umbrella about me . It soon started to rain . 79．Just as I was hurrying home , I heard of someone calling 80．me from behind . I turned to have a look and f ind that 81．he was Liu Wei , a good neighbour of mine . He 82．offered to share his umbrella with me . We walked all 83．the ways home . Without Liu Wei’s help , I w ould have 84．got wet to the skin . How much thankful I was for his help ! 85．短文改错练习（9）I worried about the missed bag all t he evening. 76．I tried to remember exact what I had done from the 77．time I left the store until at the time I got h ome. I 78．remembered whether I had looked at the bag while I 79．was having lunch. So I must have it when I l eft the 80．store. I remembered showing it to a friend on the bus. 81．But I had the bag then. I came directly from the bus 82．to my house, and I must have forgotten it on the bus. I 83．was in hurry to get off and forgot to check the packages 84．lying on the floor. I should be much careful n ext time. 85．短文改错练习（10）A kind of little car may someday take place of t oday’s big 76．ones . If people drive such cars in the future ,there would be 77．less pollution in there air . There will be more s paces for 78．parking cars in cities . The streets will be less crowd . And 79．driving will be safer as these little cars can go only 65 km 80．per hour . The future cars will be fine for getting round acity , so they will not be useful for long trips . Little cars 81．will go 200km , before needing to stop more gas . If big cars 82．are still used along with the small ones , two sets of roadsthat will be needed in the future . Some roads will be used 83．for the big fast cars and another roads will be needed for 84．the slow small ones . It is said that third such little cars 85．fit in the space now needed for one car the usual size .短文改错练习（11）Dear Bob,I must say that I do agree with you. Though y ou find 76．something, but it doesn’t mean it belongs to you.If you 77．can find who it belongs to, you should try to return back 78．it. I’m sure you would want someone to do s ame for 79．you. Once I found a beautiful picture. I wanted to keep 80．it. Then I remembered see one just like it in an office. 81．I went to the office and found the person to who it 82．belonged. The lady was very happy to get back and 83．gave me delicious apples. So you see, Bob, I get two 84．rewards: one I could eat and another I could keep in 85．my heart.Yours,Li Ming短文改错练习（12）Mr Zhang is over sixty years old. He has retired（退休）.He is one of my respected teachers. He teaches us 76. chemistry when we were in senior Grade One. He was old, and he 77. taught us good. He tried his best to make his classes lively. 78. Mr Zhang usually made good preparations for the lesson and was strict 79. to us, too. Whenever we made mistakes in our homework. 80. he would ask us to correct them. At that time, I was used to be 81. poorly in chemistry. Mr Zhang often helped me with my studies 82. very patiently. With his help, I had made rapid progress and 83. caught with the class. He is always very kind to every student. 84.As an experienced teacher, he is respected and loved by all 85. the students.短文改错练习（13）I can’t swim because I have a strong fear of water.Look back at my childhood experience, I think 76.that three reason might explain the fear. The first 77.reason is that I was not allowed to go near the water 78.when I was a child, for my mother had unreasonable 79.fear of it. So, even as a child I was taught see the 80.water as something danger. Second, my eyes 81. became bad ones when I was five. If I took off my 82. glasses in the water, I couldn’t see anything, but this83. increased my fear. The worst part of your experience 84.is that as a child I often see a neighbor drowned. Since 85.then I have been more frightened.短文改错练习（14）Most people who are ambitious and want to achievesomething live on stress. They need them. I like to use 76．example from the animal world because there is a biological 77．basis for what I say. If you take a turtle and force it to run with as 78．fast as a race-horse, you should kill it. So it’s useless to say79．to a turtle type human what he must achieve this because his 80．father was famous and his grandfather was successful. You can’t81．make race-horse out of a turtle. But the reverse is also true. If you 82．are the race-horse type, as more efficient businessmen and politicians 83．are, you have the urge to do many things and to express you. If 84．you told not to do anything, you are under terrible distress. 85．短文改错练习（15）Have you ever heard from the saying : All work and no play 76．make Jack a dull boy ? What this means is that if you study 77．all the times you will become a boring person . You must 78．go out and having fun with your friends , otherwise you will 79．lose him . No one wants to be friends with someone who only 80．talks about work and study . 81．Perhaps you have a confidence problem . Please try remember 82．what the work you do is for yourself but no one else . You 83．do not have to compete with your classmates . No one could 84．be happier in studying seven days and seven nights in a week . 85．短文改错练习（16）Deare Abby ,How are you ? Today I’ve got a wonderful news to tell you . 76．I have offered a scholarship at a university in Australia for my 77．further education . One hundred and twenty students took exam 78．for it , but only a few was chosen and I was one of them . However , 79．my parents are not happy about it . They are strong against me 80．going there . They say it is too far away that they will not see me 81．for a whole year and they are afraid of I will feel lonely . They 82．can't imagine a girl so young live alone . They advise me to study 83．in the capital instead . Then I’ll be able to continue living with 84．them . How can I persuade them to accept the fact I have grown up ?85．Best WishesJane短文改错练习（17）I used to love science class—all of them—76．biology, chemistry, geography or physics. I think I 77．liked those classes because I felt that it helped me 78．understand what the world works. For example, 79．when I was a child, the rain was a mystery. I n one 80．class, I learned why it rained. I think s cience classes 81．clear up mysteries. But then there is a lways more 82．mysteries look into. What was my least f avorite class? 83．That was math. After learn the basics of the subject, 84．Nothing else seemed very practically to me. I never 85．saw how I could use it in my daily life.短文改错练习（18）Some Americans judge success on t he length 76．of his vacations . The man who gets a month’s77．vacation each year consider himself more successful 78．than the man gets two weeks . Many people want 79．to be teachers because it is teachers who can 80．get three-month vacation every year . Some college 81．teachers who teach the three c lasses consider 82．themselves less successful than that w ho teach 83．only one or two , or none in all . In short , the less 84．work Americans do , the less s uccessful they 85．consider themselves .短文改错练习（19）As is known, that is interesting to teach c hildren to 76．swim while they are still babies. Most the large towns in 77．Florida and California have already run particularly l essons for 78．babies. The idea has quickly spread to Europe f rom where, 79．in several countries, special courses are now offered to 80．the children who are from 7 to 24 month old. 81．The first step is to have child get rid of fear of 82．water. Next, he is teaching to float in water. Once he 83．can do that naturally and can swim with fear, the c hild can 84．master the technique and push him forward through t he water. 85．短文改错练习（20）Dear Mr. GreenI work in the Friendship Shop on Zhongshan Road 76.where you have often come to buy things. The other day 77.if you bought a vase at our shop with your wife, I made 78.the mistake about the price. You looked at t wo different 79.price of the same vase, one costing 30 yuan and the other 80.21 yuan. You took the 21 yuan one so I accepted 30 81.yuan from you. I found my mistake only after you and 82.your wife have left. Will you please come to our shop to 83.get in your change or to return your vase and get a 30 84.yuan one instead? I apologize you for it. 85.I’m looking forward to your coming earlier.Yours truly,Wang Hua短文改错练习（21）In many western countries heavy industry is high developed76．The difference between heavy and light industry are based on 77．the nature of the goods produced. Heavy industry produce 78．machines while light industry uses machines produce the 79．smaller objects required for various purpose in our home80．and offices.The growth of industry in country depends on the81．general level of economic or industrial development. 82．In its beginning, industrialization is likely to be cheap. To 83．decrease （减少）costs, industrialists in an area usually depend on 84．Local supplies of the coal or electric power for t heir operation 85．短文改错练习（22）It happened in a morning that I was walking in the street .76．I ate up a banana and threw its peel on the corner of the road .77．Short after that I heard a scream behind .I looked back to78．see what was happened .A little girl about 8 years old fell79．down and the banana peel was exactly under her left shoes .80．She stood up without cry .Then she picked up the banana peel81．and ran toward the dustbin .On that moment ,I realized my fault , and went t o82．apologize her for that ,but my vanity (虚荣心)prevented me .83．The little girl had taught me a good lesson by her action .84．And now ,after I do everything , I’ll think carefully whether85．it’s right or wrong . I’ll do my best to be in good habits and qualities .短文改错练习（23）Mr Wang is my physics teacher. He has 1.75 meters 76．in the height. He was born on November 4,1952. So 77．he is a middle-aged man. He graduated Qinghua 78．University in 1978. After graduation, he becomes a middle 79．school teacher. He has been taught physics for more than 20 years. 80．He is very successful as a teacher. He has been given a 81．lot of honor. He not only is a good teacher in 82．physics but also speak English and Russian very well. 83．In his spare time, he likes reading books, collect stamps 84．and listening music. Also, Mr Smith is kind-hearted. 85．短文改错练习（24）Dear Lily,I got your letter and pleased to hear about your job 76.interview at a grocery store. I know you wanted to 77.get a job at the TV station, and you’ve been looking78.for several week now and haven’t found anything.79.The job at the grocery store doesn’t sound badly. If I80.am you, I’d take it. If you worked there a while, you81.could earn some money. Its your decision, of course, 82.but I advise you to take it. Let me to know what you 83.decided to do. By the way, after you get the job you 84.can think about get a bike later. 85.Love短文改错练习（25）Dear Abby：How are you? I’ve got a wonderful news to tell you76．I have offered a scholarship at a university in Australia for my77．further education. One hundred and twenty students took exam78．for it, but only a few were chosen and I was one of them. Therefore,79．my parents are not happy about it. They are strong against my80．going there. They say it is too far away that they will not see me81．for a whole year and they are afraid of I will feel lonely. T hey82．can’t imagine a girl so young live alone. They advise me to study83．in the capital instead. Then I’ll be able to continue living with them.84．How can I persuade them to accept the fact I have grown up?85．Best Wishes,Jane短文改错练习（26）I went to see film after supper. On my way to the 76.cinema, I met an old English woman, she had lost her 77.way. I gave up the chance to see the film, walking towards 78.her and took her to her hotel. While go there, I told her 79.great change had taken place in the past few years and she 80.told me something about Britain and her family. 81.Though I missed the film, however I felt very happy, 82.for I not only helped the old lady out from trouble but also 83.practise my spoken English. If I hadn’t worked hard at 84.English, I would have been able to help her. 85.短文改错练习（27）I was anxiously expected your letter, and a t last 76.it has been reached me. I am very glad to know that 77.everyone at home is enjoying good health as usually. 78.Things here are the same now as we were before. 79.The final examination will take place of next week. 80.But I am now busy preparing my lessons. It’s nice to81.think that the summer vacation is coming near. I can’t82.say much I want to see you all again. 83.Looking forward to spend summer days with you. 84.Give my love to Father, mother and anyone at home. 85.短文改错练习（28）Helen is one of my best friends. She had taught76．us English when I attended training course two77．years before. Helen always made good preparations78．for the lessons, she tried her best to make her79．classes lively. I used to being poor in English,80．especially in written English. But now I’m able81．to write English letters and reports correct.82．I still remember how she helped me for my83．English patiently. Teachers’ Day’s come. I’m going to84．send to her a card and give her best wishes.85．短文改错练习（29）ow I'd like to tell you why I learnEnglish．76．I often read English aloud and try learn something 77．important by hearts, which helps me remember it easily and78．form the good habit of thinking inEnglish．79．I listen to a lot and talk with others inEnglish．80．In this way, I was improved both my hearing 81．and my spoken English．I keep a diary in English every day but my 82．spoken English is becoming better and better．83．I also try my best to master the necessary grammarknowledge．By this means, I can express itself 84．in English correct．That's the way I have been learning 85．English．I hope it will be useful toyou．That's all．Thank you．短文改错练习（30）I passed all the other course that I took at my university, but I could 76.never pass botany. This was why all botany students had to spend 77.several hours a week in a lab look through a microscope at plant 78.cells, and I could never see through a microscope. This was used to 79.make my professor angry. “I can’t see everything, ” I said. Then80.he began patient enough to explain how to see through it, but I still 81.couldn’t make it. At last we tried it with every adjustment of the82.microscope known to man. With my pleasure, I saw something 83.and drew it quickly on the paper. “What’s that?” my professor asked.“That’s what I saw.” I answered. “No, you don’t!” he shouted,84.and he bent over and looking into the microscope. “That’s your85.eyes! You’ve fixed the lens so that it reflects! You’ve drawn your eyes!”短文改错练习（31）One cold day, an aged lady was sent for her doctor. When he c ame, 76．she tells him that her right leg was very sore(酸痛)in the knee. 77．The pain sometimes was bad enough to make it walking difficult. 78．She asked him what the trouble could be because she had never b efore 79．suffered some similar discomfort. After making a careful e xamination, 80．the doctor said, “You are in a very bad state of health for a woman 81．of your age. I think the trouble in your right knee is just m atter of 82．old age. We get diseases as we get old. The trouble w ill mostly 83．clean up in spring!”“Nonsese,doctor!” she said, “My left knee is 84．perfect, and it is exactly same age as m y right.”85．短文改错练习（32）May I have you attention please? I have a few 76. things to tell you. When you have a class here i n the 77. language lab, please be here a little e arly. Change 78. your shoes before enter the lab. Don't b ring anything 79. here except your text books. When you are into, 80. please don't touch these machine without permission. 81. Always do as the teacher tell you to. In c lass you 82. should only speak the English, not Chinese. Recorders 83. can be used make a copy of the listening materials. 84.When class over, turn off your machines a nd leave 85. the lab one by one.短文改错练习（33）Dinner on Children's DayOn Children's Day last year, our city held an interested 76. activity, in which children and their parents play the rich 77. and the poor. In the dinner, the rich could have more delicious 78. food, but the poor could only have bread with porridge(粥). 79. Parents both hoped to have the dinner for the poor with the 80.81. children. They hoped that their children could be taught thelesson from the dinner.Now many people on earth don't have enough food and clothes. 82. Every day only one half the world could enjoy enough food. 83. The activity was held to make the families understand the 84. differences from the poor and the rich and also make the parents 85. know that too much material life won't always do good to the children.短文改错练习（34）We'll never forget the day which my classmates and 76.I paid a visit to a chemistry factory last week. 77. It was a larger one with nearly 2,000 workers. It 78. looked a garden and we could see colorful flowers, 79. grass and trees anywhere. We also visited some 80. workshops and saw workers worked very hard. We 81. talked to them and learned a lot. We understood 82. them further. On the way home we felt tiring. 83. We all thought that we had a very good day. We 84.85. really hoped that we could get more chances ofleave the school and learn social experience.短文改错练习（35）One morning Mrs Jenkins went to d epartment store 76. to buy a coat. There was not shop assistant in the store 77. before she got there. She had to wait. Then a f at lady. 78. came in. She went to Mrs Jenkins and asked her to serve 79. for her. She told Mrs Jenkins that she wanted to buy 80.a coat. Mrs Jenkins said that she c ouldn't do. 81. The fat lady got angrily. She didn't let M rs Jenkins 82. explain anything but insisted that M rs Jenkins 83. would do that right away because it was her job. 84. At last Mrs Jankins has to tell her that s he was 85.a customer herself and wanted to buy a coat, too.短文改错练习（36）If there are much more people in the world, t here must 76. have more food to feed the people. But food is already a 77. problem in today's world. One-third of the w orld's population 78. is starving, because there is not enough food. Ten thousand 79. people died of hunger every day in some parts of the world 80. But in others parts of the world, people become ill or die 81. because they eat too much food, and they are very f at. Some 82. countries have no food, but the others have too much, and 83. they throw them away. How can tomorrow's world feed 84. its people? The world needs produce more food than 85. it does now.短文改错练习（37）There are strange similarities in t he life 76. of John F. Kennedy and the life of Abraham Lincoln. For 77. example, Kennedy became a president in 1960,while Lincoln 78. elected in 1860.This was exactly one hundred years 79. apart. Then both men were shot after, on a Friday and in 80. the presence of their wife. There is a nother very 81. strangely similarity. Kennedy's secretary, named Lincoln, 82. told him to go to Dallas. Lincoln's secretary, named Kennedy, 83. told him not to go to the Ford Theatre. But all of them went 84. and both were shot to die. 85.短文改错练习（38）A US-led War against Iraq broke out in March 20, 2003 76.without the agreement of the UN. They came less than two 77. hours after Bush's deadline for Saddam leave his 78. country has passed. There are about 250,000 US armies 79. around Iraq. There are also armies from another countries. 80. includes Britain and Australia, fighting with the American 81. soldiers. Their force is much more bigger than that of Iraq 82. But they met stronger resistance than they expected. 83. “These things are never easy. There will have some difficult84. times ahead so the War is going on as its plan,” said85. British Prime Minister Blair.短文改错练习（39）My husband 96-year-old grandmother came to live 76. with us for many years of independence. We did 77. all the things we could make her feel comfortable, 78. in our home, including giving her the private line for 79. their bedroom. One evening we were having a party 80. while the phone rang. It was telephone operator, 81. who asked, “Do you have a grandmother on upstairs? 82. “Yes,what’s happened?” my husband replied.“Well,”the 83. operator again continued,“She can't remember. 84. your phone number, and she like a cup of tea.. ”85.短文改错练习（40）I'd like to tell you something more about the problem of 76. pollution we are facing to. As we know, the factory 77. besides our school gives off heavy smoke all day 78. long. Very loud voices hurt our ears. Rubbish and 79. waste are thrown here or there. It also sends out 80. polluting water and poisonous gas. All this has 81. made a great harm to the health and study of the 82. teachers and students. But as time goes on, a little 83. has done to change the situation. I don't think we can 84. study well until the problem is solved. We do hope85. you'll help and support us.短文改错练习（41）Helen is one of my best friends. She has taught 76. us English when I attended training c lass two 77. years before. Helen always made good preparations 78. for the lesson, and she tried her best to make 79. her classes lively. I used to being poor in English, 80. especially in written English. But now I'm able 81. to write English letters and r eports correct. 82.I still remember how she helped me for my 83. English patiently. Teachers' Day's come. I'm g oing to 84. send to her a card and give her best wishes. 85.短文改错练习（42）The early morning fire damaged the historic Gallad H ouse today. 76 It destroyed the third floor of the building so fire fighters saved 77 the first and the second floors. There were only a few elderly people 78 living in the building at the time and they carried out to safety. 79 The Gallad House was built in 1718 and was used for a hotel f or over 80 150 years. George Washington stayed in here in 1782. The Gallad family 81 owned the building for the elderly. Several fire department were c alled 82 to the scene. When Fire Chief Andrew Bond asked when the fire 83 started, he answered that perhaps a burning cigarette caused it. 84 Chief Bond had promised to further examine the cause. 85短文改错练习（43）When passing the bus station on my way home，I found out alittle girl alone crying. Obviously,she was losing，looking for her mother. I came up and asked her why. When asked where her mother was,she just shook head and kept crying. Then I took her to the station broadcasting room for a help. "Anyone who lost a child please come to our broadcasting room..." which was soon heard again and a gain. Minutes later,a worrying mother came. The girl ran to her mother happily，tears still in eyes. The mother was very thankful and askedfor my name. With smile，I answered，" I'm only a League member.I have just done that a League member should do. It's my duty." 76777879808182838485短文改错练习（44）I used to going to the countryside to draw animals and plants. One day I was walking across a field looking for rabbits to draw. Losing in thought，I hadn't noticed a bull to running towards me. About 100 76777879。
