英语短文改错习题精选及答案

英语短文改错习题精选及答案

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 told8. _______

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. ————

to express my feeling. And he wrote back. In his letter 3.————

he said, “We are students. Our task is study. Let us wait 4. ————

to see until we have any chance after graduation.”So 5. ————

after graduation I telephoned to him, asking him about 6.————

go out . But he said he didn’t want to. He just7. ————

wanted to sleep and watched TV.8. ————

What do you think I should do? Do you think9. ————

I should continue to love him and give up?10.————

5

Nowadays,almost every family has TV set,and almost 1_______.

everyone likes watching has become part of our lives 2___________________. TV has many advantages,for example,it informs us the 3___________________. latest news which is happening in the world;it can open our 4___________________. eyes,enlarge our knowledge and also help us to see more 5___________________. about the world.But,it also has some disadvantages.People 6___________________. waste too much time in watching TV and his normal life 7___________________. and work are affected.To the children who they spend too 8___________________. much time in watching TV,it can do harmful to their sight 9___________________. and healthy.So we should control the time of watching TV. 10___________________.

6

Dear Tom,

I am very sorry to have learned that your parents killed in 1___________________. the September 11th Incident.In this attack the World 2___________________.

Trade Center,that was one of the tallest buildings 3___________________.

in the world,was completely destroyed and thousand of 4___________________. people lost their lives.I'm very angry with the terrorist 5___________________. activities.We against all forms of terrorist activities 6___________________.

and supported the war against the terrorism.7_______.

Don't be too sad.Don't lose your heart.After all,the majority 8___________________. of the people in the world love peace.I wish you can recover 9___________________. from the sad as soon as possible.Do take care of yourself. 10___________________. Best wishes.

7

Li Ming,who has been working as postman for 1___________________.

two years,always wears a suit of green uniforms. 2___________________.

He worked with care as well as with effort.He 3___________________.

serves for the people heart and soul.Every day he 4___________________.

gets up early to deliver newspapers or magazines. 5___________________.

He is so careful and he has never been wrong. 6___________________.

One day he had to send a dead letter and it happened 7___________________.

to be raining hardly outside.But he set out immediately. 8___________________.

He had asked nearly everybody in the district after 9___________________.