英语改错练习题

1、You will think about what kind of saving instru- _1_ment to use or what kind of investment to make. By putting your money in some kind of savings instrumentor investment, you can set aside small amount of mon- _2_ey regularly and the money will earn interest or divi-dends. Interest refers to the amo

2、unt what your money _3_earns when it is kept in a savings instrument. Divi-dends are payments of part of a companys earnings topeople hold stock in the company. A savings instru- _4_ment has an “interest rate ” associated with it; this re-fers to the rate which the money in the instrument in- _5_cre

3、ases during a certain period of time. Principal re-fers to the facial value or the amount of money you _6_place in the savings instrument on which the interest isearned.Every type of savings or investment has some riskthat the return will be less than needed or expected.Federally insured savings acc

4、ounts are safe and guar-anteed up to $100,000 by the U.S. Government. Therefore, they may have lower interest rates, making _7_it hard to save large amounts of money for college. _8_Bonds and stocks often have higher returns than sav-ings accounts or EE saving bonds but are more riskier. _9_You can

5、reduce the risks of these kinds of investmentsby starting to save early. The earlier we begin the less _10_money you will have to put aside each month and themore total savings you will accumulate.1.把saving改为savingssaving表示“节约的”，和其复数形式savings意义不同。savings的意思是“存款，储蓄”。2.在small前面加上a a small amount of 表示

6、“少量的”，冠词不可缺。3.把what改为which或者thatamount在此是先行词，后面是一个定语从句，这个从句显然应该由关系代词that或者which引导。4.在hold前面加who 先行词people后面是一个定语从句，因此需要有引导词。5.在which前面加上at 关系代词which在此引导的同样是一个定语从句，并且在此应该用“介词关系代词”这个形式，因为前面的rate往往用于短语at a rate，此处的介词可以提前。6.把facial改为face 票面价值应是：face value。7.把Therefore改为However。 此处根据上下文来看，表达的是转折的含义，而不是因果

7、关系。8.把hard改为harder 这里存在一个隐含的比较，所以应该用hard的比较级形式。9.删除more，或者把more改为muchriskier本身已经是比较形式了，再加上more是多余的。把more改为much，表示一种程度也可以。10.把we改为you 第二题将amount改为amounts也是正确的第四题把hold改为holding也是正确的a small amount of 和small amounts of 用法的区别a large（great，good）amount of 不可数名词，谓语动词一般用单数；但（large，great，good）amounts of 不可数名词

8、，作主语时，谓语动词要用复数。A large amount of damage has beendone by the earth quake Large amounts of money werespent on the bridge这就是为什么第二题也可以把amount改为amounts而第八题不用改amount的原因啦.More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. Du

9、ring the _1_early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh _2_deaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by the disease. From _3_now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble _4_going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of de

10、ath andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and _5_20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to _6_poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and wi

11、thdrew.They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths _7_started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came _8_back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World _9_Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a

12、 third of the earths population)suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling,population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 _10_million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries. tuberculosis n.肺结核antibi

13、otics n.抗生素, 抗生学1 将in改为for for quite a while 作 “相当长时间”讲. 2 将seventh改为seven3 将were改为was这个谓语动词的主语是单数短语 one in every seven deaths, 因此要使用单数.4将now 改为then 5将Europe前的the 去掉 6 将imported改为exported根据上下文,应该是向穷国出口抗生素,而不是从这些国家进口抗生素.7 将are 改为were 8 在vanished 前加had这里要表达的是 “结核病原来消失的地方,又爆发了结核病”,所以要使用过去完成时.9 将better改

14、为worse 在结合病没有消失的地方,这种病更加严重了,因此要用worse.10 将constantly改为constant 在 “keep sb/ sth adj”结构中的形容词作补语.One of Americas most important export is her modern music. _1_American popular music is playing all over the world. It is enjoyed _2_by people of all ages in all countries. Because the lyrics are English, _

15、3_nevertheless people not speaking English enjoy it. The reasons forits popularity are its fast pace and rhythmic beat.The music has many origins in the United States. Country music,coming from the suburban areas in the southern United States, is one _4_source. Country music features simple themes a

16、nd melodies describingday-to-day situations and the feelings of country people. Many peopleappreciate this music because the emotions expressed by country _5_music songs.A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It depicted _6_mostly sad feelings reflecting the difficult lives of Ameri

17、can blacks. Itis usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is not popular with _7_all Americans.Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style, featuringfast and repetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and countrymusic. It is first known as rock-and- roll in the 1950s. Since

18、 then there _8_have been many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock,disco music and others. Many performers of popular rock music areyoung musicians.American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. Somesongs becom

19、e popular all over the world. People hear these songs sing _9_in their original English or sometimes translated into other languages.The words may coincide but the enjoyment of the music is universal. _10_1改export为exportsexport作可数名词时指出口商品,同时根据one of 结构也可以知道这里export要用复数结构.2 改playing为played 动词play和句子主

20、语American popular music是逻辑动宾关系,必须用被动语态.3 改Because为Though或者Although 此句为让步状语从句.4 改suburban为rural 这里属于词义用错,suburban为城市郊区,乡村音乐显然来自乡村地区.5 改because为because of6 改depicted为depicts本句错在时态.句意为 “blues大多抒发哀伤情感,反映美国黑人的艰难生活.”为与全文主导时态一致,不能用过去时.此外,blues现在的风格依旧,故用现在时.7 将not去掉.8 改is为was 此句有过去时间状语 in the 1950s, 陈述过去的一个

21、事实,故用一般过去时态.9 改sing为sungsung 引导过去分词短语作宾语补足语,表被动意思.10 改coincide为differ（在may后加not也可以）此句含有连词but,整个句意含有转折语气.Planning is a very important activity in our lives. It can givepleasure, even excitement, and it can cause quite severe headaches. _1_The most significant the task ahead, the more careful the plan

22、ning _2_required. Getting to school or to work on time is a task requiring few _3_or no planning, it is almost routine. A months touring holiday abroad,or better still, getting married, is a different matter altogether. If the matter involve a church wedding, a reception, a honeymoon in Venice, _4_a

23、nd returning a new home, this requires even more planning to make _5_ sure that it is successful. Planning is our way of trying to ensure successand of avoiding costly failures we can not suffer. It is equally essential _6_to individual nations and families; the scale may be vary, but the degree _7_

24、of importance does not. In the essence, a nation planning its resources _8_and needs do not differ from the familiar weekly shopping or monthly _9_household budget. Both are designed to ensure an adequate supply ofessentials, and if improperly carried out, will avoid shortages, wastage _10_and over-

25、expenditure.1 将and 改为 or or表示“或者”，因为前后是两种截然不同的可能性，所以应该用or。2 将most改为 more3 将few改为little4 将involve 改为 involves 因为主语 the matter 为单数，例如：Although planning involves material investment, even more important is the investment in man.虽然作机会应该包括物资投资，但最重要的是对人的投资。5 在returning后加介词to6 将suffer改为afford7 去掉be。vary是动词

26、，可与助动词或者情态动词构成谓语，也可以独立构成谓语，例如：The weather varies from hour to hour in some mountain districts.8 去掉the in essence 是固定习语，意为“本质上，实质的9 将do改为 does主语是动名词复合结构 a nation planning its resources and needs, 应视为单数，例如： Looking after children requires patience.10 将improperly改为 properly.Tracing missing persons can

27、take much patient detective work. But a special kind of “private eye” can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples bystudying the clues buried by words. _1_These philologists, such as the language detectives are called, have traced _2_the word trail back from peoples in Europe, India, South Afri

28、ca, the Americas,and the Pacific islands in a tiny nameless, and forgotten tribe that roamed central _3_Eurasia 5000 to 6000 years ago, before the dawn of writing history. _4_Since a long time scholars have been puzzled over the striking _5_difference of words in different languages. In Dutch, vader

29、; in Latin, pater;in _6_old Irish, athir; in Persian, pidar;in the Sanskrit of distant India, pitr.These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing“father” _7_Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such _8_close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. T

30、he more so _9_because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the end of the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed _10_from some common language.1. 将by改为in (be) buried in 意思为 “被所掩盖,掩蔽于”2. 将such去掉 在这里as是连词,引导状语从句.3. 将第一个and改为to (这个句子长,小心上当呀)以便和前文的f

31、rom构成搭配 “fromto”,表示 “从到”.4. 将writing改为written “有文字记载的历史”英语为 “written history”.5. 将Since改为 For 因为since做介词, 表示 “自从起” 之意时,后面一般不跟表示一段时间的名词.6. 将difference改为similarity从后面的例子我们可以看出,作者在这里讲述的是文字的惊人的相同之处,而不是不同之处.7. 将likely改为alike likely 意思为 “很可能的”,不做 “相同的,相似的”解.8. 将where改为why 这里不是问地点而是问原因,从后面的because也可以看出.9.

32、将close改为副词closely 因为形容词close不能修饰过去分词related.10. 将18改为 18th. The more so because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences.这句话的the more so because是什么意思呢, 以为人家出版社错了,不过看两本资料都这么写. 有谁看得懂么?还是说真的是出错了. 原来the more so because意思为: 更何况.Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world? S

33、urely because progress of particular kind is actually taking place around us and is more and more manifesting. Although mankind has underg- _1_one no general improvement in intelligence or morali-ty, it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation of knowledge. Knowledge begins to increase as

34、 _2_soon as the thoughts of one individual could be com-municated to another by mean of speech. With the in- _3_vention of writing, knowledge could be communicatedand stored. Libraries made education possible, and education in turn added libraries: the growth of knowl- _4_edge followed a kind of com

35、pound-interest law,which was greatly enhanced by the invention of print-ing. All this was comparatively slow until, with the coming of science, the tempo was suddenly risen. _5_then knowledge began to be accumulated according to a systematic plan. However, as soon as new knowl- _6_edge is acquired,

36、it is now turned to practical ac-count. What is called “modern civilization” is not theresult of a balanced development of all mans nature,but not of accumulated knowledge applied to practical _7_life. The problem now facing humanity is: what is go-ing to be done with all this knowledge? Like is oft

37、en _8_pointed out, knowledge is a two edged weapon which could be used equally for good or evil. It is now being _9_used indifferently for both. Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that gunners _10_using science to shatter mens bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use i

38、t to restore them.1.把manifesting改为manifest manifesting不能做形容词,而如果把它理解成现在进行词,后面又缺乏宾语,所以应该改为形容词manifest,表示 “显然的,明显的”.2.把begins改为began根据下一行出现的could可以判断本句是过去时.3.把mean改为means. by means of 是固定用法.4.在added后面加上to 如果add后面不加to,此句就表示 “把图书馆加到某个事物上去”,加上to,表示给图书馆增加了内容,符合句义.5.把risen改为raised rise是不及物动词,不能用于被动语态.6.把Ho

39、wever改为Moreover 此句的意思是:新知识一经获得,马上就得到实际应用.这是对上文的追加,不存在转折关系,因此应该用moreover.7.删除but后面的not8.把Like改为As9.把could改为can没主句为现在时,而从句也不表示虚拟,所以应该用现在时.10.在that后面加上of. 为了避免重复,这里用that指代spectacle,后面的gunner using是that 的内容.因此应该用介词of引出.The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most

40、part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical _1_words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them _2_ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rath

41、er _3_misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name _4_of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a _5_sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet theis the single vehicle of this difference in me

42、aning. Moreover, grammatical words _6_differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in _7_the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” _8_of English,

43、 when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. _9_Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is _10_illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the pro

44、se of telegramsand newspaper headlines.1 删掉the此处的most并不表示obvious的最高级，而是用作副词修饰obvious，表示程度很高，因此前面不能加the。2 将but改为and 根据文章的意思，这里要用并列关系的and。3 将in改为toas apposed to 是固定搭配，意思是“与相比”。4 将misled改为misleading5删掉away此处考查固定用法。 far from being.意思为“远非”“远远不怎么样”，符合这里的意思。而far away from 表示离某处很远。6 将single改为only或者sole这里要表达

45、“唯一的”。7 在as后面加to或者将as 改为in 联系上下文，此处的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相当的差异，”as to 有“关于”或者“在某某方面的意思”；将as改为in，用differ from something in也可表达这个意思。8 将mean改为means 9 将as改为like，或者在as前面加such10 将number改为deal或者amount obscurity是不可数名词，不能用a number of 来修饰When a human infant is born into any community in any part of

46、the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided neither of them _1_have been damaged in any way either before or during birth. Firstly, and most _2_obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerfulcapacity to pay attention to their helplessness by using soun

47、d, there is nothing _3_the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from someother human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human group, achild is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human infants is in markedcontrast with the capacity of many new born an

48、imals to get on their feet within _4_minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few hours. Although younganimals are certainly in risk, sometimes for weeks or even months after birth, _5_compared with the human infant, they very quickly develop the capacity tofend for them. _6_It is during this

49、 very long period in which the human infant is totallydependent on the others that it reveals the second feature which it shares with all _7_other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. For this reason,biologists now suggest that language be “ species specific” to the human race, _8_

50、that is to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in _9_such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that just _10_as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in color and justas they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fou

51、rs, so theyare designed to learn and use language as part of their normal development aswell-formed human beings.1 在any infant 中间加other在比较一物与他物,一人与他人的异同时,必须从比较对象中排除该物或该人.2 将have改为has 该谓语动词的主语为neither,所以要使用单数形式.3 将pay改为draw/call/attract/elicit 这里要表达的是 “引起注意”.4 将on改为to get/ rise/ spring to ones feet 作

52、 “起身,站起来”将.5 in risk 改为 in danger 或者 at risk6 将them 改为themselves根据上下文,我们可以看出,这里需要一个代词来作 fend for 的宾语.7 删除定冠词the 8 将be 改为is在这里suggest 作 “认为,提出看法,暗示说”讲,不作 “建议”讲, 因此,不可使用虚拟语气.9 讲genetic改为genetically 这里副词genetically 修饰过去分词programmed.10 在such way 中间加入a 名词way为可数名词单数,因此前面要使用不定冠词.For the last fifteen or twe

53、nty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the _1_words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and _

54、2_knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a _3_popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it _4_flatters the empty-minded by calling him open

55、-minded, it comforts the _5_confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which ourforefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is goodor bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass _6_media who insist that it is the

56、public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear _7_and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that programis good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this _8_philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent _9_president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal CommunicationsCommission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One mans mediocrity _10_is another mans good program”.1. 将have改为has 该句的主语 the fashion是单数.2. 将like改为as such as 是固定搭配.3. 将late改为later later和上文first对