牛津英语高一短文改错练析

1、 短文改错练析一. Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie 1. _Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south 2. _of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to 3. _get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast (125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than 4. _t

2、he bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel farmore than 220 miles to see Washington. Its not city that has 5. _been grown up accidently as most big cities have done. 6. _It was carefully planned for the nations capital by a7. _Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named 8. _

3、George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired, much-respected first president of the United States. 9. _In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands. 10. _【答案与解析】1. lie改为lies 。 这是一倒装句, 该句的主语是Washington D.C.。2. in改为to。Washington D. C. 不在New York City 所属范围内。3. ways改为way。主语为单数,从下一行is 可

4、看出。4. spends 改为 costs, 主语为物,作“花费”解。5. city 前加上 a。city 为单数。6. 去掉 been 。句中grow up 的意思是成长,无被动式。7. for 改为 as。是将Washington D.C. 作为首府。 8. named 后加上 after。从后半句看,此句的意思是“以命名”,而非“名叫”。9. 此行无错。10. 在which 前或stands后加 for。二.( I )I cant swim because I have a strong fear of water. Look back 1. _ my childhood experie

5、nces, I think that three reasons might 2. _ explain the fear. The first reason is that I was not allow to go 3. _ near the water when I was a child, for my mother had a 4. _ unreasonable fear of it. So, even as a child that I was taught to 5. _ see the water as something danger. Second, my eyes 6. _

6、 became bad when I was five. If I took off my glass in the 7. _ water, I couldnt see anything, or this increased my fear. 8. _ The worst part of my experience is that as a child I saw 9. _ a neighbor drowned. After then I have been more frightened. 10. _ ( II )Decorate the Christmas tree is usually

7、a family event. For many families, 1. _ it starts with choosing a tree from either a farm and a store. Then the tree 2. _ is brought at home and put into a Christmas stand that holds the tree up 3. _ straight. Then everyone helps to hang balls and light. After the tree is 4. _ decorated, a Christmas

8、 tree skirt rapped around the bottom of the tree. 5. _ Sometime, people make all of the decorations for the tree by themselves. 6. _ Many people collect Christmas trees decorations throughout their lifetime, 7. _ adding a new decoration each year. Beside lights and balls, people may 8. _ also put fl

9、owers, pine cones, strings of pop corn and garlands (花环) on the 9. _ tree, There are as much different ways to decorate a tree as there are people! 10. _ 【答案与解析】( I ) 1. LookLooking。此处应该用现在分词作状语。2. my前面加on / upon。look back on / upon是固定短语,意为“回顾”。3. allowallowed。此处应该用被动语态。4. 第二个aan。unreasonable fear是以

10、元音音素开头,故用不定冠词an。 5. 去掉that。此句是简单句,that是多余用词。6. dangerdangerous。形容词修饰复合不定代词。7. glassglasses。复数名词glasses意为“眼镜”。 8. orso。此处表达因果关系。9. 本行无错。10. AfterSince。介词短语since then常与现在完成时态连用。( II ) 1. DecorateDecorating。此处应该用动名词作主语。2. andor。either. or. 是固定短语,意为“或者或者”。3. 去掉at。home在此句中是副词, at属多余用词。 4. lightlights。lig

11、ht意为“灯”,是可数名词,与balls是并列关系。5. rapped前面加is。此处是被动语态。6. SometimeSometimes。此处应该用Sometimes表达“有时候”。7. treestree。此处是名词作定语,应该用单数形式。8. BesideBesides。根据语义,此处表达“除了之外”。9. 本行无错。10. muchmany。本句中的ways是可数名词复数形式,故用“as many.as”。 1A shopkeeper once found that a bag money 56had been stolen from his shop He went to the 5

12、7judge（法官） and tell him about his loss（损失）58The judge ordered all people of the shop 59to come before him He took a number of the 60sticks of equal length（长度） or gave one stick 61to each person Then he said， “Come after me 62again tomorrow Ill then know which of you are 63the thief because the stick

13、 given to a thief 64will be one inch longer than the other” 65 2 Miss Evans taught physics in school in LondonLast month 56 she was explaining to one of her class about sound ，and 57she decide to test them to see how successful she had 58been in her work She said to them， “Now I has a sister 59in Wa

14、shington If I was calling her by the phone， and 60you were on the other side of the street Who would 61hear me first， my sister and you？ And why？” 62A clever boy at once answered， “You sister， Miss 63Evans， because the electricity travels much faster than sound 64waves” “Very well，” Miss Evans prais

15、ed 65_ 3It is interested to visit another country， but sometimes 56 there are some questions when we dont know the language very 57 well It may be difficult to talk about the people thereWe may 58 not know how to use the telephone in the country which are 59 visiting We may not know what to buy the

16、things we need 60 In a strange country we may not know where to eat and what 61 to order in a restaurant It is not easy to decide how many 62 money to tip（付小费） waiters or taxi drivers When we are 63 helpless， we may not know how to ask help 64 After a short time later， however， we learn what to do 6

17、5 and what to say We learn to enjoy life in another country， and then we may besorry to leave both the place and the people 4Long long ago， people had gather leaves and 56fruit of plants to eat with They didnt know how 57 to plant crops or how to keep animals for their 58 food We call them Stone Age

18、 people Thing for 59 them were terrible and hard Now there have still 60 some people living liked those Stone Age people 61 They live in places that are hard reach They do 62 not know of our invention， for they keep themselves 63 away our civilized world For many years 64 a group of people call Arun

19、tas have lived alone 65 in the center of Australia 5How robins（知更鸟） know when it is time 56to go back north？ They seem to tell by how soon daylight lasts In late winter， daylight 57 begins to last longest each day When the 58 daylight lasts long enough， robins start north 59 They fly by day Each yea

20、r they follow a same 60 flyway At first， they fly only few miles a 61 day They stop often in the field to eat bugs 62 （小虫子） Late， they seem in a hurry They fly 63 over 100 miles a day Some are going so far 64as 180 miles When they get to home， they 65 always stay together high in a tree 6The Interne

21、t is playing a important part in 56 our daily life On the net，we can learn about 57 news both home and abroad and some other 58 informations as well We can also make phone calls， 59 send messages by e-mails，go to net schools，and 60 learn foreign languages by ourselves Beside，we 61 can enjoy music，wa

22、tch sports matches，and play the 62 chess or cards The net even help us do shopping， 63 make a chat with others and make friends with them 64 In a word，the Internet has made our life more easier 65 7People have different tastes in food Somefeel they haven't a meal unless they have had 56 pork or

23、other meat；some prefer chickens 57 or fish，and eats one or the other at every meal 58 Others prefer vegetables and fruits or grains but would enjoy a meal of potatoes， 59 noodles and carrots and some another fruits 60 Others could live on the foods are called 61 fast foods，for example，a hamburger or

24、 62 hot dog，French fries and a soft drinks 63 Food can be prepared by so many ways 64 Every is satisfactory to different person 65 8In the morning of November 18th，1755，an earthquake 56shook BostonJohn，a professor at Harvard College felt a quake 57 and woke up“I rose and found to be fifteen minutes

25、past 58 four” He hurried to downstairs to the clock It had stopped 59 three minutes ago Except for stopping the clock，the quake 60had only thrown a key from the mantel（壁炉架） to the floor 61 The clock had stopped because John put some long 62 glass tube he was using for an experiment into the case 63

26、for safekeepingThe quake had been knocked the tubes over and 64 blocked the pendulum（钟摆） So John had the exactly time of the earthquake 65 9Life in the twentyone century will be very 56different with life today There will be many 57 changesWhat can the changes be？ The population 58 is grow the world

27、 and most of them will live in longer 60 than people live now Computers will be much 61 more smaller and more useful， and there will 62 be one in every home People will work few 63 hours than they now and they will have more 64free time for reading books， watch TV and traveling 65 10Once one year a

28、race is held A lot 56of cars took part this race last year and there 57 had a lot of experiments just before it began One 58 of the most beautiful car was a RollsRoyce 59 Silver Ghost The most usual car was a Benz 60 which had only three wheels Built in 1885，it is the 61 oldest car taking part After

29、 a great many loud 62 noises，the race began Many of cars broke down on 63 the way and some drivers spent much time under 64 their cars than in them The win car reached at 65 a speed of forty miles an hour 11In recently years，dust storms take place more 76 and more often in the north of Chinese They

30、have 77 brought a great deal of trouble to peoples lives 78 The strong wind blows up the dust，made the air 79 very dirty It also stops many of people from going 80 out In past，people raised a large number of sheep 81 The sheep eat up a great deal of grass and the land 82 became sandy Now the governm

31、ent have begun to 83 pay attention to the problem Each year，a lot of 84 money spent on the improvement of the environment 85 12Sleep，as we know， is important to us And 56 how many sleep do we actually need？For most 57 of us， eight hours seem to be about the right 58 amount Yet we know that there are

32、 a 59 great many people who get along well less 60 sleep ，and some whom may even need more A 61 great deal depends by the way we live But 62 a good common rule to follow to is to 63 sleep long as we have to So well feel 64 happy and be ableto work with our best when we wake 65 13.My friend Henry has

33、 a most unusually hobby 56 （爱好） He likes plant flowers in strange places 57 When the spring comes round， you can always tell 58 Henry had been busy working because the dirty sides of 59 canals（沟渠） and railway banks suddenly 60 became filled of flowers In his spare time， with 61 pockets full of seeds

34、， Henry goes round by his bike 62 He has a long pipe with him blow seeds into places 63 that is hard to reach When his flowers fade（凋谢）， 64 he goes round again to collect its seeds In this way 65 he always has a big supply 参考答案：56bag后加of 57 58telltold 59all后加the 60去掉the 61orand 62afterbefore 63areis

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40、在him 后加to 64 isare 65 itsthei ( A )Attention,please,everyone.Weve accepted the 1. _weather forecast on the radio this morning that 2. _there will have a heavy rain tonight. Be sure 3. _to shut the windows and doors until you leave 4. _your classrooms.The sports meet when we planned to 5. _hold it to

41、morrow will be put off. After it becomes 6. _fine, well make other announcement. We will 7. _have classes on Wednesday as usually.Since it is 8. _colder tomorrow,please dress on more clothes in time. 9. _Those come to school by bike, dont keep your 10._umbrellas open while riding. （B）We all know the

42、 pyramids in Egypt and most of 11. _us dont know the people in Mexico in the old time also 12. _built pyramids. They didnt build them to tombs. The 13. _pyramids in Mexico arent os high as that in Egypt, but 14. _they are big. Each one pyramid has a wide stairway 15. _up to the top. There is nothing

43、 inside the pyramids, 16. _only earth and stones. Scientists think it takes one 17. _thousand men more than ten years build the biggest one. 18. _How did he people build the pyramids? Scientists had 19. _Studied for years, but no one can say what they did it. 20. _(C) One afternoon my father and I go fishing on a 21._riverside. We found the water was very dirty that 22._we