Question

短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文，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：把缺词处叫个娄子符号（∧），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：在错的词下划一横线，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。

John Snow was a famous doctor in London. He was such expert that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspiring when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed with cholera. This is the deadly disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure were understood. So many thousand of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face a challenge and handle this problem. He knew that cholera would never controlled until its cause was found.

He became interested in two theories that possibly explained that how cholera killed people. Finally the second theory was proved correctly by him.

Answer

1.such→so

2.inspiring→inspired

3.with→to

4.is→was

5.were→was

6.thousand→thousands

7.a→the

8.controlled前面加be

9.去掉how前面的that

10.correctly→correct

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述了英国著名医生John Snow治疗霍乱的故事。

1.such→so.考查副词。such+形容词+名词，修饰名词。句中expert是形容词“熟练的”用so修饰，so…that“如此…以至于”，故such → so.

2.inspiring→inspired.考查形容词。inspiring“鼓舞人心的”修饰物； inspired“有灵感的”修饰人。此处修饰he，故inspiring→inspired.

3.with→to.考查介词。expose to“接触，遭受”，此处指帮助遭受霍乱的普通人，故with→to.

4.is→was.考查时态。句意：在当时霍乱是致命的疾病。根据句意和全文时态可知此处用过去时，故is→was.

5.were→was.考查主谓一致。Neither its cause nor its cure做主语动词按照就近原则，根据its cure是单数动词也用单数，故were→was.

6.thousand→thousands.考查名词。如果由具体数字修饰thousand用单数，如果没有具体数字修饰，用thousands of表概数几千，故thousand→thousands.

7.a→the.考查冠词。此处特指战胜霍乱的挑战，用the。

8.controlled前加be.考查被动语态。此处指霍乱将会被控制，是情态动词的被动。情态动词+be+过去分词，故controlled前加be.

9.去掉how前的that.考查宾语从句。此处指解释霍乱是怎样害死人的，explained后是宾语从句根据句意由how引导，故去掉how前的that.

10.→correct.考查形容词。句中prove是系动词后面用形容词做表语，故correctly→correct.