英語專八改錯練習(xí)（二）

【練習(xí)】

'Home, sweet home" is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _____1

has great importance for many people.

This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____2

for one's family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3

portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to ___4

support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5

of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6

is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7

they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8

a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._____10
 

【答案】

1. 將 no 改為 not

2. 將 place 改為 land

place是可數(shù)名詞，作“地方”講,而land意為“土地，田地”是不可數(shù)名詞。例如:

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

當(dāng)你偶爾光顧時，獨(dú)處是一個美妙的境地，但是如果久留，它卻是一個糟糕的地方。

There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.

3. 將 started 改為 start

start應(yīng)使用不定式，以和前面的find, build一致。

4. 將 working 改為 work

work應(yīng)該用第三人稱復(fù)數(shù)，和live一致。另外，family在這里作“家人”講，是復(fù)數(shù)。

5 將 anyone 改為 everyone

這里是要用everyone 指每個人，而不是要用anyone泛指。

6. 將 but 刪除

7. 將 before 改為 after

根據(jù)上下文判斷，這里要表達(dá)的是二戰(zhàn)之后。

8. 將 But 改為 And

根據(jù)語意，這里要表達(dá)的是遞進(jìn)關(guān)系，而不是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。例如：

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

當(dāng)我行善事，我感到坦然;當(dāng)我行惡時，我感到內(nèi)疚。這就是我的人生之道。

9 將 it 改為 they

10 在house the中間加入介詞 as

regard...as 作“把……當(dāng)作……”講。