中考英语短文改错训练精选(附答案)

改错训练

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Scientists around the world have been studying the warm 1 ________

of waters in the Pacific Ocean being known as EL Nino. The 2 ________ appearance of EL Nino is knowing to affect weather around 3 ________ world .Now scientists still do not completely understand 4 ________ them .Yet they find they can use it to tell the future in 5 ________ different area in the world. The scientists write about 6 ________ their recent work in the magazine Nature. Their computer 7 ________ program can hardly tell when an EL Nino will appear. They 8 ________ suggested that this could provide an effective early warning 9 ________ system and could prevent much of the disasters from happening. 10 ________

2

A group of scientists were planning to go

to countryside to do a scientific research in order to 1 ________ find out that whether the environment of the country 2 ________ had polluted. On arrival , they started to check the 3 ________

air and water. To our surprise , they found 4 ________ how terribly the situation was. They could see 5 ________ the serious pollution. Look into the cause, 6 ________ they persuade the government to pass the law 7 ________

to protect the environment and kept the balance of 8 ________ nature . Now everything has changed. Birds are 9 ________ singing while tree and grass are waving . 10 ________

3

Sally moved into her new house, but began to 1 ________ work on the garden . It had not very well looked 2 ________ after by the last owner, so the grass in the 3 ________ garden was rough and in the need of a lot of work , 4 ________ and the whole garden was full with weeds. It was 5 ________ a big job to make everything to look as neat 6 ________ as Sally want it to be, especially as she could 7 ________ not afford to employ gardener, and she was 8 ________ very against chemicals to kill weeds, as 9 ________ it also killed some of the birds she loved to see. 10 ________

4

One afternoon my father and me went fishing along a river. 1 ________ We found the water too dirty that we could not see the bottom. 2 ________ We also found rubbish and dead fish float on the water . That 3 ________ afternoon my father catches only some small fish. 4 ________

What did the fish in the river die for? That was because a lot of 5 ________ factories along the river always emptied its waste water and rubbish 6 ________ into the river, but the river got polluted. Thus, most of the fish in 7 ________ the river were killed .

If all the rivers throughout the country are polluted like this, all 8 ________ living things in the water will killed. Clean water is very important 9 ________ to life. We expect that water in every river will be made more 10 ________ cleaner and cleaner before long.

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I have been planning to join in our college basketball team 1 ________ next year, so now I am spending as more time as I can 2 ________ with other people who likes to play. They are teaching 3 ________ me the most important rule and techniques of the game, 4 ________ and I am getting the better all the time. We have a 5 ________ neighborhood team that play against other teams in the area. 6 ________ One of my neighbors is helping rest of us 7 ________ improved our skills. Tonight we are playing against 8 ________ one of the best teams in the city , and I think we can 9 ________ beat them if we won't make any mistakes . 10 ________ 6

We were late as usual . My husband had insisted on

watering the flowers in the garden by himself. When we 1 ________ realized how he couldn't manage, he asked me for help. 2 ________ But now we had only an hour to get to the airport. Luckily, 3 ________ there were not many more cars or buses on the road and we 4 ________ were able to get here just in time. We checked in and went 5 ________ straight to the big hall to wait for our flight be called, 6 ________ but no announcement is made. A girl there told us the plane 7 ________ hadn't come yet. In the end , there came an announcement told 8 ________ us that the passengers waiting for Flight LJ108 could get the 9 ________ free meal and that the plane hadn't left London for some 10 ________ technical problems.

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American people have a habit saying " Thank you" 1 ________ whenever something kind is done for them and something 2 ________ polite is said to them , no matter what easy or common the 3 ________ thing is. The habit is shared by people of other country. 4 ________ You should say " Thank you" when someone pass you the 5 ________ salt on the table , when someone steps aside to let you to 6 ________ pass in a narrow road, when someone walking ahead keeps 7 ________ the door opening for you, when someone says your work 8 ________ was well done, or you have brought a nice thing, or you are 9 ________ pretty today morning, or your city is very beautiful. 10 ________