改错练习（二）

  “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 _____10_____way of life.

1、将no改为 not
2、将place改为land
place是可数名词,作“地方”讲,而land意为“土地,田地”是不可数名词。例如:
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.
当你偶尔光顾时,独处是一个美妙的境地,但是如果久留,它却是一个糟糕的地方。
There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.
3、将started改为start
start应使用不定式,以和前面的find,build一致。
4、将working改为work。
work应该用第三人称复数,和live一致。另外,family在这里作“家人”讲,是复数。
5、将anyone改为everyone
这里是要用everyone指每个人,而不是要用anyone泛指。
6、将but删除
7、将before改为after
根据上下文判断,这里要表达的是二战之后。
8、将But改为 And
根据语意,这里要表达的是递进关系,而不是转折关系。例如:
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.
当我行善事,我感到坦然;当我行恶时,我感到内疚。这就是我的人生之道。
9、将it改为they
10、在house the中间加入介词as
regard…as 作“把……当作……”讲。