研究生英语改错60题(带答案)_.docVIP

改错答案 If our friends cannot take us, we must have made alternative arrangements to get to the airport. have made alternative → make alternative No one in this department has ever accused the governor for taking advantage of his position; he is hard-working and considerate. for taking advantage → of taking advantage The pet dog died when it was fifteen, not of old age, but that it injured its head when it fell down a flight of stairs. that it injured its head → of the injury on its head Casualties are said to be very high and in some villages, where older and less substantial buildings predominate, it is said that not a house remained standing. remained → remains It was an accepting custom in western countries for men to open the door for women and always to let ladies go first on social occasions. accepting → accepted Early industrial people used three times energy as much as their agricultural ancestors; modern people are using three times as much as their industrial ancestors. energy as much as → as much energy as Geothermal sources, though in a sense free, in order to be maintained, will end up using more energy than they produced. will end up → would end up Ever since the invention of the two-day weekend, where-to-go-for-the-holiday was a live topic for people in this city. was → has been When we speak of leisure nowadays, we are not thinking of securing time and opportunity to do something; time weighs less heavily on our hands, and the problem is how to fill it. and → or There is absolutely no reason for saying that there are no regularities in Nature in which our statements of natural law correspond. in which → with which The first English immigrants to that is now the United States crossed the Atlantic long after Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies and South America. that is → what is We’d rather have long waits than no shifting of the scenes, and all the actors on the stage doing nothing. than → than have The teacher said that if