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Improving Paragraph 一、语法题 (1) 划线修改 (2) 二合一体 考点：a. 语法结构； b. 从平行并列的两个句子中，找出两个句子的重心； c. 从句意上，考两个句子的连接词。 难点：题目出得很长。例：（P958.30）“They” to “Such elevators”. (D) Change “his” to “Otis”. (E) Insert “supposedly” after “lifetime” 例： （P958.3） (A) device, by which the elevator would not plunge (B) device, and the elevator would not plunge (C) device because an elevator plunges (D) device to prevent the elevator from plunging (E) device, it prevented elevators from plunging 二、文章题England over 500 years ago. (6) Getting anywhere in the Middle Ages was really hard, with deep rivers and few bridges and sudden snowstorms coming on in the empty lands between settlements. (7) An earl rebelled in London, so that a messenger rode for days to tell the distant head of the Paston family of a feared civil war. (8) Through the letters a modern reader can sense their anxieties about rebellious sons and daughters, belligerent neighbors, outbreaks of plague, and shortages of certain foods and textiles. (9) Unbelievably, there is a 1470 love letters. (10) The man who wrote it ends “I beg you, let no one see this letter. (11) As soon as you have read it, burn it, for I would not want anyone to see it.” (12) I was sitting on the front porch with bare feet on the hottest afternoon in July and I read that with a shiver. (13) I had been part of a centuries-old secret. 30. The best way to describe the relationship of sentence 2 to sentence 1 is that sentence 2 (A) anticipates a reader’s possible response to sentence 1 (B) provides historical background for sentence 1 (C) repeats the idea presented in sentence 1 (D) introduce a contrasting view of sentence 1 (E) corrects an inaccuracy stated in sentence 1 31. Which of the following sentences would be most logical to insert before sentence 4? (A) I first came across these letters while browsing in a library. (B) No, I am not dreaming; I have been reading them. (C) On the contrary, microphones are a recent invention. (D) Obviou