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改错练习1： 1. 2000年真题： The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have “less 1.___ meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2.___ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3.___ But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4.___ Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5.___ difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.___ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.___ lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8.___ distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.___ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.___ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines. 2. What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question, as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon 1__ are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is 2__a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can 3__escape—not even light. But we can’t see a black hole. A black hole 4__exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only space—or thus we think. How can this happen?5__ The theory is that some stars explode when their density increases to a particular point; they “collapse” and sometimes a supernova occur