作者：李景莉

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New York, London, Paris and other big city are nice and 1. ________


excited places to live in. There are many interesting things 2. ________


to see and to do them. You can go to various kinds of museums 3. ________


and place of interest. You can also go to the theatre and 4. ________


do some shopping. But there are lot of problems, too. 5. ________


There are too many people and the cost of living is low. 6. ________


Every year people move to big cities to find jobs and study 7. ________


at good colleges. But sometimes their wishes won\'t come true. 8. ________


Also, too many people make that hard to keep cities safe and 9. ________


clean. So think about the problems after you move to big cities. 10. ________


[答案与简析]


1. city → cities。cities前面有other修饰, 表示泛指, 应该用名词的复数形式。2. excited → exciting。excited意为\"兴奋的；激动的\"；exciting意为\"使人兴奋的；激动人心的\"。 3. 去掉them。此处的动词不定式在句子中作定语，动词不定式与所修饰的名词有逻辑动宾关系，故them是多余的词。4. place → places。旅游胜地不止一处，故place应用复数。


5. lot → lots或lot前面加a。a lot of和lots of都是固定短语，意为\"许多\"。 6. low → high。根据上下文，此处应该表示\"生活费用高\"。 7. and → or。此处表示选择关系。 8. 本行无错。 9. that → it。it在句子中作形式宾语，真正的宾语是动词不定式。 10. after → before。 根据上文可知，作者是在劝告人们，在搬入大城市以前要考虑以下这些问题，即：人多、生活费用高、找工作难，等等。


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Here are two types of cars may some day take 1. ________


a place of today\'s big cars. If everyone drives such 2. ________


cars in the future, there will be little pollution in 3. ________


the air. There will also be more space for parking 4. ________


cars in cities, and the street will be less crowded. 5. ________


Three such cars can be fit in the space now needed 6. ________


by one car of the usual size. The little cars will spend 7. ________


much less to own and drive. Drive will be safer, too, 8. ________


though these little cars can go only 65 kilometers per 9. ________


hour. But they will not be any use for long trips. 10. ________


[答案与简析]


1. may前加that / which。这是由关系代词that或which引导的定语从句，关系代词在从句中作主语。 2. a→the。take the place of是固定短语，意为\"代替\"。3. little→less。根据语义，此处表示未来的汽车比现在的汽车造成的空气污染少。另外，下句中的more space和less crowded也是很好的提示。4. 本行无错。5. street→streets。此处表示不止一条街道，所以，street应该用复数形式。6. 去掉be。此处的fit是动词，应该去掉be


7. spend→cost。spend的主语常指人，cost的主语常指物。8. Drive→Driving。此处是动名词作主语。 9. though→as / because。此处表示因果关系，而非让步关系。10. any前加of。这是固定句型，be of any use相当于be any useful。


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Dear Elli，


May I ask you two questions? As a senior student, I like make 1． ________


friends with people and I do my best to get on well to everyone． 2． ________


But last week I found that one of my friend said 3． ________


to others that she hated me． She didn\'t want 4． ________