改错练习题

　　If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link
　　between smoke and troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, 1. _____
　　and you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will accuse you 2.___
　　with hypocrisy. Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of 3.______
　　wishful thinking. This needn’t make you too uncomfortable because you are
　　in a good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and health is 4.___
　　raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and
　　smell no evil. Admittedly, a few governments have not taken timid 5.______
　　measures. In Britain for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on
　　television. The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the population
　　continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.
　　You don’t have to look very far to find out that the official reactions 6._____
　　to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The answer is simple money. 7._______
　　Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It’s almost like a tax on
　　our daily bread. In tax revenue lonely, the government of Britain 8.______
　　collect enough from smokers to pay for its entirely educational facilities. 9._____
　　So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may,
　　conceivably, harmful, it doesn’t do to shout too loudly about it. 10.______

参考答案

　　参考答案及解析:
　　1.smoke -> smoking
　　smoke作名词时意为“烟雾”，作动词时意为“吸烟”。此处指吸烟和肺部疾病的关系
　　故使用smoking。
　　2.and -> / 或and -> then
　　and是并列连词，连接两个对称的分句。但此处前面是条件状语从句，不对称，故应该去掉and或将and改为 then，使后面变成主句
　　3.with -> of
　　accuse sb of sth 意为“为….而控告或谴责某人”，不能使用介词with
　　4.a -> /
　　此处显然不是“在一家好公司”( in a good company)的意思，而是说“有人和你作伴”(in good company)。此处的company意为“陪伴”，抽象名词，前面不用冠祠。
　　5.not -> /
　　逻辑错误
　　6.that -> why
　　此处的意思是要找到“为什么官方对医学发现应冷淡”。
　　7.simple -> simply
　　这里的句意是“答案仅仅是钱”，故使用副词simply。simple的意思是“简单”。
　　8.lonely -> alone
　　lonely意为“孤独”的，alone意为“单独，一个”，此处意为“单税收一项”，故用alone
　　9.collect -> collects
　　本句的主语是the government of Britain ，是单数，所以谓语collect也要用单数。
　　10.harmful前加be
　　本句的conceivably 是插入语，如果不看它的话，就很容易看出这个句子缺少了系动词be。