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A first pregnancy can be both anxious and exciting__1__ time for a woman. Having never given birth　before, the expected mother is usually filled with__2_worries. She regularly thinks her unborn child has stopped moving. At another times, she wonders if __3_her baby will be normal, if it will be deformed and __4_retarded, and, most frightening to her, if it will be stillborn. Because she hates thinking __5_these possible misfortunes, she cannot__6_help it. However, she is usually unable to comfort__7_herself with her excitement. She constantly wonders how__8_her child will be like, what color of hair .and eyes it will have, when it will arrive. These __9_feelings are to be expected of the first-time mother; __10this is perhaps the most anxious and exciting period of her life to date.

参考答案及解析

参考答案及解析:
1. both后加an。time在此表示一段时期，是可数名词，而anxious以元音开头，所以加an
2. expected改为expectant。　the expectant mother为习惯用法，表示the woman who is pregnant
3. another改为other。another后应为单数名词
4. and改为or。用or表示两者任意一种情况
5 because改为although。根据上下文逻辑关系判断，这里应该为让步关系
6.these前加of。think是不及物动词，think of表示”想起，想到”等含义
7. unable改为able。根据上下文可做判断，用将要做妈妈的这种兴奋来安慰自己
8. how改为what。what做be like的表语
9. when前加and。并列从句用and连接
10.the 改为a。表示泛指任意一个