are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark(∧ ) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash( /) in the blank.
Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported
some years before. Police records that were studied 1.__________
for five years from over 2400 cities and towns show
a surprised link between changes in the season and 2.__________ crime patterns.
The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high
during July and August, as does rape and other violent 3.__________
attacks. Murder, however, is more than seasonal: it is a 4.__________
weekend crime. It is also a night time crime: 62 percent
of members are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm,
burglary has a different cycle. You are most likely
to being robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday 5.__________
night in December, January, or February. The most
uncriminal month of all? May--except for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month
than in an other month of the year. 6.__________
Apparent our intellectual seasonal cycles are 7.________ completely different from our criminal tendencies.
professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations,
and to propose the most changes to patents. In all 8._______ instances, he found a spring
peak and an autumn peak
separated by a summer low. On other hand, Professor 9.__________
huntinton's studies indicated that June is the peak
month for suicides and admissions in mental hospitals. 10.__________
June is also a peak month for marriages!
参考答案
1. before → ago
2. surprised → surprising 3. does → do
4. however → moreover 5. being → be 6. an → any
7. apparent → apparently 8. to(1) → /
9. On ∧ other → the 10. in → to
Why are so many people so afraid of failure? Simply because no one tell us how to fail1
so failure becomes a growing experience.2
We forget that failure is a part of the human condition and that every person has the right to failure. Most parents3
work hard in either preventing failure or shielding4.
their children out the knowledge that they have failed.5.
One way is to lower standards. A mother describes her child’s hastily made table as “perfect!” even if6.