1.We all had a good time today.

2. I can return to school now.

3. I like playing piano.

4. I major at accounting.

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3 steps of doing proof-reading

1. Go through the whole passage to get a general idea.

2. Read the passage sentence by sentence and find the mistakes.

3. Read the passage for the third time, check the answers and correct the difficult ones.

Verbs( 动词 )

Articles( 冠词 )

Prepositions( 介词 )

Adj. &adv.( 形容词 & 副词 )

Nouns( 名词 )

1.

(1)

healthy - health

present - presents

1.You must pay great attention to

your healthy.

2.He always gave her valuable

Christmas and birthday present.

healthy health

present

presents

(2)

work - worked

play a part in sth.

be ( are – is)

had done - had been done

1.He works very hard in the past.

2.Women are taking a much more

important part in society today.

3.The teacher with his students are

playing football.

4.He got home and found his

house had broken into.

works

worked

taking

playing

are

is

Λ been

( 3)

real - really

surprising – surprisingly

good – well

tidily – tidy

well – better

full – fuller

wide – widely

high – highly

* sick / ill

1.Mary wanted to buy him something real special.

2.Surprising, he didn’t pass the examination.

3.He could play football as good as, if not better than Jack.

4.They are strong against me going there.

5.He always makes his room tidily.

real really

SurprisingSurprisingly

goodwell

strongstrongly

tidytidily

5. He said he could play football well than Jack.

6.The full preparations you make, the surer of success you’ll certainly be.

betterwell

full

fuller

7.English is wide used in the whole world.

8.Most of the teachers think high of that boy.

9.I don’t feel good today, so I want to ask for a leave.

10.The ill boy was taken good care of in this hospital.

widewidely

high highly

goodwell

illsick

(4)

a / an ; the

1. He was not a honest boy, so his classmates didn’t trust him.

2. There is an university in our city.

3. Please have a fun at the party.

4. He was put in the prison because he stole so many things from a house.

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ana

a

a

the

the

1. He was ill, therefore he didn’t go to school.

2. I put the book there I can find it easily.

3. Work hard, then you will succeed.

thereforeso

there

where

thenand

(5)

1.Many people in the west are on the habit of eating too much sugar and fat.

2.He got up very late in this morning.

3.He went to bed at the moment I went home.

4.As most of my classmates, I am also an only child in my family.

on

in

in

in

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Like

(6)

2.

1.The boy cried and that made his father scolded her.

2.Burying in the cave for so long, she died unluckily.

3.Do you have any hobby now? If so, you are asked to form one.

4.Disappointing at what he told her, she went to see it for herself.

her him

BuryingBuried

sonot

Disappointing

Disappointed

3.

1.Students are supposed to listen, to take notes and complete timely all the work given by teachers.

2.He doesn’t like cooking, doing the dishes, washing clothes, or clean the floors.

Λ to

clean

cleaning

3.How can I persuade them to accept the fact I have grown up?

4.I doubt that he will come to join us in the discussion.

5.A good student would do that is told by the teacher.

6.He always came to school, that made his teacher very angry.

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whetherthat

whatthat

which

7.You will perhaps find rather difficult to give him a proper answer.

8.The problem was too difficult that he didn’t do it.

9.He suggested that we could go home at once.

10.It was in this room where he was born.

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so

could

shouldwhere

that