初中三年级英语竞赛试题短文改错练习

初中三年级英语竞赛试题短文改错练习学校名称:班级:学号:姓名:visitor andlooked her.But the visitor

78.paid noattention.She wenton talk.At lastBlackie79and cameback withthe visitors hat.couldn,t stand it anylong.He went out of the room80in his mouth..1短文改错2短文改错..One Sundayafternoon afriend ofme visitedme.71In alarge citylike London,there aremany thingsto seeand.She stayedfor along time.She talkson andon to72many placesto go.But peopleoften donot knoweach otherwell.

1..me.Soon it was thetime for me to take73It sometimeshappen thatyou havenever seenyour next-door

2..her dog,Blackie,for awalk,but myfriend still74neighbour and don,t knowhis nameor nothingabout

3..stayed.Blackie becamevery worry about his walk75him.People livingin Londonare oftenvery lone

4..in thepark.He walkedaround the room for76particularly（尤其）after work.If youwalk throughthe.several timeand then sat down in front of the77streets inLondon onSundays,it almost like anempty town.

5..To her,I must be justother customer.She”s therewith

64.different kinds of flowers in spring,summer andautumn.

65.As thegrowing seasoncomes to a end,she bringsleaves

66.to sell,and then it“s over.On winter,I missher.Once I

67.try to buy allher flowersat once,but she said in a low

68.voice,“No,madam.”

22.短文改错On ChristmasDay Ioften getpresent,such asbikes,watches,nice Jackets.But I like onekind ofpresent welland thatis abook.I likeall kindof books.It can be astory book,a sciencebook orothers.1enjoy readthem all.I liketo getbooks.I liketo buybooks,also.I have bought a lot ofbooks.I putall mybooks on the shelvesin mybedroom butso Ican readthem atanytime.I haveseen someof mybooks not only once.Iliketo lookat thebookson myshelves andto fellthat I have a lot offriends roundmine.I havelearneda lot from them.I amsure underthe helpof myfriend,my knowledgewill growquickly.

23.短文改错One Sundayafternoon afriend ofme visitedme.She stayedfor along time.She talkedon andon tome.Soon that it wastimefor meto takeher dog.Blackie,for awalk,but herfriend stillstayed.Blackiebecame veryworryabouthiswalkin thepark.He walkedin theroomfor severaltimes and thensatdownin front of the visitor andlooked her.But thevisitor paidno attention.She wenton talking.At lastBlackicouldn tstanditany longer.He waswentoutof theroom andcame backwiththevisitor,s hatin hismouth.

24.短文改错English isthe firstlanguage innone thesecountries.1So whyare the English words^Made in.....writing on these2thingsIt isbecause in the mordernworld,English is very3widely usedby bussinessbetween differentdountries.So4when aGerman buyssomething with a Japanese,oranIndian5sells somethingto aFrenchman,they mayboty sesEnglish.6Most businessletters around the worldare wittenin7English.Half the worlds telephonecalls arevery in8English.Three quarterof the world，s books and newspapers9are writtenin English.English isthe mostwidely usingin10the world.

25.短文改错Today was an veryimportant day.We hadthe lastmatch in the

1、______league.Our schoolhad play

2、very wellduring thepast year,and beforethis match3^we werealmost topthe league.If wewon this

4、match,we willbe top!I wokeup earlythis

5、morning.I hada quicklybreakfast,and gotall my

6、football clothesready.At schoolI founda bit

7、difficult towork inclass because I keptin thanking

8、on thematch in the afternoon.School endeda little

9、earlier,We allgo to the footballfield,and soon the

10、game started.

26.短文改错Thomas Edisononce said:To bea inventorthere aresome

71.things you have to do.First,you have to makegood plan.

72.Second,you have to makesure that there is a needfor your

73.invention.If there is noneed,then youcan tmake somemoney

74.on your invention.Then youhavetothink careful,you

75.need to get to the mostimportant ideasof yourinvention

76.and workfrom them.He said:You need to makesa survey

77.youhaveto study about youridea foryourinvention

78.and seeif elseanyone hasthe sameidea asyou,

79.Then youneedtowork hardand nevergive up.Don tworriedif youfail.

80.

27.短文改错Uncle Dicksent Johnand Rosewithabig vase.

1.But theirroom was too smallthat theydidn，t have

2.enough roomfor it.So theygave itto afriend of them.

3.The vasewent fromone houseto other.In theend

4.a womansold itto Mr.Hill.What bigsurprise!

5.

28.短文改错If yougo toHawaii,you mayfind beautifulbeaches havebig

71.waves there.It isgood placefor swimmingand surfing.That s

72._why manysurfers allover the world goingthere to take part in surfingcompetitions.

73.Surfing is one of theworlds mostpopular watersports.

74.It firststarted in the islandsof Hawaii.Now itis enjoyedby

75.many people in theworld,hawaii isfamous forthe water

76.sports.Waikiki isone of the bestbeach forsurfing inHonolulu.

77.The weatheris sonice,neither toohot ortoo coldall theyear

78.round.And alsothe waves thereis very high,so Waikikiattracts

79.big numbersof touristsand surfriders everyyear.

80.

29.短文改错Jack Londonwas afamous Americawriter.He was born inJanuary12,

1876.His familyisverypoor andJack hadto leaveschool makemoney.He workedhard inmany differentjob.Once he went toAlaska tofind gold.Instead,he foundideas here for hisbooksandstories.He returnedback homeand startedtowrite.He becamefamous inhis twenty,Jack Londonwas nothappy man.While hedied,he was only fortyyears old.

30.短文改错I vecome herefor halfa year.Life hereisveryinteresting.We gotup earlyin themorning.After thebreakfast,before classesbegin,we oftendo somereading.We cannow talkaboutthe numberof thingswith English.How happyI am!We havefour classesin themorning.We allstudy hardly.There aremany otherinterestingactivities（活动）.We oftenlisten talkson ourcountry.For anexample,we studentsoftengo outto factories,villages to learn thepeople.

31.短文改错Mr Blackisoneof mybest teacher.He taughtour Englishwhen wewere inNo.1Middle School.He wasold,but hetaught verygood.He couldmake his classes lovely.Mr Blackgot readyforhis lessonsand wasstrict for us,too.Whenever wemade mistakesin ourhomeworks,hewould askus correctanddoit again.1was notgood atEnglish.Mr Blackoften helpsme withmylessons carefully.Thank tohis helpand hardwork,Ihavemade greatlyprogress andcaughtup withthe class.

32.短文改错May bethe word“hello”is usedmore oftenthanany otherone in the Englishlanguage.Everyone inU.S.A andother countriesuses thewordevery day of theweek.The Americaninventor ThomasEdison believedto bethe firstpersonto use“hello”on thetelephone.For first,people begantheir wordsonthetelephone with“Are youthere”They werenotsure thesmall machinecould reallysend voices.Edison wasa manof littlewords.He wastednot atime.The firsttime hepicked up thephone,he didn,t askif someonewas there.He wassure someonewas thereand heonly told“hello”.From thenon,“hello“is oftenhearing Whenyou pickupthetelephone.

33.短文改错Radio andtelevision arevery usefulto allus.They maybe seensomewhere.Today thousandsofpeople watchTV.Perhaps evenmore peoplelistento theradio.On TVwe cansee what is happenedaround us.By theradio we can knowwhat isgoing on in theworld.TV isso largeforus totake.And radiocanbe made verysmall.It iseasy totake.You canput in your pocketand listento itina busor onyour bikewhen yougo towork.And radiois muchmore cheaperthan TV.An old man waswalking slowalong astreetwhen hesaw a little boytry toreacha doorbell.And itwas toohigh forhim.He wasakind-hearted oldman,so hewas stoppedand said,I willring abell foryou.And thenhe pulleditso hardthatit can,tbeheard allover thehouse.The littleboy lookedup andsaid,“Now wewill runaway.Go!And afterthe oldman knowhappened,the boyhas runroundthecorner of the street.

35.短文改错Mrs Whiteis an oldman.She hasa smallroomin anold building.She livedthere since

1973.Iler husbanddied thatyear.He hadill formany year.After hisdeath,Mrs Whitehad notmoneyat all.She foundwork in a factory.Her jobwastoclean theoffices.Shehad bettertogetup at5o clockin themorning.The lastyear shewas illand herdoctorsaid,“Please workso hard.Now MrsWhite sellscakes outsidea shoeshop inmiddle oftown.She stilldoesn,t havemoney but she ishappier now.

36.短文改错Snow fellonthemountain.It snowedand snowed.The snowdidn,t melt（融化）.They becamedeeperor heavier,thenit became ice.The icewasvery wideand thickly.It beganto movedown themountain.It likea riverof ice.It wascalleda glacier（冰川）.Sometimes theglacier movedonly fewinches（英寸）each day.Whenit moved,it tookrocks anddirt forit.It changedthe land.In someplaces,it leavehills.In someplaceswhen theglacier melted,itbecamerivers andlakes.A millionyears before,therewere manyhigh glaciers.Glaciers werecovered manyparts oftheworld.

37.短文改错Mr Smithcalled thedoctor inmidnight.Come quickly.You knowmy wifesleeps withher mouthopened,a mousehas runinside her!”aV11be withyouafter tenminutes,answered thedoctor.Until Iwi11arrive,try holding a piece of cheeseinfront of her mouth.It maycarry themouse out.When thedoctor arrived,Mr Smithwasnot takinga pieceof cheese.He washoldingafish infront ofher wifesmouth.What wereyoudoing”asked thedoctor.A mousedoesn,tlike the fish.“I know,saying MrSmith,“But we havetoget acat first.”

38.短文改错Working peopleare usuallyvery busyor tiredaftera days workto docooking.They preferto eating out.This savesthem a lot oftimeand trouble.Eating outis thatmany peopledo tosolve theirmeal problemsalthoughit costa littlemore thanpreparing mealsbythemselves.And thisis notto saythat nobodyreally doesanycooking atall.In thefact,many do.It isjust that eatingouteasier asno preparationisneed andno washingis tobe done.Some,however,eat outsometimes because they maywantlittle changefrom theirusual,ordinary,home-cooked meal.

39.短文改错Last summermy wifeand Iwent tovisit townwherewe bothgrew up.We hadnt beenhereforten years,first,we wentto theneighborhoodwhere mywife spendher childhood.The housewhere hewasbornwas stillthere.The sameneighborsstill livenext door.They askedusto come intoand havea cupof coffee.Thenwe went see myold neighborhood.How adisappointment（失望）！It wasall changed.All theoldhouses whichI rememberedgone andin thereplaces weresome verymodern ones.

40.短文改错Yesterday Iwent forshopping forshoes.The largestpairI couldfind wasan size9and1wear an11!Everyone saidthey，d neverheard ofa sizesuchbig.All thepeoplein the shop were laughingme.They saidthey werevery surprisedbymy foot,but Ifound it so funny.

41.短文改错An internationalschool hasmany studentscoming fromal1different part oftheworld.Thereare notChinese studentsat internationalschools.Most ofthe schoolsteach English and useEnglishtextbooks.Students donot havemuch exams.But they do havealotof homeworks.

42.短文改错My motherhas doneso much forme!She alwaysgetup earlyinthemorning tomake me for breakfast.And sheoften wakesup at the middleofthenight toseeI msleeping well.Once,when Iwas ill,I couldn,t eat.Mum wasso worriedthat shewouldn,teat,too.

43.短文改错I thinkits a good ideato practiseEnglish withforeigners.When wetalk Englishto them,wehaveto forgetour ownlanguage.Through talking,wecanimproveour pronunciation.We canalso learnmany usefulphrase andabout westernculture.PractisingEnglish onvoice chattingsystem isreal easy.Since wedont talkface toface,we needn,tto beafraid ofmaking mistakes.Even theshyest personwill feelfree totalk.

3.短文改错SARS failedto keepa groupof kite-lover fromenjoythe springsunshine ofBeijing.An oldworkercalls Wei Qi,said he,his familyand hisfriends hadn,t

3.missed adayofkite flyingatthesmall park.How use

4.is itto lockingyourself upat home,being afraidof SARS

5.he ask.We readinthepaper that the keyto fightingSARS

6.is tobuild upyour body.”Iler answerFresh air,open

7.space anda lightheart.WeiQiwas notworried ofSARS.

8.People werenotonlypaying moreattention towhat theyate

9.and wherethey went,but spentmore timeswashing hands.

10.

4.短文改错We knowthatthelast partofthe20th centurysaw

96.more largeinventions:the helicopterin1909,

97.movies bysound in1926,the computerin1928and the

98.jet planein

1930.The middlepartofthe20th centurybring

99.new ways to helppeople getoverdisease.They made

100.people healthierand livelong.By thistime most

101.people hada verywell life.Of coursenew inventions

102.continued tobemade.The worldis known

103.to manandtheuniverse was not.Many countriesbegan

104.look forwaystogo intospace.Russian madethe firststep.

105.Mrs Greenlive inan smallvillage Herhusband dead,she hada sonnamed Jack.Jack gotworkinatown andhewentto thereand livethere.The towns namewas Greensea.Tt wasfaraway tohis motherJs villageand shewasnothappily abouther son.Last SundayMrs Greenwentfor Greenseawith train,when shesaw Jack,shesaidto heJack,why haveyou neverphonedme,,

6.短文改错One day,Liu Meiwas inher wayto town.She wantedto looka filminthecinema.On thewayshe metanold woman.An oldwoman wantedto seehis husband.He wasill inhospital.But shedid not know theway ofthe hospital.She triedher bestto helpthis oldwoman.She asksa policeman.He toldher to sit aNo.72bus.Liu Meiwent withthe oldwomanto the hospital.When theoldwomansaw herhusband,Liu Meileft awaythe hospitalquietly.She didnot waittheir thanks.What akind girlshe is!

7.短文改错While visitingFrance,we decide to do some shopping.

61.Not farthe hotelthere wasa shopwith allkinds of

62.clothing hangup.When wewent intothe shop,a

63.woman cameup andasked thatshe couldhelp us.

64.We saidthat wewould liketo lookaround bymyself.

65.She lookedat usrather strange.Not havingfound

66.anything weneed,we thankedthe womanand

67.left.Suddenly myhusband startedto laugh,

68.pointing toa smallsign,which readingin English:

69.aDry-CLEANING SHOP.Please notsmoke here.

70.

8.短文改错Holidays arefun butthey alsogive thievesalotof chancessteal things.Follow myadvice,andyou willsafe duringholidays.Even thoughyou mightbe busyshop,always noticewhatisgoing onaroundyou.You neverknow whensomeone mightbe tryingto stealsomething fromyou pockets.Dont forgetyour baginyourcar.Its alsoimportant totake careof yourhomes duringthe holidays.

9.短文改错It wasa Sundayevening.Mary wenttobuya newshoes.

76.There wasa niceshop nearher home.It soldwomen shoes

77.78The shoesintheshopwerequite welland werenot expensive..Neither ofthem wasthe rightsize forher.The shopkeepersaid

79.sorry toMary,and toldher comeagain the next week.

80.__Last monthwe boughtour two-year-old daughtera littledog.

1.There areno manychildren ofher agein ourarea,2It alwayseats allits foodWhentheydonot getthat theywant..and wedon t

8._________And wethink adog wouldmake herless lonely.

3.than mydaughter

9.We areright.They playtogether happyall day.4That seasier tolook afterthe dog.have manydirty clothesto wash.

10.Our daughternow smilesand laughsalotmore thanher usedto.

5.My wifeis alsovery happybecauseIhave givenup smoking.The dogdoesn tlikethesmell.The robotis agreat help.80In away its liketo havetwo childrenm thehouse.

6.All ofthem arevery untidy,and theycry

7.tall

11.短文改错Mr Mais ourscience teacher.We canstudyalotfromhisclass.76He oftenhelps usmaking things.Look atthe robot!We like it very much,77because ofitcando manythings.It isnow cleaningthe windowsof an78office building.It isnot easilyfor workerstodothis job,because thatisa79building.It sdangerous ofpeople todo thejob.

12.短文改错The daybefore thespeech contestEnglish teachertalked tome.She saidshe andmyschoolmate allwished mesuccess,but itdidn tmatter that I wouldwin ornot.When Iwasonthe stagethenextday,I feltso nervousas Ishook likealeaf.There wereso manypeople present!Suddenly Icaught asight of my Englishteacherinthecrowd.She wassmiling butnodding atme.I rememberedher wordsandcalm down.I didagoodjob andwon thefist prize.Now mypicture andprizeis hanginginthelibrary.Whenever Isee themI willoften thinkofmyEnglish.

1013.短文改错In theevening oflast Tuesday,my fatherwas hurryinghome1by bikeafterwork.It wasdark outside.He doesntnotice atree

2.infrontof him.He washit thetree andfell downtotheground.

3.He washurt badlyto standup himself.Just then,a youngman

4.passed thereand tookhimself tothehospital.

5.

14.短文改错Dear John,How areyou Thesummer holidaywas coming.

81.I wantstay atmy aunts forthe wholeholiday,

82.becausetheylive inthe countryand I don tlike

83.the noiseofthebig city.How areyou goingto

84.do inthe summerhoiidayWe hadexam ofthe subjectslast week.I did

85.good inall ofthem excepttheEnglishexam.English,

86.I think,is difficulttolearnit,but Idecidetolearn

87.it well.I11write toyou withEnglish nexttime.

88.You askedmeforsome interestedstamps.

89.Here Isend yousome.I hopeyou11likeit.

90.Best wishes!MartinI wenttotheShouxi Lakethis morning.On thegate Ihappenedto meetsome Americantourists.I greetedthem withEnglishandwebegan talking.I gotto knowingthat theywere collegestudentstravel inChina.I showed them tothe WhitePagoda,the Five-pavilionBridge andthe Twenty-four Bridge.We enjoyedthe beautifulsceneriesaround thelake.Then wego boatingontheShouxi Lake.We allhad wonderfultime there.After wecame outofthePark,Ihelped themdosomeshopping.They hadthanked me,and thenwe saidgoodbyeto eachother.T was very gladto havea chanceto practiseourspoken English.

16.短文改错For severalyear I ve boughtflowers froma littlegirl whocome fromMexico.For onething,she hasthe freshest or most beautiful flowers.For another,sheis afresh andbeautiful flowerhimself,I don,t knowher name,nor hermine.We dont speakthe samelanguage.To her,I mustbe justother customer.She,stherewith differentkindsofflowersinspring,summer andautumn.As thegrowingseason comestoaend,she bringsleaves tosell,and thenitsover.On winter,I missher.Once Itry tobuy al1her flowersat once,butshesaid ina lowvoice,“No,madamvThank verymuchforyour letter.Hollywood certainly66sound wonderful!I mvery busywith67“Twelfth Nights”.Tomorrow we are goup to68Scotland:we aretouring herefor amonth.After69thatI m goingto Liverpoolfor afew day.Ive70get apartina TVprogramme andwearefilming it71up there.It smy firstTV part.72Imgoingonholiday onJune.Helen andI are73going Italyfrom June14lh to28th.We arestaying74with Francescain Tuscany.Would youand Debbielikes75tocome

18.短文改错On December1952,a verythick cloudcame down

1.over London.It wasworst smogLondoners hadever

2.had.Much ofitwasbad factorysmoke.You can,tsee

3.your ownhand infrontofyou.Near fiftypeople died

4.in roadaccidents.The airwas toothick thatyou could

5.almost cutthem witha knife.The smellfrom the smog

6.wasverybad.After threeweeks,thesmogslowly began

7.to lift.Life inLondon beganto returnback tonormal.

8.But inthe followweeks andmonths,over fourthousand

9.people weredied asa resultofthesmog.

10.

19.短文改错A Frenchmanwas oncevisited NewYork.He wantedverymuchtotakewalk toseethe city,but hewas afraidthat hemight lost,because heknew verya littleEnglish.So afterhe lefthis hotel,he stoppedatthefirst cornerand carefulwrotedown the name ofthestreet.Then hewalked on.As lasthe realcouldn,t findhis way.He wasworryingand walkon andon.Just thenhe founda policemaninthestreet corner.He stoppedasking himforhelp.He saidhe didn,t knowthename of hotel,so heknew thenameofthestreet.He thenshowedthepoliceman thepieceofpaper andit said:“ONE-WAY STREET.

20.短文改错Old Sarahwasastrange richwoman.He didnot

80.hope tosee anyofherrelative.She feltwhat they

81.were interestedin washer money.She wasall right

82.After shedied,the relativesgot togetherto hearSarah s

83.lawyer（律师）to readher will（遗嘱）.They weresure that

84.Sarah hadleft manymoney andthey quarreledstrongly

85.with eachother whenthey waitedthe lawyerto arrive.

86.After thelawyer cameintheliving room,he askedthem

87.tositdown.He beganto readthe willinaseriously

88.voice.Sarah hasleft allher moneyto hercats.

89.

21.短文改错For severalyear I”veboughtflowers fromalittle

59.girl whocome fromMexico.For onething,she hasthe

60.freshestormostbeautiful flowers.For another,she isa

61.fresh andbeautifulflowerhimself.Idon”tknowher

62.the samelanguage.

63.name,nor hermine.We don”t speak。