高中英语改错练习题1. A shopkeeper once found that a bag moneyhad been stolen from his shopHe went to the judge and tell him about his loss. The judge ordered all people of the shopto come before himHe took a number of the sticks of equal length or gave one stickto each person Then he said,“Come after me again tomorrowIll then know which of you arethe thief because the stick given to a thiefwill be one inch longer than the other”2. Miss Evans taught physics in school in LondonLast monthshe was explaining to one of her class about sound,andshe decide to test them to see how successful she hadbeen in her work. She said to them, “Now I has a sisterin Washington. If I was calling her by the phone, andyou were on the other side of the streetWho wouldhear me first, my sister and you? And why?”A clever boy at once answered, “You sister, MissEvans, because the electricity travels much faster than sound waves.” “Very well,” Miss Evans praised3. It is interested to visit another country, but sometimesthere are some questions when we dont know the language very well. It may be difficult to talk about the people there. We may not know how to use the telephone in the country which are visiting. We may not know what to buy the things we need.In a strange country we may not know where to eat and whatto order in a restaurant. It is not easy to decide how many money to tip waiters or taxi drivers. When we arehelpless, we may not know how to ask help. After a short time later, however, we learn what to do and what to say. We learn to enjoy life in another country, and then we may be sorry to leave both the place and the people. 4. Long long ago, people had gather leaves andfruit of plants to eat with. They didnt know how to plant crops or how to keep animals for theirfood. We call them Stone Age people. Thing forthem were terrible and hard. Now there have stillsome people living liked those Stone Age people. They live in places that are hard reach. They donot know of our invention, for they keep themselves away our civilized world. For many years a group of people call Aruntas have lived alone in the center of Australia 5. How robins（知更鸟）know when it is timeto go back north? They seem to tell by how soon daylight lasts. In late winter, daylight begins to last longest each day. When thedaylight lasts long enough, robins start north.They fly by day. Each year they follow a sameflyway. At first，they fly only few miles aday. They stop often in the field to eat bugs（小虫子）. Late, they seem in a hurry. They fly over 100 miles a day. Some are going so faras 180 miles. When they get to home, theyalways stay together high in a tree. 6.The Internet is playing a important part inour daily life. On the net, we can learn about news both home and abroad and some otherinformations as well. We can also make phone calls, send messages by e-mails, go to net schools, andlearn foreign languages by ourselves. Beside, wecan enjoy music, watch sports matches, and play the chess or cards. The net even help us do shopping, make a chat with others and make friends with them. In a word, the Internet has made our life more easier.7.People have different tastes in food. Some feel they havent a meal unless they have hadpork or other meat; some prefer chickensor fish, and eats one or the other at every meal. Others prefer vegetables and fruits orgrains but would enjoy a meal of potatoes, noodles and carrots and some another fruits. Others could live on the foods are calledfast foods, for example, a hamburger orhot dog, French fries and a soft drinks. Food can be prepared by so many ways. Every is satisfactory to different person.8.In the morning of November 18th, 1755, an earthquakeshook Boston. John, a professor at Harvard College felt a quakeandwokeup. “Iroseandfoundtobefifteenminutes pastfour.” He hurried to downstairs to the clock. It had stoppedthree minutes ago. Except for stopping the clock，the quakehad only thrown a key from the mantel（壁炉架） to the floor. The clock had stopped because John put some longglass tube he was using for an experiment into the casefor safekeeping. The quake had been knocked the tubes over andblocked the pendulum（钟摆）. So John had the exactly time of the earthquake.9.Life in the twentyone century will be very different with life today. There will be manychangesWhat can the changes be? The populationis growing fast. That will be many more people in the world and most of them will live in longerthan people live now. Computers will be much more smaller and more useful, and there will be one in every home. People will work fewhours than they now and they will have morefree time for reading books, watch TV and traveling.10.Once one year a race is held. A lotof cars took part this race last year and therehad a lot of experiments jus