2013高考英语短文改错专题练习：Americans are in a trouble

　　Most Americans don’t like to get advices from melnbers of tbelr famlly. When they are in a trouble and need advice, they write letters for newspapers or magazincs. Most newspapers print letters from readers with problems. Along with the Ietters there have answers written by people who are was first grown in which is now part of the United States. Columbus, Who discovered America, saw the Indians smoking. Soon the drying leaves were transported to Europe where smoking began to catch on. At the late 1800s, the Turks made cigarettes popular. Smoking cigarettes is danger. The US Public Health Service stated that the smoking cigarettes is the reason of lung cancer and several other deadly diseases. The US government now requires that each package of cigarettes bears a special warning against the danger of smoking.

　　1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______

　　4. _______ 5. _______ 6. _______

　　7. _______ 8. _______ 9. _______

　　10. _______

　　Key:

　　1. 在for后加a。for a long time很久。

　　2. 将that改为which。为非限制性定语从句。

　　3. which改为that。为名词性从句，“就是在现在美洲的地方”。

　　4. 正确。

　　5. drying改为dried。意为“晒干的”。

　　6. At改为In。在……年代用in。

　　7. dan-ger改为dangerous。

　　8. 去掉smoking前的the。动名词做主语。

　　9. reason改为cause。reason理由，cause导致……的原因，起因。

　　10. bears改为bear。require后的宾语从句应用should+动词的虚拟结构，should可省略。