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【題目】假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2.只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

John Snow was Queen Victoria’s personal physician. He became inspiring when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed cholera, a deadly disease of its day. Many thousands of people died whenever there was a outbreak. John wanted to help solve the problem.

He got interested in two theory explaining how cholera killed people. He doubted about the second theory where suggested that people absorb the disease with their meals. In 1854, when another outbreak hit London, he was determined to find why. In the help of the map he made, he got a valuably clue about the cause of the disease. He announced with certainty that the water was to be blame. “King Cholera” was final defeated.

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【解析】1.句意：他變得受鼓舞。表示被動關系，故把inspiring--- inspired。

2.句意：當他想到幫助得了霍亂的普通人時，他受到了鼓舞。expose to使暴露，故在expose后面加to。

3.句意：無論什么時候有疾病發(fā)作，數(shù)千人會死去。outbreak以元音開頭，故把a---an。

4.句意：他對霍亂是怎樣殺死人的兩個理論變得感興趣。用名詞復數(shù)形式，故把theory--- theories。

5.此處the second theory做先行詞，指物，在后面的定語從句中做主語，先行詞被序數(shù)詞修飾，故把where---that。

6.句意：他懷疑第二個理論，這個理論表明人們在吃飯的時候得了這個病。此處suggest的意思是“表明，暗示”，根據(jù)句意后面的賓語從句用一般過去時態(tài)，故把absorb--- absorbed。

7.固定詞組：with the help of在---的幫助下，故把In---With。注意大寫開頭。

8.句意：一個有價值的線索。形容詞修飾名詞，故把valuably--- valuable。

9.句意：他肯定地宣布水要承擔責任。be to blame承擔責任，故把blame前的be去掉。

10.副詞修飾動詞，故把final--- finally。