Question

After a day’s hard work I went to bed early than usual. It was about two o’clock in the morning when I was awakened by a big noise. I got out of the beds and slowly went  upstairs. There was a light in the living room. I listened to carefully and heard two men speak quietly. I believed my house had broken into and I was really frightening.  I went back upstairs and immediately call the police. You can imagine how embarrassed I was when they came upstairs but told me they had turned the television off for me and something was all right.

Answer 1

【小題1】early→ earlier
【小題2】beds→ bed
【小題3】upstairs→ downstairs
【小題4】去掉listened 后面的to
【小題5】speak → speaking
【小題6】had后面加been
【小題7】frightening → frightened      
【小題8】call → called
【小題9】but→ and
【小題10】something→ everything

解析試題分析：辛苦工作了一天后，我比平常早一些上床睡覺。大約在凌晨2點時被驚醒。我慢慢上了樓。聽到兩名男子小聲說話。我相信有人闖進了我的房子，真嚇人。我立即打電話報警。你可以想象他們告訴我他們已經(jīng)關閉電視時，我是多么尷尬。
【小題1】 根據(jù)后面的than usual 可以看出前面應該用比較級，故early→ earlier。
【小題2】 前面的主語是I, 后面的名詞用單數(shù)形式，故beds→ bed。
【小題3】 由生活常識臥室一般在樓上，以及文章后面作者回到樓上和警察上樓告訴作者真相可知，此處作者是下樓，故upstairs→ downstairs。
【小題4】listen to 后面接賓語，而短文此處沒有賓語，故去掉listened 后面的to。
【小題5】hear sb do sth 聽見某人做過某事，hear sb doing sth 聽見某人正在做某事，由上下文可知作者下樓來聽到有人正在說話，故speak → speaking。
【小題6】房子做主語，謂語動詞闖入要用被動語態(tài)，又主句是一般過去時，賓語從句用相應的過去完成時，故had后面加been。
【小題7】作表語時frightening 令人害怕的，主語通常是事或物，frightened 感到害怕的，主語通常是人，故frightening → frightened。
【小題8】短文敘述的是過去的事情，應用過去時，且and 前后的時態(tài)應一致，故call → called。
【小題9】警察上樓來告訴作者事情的真相，兩個動作是并列和遞進的而不是表轉折，故but→ and。
【小題10】警察上樓來告訴作者事情的真相，所有的東西都很好，故something→ everything。
考點：短文改錯。