作者：張榮

( I )

I can't swim because I have a strong fear of water. Look back 1. ________

my childhood experiences, I think that three reasons might 2. ________

explain the fear. The first reason is that I was not allow to go 3. ________

near the water when I was a child, for my mother had a 4. ________

unreasonable fear of it. So, even as a child that I was taught to 5. ________

see the water as something danger. Second, my eyes 6. ________

became bad when I was five. If I took off my glass in the 7. ________

water, I couldn't see anything, or this increased my fear. 8. ________

The worst part of my experience is that as a child I saw 9. ________

a neighbor drowned. After then I have been more frightened. 10. ________

( II )

Decorate the Christmas tree is usually a family event. For many families, 1. ________

it starts with choosing a tree from either a farm and a store. Then the tree 2. ________

is brought at home and put into a Christmas stand that holds the tree up 3. ________

straight. Then everyone helps to hang balls and light. After the tree is 4. ________

decorated, a Christmas tree skirt rapped around the bottom of the tree. 5. ________

Sometime, people make all of the decorations for the tree by themselves. 6. ________

Many people collect Christmas trees decorations throughout their lifetime, 7. ________

adding a new decoration each year. Beside lights and balls, people may 8. ________

also put flowers, pine cones, strings of pop corn and garlands (花環) on the 9. ________

tree, There are as much different ways to decorate a tree as there are people! 10. ________

【答案與解析】

( I ) 1. Look→Looking。此處應該用現在分詞作狀語。2. my前面加on / upon。look back on / upon是固定短語,意為"回顧"。3. allow→allowed。此處應該用被動語態。4. 第二個a→an。unreasonable fear是以元音音素開頭,故用不定冠詞an。 5. 去掉that。此句是簡單句,that是多余用詞。6. danger→dangerous。形容詞修飾復合不定代詞。7. glass→glasses。復數名詞glasses意為"眼鏡"。 8. or→so。此處表達因果關系。9. 本行無錯。10. After→Since。介詞短語since then常與現在完成時態連用。

( II ) 1. Decorate→Decorating。此處應該用動名詞作主語。2. and→or。either... or... 是固定短語,意為"或者......或者......"。3. 去掉at。home在此句中是副詞, at屬多余用詞。 4. light→lights。light意為"燈",是可數名詞,與balls是并列關系。5. rapped前面加is。此處是被動語態。6. Sometime→Sometimes。此處應該用Sometimes表達"有時候"。7. trees→tree。此處是名詞作定語,應該用單數形式。8. Beside→Besides。根據語義,此處表達"除了......之外"。9. 本行無錯。10. much→many。本句中的ways是可數名詞復數形式,故用"as many...as"。