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短文改错 When a young man starts to earn his own living, he 　 can no longer expect others to pay his food, his clothes, 1．_______ or his room,but he has to work till he wants to live 2．_______ comfortable．If he spends most of his time playing 3．_______ about in the way that he used to as a child, they will go 4．_______ hungry．And if he breaks the laws of society that he used 5．_______ to break the laws of his parents, he may go to the prison． 6．_______ If, therefore, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has 7．_______ better health, he can have the great happiness of seeing 8．_______ himself to make steady progress in his job and of 9．_______ building up for himself his own position in society． 10．_______

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1．在pay后加for pay意思是“支付，付清”，表示偿付为商品或服务而支付(钱)用pay money for sth．，因此在pay后面加for。 　　2．till→if　till意思是“直到”，本句意为“如果他想生活舒服，就必须工作”。因此，应将till改为if。 　　3．comfortable→comfortably　comfortable是形容词，修饰动词live，应该用副词。 　　4．they→he　这句话的主、从句指的都是the young man，因此应该将主句的they改为he。 　　5．that→as　句意为“如果他像过去违反他父母的规定一样触犯法律，他可能会入狱”。that引导从句时本身没有含义，而此处把“触犯法律”和“违反父母的规定”作比较，表示两者相似，因此不能用that，应改为as，as表示“与……一样”。 　　6．去掉prison前的the　prison意思是“监狱”。go to prison习惯用语，表示“入狱”。 　　7．therefore→however　therefore是副词，意思是“因此，所以”。 　　8．better→good　此处表示一般描述，他的健康并没有和以前或别人的相比较，因此应该用形容词原形。 　　9．去掉make前的to see是感官动词，之后的动词不定式要省去to。此外，watch, look at, notice, observe, hear, listen to, smell, feel, find等都是感官动词，后面的不定式也要省去to。 　　10．√