Yesterday afternoon John and I were walking along a roadwhere we heard someone shout "Help! Help!" He was in __1__ alake, about a hundred feet from the shore. There was a __2__small boat nearby. We knew immediately what happened. __3__ He had fallen out of the boat and could not swim goodenough __4__ to reach it or to get to the shore. As we rantowards the lake I saw him sunk, and I was certain that he woulddrown. But in __5__ a moment his head appeared again. Quickly John took out his __6__ shoes,jumped into the water and started swimming toward the drowned man. He reached him just asthe man went down __7__ again. He was close enough as to stretch out his hand and try __8__to take hold of the man's clothes or his hair before he sank.But the man threw out his arms in fear,caught John across the __9__ neck, and began to draw him down under the water. John foughtto keep his head above the water and at the same time tried to swim toward the boat, pulled theman with him. __10__
參考答案及解析:
1. where—when
2. a lake—the lake.據(jù)上下文判斷，這是指離海邊唯一的湖泊，因此用定冠詞
3.在happened前加had
4. good—well.副詞well修飾swim
5.sunk—sinking.現(xiàn)在分詞表示正在進(jìn)行的動(dòng)作
6. out—off
7. drowned—drowning.drowned意味著此人已經(jīng)被淹死了，drowning表示正在進(jìn)行，快要淹死了
8. 去掉as.直接由to stretch作狀語(yǔ)
9. across—around.across意味“穿過(guò)”，即“穿過(guò)他的脖子”，意義不通順。改為around即為“抱著他的脖子”，合乎邏輯和本文意義
10. pulled—pulling