A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handling, it may become a driving force. When __1__ the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any other competitor, given its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its __2__ scientists were the world's best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies that the war had destroyed. __3__ It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans found __4__ themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competition. Some __5__ huge American industries, such as consumer electronic, had shrunk __6__ or vanished in the face of foreign competition. Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market and America's machine-tool industry was on the rope. For a while it looked as __7__ though the making of semiconductors, which America had sat at the __8__ heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.
All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped talking prosperity for grant. They began to believe that their way of doing __9__ business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980 brought one inquiry after __10__ another into the causes of America's industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about growing competition from overseas.
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1.handling改為handled.這里handle和主句的主語it是被動關(guān)系。
2.given改為giving.動詞give的主語是前面整個分句“it had a market eight times larger than any competitor”，它和give的關(guān)系是主動的，所以用giving.
3.去掉that.whose在這里引導(dǎo)關(guān)系從句修飾the Europeans and Asians，因此這里不能再出現(xiàn)一個關(guān)系代詞that了。
4.found前加上had.by引導(dǎo)的時間狀語出現(xiàn)在一個句子里，它的主句動詞往往是完成體。
5.competition改為competitiveness.fading在這里表示“日益喪失的”，后面的名詞短語應(yīng)該表示“ 工業(yè)競爭力”，而competition表示“競爭”，并不表示“競爭能力”?？荚嚧?BR> 6.electronic改為electronics.electronic是形容詞表示“電子的”，這里應(yīng)該用electronics，表示“ 電子裝置和組件”、
7.rope改為ropes.on the ropes 表示“瀕于失敗或崩潰”，其中rope是以復(fù)數(shù)形式出現(xiàn)的，所以應(yīng)該為ropes.在另一個短語 the end of one's rope，rope則是單數(shù)，表示“某人耐心，耐力的限度”。
8.had后面加上which/that.這句話里面有兩個關(guān)系從句，而且一個之中套另一個：which America had 是第一層關(guān)系從句，which sat at the heart of the new computer age 是第二層，它們所修飾的都是semiconductors，所以如果看不出兩層關(guān)系從句就很難找出錯誤來。
9.grant改為granted.take for granted 是一個短語表示“ 想當(dāng)然”。
10.mid-1980 改為 mid-1980s
All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped talking prosperity for grant. They began to believe that their way of doing __9__ business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980 brought one inquiry after __10__ another into the causes of America's industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about growing competition from overseas.
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1.handling改為handled.這里handle和主句的主語it是被動關(guān)系。
2.given改為giving.動詞give的主語是前面整個分句“it had a market eight times larger than any competitor”，它和give的關(guān)系是主動的，所以用giving.
3.去掉that.whose在這里引導(dǎo)關(guān)系從句修飾the Europeans and Asians，因此這里不能再出現(xiàn)一個關(guān)系代詞that了。
4.found前加上had.by引導(dǎo)的時間狀語出現(xiàn)在一個句子里，它的主句動詞往往是完成體。
5.competition改為competitiveness.fading在這里表示“日益喪失的”，后面的名詞短語應(yīng)該表示“ 工業(yè)競爭力”，而competition表示“競爭”，并不表示“競爭能力”?？荚嚧?BR> 6.electronic改為electronics.electronic是形容詞表示“電子的”，這里應(yīng)該用electronics，表示“ 電子裝置和組件”、
7.rope改為ropes.on the ropes 表示“瀕于失敗或崩潰”，其中rope是以復(fù)數(shù)形式出現(xiàn)的，所以應(yīng)該為ropes.在另一個短語 the end of one's rope，rope則是單數(shù)，表示“某人耐心，耐力的限度”。
8.had后面加上which/that.這句話里面有兩個關(guān)系從句，而且一個之中套另一個：which America had 是第一層關(guān)系從句，which sat at the heart of the new computer age 是第二層，它們所修飾的都是semiconductors，所以如果看不出兩層關(guān)系從句就很難找出錯誤來。
9.grant改為granted.take for granted 是一個短語表示“ 想當(dāng)然”。
10.mid-1980 改為 mid-1980s