下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1. 每句不超过两个错误；
2. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
3. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My mother is a village woman, who is already in fifties.She has very little education, and she knows knowledge is of very importance to young people. She often asked me how I get along with my studies and encourages me study hard. My mother does everything she can for me so that I can spend more time on my study. Once she was bad ill and had stayed in bed
for several days. When I got home, I found the light was still off and mother was sitting in bed, made new clothes for me! I was so deeply moved that tear came to my eyes. So is my mother, a kind and hard-working woman.
My favourite sport is football. I was a member of 76. ________
our school football team. We practise for three times 77. ________
every week and often watch football match on TV 78. ________
together. Play football not only makes us grow up 79. ________
tall and strong but also give us a sense of fair play 80. ________
and team spirit. We must keep in mind that we play 81. ________
for the team instead ourselves. Also, the sport teaches 82. ________
us the important of obedience. Each player must 83. ________
obey captain, who is the leader of the team. 84. ________
And they must not break the rules too often if we 85. ________
want to win the game.
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 (花环) on the
9. ________
tree, There are as much different ways to decorate a tree as there are people!
10. ________
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 eyes6. ________
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. ________
Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie 1. ________
Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south 2. ________
of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to 3. ________
get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast
(125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than 4. ________
the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far
more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has 5. ________
been grown up accidently as most big cities have done. 6. ________
It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a 7. ________
Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named 8. ________
George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired,
much-respected first president of the United States. 9. ________
In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands. 10. ________
Today I visited the Smiths — my first time visit 1.________
to a American family. They live in a small 2 _________
town. It was very kind for them to meet me 3.__________
at the railway station and drove me to their home 4.__________
The Smiths did his best to make me feel 5.__________
at home. They offered me coffee and other 6.__________
drinks. We have a good time talking and laughing 7.__________
together. They eager to know everything about 8.__________
China and asked me lots of question. In fact, 9 .__________
they are planning to visit China in next year. 10.__________