When I decided to return back to school at the __1__ age of thirty-five, I wasn’t at all worried for my __2__ ability to do the work. After all, I was a grown woman who has raised a family, not a confused__3__ teenager freshly out of school. But when I __4__ started classes, I realized that those “confused teenagers” who sitting around me were in __5__ more better shape for college than I was. They still__6__ had all their classrooms skills in bright, shiny__7__ condition, while mine grown rusty from disuse. I__8__ had totally forgotten how to locate information in a library, what to write a report, __9__ or even how to speak up in class discussion. __10__ 答案： 1. 去掉back。 return本身就相当于back或go back，此处back意义重复 2. for改为about。worry about是固定词组，表示“为……担心”，而worry for后加人时表示“为某人担心” 3. has改为had。定语从句中时态应与主句一致 百考试题 4. freshly改为fresh。 fresh out of school作后置定语修饰teenager。freshly只有与过去分词连用时才表示recently 5. 去掉who或将sitting改为sat 6. more改为much。修饰强调比较级better 7. classrooms改为classroom。classroom在此处是名词作定语修饰skill，不能用复数 8. mine后加had。过去分词grown不能单独作谓语，并且需要表示出在过去的过去“我的技能早已生锈” 9. what改为how。write后已有宾语，应用how表示方式 10 or改为and