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My Aunt Aggie was used to think that she was able to	1．________
sing; I’m sorry to say her singing was horrible. Well, one	2．________
day she asked for a piano-tuner(調音師) to come and tune	3．________
her piano. As he tried to tune the piano, it seemed to	4．________
be right. Aggie said“Let me play it”, so he heard her playing	5．________
it. It was perfectly in tune but she had him tuned it	6．________
again. The man did the job again, The next day she rang	7．________
up again and said,“It is easy to see that you know your	8．________
job. The piano seemed to be all right when you are here,	9．________
but as soon as I will begin to play it and sing at the	10．________
same time, it gets all out of tune.”

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解析：

1．去掉第一個was。be used to＋n．／doing。意為“習慣（做）某事”，used to do sth．表示“過去常常做某事”。此句中used后為to do，因此這個詞組應為used to do。 　　2．horrible改為terrible。horrible含“令人生厭”之意，而terrible則表示“糟透了”。此句只是對Aunt Aggic唱歌的評價，應為后者。 　　3．去掉for。意為“向……要（某物）”，此處意為請某人做某事，用ask sb. to do sth.。 　　4．As改為When。引導一個時間狀語時，as通常表示“當一個動作發(fā)生時，另一個動作同時發(fā)生”，而此處主句表示的是鋼琴的狀態(tài)，用as不恰當。 　　5．playing改為play。動詞hear后可接do或doing做賓語補足語，但兩者有差別。hear sb. do sth.表示“聽見了賓語做某事的全過程”，而hear sb. doing sth.則表示“聽見某人在做某事”。此處為“聽她彈彈琴”了以后判斷鋼琴是否諧調，應為“聽見某人做某事的全過程”，因此要用play。 　　6．turned改為tune。動詞短語have sth. done的特點為have后面的賓語與其補語done之間有著被動的關系，即“某事被做”。從這一句看，him與tune之間的關系應該是主動的，因此要用have sb. do sth.表示“請某人做某事”。 　　7．√。 　　8．know改為don’t know。Aunt Aggie的歌聲與鋼琴不和諧，她卻認為是調音師技術不好。 　　9．are改為were。調音師為她調音已是過去的行為。 　　10．will begin改為begin。在以as soon as, when, while, after, until等引導的時間狀態(tài)從句中，通常用一般現在時態(tài)代替將來時態(tài)。