文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除、或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2、只允许修改10处， 多者（从每11处起）不计分。

James Ryan was the fourth brother to be involving in Second World War. His three brothers already killed, two of them in the D-Day landings in Normandy, the others in a battle in another part of the world. Their heart-breaking mother received news about all her dead sons in the same day. The US army decides to send a group of man into the French countryside to try to find the fourth brother. Captain Miller, which was a hero and survivor of the Omaha Beach battle, was chosen to lead to the rescue team of eight men.

Greenland is _______ huge island that is mostly covered with_______ thick ice sheet.

A. the; /            B. a; the           C. a; a           D. the; a

It was the first time in two years that I________ my youngest son face to face.

   A. have seen      B. had seen       C. saw           D. see

Today, _______ people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.

A. many         B. some          C. more          D. most

Our English teacher soon got all of us _________ in English soon.

A. interest       B. to interest       C. interesting     D. interested

Along the way children ________ in long wool coats _______ to look at us

A. dressed; to stop   B. dressing; stopping C. dressing; stopped   D. dressed; stopped

At 3:42 am everything began to shake. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city _____ in ruins.

A. caught          B. trapped       C. lay         D. stood

When they organized the ANC Youth League, he_________ it as soon as possible.

A. attended         B. joined       C. took part in   D. joined in

Only when I got here _________ that I had made a big mistake.

 A. did I realize      B. I realized     C. I have realized D. have I realized

Almost seven tons of amber__________ the Amber Room.

A. was used to make             B. was used to making

C. were used to make            D. were used to making