1 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误、每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

An American and a Frenchman decided to cross the sea between France and England in the balloon in 1784. High over the water, they discover a hole in the balloon. The hole became bigger and bigger. The air keeps the balloon up was escaping quickly and the balloon was coming up. The two men threw all their equipments into the water to make the balloon light. It started to rise higher again. So it was still too close to the water. Finally, the men threw away most of his clothes to save themselves. The crowd waiting for to greet them in England were very surprised see this that the balloon landed in front of them.

2 . Once upon a time, there was a man from the State of Chu who loved his sword very much. One day, he was sitting in a boat preparing to cross a river     1     he accidentally dropped his sword into the water.     2      the ship moving fast on and the water running, the people on board reminded that he should go into the water to find his beloved sword back. The man felt in great      3     (anxious) too. However, he turned a deaf ear to that and instead, he     4      (immediate) took out a knife and made a notch (刻痕) on the side of the boat     5      his dear sword fell. The people wondered why he did so. He said proudly the notch could help     6     (get) his sword back. Shortly after the     7      (arrive) at the shore, he entered the water just beneath the notch he made. Though      8      (spend) rather a long time, he returned empty-handed. Without doubt, he was laughed at in public and his story became     9     well-known joke in China.

Today the idiom      10      (relate) to the story is used to describe a person who stick to rigid rules without considering a changing environment or describes an action made pointless by changing circumstances.