—Why ? John is sitting there doing nothing.

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。

    Not long after Freddy and the band became famous. They visited Britain on a brief tour. Fans showed their devoted by waiting for hours to get ticket for their concerts. His most exciting invitation was perform on a TV programme calling "Top of the Pops." As soon as the programme is over, they were truly stars. Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere without be followed. At last feel very upset and sensitive, Freddy and his band realized that they must leave a country before it became too painful for them. So they left from Britain, to that they were never to return.

    If we are honest with ourselves, most of us have dreamed of (become) famous. Most musicians form a band because the same interest in writing and playing music. They may play anywhere (earn) some extra money as as fulfill their dreams. However, the Monkees started differently, began as a TV show with the musicians (play) jokes and music in the programme. Only after a year or so did they become (serious) and they produced their own records later became even more popular than the Beatles in the USA. The band once (break) up but reunited later. In memory of their time as a real band, they produced new record in 1996.

    Charles Dickens (1812—1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt (债) and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time in a lawyer's office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later for London newspapers. His life as a writer of novels began in 1833 with short stories and essays in newspapers, and in 1837 his novel “The Pickwick Papers” made him the most popular author at his time in England.

    He was a great observer (观察者) of people and their places because he was concerned about life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a picture of all classes of England society, showing deep concern for the poor.

    Many of his novels like “Oliver Twist”, “David Copperfield”, “Nicholas Nickleby”, “Great Expectations”, “A Tale of Two Cities” and so on drew attention to the unfair social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago. Dickens wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any useful method to achieve that goal.