Beware people preaching that we live in special times. People __1__ have preached that message before, and those listened sold their __2__ furniture and climbed up on rooftops to await for ascension, or __3__ built boats to float out the coming flood, or laced up their Nikes and poisoned themselves in some California Subdivision. These prophets are the one with visions of the seven-headed beast, with a __4__ taste to the hairy shirt and the scourge, with twirling eyes. No, it’s __5__ no use listening to them.
And yet, for all that, we may live in a special time. We may live in the strangest, most thoroughly different moment since human being __6__ took up farming 10,000 years ago. Since then time has flowed at one __7__ direction—toward more, which we have taken to be progress. At first Tte momentum was gradual, almost imperceptible, checking by wars __8__ and the Dark Ages and plagues and taboos; but in recent centuries it has accelerated, the curve of every graph steepens like the Himalayas __9__ rising from the Asian steppe. We have climbed quite highly. __10__
答案：
1.beware后加of。beware of sb/sth为固定搭配，意思是“提防否认或者某物”。
2.those后加who/that 。这是一个定语从句，修饰those，意思是“那些听他们话的人”，who/that在定语从句中做主语，不能省略。
3.去掉for 或者把await改为wait。“await”相当于“wait for”，都是等待的意思。
4.将one改为ones。主语these prophets是复数。
5.将to改为for。Taste意思是“对……的品位”时，后面一般接介词for。
6.将being改为beings
7.将at改为in。derection前面通常与in 搭配。
8.将checking改为checked。现在分词表示主动，过去分词表示被动。这里是“被”战争等因素制约。
9.将steepens改为steepening。这是一个独立主格，逻辑主语动作为主动。
10.将highly改为high。highly为副词，相当于very，fairly，这里用形容词high。high既可以做形容词也可以做副词。
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