专八改错习题及答案解析

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(一)

About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could

be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1____ pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking ____2____

University.

The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal

Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children ____3____

within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their ____4____

families to moderate size.

This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal

deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____

the United Nation?s Children?s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control

respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____

risk categories.

The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7____

maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8_____

pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9____

mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than ____10____

two years apart.

参考答案及解析:

1 将had used 改为used。因为此句是虚拟语气，表示与现在事实相反，故条件从句中应使用一般过去时。例如：Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. 许多人原本会成为聪明人－如果他们不自以为聪明的话。

2 将publishing改为published;report和publish时逻辑动宾关系，故应使用publish的过去分词短语来修饰report。例如：Any discovery that we may make, however small, will remain acquired knowledge. 任何可能的发现，不管多么微不足道，都将成为知识宝库中的一部分。

3 将theirs改为their;

4 将among改为between;在两次怀孕期间留出足够的间隔时间，故用between。

5 将过去分词excluded改为介词excluding。excluding意为“不包括…”

6 将respectably改为respectively;respectively 意为“分别地”，符合句子的意思。而respectably 意为“可敬的，值得尊敬地”。

7将evidences改为evidence。evidence是不可数名词。

8将ill改为illness。

9将year改为years。

10将lesser改为less

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二)

“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essential

attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the

family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _____1_____

has great importance for many people.

This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,

dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers

of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____2_____

portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,

even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _____4_____

support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5_____

of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the

United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6_____

is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S. soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7_____

they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8_____

a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in

the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9_____

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _____10_____

way of life.

参考答案及解析:

1 将no改为not

2 将place改为land;place是可数名词，作“地方”讲，而land意为“土地，田地”是不可数名词。例如：

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

当你偶尔光顾时，独处是一个美妙的境地，但是如果久留，它却是一个糟糕的地方。

There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.

3 将started改为start;start应使用不定式，以和前面的find，build一致。

4 将working改为work。work应该用第三人称复数，和live一致。另外，family在这里作“家人”讲，是复数。

5 将anyone改为everyone;这里是要用everyone指每个人，而不是要用anyone泛指。

6 将but删除

7将before改为after;根据上下文判断，这里要表达的是二战之后。

8 将But改为And;根据语意，这里要表达的是递进关系，而不是转折关系。例如：

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that?s my religion.

当我行善事，我感到坦然；当我行恶时，我感到内疚。这就是我的人生之道。

9 将it改为they

10 在house the中间加入介词as;regard…as 作“把……当作……”讲。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(三)

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say ____1_____

that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including

college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people___2___

with comparable education in Western Europe.

There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build

them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3_____

them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4_____ computer, you don?t have faintest idea. _____5_____

The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6_____

creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between ____7____

science and technology. Lots of people don?t differ between the two. Science ____8____

new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of

the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one

very seldom have a faculty for the others. _____9_____

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,

it?s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the ___10_____

consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.

参考答案及解析:

1.在which前加in，或将which改为where;在这里which引导限制性从句，修饰先行词the society。in which 在从句中作状语，当然也可以用关系副词where引导定语从句，并在从句中作状语，例如：Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

2.将as 改为than

3.将So改为But或者However或者Nevertheless。因为这里上下文是转折关系。

4.将about去掉;因为explain是及物动词。

5.将you改为they

6.将like改为as;因为such as 是固定搭配。

7.将takes改为gives;give rise to表示“引起，导致”之意。

8.将differ改为distinguish;牵着表示“有区别”。后者表示“区分，找出……的差别。

9.将others改为other;这样the other就和上文的one构成固定搭配，表示在两个中“一个……；另外一个……”

10.将harmful改为harmless，只有这样才可以表达上下文的对比关系。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(四)

What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,

as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon __1__

are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is __2__

a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can __3__

escape—not even light. But we can?t see a black hole. A black hole __4__

exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only

space—or thus we think. How can this happen? __5__

The theory is that some stars explode when their density increases

to a particular point; they “collapse” and sometimes a supernova occurs.

The collapse of a star may produce a “White Dwarf” of a “neutronstar”—

a star which matter is so dense that if continually shrinks by the force of __6___

its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking may

be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the earth reduced to the __7__

size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger __8__

gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. __9__

And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. __10__

参考答案及解析:

supernova 名词，[天]超新星

1. 将as 改为since或者because。在表示原因的连接词中，只有as引导的原因状语从句不能位于主句之后，只能位于句首。

2 .将adequate 改为inadequate，或者在are后加not。从逻辑上分析，因为我们拥有的科学术语“不充足”，所以才无法回答这个问题，所以用否定形式。

定语从句应该为“into which matter has fallen”。

4. 将but 改为so。上文已提到“连光都无法从黑洞中逃出”，所以我们根本无法看到黑洞。这里应该是因果关系，而不是转折关系。

5 .将thus改为so。这句话的意思是“那只是空间—或者我们认为它只是空间”。so做think 的宾语，thus 只能做连词，不能做宾语。

6. 将which 改为whose。这个定语从句的意思是“它是一颗星，其密度非常大，由于自身的引力，它在不断地收缩”。matter 属于star，所以关系代词应该用whose。

7 .去掉in。result为不及物动词，意为“形成了”，而“result in sth。”意为“导致某结果”。

8. 将masses 改为mass。mass 可指“大量的物质”，而“the masses”特指“劳动群众”，用在此处不妥。

9 .将ideas 改为idea。“idea”在表达“印象”时，为不可数名词，不可以用复数。

10. 将no改为any。分析便知，任何在黑洞附近的东西都会被吸进去。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(五)

The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which __1__

have ever lived on the earth, and one of them, the blue whale, is the

largest. People in ancient times thought whales as fearsome __2__

monsters of the ocean depths. So to hunt a whale, when one

occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People __3__

found the adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat from

one whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole winter.

Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred by the ancients as __4__

“great fish,” and any whale beaching along the coasts of England

was designated “the King?s fish” because it automatically belonged

to the Crown.

Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of __5__

wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and

exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions. __6__

Even though some species are protected by the regulations of

the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whale

hunting is regulated, but the earth?s stock of whales is still being __7__

depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now __8__

there may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will

be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and __9__

awe-inspiring creature that always fed man?s imagination and __10__

made the world a more exciting place

参考答案及解析:

1. 将which改为that。先行词由最高修饰时定语从句的关系代词只能用that。

2. 在thought 后面加of，或者将thought 改为regarded。“think of A as B”，指“把A看作B”，为固定搭配。

3. 去掉he。这句话的主语是“to hunt a whale”，“to hunt a whale was high adventure”。中间的“when…”只是插入的状语从句。

4. 在referred后加to。“refer to A as B”只“把A称作B”，这句话的意思是“古人把鲸称作大鱼”。

5. 在felt 后加for。这句话实际的结构是“feel a sense of wonder for whales”指“对鲸怀有惊奇的感

6. 在exploit后加them。capture，slaughter，exploit都是及物动词，后面必须加宾语。

7. 去掉but。前面已有“even though”，后面就不应该再用but。

8 .将since改为from。“100 years from now”指“从现在起100年后”since 只能用于完成时。

9. 在blame前加to。“be to blame for sth ”指“对某事应负责任”，为固定搭配。

10. 在always前加has。这个定语从句强调对现在的影响，很明显应该用完成时，不能用过去式。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(六)

We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any

moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, __1__

languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend

on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know __2__

more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language __3__

is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from __4__

animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language __5__

and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we __6__

understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, __7__

language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when

language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language

is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. __8__

Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few __9__

of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the

necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people

have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than

some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which __10__

takes language as its object of investigation.

参考答案及解析:

1. with 改为without。”hardy any moment passes without someone…”, 两个否定: without 和hardly，意思是“每一时刻有人……”。

2. fast 前面加the因为fast and successful use 这个词组后边有一个前置词短语of language 修饰use，所以被修饰的词前面加定冠词。

3. than on ourselves 改为than things on ourselves。在这里比较的是两件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我们周围的事物和我们自身的东西)。第二个things不能省略，否则引起误解。

4. differs 改为distinguishes。语言区分人与动物，differ是不及物动词，后面不能带宾语，只能用介词，如：Man differs from animals in that man possesses language。

5. inquire改为acquire“习得语言”应该是acquire language，名词短语是language acquisition。Inquire 是“询问”的意思。

6. we前面加上do 副词nor放在句首表示强调，应用倒装句，一般现在时强调句是在主语前面加助动词do。

7. combination改为relationships.语言和思维的关系，不是结合；语言和思维的关系是当代语言学研究的重要领域。

8. like 改为as。根据上下文，要表达的意思是“作为语言的使用者”，不是“像语言的使用者”。

9. a 去掉这里是否定的意思：“我们没有多少人……”而不是“我们一些人.….”。

10. assured 改为assumed. 这句的后半部分意思是“研究语言的必要性比我们想象的要大得多”。Assure译为“确保”；assume译为“假设”或者“想象”的意思。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(七)

Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as

ten years before, you can?t help being strucked by the __1__

appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and

make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too __2__

short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.

The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3__

There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that

they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created __4__

by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5__

have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6__

style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,

a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7__

on the law and women around the world run to obey. The __8__

decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.

Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9__

waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10__

参考答案及解析:

1. strucked改为struck或者stricken;过去分词形式有误。strike的过去式是struck，过去分词为struck 或者stricken。

2. date改为dated或者outdated

3. on other hand 改为on the other hand

4. entire改为entirely;副词修饰形容词different，并与different一起修饰age。

5. minority改为majority;从上下文以及常识判断，多半男性成功地抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图，即多年来，男性大服装款式跟女性服饰相比没有多大的变化。

6. it改为them;them指代the great majority of men。

7. fewer改为few;此处没有比较的意味。

8.去掉on;lay down为习语，表示“规定(规则，原则，法规等)”。

9. sometime改为sometimes。

10. height改为high;形容词作be 的表语。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(八)

Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period

were more eager than ever to establishing families. They quickly __1__

brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and

brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more ___2___

than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby __3__

boom.” These young adults established a trend of early marriage

and relatively large families that went for more than two decades ___4___

and caused a major but temporary reversal of long-term demographic

patterns. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married

at a high rate and at a younger age than their European counterparts. __5__

Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed __6__

families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a __7__

couples who married in earlier as well as later decades. Since the United States __9__

maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,

the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. __10__

Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not

abandoned.

参考答案及解析:

1.establishing改为establish,这里是不定式

2. 将height改为high/peak。整句话的大意为他们把男女的婚龄降了下来，使出生率达到了20世纪的高峰。

high可以用作名词，意为“高峰”，“高水准”，“最高纪录”。

height可以作“极点，顶点”解释。例如：The height of cleverness is to conceal one’s cleverness。

3. 将第二个不定冠词a 去掉。steady decline 意为持续的下降，前面不用加冠词。又如：years of hard work。根据语感可以判断出来。

4. 在went后加on，或将went改为lasted。此处是“持续”的意思，所以可以用went on 或者last 来表达。

5. 将high改为higher。此处意为美国人结婚率比以前提高了，有与战前相比的意思，因此应用比较级。

6. 删掉more。此处的大意为战后离婚率也下降了，这个现象不大有人注意，但同样也很重要。另外，more与equally相矛盾。

7. 将nevertheless改为also或者删掉nevertheless。此处上下文之间不是转折关系，而是递进关系。

8. 将that 改为those。此处的代词应指marriages这个复数名词，因此应用those。此处考察代词与先行词一致的问题。

9. 将Since改为Although/Though/While。此处是转折关系，不是因果关系。

10. 将in改为to。短语to the extent是固定搭配。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(九)

When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately start

meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked a

lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the __1__

way they occupied the space around them—for example, when such a person

walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never __2__

bump into other people.

However, a second person thought that this was more a question of

civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other person told us a story, __3__

it he said was quite well-known, about an American who had been invited __4__

to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American __5__

hasn?t been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had __6__

known about American food, he might have behaved better. __7__

Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, to

him, very much as a napkin. Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that __8__

it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been watching, __9__

said of nothing, but immediately copied the action of his guest. __10__

And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.

1.将on改为by。“by the way”作“根据……方式”讲。

2. 将unaware改为aware;根据下文中的“Such a person never bump into other people”判断，这种人不会“目中无人”。

3. 将as改为than;“more + adj/of + n + than”是固定搭配。

4. 将it改为which;which在此引导一个非限制性定语从句，which在从句中作主语，需要注意的是，在从句中he said是插入语。

5. 将at改为in;名词the country前要用介词in。

6. 将hasn’t改为hadn’t;根据上下文我们可以看出这里需要使用过去完成时。

7. 将American改为Arab。根据上文，我们可以看出，这里讲述的是赴“阿拉伯”传统宴会的“美国人”的故事，而不是赴“美国”传统宴会的“美国人”的故事。

8. 将as 改为like;介词as意思为“作为”，like意思为“像”。

9. 将falls改为fell;这里要使用一般过去时。

10. 将第一个of删掉。say作为及物动词，后面可直接跟名词作宾语。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(十)

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing

new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their

original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1__

going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2__

prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the

edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3__

seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4__

the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of

Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__

dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6__

in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__

two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8__

from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9__

country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10__

-ing out again to the suburbs.

参考答案及解析:

1. 在new one前加a;这里one指代上下文中的可数名词purpose，因此该词前要有限定词。

2. 将filling改为filled;在这里，非谓语动词fill与句子的who（poor immigrants）之间是逻辑动宾关系，因此要使用过去分词来表示被动意义。

3. 去掉though

4. 将this改为what;根据句子结构，我们可以看出这里需要一个关系代词，它既能引导主语从句，同时也可以在从句中作主语，这个关系代词就是what。如：What I like in a good author is not what he says，but what he whispers。

5. 将was改为were;that引导定语从句，其先行词是descriptions…and the enormous contrasts,因此谓语动词be要用复数。

6. 将dissimilar 改为similar;这里要表示的是“共同，相似”之处。

7.将lies 改为lie;behind it lie two myths 是个倒装句，主语为two myths，可见谓语动词要使用复数。

8. 将that改为which;这里是一个非限制性定语从句，因此不可用that，而要用which。

10. 将late改为later

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(十一)

Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect, __1__

while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence __2__

of the personality or character beneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact __3__

the caricature is recognizable, and yet exaggerated.

From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, caricature grew through __4__

the eighteenth and nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular in __5__

the United States early in this century. In 1920s and 1930s especially,

this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and __6__

magazines throughout the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his __7__

portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirit their work was __8__

close to the humor of the fast-developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the __9__

string of political satire. Their subjects were more often amusing than offended __10__

by amiable attacks.

参考答案及解析:

1. 将affect改为effect;affect是动词。effect是名词。

2. 将suggests改为suggesting;这是一个以while引导的从句，其中suggest应该与capturing并列。

3.在fact后面加上that;因为引导同位语从句的关系词不可以省略。

4. 将their改为its;这里its指代单数名词caricature

5. 将century改为复数形式;

6. 将was省略;appear是不及物动词，不应用于被动语态。

7. 将his改为their;这里指代复数名词the caricaturists

8. 将primary改为primarily;primarily在这里做状语，修饰不定式短语

9. 将close改为比较级形式closer;从后面的连词than，可以看出，这里使用了比较状语从句

10. 将amusing改为amused;主语subject（受攻击的人）和amuse的逻辑关系是动宾关系，应使用过去分词形式。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(十二)

Most people would describe water like a colorless liquid. They __1__

would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid called

ice and that when heating on a fire it becomes a vapor called steam. __2__

However, water, they would say, is a liquid. We have learned that

water consists of molecules composed with two atoms of hydrogen __3__

and one atom of oxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O.

This is equally true of the solid called ice and the gas called steam.

Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, and

the solid, all of which is made up of molecules with the formula H2O. __4__

This is true of other chemical substances; most of them can exist as

gases or as liquids or as solids. We may normally think of iron as a

solid, but if we will heat it in a furnace, it will melt and become a __5__

liquid, and at very high temperatures it will become a gas. Nothing

very permanent occurs when a gas changes into a liquid or a solid.

can be melted again by warmed and that steam can be condensed __6__

on a cold surface to become liquid water. In fact, it is only because

water is so a familiar substance that different names are used for __7__

the solid, liquid and gas. Most substances are only familiar with __8__

us in one state, because the temperatures requiring to turn them __9__

into gases are very high, or the temperatures necessary to turn them

into solids are so low. Water is an exception in this respect, which

is another reason why its three states have given three different names. __10__

参考答案及解析:

1. 改like为as;describe sth as sth 是把……描述成……的意思。

2. 改heating为heated;在时间，条件，让步等状语从句中，当从句主语和主句主语是一致的时候，可以将从句的主语和be的变化形式省略。

3. 改with为of;be composed of 意思为“包括，由……组成”

4. 改is made up 为are made up;which 指代上文中的the gas，the liquid，and the solid，表示复数概念，所以要用are

5. 将第一个will去掉;在时间条件状语从句和条件状语从句中要用现在时表示将来时。

6. by改为when;when warm 相当于when it is warmed

7. 改so为such;

8. 改with为to;短语familiar to 后面才能接“某人”familiar with 是接sth

9. 改requiring为required;过去分词短语作后置定语时，和被修饰的名词时逻辑动宾关系。

10. have 后加been;动词give和主语three states 是动宾关系

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(十三)

Classic Intention Movement

In social situations, the classic Intention Movement is “the

chair-grasp”. Host and guest have been talking for some time, but

now the host has an appointment to keep and can get away. His urge __1__

to go is held in cheek by his desire not be rude to his guest. If he did __2__

not care of his guest?s feelings he would simply get up out of his chair __3__

and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, __4__

therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses to let him __5__

raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair-grasp Intention __6__

Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans

forward and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. __7__

This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he were not __8__

hesitating, it would only last the fraction of the second. He would lean, __9__

push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer. He

holds his “readiness-to-rise” post and keeps on holding it. It is as if his __10__

body had frozen at the get-ready moment.

答案及解析:

1. 将can改为must;根据上下文的意思“主人有一个约会，必须离开”是客观要求，而不是“能不能”或者“可不可以”的问题。

2. not后面加to;desire 后应该加动词不定式to do something。

（觉得还可以直接去掉of，care 本身也有在乎的意思，可是答案不这么写，你怎么看嘞？）

4. 删掉and或者to。

5. 将therefore 改为yet或but;这两部分之间应是转折的关系。

6. 将raise改为rise;raise 是及物动词，后面必须加宾语，而且在此与文章意思不符。rise意为“起身”，“站起来”，符合文义。

7. 在as 和about之间加上if或者though;此处的意思是主人身子往前倾，双手抓着椅子，好像就要站起来一样。as if/ though to do something 意思为“仿佛要做什么事情”。

8. 将make改为perform或do;此处考查搭配问题，动词make与前面的act不能搭配。

9.将the改为a;a fraction of a second 意思为非常短暂的时间。

10. 将post改为posture

英语专业八级改错模拟题(1)

Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in __1__

come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as __2__

power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than __3__

those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing__4__.

If there were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans,

there jobs will have to be __5__ rewarded with high incomes before anyone

would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as

police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats.

Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers __6__,

gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy __7__

more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods __8__

and service, such as day old bread, run down automobiles, or the advice of competent __9__ physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. __10__

答案：

1.redistributing改为redistribute。attempt to 后面一般接动词原型，而不接动名词，因为这里的to是不定式符号，而不是介词，即attempt to do sth.。

2.you 改为others。此句是说，如果一部分相对比较穷，那么一部分人就会相对比较富。将人群分为两部分，此处就不能用you，others才可以表示人群的一部分。

3.在interests和than中间加上rather。此句不是表示比较（than），而是表示转折（公众政策反映他们的利益，而不是穷人的利益），所以应该用rather than （而不是）代替than。

4.doing改为done。此句是被动语态，表示“脏活被完成”，get 是系动词，所以应用do的过去分词形式done。

5.will改为would。此句使用了虚拟语气，表示对现在情况的假设，所以主句应用would。

6.cookers改为cooks。厨师是cook，而不cooker。cooker指炊具，与后面的“gardener（园丁）and other workers”不一致，所以应改为厨师（cook）。

7.when改为while。此处不是表示时间上的同时性，而是表示两种情形的对比，“一些人在

8.去掉more。inferior本身就表示“低级的”，已经构成了比较形式，所以前面一般不能再加more。

https://www.360docs.net/doc/114659819.html,petent 改为incompetent。此句讲的是穷人所能享受的服务，过期的面包、报废的汽车，还有不合格的医生和律师所提供的建议。如果是competent，则成了合格的医生和律师所提供的建议，那么与整句意思不符。

10.去掉in。此句中的which引导非限定性定语从句，作influence和change的直接宾语，因为influence和change均为及物动词，所以不能加in。转贴于：TEM考试_考试大

英语专业八级改错模拟题(2)

Vitamins, like minerals, are chemicals. There is absolutely not difference (1)

in the chemical structure of the nature vitamin C and the chemical structure (2)

of the synthetic vitamin C. Also, while most substances are harmless at very low (3)

level of intake, all substance -- even the elements that are essential to life -- can be dangerous if you overdo them. Take water for example. Six or eight glasses a day will keep your body in good fluid balance. But you can also be drown (4)

in it. Some people argue that individuals vary greatly (5)

their need for nutrients, it cannot necessarily be stated any given (6)

amount is too much;that is all relative. But since there is little solid information on what is the optimal intake of any essential nutrient in healthy individuals, it would be impossible to give guidelines that take these proportional needs into the (7)

account. Just as with other drugs, the relation to (8)

different vitamin dosages varies, with some people better able than others to tolerate large amounts. While we do know that very specifically what the toxic level (9)

is for vitamins A and D, we are far less sure about vitamin E, even though it, too, is fat-soluble, and we still don?t understand the water-soluble vitamin, the C (10)

and the B groups, which the body cant store.

答案:

26.not改为no

27.nature改为natural

28.at后加a

29.去掉be

30.that后加

31.stated后加that

32. 去掉the

33. relation改为reaction

34.去掉that

35. vitamin改为vitamins

英语专业八级改错模拟题(3)

Literature is a means by which we know ourselves. By it we (1) _________

meet future selves, and recognize past selves; against it we match our present self. Its primary function is to validate and re-create the self in all its individuality and distinctness. In doing so, it cements a sense of relationship between the self and the otherness of the book, and allows us a notion of ourselves as sociable.

of what it means to be human, of the corporate and independent (3) ___________

nature of human society. The act of reading the book marks both our difference in and our place in the human fabric. The more we read, (4)______________

the more we are. In the act of reading silently we are alone from the (5) book,

separate from ones own immediate surroundings. Yet in the (6)__________

act of reading we enter other minds and other places, enlarge our (7)_________

dialogue with the world. Thus paradoxically, while disengaging from the immediate we are increasing its scope. In silence, reading activates a deeply creative function of consciousness. We are deeply committed to the narrative which we coexist while engaged in 8) _________

reading. All kinds of present physical discomfortness may be (9)__________

unnoticed while we are reading, and actual time is replaced by narrative time. To imaginatively enter a fictional world by reading it (10)___________

is then both a liberation from self and an expansion of self.

答案:

1.By改为In

2.understandings改为understanding

3.independent改为interdependent

4.去掉in

5.from改为with

6.ones改为our

7.enlarge前加and

8.which前加with

9.discomfortness改为discomfort

10.去掉it

英语专业八级改错模拟题(4)

Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern women tend to have the opposite effect, so they simply __1__ change the nature of work instead of eliminting it. Machines have a certain novelty value, as toys for adults __2__.

It is certainly less tired to put clothes in a washing machine__3__,

but the time saved does not really amount too much__4__:

the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out, stains removed by hand, water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberal to __5__

pack it all off to a laundary and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Nevertheless, if you really want to save time you do not make __6__

cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of the woman in the women's magazine to the goods advertised __7__

by those periodicals, one realizes how useful a projected image can be commercially.

A careful balance has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving device, follow it up

with a complex recipe on the next page__8__;

on any account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job__9__,

but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, emphasize __10__ the creative aspect of her funtion as a housewife.

1.so--because．第一句话里两个分句之间的关系应该是主句为结果，从句为原因，所以so改为because。

2.as--like．当as做介词使用时往往表示“作为，当作”，而这里的意思是“像……”，所以应改为like，因为当like作介词用时，表示“像……”。

3.tired--tiring．tired形容人，表示“累了”，如果说某物使人累，应用tiring。

4.too--to．这里amount应和介词to组成词组表示“达到（多少）”，考试大如：That plan will never amount to anything.

5.liberal--liberating．liberal的含义是“自由的，解放的，大方的”，含义不贴切，应换成liberating，意思是“将（某人）解放了的”。

6.Nevertheless--Similary/Likewise．这里上下句的关系式并列的，平行的，不能用nevertheless 引导，应换成Similarly或者Likewise。

7.to--with．compare...to...的意思是“将……比作……”，有比喻的含义，人这里是“把……和……相比较”。

https://www.360docs.net/doc/114659819.html,plex--complicated．complex的意思是“（由于有许多关联部分组成，所以某结构）很复杂”。

9.any--no．由于后面有but，所以这里应把any换成no，表示“无论如何不能……”。

10.^emphasize--and; emphasize--emphasizing．emphasize分句和foster分句如果是并列的话，应该加上一个连词，不能仅用逗号连接，或者把emphasize变成-ing形式构成分句修饰foster分句。

英语专业八级改错模拟题(5)

Before 1973, abortion was illegal in America unless the woman's health

was threatened. In March of 1970, Jane Roe, a single woman, instituted

this federal action against the District Attorney of the country.

The original idea was that women who truly did not want a baby

should not have to have it __1__.

Since pregnancy may be a blessed act when planned or wanted__2__,

forced pregnancy, like any force bodily invasion, is anathema to American

values and traditions. As legalized abortion has become an everyday

part of American life, a different side to it has emerged out__3__.

Where women once were aborting because they did not want a child,

the reasons being given now were becoming very different__4__.

Abortion has turned into something that women are being coerced from __5__

boyfriends'/husbands' unwilling to be fathers, out of fear of the financial pressure,

out of the panic from losing their jobs, out of panic from having to quit the school, __6__

or becoming homeless, or out of fear of their parents kicking

them out into the street. Abortion for these reasons can lead to problems which develop

when a woman is unable to get round her emotional responses __7__

from the trauma of an abortion. There are women who abort and do so

completely of her own free will__8__.

These women have no regrets, no remorse, but are happy they had this choice availble. __9__

But a growing number of women are speaking up about

how abortion effected them adversely. __10__

答案：1.it--one。it和one用来指代时，it通常用于特指，one通常用于类指。结合上下文，此处应当指代前文的a baby，是类指，所以应当用one。

pregnancy和forced pregnancy这两个方面，所以应该选用表示对比的连用词while。

3.out--/。emerge一词后面不要受到中文的影响加上out；但是可以说come out。emerge可以和介词from搭配，表示“从……中浮现出来”。

4.were--are。虽然这一句从句中是过去时态，但是主句中谈的是“现在”的情况，所以应当用现在时态。

5.^from--into。动词coerce要和介词into搭配。coerce somebody into something，意思是“胁迫某人做某事”。

6.the--/。school 前带定冠词时通常是特指，不带冠词通常是类指。这里说“辍学”，应当是类指，所以不能带定冠词。

7.round--through。get through 的意思是“度过（经济，感情等的）难关”，get round有“说服”的意思，原文是说“客服流畅造成的情感创伤”，应当用get through。考试大

8.her--their。这里的代词是指前文提到的women，所以应该是复数。

9.but (are)--and。从逻辑关系来看，这一句“很高兴有这个选择”和前文“没有遗憾、不后悔”是一致的、并列的，所以不能用转折连词。

10.effected--affected。effect和affect两个词形近，而词性不同，容易混淆。前者通常作为名词，后者是动词。

英语专业八级改错模拟题(6)

You send your children off to school and put them in the teacher's hands.

Did you ever wonder what goes through a teacher's mind as he or she tries to teach your kids?

Did you ever wonder how the teacher expects from you, __1__

the parent? Parents can be supportive or suspicious. Then can be help to __2__

the teacher , or be in need of help themselves. Some teachers think parents

are too hard with their children. __3__

Here is how one teacher puts: __4__

"I usually have the problem of parents coming in and telling me how they really treat the kids.They tell me they stand by them when they do their homework. __5__

They check their work and get a big fuss over grades. __6_

They criticize the kids over everything having to do with the school. __7__

My response usually is …Wel l, you know, he is really a good kid. He's fine in my class.

Maybe you should not be so that strict with him.?" __8__

Teachers want parents to know they are professional at working with children. They have observed many children and parents .Because of this, and because of their specialised training, teachers can be realistic to children. __9__

Teachers knowthat parents want their children to do well and to behave well.

The teachers want this, either. __10__

But they know what children should be able to do at different ages and stages.They expect 8-year-old work and behavior from 8-year-olds and 12-year-old work and behavior from 12-year-olds.

答案：1. how——what

what在句中作谓语动词expect的宾语，how则不能做宾语

2. help——helpful 或在be和help之间加of

be help of 或者be helpful 为习惯用法

3. with——on

be hard on sb.为习语，意为“对某人严厉”

put it 为习语，意义相当于say/express

5. by——over

stand by 为袖手旁观stand by sb. 为支持某人stand over sb. 为主动积极地监督某人

6.get——make/raise或在get之后加into

get into/ make /raise a fuss over about为固定搭配

7.删除school之前的the

此处school为不可数名词，考试大不能用定冠词，主要含义为“上学，上课”

8. 删除so或that

so和that在此处均为程度副词修饰strict

9. to——about

realistic之后习惯跟介词about sth./ sb.

10. either——too

此处为肯定意义

英语专业八级改错模拟题(7)

People's attitude toward drugs varies from person to person. Some regard it as__1__

miraculous; others think of them as dangerous. Then what is the sensible attitude toward drugs?

I think the first thing to think __2__

is the difference between drugs and wonder drugs. The antibiotics can really treat certain __3__ bacterial diseases. On the other hand, the major diseases threatening Americans today are cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, coronary disease, etc. Against them, the doctor's bag of tricks is limited. He has wonder __4__ drugs.

So the first important lesson is not to expect too many from drugs. __5__

If you can accept the fact that the war against many of our most devastating diseases is,

at best, a holding operation more than an inevitable triumph, __6__

they will do a great deal to ease your own life as well as that of your doctor. __7__

Too many patients exert great pressure on doctors to describe for every symptom, __8__

even when suchtreatment is unwarranted or dangerous. Unfortunately, the medical profession is guilty of taking part, to a certain extent, in the wrongful action. The patient who demands a short of penicillin for every sniffle and sneeze may be given an injection __9__

by a reluctant physician because he is certain that if he does not ,

the patient will not search until he finds a doctor who will. __10__

答案：

1. it——them

them指代上文的drugs

2. 在think和is之间加of或about

此处为不及物动词，一般在后面跟of或about

3. treat——cure

cure特别用以指病后通过治疗得以恢复健康；treat则只强调治疗本身

4. 在wonder前加no

根据上下文意义，医生没有治愈上文提及的各种疾病的特效药

5. many——much

用much指代“期望”这一抽象的概念性的东西

此处不是比较概念，考试大而是否定概念“不是”

7. they——it

it指代上文的the fact that the war against many of our most devastating

diseases is, at best, a holding operation more than an inevitable triumph.

8. describe——prescrible

根据上下文意义和语法，应为“医生为每一种症状开药”

9. an——the

此处的injection特指上文的a short of penicillin

10. 删除not

根据上下文意义，“患者会一直寻求，直到找到愿意为其打针或开药的医生为止”

英语专业八级改错模拟题(8)

During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the

very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched

the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if 1.___

they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2.___

favorite topic of conversation.

War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing

the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain

selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.

Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could 3.___

not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that

they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts 4.___

were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5.___

On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, 6.___

but the government had no wish to become involving, at 7.___

least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run

wild.

Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.___

government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with

deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange

trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the

board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government 9.___

appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to 10.___

buy, sell, and set prices.

(2001)

1.答案：as→so

【详细解答】由于本句中的much修饰的是名词feeling，应改用so来修饰。

2.答案：increasing→increasingly

【详细解答】increasing可用来修饰名词，表示“正在增加”，修饰名词topic不合题意。本句中应该用副词作状语修饰形容词favorite，所以应该改用副词increasingly。

3.答案：so→but

【详细解答】根据上下文判断，小麦价格在秋天不断下降，但是农民不能等着市场提升价格。这

4.答案：soon或shortly

【详细解答】要表达“不久以后”，要么用soon after，要么用shortly after，就是没有soo n shortly after 这种搭配。

5.答案：rich→richer

【详细解答】根据上下文，这里是说由于价格上涨，投机商们变得更加富有，故应该改用形容词的比较级形式。

6.答案：asked∧→for

【详细解答】ask for为固定搭配，意为“要求，请求”。

7.答案：involving→involved

【详细解答】be involved in为一固定搭配，意为“被卷入…”，这里的be为连系动词，可用become 替换。

8.答案：1ife→living

【详细解答】根据上下文，这里要表达的意思是“生活费用”，应为living costs。life则意为“生命”，不能修饰costs。

9.答案：handle→deal或with

【详细解答】handle为及物动词，应直接带宾语。而固定搭配deal with与handle同义，都表示“处理(某事)”。

10.答案：total→full

【详细解答】total意为“总体的，全体的”，指一种整体的概念。而这里要表达的是“全部的权威”，英语中常用full authority。

英语专业八级改错模拟题(9)

Middle age has its compensations. Youth is bound hand and

foot with the shackles of public opinion. Middle age enjoys freedom.

I remember that when i left the school i said to myself: __1__

"Hence forward. I can get up when i like and go to bed when i

like." That of course was an exaggeration, and i soon found that

whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to achieve

it. But by the time you have reached middle age you discovered how __2__

much freedom it was worth to sacrifice in order to achieve any aim that __3__

you have on view. When i was a boy i was tortured by shyness, __4__

and middle age has to a great extent brought me a relief of this. I __5__

have now no such feeling and i save myself much discomfort. I always

hated cold water, but for many years i bath in cold seas because __6__

i wanted to be like everybody. __7__

It was until quite late in life that i discovered how easy it was __8__

to say:"i don't know." i find with middle age no one expects me to

walk twenty-five miles, or to play a scratch game of golf, or to dive

from a height of thirty feet. This is all to the good and makes life

pleasant, but i should no longer care if they do. That is what makes __9__

youth unhappy, the vehement anxiety to be like other people, and

that is what makes middle age intolerable, the reconciliation with __10__

oneself.

答案及解析:

1.去掉the

to leave school 表示“毕业，离开学校”，当中不能加定冠词，否则就表示离开特点的一所学校。

2.^discovered--have

由by引导的时间状语从句主语一般都用完成体，所以这里应在discovered前加上have。

3.worth--worthwhile

这句话如果用正常的语序说应该是：it is worth to sacrifice how much freedom in order to achieve any aim……这样看显然worth的用法是错的，应改为worthwhile，原句的意思是：但是当你步入中年时便会发现，为了实现一个目标值得你牺牲多少自由……。

4.on--in

应该是have something in view表示“看得见……”，所以应改为in view，而不是on view。

5.of--from

如果名词relief表示“从……得以解脱”时，要用介词from而不是of，如：to seek/find/provide relief from the heat/cold/pain/noise。

6.bath--bathed

bath是名词，而在这里需要一个动词，bathe是动词，所以应改为bathed。

7.everybody^--else

everybody就已经包括了说话人自己，所以这里应改为everybody else。

8.^until--not

中文里的“直到……才……”在英文里就要加上not，变成“not until...that...”，所以要在原文until签名加上not。

9.do--did

句子i should no longer care if they do用的是虚拟语气，是对现实的不真实的假设，所以用if从句后加did。

10.intolerable--tolerable

青年人和中年人的区别在于能使青年人不快乐的事情中年人都可以忍受。这也是中年的好处所在，所以此句中的intolerable应该改为tolerable。

英语专业八级改错模拟题(10)

Several years ago, we began construction on a new church buliding.In the beginning, the workmen dug a big pit in the ground and then they began to pour footings.

Footings are cement piers under which the entire buliding rests. __1__

They are crucial to the strenth of the finished structure. After the foundation hole is dug, the footings must be poured quickly, before the composition of the soil is changed by the wind, air, or water. With a similar way in these brief early years, __2__

parents of young children have the challenging job of lying the foundation __3__

that will support family friendships in later years.

Physical affectation and verbal affirmation are necessary __4__

in laying a strong foundation for friendship. Hug, hug, hug. Even if you are not raised __5__

in a hugging family, hug your kids anyway. They need the warmth of physical

contact and so do you need. __6__

A young child will try to manipulate and be in the charge. __7__

He will attempt to get his own way. Since the child may not be consciously__8__

trying to control, this is what he is doing. A wise parent must not permit to happen. __9__ When a child respects his parents, he will also respect the others. __10__

答案：1.under--upon/on.footing是“地基”的意思，一般来说，整幢建筑物怎么可能在地基之下呢？所以，介词under应该改成upon或on。

2.with--in.in a similar way 意思是“以一种相似的方式”，way表示方式时通常和介词in搭配。

3.lying--laying.lying是lie的-ing分词，而lie的意思是“平躺”或“说谎”，都和原文的意思及搭配不符。

4.affectation--affection.前者是“不自然”，后者是“感情，慈爱”。physical affection的意思是“通过身体语言表现出来的慈爱”。

5.are--were.文中的you指的是孩子的父母，已经为人父母的人被养大成人的过程中应该是在过去的时间。所以这里应该用过去时态。

6.need--\.“so+代动词do+somebody”这个结构已经替代了前面句子的谓语，是一个动词性替代，做简短反应，这里加一个动词need是多余的。

7.the--\.be in charge 意思是“主管，控制”，这里是说孩子们有时候试图成为控制者。如果说in one's charge或者in the charge of somebody，意思则是被某人看管。考试大

8.Since--While/Although/Though.这里要理解主从句的逻辑关系，从句是说小孩子也没有意识到自己的控制欲，主句说他实际上确实有控制欲，两者不是因果关系，而是让步关系。

9.permit^--this.permit是及物动词，热切不能直接以动词不定式作宾语，必须有名词或代词作宾语，所以要加一个代词this用于指代前文所述内容。

10.the--others指“别人”，没有数量范围的限定；the others指“其他的人”，有数量范围的限定。这里只是泛指“别人”，所以不应该加定冠词。

英语专业八级改错模拟题(13)

About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could

be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1____

pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking ____2____

University.

The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal

Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children ____3____

within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their ____4____

families to moderate size.

This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal

deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____

the United Nation?s Children?s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control

respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____

risk categories.

The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7____

maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8_____

pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9____

mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than ____10____

two years apart.