六级改错练习

六级改错

Practice (2006-12)

The National Endowment for the Arts recently released

the results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which described

the movement of the American public away from books and

literature and toward television and electronic media.

Accord ing to the survey, “reading is on the decline on every S1________ region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.”

The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie S2________

vote, upheld the government’s r ight to obtain bookstore and

library records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. The

House proposal would have barred the federal government

from demand library records, reading lists, book customer S3________ lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.

These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they S4________

echo each other in the message they send about the place of

books and reading in American culture. At the heart

of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic S5________ system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze

texts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promoted by S6________ reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,

through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our

country are unconsciously sending the message that reading

may be connected to desirable activities that might S7________ undermine our system of government rather than helping

democracy flourish.

Our culture’s decline in reading begin well before the S8________ existence of the Patriot Act. During the 1980s’ culture wars,

school systems across the country pulled some books from

library shelves because its content was deemed by parents S9________ and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools

across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and S10________ is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the

American public.

Practice 2 (2002-6)

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 going to attract poor S1._________ immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2._________ which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns

on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were S3._________ on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-

teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions S4._________ written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico

City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, S5._________ are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today －the S6._________ poor can still be numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,

but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a S7._________ promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty S8._________ and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the S9._________ country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, S10._________ sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.

2009年

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. For a wrong word,underline the wrong word and wri te the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word,mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word y ou believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

Example

When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an it never／buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never them on the wall. When a natural history mus eum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes

from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)_____

between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore, a verse, learnt

in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)_____

has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)_____

The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting

it may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)_____

lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)_____

it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)_____

same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age

between playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playground

rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)_____

even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting over

and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)_____

hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)_____

after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____

original wording.

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.

Keys:

Practice 1

S1. on→in

S2. (report)∧(released)→was

S3. deman d→demanding

S4. to→/

S5 in→that

S6. writing→write

S7.desirable→undesirable

S8. begin→began

S9. its→theirs

S10. nation→national

Practice 2

S1. (found)∧(new)→a

S2. filling→filled

S3. though→/

S4. This→What

S5. was→were

S6. dissimilar→similar

S7. lies→lie

S8. that→which

S9. it→them

S10. late→later

八级keys

2009

(1)illustrated，承接has shown and illustrated；

(2) the little listener改为a little listener，因为是不确指；

(3)their改为his以于上文匹配；

(4)something 改为somewhere，前者少指时间之长短；

(5)therefore显然应为however；

(6) in the general去掉the；

(7) currently 改为current；

(8) it has passed along 改为it has been passed；

(9) live 改为alive；

(10) to let alone去掉to 改为let alone。

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。这里应该是转折关系，而不是因果关系。

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→ric her

【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。