大学英语四级改错题12篇

大学英语四级改错题12篇

Passage 1

Error Correction (15 minutes)

Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If yo u delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.

Example:

Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.1.

time/times/period

Many of the arguments having used for the study of

literature

2. ／___________

as a school subject are valid for ∧study of television. 3. the___________

One major decision which faces the American student

ready to

begin higher education is the choice of attending a large

university or a small college. The large university

provides a

wide range of specialized departments, as well numerous71. __________ courses within such departments. The small college,

therefore,

72. __________

generally provides a limited number of courses and

specializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio,

thus

73. __________

permit individualized attention to student. Because of its

large

74. __________ student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many75. __________ people from different countries the university exposes its

students to many different culture, social and

out-of-class

76. __________

programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, more

homogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college77. __________ affords greater opportunities in such activities.

Finally, the

university closely approximates the real world and which78. __________ provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous

(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate79. __________ atmosphere of the small college allows the student four

years of

structural living in which to expect and preparing for the

real

80. __________ world. In making his choice among educational institutions

the

student must, there fore, consider a great many factors.

71. (well) ? (well) as 72. therefore ? however

73. offer ? offers 74. permit ? permitting

77. big ? small 78. and ? / 或 and ? which, this

79. contrast ? contrary 80. preparing ? prepare

Passage 2

Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle

of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,

forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1. _____ just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's

demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _____ supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.

But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen

steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _____ spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of

good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4. _____ around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue

even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,S5. _____ although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for

politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _____ point to concrete examples of continued improvements

in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _____ fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than

double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere,S8. _____ rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9. _____ stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant

breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding

crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _____ for hope.

S1. being?been S2. their?its

S3. relative?relatively S4. good?bad

S5. as?去掉 S6. politics?political

S7. by?for S8. double?doubled

S9. few?more S10. reason?the reason

Passage 3

The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm

that

has recognized the need for change and done something

about

it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the

diversity

of the communities to which they provide information.

S1. _________

It must reflect that diversity with their news

coverage or risk

losing their readers’ interest and their

advertisers’ support.

Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents S2. _________

minorities, the paper has put into place policies and

S3. _________ procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse

workforce. The

underlying reason for the change is that for

information to be

S4. _________ fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be

reported by the

same kind of population that reads it.

A diversity committee composed of reporters,

editors, and

S5. _________ photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle

Times’

content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff

about

S6. _________ diversity issues. In an addition, the paper

instituted a content

audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner

of

representation of woman and people of color in

S7. _________ photographs.

Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far

too

infrequently and were pictured with a

disproportionate

number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _________

S9. _________ improvement in the frequency of majority

representation and

S10. _________ their portrayal in neutral or positive situations.

And, with a

result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.

The diversity training and content audits helped the

Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal

Optimas Award for excellence in managing change.

S1. it ? they S2. percents ? percent

S3. maintain ? maintaining S4. subjective ? objective

S5. value ? evaluate S6. an ? /

S7. woman ? women S8. from ? in

S9. majority ? minority S10. with ? as

Passage 4

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

S1. __________ poor

prosperity

which are then often disappointing. There are backward

towns

S3. __________ on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there

were

on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early

nine-

teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale.

S4. __________ Descriptions

written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor

of Mexico

City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found

S5. __________ there,

S6. __________ are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City

today—the

poor can still be numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic

prosper-

S7. __________ ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city

as a

S8. __________ promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural

poverty

and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth

S9. __________ of the

S10. __________ country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations

late,

sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.

S1. new ? a new S2. filling ? filled

S3. though ? if S4. This ? What

S5. was ? were S6. dissimilar ? similar

S7. lies ? lie S8. that ? which

S9. it ? them S10. late ? later

Passage 5

Sporting activities are essentially modified forms

of

hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern S1. __________ footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting

pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless

football

S2. __________ and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate

and he

scores a goal, enjoys the hu nter’s triumph of killing

his prey.

S3. __________ To understand how this transformation has taken

place we

must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent S4. __________

million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their

S5. __________ very survival

depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this

pressure

S6. __________ their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became

radicaily

changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,

throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful

S7. __________ male-group

attackers.

S8. __________ Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this

immensely

long formative period of hunting for food, they became

farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their

old

hunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning (把S9. __________……关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their

prey. The

food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The

risks and

uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for

survival.

S1. Viewing ? Viewed S2. inaccurate ? accurate

S3. (enjoys) ? he (enjoys) S4. up ? back

S5. year ? years S6. (even) if ? (even) /

S7. co-operate ? co-operated S8. when ? after

S9. were ? was S10.. farming ? hunting

Passage 6

More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than

of any

other disease caused by a single agent. This has

probably

71. __________ been the case in quite a while. During the early

stages of

72. __________ the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every

seventh

73. __________ de aths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by

the

74. __________ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing

the

global picture, saw the trouble going into decline.

With

occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and

infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily75. __________ through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s,

the

introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened

trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were

allowed

76. __________ to be imported to poor countries. Medical

researchers

declared victory and withdrew.

77. __________

They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency

of

infections and deaths started to pick up again

around the

78. __________ world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back;

in

many places where it had never been away, it grew

79. __________ better.

The World Health Organization estimates that

billion people (a third of the earth’s population)

suffer

from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was

falling, population growth kept the number of

clinical

cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year.

80. __________ Around

3 million of those people died, nearly all of them

in poor

countries.

71. in ? for 72. seventh ? seven

73. were ? was 74. now ? then

75. the ? / 76. imported ? exported

77. are ? were 78. vanished ? had ~

79. better ? worse 80. constantly ? constant

Passage 7

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

71. __________ thought you could tell a well-manned person on the way

they

occupied the space around them—for example, when such

a

72. __________ person walks down a street he or she is constantly

unaware of

others. Such people never bump into other people.

However, a second person thought that this was more

a

question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, 73. __________

other person told us a story, it he said was quite well

known,

74. __________

about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal

at

75. __________

one of the countries of the Middle East. The American

hasn’t

76. __________ been told very much about the kind of food he might

expect. If

he had known about American food, he might have behaved77. __________ better.

Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread

that

looked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking

it

78. __________

up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across

his shirt.

79. __________

His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing,

but

80. __________ immediately copied the action of his guest.

And that, said this second person, was a fine example

of

good manners.

71. (on the way) ? in the way 72. unaware ? aware

73. as ? than 74. it ? which

75. at ? in 76. hasn’t ? hadn’t

77. American ? Arab 78. as ? like

79. falls ? fell 80. of ? /

Passage 8

Until the very latest moment of his existence, man

has been

bound to the planet on which he originated and devel-

oped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move 71.

__________

out into the universe to those worlds which he has known

previously only directly. Men have explored parts of the moon.72.

__________

put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within

the decade will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be 73.

__________

too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other 74.

__________

planet within the not-too-distant future Some have advocated 75.

__________

such a procedure as a solution to the population problem:

ship the

excess people off to the moon. But we must keep in head 76.

billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the

project. To

maintain the earth’s population at its present level,

we would have

to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every

day of the

year.

Why are we spending so little money on space ex-77.

__________

ploration Consider the great need for improving many aspects 78.

__________

of the global environment, one is surely justified in his

concern for the money and resources that they are poured into 79.

__________

the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should look

at

both sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions.80.

__________

71. had ? has 72. directly ? indirectly

73. into ? on 74. too ? so

75. planet ? planets / worlds 76. head ? mind

77. little ? much 78. Consider ? Considering

79. they ? /

80. (arriving) ? (arriving) at 或 arriving ? reaching/drawing/making

Passage 9

Most people work to earn a living and they

Produce goods and services. Goods are either

agricultural (like maize) or manufactured (like

cars). Services are such things like education, medicine, and commerce. These people provide goods; some provide services. Other people provide

both goods or services. For example, in the same garage a man may buy a car or some service which

helps him maintain his car.

The work people do is called as economic activity. All economic activities taken together make

up the economic system of a town, a city, a country,

or the world. Such economic system is the sum-total

of what people do and what they want. The work

people do either provides what they need or provides

the money with that they can by essential commodities. Of course, most people hope to have

enough money to buy commodities and services which

are essential but which provide some particular personal satisfaction, such as toys for children, visits the cinema, and books.

of our everyday lives. Economists study our every day

lives and the general life of our communities in order

to understand the whole economic system of which we

are a part. They try to describe the facts of the

economy in which we live, and to explain how it

works. The economist methods should of course be strictly objective and scientific.

1．like －> as

2．these －> some

3．or －> and

4．as －> \ 去掉as

5．Such economic system －> Such∧an economic system

6．that －> which

7．are essential －> are∧not essential 或者essential －> non-essential 8．visits the cinema －> visits∧to the cinema

9．basic －> based

10．The economist methods －> The economist’s met hods

The economists’ methods

Passage 10

Parents can be supportive of suspicions. They

can be helpful to the teacher, or are in need of help 1. themselves. Sometimes, I think parents are too hard

to their children. I have seen many parents of this 2. kind. I often have the problem of parents coming in

and telling me what they really treat their kids. They 3. tell me that they usually stand over their kinds when

they do their homework. They check their work and

make big fuss over the grades. They criticize the kids 4. over everything having to do with school. My

response usually is: ”well, you know, he is really a

good kid. He is fine in my class. Maybe you should

not be too st rict with them.” 5.

We want parents to realize the fact that teachers

are professors at working with children. They have 6. observed many children and many parents. Because

of this, and because of their specialized training,

teachers can be realistic about children. Teachers

know whether parents want their children to do well 7.

and to behave well. But teachers know less what 8.

children should be able to do at different ages and

stages. They don’t expect the 8-year-olds to do the

work that can only be done by the 12-year-olds.

Parents, in the contrary, often expect their children 9. to do what is usually beyond their age and ability.

Obviously, this may make great harm to the 10.

children’s development.

2．be hard to －> be hard on

3．what －> how

4．make big fuss －> make a big fuss

5．them －> him

6．professors －> experts

professional

7．whether －> \

that

8．less －> more

better

9．in the contrary －> on the contrary

10．make harm to －> do harm to

Passage 11

Closure is the positive felling you get when you

finish a task. Lack of closure results from the panicked feeling that you still have a million things to

do. One way to obtain closure is divide a task into manageable goals, list them, and check them off

your list as you finish them. For example, suppose

your historic teacher assigns three chapters to be

read. If your goal is to read all three chapters, you

may feel discouraged if you don’t complete the

reading at one time. A more effective way to

complete the assignment is to divide the reading into

smaller goals by thinking each chapter as a separate

goal. Thus you experience success as you complete.

each chapter. While you have completed the overall

goal, you know you have progressed toward it.

A second block to obtaining closure is unfinished

business. You may have several tasks with the same

deadline. If changing from one task to another serves 6. ________ as a break, changing tasks too often waste time. 7. ________ Each time you switch, you lose momentum. You

may be unable to change mental gears fast enough.

You may find yourself thinking about the old project

when you should be concentrating in the new one. In 8. ________ addition, when you return to your first task, you

have to review where you are and what steps were 9. ________ left for you to finish.

Often you solve this problem by determining

how much time you have free to work. If the time

available is short . ,an hour or less), you need to

work on only one task. Alternate tasks when you

have more time. Completing one task or a large

portion of a task attributes to the feeling of closure.

1．result from －> result in

2．is divide －> is to divide

4．think each chapter －> think∧of each chapter

5．have completed－> have∧not completed

6．If－>Although

7．waste －> wastes

8．concentrate in －> concentrate on

9．review where you are－>review where you were

10．attributes to －> contribute to

Passage 12

Oral health care is, these days, a big, boom 1. business. According to Ralph Nader, American 2.

spend some $5 billion on dental care each year. Yet,

although the tremendous amounts of money, time 3.

and energy giving over to oral health, dental 4.

literature indicates that about half the population in

this country has lost all of his natural teeth by age 5.

65. Nearly half of all people over age 20 wear a bridge

or denture, and more than 30 percent have

complete upper and lower dentures. By age 50, one

out of every two persons have gum disease. 6.

The dental profession blames neglectful

Americans themselves. About half the population, it

claims, fails in visit the dentist regularly and some 30 7. million never did. Critics, on the other hand slam 8. the profession. It can be conservatively estimated

that at least 15 percent of United States dentists are 9. incompetent, honest, or both, says a former 10. Pennsylvania Commissioner of Insurance. Some have

set the figure as high as 50 percent.

1．boom －> booming

2．American－>Americans

3．although－>despite

4．giving－>given

5．his －> its

6．have －> has

7．fails in visit －> fails to visit

8．never did－> never do

9．United States－> the United States

10．incompetent，honest，or both－> incompetent, dishonest, or both