英语专业八级最强改错题20篇error correction

Error Correction class：name：

要求：运用语法、词汇、修辞等语言知识识别短文内的语病并改正

错误类型：

1.词法错误——掌握常用词汇的词形、词性、含义、搭配和用法

2.句法错误——时态错误、语态错误、非谓语动词误用、固定句型误用、关系代词或副词的误用、

主谓不一致、句子主语（谓语、宾语）的多余

3.篇章错误——指代错误、衔接错误、上下文语义矛盾

Passage 1

Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in (1)__________ noisy massive tower blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear (2)________ when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange enough, whereas in the past (3)_________ the inhabitants of some street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor

in tower blocks even say hello to each other.. (4)__________ Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense

of community generally keep the inhabitants of small village together. People have (5)__________

the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help.

So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem, (6) ______ and for anything out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. (7)______ The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantages (8)_________ of being cut off. The city has noise and pollution which do harm to human health. But one of

their main advantages is that you are at the center of things and that life doesn’t(9)_______ come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise between the two:

they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city and (10)___________ moving to the country within commuting distance of the large city.

改错答案

Passage 1

1.把frightened改为frightening。frightened是“受到惊吓的”，表明心理状态，而frightening表示“令人害怕的”，表示事物性质。

2.把appear改为disappear。“当你住在摩天大厦的三十层里”，可以推测这里要表达的是归属感的消失，而不是产生归属感。

3.把Strange改为Strangely。Strangely enough，是固定短语，经常用作插入语，意思是“说也奇怪，最奇怪的是”。

4.在say前面加上don’t。此处说的是，现在住在同一层楼的人甚至见面都不打招呼。

5.把keep改为keeps。in that 引导的句子主语应该是a sense，故谓语应为单数。本句的意思是，农村生活与这种隔绝孤立的生活不同，因为一种归属感把小村里的居民联系在一起。

6.把so 改为but/yet。上文提到了乡村生活的好处，下文是转折，要用but或者yet。

7.把for改为on。“去远征”应该用go on a expedition，而go for 的意思是“去找，努力获取，拥护”。

8.把peaceful改为peace。of 后面不应该用形容词，所以应该改为peace。这里需要注意的是quiet既是名词又是形容词，不要被迷惑。

9.把their改为its。此处的代词应该指代上文的the city。

10.删除leaving后面的for，或者把for改为from。leave表示“离开某地”，而leave for表示“离开某地去另外一个地方”，for后面接的是目的地。本句说的是离开城市，搬到乡村，所以for是多余的。

Passage 2

The aim of a job interview is to establish whether you are likely to do well in a particular job

in a specific organization. This is not only a matter of having the necessary technical knowledge

and skill, you must also have the motivation, the ability to adapt to new (1)__________

ways of working and a new work environment, and the personality to do the job (2)___________

and fit into a new team. But there are other personal skills affect your success in a (3)__________

job. These include getting on with people, oral or written communication, team (4)____________ working, problem solving and good time management.

Most people think that interviewers know what they are looking for and will

recognize when they see it. However, people are actually not very good at (5)____________ assessing one and another. This applies to recruiters as much as anyone else. (6)_____________

In fact a former head of selection at one big firm used to say that “Some interviewers

are so poor they would do better to rely on chances.”

In companies which recognize this, various methods are used to try to

find the correct person. The most common is the structured interview. Research (7) __________

has shown that this approach is more reliable than the ordinary job interview,

though not as affective as using tests or assessment centers. In a structured interview (8)________

the interviewer groups the qualities listing in the job specification under various (9)_________ headings. There are two well-established structures for this: The National Institute

of Industrial Psychology’s Seven-Point Plan and Five-Fold Grading System.

The interviewers score candidates for how well they fit the job specification. (10)_________

Passage 3

Successful aging is a psychological fear. Fear for death, for example, may sometimes oppress you.__1__ even when this is successfully overcome, there is still something for you to deal with-loneliness. Loneliness can speed your demise no matter conscientiously you care for your body. __2__ “We go through life surrounded by protective convoys of others,” says Robert Kahn,

a psychologist of the University of Michigan who studied the health effects of companionship. __3__ “People who manage to maintain a network of social support do best.” One study of elderly

heart-attack patients found that those with two or more close associations enjoyed twice __4__ the one-year survival rate of those who were completely alone. Companionship aside, healthy oldsters seem to share a knack for managing stress, poison that contributes measurably to heart disease, __5__ cancer and accidents. Researchers have also been kinked successful aging to mental stimulation.__6__ An idle brain will deteriorate just as sure as an unused leg, __7__ notes Dr. Gene Cohen, Head of the gerontology center at George Washington University.

But just as exercise can prevent muscle atrophy, mental challenges seem to preserve __8__ both the mind and the immune system. But what most impresses researchers who study

the oldest old is his si mple drive and resilience. “People who reach 100 are not quitters,”__9__

says Adler of the National Centenarian Awareness Project. “They share a remarkable

ability to renegotiate life in every turn, to accept the inevitable losses And move on.” __10__

1.把for改为of。与fear搭配的介词通常是of，表示对…的恐惧。

2.在no matter后面加上how

3.在studied前面加上has。本文的基调是一般现在时，此句的主语也是现在时，定语从句介绍Roberts做过的研究项目，所以用现在完成时比较合适。

4.把associations改为associates。本句的意思是：一项对高龄心脏病人的研究发现，有两个或者两个以上亲密伙伴陪同的病人在一年危险期的幸存几率是完全无人陪伴的病人的两倍。

5.在poison前面加上a。不定冠词修饰不可数名词，该名词后面再加上定语成分对该词进一步说明。

6.删除been

7.把sure改为surely

8.把but改为and。本句与上一段最后一句在结构(just as)上相似，在意义上是递进关系，不应该用转折连词衔接，用and合适。

9.把his改为their。此处的代词应该代替the oldest old，the oldest old 表示一类人可以用单数也可以用复数，但是下文提到这些年事极高的老人都用了复数，所以此处也要改为复数，使上下文一致。

10.把in改为at。词组at every turn意思为“ 时时，经常”。

Passage 4

One of our main arguments is that we in Western countries actually have part to play __1__

in causing the problems of the Third World.

Many Third World countries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for example. They were __2__

lent money with low interest rates in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banks __3__

from the oil-producing countries and was lent out to the Third World.

The interest rates have then been risen dramatically. So you have a situation __4__ where a country in many cases can’t even repay the interest, letting alone the capital, on the debt. __5__ And I suppose the best example from what I have come across is a country in West Africa

where the consumption, the local consumption of peanuts was banned, because peanuts,

if they are imported can bring in a great deal of foreign income. The peanut is a major source of __6__ protein in this country. So you have people go hungry as a result of that. __7__

The peanuts were exported to Great Britain and the United States to feed our cattle. Those cattle then produced a surplus of milk which we do not know what to do with. We have enough milk, more milk than we can cope with in the Western World.

And also that milk was transformed into dried milk powder and then taken back to this country __8__

to help feed children who were suffering from malnutrition.

So that’s the kind of insanely economic relationship__9__

that we have got ourselves in the Third World. __10__

1.在part前加上a。词组have a part t o play in…的意思是“有份儿”

2.saddle改为saddled。此处为被动语态，应该把动词变为过去分词形式。

3.把with改为at。此处介词与interest rates搭配。

4.删除been(这里应该是把risen改为rising，答案应该错了)。rise是不及物动词，不用于被动语态。

5.把letting改为let。let alone 意思为“更不用提”。

6.把imported改为exported。下文说花生可以带来外汇收益，出口才会带来外汇，所以此处应用exported。

7.把have改为had。上文提到该国禁止本国消费花生这件事用的是过去时。

8.把also改为so。必须把与此相关的几个句子联系在一起理解，上文说：花生出口到英国和美国去喂了牛，而牛又产出了过剩的牛奶，我们不知道怎么处理这些牛奶。在西方世界，我们的牛奶够多了，多得无法处理。本句说：这些牛奶就被制成奶粉拿到该国去喂养那些营养不良的儿童。由此可见本句与上文是因果关系，不能用also来连接。

9.insanely改为insane。此处表达“荒唐的经济关系”insane修饰的是relationship，而非economic，因此要用形容词代替。

10.把in改为into。词组get in 虽然也可以表达“ 进入，陷入”，但是in为副词，后面不能跟地点，所以应该改为into

Passage 5

In the United States there are, strict speaking, no national holiday, for each state must , __1__ through legislative enactment or executive proclamation, appoint the day __2__

which each holiday is celebrated. Congress and the president may establish legal holidays__3__

for the District of Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and territories;

and by long custom days that receive nationwide observation, such as Christmas, __4__ Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Independent Day, and New Year’s Day, are uniformly set apart by __5__

all states as legal, or public holidays. In 1968, federal legislation established Columbia Day __6__

as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at 1971. __7__ The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees would be granted__8__

three-days weekends by observing Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday in February, __9__ Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus Day on the second Monday in October, and Veteran Day on the forth Monday on October. By 1971,

most of the states also adopted the new dates. __10__

1.strict改为strictly

2.holiday改为holidays。因为原句的谓语动词为复数are，所以holiday必须使用复数。另外no后面可以用复数也可以用单数。

3.which前面加上on。因为先行词the day在关系从句钟做状语，还原回去应为：each holiday is celebrated on the day，所以必须加on。

4.obsevation改为observance。observation意思为“观察，观测”，observance则表示“遵守，庆祝”。

5.Independent改为Independence。独立日的说法是“Independence Day”。

6.apart改为aside。set apart 指“使分离，使分开”，语义不同，set aside表示“留出，保留”的意思。

7.at改为in

8.begun改为beginning。动词begin和分句的主语federal employees的关系是主动的，应此要用beginning。

9.three-days 改为three-day。用连字符连接起来的表示数量的名词的前置修饰语的复数概念仍然是单数，如：a million-pound banknote。

10.also前面加had。如果一个句子里面有by引导的时间状语从句则动词一般用完成体。

Passage 6

Exercise is one of the few factors with a positive role in long-term maintenance of body weight. Unfortunately, that message has not gotten through to the average American, that would __1__

rather try switching to "light" beer and low-calorie bread than increase physical exertion. The Centers for Disease Control, for example,

found that fewer than one-fourth of overweight adults were trying to shed __2__ pounds said they were combining exercise with their diet.

In rejecting exercise, some people may be discouraged too much by calorie-expending charts; __3__

for example, one would have to briskly walk three miles just to work the 275 calories in one __4__ delicious Danish pastry. Even exercise professionals concede half a point here.

"Exercise in itself is a very tough way to lose weight," says York Onnen, __5__

the program director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. __6__

Therefore, exercise's supporting role in weight reduction is vital. __7__

A study at the Boston University Medical Center of overweight police officers and other public employees confirmed that those who diet without exercise regained almost all their old weight, __8__ while those who worked exercise into their daily routine maintained their new weight.

If you decide to start walking one mile a day, the added exercise could burn

an extra 100 calories daily. In a year's time, assumed no increase in __9__

food taken, you could lose ten pounds. By increasing the distance of your walks gradually __10__

and making other dietary adjustments, you may lose even more weight.

1.that--who.that从句修饰的是the average American，而且它是一个非限定性定语从句，而that 无法引导一个非限定性定语从句，所以应把that改为who。

2.adults^--who.found后接的从句中主要的动词应该是said，而不是try to shed pounds，所以应该在were前面加上who构成定语从句修饰overweight adults。

3.expending--expenditure.由于caloric是形容词，表示“属于或者关于卡的”，它后面不能接动词的-ing形式，而且expending和charts的关系也不成立，所以应该改为名词expenditure。

4.work^--off.work off有消耗之意，符合文义。

5.in--by(直接把in 去掉也可以吧?).in itself 表示“本身，本质上”，而我们都知道锻炼是一减肥的好方法，只是不能仅靠锻炼，还需配之以适当的饮食控制，所以应该把in itself换成by itself，表示“单独”。

6.the(program)--/.在用作同位语表示独一无二的职位的名词之前，通常用零冠词。

7.Therefore--Still/Neverthless.根据上下文，这里要表达的关系是让步，不是因果。

8.diet--dieted.这里叙述的是过去的一项研究。

9.assumed--assuming.assume和you的关系应是主动的，所以应改为assuming。

10.taken--intake.take in 表示“摄入，吸收”，它的名词形式不是take in，而是intake

Passage 7

I think it is true to saying that, in general, language teachers have paid little attention to (1)_________ the way sentences are used in combination to form stretches of disconnected discourse. (2 )________ They have tended to take their cue from the grammarian and have concentrated to the teaching (3)_____ of sentences as self-contained units. It is true that these are often represented in "contexts" 4)______

and strung together in dialogues and reading passages, but these are essentially setting to make the formal properties of the sentences stand out more clearly,

properties which are then established in the learners brain (5)_________ by means of practice drill and exercises. Basically, the language teaching unit is the (6)__________ sentence as a formal linguistic object. The language teachers view of

what that constitutes knowledge of a language is essentially the same (7)__________

as Chomsky’s knowledge of a syntactic structure of sentences, and of the transformational 8)__________ relations which hold them. Sentences are seen as paradigmatically rather than syntagmatically related. Such a knowledge "provides the basis for the actual use of language by the speaker-hearer".

The assumption that the language appears to make is that once this basis is provided, (9)__________ then the learner will have no difficulty in the dealing with the actual use of language. (10)___________

1.saying改为say

2 .disconnected改为connected

3.to改为on

4.represented改为presented

5.brain改为mind

6.drill改为drills

7.去掉what后面的that

8.去掉knowledge后的a

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10. 去掉dealing前面的the

Passage 8

What is corporate culture? At its most basic, it’s described like the personality of an organization, __1__ or simply as “how things are done around here.” It guides what employees think, act, and feel. __2__ Corporate culture is a wide term used to define the unique personality or character __3__

of a particular company or organization, and include such elements as core values __4__

and beliefs, corporate ethics, and rules of behavior. Corporate culture can be expressed in the company’s mission statement and other communications, in the architectural style or interior decoration, by what people wear to work, by how people address to each other, and in the titles given to various __5__ employees. How do you uncover the corporate culture of a potential employer? The truth is

that you will never really know the corporate

culture after you have worked at the company for a number of months, __6__

but you can get close to it through research and observation. Understanding culture is a two-step process, starting with the research before the interview and ending with observation at the interview. __7__ The bottom line is that you are going to spend a lot of time on the work environment and to be __8__ happy, successful, and productive, you will want to be in a place where you fit for the culture, __9__

a place where you can have voice, be respected, and have opportunities for growth. __10__

1.like改为as。as 作为连词可以用在形容词前，和动词regard或describe搭配，表示“看作，描述成”。

2.what改为how。这里要表达的是“怎样想”，而不是“想什么”，联系前一句“how things are done around here”也可以帮助发现错误。

3.wide改为broad。wide和broad容易错用。表示宽度时既可用broad，wide，wide更常用，如：a wide river;a broad river。但是表示具体的物件时只用wide，如a wide bed，一般不说 a broad bed。表示生理，概念或范围时，要用broad，如：a broad smile、broad shoulders、a broad meaning。

4.include 改为includes。include 的主语是主句主语corporate culture，所以应该是第三人称的单数形式。

5.去掉to。address解释为“对某人说话”时是及物动词，无需加介词。

6.after改为until。根据上下文的逻辑，文章是说，只有当求职者真正在公司工作了几个月后，才能了解它的文化。

7.去掉the。前文没有提及，这里research是类指，而非特指。

8.on改为in。这里的介词并不是和动词spend搭配，而是和名词词组work environment一起作状语。

9.去掉for。fit作为动词时，如果是及物动词，可以说fit something/somewhere。如果作为形容词，可以说be fit for something，但是没有fit for 的用法。

10.voice前面a。have a voice in something 的意思是“有权利对某事发表看法”。这个词组中的不定冠词不能省略

Passage 9

Aimlessness has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan whose productivity and social harmony are the envy of the United States and Europe. But increasingly the Japanese is seeing a decline (1)_____

of their traditional work-moral values. Ten years ago young people were hardworking and saw their jobs as their primary reason for being, but now Japan has large fulfilled (2)_______ its economic needs, and young people don't know where they should go next.

The coming of the age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women into (3)_____

the male-dominated job market has limited the opportunities of teen-agers who (4)______

are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved climbing (5) ______

Japan's rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs. In a recent survey,

it was found that only 24.5percent Japanese students were fully satisfied with (6)_____ school life, compared with 67.2 percent of students in the United States.

In addition, far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than

did their counterparts in the 10 countries surveyed. While often praised by foreigners for (7)____

its emphasis on the basics. Japanese education tends to stress test taking and mechanic learning (8)___ over creativity and self-expression. Last year Japan experienced 2,125incidents of school violence, including 929 assaults on teachers. Amid the outcry, many conservative leaders are seeking a return to the prewar emphasis on moral education. Last year Mitsuo Detoyama,who was then education minister, raised his eyebrow when he argued that liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation (9)_____ authorities after World War II had weakened the "Japanese morality of respect of parents." (10)_____ 1.is--are.the加上形容词一类人的时候后面应用动词的复数形式，如：The old receive particular respect in Chinese society.

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3.the(age)--/.动词词组come of age表示“已成年”，中间不用任何冠词，所以它一旦变为-ing形式仍然保持原样。另外要避免将原句误读成The coming of ,the age of the postwar baby boom,这样断句意思解释不通。

4.has--have.有两个原因限制了青少年进好的学校找到好的工作，这两个原因由and连接作并列主语，所以谓语动词应该用复数。

5.involved^--in.involved后面少了in，表示“关于，涉及到”，如All the children were involved in the school play.

6.^Japanese--of.当percent做名词时，它后面应加上介词of，如：The report states that 42 percent of the alunmi contributed to the endowment.当percent作形容词或者副词时，则不加of。如：There has been a ten percent increase in the number of new students arriving at polytechnic this year.

7.^countries--other.从上句话中可知道Japan也参与了这次普查，因此在这句话里的比较结构中Japan应和其他10个同意参加普查的国家进行比较，所以应注明是10 other countries。

8.mechanic--mechanical.mechanic是名词，表示“制造工，技工”，所以这里应把它改为mechanical 表示“机械的”。

9.eyebrow--eyebrows.to raise one's eyebrow 表示“(某事)引起(某人)的惊讶或不赞同”，如：He raised his eyebrows over some of the suggestions.

10.of--for.respect 后面通常跟for接人，表示“对(某人)的尊重”，如：respect for the old

Passage 10

“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_____

for one’s family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of independence: _____3____ the entire family- mother, father, children, even grandparents-live in a small house and working ___4__ together to 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 is just as strong _____6_____

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 way of life. _____10___

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。

Passage 11

The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which have ever lived on the earth, __1__ 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 found the adventure __3__

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 wonder mixed with an intense __5__ 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 th e earth’s stock of whales is still being __7__ depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now there may be no whales left. __8__

If this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and __9__

awe-inspi ring creature that always fed man’s imagination and made the world a more exciting place 10_

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“对鲸怀有惊奇的感觉”，for引出对象。

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。

改错题出现的错误经常包括：语法;词汇;语篇

1. 语法包括英语的时态，语态，倒装句，虚拟语气，主，谓，宾在数，格，人称上的一致。

2 .词汇方面，短文改错在用词上的错误主要集中在以下几个方面：

名次单复数，可数名词和不可数名词的差异，形容词与副词，连词与介词的误用，同义词的混淆等。

3. 语篇的改错旨在测试做题者在具体语境上下文中使用语法和词汇的能力。从逻辑的意义上看，句与句之间的关系可以分为顺序，并列，时间，空间，层递，对比，转折，解释，因果，过渡，推论等。最好的做法是先通读全文，结合上下文的逻辑关系回答问题。