历年六级短文改错真题

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)Every week hundreds of CVs(简历) land on our desks.We’ve seen it all: CVs printed on pink paper, CVs that are 10pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph. A S1 _______ good CV is your passport to an interview and ,ultimate , to S2_________ the job you want Initial impressions are vital, and a badly presented CV could mean acceptance, regardless of what’s in it. S3__________Here are a few ways to avoid end up on the reject pile. S4______Print your CV on good-quality white paper.CVs with flowery backgrounds or pink paper willstand out upon all the wrong reasons S5_________Get someone to check for spelling and grammaticalerrors, because a spell-checker will pick up every S6_________ mistake. CVs with errors will be rejected-it showsthat you don’t pay attention to detail.Restrict your self to one or two pages, andlisting any publications or referees on a separate sheet. S7_________If you are sending your CV electronically, check theformatting by sending it to yourself first. keep up S8___________the format simple.Do not send a photo unless specifically requested. Ifyou have to send on ,make sure it is one taking in a S9_____________ professional setting, rather than a holiday snap.Getting the presentation right is just the first step. Whatabout the content? The Rule here is to keep it factual andTruthful-exaggerations usually get find out. And remember S10_____to tailor your CV to each different job.2005年12月24日英语六级考试短文改错答案S1. in first ：in the firstS2．ultimate：ultimatelyS3. acceptance ：unacceptanceS4.avoid end ：endingS5.stand out ：uponS6.pick up：pick outS7.listing：listS8.keep up：keepS9.taking ：takenPart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-yearcampaign to remove leprosy ( 麻风病) as a world healthproblem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of theWHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world has S1. ______ been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says S2. _____ efforts are continuing to complete end the disease. S3.________Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid fromthe nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and S4. ______ nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanentdamage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs. S5. __________In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy.The WHO, governments of countries most affected by thedisease, and several other groups are part of the campaign.This alliance guarantees that all leprosy patients, even they S6._______are poor, have a right to the most modern treatment.Doctor Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a diseasethat requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead,patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This S7. __________ modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months,depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines S8. __________ several drugs taken daily or once a month. The WHO hasgiven multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five S9. _____ years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan totarget the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among S10.______ the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHObelieves about 70% are in India. The disease also remains aproblem in Africa and South America.2005年1月大学英语六级短文改错答案S1. a ：theS2. of ：byS3. complete ：completelyS4. effects：affectsS5. for ：toS6. even ：even if/even thoughS7. that ：whatS8. depend ：dependingS9. freely ：freeS10. which ：which arePart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - the learnedpatterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize apopulation or society, include the expression of these patters in S1. ----------------- material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture - S2. ---------------- abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutionalarrangements - and material culture - physical object like S3.---------------- cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflectsboth the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary S4. --------------- speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another S5. ----------------- language - the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, S6. -------------- literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to behuman is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world S7. ----------------- of experience we share with other members of our group.Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind S8.---------------of map for relating to others. Consider how you feel your wayabout social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom,or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh S9. -----------at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10. ------------------ ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.Therefore, if we know a person's culture, we can understandand even predict a good deal of his behavior.2004年6月大学英语六级短文改错及参考答案1. include：including2. compose：composed3. object：objects4. or：and5. individual 后+ who6. unfamiliar：familiar7. of去掉8. essentially ：essential9. laugh ：laughs10. by：withPart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principleof 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'sdemand 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 risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3_____ spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4_____ around the corner. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5_____ although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6_____ point to concrete examples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7_____ fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble 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 plantbreeders can continue to develop new, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10_____ for hope.2004年1月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案S1. being --- beenS2. their --- itsS3. relative --- relativelyS4. good --- poor / bad / scantyS5. as --- /S6. politics --- politicalS7. by --- forS8. double --- doubledS9. few --- fewerS10. reason ---a reasonPart Ⅳ Error Correction (15 minutes)"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses anessential attitude in the United States. Whether the realityof life in the family house is sweet or no sweet. the S1.________ cherished ideal of home has great importance for manypeople.This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. Thisdream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth-centuryEuropean settlers of the American West, was in finda piece of place, build a house for one's family, and S2.________ started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3.________ independence: the entire family -- mother, father, children.even grandparents -- live in a small house and working S4.________ together to support each other. Anyone understood the life S5.________and death importance of family cooperation and hard work.Although most people in the United States no longerlive on farms, but ~he ideal of home ownership is just as S6.________ strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II. for S7.________ example, they dreamed of buying houses and startingfamilies. But there was a tremendous boom in home S8.________ building. The new houses, typically it the suburbs, wereoften small and more or less identical, but it satisfied S9.________a deep need. Many regarded the single-familyhouse the basis of their way of life. S10.________2003年9月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案1. no：not2. place：land3. started：start4. working：work5. anyone：everyone6. but：(去掉)7. before：after8. But：And9. it ：they10. 在house后增加asPart IV Error Correction (15 minute)The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1.____________ losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. ___________ minorities, the paper has put into place policies and procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3. __________ underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4. ____________ same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ S5. ____________ content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6. ____________ audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7. _____________ Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _____________ improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9. _____________ their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10. ____________ result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped the SeattleTimes Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Awardfor excellence in managing change.2003年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案S1. it ：theyS2. percents：percentS3. maintain：maintainingS4. subjective ：objectiveS5. value ：evaluateS6. an ：/S7. woman ：womenS8. from ：inS9. majority：minorityS10. with：asPart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)A great many cities are experiencing difficultieswhich are nothing new in the history of cities, exceptin their scale. Some cities have lost their originalpurpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich S1___city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, S2___ filling with hopes of prosperity which are then oftendisappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of S3___ Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge ofseventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century S4___ Paris. This is new is the scale.Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor S5___ of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found S6___ there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -the poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, butbehind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, S7___ that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings it flooding S8___ into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden,S9__ which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to S10___ the suburbs.2002年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案S1. new: a newS2. filling: filledS3. though: ifS4. This: WhatS5. was: wereS6. dissimilar: similarS7. lies: lieS8. that: whichS9. it: themS10. late: laterPart IV Error Correction(15 minutes)Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern S1.________footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he S2.________ scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. S3._________To understand how this transformation has taken place wemust briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a S4.________ million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival S5.________ depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radically S6.________ changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group S7.________ attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely S8.________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…… 关在圈中), S9.________ controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there onthe farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farmingwere no longer essential for survival. S10.________2002年1月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案S1Viewing: ViewedS2 inaccurate: accurateS3. 在enjoys前加heS4 look up at: look atS5 year: yearsS6 even if: evenS7 and: orS8 when: afterS9 were: wasS10 farming : huntingPart IV Error CorrectionMore people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stages of 71. _____ the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh 72. _____ deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the 73. _____ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the 74. _____ global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. Withoccasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily 75. _____ through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers 76. ______ declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of 77. ______ infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in 78. ______ many places where it had never been away, it grew better. 79. ______ The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people (a third of the earth’s population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around 80. ______ 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries.2001年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案71. in：for72. seventh：seven73. were：was74. now：then75. the：/76. imported：exported77. are：were78. vanished前加had79. better：worse80. constantly：constantPart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)When you start talking about good and bad manners youimmediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannotagree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that shethought you could tell a well-mannered person on the way they 71._______ occupied the space around them—for example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of 72._______ others. Such people never bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this was more aquestion of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this 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.Ifhe had known about American food, he might have behaved 77._______ better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread thatlooked, 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 ofgood manners.2000年6月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案71、on→by72、unaware→aware73、as→than74、it→which75、at→in76、hasn't→hadn't77、American→Arab78、as→like79、falls→fell80、of→/2000年1月英语六级短文改错真题PartIV Error Correction (15 minutes)Until the very latest moment of his existence, man hasbeen bound to the planet on which he originated anddeveloped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet 71.________ and move out into the universe to those worlds which he hasknown previously only directly. Men have explored parts of 72.________ the moon, put spaceships in orbit around another planet andpossibly within the decade will land into another planet and 73.________ explore it. Can we be too bold as to suggest that we may be 74.________ able to colonize other planet within the not - too - distant 75.________ future ? Some have advocated such a procedure as a solutionto the population problem. ship the excess people off to themoon. But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we 76.________ might spend in carrying out the project. To maintain theearth's population at its present level. we would have toblast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.Why are we spending so little money on space 77.________ exploration ? Consider the great need for improving many 78.________ aspects of the global environment, one is surely justified inhis concern for the money and resources that they are poured 79.________ into the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we shouldlook at both sides of the coin before arriving hasty 80.________ conclusions.2000年1月大学英语六级短文改错参考答案Part IV Error Correction71. had----->has72. directly----->indirectly73. into----->onto/on74. too----->so75. planet---->planets76. head----->mind77. little----->much78. consider----->considering79.删they80. arriving----->arriving at (或reaching)。