英语专业八级改错模拟题

英语专业八级改错模拟题(1)

Proof –reading (10%) (A)

The following passage contains TEN error, each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case only ONE word is involved. Y ou should proof-read the passage and correct it according to the following example:

When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] an

it never buys things in finished form and hang them on the wall [2] never

when a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. [3] exhibit

Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerfulpolitical 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，―一些人在做……，而另一些人在做……‖。表示对比的连词一般用while。

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/3516396472.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. Its shared knowledge is vicarious experience; by this means we enlarge our understandings (2)_________

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.

答案：

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/3516396472.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 pregnacy may be a blessed act when planned or wanted__2__,

forced pregnacy, 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 fearof 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.Abrotion 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 abortioneffected 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。

2.Since--While。这里考的是根据上下文的逻辑关系判断连接词的使用。前后两个分句是对比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)

Y ou 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?Well, 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‖

4. 在put后加it

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 c ancer, 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

6. more——rather

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topi c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→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(11)

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that

(1) makes him the master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never

tells himself that he wants it. He waits patient ly until there (2)comes into his

mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction it is his moral and religious

duty to conquer those who possess the thing (3)he wants. Then he becomes

resistible. Like the aristocrat, he does (4)that pleases him and grabs what he

covets; like the shopkeeper, he (5)pursues his purpose in the industry and

steadfastness that come (6)from strong religious conviction and deep sense of

mortal (7)responsibility. He is never at loss for an effective moral attitude.

(8) For the great champion of freedom and national independence, he

conquers and annexes half the world, and calls it Colonization. When

(9) he wants a new market for his adulterating Manchester goods, he

sends a missionary to teach the natives the Gospel of Peace. The

(10) natives kills the missionary; he flies to arms to defense of

Christianity; fights for it; conquers it; and takes the market as a

reward from heaven.

II. Key to proof-reading

1./the

2.convinction ∧that

3. resistible—irresistible

4.that—what

5. purpose in---purpose with

6. mortal—moral

7.at ∧a loss 8 For—As 9 adulterating—adulterated

10 to defense of---in defense of

英语专业八级改错模拟题(12)

Law-and-order is the longest-running and probably the best-love political [1]_______ issue in U. S. history. Y et it is painfully apparent if millions of Americans [2]______

who would never think of themselves as law-breakers, let criminals, are [3]______ taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect [4]______

and nourish its society. Indeed, there are moments today—amid outlaw [5]_______ litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy—when it seems as

though the scofflaw represent the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist [6]______ David Riesman suspects that a minority of Americans have lithely taken to [7]______ commit supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, [8]______ Riesman says, the ethic of U. S. society is in a danger of becoming this: [9]_____

―you‘re a fool if you obey the rule.‖ [10]_____

keys:

1. best-love---best-loved

2. If-that

3. Let ^ alone 4 illegal- legal 5 its-their

6. represents 7 majority 8 committing 9. Delete ―a ‖ 10 rules

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 Unite d 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

改错题：(2007)

From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can

make very positive statements about how language originated.

There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1) and→or

records of ancient languages show us language in a new and ? (2) show→showing? emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language ? (3) the

originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4) and→but?

necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote

tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of

a language with a large proportion of such cries? (5) large→larger?

than we find in English. it is true that the absence

of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in? (6) in→on?

other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.

People of all races and languages make rather similar

noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that(7) return→response?

such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen

and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,

serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference（8）on

between these noises and language proper. We may

say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement

are largely reflex actions, instinctive to∧large extent, (9) ∧a?

whereas language proper does not consist of signs

but of these that have to be learnt and that are? (10) these→those?

2008年英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(20)

The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for

the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough

and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__ words have ―less meaning‖, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__

―empty‖ words as opposed in the ―full‖ words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__ misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4 __

of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__ sharp difference in meaning between ―man is vile‖ and ―the man is vile‖, yet the

is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__ differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7_ _

the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been ―little words.‖

But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishi ng the grammatical words.‖ __8 __

of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__ Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we c ertainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__ illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

参考答案及解析:

1 删掉the

此处的most并不表示obvious的最高级，而是用作副词修饰obvious，表示程度很高，因此前面不能加the。

2 将but改为and

根据文章的意思，这里要用并列关系的and。

3 将in改为to

as apposed to 是固定搭配，意思是―与……相比‖。

4 将misled改为misleading

5删掉away

此处考查固定用法。far from being...意思为―远非‖―远远不怎么样‖，符合这里的意思。而far away from 表示离某处很远。