(完整版)专八改错精选15篇及详细答案

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 United 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.

Key:

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

8将ill改为illness。

9将year改为years。

10将lesser改为less

“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 _____3_____

portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,

even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _____4_____

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 _____6_____

is just as strong 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 _____10_____

way of life.

Key:

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。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(三)

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1_____

that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _____2_____

with comparable education in Western Europe.

There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build

them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3_____ them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4_____ computer,you don’t have faintest idea. _____5_____

The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6_____ creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7_____ technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8_____

new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of

knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are

really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a

faculty for the others. _____9_____

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,

it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences of _____10_____new technology, which can be enormous.

Key:

1.在which前加in，或将which改为where在这里which引导限制性从句，修饰先行词the society。in which 在从句中作状语，也可以用关系副词where引导定语从句，并在从句中作状语，例如：Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

2.将as 改为than

3.将So改为But或者However或者Nevertheless。因为这里上下文是转折关系。

4.将about去掉因为explain是及物动词。

5.将you改为they

6.将like改为as因为such as 是固定搭配。

7.将takes改为gives give rise to表示“引起，导致”之意。

8.将differ改为distinguish前着表示“有区别”。后者表示“区分，找出……的差别。

9.将others改为other 这样the other就和上文的one构成固定搭配，表示在两个中“一个……；另外一个……”

10.将harmful改为harmless，只有这样才可以表达上下文的对比关系。

TEXT 4.

What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,

as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon __1__

are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is __2__

a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can __3__

escape—not even light. But we can’t see a black hole. A black hole __4__

exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only

space—or thus we think. How can this happen? __5__

The theory is that some stars explode when their density increases

to a particular point; they “collapse” and sometimes a supernova occurs.

The collapse of a star may produce a “White Dwarf” of a “neutronstar”—

a star which matter is so dense that if continually shrinks by the force of __6___

its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking may

be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the earth reduced to the __7__

size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger __8__

gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. __9__

And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. __10__

supernova 名词，[天]超新星

Key:

1. 将as 改为since或者because。在表示原因的连接词中，只有as引导的原因状语从句不能位于主句之后，只能位于句首。

2 .将adequate 改为inadequate，或者在are后加not。从逻辑上分析，因为我们拥有的科学术语“不充足”，所以才无法回答这个问题，所以用否定形式。

3. 在which 前加into。这是一个定语从句，意思是“黑洞是太空中物质可以掉进去的地方”，所以定语从句应该为“into which matter has fallen”。

4. 将but 改为so。上文已提到“连光都无法从黑洞中逃出”，所以我们根本无法看到黑洞。这里应该是因果关系，而不是转折关系。

5 .将thus改为so。这句话的意思是“那只是空间—或者我们认为它只是空间”。so做think 的宾语，thus 只能做连词，不能做宾语。

6. 将which 改为whose。这个定语从句的意思是“它是一颗星，其密度非常大，由于自身的引力，它在不断地收缩”。matter 属于star，所以关系代词应该用whose。

7 .去掉in。result为不及物动词，意为“形成了”，而“result in sth。”意为“导致某结果”。

8. 将masses 改为mass。mass 可指“大量的物质”，而“the masses”特指“劳动群众”，用在此处不妥。

9 .将ideas 改为idea。“idea”在表达“印象”时，为不可数名词，不可以用复数。

10. 将no改为any。分析便知，任何在黑洞附近的东西都会被吸进去。

TEXT 5.

The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which __1__

have ever lived on the earth, 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 __3__

found the adventure 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 __5__

wonder mixed with an intense 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 the earth’s stock of whales is still being __7__

depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now __8__

there may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will

be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and __9__

awe-inspiring creature that always fed man’s imagination and __10__

made the world a more exciting place

Key:

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。这定语从句强调对现在的影响，明显应该用完成时，不能用过去式。

TEXT 6.

We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any

moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, __1__

languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend

on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know __2__

more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language __3__

is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from __4__

animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language __5__

and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we __6__

understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, __7__

language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when

language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language

is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. __8__

Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few __9__

of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the

necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people

have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than

some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which __10__

takes language as its object of investigation.

Key

1. with 改为without。”hardy any moment passes without someone…” , 两个否定: without 和hardly，意思是“每一时刻有人……”。

2. fast 前面加the因为fast and successful use 这个词组后边有一个前置词短语of language 修饰use，所以被修饰的词前面加定冠词。

3. than on ourselves 改为than things on ourselves这比较的是两件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我们周围的事物和我们自身的东西)第二things不能省略，否则引起误解。

4. differs 改为distinguishes。语言区分人与动物，differ是不及物动词，后面不能带宾语，只能用介词，如：Man differs from animals in that man possesses language。

5. inquire改为acquire“习得语言”应该是acquire language，名词短语是language acquisition。Inquire 是“询问”的意思。

6. we前面加上do 副词nor放在句首表示强调，应用倒装句，一般现在时强调句是在主语前面加助动词do。

7. combination改为relationships.语言和思维的关系，不是结合；语言和思维的关系是当代语言学研究的重要领域。

8. like 改为as。根据上下文，要表达是“作为语言的使用者”，不是“像语言的使用者”。

9. a 去掉这里是否定的意思：“我们没有多少人……”而不是“我们一些人.….”。

10. assured 改为assumed. 这句的后半部分意思是“研究语言的必要性比我们想象的要大得多”。Assure译为“确保”；assume译为“假设”或者“想象”的意思。

TEXT 7.

Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as

ten years before, you cant help being strucked by the __1__

appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and

make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too __2__

short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.

The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3__

There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that

they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created __4__

by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5__

have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6__

style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,

a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7__

on the law and women around the world run to obey. The __8__

decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.

Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9__

waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10__

Key:

1. strucked改为struck或者stricken,过去分词形式有误。strike的过去式是struck，过去分词为struck或者stricken。

2. date改为dated或者outdated

3. on other hand 改为on the other hand

4. entire改为entirely ,副词修饰形容词different，并与different一起修饰age。

5. minority改为majority从上下文以及常识判断，多半男性成功地抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图，即多年来，男性大服装款式跟女性服饰相比没有多大的变化。

6. it改为them,them指代the great majority of men。

7. fewer改为few此处没有比较的意味。

8.去掉on lay down为习语，表示“规定(规则，原则，法规等)”。

9. sometime改为sometimes。10. height改为high 形容词作be 的表语。

TEXT 8

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 thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the __1__

way they occupied the space around them—for example, when such a person

walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never __2__

bump into other people.

However, a second person thought that this was more a question of

civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other person told us a story, __3__

it he said was quite well-known, about an American who had been invited __4__

to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American __5__

hasn’t been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had __6__

known about American food, he might have behaved better. __7__

Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, to

him, very much as a napkin. Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that __8__

it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been watching, __9__

said of nothing, but immediately copied the action of his guest. __10__

And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.

Key:

1.将on改为by。“by the way”作“根据……方式”讲。

2. 将unaware改为aware

根据下文中的“Such a person never bump into other people”判断，这种人不会“目中无人”。

3. 将as改为than“more + adj/of + n + than”是固定搭配。

4. 将it改为which which在此引导一个非限制性定语从句，which在从句中作主语，需要注意的是，在从句中he said是插入语。

5. 将at改为in 名词the country前要用介词in。

6. 将hasn’t改为hadn’t根据上下文我们可以看出这里需要使用过去完成时。

7. 将American改为Arab。根据上文，我们可以看出，这里讲述的是赴“阿拉伯”传统宴会的“美国人”的故事，而不是赴“美国”传统宴会的“美国人”的故事。

8. 将as 改为like 介词as意思为“作为”，like意思为“像”。

9. 将falls改为fell 这里要使用一般过去时。

10. 将第一个of删掉。say作为及物动词，后面可直接跟名词作宾语。

TEXT 9

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 __1__

going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2__

prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the

edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3__

seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4__

the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of

Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5__

dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6__

in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7__

two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8__

from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9__

country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10__

-ing out again to the suburbs.:

Key:

1. 在new one前加a,这里one指代上下文中的可数名词purpose，因此该词前要有限定词。

2. 将filling改为filled在这里，非谓语动词fill与句子的who（poor immigrants）之间是逻

辑动宾关系，因此要使用过去分词来表示被动意义。

3. 去掉though

4. 将this改为what,根据句子结构，我们可以看出这里需要一个关系代词，它既能引导主

语从句，同时也可以在从句中作主语，这个关系代词就是what。如：

What I like in a good author is not what he says，but what he whispers。

5. 将was改为were.that引导定语从句，其先行词是descriptions…and the enormous contrasts,因此谓语动词be要用复数。

6. 将dissimilar 改为similar,这里要表示的是“共同，相似”之处。

7.将lies 改为lie behind it lie two myths 是个倒装句，主语为two myths，可见谓语动词要

使用复数。

8. 将that改为which 这里是一个非限制性定语从句，因此不可用that，而要用which。

9. 将it改为them 复数名词immigrants的代词，所以要用复数形式。10. 将late改为later

TEXT 10

Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect, __1__

while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence __2__

of the personality or character beneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact __3__

the caricature is recognizable, and yet exaggerated.

From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, caricature grew through __4__

the eighteenth and nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular in __5__

the United States early in this century. In 1920s and 1930s especially,

this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and __6__

magazines throughout the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his __7__

portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirit their work was __8__

close to the humor of the fast-developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the __9__

string of political satire. Their subjects were more often amusing than offended __10__

by amiable attacks.

Key:

1. 将affect改为effect , affect是动词。effect是名词。

2. 将suggests改为suggesting 这是一个以while引导的从句，suggest应该与capturing并列。

3.在fact后面加上that 因为引导同位语从句的关系词不可以省略。

4. 将their改为its 这里its指代单数名词caricature

5. 将century改为复数形式

6. 将was省略appear是不及物动词，不应用于被动语态。

7. 将his改为their这里指代复数名词the caricaturists

8. 将primary改为primarily primarily在这里做状语，修饰不定式短语

9. 将close改为比较级形式closer从后面的连词than，可以看出，这里使用了比较状语从句

10. 将amusing改为amused主语subject（受攻击的人）和amuse的逻辑关系是动宾关系，应使用过去分词形式。

TEXT 11

Most people would describe water like a colorless liquid. They __1__

would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid called

ice and that when heating on a fire it becomes a vapor called steam. __2__

However, water, they would say, is a liquid. We have learned that

water consists of molecules composed with two atoms of hydrogen __3__

and one atom of oxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O.

This is equally true of the solid called ice and the gas called steam.

Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, and

the solid, all of which is made up of molecules with the formula H2O. __4__

This is true of other chemical substances; most of them can exist as

gases or as liquids or as solids. We may normally think of iron as a

solid, but if we will heat it in a furnace, it will melt and become a __5__

liquid, and at very high temperatures it will become a gas. Nothing

very permanent occurs when a gas changes into a liquid or a solid.

Everyone knows that ice, which has been made by freezing water,

can be melted again by warmed and that steam can be condensed __6__

on a cold surface to become liquid water. In fact, it is only because

water is so a familiar substance that different names are used for __7__

the solid, liquid and gas. Most substances are only familiar with __8__

us in one state, because the temperatures requiring to turn them __9__

into gases are very high, or the temperatures necessary to turn them

into solids are so low. Water is an exception in this respect, which

is another reason why its three states have given three different names. __10__

Key:

1. 改like为as describe sth as sth 是把……描述成……的意思。

2. 改heating为heated

在时间，条件，让步等状语从句中，当从句主语和主句主语是一致的时候，可以将从句的主语和be的变化形式省略。

3. 改with为of be composed of 意思为“包括，由……组成”

4. 改is made up 为are made up

which 指代上文中的the gas，the liquid，and the solid，表示复数概念，所以要用are

5. 将第一个will去掉在时间条件状语从句和条件状语从句中要用现在时表示将来时。

6. by改为when when warm 相当于when it is warmed

7. 改so为such 8. 改with为to 短语familiar to 后面才能接“某人” familiar with 是接sth

9. 改requiring为required 过去分词短语作后置定语时，和被修饰的名词时逻辑动宾关系。

10. have 后加been动词give和主语three states 是动宾关系

TEXT 12.

Classic Intention Movement

In social situations, the classic Intention Movement is “the

chair-grasp”. Host and guest have been talking for some time, but

now the host has an appointment to keep and can get away. His urge __1__

to go is held in cheek by his desire not be rude to his guest. If he did __2__

not care of his guest’s feelings he would simply get up out of his chair __3__

and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, __4__

therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses to let him __5__

raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair-grasp Intention __6__

Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans

forward and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. __7__

This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he were not __8__

hesitating, it would only last the fraction of the second. He would lean, __9__

push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer. He

holds his “readiness-to-rise” post and keeps on holding it. It is as if his __10__

body had frozen at the get-ready moment.

KEY:1. 将can改为must

根据上下文的意思“主人有一个约会，必须离开”是客观要求，而不是“能不能”或者“可不可以”的问题。

2. not后面加to desire 后应该加动词不定式to do something。

3. 将of 改为about

care about意思为“对…在意，在乎”，而care of 意思为“转交”

（觉得还可以直接去掉of，care 本身也有在乎的意思，可是答案不这么写，你怎么看嘞？）

4. 删掉and或者to。

5. 将therefore 改为yet或but 这两部分之间应是转折的关系。

6. 将raise改为rise raise 是及物动词，后面必须加宾语，而且在此与文章意思不符。rise 意为“起身”，“站起来”，符合文义。

7. 在as 和about之间加上if或者though

此处的意思是主人身子往前倾，双手抓着椅子，好像就要站起来一样。as if/ though to do something 意思为“仿佛要做什么事情”。

8. 将make改为perform或do此处考查搭配问题，动词make与前面的act不能搭配。

9.将the改为a a fraction of a second 意思为非常短暂的时间。10. 将post改为posture TEXT 13.

The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric human __1__

ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing with animal foods __2__

An analysis of 58 societies of modern hunter-gatherers, including the Kung of

southern Africa, revealed that one-half emphasize gathering plants foods,

one-third concentrate on fishing, and only one-sixth are primarily hunters,

Overall, two-thirds and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from __3__

plants. Detailed studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University

of London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food

than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 edible __4__

calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. __5__

Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung diet, and no __6__

one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections

or accidents, these contemporary aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence __7__

of medical care. They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little

dental decay, no high blood pressure, no heart disease, and their blood

cholesterol levels are very low (about half of the average American adult). __8__

If no one is suggesting that we return to an aboriginal life style, we certainly __9__

could use their eating habits as a model for healthier diet. __10__

Key:

1. 将as 改为like 此处的意思是“像史前人类祖先那样生活”。

2. 将supplementing改为supplemented

supplemented 修饰diet，可以看作which is supplemented with animal foods的简化形式。3. 将and 改为or4. 将in改为on on average 是固定用法。

5. 将as 改为while或者whereas

6. 删掉for，或者将provide改为account此处provide 是及物动词，后面不用介词for

7. 删掉第一个of despite 做介词，后面直接接名词。

8. 在half后加that that 指代前面的blood cholesterol levels，不能省略，因为这里是将部落成员的胆固醇含量与美国人的胆固醇含量相比较。

9.将if改为whereas或者while此处意思为“尽管没有人……,但是……”，是转折关系。

10.在for后面加不定冠词a。

TEXT 14

There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronun-

ciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the

fact that pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography __1__

is learnt deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain

throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds __2__

like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when we __3__

firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, __4__

whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We __5__

begin the ‘natural’ learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to

read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and __6__

practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every __7__

day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult English spelling.

This is ‘ natural’, therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our im- __8__

mediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates a means of holding a

community and to give a sense of ‘belonging’. We learn quite early to recognize a __9__

‘stranger’, someone who speaks with an accent of a different community—perhaps

only a few miles far. __10__

KEY:

1. 将and改为whereas/but/yet

2. 将with改为of unconscious of 是固定搭配。

3. 删掉out speak out 意思为“大胆地说”，“大声地说”，与此处意思不符。

4. 将firstly改为first

5. 将which改为that或者将which删掉。限制性定语从句前面的先行词是something，因此要用that引导定语从句。也可以将which删掉，不用任何引导词。

6. 将went改为go

7. 删掉per或者every

8. 将This改为It It在此处做形式主语，后面的that从句是真正的主语。

9. 在community后面加together此处的大意为“语音是把社区团结在一起的工具”。

10. 将far改为away“只有几英里远”应是a few miles away。

TEXT 15.

Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior.

Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised __1__ hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football

and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal, __2__

enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. __3__

To understand how this transformation has taken place we

must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a million __4__

year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival depended on success __5__

in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even if their __6__

bodies, became radically changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers,

aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group __7__

attackers.

Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long formative __8__

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, __9__

controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on the farms,

awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer __10__

essential for survival.

Key：

1. 将viewing改为viewed非谓语动词view和句子的主语是逻辑动宾关系。

2 .将inaccurate改为accurate如果真的目标不准确，也就不可能进球了（he scores a goal）。

3 .在enjoys前面加he由于前面if his aim is accurate and he scores a goal 是条件状语从句，因此可见这里是主句，主句的主语he是不可以省略的。

4 .将look up at的up省略

5 .将year变为复数

6 .将if去掉

7 .将co-operate 改为co-operated

8 .将when改为after

9.将were改为was该谓语动词的主语是Their improved intelligence，是单数。

10. 将farming改为hunting纵观全文，在从事种植业后，“狩猎”而不是“农耕”的危险和不确定性对人们的生存已经不再那么重要了。