专业英语八级模拟改错

专八模拟试题（改错篇10）

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__

答案：

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。

专八模拟试题（改错篇9）

Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years before, you can’t 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__.

答案：

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。

专八模拟试题（改错篇8）

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.

参考答案：

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。在这里比较的是两件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我们周围的事物和我们自身的东西)。第二个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，要表达的意思是“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。

专八模拟试题（改错篇7）

For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the __1__words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and __2__knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a __3__popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it __4__flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the __5__confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass __6__media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear __7__and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this __8__ philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent __9__president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One man’s mediocrity __10__is another man’s good program”.

答案：

1 将have改为has。该句的主语 the fashion是单数.

2 将like改为as。such as 是固定搭配.

3 将late改为later。later和上文first对应.

4 将by改为of或者from。relieve sb of/ from sth 是固定搭配, 意思为“减轻某人(的负担等)”

5 将him改为them。因为其先行词为 the empty-minded,而“the+adj/p.p” 表示一类人时,通常表示复数概念.

6 在same前加the。the same 表示“唯一,独一无二”的概念,因此必须加定冠词.

7 将decide改为decides。该句的主语 the public 表示的是单数概念.,这一点从后面的代词it 可以看得出来.

8 将pure改为purely。在这里purely作状语,修饰谓语动词,因此应使用副词.

9 将most改为more。more than 搭配,引导出比较状语从句.

10 将from去掉。escape在作“被某人情不自禁地说出来”讲时,是及物动词,而只在作“逃跑”讲时,才时不及物动词.

专八模拟试题（改错篇5）

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 rinciples 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 earned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous._____10

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,当然也可以用关系副词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

牵着表示“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。

专八模拟试题（改错篇4）

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 way of life._____10

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。

专八模拟试题（改错篇3）

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 University. ____2

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 risk categories. ____6

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 two years apart.____10

答案详解：

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

专八模拟试题（改错篇2）

专八模拟试题（改错篇2）

It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain __1__ "Britannia" and the United States "Columbia", and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our __2__ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed __3__ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be __4__ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually __5__ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband.

After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United __6__States was knownfor "Brother Jonathan". Jonathan was a biblical __7__ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since __8__American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to __9__ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originated with President George Washington, who would __10__often say, when faced with a hard problem, "Let us consult Brother Jonathan", referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.

答案详解：

1. of和as之间加上it.代替前文的a nation

2.it—both．指代上文的US和Great Britain

3.that—which

4.sufficient—sufficiently．修饰形容词用副词

5. indicated—indicating

6.began—ended．根据历史知识，美国独立战争开始于1776年7月4日（《独立宣言》发表），直到1783年英国正式承认美国独立才结束。

7. for—as．be known for意为“因......而众所周知”

8. is—was．美国过去曾是一个rural and unsophisticated的国家

9.to—with．compare to 意为“把......比作.......”compare with意为“与......比较，与.......匹敌，与......竞争”

10. 删掉name和originated之间的was

专八模拟试题（改错篇1）

专八模拟试题（改错篇1）

Ancient man attempted to change the weather by using magic. While experience taught him this was impossible, __1__ he tried to forecast weather conditions. Even earlier in __2__ 1000 B.C.there were weather seers in Babylon----and priests clever enough to denounce as frauds those predicted __3__ the weather a year in the advance. Some forecasters used __4__

methods that seemed to take no connection with the actual __5__ factors controlled the weather. Chickens and other animals __6__ were sacrificed and their intestines poked to find signs indicating rain and drought. Somewhat more scientific were __7__ predictions based on vegetation:"Onion's skin very thin ,mild weather coming in. Onion's skin thick and tough, coming weather is cold and rough." Insects and animals were also __8__ favorite weather clues: "Before the glowworm lights his __9__ lamp , then the air is always damp ." "If spiders their cobwebs forsake , the weather will for certain break ." "If frogs remained in pools , the weather will be fine . If they were seen on rocks, __10__ rain and cold were due." It's difficult to say whether this rhyme should be taken seriously : " Hark , I hear the asses bray . Me thinks we'll have some rain today ."

答案详解：

1.While—When或After.本句的this指代的是to change the weather by using magic.

when/after 引导时间状语

2.in—than.earlier是early的比较级，其后应有than

3.those之后加who.who引导定语从句

4. 删除advance前的the.in advance为习语

5. take—have.have connection with 为习语

6. controlled—controlling或在controlled前加that/which.controlling the weather 或that/which controlled the weather做定语修饰the actual factors

7. and—or.rain和draught只能是二者之一

8. 删除is.与上文平衡，均为省略句

9. before—when/if.条件句

10. will—would.if引导的是条件句用的是remained一般过去时