精编专业英语八级改错模拟题13则

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. You 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。被动语态，表示“脏活被完成”，get 是系动词，所以用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/c55553853.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

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

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 book, (5)

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/c55553853.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 babyshould 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 abortion effected 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。

You 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 6.get——make/raise或在get之后加into

2. help——helpful 或在be和help之间加of7.删除school之前的the

3. with——on 8. 删除so或that

4. 在put后加it 9. to——about

5. by——over 10. either——too

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

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

towards 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 cancer, 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

2. 在think和is之间加of或about

3. treat——cure

4. 在wonder前加no

5. many——much

6. more——rather

7. they——it 8. describe——prescrible

9. an——the 10. 删除not

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

they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing

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

they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts

were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich.

On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control,

but the government had no wish to become involving, at

least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run

Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal

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

appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to

buy, sell, and set prices.

答案：

1.答案：as→so

2.答案：increasing→increasingly

3.答案：so→but

4.答案：soon或shortly

5.答案：rich→richer

6.答案：asked∧→for

7.答案：involving→involved 8.答案：

9.答案：handle→deal或10.答案：

【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 oneself. __10__

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…”在英文里要加上not，变成“not until...that...”，所以原文until签名加上not。9.do--did

句子i should no longer care if they do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 strength 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”，整幢建筑物不可能在地基下，under应改成upon或on。

2.with--in.in a similar way 意思“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指父母，已经为人父母的人被养大成人应该是过去时间。应该用过去时态。

6.need--\.“so+代动词do+somebody”这个结构替代前面的谓语，是简短动词性替代，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。

8.Since--While/Although/Though.理解逻辑关系，从句主句两者不是因果关系，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，

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 patiently 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. Yet 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。

2 将publishing改为published

3 将theirs改为their

4 将among改为between

5 将过去分词excluded改为介词excluding。

6 将respectably改为respectively

7将evidences改为evidence。8将ill改为illness。

9将year改为years。10将lesser改为less