专八改错题及答案
英语专八真题改错含答案.
2005 The University as BusinessA number of colleges and universities have announced steeptuition increases for next year much steeper than the current,very low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed becauseof a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common 1 stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizesits net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the 2 outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of 3 business firms. The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty 4 increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of beingin the school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a factor in 5 graduate and professional-school tuition; the poor one's job prospects, 6 the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,in order to make oneself more marketable.The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students 7 include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving studentsa governance role, and eliminate required courses. 8 Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the 9 rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlierfrom professional teams. And until they were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purelyof need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best 10 customer.2006 We use language primarily as a means of communication withother human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which welive a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as 1to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular 2message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a 3set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his 4thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English 5 speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses activelyand that which he recognizes, increases in size as he growsold as a result of education and experience. 6But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the systemremains no more, than a psychological reality for tike inpidual, unlesshe has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another 7member of his linguistic community; he bas to give tile system aconcrete transmission form. We tak e it for granted rice‟ two most 8common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by ourvocal organs (speech or by visual signs (writing. And these are 9among most striking of human achievements. 102007 From what has been said, it must be clear that no one canmake very positive statements about how language originated.There is no material in any language today and in the earliest 1 __ _ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and 2 _ emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language 3 _ ______ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the 4 _ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remotetribes, no ancient records, providing evidence ofa language with a large proportion of such cries 5 _than we find in English. It is true that the absenceof such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in6_other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.People of all races and languages make rather similarnoises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that7such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmenand Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference8between these noises and language proper. We maysay that the cries of pain or chortles of amusementare largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, 9whereas language proper does not consist of signsbut of these that have to be learnt and that are10wholly conventional.08The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is avery natural one, and in result language has played a prominent ____1____ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate ____2____ a given language to show that they are distinctive from another ____3____ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States ____4____ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a ____5____ different language from those of Britain. There was even one ____6____ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favouredthe adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things wouldcertainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English ____7____ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone ____8____ knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactorysolution of carrying with the same language as before. ____9____Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world ____10____ that political independence and national identity can be completewithout sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a commonlanguage.09专八改错原题Proofreading & Error Correction:The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passesfrom one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference(1___________ between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learntin early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener(2___________ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3____________ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmittingIt may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground(4_____________ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour (5___________it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children ofthe (6________________same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in agebetween playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playgroundrhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7__________ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting overand over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8___________ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live(9_______________ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10____________2010年专八真题改错原文So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be as well equipped as any other to say the things its speakers want to say. It may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice or the engraving of Benares brass. But this is not the fault of their language. The Eskimos can speak about snow with a great deal more precision and subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled ‟primitive‟ is inherently more precise and subtle t han English. This example does not bring to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected ‟primitiveness‟. The position is simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in different environments. The English language would be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which English was habitually used made such distinction important.Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formed part of the Eskimos‟ life. For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the nineteenth cen tury could not talk about motorcars with the minute discrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture. But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicleswhich send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we are reading Scott or Dickens. How many of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham, a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence ?2005 答案解析:1. investing应改为invested。
专八改错题及答案
2012年3月专八真题：改错部分The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely．The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______century ．Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers favouredcertain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______the manner．This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______wanted the truth to be read and understood．Then in the turn of the 19th (5) ____ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _____ gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) __ literal as possible．This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimi r Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the natureof the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed．Too often,writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other．Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains．(10) _____参考答案：1．going后加on2．certain改为a certain3．rather改为not4．is 改为was5．in 改为at6．去掉第二个the7．view后面加that8．去掉was9．culminated后面加in10．and 改为but2011年3月专八真题：改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four (1)I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience (2)that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3)settle down and write books.I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side(4)and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which(5)made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and (6) I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with(7)the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created (8) a sort of private worldwhich I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life (9) Therefore, the volume of serious —. seriously intended —writing which I produced (10)all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age offive, my mother taking it down to dictation.1. grew 后加up2. conscience 改成consciousness3. soon 改成sooner4. the 和child之间加middle5. disagreeing 改成disagreeable6. imaginative 改成imaginary7. literal 改成literary8. in 去掉9. which 前加in10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless改错题出自：George Orwell的《Why I Write》的前两段第1个错误出现在grew .解析：grow 表成长，如人和动植物的成长。
英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析
英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析学习有如母亲一般慈爱，它用纯洁和温柔的欢乐来哺育孩子，如果向它要求额外的报酬，也许就是罪过。
以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析，希望对正在关注的您有所帮助! part 1Creating the proper atmosphere for a party is a difficult and excited job. Gone are the days when one could simply call__1__up one's friends and invite them on a Saturday evening for__2__a game of bridge. A hostess must make certain that her party is perfect, if she is to aid her career or those of her husband.__3__The first element that must be considered is the guest list. Since there are certain guests that must be invited,there are__4__just as many guest whom one must avoid. The wise hostess makes a list of five parts: those who must be invited, such as __5__an employer or persons whose hospitality must be returned:those who should be invited, but are not necessary to make the party to run smoothly, such as one's neighbors or personal__6__friends: those who must never be invited, such as the present__7__spouse of any guest or a business adversary; and those who would not be appropriate guests at that particular type of party, such as immigrants at a Daughters of the American Revolution(DAR)party. The secondary element critical to the success of a party is__8_its theme. Each party might have a definite reason for being, a __9__certain idea or mood running throughout the evening. While many persons consider such "gimmicky" as costume parties or Mexican fiestas passe, there are many alternative themes to choose between.__10__答案及解析：1. excited—exciting：两者都为形容词，但意义上有区别：excited意为“兴奋的，激动的，活跃的”，常常表示一种状态。
英语专八改错练习题及答案解析
英语专八改错练习题及答案解析 The word encyclopedia began as a Greek word and means "instruction in the whole circle." It was the first used in 1English by sir Thomas Eloyt in 1538. Encyclopedias today are usually arranged in alphabetical order, but in early times they were arranged in any way the author liked. One writer in the Middle Ages began with a discussion of God and angels and end with descriptions of scents and colors and 2 a list of 36 different kinds of eggs. The first alphabetically arranged encyclopedia was published in 1704 by an English clergyman named after John Harris. 3 The oldest encyclopedia in reality was written during the 4 first century A.D. by Plainy, a Roman. Its 37 volumes list over 20 thousand items. It is valued highly for hundreds 5of years. Up to 1536 43 editions had been published.The largest encyclopedia, the third Chinese encyclopedia containing over 5020 volumes and was piled during the 6eighteenth century. Between 1751 and 1765 the French Encyclopedia appeared. This collecton was usual because 7contemporary famous men, imcluded Voltarie, Rousseau, and 8Diderot, wrote aticles for it.The Encyclopedia Britannica is probably the best known work for English-speaking people. It first appeared in Scotland 9in 1771. In 1961 the world Book Company published a braille edition of its encyclopedia for blind readers. 10 1. 去掉first前面的the 2. end—ended ended与began一同做谓语 3. 去掉named后面的after 4. reality—existence 此处表示“现存的” 5. is—was 6. containing—contains 7. ususl—unusual 8. included—including 9. people—peoples 表示“民族” 10. its之后加own 强调该百科全书属于the world book pany特有
历年专八改错(2000年-2014年)真题及答案解析
2014年真题改错部分There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition(SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions 1.___________ have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: 2.___________ ·Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the same senseone acquires a first language? 3. __________ ·What is the explanation for the fact adults have more difficulty in 4.__________ acquiring additional languages than children have?·What motivates people to acquire additional languages?·What is the role of the language teaching in the acquisition of an 5.__________ additional language?·What sociocultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying thelearning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all the 6.__________ approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have onething in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiring of anadditional language is that of an individual attempts to do so. Whether 7.__________ one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additional language, it is anindividual accomplishment or what is under focus is the cognitive, 8.__________ psychological, and institutional status of an individual. That is, thespotlight is on what mental capabilities are involving, what psychological 9.___________ factors play a role in the learning or acquisition, and whether the targetlanguage is learnt in the classroom or acquired through social touch with 10.__________ native speakers.2014年真题改错部分答案：1.is 添加also a2.possessed 改为attracted 词汇搭配attract one’s attention3.the same sense 后添加as one 固定搭配(介词)：the same as4.the fact 后添加that adults从句：同位语从句，关系代词that 不可省略5.the language 去掉the , 此处泛指不特指，非特指6.check 改为review 词汇：纵览，回顾，综述7.attempts改为attempting 介词后+名词/动名词短语8.or改为and 连词：顺应关系9.involving 改为involved 非谓语动词：被动关系，用过去分词10.t ouch 改为interaction 词汇interaction 指交流，互动；touch 触碰，指身体接触2013年专八真题改错部分2013年专业八级改错答案及解析：1. production 改为producing。
专八改错习题及答案解析
英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(一)About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries couldbe 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 maternalDeaths 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 maternaldeaths 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.参考答案及解析:1 将had used 改为 used。
专八改错-(2000年-2015年)真题及答案
2000 年-2015 年专八短文改错试题，参考答案以及答案分析2005年3月21日专业八级考试改错When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked around the luxury of the 1. ______rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2. ______ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ______much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ______started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, andso are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’t they? Myfriend’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ______ expression that I had not got the word quite right.Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. ______new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7. ______own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should haveasked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the 8. ______aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9. ______speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly,but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10. ______1.looked改成looking2.and变成but3．Complimentary改成compliment4.去掉it5.very改成too6.which改成in which7.specially改成especially8.for改成about9.aspect改成case//study10.mend改成narrow//fill//bridge2014改错There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) ______have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) ______l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in thesame sense one acquires a first language? (3) ______l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) ______more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?l What motivates people to acquire additional language?l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) ______acquisition of additional languages?l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying thelearning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) ______the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far haveone thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiringof an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (7) ______ so. Whether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additionallanguage, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ______focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of anindividual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ______ or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in theclassroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (10) ______1. is后加also。
专八改错题及答案
2010 年专八真题改错部分So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication:that is, every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say the things their speakers want to say.There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or cultures,but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equallycompetent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereasthis is not the fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak about snow with further moreprecision and subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of thosesometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and subtle than English. This example does not cometo light a defect in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position issimply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar 7 environments. The English languagewill be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which Englishwashabitually used made such distinction as importa .nt Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimolanguage could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formedthe part of the Eskimos' life. 2010 年专八真题改错参考答案以及分词 1 be 后插入 as; 2 their 改为 its;3 There 改为 It;4 Whereas 改为5 further 改为 much further 不能修饰比较级6 come 改为 bring; (sth)cometo light , bring sthto light bring tolight the defect ofEnglish =bring thedefect of english tolight 揭示英语的缺陷 7 similar 改为 different; 根据语境应该用 different8 will 改为 would;虚拟语气9 as important 去掉 as;10 the part 去掉 the 或者改 the 为 a be/become/form (a) part of 是固定短语 09 专八改错原题The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one school child to the next and illustrates thefurther difference (1)1 2__ 10 as …as 引导的比较级 its 代替 every language It 此处作为形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式 But ； 语境需要表示转折的连词， whereas 表示对比The desire to use Ian guage as a sig n of n ati onal ide ntity is avery natural one, and in result language has pl ayed a p rominent part innational moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate a given languageto show that they are distinctive from another race whose hegemony theyresent. At the time the United States sp lit off from Brita in, for exa mple, there were propo sals that inde pendence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a different language from those of Britain. There waseven one propo sal that America ns should ado pt Hebrew. Others favoured theado pti on of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly besim pler for Americans if they stuck on to English and made the Britishlearn Greek. At the end, as everyone kno ws, the two coun tries ado pted thep ractical and satisfactory .1. .2.—5. 6 7. 8 betwee n school lore and nu rsery lore. In nu rsery lore a verse, learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener has grown up, and has children of their own, oreven gran dchildre n. The p eriod betwee n lear ning a nu rsery rhyme and transmittingit may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the pl ayground lore, therefore,a rhyme may be excitedly p assed on within the very hour it is learnt; and in thegeneral, it p asses betwee n childre n of the same age, or n early so, since it is uncom mon for the differe nee in age betwee n p laymates to be more tha n five years.If ,therefore, a p laygro und rhyme can be show n to have bee n currently for ahundred years, or even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over; very po ssiblyit has p assed along a cha in of two or three hun dred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that itremains live after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the 答案分析：(1) the further differenee 改为a further differenee (此次应该用不定冠词表示泛指)⑵改when 为until,结构not...until 翻译为"直到 .......... 才”(3)their 改为his (代词与前文 a little listener 在单复数上保持一致) ⑷something 改为anything 此处指二十到七十的任何时段 (5)therefore 改为however (根据上下文逻辑关系)⑹in the general 去掉the (习惯用法in general 表示总的来说，一般不用冠词) ⑺currently 改为current(这里起的是表语的作用，需要形容词而不是副词)(8) it has passed 改为it has been passed (与分号前的被动保持一致)(9) live 改为alive alive 翻译为"鲜活的”，一般作补语；live 翻译为"现场转播的；活的” 一般作定语(10) to let alone 改为let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是"更不用说2008年专八真题短文改错(2). ⑶— ⑷. ⑺.(8)_ (9). (10)_solution of carrying with the same language as before. _____ 9_Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world ____________________ 10that p olitical independence and n atio nal ide ntity can be comp letewithout sacrifici ng the eno rmous mutual adva ntages of a com mon Ian guage. 20081. in result 改成 in consequenee ，2 moves 改成 movements.3 distinctive 改成 distinet 或 different4在time 后加 when5 accepted 改成 realized6 those 改成 that7删除on,8 At 改成In9 carrying with 改成 carrying on with10 now 改成 ago07专八真题短文改错From what has bee n said, it must be clear that no one can make very p ositive stateme nts about how Ian guageorig in ated.There is no material in any language today and in the earliest records of ancient languages show us languagein a new and emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the languageoriginated in cries of anger, fear, p ain and pl easure, and the n ecessaryevide nee is en tirely lack ing: there are no remote tribes, no ancientrecords, p rovidi ng evide nee of a language with a large propo rtion of such cries than we find in En glish.It is true that the abse nee of such evidence does not dis prove the theory, but in other grounds too thetheory is not very attractive.People of all races and Ian guages make rather similar noises in return to p ain or pl easure. The fact thatsuch no ises are similar on the lips of Fren chme n and Malaysia ns whose Ian guages are utterly differe nt,serves to emp hasize on the fundamental difference betwee n these no ises and Ian guage proper. We may say thatthe cries of pain or chortles of amuseme nt are largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, whereasIan guage proper does not con sist of sig ns but of these that have to be learnt and that are wholly conven tional 1,改 and 为 or, any Ianguagages today or recordsof ancient Ianguages 是并列成分，在否定句中 用or 2. 310删除the,表示泛指 改and 为but,根据语境此处是转折 改large 为larger,后面有than,应该用比较级 改in 为on, on other grounds “基于其它理由”，为固定搭配 改 return 为 response , in response to "对 作出反应” 删除 on, emphasize sth emphasize 是及物动词 在large 前加a, extent 是可数名词，前面要加冠词。
专八改错2000年-2011年真题及答案.
2000 年-2011 年专八短文改错试题,参考答案以及答案分析By 兰银清以下答案以上外教师给出的答案为参考答案2011年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________ seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________ soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________ schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________ being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1,在grow后加up, 考固定短语2,改consience为consciousness 考词语区别,consience翻译为“良心,道德心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”3,改soon为sooner,sooner or later是固定短语4,在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。
历年专八改错(2000年-2014年)真题及答案
历年专八短文改错试题2014年英语专八改错真题答案There is widespread consensus among scholars that second languageacquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s toearly 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions ( a 前面加also)have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (possessed 改为captured)Is it possible to acquire an additional language in thesame sense one acquires a first language? (one前面加as )What is the explanation for the fact adults have (fact后面加that)more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?What motivates people to acquire additional languages?What is the role of the language teaching in the (language前面去掉the) acquisition of an additional language?What socio-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying thelearning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (去掉the)the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far haveone thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiringof an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (attempts改为attempting)so. W hether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additionallanguage, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (or 改为and)focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of anindividual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (involving改为involved) or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in theclassroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (touch改为contact) 2013英语专八改错真题答案Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processesinvolved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) _____listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually (2) ______happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. (3) ______Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page, (4) ______you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptionalcircumstances we might become aware of the complexity (5) ______involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it;if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced (6) ______their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if (7) ______we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; orif we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meetanyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples (8) ______of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstances”reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, (9) ______listening, writing and reading. But given that language processeswere normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful (10) ______experiments to get at what is happening.1. production改成producing2. 去掉the3. 去掉accurately前面的so4. looking改为look5. we前面加that6. 去掉colleague后面的has7. their改成his8. anyone改成pure老师someone9. evolved改成involved10. were改成are2012年专八真题改错部分The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. Theargument has been going since at least the first (1) ______century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writersfavoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, thenature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Toooften, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified witheach other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____参考答案：1.going后加on2. certain改为a certain3. rather改为not4. is 改为was5. in 改为at6. 去掉第二个the7. view后面加that8. 去掉was9. culminated后面加in10. and 改为but2011年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1.在grow后加up, 考固定短语2. 改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”3.改soon为sooner，sooner or later是固定短语4. 在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。
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2010年专八真题改错部分 So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say 1________________ the things their speakers want to say. 2________________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive 3________________ peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereas this is not the 4_____________ fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak about snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in 5______________ English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect 6______________ in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar 7____________ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms 8____________ for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which Englishwas habitually used made such distinction as important. 9_____________ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. 10____________ 2010年专八真题改错参考答案以及分词 1 be后插入 as; as…as引导的比较级 2 their改为its; its代替every language 3 There改为It; It此处作为形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式 4 Whereas改为But ； 语境需要表示转折的连词，whereas表示对比 5 further 改为much further不能修饰比较级 6 come改为bring; (sth)come to light , bring sth to light bring to light the defect of English =bring the defect of english to light 揭示英语的缺陷 7 similar改为different; 根据语境应该用different 8 will改为would; 虚拟语气 9 as important去掉as; 10 the part去掉the或者改the为a be/become/form (a) part of 是固定短语
09专八改错原题 The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)___________ 精品文库 欢迎下载 2 between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the (2)___________ little listener has grown up, and has children of their own, or even (3)____________ grandchildren. The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from twenty to seventy years. With (4)_____________ the playground lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed (5)___________ on within the very hour it is learnt; and in the general, it passes (6)_____________ between children of the same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If ,therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or even just for fifty, it follows that it (7)__________ has been retransmitted over and over; very possibly it has passed (8)___________ along a chain of two or three hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live after so much handling, (9)____________ to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____________ 答案分析： (1) the further difference改为a further difference（此次应该用不定冠词表示泛指） (2) 改when 为until, 结构not...until翻译为“直到……才” (3)their改为his（代词与前文a little listener在单复数上保持一致） (4)something 改为anything 此处指二十到七十的任何时段 (5)therefore改为however （根据上下文逻辑关系） (6) in the general去掉the （习惯用法in general 表示总的来说，一般不用冠词） (7) currently 改为current （这里起的是表语的作用，需要形容词而不是副词） (8) it has passed改为 it has been passed （与分号前的被动保持一致） (9) live 改为 alive alive翻译为“鲜活的”，一般作补语；live翻译为“现场转播的；活的”，一般作定语 (10) to let alone改为 let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是“更不用说
2008年专八真题 短文改错 The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent ____1____ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate ____2____ a given language to show that they are distinctive from another ____3____ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States ____4____ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a ____5____ different language from those of Britain. There was even one ____6____ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English ____7____ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone ____8____ knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory