最新-专八改错题及答案

2016

1.in→over

2.∧give→that/which

3.differs→differentiates或it→it

4.the→the

5.same→common

6.∧intimate→and

7.it→which

8.than→than

9.base→preserve 10.furthermore→therefore

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 show

on ice by the mother of a friend.Looked round a the luxury of the 1. ______

rink,my friend’s mother remarked on the“plush”seats we had been

given.I did not know what she meant,and being proud of my2______ 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,and so are the ice rink and the cos tumes of the skaters,aren’t they?My

friend’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 roughly

means,and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6.______

new words and new meanings for familiar words,specially in our7.______

own first language.But sometimes we need to ask,as I should have

asked for Plush,and this is particularly true in the8. ______ aspect of a foreign language.If you are continually surrounded by9______. 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looking

2.she后面加had

3.去掉第二个a

4.去掉it

5.polite改成politely

6.which改成that

7.specially改成especially8.this改成it

9.continually改成often10.mend改成narrow

2014改错

There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition(SLA)emerge d as a distinct field of research from the late1950s to early1960s.

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 the

same 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 the

learning 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 have one thing in common:The perspective adopted to view the acquiring

of an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do(7)______

so.Whether one labels it“learning”or“acquiring”an additional

language,it is an individual accomplishment or what is under(8)______

focus is the cognitive,psychological,and institutional status of an individual.That is,the spotlig ht is on what mental capabilities are

involving,what psychological factors play a role in the learning(9)______

or acquisition,and whether the target language is learnt in the

classroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers.(10)______

1.把of去掉。

2.把possessed改成attracted，

3.把a改成the

4.在facts和adults之间加个that，

5.把第二个the去掉。

6.把第二个of改成in

7.把attempts改成attempt

8.把or改成and

9.what改成how

10.把touche改成touches

2013 专八短文改错试题．

Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in langu age.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 exceptional

circumstances 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;or if we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet

anyone 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 processes

were normally so automatic,we also need to carry out careful(10)______ experiments to get at what is happening.

1.production改成producing

2.去掉the

3.去掉accurately前面的so

4.looking改为look

5.we前面加that

6.去掉colleague后面的has

7.their改成his

8.anyone改成pure老师someone9.evolved改成involved10.were改成are

2012

Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.

The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely.The arg ument has been going since at least the first(1)______

century B.C.Up to the beginning of the19th century,many writers

favored 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 of19th(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 Vladimir Nobokov.

The argument was theoretical:the purpose of the translation,the

nature of 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∧since－加入on题解：go on的意思是“继续”，符合句子表达的含义“争论一直在继续”。

2．certain－改为a certain题解：此处要表达的意思是“很多作家喜欢一种自由的翻译方法”，第一次出现这种方法应该加上不定冠词。

3．rather－改为not

题解：根据原句的句子结构，rather应改为not。

4．is－改为was

题解：此句应该为过去时。

5．in－改为at

题解：at the turn of19th century“十九世纪之初”，是固定搭配。

6．the－删去第二个the

题解：这里并没有特指某种语言，所以不用定冠词。

7．view∧translation－加入that

题解：在view和translation之间加上that，可将“translation was impossible”看成view的同位语。

8．was－删去was

题解：条件状语从句常可以省略主语和系动词。

9．culminated∧the－加入in

题解：culminate in是“以......告终”的意思，符合上下文含义。

10．and－改为but

题解：根据原句意思“现在背景变化了，但是基本问题依然存在”，两句话之间应该是转折关系。

2011年专八真题改错部分

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 1__________

seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so

with the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that2___________

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. For

this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed

disagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my5_____________ schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and

holding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________

the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of7________

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 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 and

boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first

poem 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。作者是三个孩子句中的那位

5，改disagreeing 为disagreeable ，disagreeing只能作动名词，不能作形容词。disagreeable mannernisms 令人讨厌的习惯

6，改imaginative为imaginary,考词语区别imaginative翻译为“有想象力的”，imaginary 翻译为“想象的，虚构的”

7，改literal为literary,考词义区别，literal翻译为“字面的”，literary翻译为“文学方面的”8，去掉face后的in，face接宾语时是及物动词。考动词的基本用法

9，在world后加in或者改which为where,考定语从句

10，改Therefore为However或者Nevertheness,考语境。

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 say1________________ the things their speakers want to say.2________________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive3________________ 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 the4_____________

fault of their language.The Eskimos,it is said,can speak about

snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in5______________ 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 defect6______________

in English,a show of unexpected'primitiveness'.The position is

simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar7____________ environments.The English language will be just as rich in terms8____________

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

1be后插入as;as…as引导的比较级

2their改为its;its代替every language

3There改为It;It此处作为形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式

4Whereas改为But；语境需要表示转折的连词，whereas表示对比

5further改为much further不能修饰比较级

6come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

7similar改为different;根据语境应该用different

8will改为would;虚拟语气

9as important去掉as;

10the 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)___________ 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

solution 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 complete

without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language.

2008

1.in result改成in consequence，

2moves改成movements.

3distinctive改成distinct或different

4在time后加when

5accepted改成realized

6those改成that

7删除on,

8At改成In

9carrying with改成carrying on with

10now改成ago

07专八真题短文改错

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

make very positive statements about how language originated.

There is no material in any language today and in the earliest1__________

records of ancient languages show us language in a new and2__________

emerging state.It is often said,of course,that the language3_________

originated in cries of anger,fear,pain and pleasure,and the4__________

necessary evidence is entirely lacking:there are no remote

tribes,no ancient records,providing evidence of

a language with a large proportion of such cries5__________

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

of 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 similar

noises in return to pain or pleasure.The fact that7___________

such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen

and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,

serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference8___________

between these noises and language proper.We may

say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement

are largely reflex actions,instinctive to large extent,9____________

whereas language proper does not consist of signs

but of these that have to be learnt and that are10___________

wholly conventional

1,改and为or,any languagages today or recordsof ancient languages是并列成分，在否定句中用or

2,改show为showing,现在分词作定语

3，删除the,表示泛指

4，改and为but,根据语境此处是转折

5，改large为larger,后面有than,应该用比较级

6，改in为on,on other grounds“基于其它理由”，为固定搭配

7，改return为response,in response to“对……作出反应”

8，删除on,emphasize sth emphasize是及物动词

9，在large前加a,extent是可数名词，前面要加冠词。"to a large extent"翻译为“在很大程度上”

10，改these为those those that/who为固定形式

2006专八短文改错

We use language primarily as a means of communication with

other human beings.Each of us shares with the community in which we

live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as1_______

to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular2_______ message:the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a3_______

set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his4_______

thoughts and feelings,in a variety of styles,to the other English5_______ speakers.His vocabulary,in particular,both that which he uses active-

ly and that which he recognises,increases in size as he grows

old as a result of education and experience.6_________

But,whether the language store is relatively small or large,the system

remains no more than a psychological reality for the individual,unless

he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another7_________

member of his linguistic community;he bas to give the system a

concrete transmission form.We take it for granted the two most8____________ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by our

vocal organs(speech)or by visual signs(writing).And these are9_____________ among most striking of human achievements.10____________

1,改agreeing为agreed agreed conventions翻译为“习俗”

2，words前加the,此处为特指

3，改in为at at one?s disposal为固定短语，翻译为“由某人做主”

4，改enables为enable，定语从句与先行词vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules保持一致

5，删除the,此处需要泛指

6，改old为older,此处需要比较级

7，改seen为understood，system应该是被理解

8．，删除it take sth for granted take it for granted that…

9,改or为and,语境需要并列关系而不需选择关系

10，most前加the,形容词最高级中that一般不能省略

2005年专八真题短文改错

The University as Busines

A number of colleges and universities have announced steep tuition increases for next year much steeper than the current,

very low rate of inflation.They say the increases are needed because

of a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common1________ stock.I am skeptical.A business firm chooses the price that maximizes

its net revenues,irrespective fluctuations in income;and increasingly the2_________ outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of3___________ business firms.The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty4__________ increases the demand for education.The biggest cost of being

in the school is foregoing income from a job(this is primarily a factor in5__________ 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 students7___________ include soft majors,student evaluations of teachers,giving students

a 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 the9___________ rigors of competition,universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom t hey recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations,so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams.And until they were stoppe d by the antitrust authorities,the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best st udents,by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purely

of need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best10___________ _customer

1.investing应改为invested，过去分词作定语

2.在irrespective和fluctuations之间加上介词of。irrespectiveOf是一固定用法，意指“不论，不管，不顾，”等，此处指公司不顾收入的波动变化。

3.把those改为that，that此处代替outlook

4．在fact和economic之间力口上关系代词that。这是一个同位语从语，that在同位语从句中是不能省略的.

5．把定冠词the去掉,in school表示上学这个抽象意义

6．把形容词poor改为其比较级poorer。这句中的poor与后面的more形成一对比较关系，表示“越……越……”

7．在ways和which之间加上一个介词in。8．这里应该用动词的—lng形式，即eliminating，以便使句型结构与前面的giving(students a governance role)保持一致，否则句子结构和意思都显得不正确。

9．将shorten(缩短；使变短)改为reduce/lesson/weaken。此处属于用词不当。

10．将to give discounts on改为to give discounts to their best customer。意为实业公司给最好的客户提供优惠。Give discounts to sb为固定短语

2004

1.,在set后加up,set up“建立、成立”是固定短语

2.答案：consisted→consisting/composed

3.答案：in→on

【详细解答】固定搭配on...occasions

4.答案rely后加on

【详细解答】固定搭配rely on sb.to do something

5.答案：make out→make【详细解答】make out意思是“辨认出”，而此处意思是“对...做详细的研究”，故用“make detailed studies of...”即可。

6.答案：its→their

【详细解答】此处指代的是“investigations”,故用复数。

7.答案：public→the public

【详细解答】the+adj.可表示某一类人，此处意思是“面向公众”，故应用“the public”。

8.答案：nevertheless→therefore/thus

【详细解答】此处不是表示意思的转折，而是与前文构成因果关系，故可改为therefore或thus。

9.答案：interests→interest

【详细解答】此处看成不可数名词为佳

10.答案：these→those