大学英语四六级考试改错专项训练题

大学英语四六级考试改错专项训练题

（1）

Heavy falls of ash and rock fragments occurred over all of the inhabited parts of Montserrat. The ashfall deposit was 115 mm in thick at Lime Kiln Bay. The ash burden 1.____ resulted from the collapse of several wooden buildings in 2.____ the Salem area. Vegetation damage was extensively with 3.____ downed trees and branches broken from many others.

Many birds were killed by the ash or trapped live in it. 4.____ Ashfall fromthis event was reported on the islands of

Nevis, St Kitts, Anguilla, and St Maarten, and resulted in

the close of several airports. At 09:10 on 13 July an 5.____ explosive eruption occurred, followed 2 hours of very 6.____

low seismic activity. The Washington V AAC estimated a cloud height of ~12 km a.s.l.

During a helicopter reconnaissance flight in the morning 7.____

of 14 July, a large collapse scar was seen in the lava

dome directed down the Tar River Valley. The Tar River

Valley was extensively modified also eroded with a deep 8.____ canyon gouged the pyroclastic flows. The fan had been 9.____ extended eastwards into the sea and northwards along the

coast. The area the north of the Tar River Valley 10.____ extending to Killyhawk Ghaut was devastated.

（2）

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities

to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he

is fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is 11. ____ improbable that he will ever again in his life be given

so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, 12. ____

life is always presenting new things to the child—things

that have lost their interesting for older people because 13. ____

they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing

in the rain, or in the snow. [JP+2]His first visit to the

seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:

He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks old 14. ____

people do; he is continually being told not to do things,

or being punished for that he has done wrong. 15. ____

His life is therefore not perfectly happy.16. ____

When the young man starts to earn his own living, he

becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;

but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities.

He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his

clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live

comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing about in 17. ____

the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. 18. ____

And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break

the laws of his parents, he may . If, therefore, 19. ____

he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,

he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making 20. ____

steady progress in his job and of building up for himself

his own position in society.

（3）

Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is

expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and 21. ____

few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing

foreign languages. Now there are many reasons about this, 22. ____

some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest

that the fundamental reason why people in general do not

speak foreign languages very better than they do is that 23. ____

they fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning

to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling

it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize 24. ____

that pronounce a foreign language is a skill, one that 25.____

needs careful training of a special kind, and one that

cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of himself. 26. ____

I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the

importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical

teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the 27. ____

language. So the first point I want to make is that English

pronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to 28. ____

devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole

attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel

that here is a matter worth of receiving his close attention. 29. ____

So, there should be occasions where other , 30. ____

such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to

take a secondary place.

（4）

People often dream of living in a perfect place where no

one would be poor, and everyone would be considerable of 31. ____ everyone else. Such a place, however, is very good to be true: 32. ____ such a place is nowhere, and that's what the word "Utopia"

means. It is made up two Greek words meaning "not a place". 33. ____ The word was first used by Thomas More, a sixteen century 34. ____ English writer whose book Utopia, published in 1516,

describing a perfect island country. More's idea for tale came 35. ____