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 B.C．Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers favoured 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 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 Vlad imir 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后加on
2．certain改为a certain
3．rather改为not
4．is 改为was
5．in 改为at
6．去掉第二个the
7．view后面加that
8．去掉was
9．culminated后面加in
10．and 改为but
2011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 world which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life (9) Therefore, the volume of serious —i.e. 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 of
five, my mother taking it down to dictation.
1. grew 后加up
2. conscience 改成consciousness
3. soon 改成sooner
4. the 和child之间加middle
5. disagreeing 改成disagreeable
6. imaginative 改成imaginary
7. literal 改成literary
8. in 去掉
9. which 前加in
10. 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。如果要表“长大”就要用短语：grow up。
2 .句中conscience 有如下的释义：1.良心，良知 2.良知 1.良心 2.第三类法庭而consciousness表示1.意识到,知道. 2.意识，觉悟 3.意识状态 4.清醒句子的意思是：我意识到这是在违背我的本性。
3. 第三句考固定搭配：sooner or later 迟早。难点：outrage 违背做动词。
4. 按句子意思作者排行老二家里上面和下面都有个小孩因此加上 middle
5. disagreeing为disagree的ing,意思是“不同意不认同”。改为：disagreeable表 1. 不合意的;不愉快的;讨厌的 2. 难相处的,脾气坏的
6. imaginative 改成 imaginary，解析：imaginative 表示人富有想像力的;富于想像的;有创造力的。
而imaginary表示想像中的;虚构的;幻想的如： an imaginary friend 想像中的朋友
7 .literal表“文字的” 改成 literary 指文学作者的文学的志向与野心
8. face sth. 直面某个事实 .不用接介词 in
9. 定语从句，修饰world，有介词要用在which前，不能省略
10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless句子有转折的意思，作者说他一直沉溺在自己的内心世界，然而童年时代所写的东西数目不多。而非因此，童年所写的东西不多。
2010年3月专八真题：改错部分
So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, (1) every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say (2) the things their speakers want to say. (3) 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 equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice or the engraving of Benares brass. (4) Whereas this is not the fault of their language.
The Eskimos can (5) speak about snow with a great deal further 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 than English. (6) This example does not come to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviously that (7) the Eskimos and the English live in similar environments. The English language (8) will be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments (9) in which English was habitually used made such distinction as 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 (10) if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life.
For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the 19th century 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 vehicles which 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?
1 be后插入as;
2 their改为its;
3 There改为It;
4 Whereas改为But
5 further 改为more
6 come改为bring;
7 similar改为different; 8 will改为would;
9 as important去掉as 10 the part去掉the
2009年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one schoolchild 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 little listener (2) has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3) The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from 20 to 70 years. (4) With the playground 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 (6) 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
(7) even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and 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) original wording.
参考答案:
(1)illustrate改为illustrated (与前文的shown保持一致)
(2) the 改为a (用不定冠词表示泛指)
(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 (这里anything from...to...表示大约在...之间)
(5)therefore改为however (根据上下文逻辑关系)
(6) in the general去掉the (in general是习惯用法)
(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 (主动改为被动，与前文保持一致)
(9) live 改为alive （活跃的，仍然存在的）(live作形容词讲为“现场直播的”意思)
(10) to let alone 改为let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是“更不用说”)
2008年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
The desire to use language
as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, (1) ___
and in result language has played a prominent part in national moves. (2) ____
Men have often felt the need to cultivate a given language to show
that they are distinctive from another race whose(3) ____
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 favored
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.
参考答案:
1. one改为thing
2. result改为fact
3. distinctive改为distinct
4. at the time后加when
5. by改为with
6. those改为that
7. on去掉
8. At改为In
9. carrying 后加on
10. now改为ago
2007年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
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 earliest (1) and→or records of ancient languages show us language in a new and (2) show→showing emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3) the originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4) and→but necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote
tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of
a language with a large proportion of such cries(5) large→lager
than we find in English. It is true that the absence
of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in(6) in→on
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 that(7) return→response such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen
and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,
serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference（8）on
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) ∧a
whereas language proper does not consist of signs
but of these that have to be learnt and that are(10) these→those
2006年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
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 as (1)
to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular (2)
message: the English speaker has iii his disposal at vocabulary and a (3)
set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his (4)
thoughts and feelings, ill a variety of styles, to the other English (5)
speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses active-
[y and that which he recognises, increases ill 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 tike inpidual, unless
he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another (7)
member of his linguistic community; he bas to give tile system a
concrete transmission form. We take it for granted rice’ two most (8)
common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by our
vocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are (9)
among most striking of human achievements. (10)
1.agreeing --------agreed
2. ∧words----------these/those words
3. in the disposal --------at the disposal
4. enables--------enable
5. delete “the” before “other English speakers”
6. old------ older
7. seen ------ perceived, understood, comprehended
8. delete “it” before “for granted”
9. And ----- Yet; However
10. ∧most ------ the most striking
2005年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
The University as Business
A number of colleges and universities 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 S1___________ in common stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price
that maximizes its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income: S2____________ and increasingly tile outlook of universities in the United
States is indistinguishable from those of business firms. The rise in S3____________ tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty increases the S4____________ demand for education. The biggest cost of being in the school is foregoing S5____________ income from a job (this is primarily a factor in graduate—and
professional—school tuition): the poor one’s job prospects, the more S6____________ sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,
in order to make oneself more remarkable.
The way which universities make themselves attractive to S7____________
students include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving
students a governance role, and eliminate required courses. Sky-high S8____________ tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as
customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the S9____________ rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to
them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni
denotations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in
order to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And until
they were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy league
schools collude to limit competition for the best students, 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 best customers. S10____________
invested / irrespective of / those—that / fact that / in the school / poor—poorer / in which / eliminating / shorten---lessen / on---to
2004改错
One of the most important non-
is the power to investigate. This power is usually delegated to committees -
standing committees, special committees set for a specific (1)____
purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of both houses.
to inquire into the qualification
officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the
rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings
and to make out detailed studies of issues.
is the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most
committee hearings are open to public and are reported
nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers
to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues.
of Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury of
these who give false testimony. (10)____
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 ^ → rely 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
【详细解答】those 指代witnesses , 即指代名词复数做定语从句的先行词，而these不行
2003年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar
period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly
brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought
the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)__
years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young (2)__
adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
families that went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)__
but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From
the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)__
and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts. (5)__
Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who (6)__
formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)__
divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to
a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)__
as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)__
distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the
temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)__
Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and
homemaker was not abandoned.
1. 答案：height→high，high 作为名词翻译为“最高水平”，又如reach an all-time high
2．答案：删除a
【详细解答】此处steady decline指稳定下降的行为、过程而不是其结果，为不可数名词，故应去掉定冠词a。
3．答案：went∧→on
【详细解答】go on为固定搭配，意为“持续”。
4．答案：high→higher
【详细解答】后面有than，此处应为比较级。
5．答案：Europe→European
【详细解答】根据上下文，此处应用形容词作定语修饰名词counterparts。
6．答案：more
【详细解答】由上下文可知，more与equally矛盾，故应去掉。
7．答案：neverthel ess→also
【详细解答】由上下文可知，此处讲的内容与前部分内容之间为递进关系，而非转折关系。
8．答案：that→those
【详细解答】由上下文可知，此处所指代的应为前面复数形式的marriages，故指示代词也应该用复数形式。
9．答案：Since→Although（或While）
【详细解答】从逻辑上讲，此处应表达让步关系，而非因果关系。
10．答案：in→to
【详细解答】to．．．extent为固定搭配，意为“到……程度”
2002改错
There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation
comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that
pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 1._____
deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain
throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds 2______
like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when 3______
we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, 4_______
whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. 5_____
We begin the ‘natural’ learning of pronunciation long before we start learning
to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously 6.___
imitating and practicing the pronunciation of those around us
for many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend 7.___
learning even our difficult En glish spelling. This is ‘natural’, 8.___
therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle;
after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community 9.___
and giving a sense of “belonging”. We learn quite early to recognize a “stranger”, someone who speaks with an accent of a different community---perhaps only a few miles far.
答案与详解
1.答案：
【详细解答】前半句意为“发音是在无意识之中学成的”，后半句意为“拼写是有意识地学成的”，它们之间是对比关系，故应该用连词while来连接。
2.答案：
【详细解答】be unconscious of是固定搭配，意为“无意识地，未意识到”。即“我们之中很多人一辈子都不知道自己的话听起来是什么样的”。
3.答案：speak∧
【详细解答】speak out意为“大胆地说出”，在这里句意不通。在speak out中加上it，指代前面的speech，意为“当我们说出话后，自己听起来像什么”。
4.答案：
【详细解答】firstly表示顺序中的“第一”，first则表示时间上的“第一次，首次”。这里是说“当我们第一次听到自己的录音时，通常会震惊”。故应将firstly改为first才合乎句意。
5.答案：
【详细解答】在定语从句中，如果先行词是代词something，everything，nothing，little，few等时，关系词应用that而不是which，故此处应将which改为that。
6.答案：
【详细解答】本文通篇用的都是一般现在时，所以此处也应用一般现在时，使上下文保持时态一致。
7.答案：删除per或
【详细解答】per和every都是“每”的意思，在此属重复错误，故将两者去掉一个即可。
8.答案：
【详细解答】根据句子结构，句中缺少一形式主语，而作形式主语的只能是代词it，this是“这”的意思，不能用做形式主语，所以应将this改为it。
9.答案：community∧
【详细解答】hold意为“抓住，占据，包含”。此处想表达的意思是“语言用作使社区具有凝聚力、给人归属感的一种方式”，用hold a community不能表达此意；hold sth．together表示“使结合在一起不破，
使团结一致”的意思，符合句意。
10.答案：
【详细解答】要表达距离上的远近，在英语中通常用副词away。far表示“远，从（到）很远距离”，不合句意。
2001年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the
the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if
they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2.___
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. 5.___ 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
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.
2000年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
gr
seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2._
Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,
Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among
distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we
when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of
Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
专八改错模拟题1
In the United States there are, strict speaking, __1__
no national holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactment or executive proclamation, __2__
appoint the day which each holiday is celebrated. Congress and the president may establish legal holidays__3__
for the District of Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and territories;
and by long custom, days that receive nationwide observation, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, __4__
Labor Day, Independent Day, and New Year’s Day, are uniformly set __5__
apart by all states as legal, or public holidays. In 1968, federal legislation established Columbia Day __6__
as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at 1971. __7__
The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees would be granted__8__
three-days weekends by observing Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday in February, __9__
Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus Day on the second Monday in October,
and Veteran Day on the forth Monday on October. By 1971, most of the states also adopted the new dates. __10__
答案：
1.strict改为strictly
2.holiday改为holidays。因为原句的谓语动词为复数are，所以holiday必须使用复数。另外no后面可以用复数也可以用单数。
3.which前面加上on。因为先行词the day在关系从句钟做状语，还原回去应为：each holiday is celebrated on the day，所以必须加on。
4.obsevation改为observance。observation意思为“观察，观测”，observance则表示“遵守，庆祝”。
5.Independent改为Independence。独立日的说法是“Independence Day”。
6.apart改为aside。set apart 指“使分离，使分开”，语义不同，set aside表示“留出，保留”的意思。
7.at改为in
8.begun改为beginning。动词begin和分句的主语federal employees的关系是主动的，应此要用beginning。
9.three-days 改为three-day。用连字符连接起来的表示数量的名词的前置修饰语的复
数概念仍然是单数，如：a million-pound banknote。
10.also前面加had。如果一个句子里面有by引导的时间状语从句则动词一般用完成
体。
专八改错模拟题2
Now you'v e seen the ads for computers for “free” or almost _1_
next to nothing in the Sunday papers. The offers look mightly _2_ tempting. But how do you know the deal is a good one? The Federal _3_
Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection championer, _4_
says there are some important facts to keep it in mind. First, find _5_
out the total，up-front cost of the computer. Then determine the
rebate situation. If rebates are involved, find out how can you get _6_
them. In most cases, you are required to sign a contract for three years
of Internet service. Before you do the rebate deal, do the math: three years
of Internet service can cost you lot more than you will get back in rebates. _7_
Second, you have to apply for the rebates can be redeemed immediately _8_
at the checkout counter. But most is the mail-in variety. You pay half the _9_
full cost of the computer at the time of purchase, then send documentation to
the manufacturer or retailer to receive your rebate in mail. In most cases, _10_
you must send the paperwork to the manufacturer or retailer within 30 days
of the purchase. You generally will receive the rebates up to 12 weeks later.
答案：
1. 去掉almost
2. mightly-mighty
3. know + if or whether
4. championer-champion 5 去掉it 6. 去掉can
7. 去掉lot或lot前加a8. that can be 9. is---are10. in mail-by mail
专八改错模拟题3
The first real organized effort to uniting Europe came _1_
with the creation of the Council of Europe, was established _2_
in 1949. While not as influential as the European Community
in term of public awareness and promotion of European _3_
political unity, the Council produced, in November 1950, one of
the most politically and social important documents _4_
seen this millennium—the European Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. On conjunction with _5_
the Statute of the Council of Europe, Convention provides a common _6_
set of guaranteed freedoms and rights for every citizen whose government
enters into an agreement to rectify and enforce the specifics articulated _7_
in the Convention. However, merely putting pen to paper and producing
an official document is far enough to actually guarantee these _8_ freedoms. By outlining the rights and freedoms of citizens, Europe
vocalizes its concerns to its people, but to physically pledge protection
of these ideals requires a strict and specific system of
enforcement. Only by enabling the physical the citizens _9_
of Europe be assured about their liberty. _10_
答案：
1. uniting-unite
2. established---made
3. term-terms
4. social-socially
5. On-In
6. Convention前加the
7. rectify-ratify
8. far + from 或far-not
9. physical + can
10. about-of
专八改错模拟题4
At the International World Summit for Social Development _1_ in Copenhagen in 1995, the Governments of 186 countries
commit themselves to the goals of eradicating poverty and _2_ achieving full employment and social integration. With
unprecedenting momentum, they adopted a Programme _3_ of Action that underscored on the importance of social_4_ development for ensuring the well-being of all. To fulfill their commitments, some governments have formulated policies
and strategies in accordance with this Programme of Action.
Now, five years later, the Governments have agreed to review
the achievements they have made and the obstacles they
encountered in implementing the three cored issues agreed _5_ upon at Copenhagen. They intend to propose further initiatives
in order to pursue, with renewed political ends and mean, the _6_ commitments they made. The current world situation presents
a paradox. Therefore high-speed globalization is broadening __7_ opportunities for a better life for many, it has also endangered
the livelihoods of the poor, this increasing poverty and social_8_ exclusion and worsening the health of many people around the world. Progress in communication and information technologies hold out the _9_ promise of universal access to knowledge, while half of the inhabitants
of the planet have made a telephone call. _10_ 答案：
1. 去掉International
2. commit-committed
3. unprecedenting-unprecedented
4. 去掉on
5 cored-core
6. mean-means
7. Therefore-While
8. this-thus
9. hold-holds
10. made-never
专八改错模拟题5
Now set out to become European Capital of Culture in _1_ 2008, Liverpool is a city bursting out energy and confidence. _2_
The Pan-American Club in Albert Dock is a stylish bar and a _3_ Restaurant, which features a breakfast martini — Cointreau, gin and marmalade. Albert Dock is also the home to the Merseyside Maritime _4_ Museum. This gives the background to the city's extraordinary
wealth in the 18th and 19th centuries. In “Transatlantic Slavery” the museum comes cleanly over Liverpool's role in the slave trade, _5_ with a reconstruction of a slave ship, which echoes to the
voices of actors reading from the diaries of slaves and
slave traders. This inhumane trade fuelled Liverpool's reputation as
a port. Later, over 9 million people passed through the city, on route to _6_ new lives in America and Australia. This wealth can be seen in the
grandeur of the buildings, including St George's Hall, and its priceless _7_ Minton tiles, the Royal Liver Building (which is topped by statues of the mythical Liver birds) and the Walker Art Gallery, which opened in 1877. Art has always been strong in Liverpool. Next year, the Liverpool Biennial will be held again. It's a three-months showcase for some of the world's best _8_ conceptual artists, with hundreds of sites around the city.
John Lennon and — more recently — David Gray went to Liverpool School of Art — and plenty of its graduates stay with design. The Bluecoat Centre, _9_ is housed in a 17th century former school— Liverpool's oldest _10_ building, has studios, a tranquil garden, and, at the back a shop that sells one-off jewellery and ceramics. It shouldn't be missed.
答案：
1. 去掉out
2. out-with
3.and a 去掉a
4.the home 去掉the
5. cleanly-clean
6. on-en
7. and-with
8.three-months变成three-month
9. and-but
10. 去掉is
专八改错题技巧+经验 改错题采取的避实就虚的原则，应该从根本上解决问题，大量做题未必是件好事，所谓的基本是指语法概念，我们称之为虚的概念，如主谓一致、代词、冠词、副词、分词、逻辑关系、固定搭配、等是最容易出题的地方，学生应该作一写针对语言点、基本功的练习，推荐宫玉波《语言点必备》达到对语言点的敏感程度。改错不难，关键是对语言点的把握，改错就是以一种比较复杂的结构靠一些比较基础的语言点知识。 对于改错这一题型与其他一些形式不同，它需要考生对英语具备相当高的综合运用能力。无论是语法、词汇还是惯用法都能成为改错的对象。考生必须在全面理解短文内容的基础上指出并改正错误，使句子和短文的意思以及句、段的结构正确、完整。这种改错要求考生具有语篇水平（Discourse level）。故此可以说，在某种程度上，它能较清晰地反映出考生的总体英文水平。 另外，该题型的主要特点是，一改传统的句子单位改错，代之以篇章单位的短文形式。这一改革不仅要求考生有更高的阅读理解能力，而且迫使考生摆脱原先较为孤立片面的思维定势，以一种连贯的思路整体的眼光去适应这一新题型。 做题时千万不要拿起来就改。正确的做法是先从头到尾通读全文，在正确理解或大致正确理解甚至在猜想原文的前提下，再仔细推敲需要改正或增添的内容。此时，考生必须充分调动所掌握的语法和词汇两方面的知识，发挥自身领会、推理，判断乃至猜想的能力，并利用以往的学习经验.做起题来才能游刃有余。 找出错误并改正后，还要注意通读全文。从词汇和语法两方面来检查被改正后的短文的意思是否通顺，逻辑概念是否严密合理，结构是否正确，完整。 总而言之，这一题型对于中国考生来讲，难度很大，因为要求考生指出和改正的错误往往是考生在英语学习中常犯和易犯的错误，不易察觉。这就要求考生在学习时不能'知半解、似是而非，而必须十分仔细、认真并多做这类改错练习，而且每次练习都要遵照正确的方法和步骤.久而久之就能容易地发现和改正语病，答对率也会逐步提高，从而会增强信心，考出最佳成绩。 为了能使考生较为彻底地把握解决错误、识别语病的钥匙，为了避免“知其然而不知其所以然”的现象，我们首先从错误类型归类着手，介绍易于记忆的、起关键作用的要点、标记，并以此作为钥匙去开启识别、改正短文的语病之大门。具体地讲，错误类型有以下几种：1.主谓一致；2.动词时态；3.动词语态：主动／被动语态；4.连接词／并列句／从句；5.比较级；6.虚拟语气；7.非谓语动词；8.代词与先行词的一致；9.倒装句语序；10.赘述；11.增添词；12.易混淆的词。
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 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, and so are the ice rink and the costumes 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 our 7. own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have asked 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.
专业英语八级改错练习题及答案解析(30) Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world? Surely because progress of particular kind is actually taking place around us and is more and more manifesting. Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality, it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation of knowledge. Knowledge begins to increase as soon as the thoughts of one individual could be communicated to another by mean of speech. With the invention of writing, knowledge could be communicated and stored. Libraries made education possible, and education in turn added libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound-interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing. All this was comparatively slow until, with the coming of science, the tempo was suddenly risen. Then knowledge began to be accumulated according to a systematic plan.However, as soon as new knowledge is acquired, it is now turned to practical account. What is called “modern civilization” is not the result of a balanced development of all man’s nature, but not of accumulated knowledge applied to practical life. The problem now facing humanity is: What is going to be done with all this knowledge? Like is often pointed out, knowledge is a two edged weapon which could be used equally for good or evil. It is now being frequently used indifferently for both. Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that gunners using science to shatter men’s bodies while, clo se at hand, surgeons use it to restore them. 1 ________ 2 ________ 3 ________ 4 ________ 5 ________ 6 ________ 7 ________ 8 ________ 9 ________ 10 _______
英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 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 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____
英语专八改错模拟题(7) 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
2019年专业英语八级改错专项练习试题及答案1 The telephone system is a circuit-switched network. For much of the history of the system, when you placed (26) a call, you were renting a pair of copper wires that ran continuously from your telephone to the other party’s phone. You had excluding use of those wires during the (27) call; when you hung up, they were rented to someone else. Today the transaction is more complicated. ( your call may well possess a fiber-optic cable or a satellite with hundreds of other calls), but more conceptually the system (28) still works the same way. When you dial the phone, you get a private connection of one other party. This is an alternative network architecture called (29) packet switching, in which all stations are always connected to the network, but they receive only the messages addressed to them. It is as if your telephone was always tuned in to (30) thousands of conversations going on the wire, but you (31) heard only the occasional word intended to you. Most (32) computer networks employ packet switching, because it is more efficient than circuit switching when traffic is heavy. It seems reasonable the existing packet-switched (33) network will grow, and new one may be created; they could (34)
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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 c ollapse 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__
2000 年 -2015 年专八短文改错试卷 2015 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 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 my vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context.“Plush”was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation 。 that much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and so are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’tthey? My friend ’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 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 new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have asked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 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.1.______ 2. ______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6.______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______ 2014 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 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 “acquiritionalg ” an addi 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 spotlight is on what mental capabilities are
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 favoured 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 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 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后加on 2．certain改为a certain 3．rather改为not 4．is 改为was
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 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 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。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 英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二) “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_____
2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试 题及答案5 I think it is true to saying that, in general, language teachers (26) have paid little attention to the way sentences are used in combination to form stretches of disconnected discourse. They have tended to take (27) their cue from the grammarian and have concentrated to the teaching (28) of sentences as self-contained units. It is true that these are often represented in "contexts" and strung together in dialogues and (29) reading passages, but these are essentially setting to make the formal properties of the sentences stand out more clearly, properties which are then established in the learners brain(30) by means of practice drill and exercises. Basically, the language teaching unit is the (31)
校对与改错(Proofreading and Error Correction) 题型分析与应试技巧 校对与改错是英语专业八级考试的第二部分。该部分采用主观测试题型。该项目包含两个部分：答题要求和一篇要求修改的短文。答题要求部分说明修改短文的三种方法：加入、删去和改动某一单词，并举例说明。要求修改的短文长度为200字左右。短文的体裁和题材不超出学生所熟悉的范围。短文内含10个错误；错误都出现在标有题号的行内。错误一般涉及单个词；每行只出现一个错误。要求修改的单词既有功能词（如介词、冠词等），也有实义词（动词、名词等）。错误既涉及句内也涉及句际。校对与改错部分的测试目的是检查学生在实际语境中灵活运用语言的能力。该项目考查学生的语法和词汇知识，但更侧重评估学生的综合语言能力。校对改错部分要求学生在15分钟内找出10个错误，并根据要求用三种方法之中的一种改正错误。 这一部分要求考生掌握三种知识： 1.语法知识 众所周知，英语语言能力包括众多因素，其中之一是语法知识。没有系统的语法知识，学习者就很难全面、准确地以口头或书面的形式表达思维或意念。对于把英语作为外语的学生来说，语法知识的掌握尤为重要，因为它有助于提高语言的准确性、逻辑性。鉴于此，校对改错项目的一个测试点是检验高年级学生语法知识的掌握程度及其运用能力。一般地说，该项目中要求改正的错误里包括一些语法错误。例如： 定语从句（1996年第三题），/ 情态动词（1997年第一题），/ 冠词（1997年第九题）， / 介词（1998年第四题）， / 反身代词（1998年第六题），等等。 校对改错项目要求学生运用已学过的语法知识，来判断句子的正误，找出语病，并作修正。这里要强调的一点是，八级考试的这个项目不是孤立地测试学生
英语专业八级改错练习题 Humankind’s future safety and longevity of life on Earth largely depend on the environment which we live.Keeping the air we __1__breathe free of pollution is a major priority towards making this earth a safe place.Other areas of concern are water,land,the ozone layer,and the preservation of flora and fauna of the planet. Every country has ecological issues to deal.In South America,__2__the rain forests are rapidly disappearing as people burn and cut down trees to make for farmland.Many Middle-Eastern and Asian countries __3__have a battle to fight with air,water,and land https://www.doczj.com/doc/4f19015678.html,kes and swamps are spread with debris.__4__Mass chemical spraying is used to kill pests on trees and plants.Abundant __5__use of water in countries as China has caused major water shortage.__6__Rivers be polluted by factories and the populations that live on their banks.Global warming is considered a major factor caused __7__the droughts in eastern China,the Sudan,Ethiopia,and northern Kenya. The reduction of the ozone layer is blamed for the global warming trends in variant countries of this globe,and
英语专八改错突击练习（1） One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising (26 is the possibility of unraveling the complicated writing (27) of the brain. A mechanic gets valuable insight how an (28) automobile works by rebuilding car engines; similarly, neuroscientists can learn how the brain functions from (29) the way it is put together. The next step pursuing the (30) goal is to find out how the blueprint genes, the home box genes, control the expression of other genes that create the valves and piston of the working cerebral engine. The protein encoded by the latter genes could change the (31) stickiness of the cell surface, the shape of the cell or its metabolism to create the characteristic peculiar to, say, neurons or neural-crest cell. Surface proteins may be the (32) mechanism, whereby similar programmed cells stick together to form specific structures; they might also sense (33) the local environment to help the cell decide what is to do. Clarifying those mechanisms will engage the best talents in (34) embryology and molecular biology for some times to come. (35) What is perhaps the most intriguing question of all is if the brain is powerful enough to solve the puzzle of its own creation. 英语专八改错突击练习（2） Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. __1 The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. __2__ Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, __3 nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. __4 Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. __5__ People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help.So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and __6__for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. __7__ The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the is advantages of being cut off. __8__ The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that __9__ you are at the centre of things and that life doesn’t come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two: they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the __10__ country within commuting distance of the large city. 英语专八改错突击练习（3） Successful aging is a psychological feat. Fear for death, for example, may sometimes oppress you.__1__ even when this is successfully overcome, there is still something for you to deal