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Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min)
The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a ―∧‖ sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash ―/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
Example
When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an
it never／buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never
them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit
The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1.______ human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2._____
with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter-
gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one
half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing
and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds
and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of
London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food
than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4.______ edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. 5.______ Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung 6._______ diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if
they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary
aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7._______ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental
decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood
cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average American 8._______ adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life 9.________ style, we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for 10.________ healthier diet.
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grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different
meaning‖, but in fact some grammarians have called them
―empty‖ words as opposed in the ―full‖ words of vocabulary. 3.________ But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction.
it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp
vile‖, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning.
themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the
―little words‖. But size is by no mean a good criterion for
distinguishing the grammatical words of Engli
consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart
people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity
when we
Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
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very lifeblood of Western Canada. Peop
the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if
they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing
War set the stage for the
Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could
not wait
they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts
were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich.
On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control,
but the government had no wish to become involving, at
Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal
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.
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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 2.__________ sounds like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock 3.__________ when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we 4._________ recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is something
which we almost always know. We begin the natural learning 5.__________ of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write,
and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 6.__________ practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more
hours per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our 7.___________ difficult English spelling. This is ―natural‖, therefore, that our 8.__________ 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. 10.__________
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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 on 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.
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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
purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of both houses.
Investigations are he
officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)
rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings
and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)_________ There are import
is the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most
committee hearings are open to public and are reported (7)__________ widely in the mass media. Congressional i
nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers (8)__________ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues.
Congressional
these who give false testimony. (10)_________
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The University as Business
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 common 1 stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizes
its 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 being
in 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 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 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 earlier
from 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 purely
of need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best 10 customer.
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 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 English 5_______ speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses actively
and that which he recognizes, 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 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 m ost8_______ 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_______
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
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 remote
tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of
a language with a large proportion of such cries 5
than we find in English. It is true that the absence
of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in 6
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.
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The desire to use language as a sign of national identity
is a very natural one，and in result language has played a 1__________ prominent part in national moves．Men have often felt the need 2__________ to cultivate a given language to show that they are distinctive 3____________ from another race．whose hegemony they resent．At the time the 4.___________ United States split off from Britain，for example，there
were proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by 5._________ the use of a different language from those of Britain． 6.__________ There was even one 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 7.___________ English 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．Since
nearly two hundred years now，they have shown the 9.____________ world that political independence and national identity can be 10.___________ complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language．
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The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes
from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)__ ___ between shcool 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 twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)__ ___ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)__ ___ it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)___ __ 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 retransmitting 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.
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PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) The passage contains TEN errors．Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error．In each case, only ONE word is involved．You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "L" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
EXAMPLE
When A art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an
it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never
them on the wall．When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it．(3) exhibit
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 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 t he 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 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)_____
答案部分
改错部分:
1999年
1. 答案：as → like
2. 答案：supplementing → supplemented
3. 答案：and → or
4. 答案：in → on
5. 答案：as → while / whereas
6. 答案：删去for，或改成about
7. 答案：删去第一个of
8. 答案：half ∧→ that
9. 答案：if → While / Although / Though
10. 答案：for ∧→ a
Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction
1.答案：as→like
【详细解答】as our prehistoric human ancestors意为―作为人类史前的祖先那样‖，但是根据上下文，此处应表达的意思是―像人类史前的祖先那样‖，故应该将as改为介词like。
2.答案：supplementing→supplemented
【详细解答】本句中的分词短语supplementing with animal foods 是定语，修饰vegetable diet，根据上下文，此处是指―素食被肉食补充‖，故应该用过去分词表被动。
3.答案：and→or
【详细解答】根据上下文，这里的意思只能是三分之二或多于三分之二，所以不能用表示并列关系的and，而应该用表示选择关系的or。
4.答案：in→on
【详细解答】on average为固定搭配，意为―平均‖。
5.答案：as→whereas/while
【详细解答】根据上下文意思，这两句话表示的是一种对比关系。故应该改用连词whereas或w hile，引出相反或不同的事实。
6.答案：for
【详细解答】provide是及物动词，可以直接连宾语，不需要任何介词。7.答案：of
【详细解答】despite是一介词，其后可直接接名词。
【详细解答】在这里加上that，用来指代前面的blood cholesterol levels，句子结构才完整。
9.答案：if→though
【详细解答】根据上下文，这里的主从句关系不是条件，而是让步关系，即―尽管没有人建议我们回到土著人的生活方式，…‖。
10.答案：for ∧→a
【详细解答】本句中的a healthier diet表示一种更加健康的饮食。冠词a泛指―一种或一类‖。
2000年
1. 答案：删去the
2. 答案：but → and/thus
3. 答案：in → to
4. 答案：misled → misleading
5. 答案：删去away
6. 答案：single → only
7. 答案：as → in
8. 答案：mean → means
9. 答案：∧ lexical → such 或在words后加such，或把改成like
10. 答案：number → dea l / amount
1.答案：the
【详细解答】本句中的most为副词，修饰形容词obvious，意为―十分，非常‖，由于obvious 不是最高级形式，故不用定冠词the。
2.答案：but→and
【详细解答】根据文章内容判断，but后面的陈述与前文并不是相反之意，而是并列关系。
3.答案：in→to
【详细解答】as opposed to为固定搭配，意为―与……对照，与……相比‖。
4.答案：misled→misleading
【详细解答】根据句意，这里的方式（way）是对他人有误导，不是被他人误导。所以应该用m islead的现在分词表示主动的含义。
5.答案：away
【详细解答】far away from意为―距离某处很远‖，而far from being则意为―远不是，远够不上‖。根据上下文，这里是说―远非毫无意义‖，故应该用短语far from being。
【详细解答】此处用only修饰vehicle比用single更符合习惯用法。
7.答案：as→in
【详细解答】本句中的介词in表示―在……方面‖，as则无此意。
8.答案：mean→means
【详细解答】by no means为固定搭配，意为―丝毫不，绝不‖。
9.答案：have∧→such
【详细解答】such as是常见表达方式，用来举例说明。
10.答案：obscurity→obscurities
【详细解答】a number of 意为―大量的‖，应修饰可数名词复数形式。
2001年
1. 答案：in → with
2. 答案：increasing → increasingly
3. 答案：so → but
4. 答案：删去soon或shortly
5. 答案：just → only
6. 答案：asked ∧ → for
7. 答案：involving → involved
8. 答案：life → living
9. 答案：handle → deal 或删去with
10. 答案：total → full/complete/absolute
PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION
1.答案：as→so
【详细解答】由于本句中的much修饰的是名词feeling，应改用so来修饰。
2.答案：increasing→increasingly
【详细解答】increasing可用来修饰名词，表示―正在增加‖，修饰名词topic 不合题意。本句中应该用副词作状语修饰形容词favorite，所以应该改用副词increasingly。
3.答案：so→but
【详细解答】根据上下文判断，小麦价格在秋天不断下降，但是农民不能等着市场提升价格。这里应该是转折关系，而不是因果关系。
4.答案：soon或shortly
【详细解答】要表达―不久以后‖，要么用soon after，要么用shortly after，就是没有soo n shortly after这种搭配。
5.答案：rich→richer
【详细解答】根据上下文，这里是说由于价格上涨，投机商们变得更加富有，故应该改用形容词的比较级形式。
6.答案：asked∧→for
【详细解答】ask for为固定搭配，意为―要求，请求‖。
7.答案：involving→involved
【详细解答】be involved in为一固定搭配，意为―被卷入…‖，这里的be为连系动词，可用become替换。
8.答案：1ife→living
【详细解答】根据上下文，这里要表达的意思是―生活费用‖，应为living costs。life则意为―生命‖，不能修饰costs。
9.答案：handle→deal或with
【详细解答】handle为及物动词，应直接带宾语。而固定搭配deal with与handle同义，都表示―处理(某事)‖。
10.答案：total→full
【详细解答】total意为―总体的，全体的‖，指一种整体的概念。而这里要表达的是―全部的权威‖，英语中常用full authority。
2002年
1. 答案：第二个and → while / whereas / but / yet
2. 答案：with → of
3. 答案：删去out
4. 答案：firstly → first
5. 答案：which → that
6. 答案：went → go
7. 答案：删去per或every
8. 答案：This → It
9. 答案：community ∧ → together
10. 答案：far → away
2003年
1. 答案：height → high
2. 答案：a stea dy decline → steady decline
3. 答案：went^ for → on或把went改成lasted
4. 答案：high → higher
5. 答案：Europe → European
6. 答案：删去more
7. 答案：把nevertheless 改成also,thus或therefore
8. 答案：that → those
9. 答案：Since → Although / While/though
10. 答案：in → to
2004年
1. 答案：set ^fo r → up
2. 答案：consisted → consisting/composed
3. 答案：in → on
4. 答案：rely ^ outside → on
5. 答案：删去out
6. 答案：its → their
7. 答案：^ public → the
8. 答案：nevertheless → therefore / thus
9. 答案：interests → interest
10. 答案：these → those
PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION
1.答案：^ special committees → or special committees
【详细解答】多项并列用句型either...or...or。
2.答案：consisted → consisting
【详细解答】consist of 意思是―由...构成‖，故该处应用现在分词短语。
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：citizenry → citizens
【详细解答】citizenry 为集体名词，意为―全体公民‖，且为旧用法；citizens 指公民，强调具体的群体。
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。
2005年
1. 答案：investing – invested
2. 答案：irrespective ∧ - of
3. 答案：those – that
4. 答案：fact ∧ economic – that
5. 答案：in the school －去掉the
6. 答案：poor – poorer
7. 答案：∧ which －in或把which改成that, 或删去which
8. 答案：eliminate – eliminating
9. 答案：shorten – lessen/reduce/minimize/weaken
10. 答案：discount on – discount to
2005 尚待推敲
答案解析：
1. investing应改为invested。这里说―投资于‖普通股中的捐赠金价值损失惨重，既然是投资，就是指人
去投资，即endowments (that were)heavily invested in．括号内的部分是被省略的部分，本句形式上是主动，实际意义上为被动，因此应该把investing改为invested，否则逻辑上和语法上都是说不通的。
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，如：irrespectiveOfthecost不惜工本，irrespective of the consequences不顾后果，irrespective of duty status不论职位高低。此处指公司不顾收入的波动变化。
3. 把those改为that。本句的后半部分主要强调的是大学里的―看法或观点‖(outlook)与企业公司的看法或观点不一样，即着眼点在于对两种不同团体看法的对比。既然前面用的是单数形式，后面也应用单数形式，基本语法规则是前后应一致，本句为代词those的误用，所以应把those改为that。
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，否则就很可能出现意思所指不清的麻烦，所以此处必须加上关系代词that。
5．把定冠词the去掉。定冠词与一名词连用，表示某个或某些特定的人或物或机构等，而此处的in the school，一则意思不清，二则可能指在某人正在某个具体学校做某事。这一层意思与本文上下文不相吻合。比较之下，inschool是一固定说法，表示―在上学或求学‖、―在校读书‖正符合本文上下文的意思。因此应把定冠词去掉。
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……‖，根据这一思路，我们应把形容词poor改为其比较级poorer，以表达一种对称关系。
7．在ways和which之间加上一个介词in。在ways和which之间加上一个介词in，表示intheseways，即指通过前面提到的这些方法。相似的句子较多，如：Not all sounds made by animals serve as language，and we have only to turn to that extra ordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role．(动物发出的声音并不是都能当作语言，因此我们只好求助于蝙蝠回声定位的这种非凡的发展，探究一下语音在何种情况下起着绝对有用的作用。)
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或weaken。此处属于用词不当。应将shorten(缩短；使变短)改为reduce(使精神垮下来；使身体瘦弱)或weaken(使削弱；使衰减)，可表示文中所表示的―减弱竞争的残酷性‖。
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。而give discount on something则指就某一商品打折扣，显然与本文的上下文是相悖的。因为本文一直在讨论就如何避免为抢最好的生源而展开恶性竞争，为抢好学生捉供优厚奖学金，与公司为抢客源，给最好的客户提供优惠道理是一样的。所以应做上述改动。
2006年
1. 答案：agreeing – agreed
2. 答案：∧words – these
3. 答案：in his disposal – at his disposal.
4. 答案：enables – enable
5. 答案：the other English speakers – other English speakers
6. 答案：old – older
7. 答案：seen – understood
8. 答案：删去it
9. 答案：And – But/Yet/However/Nevertheless
10. 答案：most – the most
2007年
1. 答案：and – or
2. 答案：show后面添加that或把show改成showing
3. 答案：删去the
4. 答案：and – but/whereas/while
5. 答案：large – larger
6. 答案：in – on
7. 答案：return – in response/reaction/answer
8. 答案：删去on
9. 答案：增加a
10. 答案：these – those
2008年
1. 答案：in result--- in consequence
2. 答案：moves---movements
3. 答案：distinctive---distinct/different
4. 答案：time ∧ --- when
5. 答案：accepted--- acknowledged/confirmed/realized
6. 答案：those---that
7. 答案：删去on
8. 答案：At---In
9. 答案：carry ∧ with --- on
10. 答案：Since---For
2008
改错
1.one改为thing
2. have (去掉)
3. a改为their
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
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____
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 _______
QUESTION BOOKLET 试卷 用后随即销毁。 严禁保留、出版或复印。 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018) -GRADE EIGHT TIME LIMIIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] SECTION A MINI-LECTURE You have THIRTY sec onds to preview the gap-filli ng task. Now liste n to the min i-lecture. When it is over, you will be give n THREE mi nu tes to check your work. SECTION B INTERVIEW In this secti on you will hear ONE in terview. The in terview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questi ons will be asked about what was said. Both the in terview and the questi ons will be spoke n ONCE ONL Y. After each questio n there will be a ten-sec ond pause. Duri ng the pause, you should read the four choices of A), B), C) and D), and mark the best an swer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have THIRTY sec onds to preview the choices. Now, liste n to the first in terview. Questi ons 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the in terview. Now liste n to the in terview. A. Announ ceme nt of results.
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)
1996年高等院校英语专业八级考试 https://www.doczj.com/doc/7a14531961.html,/tem8/tem-8-96translation.htm C-E原文： 近读报纸，对国内名片和请柬的议论颇多，于是想起客居巴黎时经常见到的法国人手中的名片和请柬，随笔记下来，似乎不无借鉴之处。 在巴黎，名目繁多的酒会，冷餐会是广交朋友的好机会。在这种场合陌生人相识，如果是亚洲人，他们往往开口之前先毕恭毕敬地用双手把自己的名片呈递给对方，这好像是不可缺少的礼节。然而，法国人一般却都不大主动递送名片，双方见面寒暄几句，甚至海阔天空地聊一番也就各自走开，只有当双方谈话投机，希望继续交往时，才会主动掏出名片。二话不说先递名片反倒显得有些勉强。 法国人的名片讲究朴素大方，印制精美，但很少有镶金边儿的，闪光多彩的或带香味的，名片上的字体纤细秀丽，本人的名字也不过分突出，整张纸片上空白很大，毫无拥挤不堪的感觉。 参考译文： Version 1: In reading recent newspapers, I have come to find that people in China have become more and more interested in discussing name cards and invitation letters. This reminds me of the name cards and invitation
letters of the French people that I saw when I was sojourning in Paris. In writing down those random reminiscences, I believe that they might provide some useful information for us to learn. In Paris, cocktail parties and buffet receptions of different kinds offer great opportunities for making friends. On such occasions, strangers may get to know each other. If they are Asians, they will, very respectfully and with both hands, present their calling cards to their interlocutors before any conversation starts. This seems to be the required courtesy on their part. The French, however, usually are not so ready with such a formality. Both sides will greet each other, and even chat casually about any topic and then excuse themselves. Only when they find they like each other and hope to further the relationship will they exchange cards. It will seem very unnatural to do so before any real conversation gets under way. The French tend to take extraordinary precaution in making their name cards, simple yet elegant. Exquisitely designed and printed, their name cards are seldom golden-framed, or colorfully shiny, or tinted with fragrant smells. The letters which appearing on their name cards tend to be diminutive but beautiful, not allowing the name of the card-bearer t be overly prominent / salient. The entire card leaves much empty space, imparting no sense of over-crowdedness.
英语专业八级改错（1） It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain __1__ "Britannia" and the United States "Columbia", and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our __2__ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed __3__ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be __4__ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually __5__ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband. After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United __6__States was knownfor "Brother Jonathan". Jonathan was a biblical __7__ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since __8__American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to __9__ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originated with President George Washington,
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_____
英语专业八级改错模拟练习及解析1 英语专业八级改错模拟练习及解析1英语专业八级改错模拟练习及解析1it can be tempt to hide from the people, places and tasks (1) which make life stressful. by removing you from the situa- (2) tion, it' s possible to find immediate relief-- and these sources (3) of stress will never go away unless we confront against them (4) being haunted by these stressors means that we can' t be re- laxed in the case the sources of stress return. (5) if avoiding stress triggers isn't such a good technique of dealing with stress, then what is? life experience teaches us (6) that whenever we need to master a new skill-- learning to swim, giving a public presentation, taking risks in front of others--it pays to take a deep breath, perhaps grit our teeth,
2003年英语专业八级考试真题 PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN) In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet SECTION A TALK Questions I to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk. 1. Which of the following statements about offices is NOT true according to the talk? A. Offices throughout the world are basically alike. B. There are primarily two kinds of office layout. C. Office surroundings used to depend on company size. D. Office atmosphere influences workers’ performance. 2. We can infer from the talk that harmonious work relations may have a direct impact on your A. promotion. B. colleagues. C. management. D. union. 3. Supposing you were working in a small firm, which of the
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/7a14531961.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
1995-2017年英语专业八级改错真题及答案 （文字/答案校对版） 2017年改错真题 The ability to communicate is the primary factor that distinguishes human beings from animals. And it is the ability to communicate well which 1.________ distinguishes one individual from another. The fact is that apart from the basic necessities, one needs to be equipped with habits for good communication skills, thus this is 2.________ what will make one a happy and successful social being. In order to develop these habits, one needs to first acknowledge the fact that they need to improve communication skills from time to time. They need to take stock of the way how they interact and the direction 3.________ in which their work and personal relations are going. The only constant in life is change, th e more one accepts one’s strengths and works 4._______ towards dealing with their shortcomings, specially in the area of 5.________ communication skills, the better will be their interactions and the more their social popularity. The dominated question that comes here is: How to improve 6.________ communication skills? The answer is simple. One can find plenty of literature on this. There are also experts, who conduct workshops and seminars based on communication skills of men and women. In fact, a large number of companies are bringing in trainers to regularly make sessions on the subject, in order to 7.________ help their work force maintain better interpersonal work relations. Today effective communication skills have become a predominant factor even while recruiting employees. While interviewing candidates, most interviewers judge them on the basis of the skills they communicate with. They believe that some skills can be improvised on the job; but ability to 8.________ communicate well is important, as every employee becomes the representing face of the company. There are trainers, who specialized in delivering custom-made 9._______ programs on the subject. Through the sessions they not only facilitate better communication skills in the workplace, but also look into the problems in the manner of being able to convey messages effectively. 10._______ 2016年改错真题 All social units develop a culture. Even in two-person relationships, a culture develops in time. In friendship and romantic relationships, 1._________ for example, partners develop their own history, shared experiences, language patterns, habits, and customs give that relationship a special 2._________ character—a character that differs it in various ways from 3._________
2004—2014历年专业英语八作文题归纳 PARTVI WRITING (45 MIN) 2014 Nowadays, some companies have work-from-home or remote working policies, which means that their employees do not have to commute to work every day. Some people think that this can save a lot of time travelling to and from work, thus raising employees’productivity. However, others argue that in the workplace, people can communicate face to face, which vastly increases the efficiency of coordination and cooperation. What is your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic： 2013 Is our society hostile to good people? According to a recent survey by China Y outh Daily，76.1 percent of the respondents say that our current society provides a “bad environment" for good people doing good things．On the other hand，the more optimistic would argue that each individual should try his or her best to do good things and be nice to others, instead of waiting for the "social environment”to improve．So，what do you think? Is a sound social environment necessary for people to have high moral standards and be good to others? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic： Is a sound social environment necessary for people to be good to others? 2012 A recent survey of 2,000 college students asked about their attitudes
2008年英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(1) 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 Cen ters 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____
2003年英语专业八级真题试卷 [真题] 120 PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. while listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but yon will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. when the lecture is over, yon will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 第1题： Which of the following statements about offices is NOT true according to the talk? A.Offices throughout the world are basically alike. B.There are primarily two kinds of office layout. C.Office surroundings used to depend on company size. D.Office atmosphere influences workers' performance. 第2题： We can infer from the talk that harmonious work relations may have a direct impact on your A.promotion. B.colleagues. C.management. D.union. 第3题： Supposing you were working in a small firm, which of the following would you do when you had some grievances? A.Request a formal special meeting with the boss. B.Draft a formal agenda for a special meeting. C.Contact a consultative committee first. D.Ask to see the boss for a talk immediately. 第4题： According to the talk, the union plays the following roles EXCEPT A.mediation.