英语专业八级必看-综合改错

可可英语专八改错练习第一期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 University. ____2The 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 ____3within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their ____4families 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 ____5the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and the US Center s for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high risk categories. ____6 The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart.____10第二期'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 _____1has 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 _____2for one's family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to ___4support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._____10第三期We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _____2with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3them to explain about the rinciples of physics that have gone into creating the _____4computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7tec hnology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. _____9Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet earned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous._____10第四期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 __1are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is __2a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can __3escape—not even light. But we can’t see a black hole. A black hole __4exerts 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 collapse 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 __6its 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 __7size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger __8gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. __9And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. __10第五期The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which __1have ever lived on the earth, and one of them, the blue whale, is the largest. People in ancient times thought whales as fearsome __2monsters of the ocean depths. So to hunt a whale, when one occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People __3found the adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat from one whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole winter.Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred by the ancients as __4“great fish,” and any whale beaching along the c oasts of England was designated “the King’s fish” because it automatically belonged to the Crown.Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of __5 wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions. __6Even though some species are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whale hunting is regulated, but the earth's stock of whales is still being __7depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now __8there may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and __9awe-inspiring creature that always fed man's imagination and made the world a more exciting place__10第六期We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, __1languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know __2more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language __3is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from __4animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language __5and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we __6understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, __7language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. __8 Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few __9of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which takes language as its object of investigation.__10第七期Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years before, you can’t help being strucked by the __1 appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too short__2 ;their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created __4by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7on the law and women around the world run to obey. The __8decrees of the designers are unpredictable anddictatorial.Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10 第八期Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war 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 __1after more than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the "baby boom." __2These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary __3reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a ounger age than their __4Europe counterparts. __5Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed__6families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a __7postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of __8couples who married in earlier as well as later decades. Since the United States __9maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. __10 Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.第九期When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately startmeeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked alady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the __1way they occupied the space around them—for example, when such a personwalks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never __2bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this was more a question ofcivilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other person told us a story, __3it he said was quite well-known, about an American who had been invited __4 to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American __5hasn't been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had __6known about American food, he might have behaved better. __7Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, tohim, very much as a napkin. Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that __8it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been watching, __9said of nothing, but immediately copied the action of his guest. __10And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.第十期A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5 dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10-ing out again to the suburbs.第十一期Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect__1while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence __2of the personality or character beneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact __3the caricature is recognizable, and yet exaggerated.From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, caricature grew through __4the eighteenth and nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular in __5the United States early in this century. In 1920s and 1930s especially, this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and __6magazines throughout the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his __7portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirit their work was __8close to the humor of the fast-developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the __9string of political satire. Their subjects were more often amusing than offended __10by amiable attacks.第十二期Most people would describe water like a colorless liquid. They __1would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid calledice and that when heating on a fire it becomes a vapor called steam. __2However, water, they would say, is a liquid. We have learned thatwater consists of molecules composed with two atoms of hydrogen __3and one atom of oxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O.This is equally true of the solid called ice and the gas called steam.Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, andthe solid, all of which is made up of molecules with the formula H2O. __4This is true of other chemical substances; most of them can exist asgases or as liquids or as solids. We may normally think of iron as asolid, but if we will heat it in a furnace, it will melt and become a __5liquid, and at very high temperatures it will become a gas. Nothingvery permanent occurs when a gas changes into a liquid or a solid.Everyone knows that ice, which has been made by freezing water,can be melted again by warmed and that steam can be condensed __6on a cold surface to become liquid water. In fact, it is only becausewater is so a familiar substance that different names are used for __7the solid, liquid and gas. Most substances are only familiar with __8us in one state, because the temperatures requiring to turn them __9into gases are very high, or the temperatures necessary to turn theminto solids are so low. Water is an exception in this respect, whichis another reason why its three states have given three different names. __10第十三期Classic Intention MovementIn social situations, the classic Intention Movement is “the chair-grasp”. Host and guest have been talking for some time, but now the host has an ppointment to keep and can get away. His urge __1to go is held in cheek by his desire not be rude to his guest. If he did __2not care of his guest’s feelings he would simply get up out of his chair __3and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, __4therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses to let him __5raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair-grasp Intention __6Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans forward and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. __7This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he were not __8hesitating, it would only last the fraction of the second. He would lean, __9push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer. He holds his “readiness-to-rise” post and keeps on holding it. It is as if his __10body had frozen at the get-ready moment.第十四期The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric human __1ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing with animal foods __2An analysis of 58 societies of modern hunter-gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed thatone-half emphasize gathering plants 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 __3plants. Detailed 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 edible __4 calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. __5Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung diet, and no __6one 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 __7of medical care. They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, no heart disease, and their blood cholesterol levels are very low (about half of the average American adult). __8If no one is suggesting that we return to an aboriginal life style, we certainly __9could use their eating habits as a model for healthier diet. __10第十五期There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronun-ciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography __1is learnt deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds __2like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when we __3firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, __4whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We __5begin the "natural" learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and __6practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every __7day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult English spelling.This is "natural", therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our im- __8mediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates a means of holding a community and to give a sense of "belonging". We learn quite early to recognize a __9 "stranger", someone who speaks with an accent of a different community—perhaps only a few miles far. __10 第十六期Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior.Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised __1hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal, __2enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. __3To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a million __4year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival depended on success __5in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even if their __6bodies, became radically changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group __7attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long formative __8period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence,so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning, __9controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on the farms,awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer __10essential for survival.第十七期In addition to learn how to cope with daily__1work, I've also know to handle study sessions for__2big tests. My all-night study sessions in high school are experiment in self-torture. Around __32:00A.M., My mind, as a soaked sponge, simply__4 stopped absorb things. Now, I space out exam__5study sessions over several days. That way, the night before can be devoted to a overall review__6rather than raw memorizing. Most important,though, I've changed my attitude toward tests. In high school, I thought tests were mysterious things with completely predictable questions. Now, I ask __7teachers the kinds of questions that will be on the __8 exam, and I try to "psych out" which areas or facts teachers are like to ask about. These practices really__9work, and for me they've taken many of the __10fear and mystery out of tests第十八期For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the __1__ words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and __2__ knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a __3__popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it __4__flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the __5__confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass __6__media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear __7__and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this __8__ philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent __9__president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One man’s mediocrity __10__is another man’s good program”.第二十期The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__“empty”words as opposed in the “full”words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile”and “the man is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.”__8__of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.第二十一期More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the __1__early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh __2__deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From __3__now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble __4__going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to __6__ poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths __7__started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came __8__back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World __9__Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population)suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling,population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 __10__million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.tuberculosis n.肺结核antibiotics n.抗生素, 抗生学第二十二期One of America’s most important export is her modern music. __1__American popular music is playing all over the world. It is enjoyed __2__by people of all ages in all countries. Because the lyrics are English, __3__nevertheless people not speaking English enjoy it. The reasons for its popularity are its fast pace and rhythmic beat.The music has many origins in the United States. Country music,coming from the suburban areas in the southern United States, is one __4__source. Country music features simple themes and melodies describing day-to-day situations and the feelings of country people. Many people appreciate this music because the emotions expressed by country __5__ music songs. A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It depicted __6__mostly sad feelings reflecting the difficult lives of American blacks. It is usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is not popular with __7__all Americans.Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style, featuring fast and repetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and country music. It is first known as rock-and- roll in the 1950’s. Since then there __8__ have been many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock,disco music and others. Many performers of popular rock music are young musicians.American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. Some songs become popular all over the world. People hear these songs sing __9__in their original English or sometimes translated into other languages.The words may coincide but the enjoyment of the music is universal. __10__第二十三期Cities can be frightened places. The majority of __1__the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear __2__ when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange __3__enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each __4__other.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 __6__ country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expe- dition__7__to the nearest large town. The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the __8__isadvantages of being cut off. The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that you are at the centre of __9__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.第二十四期Planning is a very important activity in our lives. It can give pleasure, even excitement, and it can cause quite severe headaches. __1The most significant the task ahead, the more careful the planning __2required. Getting to school or to work on time is a task requiring few __3or no planning, it is almost routine. A month’s touring holiday abroad,or better still, getting married, is a different matter altogether. If the matter involve a church wedding, a reception, a honeymoon in Venice, __4and returning a new home, this requires even more planning to make __5sure that it is successful. Planning is our way of trying to ensure success and of avoiding costly failures we can not suffer. It is equally essential __6to individual nations and families; the scale may be vary, but the degree __7of importance does not. In the essence, a nation planning its resources __8and needs do not differ from the familiar weekly shopping or monthly __9household budget. Both are designed to ensure an adequate supply of essentials, and if improperly carried out, will avoid shortages, wastage __10and over-expenditure.第二十五期Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a special kind of "private eye" can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by studying the clues。

【范文】英语专业八级的改错练习题及答案示例Long ago there was a prince who unwisely confided the media __1__that while tending his loved garden, he often talked to his plants. __2__ He also warned his future subjects about losing touch with theirnatural surrounding and their rich cultural heritage. But the people __3__ scoffed and said it was the fuddy-duddy Prince and was out of __4__ touch. And they shook heads at the madness of the Prince’s forebear,King George III, who famously talked with a tree he hadmistaken the King of Prussia. __5__These days Britain’s Prince of Wales is still considered a tadeccentric. But increasingly, Charles Philip Windsor is winning applausefor his campaign to combat that he calls the wanton destruction __6__that has taken place with the name of progress. For 30 years __7__the Prince has been in the forefront to promote kinder, gentlerfarming methods; protect Britain’s countryside urban sprawl; improve__8__city landscapes; and safeguard the nation’s architecturalheritage. And whereas his once a lonely if plumy voice crying in __9__the wilderness, the Prince has seen many of his once maverickopinions became mainstream. __10__答案:1.confided 后面加to向某人透露……，应该用confide to sb2.loved改为 belovedloved只能用于被动语态，表示动作。

改错题常考要点一、代词代词中主要讲解六个问题(一) 掌握代词的几种格主格、宾格、所有格名词前面用代词来修饰，只能用所有格（my books）(二) 反身代词当主语和宾语表示同一事物时，宾语使用反身代词。

He killed himself. （他自杀了）He killed him. （他杀了他）例：Researchers at the University of Colorado are investigatingA Ba series of indicators that could helpCthemselves to predict earthquakes.D分析：D错，应改为them。

如果用反身代词themselves,指代对象是从句主语that(即名词indicators),这显然是错误的。

从句意来看，help的宾语应该是主句主语researchers,故应用代词宾格而不是反身代词。

注意C并没有错，情态动词could 比can语气弱，表示较小的可能性。

Indicator为征兆，这些征兆帮助他们来预言地震。

主语是征兆，后面指研究者，不是同一个事物(三) 代词的单复数，代词的性别在考试中如果代词打横线，代词错误的概率是非常高的，因此代词打横线，应该先看代词有没有错。

例：The continental divide refers to an imaginary line in the North American Rockiesthat divides the waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from it flowing into theA B C DPacific.分析：D错，应改为those。

D指代复数名词waters, it是单数，显然是错误的，根据习惯故改为those。

注意waters一词并没有错，它指江湖河海中的大片水域，可用复数形式。

英语专业八级试题改错加分练习英语专业八级试题改错加分练习Lotic brave person can appreciate the wonders of the rivers.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理英语专业八级试题改错加分练习，希望能给大家带来帮助!Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents,heis fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is improbable that he will ever again in his life __1__be given so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, life is always presenting __2__new things to the child—things that have lost their interesting for older people because __3__they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow.His first visit to the seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:He is not so free to do__4__as he wishes as he thinks old people do; he is continually being told not to do things,or being punished for that he has done wrong. His life is therefore __5__not longer perfectly happy. When the young man starts to earn his own living, __6__he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;but at the same time heis 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 __7__the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. __8__ And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to breakthe laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, __9__he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making steady progress in his job __10__and of building up for himself his own position in society. 答案：1.what改为whatever。

专业英语八级（改错）-试卷182(总分：52.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：26，分数：52.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________解析：2.The two most celebrating holidays in the North and South America, Australia and Europe, and in most of Christian world are Christmas and Easter.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：非谓语动词误用，应把celebrating改为celebrated。

）解析：解析：celebrate和holidays在逻辑上是动宾关系，即“节日被人们庆祝”，因此使用其过去分词。

3.This normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to reversed routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：形式主语错误，应把句首的This改为It。

）解析：解析：该句真正的主语是后面的不定式，由于主语太长，所以将其放在句尾，并用It作形式主语，且It takes sb．sometime to do sth．为固定表达。

4.The millions of calculations involved, if they had been done by hand, all practical value have lost by the time they were finished.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：虚拟语气错误，应在have前加上would。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the badinfluence of this or that individual writers. But an effect can becomea cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effectin an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drinkbecause he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the mostcompletely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that ishappening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccuratebecause our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our languagemakes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that theprocess is irreversible. Modern English, especially written English,is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can beavoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one getsrid of these habits one can think more clearly, and think clearly is anecessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fightagainst bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerningof professional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hopethat by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have becomeclearer.答案及解析:1.economical－economiceconomical的意思是“节约的，经济的，省钱的”，而此处应选择economic表示“经济的，有关经济的”。

Lecture 1一、注意事项1.三不改:2.三个要:不要一改二左右都要看不要改顺序字迹要工整不要改拼写符号要标准二、冠词用法口诀定冠词：特指、重提和独一（the sun, the Great Wall)；岛屿，海峡和海湾；海洋，党派(The Democratic Party) 、最高级；沙漠，河流与群山；方位、顺序和乐器；年代，团体与机关；船名，建筑和组织；会议，条约与报刊；姓氏复数，国全名；请你记住用定冠。

零冠词代词限定名词前（my book, his glasses)专有名词(人名、地名）不可数（特指除外）学科球类三餐饭四季星期月份前颜色语种和国名称呼习语和头衔注意：由普通名词构成的专有名词，表示特指意思的，需要在前面加上the,如The Great Wall, The World Table Tennis Championship 等三、冠词特殊用法不用冠词表示抽象意义用冠词表示具体含义（字面意思）go to school 去上学go to the school 因事去学校in school 在校念书in the school 因事在学校in class 在上课in the class 在这个班级go to college 上大学go to the college 因事去大学at desk 在读书；做作业at the desk 在课桌边go to bed 睡觉go to the bed 到床边in bed 在睡觉in the bed 卧在床上in hospital 生病住院in the hospital （因事）在医院里go to prison 犯罪入狱go to the prison （因事）在监狱men of age 成年人come of age 成年men of an age 同龄人keep house 管理家务keep the house 守在家里with child 怀孕with the child 和这个小孩在一起in red 穿着红色的衣裳in the red 负债in office 在职in the office 在办公室out of office 离职out of the office 从办公室出来by day 白天by the day 按日计算take place 发生take the place 取代out of question 没有问题out of the question 完全不可能go to sea 出航go to the sea 去海边be at sea 在海上航行；茫然be at the sea 在海边on end 连续地in the end 最后冠词填空练习( ) 1.______recent report stated that the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S .would be higher than the number of English speaker by_____ year 2090.A.A, theB. A, /C. The ,/D. The, a( ) 2.If you go by ______train ,you can have quite a comfortable journey ,but make sure you get _____fast one.A. /, /B./, aC. the, aD./,/( ) 3. It is often said that ____teachers have _______very easy life.A /,/ B. /,a C. the,/ D. the, a( ) 4.I can’t remember when exactly the Robinsons left _____city ,I only remember it was ______ Monday.A.the , theB. a ,theC. a, aD. the, a( ) 5.If you grow up in ______large family ,you are more likely to develop _____ability to get on well with ______others .A. /,an theB. a, the ,/C. the ,an ,theD. a, the ,the( C ) 6.Mrs ,Taylor has ___8-year-old daughter who has _____gift for painting –she has won two national prizes.A.a, aB. an ,theC. an ,aD. the( )7.After dinner he gave Mr. Richardson ________ride to ________Capital Airport.A .the, a B. a the C. /, a D. /, the( )8.On May 5,2005,at ___World Table Tennis Championship ,Kong Linghui and WangHao won the gold medal in men’s with ____score of 4:1.A. a ,aB. / theC. a ,/D. the ,a( )9.I knew ______John Lennon ,but not ____famous one.A. /,aB. a ,theC. /,theD. the, a( )10.The book tells ____life story of John Smith ,who left _______school and worked for a newspaper at the age of 16.A.the, theB. a , theC. the./D. a,/( )11.When you finish reading the book ,you will have ______better understanding of ______life.,A. a, theB. the .aC. /,theD.a,/( )12.If you buy more than ten, they will knock20pence off________.A. a priceB. priceC. the priceD. prices( )13.____on-going division between English –speaking Canadians and French-speaking Canadians is _______major concern of the country.A.The ,/B. The ,aC. An ,theD. An,/( )14.When he left _____college ,he got a job as ______reporter in a newspaper office .A. /, a B /, the C .a the D .the, the( )15The most important thing about cotton in history is ___part that it played in ____Industrial Revolution.A. /,/B. the,/C. the , theD. a ,the( )16.While he was investigating ways to improve the telescope, Newton made _______discovery which completely changed ____ man’s understanding of color.A. a ,/B. a ,theC. /, theD. the ,a( )17.It is ___world of wonders, _____world where anything can happen.A. a. theB. a, aC. the, aD. /,/( )18.The Wilsons live in ______A-shaped house near the coast . It is _______17th century cottage.A.the, /B. an, theC. /, theD. an ,a( )19.Tom owns ______larger collection of ______books than any other student in our class.A.the ,/B. a,/C. a ,theD. /, the( )20. The sign reads “in case of___fire ,break the glass and push _____red button”A. /,aB. /,theC. the ,theD. a ,a( )21.The cakes are delicious . He’d like have ______third one because _____second one is rather too small.A.a, aB. the .theC. a ,theD. the ,a( )22.A bullet hit the solider and he was wounded in ____leg.A. a B .one C. the D. his( )23. After watching ____ TV, she played _____ violin for an hour.A. 不填，不填B. the, theC. the, 不填D. 不填，the( )24. Many people are still in ____ habit of writing silly things in ____ public places.A. the, theB. 不填，不填C. the, 不填D. 不填，the( )25. Paper money was in ____ use in China when Marco Polo visited the country in ____ thirteenth century.A. the, 不填B. the, theC. 不填，theD. 不填，不填( )26. She is _____ newcomer to ____ chemistry but she has already made some important discoveries.A. the, theB. the, 不填C. a, 不填D. a, the( )27. The investigators found that more should be done for ______ in India.A. those poorB. a poorC. poorD. the poor( )28.Little Lucy liked to play ______, but he was not fond of playing ______.A.the football,the pianoB.football,pianoC.the football,pianoD. football,the piano( )29. He speaks a little Russian,but his native language is______A. an ChineseB.a ChineseC. the ChineseD. Chinese冠词纠错训练1）Understanding culture is a two-step process, starting with the research before the interview and ending with observation at the interview.2）It seems that if you are a city of resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do as a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.3) With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and 20th centuries.4) We’ve seen hundreds of CVs every week: CVs printed on pin paper, CVs that are 10 pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph.5) There is relatively little division of labor into specialized duties. Rather, each person is expected to perform great variety of tasks, though duties may differ between the sexes. 6) Other executives think the Japanese influence will be less dramatic and dismiss the automobile analogy, saying that manufacturing cars is the far cry from the creative nature of Hollywood’s endeavors.7) Langston Hughes, a prolific writer of the 1920’s was concerned with the depicting the experience of urban Black people in the United States.8) The American society is a blend of native Americans as well as the large number of immigrants from various countries like Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Latin America, Asia and Africa.9) As a result, the American economy is perhaps better described as a “mixed” economy, with government playing the important role along with private enterprise.10) The multinationals, by contrast, spared only handful of people, selling to the province’s towns from afar.冠词找错及纠错训练1.Most American businesses are open five days a week. American school children attendthe school five days a week.2. A folk culture is small isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group thatis homogenous in custom and race with a strong family or clan structure and highly developed rituals.3.It is often said, of course, that the language originated in cries of anger, fear, pain andpleasure, and the 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 than we find in English.4.The English speaker has in his disposal a vocabulary and a set of grammatical ruleswhich enables him to communicate his thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English speakers.5. A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when thefirst “green” groups formed in opposition to Ervan’s intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl.6.Congressional investigations nevertheless represent one important tool available tolawmakers to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues.7.In some schools there are special woman teachers teaching girl students.8.In addition, the paper instituted a content audit that evaluates the frequency and mannerof representation of woman and people of color in photographs.9.They quickly brought down the age of marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rateto a twentieth century height after more than a hundred years of a steady line, producing the “baby boom”.10.Exciting words came that the missing boy of that village had been found.八级改错模拟题练习Proof –reading (10%) (A)The following passage contains TEN error, 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 according to the following example:When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] anit never buys things in finished form and hang them on the wall [2] never when a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. [3] exhibit Several years ago, we began construction on a new church building. In the beginning, the workmen dug a big pit in the ground and then they began to pour footings.Footings are cement piers under which the entire building rests. __1__They are crucial to the strength of the finished structure. After the foundation hole is dug, the footings must be poured quickly, before the composition of the soil is changed by the wind, air, or water. With a similar way in these brief early years, __2__parents of young children have the challenging job of lying the foundation __3__that will support family friendships in later years.Physical affectation and verbal affirmation are necessary __4__in laying a strong foundation for friendship. Hug, hug, hug. Even if you are not raised __5__in a hugging family, hug your kids anyway. They need the warmth of physicalcontact and so do you need. __6__A young child will try to manipulate and be in the charge. __7__He will attempt to get his own way. Since the child may not be consciously__8__trying to control, this is what he is doing. A wise parent must not permit to happen. __9__ When a child respects his parents, he will also respect the others. __10__。

专业英语八级（改错）历年真题试卷汇编3(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 3. LANGUAGE USAGEPART III LANGUAGE USAGEPsycholinguistics is the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguists study understanding,production, and remembering language,and hence are concerned 【M1】______with listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually 【M2】______happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. 【M3】______Indeed, when you listen to someone speaking or looking at this page, 【M4】______you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptional circumstances we might become aware of 【M5】______the complexity involved: if we are searching for a word but cannotremember it; if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has 【M6】______influenced their language; if we observe a child acquiring language; 【M7】______if we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if weare visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet anyone else 【M8】______who is. As we shall see, all these examples of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstances”reveal a great deal about theprocesses evolved in speaking, listening, writing and reading. But 【M9】______given that language processes were normally so automatic, we also 【M10】______need to carry out careful experiment to get at what is happening.1．【M1】正确答案：production—producing解析：句法错误。

英语专八改错部分真题及答案英语专八改错部分真题及答案So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be as well equipped as any other to say the things its speakers want to say. It may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice or the engraving of Benares brass. But this is not the fault of their language. The Eskimos can speak about snow with a great deal more precision and subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled ’primitive’) is inherently more precise and subtle than English. This example does not bring to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected ’primitiveness’. The position is simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in different environments. The English language would be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which English was habitually used made such distinction important. Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formed part of the Eskimos’ life. For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the nineteenth 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 ofus 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much6 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。

专业英语八级（改错）历年真题试卷汇编4(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 3. LANGUAGE USAGEPART III LANGUAGE USAGEWhen I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round at the luxury of the【M1】______rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my【M2】______vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”wasclearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation: that much I【M3】______could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I started to use【M4】______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 motherwas very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her expression that【M5】______I had not got the word quite right. Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both new【M6】______words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our own first【M7】______language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have asked for【M8】______plush, and this is particularly true in the aspect of a foreign language.【M9】______If you are continually surrounded by speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly, but often this opportunity does notexist for the learner of English. So dictionaries have been developed to【M10】______mend the gap.1．【M1】正确答案：Looked—Looking解析：非谓语动词错误。

专八改错技巧总结专八改错技巧总结专四、专八是中国的两个重要的英语水平考试，对于许多英语学习者而言，通过这两个考试是他们追求的目标。

其中，专八考试中的改错题是英语学习者们较为头疼的题型之一。

因此，掌握改错技巧对于备考专八至关重要。

以下是一些专八改错题的技巧总结。

首先，理解题意是解决改错题的关键。

在做改错题时，必须认真阅读句子，理解上下文的意思，判断句子中哪个部分存在错误。

有时候，错误可能出现在主语、谓语、宾语、介词等不同的部分，因此要仔细判断。

此外，有些错误可能是隐藏的，需要仔细体察语法规则和句子的逻辑关系。

其次，掌握常见的语法错误是必要的。

在专八改错题中，经常出现的错误包括代词的使用、动词时态和语态、冠词的使用等。

例如，一些学生容易在使用代词时出现指代不清或主谓不一致的错误。

此外，动词时态和语态的使用也是改错题中常见的错误项目。

学生们应该掌握这些常见错误，通过刻意练习来提高自己的语法水平。

此外，注意句子的逻辑关系也是解决改错题的关键。

在改错题中，有时句子的结构和语法并没有错误，但句子之间的逻辑关系却存在问题。

例如，有些学生在连接两个句子时使用错误的连词或者错用从属连词。

这会导致句子之间的逻辑关系不明确，给阅读者造成困惑。

因此，在做改错题时，需要注意句子之间的逻辑关系，判断连词的使用是否正确。

最后，提高阅读理解能力是解决改错题的关键。

在专八改错题中，要求学生能够在短文中发现错误，并加以修正。

因此，阅读理解能力是解决改错题的基础。

阅读理解不仅包括对句子意思的理解，还包括对语境的把握。

为了提高阅读理解能力，学生们可以多读一些英文原文，从中学习正确的语法和表达方式。

综上所述，专八改错题是考查学生英语水平的重要环节。

学生们只有掌握了改错题的解题技巧，才能更好地备考专八。

因此，我们需要理解题意、掌握常见的语法错误、注意句子的逻辑关系，并提高阅读理解能力。

通过不断的练习和积累，相信大家一定能够在专八考试中取得好成绩。

专业英语八级改错练习题及答案解析(3)We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people with comparable education in Western Europe. There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers -- how to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the computer, you don’t have faintest idea. The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and techno logy. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous. 1 ________2 ________3 ________4 ________5 ________6 ________7 ________8 ________9 ________10 _______参考答案及解析：1. 在which前加in，或将which改为where。

专八改错总结知识点专八考试是国内留学生考取硕士研究生学位的重要一环，对考生的英语语法、词汇、阅读理解和写作能力有着较高要求。

其中语法错误在考试中是一个很容易让考生失分的地方，因此考生在备考期间需要认真总结和复习常见的语法错误，以确保自己在考试中能够避免这些错误，提高自己的写作水平。

本文将从专八写作中常见的语法错误入手，总结知识点并给出相应的改正方法，希望对考生在备考期间有所帮助。

一、名词单复数错误名词单复数错误是专八写作中一个常见的语法错误。

考生在写作中往往容易忽略名词的单复数形式，造成语法错误。

下面列出一些常见的名词单复数错误及改正方法：1. 错误：many peoples正确：many people解析：people本身已是复数形式，不需要加s。

2. 错误：childs正确：children解析：child变为复数形式应该变为children。

3. 错误：advices正确：advice解析：advice本身已是不可数名词，不需要加s。

4. 错误：furnitures正确：furniture解析：furniture本身已是不可数名词，不需要加s。

二、冠词错误冠词错误在专八写作中也是比较常见的，一般表现为缺少冠词、冠词用错等。

下面列出一些常见的冠词错误及改正方法：1. 错误：I go to university.正确：I go to a university.解析：university属于可数名词，前面应加不定冠词a。

2. 错误：She is student.正确：She is a student.解析：student属于可数名词，前面应加不定冠词a。

3. 错误：He is expert on history.正确：He is an expert on history.解析：expert属于可数名词，前面应加不定冠词an。

三、动词时态错误动词时态错误是专八写作中较为常见的语法错误之一。

考生在写作中常常忽略动词的时态，导致语法错误。

专八_改错_练习15篇带答案解析Error-correction Exercise 16NASA is about to launch a large satellite that will monitorthe health of Earth's atmosphere in unprecedented detail, and 1____________ keeping daily track of everything from the upper ozone layer,that guards against solar radiation, to the air near the 2____________ ground that people breathe. The $785 million missionis to be launched Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A Boeing Delta II rocket will send the 6,542-poundspacecraft into a 438-mile-high polar orbit. That is to scan the 3____________ atmosphere for at least six years.The craft, naming Aura, is the third and final addition to a series 4____________ of major satellites making up NASA's Earth Observing System,an initial set of spacecraft that designed to study all of the processes 5____________ that affect the Earth's climate and weather. Terra, which monitorsland-based processes, was launched in 1999; Aqua, which observesthe oceans and water cycle of Earth, sent up in 2002. These flagship 6____________ spacecrafts, joined by more than a dozen of other satellites launched by 7____________ the United States and several other nations, allow long-term studiesof the factors that influence climate change, using many differentinstruments. The launching is fundamentally a mission tounderstandand protect the very air we breathe. In conjunction with the 8____________ climate observatories, Aura should make a major contribution todetermine the causes, extent and consequences of global change. 9____________ The spacecraft carries four instruments that will survey theatmosphere from top to bottom, including monitoring ozone in its good and bad forms. In the upper atmosphere, ozone in thestratosphere provides a protective barrier for harmful ultraviolet 10___________ radiation from the Sun. In the troposphere, the atmospheric layerthat goes from the ground up to about six miles, ozone producedby combustion is a major pollutant in smog.Error-correction Exercise 17Mars has provoked much speculation on the possibilities 1___________ of life on Earth than any other planet in the Solar System. 2___________ The presence of water is a prerequisite for existing of life. Therefore, “follow the water” has 3___________ been NASA’s chief guideline for the exploration of 4___________ a red planet. Although Mars experiences seasons like on Earth an has polar caps which composed of 5___________ carbon dioxide and water ice, today it is bone-dry and frigidly cold. But evidence is rapidly accumulating thatMars is once much wetter, with a more clement climate. 6___________This evidence comes from orbiting satellites and fromdata collected by roving landers.Since the 1970’s, sp ace probes of Mars have revealed 7___________ numerous features apparent carved by flowing water, 8___________ such as winding, branched valleys resembling driedout streambeds and giant outflow channels gougedby catastrophic floods. Recent high-resolution imageryfrom the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Orbiter Cameraand the Mars Odyssey Themis reveal numerous examples 9___________ of branched valleys that form tightly-packed integrateddrainage system. There channels origins at topographichigh points; the va lleys widen “downstream”, someeven displaying inner valleys. The valley networksexhibit morph metric characteristics, including networksdensities, comparative to those of terrestrial drainage basins. 10__________ These features were most likely produced by rainfall, duringwetter, warmer periods in the past.Error-correction Exercise 18The word petroleum has its root in the Latin word oleum, 1___________ which means oil, and the Greek word petra, which means rock..The word petrified shares with the same Greek root. As the 2___________ price of oleum has soared up, the links between fear and petroleum 3___________ have become clear to economists as well as etymologists.Fears of heating-oil shortage this winter helped to push the benchmark price of crude over $55 per barrel, a new record, onMonday October 18th. The spike in oil prices, up by over60% since the start of the year, is by turn, raising fears for the4___________ global recovery. Even oil exporters are worried. The high pricesthey currently enjoy will slow economic growth next year,warned the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) on Monday. If oil remains expensive, cartel 5___________ Pointed out, people will by less of it. The last week, for the 6___________ first time since June, American motorists paid more than $2average for a gallon of petrol. To fill their tank these days,they must shell out almost 30% more than last year. Therefore 7___________ the anxiety is not confined to the petrol pump. About 7.7mAmerican households, most of whom in the north-east, rely 8___________ on oil to warm their homes. In a cold snap, they draw onstockpiles of heating oil, amassed at various points around thecountry.Inflation remains at bay, for the moment, most workers 9___________ expect it to stay that way. There is a little sign yet that higher 10___________oil prices are feeding into higher wage demands. It would thusbe too much to say that central bankers are petrified by petroleum.But as the price of oil sets new records, their rock-like confidenceis beginning to crumble.Error-correction Exercise 19When an invention is made, the inventor has threepossible courses of action open for him: he can give the 1___________ invention to the world by publishing it, keep the idea secrete, or paten it.A granted paten is the result of a bargain betweenan inventor and the state, by which the inventor gets alimited period of monopoly and publishes full detailsof his invention to the public after that period terminates.Only in the most exceptional circumstances are the life-span 2___________ of a patent extended to alter this normal process of events.The longest extension never granted was to Georges Vlensi; 3___________ his 1939 patent for color TV receiver circuitry was extendeduntil 1971 because for most of the patent’s normal life there was no colorful TV to receive and thus no hope of reward to 4___________ the invention.Because a patent remains permanently public afterit has terminated, the shelves of the library attaching to the 5___________ patent office contain details of literally millions of ideasthat are free for anyone advise to use and, if older thanhalf a century, sometimes even patent,. Indeed, patent 6___________ experts often advise anyone wishing to avoid the highcost of conducting a search through live patent that theone sure of avoiding violation of any other inventor’sright is to plagiarize a dead patent. Likely, because 7___________ publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patent on that idea, it is traditionally8___________ safe to take ideas from other areas of print. Much moderntechnological advance is based on these presumptions oflegal security.Anyone closely involved in patents and inventionssoon learn that most “new” ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills. It is their reduction to commercial practice, neither 9___________ through necessity or dedication, or through the availabilityof new technology, which makes news and money. 10___________ Error-correction Exercise 20How can an organization’s sales operation beimproved? One of the key to becoming more effective 1___________ is to first determine the type of “selling process” whichneeds to be used. With other words, the role the salesperson 2___________ must play has to be identified. There are three differentprocesses sales staff can adapt: narrative, suggestive and 3___________ consultative.The narrative approach depends on the salespersonmove quickly into a standardized presentation. Every buyer 4___________ receives the same presentation. Emphasis is to highlighting 5___________ benefits and how the product or services can help the buyer.This is an effective approach if the buying motive for allcustomers is basically the same. This process is well suited which there are a great number of prospects to be called on. 6__________ The suggestive approach depends on the seller being in a position to offer alternated recommendations.7__________ This is quite different from the narrative approach as thepresentation is tailored to the individual customer. Here,the salesperson must initiate some discussion in order toget the buyer in a negative frame of mind. 8__________ The consultative approach requires the salespersonto have a thorough understanding of the customer and what the customer is trying to achieve. The role of the salesperson is to become an adviser or consultant and she/he must acquire agreat deal of informations from the customer. With this information 9__________ the salesperson can plan what to offer the customer.Hiring, training, motivating and rewarding salespersonneed to be linked the type of sales process being used and 10__________ that where the problem starts. A key issue in developing aprofessional sales organization is in first establishing thesales process. When the decision has been made, all other sales decisions, including hiring, training and rewards canbe linked to it.Error-correction Exercise 21Ethnography is the study of a particular humansociety or the process of making such a study.Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirelyon fieldwork and requires the complete immersionof the anthropologist on the culture and everyday life 1___________ of the people who are the subject of this study. Ethnography,by virtue with its intersubjective nature, is necessarily2___________ comparative. Giving that the anthropologist in the field 3___________necessarily retains certain cultural biases, his/herobservation and description must, to certain degree, 4___________ be comparative. Thus the formulating of generalizationabout culture and the drawing of comparisons inevitablybecomes components of ethnography. 5___________ Modern anthropologists usually identify theestablishment of ethnography as a professional field and 6___________ the pioneering work of the Polish-born British anthropologistBronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islangs of Melanesia.Ethnographic field word has since become a sort of rite of passage into the profession of cultural anthropology. Many ethnographers reside above the field for a year or more, learning 7___________ the local language or dialect and, to the greatest extentpossible, participating in everyday life while at the sametime maintain an observer’s objective detachment. 8___________ Contemporary ethnographies usually adhere to a community, rather than individual, focus and concentrateon the description of current circumstance ratherthan historical event. Traditionally, commonalities amongmembers of the group have been emphasized, because recent 9___________ ethnography has begun to reflect an interest in theimportance of variation within cultural systems. Ethnographicstudies are no longer restricted to small primitive societiesbutmay also focus on such social units as urban ghettos. The toolof the ethnographer have changed ra dically since Malinowaski’stime, while detailed notes are still a mainstay of field word, ethnographers have taken full advantage over technological 10___________ development such as motion pictures and tape recorders toargument their written accounts.Error-correction Exercise 22Unlike those other notoriously missing items - the weapons ofmass destruction - television's missing young men appear to have found, back in front of their TV sets. 1___________ The case of the missing young men began roiling the television industry a year ago. Droves of men from ages 18 to 34, one ofthe groups most coveted by advertisers, had seemly stopped 2___________ watching television, according to the sole ratings arbiter, NielsenMedia Research. Commentary abounded that a significant culturalshift had taken place and that a generation of men were steadily 3____________ quitting television-viewing, forsook both network and cable 4____________ programs in favor of video games, DVD's and the Internet.Nielsen stands by its ratings, therefore in a development that several 5___________Nielsen critics call utterly it predictable, the most recentevidence indicates 6___________ that the young men are back, watching television in pretty much thesame numbers they were two years before. 7___________ In July, one year after the falloff was detected, an average of 25.8 percent of men from ages 18 to 34 were watching television at anygiving moment in prime time. That figure was up from the 24.7 8___________ percent that Nielsen reported a year ago - and virtually the same as the25.9 percent that it reported for the group in July 2002."It kind of went right back to what God intended it to be," the president 9___________ for research for NBC, Alan Wurtzel, said. Mr. Wurtzel's facetiousness wasmatched by a real sense of vindication. He was among the most vocalof the critics who took on Nielsen last year, saying its numbers - whichin September showed a drop in viewing by young men of more than10 percent - could possibly be accurate because they were so inconsistent 10__________ with viewing patterns established over years of measurement.Error-correction Exercise 23The stunningly slow pace of job creation, which sank to growthof just 32,000 in July, has provided new ammunition in an intense politicaldebate in job quality. For months, Democrats have said that the 1___________ long-delay employment recovery was concentrated in low-wage jobs 2___________ that paid far less thanthose that lost. White House officials replied 3___________ that the available data failed to settle the matter one way or the other.The data is still inconclusive. But the weakness in job creation andthe apparent weakness in high-paying jobs may be opposite sides ofa coin. Companies still seem cautiously, relying on temporary workers 4___________ and anxious about rising health care costs associating with full-time workers. 5___________ Many economists say that over the long term, the most vulnerable positions are those at the low end of the wage scale that requires fewer skills and are 6___________ easily replicated. Even now, at a time when a proportionate number of 7___________ new jobs appear to be lower-paying ones, there has been growth in some high-income occupations like accounting, architecture and software.Yet the earnings gap between the highest-paid employees and the rest ofthe work force is still widening, as it was over most of the last 30 years. 8___________ The trend is most striking in factories, which accounted for the bulk of joblosses in the last three years and tending to pay above-average wages. 9___________ In contrast with previous recoveries, when companies rehired a large 10___________ proportion of laid-off workers, manufacturers have added only 91,000jobs this year, having eliminated more than two million jobs in the previousthree years.Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to the generalpublic and to sociologists that modern society has changed people’snatural relations, loosed their responsibilities to 1_____________ kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place 2_____________ for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. 3_____________ However, in recent years a growing body of research has re-ve aled that the “obvious” is not true. It seems that if you are a cityresident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighborsthan you if you are a resident of a smaller community. 4_____________ But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant 5_____________ consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you knowfew of your neighbors you will know no one else.Even in very large cities, people maintain close social tieswithin small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality ofmeaningful relationship do not differ between more and less urban 6____________ people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than do 7____________ big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friend-ships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanismmay produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does notdiffer between town and city. Or are residents of large communities 8___________ any likely to display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation 9___________ than are residentsof smaller communities. However, citydwellers do worry more about crime, and thisleads them to a distrust for strangers. 10___________Error-correction Exercise 25The violence within a society is controlled through institutionsof law. The most developed a legal system becomes, the more 1____________ societies takes responsibility for the discovery, control, and punish- 2____________ ment of violent acts. In most tribal societies the only means todealing with an act of violence is revenge. Each family group may 3____________ have the responsibility for personal carrying out judgment and 4____________ punishment upon the person who did the offense. 5____________ But in legal systems, the responsibility for revenge becomespersonalized and diffused. The society assumes the responsibility for 6___________ protecting individuals form violence. In cases where he cannot be 7___________ protected, the society is responsible for committing punishment. 8___________ In a state controlling legal system, individuals are removed 9___________ from the circle of revenge motivated by acts of violence, and the 10___________ state assumes responsibility for their protection.Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad 1____________ influence of this or that individual writers. But an effect can become 2____________ a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect 3____________ in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink 4____________ because he feels himself to be a failure, and thenfail all the most 5____________ completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that ishappening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccuratebecause our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our language makes 6____________ it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the processis irreversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of 7____________ bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if oneis willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets ride of these habitsone can think more clearly, and think clearly is a necessary first 8____________ step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against badEnglish is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning of pro- 9____________ fessional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope that by 10____________ that time the meaning of what I have said here will have becomeclearer.Error-correction Exercise 27This brings us to a seeming paradox. Acutely aware of the smallestconstitution particles of time, industrialized man has to a great 1____________ extent lose the old awareness of time in its larger divisions. The 2____________ time which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time. 3____________ Natural, cosmic time, as is measured out by the sun and the moon, 4____________ we are for the most part almost wholly unconscious. Pre-industrialpeople know time in its daily, monthly and seasonal rhythms. Theyare aware of sunrise and of spring and summer, autumn and winter.All the old religions, including Catholic Christianity, has insisted on 5____________ this daily and seasonal rhythm. Pre-industrial man was never allowedto forget the majestic movement of cosmic time.Industrialism and urbanism have changed all this. One can liveand work in a town without aware of the daily march of the sun 6____________ across the sky. Broadway and Piccadilly are our Milky Way；ourconstellations are outlined in neon tubes. Even changes of seasonaffect the townsman very a little. He is the inhabitant of an artificial 7____________ universe that, to a great extent, walled off from the world of nature. 8____________ Outside the walls, time is cosmic and moves with the motion ofthe sun and stars. Within, it is an affair of revolving wheals and ismeasured by seconds and minutes----at its longest, in eight-hour days 9____________and six-day weeks. We have a new conscience, but it has been pur- 10____________ chased at the expense of the old.Error-correction Exercise 28Culture in general is concerned about beliefs and values on the 1___________ basis of which people interpret experiences and behave, individuallyand in groups. Broadly an d simply putting, “culture” refersto a 2___________ group or community with that you share common experiences that 3___________ shape the way how you understand the world. Culture is the “lens” 4___________ through which you view the world. It is central to what you see, how you make sense of what you see, and how you express your-self. Culture is often at the root of communication challenges. Explo-ring historical experiences and the ways in which various culturalgroups have related to each other is key to open channels for cross- 5___________ cultural communication. Becoming more beware of cultural differ- 6___________ ences, as well as exploring cultural similarities, can help you com-municate with the others more effectively. Next time you find your- 7___________ self a confusing situation, ask yourself how culture may be shap- 8___________ ing your own reactions, and try to see the world from the other’spoint of view. Anthropologists discovered that, when faced by inter-action that we do not understand, people tend to interpret the othersinvolved as “abnormal”, “weird” or “wrong”. Awareness of culturaldifferences and recognizing where cultural differences are in 9___________ work is the first step toward understanding each other and establish 10___________ a positive working environment. Use these differences to challengeyour own assumptions about the “right” way of doing things and as achance to learn new ways to solve problems.Error-correction Exercise 29In May, dozens of factory workers and landscapers lined up outside athree-story concrete building here on Drift Street, snaking aroundthe block to register their children for classes at a preschool that run by 1___________ the Puerto Rican Action Board, a private nonprofitable group. 2___________ On Monday, many of them will gather together at the State House in Trenton 3___________ to try to keep their beloved school from closing. They plan to protest that they claim is a form of institutional bias. The New Jersey Department 4___________ of Education, they argue, wants to eliminate the community-based,most nonprofit private preschool programs like the one that the 5___________ Puerto Rican Action Board runs.The group, which started offering preschool in 1973, maintains thatthe state is refusing to cover raising costs in violation of a 1998 6___________ state Supreme Court ruling mandating that 30 poor districts will receive 7___________everything they need to create "well-planned, high-quality" preschools.Without the money, it says, it will have to close its three preschools here.The Department of Education says the Puerto Rican Action Boardreceives plenty of money - about $9,700 for each of its 225 children,close to $1,000 on average than the state's public preschools,and 8___________ more than twice what public preschools receive in New York.At the heart of the battle, however, it lies a much larger debate about 9___________ the role of private nonprofit agencies in a public system. The Puerto RicanAction Board and other social service agencies have been offering preschoolfor decades, and the court decision explicitly states that any schoolunable to meet the court's education standard "should be supplied with 10__________ the necessary funding to be able to do so."Error-correction Exercise 30For many materials the process of turning them back into usefulraw materials are straightforward: metals are shredded into pieces, 1____________ paper is reduced to pulp and glass is crushed into cullet. Metalsand glass can be remelted almost indefinitely without any lossof quality, while paper can be recycled up to six times. 2____________ Plastics, which are made of fossil fuels, are somewhat different. 3____________ Because they have many useful properties—they are flexible, 4____________ lightweight and can be shaped into any form—there are manydifferent types, most of them need to be processed separately. 5____________ In 2005 less than 6% of the plastic from America's municipalwaste stream was recovered. And of that small fraction, the onlytwo types recycling in significant quantities were PET and HDPE. 6____________ For PET, food-grade bottle-to-bottle recycling exists. But plasticis often “down-cycled” into other products such as plastic lumber,drain pipes and carpet fibres, which tend to end up in landfills and 7___________ incinerators at the end of their useful lives.And so, plastics are being used more and more, not just for packaging, 8___________ but also in consumer goods such as cars, televisions and personalcomputers. Because such products are made of a variety of materialsand can contain multiple types of plastic, metals and glass, they areespecially difficult and expensive to dismantle and recycle.Europe and Japan have initiated “take back” laws that requireelectronics manufacturers recycle their products. But in America 9___________ only a handful of states have passed such legislation. That has causedproblems for companies that specialise in recycling plastics fromcomplex waste streams and dependent on take-back laws for getting 10___________ the necessary feedstock.Key to Error-correction Ex. 161．答案：去掉and，语法辨析题。

专业英语八级（改错）-试卷193(总分：80.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：4，分数：80.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________解析：Every year television stations receive hundreds of complaints about the loudness of advertisements. However, federal rules forbidthe practice of making ads loud than the programming. In addition, 1television stations always operate at the highest sound level allowing 2for reasons of efficiency. According to one NBC executive, no difference exists in the peak sound level of ads and programming. Given this information, why do commercials sound so loud? The sensation of sound involves variety of factors in addition to 3its speak level. Advertisers are skilful at create the impression of 4loudness through their expert use of such factors. One majorcontributor of the perceived loudness of commercials is that much 5less variation in sound level occur during a commercial. In regular 6programming the intensity of sound varies over a large range. However, sound levels in commercials tend to stay at or near peak levels. Another "tricks of the trade" are also used. Because low- 7frequency sounds can mask higher frequency sounds, advertisersfilter out any noises in that may drown out the primary message. In 8addition, the human voice has more auditory impact in the middle frequency ranges. Advertisers electronically vary voice sounds so that they stay within such a frequency band. Another approach is to write the script in which lots of consonants are used, because peopleare most aware of consonants than vowel sounds. Finally, 9advertisers try to begin commercials with sounds that are highlydifferent from that of the programming within which the commercial 10is buried. Because people become adapted to the type of sounds coming from programming, a dramatic change in sound quality draws viewer's attention. For example, notice how many commercials begin with a cheerful song of some type.（分数：20.00）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：loud—louder）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：allowing—allowed）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：∧variety—a）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：create—creating）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：第一个of—to）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：occur—occurs）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：Another—Other）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：in一去掉in）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：most—more）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：that—those）解析：解析：代词误用。

英语专业八级改错题九大类常考典型错误2018英语专业八级改错题九大类常考典型错误专业八级英语考试要求学生运用语法、修辞、结构等知识识别短文内的语病并作出改正。

实际上,这道题考验的是考生的语法能力和思维逻辑能力。

2018英语专业八级改错题九大类常考典型错误一：一致性错误1)主谓不一致，主要表现为主语名词与谓语动词间隔较长，首尾不能相接，造成视觉上的混淆。

The president of the company,together with the workers, are planning a conference for the purpose of solvingfinancial problems. 句中主语的主词为单数名词“president”，介词短语“together with the workers”与主语无关，是插入成分，故谓语动词应用单数is。

2)名词单复数有时名词可以不用复数，但是在特定的句子中由于前面有明确的量词修饰，如many, several, a number of, avariety of等等，就要变成复数形式。

Computer, as we all know, has manypossible use in different fields. 句中名词use前的修饰语many是用来修饰复数名词的，所以use应改为uses。

3)代词与先行词一致代词的.主要功能是指代已出现的名词、词组或一个意群，因此代词的出现必须有所指，而且形、数等必须与前面所代的部份相符。

A knowledge of several languagesis essential to other majors' study because without them one can read booksonly in translation.? without them指的是没有几门语言的知识。

them错指a knowledge of several languages，因为其中knowledge是中心词，所以要把them改为it。

专八改错技巧总结专八考试是对英语能力综合运用的一次全面考察，而改错题则是其中的一个常见题型。

对于很多考生来说，改错题可能是挑战较大的一道题目，因为它不仅要求对语法、词汇等知识点有较为扎实的掌握，还需要有较强的语感和辨识能力。

下面将介绍几种常见的专八改错题类型及相应的解题技巧，希望对考生备考有所帮助。

一、代词与名词的搭配错误在改错题中，代词和名词的搭配错误是一种常见的错误类型。

在解题时，应该仔细审题，注意代词的指代对象和前后名词之间的关系。

特别要注意的是以下几种情况：1. 指代不清晰：在文章中，有时会出现代词的指代不清晰的情况。

例如：He told her that he would meet her at the airport, but he forgot. 此句中的her和him的指代不明确，应该将第一个her改为him。

2. 一致性错误：有时代词与前面的名词在数或性别上不一致，需要注意进行改正。

例如：You should always listen to your parents. They are always right. 此句中的your和They不一致，应该将your改为their。

3. 代词的种类错误：有时考生会使用错误的代词种类，例如使用who代替whose，或者that代替which等。

解题时需要仔细判断句子的语法结构和语义意义，选择适当的代词。

二、时态与语态错误时态和语态在改错题中也是一个常见的错误类型。

学生在解题时应注意以下几点：1. 动词时态：有时考生会在整篇文章中改变时态，应注意时态的一致性。

例如：She said that she will come tomorrow. 此句中应将will改为would。

2. 语态错误：有时考生会将主动语态改为被动语态或被动语态改为主动语态，需要从句子的语义意义和动作的执行者出发进行判断。

例如：The book was wrote by a famous author. 此句中的waswrote 应改为was written。

大学专八英语考试改错练习题及答案大学专八英语考试改错练习题及答案Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.以下是WTT为大家搜索整理的大学专八英语考试改错练习题及答案，希望能给大家带来帮助!更多精彩内容请及时____应届毕业生考试网!Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war 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 __1__ after more than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” __2__These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary __3__ reversal of long-term demographic patterns.From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their __4__Europe counterparts. __5__ Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed __6__ families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a __7__ postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of __8__ couples who married in earlier as well as later decades.Since the United States __9__ maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. __10__ Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.参考答案及解析:1. 将height改为high/peak。

英语专业八级改错练习题及参考答案英语专业八级改错练习题及参考答案Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed people’s natural relations, loosed their responsibilities __1__ to kins (亲戚) and neighbors, and substituted in their place __2__ for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. __3__ However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the “obvious” is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community. __4__ But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant consequences. __5__ It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationship do not differ between more and less urban __6__ people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than do big __7__ city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Or are residents of large communities __8__ any likely to display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation __9__ than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and this leads them to a distrust for strangers. __10__答案：1.loosed改为loosened。