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英语专业八级的改错练习及参考答案英语专业八级的改错练习及参考答案We use language primarily as a means of communication with other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which we ive 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 a vocabulary and a __3__ set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his __4__ thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English __5__ speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses activetly and that which he recognises, increases in size as he grows old as a result of education and experience. __6__ But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the system remains no more than a psychological reality for 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 has to give the system a concrete transmission form. We take it for granted two most __8__ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by our vocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are __9__ among most striking of human achievements. __10__答案：1. agreeing --------agreed2. ∧words----------these/those words3. in the disposal --------at the disposal4. enables--------enable5. “the” before “other English speakers”6. old------ older7. seen ------ perceived, understood, comprehended8. “it” before “for granted”9. And ----- Yet; However10. ∧most ------ the most striking。
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,who would __10__often say, when faced with a hard problem, "Let us consult Brother Jonathan", referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.英语专业八级（1）答案和解析:1. of和as之间加上it.代替前文的a nation2. it—both.指代上文的US和Great Britain3. that—which4.sufficient—sufficiently.修饰形容词用副词5. indicated—indicating来源：考试大6. began—ended.根据历史知识，美国独立战争开始于1776年7月4日(《独立宣言》发表)，直到1783年英国正式承认美国独立才结束。
英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析学习有如母亲一般慈祥，它用纯净和温顺的欢快来培育孩子，假如向它要求额外的酬劳，或许就是罪过。
以下是我为大家搜寻整理的英语专八试题改错练习附答案解析，期望对正在关注的您有所帮忙!更多精彩内容请准时关注我们应届毕业生考试网!part 1Creating the proper atmosphere for a party is a difficult and excited job. Gone are the days when one could simply call__1__up ones friends and invite them on a Saturday evening for__2__a game of bridge. A hostess must make certain that her party is perfect, if she is to aid her career or those of her husband.__3__The first element that must be considered is the guest list. Since there are certain guests that must be invited,there are__4__just as many guest whom one must avoid. The wise hostess makes a list of five parts: those who must be invited, such as __5__an employer or persons whose hospitality must be returned:those who should be invited, but are not necessary to make the party to run smoothly, such as ones neighbors or personal__6__friends: those who must never be invited, such as the present__7__spouse of any guest or a business adversary; and those who would not be appropriate guests at that particular type of party, such as immigrants at a Daughters of the American Revolution(DAR)party. The secondary element critical to the success of aparty is__8_its theme. Each party might have a definite reason for being, a __9__certain idea or mood running throughout the evening. While many persons consider such gimmicky as costume parties or Mexican fiestas passe, there are many alternative themes to choose between.__10__答案及解析：1. excitedexciting：两者都为形容词，但意义上有区分：excited意为"兴奋的，感动的，活跃的'，经常表示一种状态。
2020年专八英语改错练习题Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. __1__The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. __2__Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, __3__nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. __4__Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. __5__People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help.So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and __6__for anythingslightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. __7__The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the is advantages of being cut off. __8__The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that __9__ you are at the centre of things and that life doesn’t come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two： they expressed their preference for thequiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the__10__country within commuting distance of the large city.参考答案：1.把frightened改为frightening。
2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案1One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising (26)is the possibility of unraveling the complicated writing (27)of the brain. A mechanic gets valuable insight how an (28)automobile works by rebuilding car engines; similarly, neuroscientists can learn how the brain functions from (29)the way it is put together. The next step pursuing the (30)goal is to find out how the blueprint genes, the home box genes, control the expression of other genes that create the valves and piston of the working cerebral engine. The protein encoded by the latter genes could change the (31)stickiness of the cell surface, the shape of the cell or its metabolism to create the characteristic peculiar to, say, neurons or neural-crest cell. Surface proteins may be the (32)mechanism, whereby similar programmed cells stick together to form specific structures; they might also sense (33)the local environment to help the cell decide what is to do. Clarifying those mechanisms will engage the best talents in (34)embryology and molecular biology for some times to come.(35)What is perhaps the most intriguing question of all is if the brain is powerful enough to solve the puzzle of its own creation.答案:26.preventing改为prevent27plicated改为complexion28.sight后加into29.neuroscientist改为a neuroscientist30.pursuing后加inter改为latter32.similar改为similarly33.去掉is34.times改为time35.if改为whether2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案2Because the air in the country is really clean, we ought to live there much as is possible. Since, however, a great deal of the worlds (26)work must be done indoor in cities, it is important that we take every (27)precaution to ventilate our houses properly. Some people have thought that night air is injurious. But careful study shows that night air is identical with that which we breath during the day. In face the (28)proper ventilation of a bedroom is one of the first necessity for good (29)health. Since the exhaled air is usually warmer and lighter than the inhaled air, it rises to the top of the room. Therefore it is better to open a window both at the top to let the warm up air out and also at (30)the bottom to admit the fresh air in. Of course, this does not mean (31)that one should sleep in a strong draft. In many places it is feasible to sleep out-of-the-doors on a sleeping porch and so to secure perfect (32)ventilation. In recent years we have seen steady progress made in the development of equipments to supply proper conditioned air not only in large (33)auditoriums, class-rooms, and factories, but also in railroad trains and in private homes. This equipment cleans the air off dust, keeps (34)the temperature comfortable, holds the humidity at the right point, and keeps the air in the motion. Such a condition is conductive to (35)efficiency as well as good health.答案：26.much前加as27.indoor改为indoors28.breath改为breathe29.necessity改为necessities30.up改为upper31.去掉in32.out-of-the-doors改为out-of-doors33.equipments改为equipment34.off改为of35.去掉the2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案3Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also 26)a London magistrate, once madea night raid to two known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven men,women, and children packed away in a few tiny 27)stinking rooms. All of these people,included little children of five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, were wantedfor crime. Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the 28)typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an 29)apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it because he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon 30)found it was easy to make more money by thieving 31)as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work. 32)In Shepard’s day highwaymen committed robberies at broad daylight, in sight of a crowd, and rode solemnly and 33)triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready34)to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair, 35)and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers.答案：26.to * on27.included * including28.Jack * of Jack29.respectful * respectable30.was easy * easy31.as * than32.at * in33.with * without34.a * an35.from * of2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案4The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure (26)who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, (27)explores this in one of his recent books. Sometimes around1880, a (28)language catastrophe occurred in Hawaii when thousands of emigrant (29)workers were brought to the islands to work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke in Pidgin English -- the sort of thing such mixed language (30)populations have always done. A pidgin is not really a language at all. It is more like a set of verbal signals used to name objects and (31)without the grammatical rules needed for expressing thought and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the whole mass of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian Creole. The (32)new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed form all the (33)original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the (34)predecessors in the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as primitive language, Hawaiian Creole (35)had a highly sophisticated grammar.答案:26. sure前加for27.linguistic改为linguistics.28. sometimes改为sometime.29.emigrant改为immigrant30.去spoke后的in31.and改为but.32. people改为peoples.33. 去speech后的was.34. beared改为bore.35. as前加a2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案5I 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)sentence as a formal linguistic object. The language teachers view of what that constitutes knowledge of a language is essentially the same (32)as Chomskys knowledge of a syntactic structure of sentences,(33)and of the transformational relations which hold them. Sentences are seen as paradigmatically rather than syntagmatically related. Such a knowledge "provides the basis for the actual use of language by the speaker-hearer". The assumption that the language appears to make (34)is that once this basis is provided, then the learner will have no difficulty in the dealing with the actual use of language.(35)答案：26.saying改为say27.disconnected改为connected28.to改为on29.represented改为presented30.brain改为mind31.drill改为drills32.去掉what后面的that33.去掉knowledge后的anguage后加teacher35. 去掉dealing前面的the。
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 couldbe 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 maternalDeaths 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 maternaldeaths in developing countries， excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____the United Nation's Children's Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. 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。
专业英语八级改错模拟试题专业英语八级改错模拟试题The future is scary but you can't just run to the past cause it's familiar.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的`专业英语八级改错模拟试题，希望能给大家带来帮助!When I decided to return back to school at the __1__age of thirty-five, I wasn’t at all worried for my __2__ability to do the work. After all, I was a grown woman who has raised a family, not a confused__3__teenager freshly out of school. But when I __4__started classes, I realized that those “confused teenagers” who sitting around me were in __5__more better shape for college than I was. They still__6__had all their classroom skills in bright, shiny__7__condition, while mine grown rusty from disuse. I__8__had totally forgotten how to locate information in a library, what to write a report, __9__or even how to speak up in class discussion. __10__答案及解析：1. 去掉backreturn本身就相当于back或go back，此处back意义重复2. for改为aboutworry about是固定词组，表示“为……担心”，而worry for后加人时表示“为某人担心”3.has改为had定语从句中时态应与主句一致4. freshly改为freshfresh out of school作后置定语修饰teenager。
英语专业八级改错练习题及答案英语专业八级改错练习题及答案「篇一」英语专业八级改错练习题Successful aging is a psychological feat. Fear for__1__death, for example, may sometimes oppress you。
even when this is successfully overcome, there is stillsomething for you to deal with-loneliness. Lonelinesscanspeed your demise no matter conscientiously __2__you care for your body. “We go through lifesurroundedby protective convoys of others,” says Robert Kahn, a psychologist of the Universityof Michiganwho studied the health effects of companio nship. “People __3__who manage to maintain a network of social support do best.” One study of elderlyheart-attack patientsfound that those with two or more close associations __4__enjoyed twice the one-year survival rate of those whowere completely alone。
Companionship aside, healthy oldsters seem toshare a knack for managing stress, poison that contributes __5__ measurably to heart disease, cancer and accidents。
英语专业八级考试改错题型训练及答案解析更多精彩内容请及时____应届毕业生考试网!part 1English teachers hear “he” and “she” misused on a daily basis. Small mistakes often make simple exchanges ical,and sometimes frustrating. Learning to municate a foreign__1__language can be exciting orjust daunting. Fortunately, public education in China provides a wonderful introduction with the__2__English language. Speaking, listening, reading and writing areteachers catch up with games, or activities that stimulate a __9__situation where English might be useful for those specific students. Teachers mold each class to the students present. While at dinner together or while visiting a scenic area, student should discover new vocabulary words andpractice__10__ speaking in a realistic social situation rather than a classroom.答案及解析:1. 在municate之后加inin表示手段方法等，在此意义是“用......交际”2. withto介词to从意义分析^p 该与introduction (to) 关联;而不是provide3. needneeded过去分词修饰前面的the four language skills，相当于the four language skills(which/that are) needed4. 第一个isarewhich 在从句中坐主语，其先行词为writing and speaking5. 删除on或把onin6. thanto习语superior to7. hearingheard过去分词表示被动，相当于which/that is heard8. 去掉they或在they后加are根据语法规那么，有些表示时间，地点，条件，方式或让步状语从句，假如谓语包含动词be，主语又和主语的主语谓语一致，那么常常可以把从句中的主语和谓语局部，特别是动词be省略掉9. catchecatch up with和e up with有意义一样之处：追赶，赶上，但此处根据上下文，应为e up with作为“提供，供给”解10. shouldcan根据上下文，学生具备这种才能(can)，但不是责任或义务(should)part 2party. The secondary element critical to the success of a party is__8_its theme. Each party might have a definite reason for being, a __9__certain idea or mood running throughout the evening. While many persons consider such “gimmicky” as costume parties or Mexican fiestas passe, there are many alternative themes to choose between.__10__答案及解析：1. excitedexciting：两者都为形容词，但意义上有区别：excited意为“兴奋的'，冲动的，活泼的”，常常表示一种状态。
2020年专八英语改错练习题及答案2020年专八英语改错练习题及答案Halloween’s origins dated back to the ancient Celtic _1_Festival of Samhain (pronouncing sow-in).The Celts, who _2_Lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, United _3_Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated its new year on November 1.This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.Celts believedthat at the night before the new year, the boundary _4_between the worlds of the live and the dead became blurred._5_On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, it was _6_Believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made easier for _7_The Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, which the people gathered to burn crops and animals _8_As sacrifices to the Celtic deities.During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and skins, and attempted to assume each other’s fortunes.When the _9_Celebration was over, they lit their hearth fires, which they had _10_ extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.参考答案：1.dated-date2.pronouncing-pronounced3.United前加the4.at-on5.live-living6.it was前加when7.made+it8.which-where9.assumed-tell10.lit-rellit。
模拟1You stare at a waterfall for a minute or two, then shift your gaze to its surrounding. What you now see appears to drift upward. You __1are board a train in a busy station when suddenly another train next __2to your starts moving forward. __3For a fraction of a second you feel that your train has lurched backward. These optical illusions occur because the brain is constantly matching its model of reality to signals from the body’s sensors and interpret what must be happening – that your train __4might have moved, not the other; that downward motion is now __5normal, so a change from it must be perceived as upward motion.The sensors that make this magic are two kinds. __6Each eye contains about 120 million rods, which provide somewhat blurry black and white vision. These are the windows of night vision; once adapted to the dark, they can detect a candle burnt __7ten miles away. Colorful vision in each eye comes from six to seven __8million structures called cones. Under ideal conditions, every cone can “see” the entire rainbow spectrum of visible colors, but one type of cone is most sensitive to red, another to green, the third to __9blue. By monitoring how many wavelength of light affects the different cones, a connected ganglion cell can determ ine its “color” and relay that data. Rods and cones send their messages pulsing on __10average 20 to 25 times per second along the optic nerve.模拟2The violence within a society is controlled through institutions of law. The most developed a legal system becomes, the more __1societies takes responsibility for the discovery, control, and punishment __2of violent acts. In most tribal societies the only means to dealing with __3an act of violence is revenge. Each family group may have the responsibility for personal carrying out judgment and punishment __4upon the person who did the offense. __5But in legal systems, the responsibility for revenge becomes personalized and diffused. The society assumes the responsibility for __6protecting individuals from violence. In cases where he cannot be __7protected, the society is responsible for committing punishment. __8In a state controlling legal system, individuals are removed __9from the circle of revenge motivated by acts of violence, and the __10state assumes responsibility for their protection.模拟3There are three main groups of oils: animal, vegetable and mineral.Great numbers of animal oil come from whales, those enormous __1creatures of the sea which are the largest remaining animals in the world. To protect the whale from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick cover of fat called blubber. When the __2whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either board the ship or on shore. It produces a great quantity of oil which __3can be made into food for human consumption. A few other creatures yield oil, and none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and __4the halibut, two kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil. Both cod liver oil and halibut liver oil are given to sick children and other invalids who need certain vitamins. These oils may be bought at any chemist. Vegetable oil has been known from antiquity. __5No household can not get on without it, for it is used in cooking. To __6the ordinary man, one kind of oil may be as important as another.But when the politician or the engineer refers to oil, one almost always __7means mineral oil, the oil that drives tanks, aeroplanes and warships,motor-cars and diesel locomotives; the oil that is used to lubricate all kinds of machineries. This is the oil that has changed the life __8of the common men. To it we owe the existence of the motor-car, __9which has replaced the private horse-drawing carriage. __10模拟4Dinosaurs, saber-tooth tigers and the dodo bird are famous examples __1of animals that have become extinct. In case of the dinosaurs, it __2seems likely that a catastrophic event alters the global climate __3enough to lead to their disappearance. More recent extinctions and near-extinctions－such as the blue whales, tiger, panda, and __4North American bison—have been the direct result of human activity. By the early 1990s, species were becoming extinct at a rate of three per hour, or 27,000 every day – a figure quoted by the American biologist Edward O.Wilson of Harvard University, based on his most conservative estimates. This rate of extinctions carries with it some terrible consequences. Each plant that becomes extinct,for example, may take with it as much as 30 insects and animals __5that depend on it for food. Habitat loss is one of the most important causes of extinction. For rising populations in many countries __6lead to the clearing of more land, habitats such as raining forest __7and grasslands disappear.In the East Africa, once renowned for its wildlife, few wild animals __8remain living outside the boundaries of national parks and game __9reserves. In other parts of the world, coastal ecosystems are clearing __10for development. Wetland areas are drying out as a result of water extraction to support farming and tourism. Bird species are among the worst affected by the loss of wetlands.模拟5Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad __1influence of this or that individual writers. But an effect can become __2a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect __3in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink __4because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the most __5completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our language __6makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is irreversible. Modern English, especially written English, __7is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can beavoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and think clearly is a __8necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning __9of professional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope __10that by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have become clearer.模拟6Our obsession with thinness is also fueled by health concerns.It is true that in this country we have more overweighted people __1than ever before, and that, in many cases, being overweight correlates an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease. __2These diseases, therefore, may have as much to do with our __3way of life and our high-fat diets as with excessive weight. And __4the associate risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more __5about a dietary problem—too much fat and a lack of fiber than a __6weight problem.The real concern, then, is not that we weigh too much, but that we neither exercise enough or eat well. Exercise is necessary __7for strong bones and both heart and lung health. A balanced dietwithout a lot of fat can also help the body avoid many diseases.We should surely stop paying so much attention on weight. __8Simply being thin is not enough. It is actually hazardy if those who __9get(or already are) thin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to their overall life-style. Thinness can be purely vainglory. __10模拟7To be called beautiful is thought to name something essential to women’s character and concerns.(In contrast by men whose __1essence is to be strong, or effective, or competent.) It does not need someone in the throes of feminist awareness to perceive that __2the way women are taught to be involved in beauty encourages __3narcissism, reinforces independence and immaturity. Everybody knows __4that. For it is “everybody”, a whole society, which has identified __5being feminine with caring about how one looks. Giving these __6stereotypes, it is no wonder that beauty enjoys, at best, a rather mixed reputation.It is not, of course, the desire to be beautiful is wrong but the __7obligation to be. Women are taught to see their bodies in parts, and to assess each part separately. Breasts, feet, hips, waistline, neck, __8eyes, nose, complexion, hair, and so on – each by turn is submitted __9to an anxious scrutiny. Even if some pass the scrutiny, some will always be found wanted. Nothing less than perfection will do. __10模拟8The 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 coasts 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 __5wonder 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模拟9Planning 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.模拟10Sporting 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.模拟11A 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 __5dissimilar 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.模拟12What 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? __5The 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 it 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。
