六级历年真题----综合改错部分试题集锦（附答案）（涛涛提供电子版，为了供大家进行第2次有效自测打分估分）做改错题注意事项：☆改正将文中错词用斜线(/)划去，在后面横线上填入正确的词，表示替换该错词。
（请注意此时，我们文章里面用的是periods这种横线，但是考试时要按要求，一般情况下，是要划斜线的。
）☆删去在文中将错词用斜线(/)划去，在后面横线上也划一斜线(/)，表示该错词是多余的。
☆增添在文中两词间加“∧”号，表示有遗漏，然后在横线上添入遗漏的词的正确形式。
Error Correction：（15 minutes ）Example 1. （2006年12月试点新六级短文改错真题，2007年6月考查了完型填空）The National Endowment for the Arts recently released thethe results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which describedmovement of the American public away from books andliterature and toward television and electronic media.According to the survey. “reading is on the decline on every S1.________region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.”The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie S2._________vote, upheld the government’s right to obtain bookstore andlibrary records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. TheHouse proposal would have barred the federal governmentfrom demand library records, reading lists, book customer S3._________lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they S4.________echo each other in the message they send about the place ofbooks and reading in American culture. At the heart S5.________of the NEA survey is the belief in our democraticsystem depends on leaders who can think critically, analyzetexts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promoted by S6.________reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of ourcountry are unconsciously sending the message that readingmay be connected to desirable activities that might S7.________undermine our system of government rather than helpingdemocracy flourish.Our culture’s decline in reading begin well before the S8.________existence of the Patriot Act. During the 1980s’culture wars,school systems across the country pulled some books fromlibrary shelves because its content was deemed by parents S9.________ and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schoolsacross the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and S10._______ is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of theAmerican public.Example 2.（2006年12月旧六级短文改错真题）The most important starting point for improving theunderstanding of science is undoubtedly an adequatescientific education at school. Public attitudes towardsscience owe much the way science is taught in these S1. __________ institutions, Today, school is what most people come into S2. __________ contact with a formal instruction and explanation of sciencefor the first time. At least in a systematic way, It is at thisPoint which the foundations are laid for an interest in science. S3. _________ What is taught (and how) in this first encounter will largelydeterminc an individual’s view of the subject in adult lifeUnderstanding the original of the negative attitudes S4._________ towards science may help us to modify them . Most educationsystem neglect exploration, understanding and reflection, S5. ________ Teachers in schools tend to present science as a collection offacts, often by more detail than necessary, As a result. S6. _______ children memorize processes such as mathematical formulasor the periodic table, only to forget it shortly afterwards. The S7. ________ task of learning facts and concepts, one at a time, makeslearning laborious, boring and efficient, Such a purely S8._________ empirical approach, which consists of observation anddescription, is also, in a sense, unscientific or incomplete,There is therefore a need for resources and methods ofteaching that facilitates a deep understanding of science in S9. _____an enjoyable way, Science should not only be “fun” in thesame way as playing a video game, but “hard fun” a deepfeeling of connection made possibly only by imaginative S10. ______ engagement.Example 3 . （2006年 6月英语六级短文改错真题）Until recently, dyslexia（朗诵困难症）and other reading problems werea mystery to most teachers and parents. As a result, too manykids passed through school without master the printed page. S1. _______ Some were treated as mentally deficient; many were leftFunctionally illiterate（文盲的）, unable to ever meet theirpotential. But in the last several years, there’s been arevolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia. S2. ________ Scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques towatch the brain at work. Their experiments have shown thatreading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect, S3. _______ faulty wiring in the brain — not lazy, stupidity or a poor home S4. _________ environment. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia S5. ________ is largely inherited. It is now considered a chronic problemfor some kids, not just a “phase”. Scientists have alsodiscarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexics areboys. Studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well — S6. ________ and not getting help.At same time, educational researchers have come up S7. _______ with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are havingtrouble learning to read. New screening tests are identifyingchildren at risk before they get discouraged by year of S8. ________ frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get themessage to parents that they should be on the alert for thefirst signs of potential problemsIt’s an urgent mission. Mass literacy is a relative new S9. ________ social goal. A hundred years ago people didn’t need to begood readers in order to earn a living. But in the InformationAge, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and S10. ______ Understand increasingly complex material.Example 4 . （2005年 12 月英语六级短文改错真题）Every week hundreds of CVs(简历) land on our desks.We’ve seen it all: CVs printed on pink paper, CVs that are 10pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph. A S1. _______ good CV is your passport to an interview and ,ultimate , to S2. _______the job you want Initial impressions are vital, and a badlypresented CV could mean acceptance, regardless of what’s in it. S3. _______ Here are a few ways to avoid end up on the reject pile. S4. _______ Print your CV on good-quality white paper.CVs with flowery backgrounds or pink paper willstand out upon all the wrong reasons S5. _______ Get someone to check for spelling and grammaticalerrors, because a spell-checker will pick up every S6. _______ mistake. CVs with errors will be rejected-it showsthat you don’t pay attention to detail.Restrict your self to one or two pages, andlisting any publications or referees on a separate sheet. S7. _______ If you are sending your CV electronically, check theformatting by sending it to yourself first. keep up S8 . _______ the format simple.Do not send a photo unless specifically requested. Ifyou have to send on ,make sure it is one taking in a S9 . _______ professional setting, rather than a holiday snap.Getting the presentation right is just the first step. Whatabout the content? The Rule here is to keep it factual andTruthful-exaggerations usually get find out. And remember S10. _______to tailor your CV to each different job.Example 5.（2005年1月英语六级短文改错真题）The World Health Organization says its ten-yearcampaign to remove leprosy(麻风病) as a world healthproblem has been successful. Doctor Brundland, head ofthe WHO, say a number of leprosy cases around the world S1._________has been cut of ninety percent during the past 10 years. She S2.________ says efforts are continuing to compete end the disease. S3._________ Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquidfrom the nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin S4._________and nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can causepermanent damage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms, etc. S5._________In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy.The WHO, governments of countries of countries most affected bythe disease, and several other groups are part of the campaign.This alliance guarantees that all leprosy patients, even they S6.________ are poor, have a right to the most modern treatment.Doctor Brundland says leprosy is no longer a disease thatrequires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead, patientscan take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This modern treatment S7.________ will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months, depend on the form of the disease. S8.________ The treatment combines several drugs taken daily or once a month.The WHO has given multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last S9.________ five years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan totarget the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among the S10._______ estimated 700,000 victims around the world, the WHO believes about70% are in India. The disease also remains a problem in Africa and SouthAmerica.Example 6. （2004年6月英语六级短文改错真题）Culture refers to the social heritage of a people ---the learnedpatterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize apopulation or society, include the expression of these patterns in S1._______ material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture S2.______ abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional arrangements—and material culture—physical object like S3._______cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflectsboth the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary S4._______ speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another S5._______ language—the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, S6._______ literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to behuman is to be cultured, because of culture is the common S7._______world of experience we share with other members of ourgroup. Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides S8._______a kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you feelyour way about social life. How do you know how to act in aclassroom, or a department store, or towards a person whosmiles or laugh at you ?Your culture supplies you S9._______by broad, standardized, ready-made answers for dealing S10._______with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know one’s culture,we may sense or predict a good deal of his behavior.Example 7. （2003年6月英语六级短文改错真题）The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firmthat has recognized the need for change and donesomething about it. In the newspaper industry, papersmust reflect the diversity of the communities to whichthey provide information. It must reflect that diversity S1._______with their news coverage or risk losing their readers’interest and their advertisers’ support. Operating withinSeattle, which has 20 percents racial minorities, the S2._______Paper has put into place policies and procedures forHiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The underlying S3._______reason for the change is that for information to be fair ,appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4._______same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters,editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the S5._______Seattle Times’ content and to educate the rest of thenewsroom staff about diversity issues. In an addition, the S6._______paper instituted a content audit(审查) that evaluates thefrequency and manner of representation of woman and S7._______people of colour in photographs. Early audits showed thatminorities were pictured far too infrequently and werepictured with a disproportionate number of negativearticles. The audit results from improvement in the S8._______frequency of majority representation and their portrayal S9._______in neutral or positive situations. And, with a result, the S10._______ Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper. The diversitytraining and content audits helped the Seattle TimesCompany to win the Personnel Journal Optimas Awardfor excellence in managing change.Example 8. (2002年6月英语六级短文改错真题)A great many cities are experiencing difficultieswhich are nothing new in the history of cities, exceptin their scale. Some cities have lost their originalpurpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich S1___city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in,filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often S2___ disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge ofBombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of S3___seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-centuryParis. This is new is the scale. S4___ Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poorof Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found S5___ there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today - S6___ the poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, butbehind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised S7___ land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and S8___ brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth S9___ of the country as a Garden of Eden,which,a few generations late, sends them flooding S10___ out again to the suburbs.Example 9. （2000年1月英语六级短文改错真题）Until the very latest moment of his existence, man hasbeen bound to the planet on which he originated anddeveloped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet S1._____ and move out into the universe to those worlds which he hasknown previously only directly. Men have explored parts of S2._____ the moon, put spaceships in orbit around another planet andpossibly within the decade will land into another planet and S3.___ explore it. Can we be too bold as to suggest that we may be S4.___ able to colonize other planet within the not - too - distant S5.__ future ? Some have advocated such a procedure as a solutionto the population problem. ship the excess people off to themoon. But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we S6.____ might spend in carrying out the project. To maintain theearth's population at its present level. we would have toblast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.Why are we spending so little money on space S7.____ exploration ? Consider the great need for improving many S8._____ aspects of the global environment, one is surely justified inhis concern for the money and resources that they are poured S9.____ into the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we shouldlook at both sides of the coin before arriving hasty S10.____ conclusions.Example 10.（2000年 6月英语六级短文改错真题）When you start talking about good and bad manners youimmediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannotagree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that shethought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they S1. _______ occupied the space around them—for example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2. _______ others. Such people never bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this was more aquestion of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this S3. _______ other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, S4. _______ about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at one S5. _______of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasn’tbeen told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If S6. _______he had known about American food, he might have behaved S7. _______ better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread thatlooked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking it S8. _______ up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt. S9. _______ His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but S10. _______ immediately copied the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fine example ofgood manners.所有短文改错文章----参考答案Example 1. （2006年12月试点新六级短文改错真题）S1. on→inS2. the day 和 the NEA report 之间应该加上 whenS3.demand→demandingS4. 去掉toS5 in 改为thatS6. writing→writeS7.desirable→undesirableS8. begin→beganS9. its→theirS10. nation→nationalExample 2.（2006年12月旧六级短文改错真题）S1.在much和the way间插入toS2.what -------〉whereS3.which -------〉thatS4.original -------〉originS5.system -------〉systemsS6.by -------〉inS7.it -------〉themS8.efficient -------〉inefficientS9.facilitates -------〉facilitateS10.possibly > possibleExample 3 .（2006年 6月英语六级短文改错真题）S1. master-------〉masteringS2. that -------〉 whatS3. an 多余所以要去掉S4. lazy -------〉lazinessS5. which -------〉 thatS6. affecting -------〉affectedS7. at 和same 之间应该加上theS8. year -------〉yearsS9. relative -------〉relativelyS10. with -------〉withoutExample 4 . （2005年 12 月英语六级短文改错真题）S1. in first paragraph -------〉in the first paragraphS2. ultimate -------〉ultimatelyS3. acceptance -------〉unacceptance / rejectionS4. end -------〉endingS5. upon -------〉forS6. will pick up -------〉will not pick upS7. listing -------〉listS8. Keep up -------〉KeepS9. taking -------〉takenS10. find -------〉foundExample 5.（2005年1月英语六级短文改错真题）2005年1月大学英语六级短文改错答案S1. a -------〉 theS2. of -------〉 byS3. complete -------〉completelyS4. effects -------〉affectsS5. for -------〉 toS6. even -------〉even if/even thoughS7. that -------〉whatS8. depend -------〉dependingS9. freely -------〉freeS10. which -------〉which areExample 6. （2004年6月英语六级短文改错真题）S1 include →including（including, 表示“包括”，考查非谓语动词including）S2 compose →composed（词组be composed of –表示“由。
