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英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(一)About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries 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 Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____ risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7____ maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8_____ pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9____ mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than ____10____ two years apart.英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二)“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essentialattitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in thefamily house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _____1_____has great importance for many people.This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlersof American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____2_____for one’s family, and started a farm. These small h ouseholds were _____3_____ portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _____4_____support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5_____of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in theUnited States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6_____is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7_____they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8_____a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically inthe suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9_____a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _____10_____ way of life.英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二十)The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are forthe most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A roughand 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 r ather __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 theis 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 telegramsand newspaper headlines.英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二十二)One of America’s most importa nt 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 forits 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 describingday-to-day situations and the feelings of country people. Many peopleappreciate 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. Itis 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, featuringfast and repetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and countrymusic. 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 areyoung musicians.American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. Somesongs 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__英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二十三)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 onestreet all knew each other, nowadays people on thesame floor in tower blocks even say hello to each __4__ other.Country life, on the other hand, differs from thiskind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village togeth- __5__ er. 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 anythingslightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expe- __7__ dition to the nearest large town. The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the __8__ disadvantages of being cut off. The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one oftheir main advantages is that you are at the centre of __9__ things and that life doesn’t come to an end even at tenat 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.英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二十八)One of our main arguments is that we in Westerncountries actually have part to play in causing the __1__ problems of the Third World. Many Third Worldcountries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for __2__ example. They were lent money with low interest rates __3__ in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banksfrom the oil-producing countries and was lent out tothe Third World. The interest rates have then been risen __4__ dramatically. So you have a situation where a countryin many cases can’t even repay the interest, letting alone __5__ the capital, on the debt. And I suppose the best examplefrom what I have come across is a country in WestAfrica where the consumption, the local consumptionof peanuts was banned, because peanuts, if they are imported can bring in a great deal of foreign income. __6__The peanut is a major source of protein in this country.So you have people go hungry as a result of that. __7__The peanuts were exported to Great Britain and theUnited States to feed our cattle. Those cattle then produceda surplus of milk which we do not know what to do with.We have enough milk, more milk than we cancope with in the Western World. And also that milk __8__was transformed into dried milk powder and then takenback to this country to help feed children who weresuffering from malnutrition. So that’s the kind of insanely __9__economic relationship that we have got ourselves in __10__the Third World.英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二十九)One of the most important non-legislative functions of theU.S Congress is the power to investigate. The power is usuallydelegated to committees—either standing committees, specialcommittees set for a specific purpose, or joint committees __1__consisted of members of both houses. Investigations __2__are held to gather information on the need for futurelegislation,to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,to inquire into the qualifications and performance ofmembers and officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, __3__to lay the groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently,committees rely outside experts to assist in conducting __4__investigative hearings and to make out detailed studies of issues. __5__There are important corollaries to the investigative power.One is the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most __6__committee hearings are open to public and are reported widely __7__in the mass media. Congressional investigations nevertheless __8__represent one important tool available to lawmakers to informthe citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues, __9__Congressional committees also have the power to compeltestimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contemptof Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjurythese who give false testimony. __10__英语专八翻译汉译英练习：进取的幸福原文：正是因为不停地追求进取，我们才感到生活幸福。
