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改错: 历年全真试题及参考答案(00.1-06.12)00.1Until the very latest moment of his existence, manhas been 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 hehas known previously only directly. Men have explored S2._______parts of the moon, put spaceships in orbit around anotherplanet and possibly within the decade will land into anotherS3._______planet and explore it. Can we be toobold as toS4._______suggest that we may be able to colonize other planetS5._______within the not - too - distant future ? Some have advocatedsuch a procedure as a solution to the populationproblem: ship the excess people off to the moon. Butwe must keep in head the billions of dollars we mightS6._______spend in carrying out the project. To maintain theearth's population at its present level, we would haveto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour ofevery day of the year.Why are we spending so littlemoney on spaceS7._______exploration ? Consider the greatneed for improvingS8._______many aspects of the global environment, one is surelyjustified in his concern for the money and resourcesthat they are poured into the space exploration efforts.S9._______But perhaps we should look at both sides of thecoin before arriving hasty conclusions.S10._______00.6When you start talking about good and bad mannersyou immediately start meetingdifficulties. Manypeople just cannot agree what they mean. We asked alady, who replied that she thought you could tell awell-mannered person on the way they occupied the S1._______space around them—for example, when such a personwalks 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 wasmore a question of civilized behavior as good manners. S3._______Instead, this other person told us a story, it heS4._______said was quite well known, about an American whohad been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countriesS5._______of the Middle East. The American hasn't beenS6._______told very much about the kind of food he mightexpect. If he had known about American food, heS7._______might have behaved better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece ofbread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾).S8._______Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that itfalls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had beenS9._______watching, said of nothing, but immediately copiedS10._______the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fineexample of good manners.01.6More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stagesof S1. ________the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh S2.________deaths in Europe's crowded cities were caused by the S3. ________ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the S4. ________ global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily S5. ________through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries.Medicalresearchers S 6. ________declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of S7. ________ infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in S8. ________ many places where it had never been away, it grew better. S9. ________The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people (a third of the earth's population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around S10. ________3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.02.1Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of huntingbehavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a S1.________member of a disguised hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned intoa harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim isinaccurate S2.________and he scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing hisprey. S3._________To understand how thistransformation has taken placewemust briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over aS4.________million year evolving asco-operative hunters. Theirvery survivalS5._______depended on success in thehunting-field. Under thispressure their wholeway of life, even if their bodies, became radically changed. They became S6.________chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers.They co-operate as skillfulmale-group attackers.S7.________Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely longS8.________formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new S9._______use-that of penning ( 把……关在圈中), controlling and domesticatingtheir prey. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. Therisks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival. S10._______02.6A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1._________immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2._________which are then often disappointing. There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3._________on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4._________written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5._________are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -theS6._________poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7._________promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural povertyS8._________and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9._________country as a Garden of Eden, which,a few generations late,S10._________sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.03.6The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1._______losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2.________minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. TheS3._______underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by theS4._________same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'S5.________content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a contentS6.________audit(审查) that evaluates thefrequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in photographs.S7._________Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results from S8.________improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9.________their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10._______result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped the SeattleTimes Company to win the PersonnelJournal Optimal Awardfor excellence in managing change.03.9"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential attitudein the United States. Whether the reality of life in the familyhouse is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1.________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 theAmerican West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for one'sS2.________family, and started a farm. Thesesmall households were portraits of S3.________independence: the entirefamily--mother, father, children, evengrandparents—live in a small house and working together to supportS4.________each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5.________cooperation and hard work.Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth S6.________ century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, forS7.________example, they dreamed of buyinghouses and starting families. But there S8.________was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but itS9.________satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10.________ their way of life.03.12Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecastershave being warning that worldwide famine was just around the S1________next corner. The fast-growingpopulation's demand for food,they warned, would soon exceed their supply, leading to S2________widespread food shortages and starvation.But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3________like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, S4________the world's food crisis has remained just around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population S5________doubles by the mid-21st century, although feeding 10 billionpeople will not be easy for politics,economic and environmental S6________reasons. Optimists point to concrete examples of continued improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, S7________more fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, rice S8________experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few stems S9_________and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason for hope. S10________04.6Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - thelearned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterizea population or society, include the expression of these S1._______patterns in material things. Culture is compose of non-material S2._______culture -abstract creations like values, beliefs, customsand institutional arrangements and material culture -physical object like cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. S3._______In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everythingS4._______we make. In ordinary speech, a person of culture isthe individual can speak another language - the person who S5._______is unfamiliar with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or S6._______history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured,because of culture is the common world of experience we S7._______share with other members of our group.Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a S8._______kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you findyour way about social life. How doyou know how to act in a classroom, or a department store, or toward a person whosmiles or laugh at you? S9._______Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10._______ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understandand even predict a good deal of his behavior.05.1The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-yearcampaign to remove leprosy (麻风病) as a world healthproblem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of theWHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world hasS1._______been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says S2._______efforts are continuing to complete end the disease. S3._______Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid fromthe nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and S4._______nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanent damage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs. S5.________In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy. The WHO, governments ofcountries most affected by the 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 Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a diseasethat requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead, patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This S7._______modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months,depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines S8.________several drugs taken daily or once a month. The WHO hasgiven multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five S9.________years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan totarget the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among S10_______the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHObelieves about 70% are in India. The disease also remains a problem in Africa and South America.05.12Every 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. AS1 ________good CV is your passport to an interview and ,ultimate , to S2________the job you want.Initial impressions are vital, and a badly presented CVcould mean acceptance, reg ardless 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 yo u 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 aS9________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.06.6Until recently, dyslexia 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 mentallydeficient; many were left functionally illiterate(文盲的), unable to ever meet their potential. 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 that reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect, S3_______faulty writing in the brain-not lazy, stupidity or a poor home S4________environmen t. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia S5________is largely inherited. It is nowconsidered 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 identifying children at risk before they get discouraged by year of S8________frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the message to parents that theyshould be on the alert for thefirst signs of potential problems. It’s an urgent miss ion. 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.06.12老六级The most important starting point for improving the understanding of science is undoubtedly an adequatescientific education at school. Public attitude 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 largely determine an individual’s view of the subject in adult life. Understanding 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 of facts, 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.06年12月新六级The National Endowment for the Arts recently releasedthe results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which describedthe movement of the American public away from books and literature and toward televisionand 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 theyS4________echo each other in the message they send about the place ofbooks and reading in American culture. At the heartof the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic S5________system 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 helping democracy 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. 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【大学英语六级改错试题及答案(18)】Some people, in all seriousness, say that humans will be living in space within the next hundred or so years. Planet Earth will be crowded, dirty and lack of resources. A sort of exodus [51] of mankind will begin.Spaceships will be assembled so that they revolve around the earth. Some may orbit around Mars. These space stations will be serviced by space buses. We saw the first space bus launch in [52] April 1981. This was Columbia , it made several [53] orbits around the earth and then returned, landing on a huge dry lake bed in California. Columbia will be used again. Previous spaceships have been abandoned, only the nose being used to bring the crews back to earth.[54]Upon established, each space station will [55] generate its own atmosphere and have its own agriculture. It will need to rotation to provide [56] an artificial gravity; people will be forced inwards [57] from the centre by centrifugal force.The moon and Mars could become new sources of new materials. Driving through space will no [58] longer need Earth fuel - the energy would come from the sun. This energy would be converted from [59] electricity to work magnetic rockets.That all sounds quite fantastically but, with [60] the rapid development of modern technology, who knows about what the future holds?答案51. and lack of... short52. bus launch in... launched53. it made several... which54. the crews back... crew55. Upon established... once56. to rotation to... rotate57. forced inwards... outwards58. space will no... would59. converted from... into60. quite fantastically but... fantastic。
改错: 历年全真试题及参考答案(00.1-06.12)00.1Until the very latest moment of his existence, manhas been 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 hehas known previously only directly. Men have explored S2._______parts of the moon, put spaceships in orbit around anotherplanet and possibly within the decade will land into anotherS3._______planet and explore it. Can we be toobold as toS4._______suggest that we may be able to colonize other planetS5._______within the not - too - distant future ? Some have advocatedsuch a procedure as a solution to the populationproblem: ship the excess people off to the moon. Butwe must keep in head the billions of dollars we mightS6._______spend in carrying out the project. To maintain theearth's population at its present level, we would haveto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour ofevery day of the year.Why are we spending so littlemoney on spaceS7._______exploration ? Consider the greatneed for improvingS8._______many aspects of the global environment, one is surelyjustified in his concern for the money and resourcesthat they are poured into the space exploration efforts.S9._______But perhaps we should look at both sides of thecoin before arriving hasty conclusions.S10._______00.6When you start talking about good and bad mannersyou immediately start meetingdifficulties. Manypeople just cannot agree what they mean. We asked alady, who replied that she thought you could tell awell-mannered person on the way they occupied the S1._______space around them—for example, when such a personwalks 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 wasmore a question of civilized behavior as good manners. S3._______Instead, this other person told us a story, it heS4._______said was quite well known, about an American whohad been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countriesS5._______of the Middle East. The American hasn't beenS6._______told very much about the kind of food he mightexpect. If he had known about American food, heS7._______might have behaved better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece ofbread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾).S8._______Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that itfalls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had beenS9._______watching, said of nothing, but immediately copiedS10._______the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fineexample of good manners.01.6More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stagesof S1. ________the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh S2.________deaths in Europe's crowded cities were caused by the S3. ________ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the S4. ________ global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily S5. ________through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries.Medicalresearchers S 6. ________declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of S7. ________ infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in S8. ________ many places where it had never been away, it grew better. S9. ________The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people (a third of the earth's population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around S10. ________3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.02.1Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of huntingbehavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a S1.________member of a disguised hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned intoa harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim isinaccurate S2.________and he scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing hisprey. S3._________To understand how thistransformation has taken placewemust briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over aS4.________million year evolving asco-operative hunters. Theirvery survivalS5._______depended on success in thehunting-field. Under thispressure their wholeway of life, even if their bodies, became radically changed. They became S6.________chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers.They co-operate as skillfulmale-group attackers.S7.________Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely longS8.________formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new S9._______use-that of penning ( 把……关在圈中), controlling and domesticatingtheir prey. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. Therisks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival. S10._______02.6A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1._________immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2._________which are then often disappointing. There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3._________on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4._________written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5._________are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -theS6._________poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7._________promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural povertyS8._________and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9._________country as a Garden of Eden, which,a few generations late,S10._________sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.03.6The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1._______losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2.________minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. TheS3._______underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by theS4._________same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'S5.________content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a contentS6.________audit(审查) that evaluates thefrequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in photographs.S7._________Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results from S8.________improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9.________their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10._______result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped the SeattleTimes Company to win the PersonnelJournal Optimal Awardfor excellence in managing change.03.9"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential attitudein the United States. Whether the reality of life in the familyhouse is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1.________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 theAmerican West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for one'sS2.________family, and started a farm. Thesesmall households were portraits of S3.________independence: the entirefamily--mother, father, children, evengrandparents—live in a small house and working together to supportS4.________each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5.________cooperation and hard work.Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth S6.________ century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, forS7.________example, they dreamed of buyinghouses and starting families. But there S8.________was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but itS9.________satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10.________ their way of life.03.12Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecastershave being warning that worldwide famine was just around the S1________next corner. The fast-growingpopulation's demand for food,they warned, would soon exceed their supply, leading to S2________widespread food shortages and starvation.But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3________like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, S4________the world's food crisis has remained just around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population S5________doubles by the mid-21st century, although feeding 10 billionpeople will not be easy for politics,economic and environmental S6________reasons. Optimists point to concrete examples of continued improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, S7________more fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, rice S8________experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few stems S9_________and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason for hope. S10________04.6Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - thelearned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterizea population or society, include the expression of these S1._______patterns in material things. Culture is compose of non-material S2._______culture -abstract creations like values, beliefs, customsand institutional arrangements and material culture -physical object like cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. S3._______In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everythingS4._______we make. In ordinary speech, a person of culture isthe individual can speak another language - the person who S5._______is unfamiliar with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or S6._______history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured,because of culture is the common world of experience we S7._______share with other members of our group.Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a S8._______kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you findyour way about social life. How doyou know how to act in a classroom, or a department store, or toward a person whosmiles or laugh at you? S9._______Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10._______ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understandand even predict a good deal of his behavior.05.1The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-yearcampaign to remove leprosy (麻风病) as a world healthproblem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of theWHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world hasS1._______been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says S2._______efforts are continuing to complete end the disease. S3._______Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid fromthe nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and S4._______nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanent damage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs. S5.________In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy. The WHO, governments ofcountries most affected by the 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 Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a diseasethat requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead, patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This S7._______modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months,depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines S8.________several drugs taken daily or once a month. The WHO hasgiven multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five S9.________years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan totarget the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among S10_______the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHObelieves about 70% are in India. The disease also remains a problem in Africa and South America.05.12Every 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. AS1 ________good CV is your passport to an interview and ,ultimate , to S2________the job you want.Initial impressions are vital, and a badly presented CVcould mean acceptance, reg ardless 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 yo u 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 aS9________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.06.6Until recently, dyslexia 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 mentallydeficient; many were left functionally illiterate(文盲的), unable to ever meet their potential. 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 that reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect, S3_______faulty writing in the brain-not lazy, stupidity or a poor home S4________environmen t. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia S5________is largely inherited. It is nowconsidered 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 identifying children at risk before they get discouraged by year of S8________frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the message to parents that theyshould be on the alert for thefirst signs of potential problems. It’s an urgent miss ion. 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.06.12老六级The most important starting point for improving the understanding of science is undoubtedly an adequatescientific education at school. Public attitude 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 largely determine an individual’s view of the subject in adult life. Understanding 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 of facts, 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.06年12月新六级The National Endowment for the Arts recently releasedthe results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which describedthe movement of the American public away from books and literature and toward televisionand 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 theyS4________echo each other in the message they send about the place ofbooks and reading in American culture. At the heartof the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic S5________system 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 helping democracy 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. 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There are great many reasons for studying what philosophers 1.________ have said in the past. One is that we cannot separate thehistory of philosophy from which of science. Philosophy is 2.________large discussion about matters on which few people are quite 3.________ certain, and those few hold opposite opinions. As knowledgeincreases, philosophy buds off the sciences.For an example, in the ancient world and the Middle Ages 4.________ philosophers discussed motion. Aristotle and St. ThomasAquinas taught that a moving body would slow down until a force 5.________ were constantly applied to it. They were wrong. It goes on movingunless something slows it down. But they had good arguments ontheir side, and if we study these, and the experimentswhich proved them right this will help us to distinguish truth 6.________ from false in the scientific controversies of today. 7.________We also see how different philosopher reflects the social 8.________life of his day. Plato and Aristotle, in the slave-owning societyof ancient Greece, thought man’s highest state was contemplationrather than activity. In the Middle Ages St. Thomasbelieved a regular feudal system of nine ranks of angels. Herbert 9.________ Spencer, in the time of free competition between capitalists,found the key to progress as the survival of the fittest. Thus 10.________ Marxism is seen to fit into its place as the philosophy forthe workers, the only class with a future.Passage 2The white House began to be built in 1792, but it was notcompleted until ten years later. Every American president livedin it except for George Washington, although he did have a 1.________majority part in designing it. 2.________The government held a competition to choose the bestdesign for the president’s house. The winner was a young man of 3.________ South Carolina, James Hoban. His design was a three-levelhouse of stone. And President Washington made some changesin the winning design. He made the house long and wider, and 4.________ changed it into a two-storied house instead of three.The second president, John Adams, was first to live in the 5.________White House. When he and his wife moved onto the new house 6.________in November, 1800, work was still going on, although the mainlive area was completed. The whole work did not finish until the 7.________ administration of the 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson.Twelve years later, the British army invaded Washingtonand burned the White House. The fire completely destroyed theinside of the building and experts said the White House was so 8.________ dangerous to live in. Later on workers rebuilt the inside of theWhite House. More offices were added, most of which underground. 9.________ None of the work, however, changed the appearing of 10.________the building. Many people asked why the president’s house iscalled the White House. Historians say it has been so calledsimply because it was painted white.passage 3When some nineteenth century New Yorkers said “Harlem”,they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street.Toward the end of the century, however, a groupof citizens in upper Manhattan-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._________ and more precise sense of community—designated a section thatthey wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen area was theHarlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 2.________new century as they left their old settlements on the middle andlower blocks of the West Side.As the community became predominantly Black, the veryword “Harlem” seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________ easy to forget that “Harlem” was originally the Dutch name“Harlem”; the community it described had been founded by 4.________ people from Holland;and that for most of its three centuries—itwas first settled in the sixteen hundreds—it had been preoccupied 5.________ by White New Yorkers. “Harlem” became synonymous to 6.________Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living thereused the word as though they had coined it on themselves—not 7.________ only to designate their area of residence but to express theirsense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As theyears passed, “Harlem” asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.________the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the pastor of theAbyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem “became the symbol of libertyand the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere”.By 1919 Harlem’s population had grown by several thousand.It had received its share of wartime migration from the South,the Caribbean, and parts of colonial Africa. Some of thenew arrivals merely lived for Harlem; it was New York they had 9.________ come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunitiesof life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, NewYork was merely the city in which they found themselves:Harlem was exactly what they wished to be. 10.________Passage 4After months of speculation about what woulddo with its mysterious search-engine company, A9, Websurfers finally got their first taste on Apr. 14.Yet despite of some intriguing new features not yet found 1. ____on leading sites such as Google and Yahoo! , the site() -- still in test mode -- rises as many questions 2 ____ as it answers.The biggest question remains is whether Amazon, 3. ____through A9, would clash into Google more directly. 4. ____Google itself is testing a search engine for productscalled Froogle that’s starting to appeal Web shoppers. 5. ___At the same time, Amazon clearly isn’t looking to limit A9’s horizons. How directly A9 eventually goes up against the reigned 6. ____ search champion, it faced lots of challenges. For one, 7. ____it may run into some of the same privacy issues thatrecently have plagued Google. A9’s privacy policy pointsout that information provided through entering search term 8. ____ or by signing into one’s Amazon account could supply the company with information that could personally identify the searcher.Those may be somewhat less intrusive(打扰的,冒犯的) than 9. ____ Google’s upcoming Gmail free e-mail offering, which could search the contents of messages to pitch personalized ads. But comments posted on some sites already indicate some people are uncomfortable with Google’s potential threats to privacy. 10.____Passage 5Almost every new innovation goes through three phases.When initially introducing into the market, the process 1._____of adoption is slow. The early models are expensive andhard to use, and perhaps even unsafe. The economicimpact is relatively great. 2. _____The second phase is the explosive one, where the innovationwas rapidly adopted by a large number of people. It gets 3. _____ cheaper and easier to use and becomes something familiar.And then in the third stage, diffusion of the innovationslows down again, as if it permeates out across the economy. 4. _____ During the explosive phase, whole new industries springup to produce the new product or innovation, and to serviceit. For example, during the 1920s, there was dramatic 5. _____ acceleration in auto production, from 1.9 million in 1920to 4.5 million in 1929. This boom was accompanied with all 6. _____ sorts of other essential activities necessary for anauto-based nation: Roads had to been built for the cars to 7. _____run on; refineries and oil wells, to provide the gasoline;and garages, to repair it. 8. _____Historically, the same pattern is repeated again and againwith innovations. The construction of the electrical systemrequested an enormous early investment in generation and 9. _____ distribution capacity. The introduction of the radio wasfollowed by a buying spree (无节制的狂热行为) by Americanswhat quickly brought radios into almost half of all households 10. _____ by 1930, up from nearly none in 1924.Passage 6Learning does not happen passively. It is an activity which a person does.It is a task which can be attempted in various of ways, some of which are 1._____ more appropriate than others. When the material to be learned is 2._____a brief and simple kind which is familiar with the person and of intense 3._____ interest to him, effective learning usually proceeds automatically.In the first place, the person at once relates the material to othermaterial which has already securely learned. Subsequently, the relevance 4._____ of the newly learned material to his interests assures its being 5.______recalled on many occasions; and one repetition minimizes 6.______the likelihood of remembering. Furthermore, the subsequent use 7.______of the new material is likely to take place in a variety of contextsand, so, the material becomes related to a narrower range of other material. 8.___ Because of all this, the material is rapidly learned, long retained,and recalled with increasingly readiness in a variety of 9._____contexts. Without really trying, the person had fulfilled a 10._____few important conditions of effective learning.Passage 11. are ∧ great → aa great many为固定搭配,修饰可数名词,意为“很多,大量”,后面的名词用复数形式。
一、题型特征作为CET传统题型之一,综合改错题仍然是与完型填空一起作为二选一出现,文章长度大约在200-250词之间,共包含10处错误。
每行不超过一处错误,而且不包括标点符号错误和纯粹的单词拼写错误。
综合改错题难度较大,它主要测试考生的英语综合理解与表达能力。
它不但要求考生有扎实的语言基础知识(如词汇语法),而且要求考生有较强语篇理解能力与表达能力,以及利用上下文进行逻辑推理的能力。
二、考查方式1.改正(correction)(/)2.删除(delete)(/)3.增添(add)(∧)三、错误类型逻辑表达错误、介词使用错误、代词使用错误、非谓语动词使用错误、主谓语前后不一致错误、名词的错误、代词使用错误、冠词的错误、句子结构的错误、时态语态和语气的使用错误及易混淆词的使用错误。
四、解题步骤1、一般来说,做题时千万不要拿起来就改,先花1-2分钟从头到尾通读全文,,对文章大致内容有所了解,做到心中有数。
2、然后把重点放在有错误项的标有题号行,寻找较容易辨认的语法错误,如主谓不一致、时态、语态使用错误、非谓语动词错误等。
3、如果错行中不存在上述明显错误,则应查看是否有词语搭配错误、易混词错误、词性错误等等细节错误。
4、如果错行中急不存在语法错误,也不存在词汇错误,则从整体上查看上下文意思是否连贯,连接词是否使用正确,是否有逻辑混乱的现象,如否定句误用成肯定句造成句意不通等。
5、找到错误项后,按要求形式进行改正、删除或增添,并设法找到一个正确项使句子在语法语义逻辑上都成立。
错练习题目:The National Endowment for the Arts recently released thethe results of it s “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 every62.__________region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.“The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie 63.___________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 64.___________lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they 65.___________echo each other in the message they send about the place ofbooks and reading in American culture. At the heartof the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic66.__________system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyzetexts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promoted by 67.__________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 might68._________undermine our system of government rather than helpingdemocracy flourish.Our culture's decline in reading begin well before the 69._________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 70.__________and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schoolsacross the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and 71.________is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of theAmerican public.本期答案及解析:62.on-in.本行中According to the survey在语义和结构上都没有错;on the decline为固定搭配,意为“呈下降趋势”,符合文意,也正确;故将错误锁定为介词on. on意为“在…之上”,而此处表示“在任何地区/区域”,故将on改为in(在;在…之内)。
【大学英语六级改错试题及答案(7)】Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modernS1. __________footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and heS2. __________scores a goal, enjoys the hunter s triumph of killing his prey.To understand how this transformation has taken place weS3. __________must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over aS4. __________million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survivalS5. __________depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicailyS6. __________changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-groupS7. __________attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immenselyS8. __________long formative period of hunting for food, they becamefarmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new use that of penning (把S9. __________ 关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential forsurvival.S10.__________S1. Viewing Viewed S2. inaccurate accurateS3. (enjoys) he (enjoys) S4. up backS5. year years S6. (even) if (even) /S7. co-operate co-operated S8. when afterS9. were was S10.. farming hunting。
六级大纲样题72. It was essential that ____________(我们在月底前签订合同).73.To our delight, she________________ (进大学一个月就适应了校园生活).74.The new government was accused____________ (未实现其降低失业率的承诺).75.The workmen think ________________________(遵守安全规则很重要).76. The customer complained that no sooner ________________(他刚试着使用这台机器, 它就不运转了).06.1272.If you had _______________________________(听从了我的忠告,你就不会陷入麻烦).73.With tears on her face, the lady ________________(看着她受伤的儿子被送进手术室).74.After the terrorist attack, tourists ___________________(被劝告暂时不要去该国旅游).75.I prefer to communicate with my customers _________(通过写电子邮件而不是打电话).76.________________________ (直到截止日他才寄出)his application form.07.6:82. The auto manufacturers found themselves __________ (正在同外国公司竞争市场的份额).competing with overseas/ foreign companies for market share83. Only in the small town __________________ (他才感到安全和放松).does he feel secure and relaxed84. It is absolutely unfair that these children _____________ (被剥夺了受教育的权利).be deprived of the right to receive education/ be denied the right to receive education85. Our years of hard work are all in vain, ___________________ (更别提我们花费的大量金钱了).let alone / not to mention the large amount of money we have spent86. The problems of blacks and women ________________________ (最近几十年受到公众相当大的关注). have received considerable public attention/concern in recent decades07.1282 But for mobile phones, ______________________(我们的通信就不可能如此迅速和方便).our communication would not have been so efficient and convenient.83. In handling an embarrassing situation, ____________(没有什么比幽默更有帮助的了).nothing is more helpful than humor/ a sense of humor84. The Foreign Minister said he was resigning, but _________________(他拒绝进一步解释这样做的原因).(he) refused to make further explanation/ to further explain why85. Human behavior is mostly a product of learning, _____________(而动物的行为主要依靠本能).while animal behavior depends mainly upon (或on) their instinct(s)86. The witness was told that under no circumstances____________________(他都不应该对法庭说谎).should he lie to the court / is he allowed to lie to the court08.682. We can say a lot of things about those____________________________(毕生致力于诗歌的人); they are passionate, impulsive, and unique.83. Mary couldn’t hav e received my letter,______________________.(否则她上周就该回信了)。
心之所向,所向披靡Error CorrectionPassage OneConflict is a necessary element in fiction. Indeed, it isthe backbone of a story; it is conflict that gives us the senseof a story going somewhere.The conflict in a story must first be obvious importance 62 ___to the characters involved. We can illustrate this byreference to experience. All of us face constant conflicts ourdaily lives-whenever we cross a street, for example, orwhenever the alarm goes off and we have to get up for aclass. Most of our conflicts are easily resolved-we wait fortraffic and then cross the street without fear, or we shut offthe alarm, get up, and after two cups of coffee forget ourpain. Furthermore, we also experience conflicts that are not 63 ___ easily resolved. All of us, for example, are faced almostdaily with conflicts which have some kind of a permanenteffect to us-which alter our basic values or our conception 64 ___of human nature. Should we report the fellow student whomwe look cheating on an examination? Should we pad (虚报) 65 ____ our accounts for books and supplies in that letter home-particularly since we know that father cheats a little hereand there on his income-tax returns? None of us have 66 ____ witnessed teachers or ministers or high public officialspreach one thing and practice other. All of us have found 67 _____ ourselves in that most common of all dilemmas-the choicebetween holding to a set of moral and ethical convictionsand violate them in order to be accepted by our group. 68 ____ These are the kinds of conflicts which we find fiction; and 69 _____ because they are of this nature, we call fictional conflictscrisis situations. We mean by this that as a result of a givenconflict, the character or characters involving will never 70 ____ again be quite the same people that they are before the 71 _____ incident occurred.Passage TwoWomen are a force that is changing in Australiansociety. The pride of place given to women as almost the 62 _sole shapers of Australian history is being challenged.Today husbands more often than not share householdchores and more men are finding women alongside them inthe workplace. It may be some time after there is a woman 63prime minister of Australia, but the need of women at the 64 _top- and their right to be there-is now widely recognized.The growing role of women in the Australian work forceis both a cause and a consequence of change attitudes and 65 lifestyles in Australian society.In offices, laboratories and factories, in social andpolitical organizations, women are making their presencefeel.There are few remaining legal barriers against women 66 in Australia in jobs, commercial contracts, politics andsocial life. The barriers that exist mainly stem from modern 67 attitudes built into society and are easily changed by new laws. 68 _ Women have brought about the most significant changein the Australian work force simply by entering it inthousands, and by seeking which before were assumed to be 69 suitable for men only. There are now women in Australiadrive buses, trams, taxis, racing cars and 50-tonne trucks. 70 They are race-horse jockeys. They are apprenticeelectricians and mechanics. They are air-traffic controllers.They shear sheep and work like laborers. They are judges 71 and Members of Parliament.Passage ThreeThe problems which face the learners of English canbe divided into three categories: psychological, culture, 62 and linguistic. The largest category seems to be linguistic.When foreign learners first have the opportunity to speaking 63 to a native speaker of English, they may have a shock: theyoften have little difficulty in understanding spoken English 64 of native speakers. There are a number of reasons to this. 65 First, it seems to students that English people speak veryquickly. Secondly, they say with a variety of accents. 66 Thirdly, different styles of speech are used in differentsituations, for example, everyday spoken English, which iscolloquial and idiomatic, are different from the English 67 used for academic purposes. For all of these reasonsstudents will have difficulty, mainly because we lack 68 practice in listening to English people speaking English.What can a student do then to overcome thesedifficulties? Well, obviously, he can benefit in attending 69 English classes and he should take every opportunityavailable to speak with native speakers of English. Heshould be aware, consequently, that English people are, by 70 temperament, often reserved and may be willing to start a 71 conversation. So he should have the courage to take the initiative.Passage FourBusiness visits tend to be extremely punctual. If youarrive late to a business appointment, it will reflect badlyon you. So try to arrive on time, or even if a little earlier. 62 If you know that you will be arriving late, you shouldtelephone ahead to let them know of the delay. If abusiness meeting takes place over a meal, expect thebusiness discussions to begin after everyone has orderedtheir meal, sometimes as soon as everyone is seating. 63 Socializing tends to occur after the business is concluded,not before. This is in contrast with the practice inmany other countries, where the purpose of the meal is tosocialize with and get to know each other after any business 64 is discussed. Many American companies have men in 65 management positions. So don't be surprised if the personwho meets you is a woman, not a man. They are just ascompetent as their male counterparts. If you feeluncomfortable, focusing on the business at hand and ignore 66 the fact what she happens to be a woman. Do not, 67 however, ask personal questions like you might with a male 68 colleague. In particular, do not ask whether she is marriedor has children. When businessmen or businesswomenmeet, they usually introduce themselves through shaking 69 right hands. When you shake hands, don't crush theirfingers, neither hold their hand so lightly. A firm 70 handshake is best. Business cards are not normallyexchanged with meeting. If you need a colleague's contact 71 information, it is okay to ask them for their cards. It is alsookay to offer someone your card. But there is not anelaborate ritual of exchanging cards as in other cultures.Passage FiveTeachers believe that students' responsibility with 62. ____ learning is necessary. If a long reading assignment isgiven, instructors expect students to be familiar withthe informations in the reading even if they do not 63. ___ discuss it in class or give an examination. The idealstudent is considered to be one who motivated to learn 64. ___for the sake of learning, not the one who is interestedonly in getting high grades. Grade-conscious studentsmay be frustrated with teachers who do not believe itis necessary to grade every assignment. Sometimeshomework is returned with brief writing comments but 65. ____ without a grade. When research is assigned, theprofessor expects the student to make the initiative 66. ___ and complete the assignment with minimal guidance.Professors do not have time to explain how the libraryworks; they expect students, particular graduate students, 67. ___to be able to use the reference sources in the library.In the United States, professors have other duties except 68. ___ teaching. Often they either have administrative work to door may be obliged to publish articles and books. But the 69. ___ time that a professor can spend with a student outside ofclass is very limited. Educational practices such as studentparticipation indicates a respect for individual responsibility 70. ___ and independence. The manner which education is provided 71. ____ in any country reflects basic cultural and social beliefs of that country.。
06年12⽉新六级 The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which described the movement of the American public away from books and literature 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 and library records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. The House proposal would have barred the federal government from 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 of books and reading in American culture. At the heart of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic S5________ system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze texts 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 our country are unconsciously sending the message that reading may be connected to desirable activities that might S7________ undermine our system of government rather than helping democracy 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 from library shelves because its content was deemed by parents S9________ and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and S10________ is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the American public.。
【大学英语六级改错试题及答案(17)】Not all people like to work and everyone likes to play. All over 1. _______the world men and woman, boys and girls enjoy sports. Since 2. _______long ago, many adults and children called their friends together 3. _______to spend hours, even days play games. One of the reasons people 4. _______like to play is that sports help them to live happily. In other words, 5. _______they help to keep people strong and feel good. When people are 6. _______playing games, they move a lot. That is how sports are good activities 7. _______for their health. Having fun with their friends make them happy. 8. _______many people enjoy sports by watching the others play. In American 9. _______big cities, thousands sell tickets to watch football or basketball games.10. _______答案及解析1. and改为but。
前文说并非所有的人都喜欢工作,下文说每个人都喜欢玩,是转折关系。
1 大学英语六级改错题12篇 Passage 1 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash
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One major decision which faces the American student ready to begin higher education is the choice of attending a large university or a small college. The large university provides a
wide range of specialized departments, as well numerous 71. __________ courses within such departments. The small college, therefore, 72. __________ generally provides a limited number of courses and specializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus 73. __________ permit individualized attention to student. Because of its large 74. __________ student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many 75. __________ people from different countries the university exposes its students to many different culture, social and out-of-class 76. __________ programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, more
homogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college 77. __________ affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, the university closely approximates the real world and which 78. __________ provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous
(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate 79. __________ atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years of 2
structural living in which to expect and preparing for the real 80. __________ world. In making his choice among educational institutions the
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Passage 2 Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1. _____ just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _____ supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _____ spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4. _____ around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5. _____ although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _____ point to concrete examples of continued improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _____ fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, S8. _____ rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9. _____ stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _____ for hope.
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Passage 3 The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that has recognized the need for change and done