英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析
About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could
be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1____ pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking ____2____ University.
The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal
Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children ____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 maternal
deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____
the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and the US Centers for Disea se 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.
参考答案及解析:
1 将had used 改为used。
因为此句是虚拟语气，表示与现在事实相反，故条件从句中应使用一般过去时。例如：Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. 许多人原本会成为聪明人－如果他们不自以为聪明的话。
2 将publishing改为published
report和publish时逻辑动宾关系，故应使用publish的过去分词短语来修饰report。例如：Any discovery that we may make, however small, will remain acquired knowledge. 任何可能的发现，不管多么微不足道，都将成为知识宝库中的一部分。
3 将theirs改为their
4 将among改为between
在两次怀孕期间留出足够的间隔时间，故用between。
5 将过去分词excluded改为介词excluding。
excluding意为“不包括…”
6 将respectably改为respectively
respectively 意为“分别地”，符合句子的意思。而respectably意为“可敬的，值得尊敬地”。
7将evidences改为evidence。
evidence是不可数名词。
8将ill改为illness。
9将year改为years。
10将lesser改为less
“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essential
attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the
family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _____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 settlers
of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____2_____
for one’s family, and started a farm. These small households 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 the
United 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 in
the 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.
参考答案及解析:
1 将no改为not
2 将place改为land
place是可数名词，作“地方”讲，而land意为“土地，田地”是不可数名词。例如：Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.
当你偶尔光顾时，独处是一个美妙的境地，但是如果久留，它却是一个糟糕的地方。There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.
3 将started改为start
start应使用不定式，以和前面的find，build一致。
4 将working改为work。
work应该用第三人称复数，和live一致。另外，family在这里作“家人”讲，是复数。
5 将anyone改为everyone
