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英语专业八级改错练习英语专业八级改错练习题(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 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _5_the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high _6_risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of _7_maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of _8_pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the _9_mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than _10_two years apart.英语专业八级改错练习题(二)“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 settlersof American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _2_for ones 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 War, 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.英语专业八级改错练习题(三)We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _1_that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people_2_with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computershow to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3_them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _4_computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5_The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _6_creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between _7_science and technology. Lots of people dont differ between the two. Science _8_new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of is the production of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. _9_Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, its not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the _10_consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.英语专业八级改错练习题(四)What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon _1_are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists thi . What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon _1_are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is _2_a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can _3_escapenot even light. But we cant see a black hole. A black hole _4_exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only spaceor thus we think. How can this happen? _5_The theory is that some stars explode when their density increasesto a particular point; they “collapse” and sometimes a supernova occurs.The collapse of a star may produce a “White Dwarf” of a “neutronstar”a star which matter is so dense that if continually shrinks by the force of _6_its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking may be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the earth reduced to the _7_size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger _8_gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. _9_And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题(五)The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which _1_have ever lived on the earth, and one of them, the blue whale, is the largest. People in ancient times thought whales as fearsome _2_monsters of the ocean depths. So to hunt a whale, when one occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People _3_found the adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat fromone whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole winter.Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred by the ancients as _4_“great fish,” and any whale beaching along the coasts of England was designated “the Kings fish” because it automatically belonged to the Crown.Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of _5_wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions. _6_Even though some species are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whalehunting is regulated, but the earths stock of whales is still being _7_depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now _8_ there may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and _9_awe-inspiring creature that always fed mans imagination and _10_ made the world a more exciting place英语专业八级改错练习题(六) We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly anymoment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, _1_languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly dependon fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know _2_more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language _3_is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from _4_animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language _5_and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we _6_understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, _7_language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of languageis that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. _8_Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few _9_of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most peoplehave probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater thansome people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which _10_takes language as its object of investigation. 英语专业八级改错练习题(七)Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years before, you cant help being strucked by the _1_appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles andmake-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too _2_short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. _3_There is nothing about their appearance to suggest thatthey belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created _4_by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men _5_have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their _6_style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year, a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down _7_on the law and women around the world run to obey. The _8_decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and _9_waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题(八)Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period were more eager than ever to establishing families. They quickly _1_brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more _2_ than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby _3_ boom.” These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades _4_ and caused a major but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their European counterparts. _5_Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed _6_families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a _7_postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of _8_couples who married in earlier as well as later decades. Since the United States _9_maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. _10_Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was notabandoned.英语专业八级改错练习题(九)When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately startmeeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the _1_way they occupied the space around themfor example, when such a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never _2_bump into other people. However, a second person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other person told us a story, _3_it he said was quite well-known, about an American who had been invited _4_to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American _5_hasnt been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had _6_known about American food, he might have behaved better. _7_Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin. Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that _8_it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been watching, _9_said of nothing, but immediately copied the action of his guest. _10_And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.英语专业八级改错练习题(十)A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothingnew in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost theiroriginal purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is _1_going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of _2_prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on theedge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of _3_seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is _4_the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor ofMexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very _5_dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City todaythe poor can still be numbered _6_in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies _7_ two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants _8_from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the _9_country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood _10_-ing out again to the suburbs.英语专业八级改错练习题(十一)Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect, _1_while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence _2_of the personality or character beneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact _3_the caricature is recognizable, and yet exaggerated.From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, caricature grew through _4_the eighteenth and nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular in _5_ the United States early in this century. In 1920s and 1930s especially, this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and _6_magazines throughout the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his _7_portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirit their work was _8_close to the humor of the fast-developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the _9_string of political satire. Their subjects were more often amusing than offended _10_by amiable attacks.英语专业八级改错练习题(十二)Most people would describe water like a colorless liquid. They _1_would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid calledice and that when heating on a fire it becomes a vapor called steam. _2_However, water, they would say, is a liquid. We have learned thatwater consists of molecules composed with two atoms of hydrogen _3_and one atom of oxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O.This is equally true of the solid called ice and the gas called steam.Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, andthe solid, all of which is made up of molecules with the formula H2O. _4_This is true of other chemical substances; most of them can exist asgases or as liquids or as solids. We may normally think of iron as asolid, but if we will heat it in a furnace, it will melt and become a _5_liquid, and at very high temperatures it will become a gas. Nothing very permanent occurs when a gas changes into a liquid or a solid.Everyone knows that ice, which has been made by freezing water, can be melted again by warmed and that steam can be condensed _6_on a cold surface to become liquid water. In fact, it is only becausewater is so a familiar substance that different names are used for _7_the solid, liquid and gas. Most substances are only familiar with _8_us in one state, because the temperatures requiring to turn them _9_into gases are very high, or the temperatures necessary to turn theminto solids are so low. Water is an exception in this respect, which is another reason why its three states have given three different names. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题(十三)Classic Intention MovementIn social situations, the classic Intention Movement is “the chair-grasp”. Host and guest have been talking for some time, butnow the host has an appointment to keep and can get away. His urge _1_to go is held in cheek by his desire not be rude to his guest. If he did _2_not care of his guests feelings he would simply get up out of his chair _3_and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, _4_therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses to let him _5_raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair-grasp Intention _6_Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leansforward and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. _7_This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he were not _8_hesitating, it would only last the fraction of the second. He would lean, _9_push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer. He holds his “readiness-to-rise” post and keeps on holding it. It is as if his _10_body had frozen at the get-ready moment.（一）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（二)参考答案及解析:1 将no改为 not2 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。w