专八改错精选15篇及详细答案.docx

Error-correction1-15TEXT 1About 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_maternalorinfant 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.Key: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publishedreport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their4 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evidence138将ill改为illness。9将year改为years。10将lesser改为lessTEXT 2“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 sweetorno 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 moreorless identical, but it satisfied _9_a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _10_way of life.Key: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。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这里是要用everyone指每个人，而不是要用anyone泛指。6 将but删除 7将before改为after 根据上下文判断，这里要表达的是二战之后。8 将But改为 And根据语意，这里要表达的是递进关系，而不是转折关系。例如：When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And thats my religion.当我行善事，我感到坦然；当我行恶时，我感到内疚。这就是我的人生之道。9 将it改为they 10 在house the中间加入介词as regardas 作“把当作”讲。英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(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 science and _7_technology. Lots of people dont differ between the two. Science is the production of _8_new knowledge that can be appliedornot, and technology is the application of knowledge to the production of some products, machineryorthe like. The two arereally different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have afaculty for the others. _9_Science in itself is harmless, moreorless. But as soon as it can provide technology, its not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences of _10_new technology, which can be enormous.Key:1.在which前加in，或将which改为where在这里which引导限制性从句，修饰先行词the society。in which 在从句中作状语，也可以用关系副词where引导定语从句，并在从句中作状语，例如： Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.2.将as 改为than3.将So改为But或者However或者Nevertheless。因为这里上下文是转折关系。4.将about去掉 因为explain是及物动词。5.将you改为they6.将like改为as因为such as 是固定搭配。7.将takes改为gives give rise to表示“引起，导致”之意。8.将differ改为 distinguish前着表示“有区别”。后者表示“区分，找出的差别。9.将others改为other 这样the other就和上文的one构成固定搭配，表示在两个中“一个；另外一个”10.将harmful改为harmless，只有这样才可以表达上下文的对比关系。TEXT 4. 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_supernova 名词，天超新星Key:1. 将as 改为since或者because。在表示原因的连接词中，只有as引导的原因状语从句不能位于主句之后，只能位于句首。2 .将adequate 改为inadequate，或者在are后加not。从逻辑上分析，因为我们拥有的科学术语“不充足”，所以才无法回答这个问题，所以用否定形式。3. 在which 前加into。这是一个定语从句，意思是“黑洞是太空中物质可以掉进去的地方”，所以定语从句应该为“into which matter has fallen”。4. 将but 改为 so。 上文已提到“连光都无法从黑洞中逃出”，所以我们根本无法看到黑洞。这里应该是因果关系，而不是转折关系。5 .将thus改为so。这句话的意思是“那只是空间或者我们认为它只是空间”。so做 think 的宾语，thus 只能做连词，不能做宾语。6. 将which 改为whose。这个定语从句的意思是“它是一颗星，其密度非常大，由于自身的引力，它在不断地收缩”。matter 属于star，所以关系代词应该用whose。7 .去掉in。result为不及物动词，意为“形成了”，而“result in sth。”意为“导致某结果”。8. 将masses 改为mass。mass 可指“大量的物质”，而“the masses”特指“劳动群众”，用在此处不妥。9 .将ideas 改为idea。“idea”在表达“印象”时，为不可数名词，不可以用复数。10. 将no改为any。分析便知，任何在黑洞附近的东西都会被吸进去。TEXT 5.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 placeKey:1. 将which改为that。先行词由最高修饰时定语从句的关系代词只能用that。2. 在thought 后面加of，或者将thought 改为regarded。“think of A as B”，指“把A看作B”，为固定搭配。3. 去掉he。这句话的主语是“to hunt a whale”，“to hunt a whale was high adventure”。中间的“when”只是插入的状语从句。4. 在referred后加to。“refer to A as B”只“把A称作B”，这意思是“古人把鲸称作大鱼”。5. 在felt 后加for。这句话实际的结构是“feel a sense of wonder for whales”指“对鲸怀有惊奇的感觉”，for引出对象。6. 在exploit后加them。capture，slaughter，exploit都是及物动词，后面必须加宾语。7. 去掉but。前面已有“even though”，后面就不应该再用but。8 .将since改为from。“100 years from now”指“从现在起100年后”since 只能用于完成时。9. 在blame前加to。“be to blame for sth ”指“对某事应负责任”，为固定搭配。10. 在always前加has。这定语从句强调对现在的影响，明显应该用完成时，不能用过去式。TEXT 6.We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly anymoment passes with someone talking, writingorreading. 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,orlanguage 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. Key1. with 改为 without。”hardy any moment passes without someone” , 两个否定: without 和hardly，意思是“每一时刻有人”。2. fast 前面加the因为fast and successful use 这个词组后边有一个前置词短语 of language 修饰use，所以被修饰的词前面加定冠词。3. than on ourselves 改为than things on ourselves这比较的是两件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我们周围的事物和我们自身的东西)第二things不能省略，否则引起误解。4. differs 改为distinguishes。语言区分人与动物，differ是不及物动词，后面不能带宾语，只能用介词，如：Man differs from animals in that man possesses language。5. inquire改为acquire“习得语言”应该是acquire language，名词短语是language acquisition。 Inquire 是“询问”的意思。6. we前面加上 do 副词nor放在句首表示强调，应用倒装句，一般现在时强调句是在主语前面加助动词 do。7. combination改为relationships.语言和思维的关系，不是结合；语言和思维的关系是当代语言学研究的重要领域。8. like 改为as。根据上下文，要表达是“作为语言的使用者”，不是“像语言的使用者”。9. a 去掉 这里是否定的意思：“我们没有多少人”而不是“我们一些人.”。10. assured 改为 assumed. 这句的后半部分意思是“研究语言的必要性比我们想象的要大得多”。Assure译为“确保”；assume译为“假设”或者“想象”的意思。TEXT 7. 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 longortoo _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_Key:1. strucked改为struck或者stricken,过去分词形式有误。strike的过去式是struck，过去分词为struck或者stricken。2. date改为dated或者outdated 3. on other hand 改为 on the other hand4. entire改为entirely ,副词修饰形容词different，并与different一起修饰age。5. minority改为majority从上下文以及常识判断，多半男性成功地抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图，即多年来，男性大服装款式跟女性服饰相比没有多大的变化。6. it改为them,them指代the great majority of men。7. fewer改为few此处没有比较的意味。8.去掉on lay down为习语，表示“规定(规则，原则，法规等)”。9. sometime改为 sometimes。 10. height改为high 形容词作be 的表语。TEXT 8When 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 heorshe 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.Key:1.将on改为by。“by the way”作“根据方式”讲。2. 将unaware改为aware根据下文中的“Such a person never bump into other people”判断，这种人不会“目中无人”。3. 将as改为than“more + adj/of + n + than”是固定搭配。4. 将it改为which which在此引导一个非限制性定语从句，which在从句中作主语，需要注意的是，在从句中he said是插入语。5. 将at改为in 名词the country前要用介词in。 6. 将hasnt改为hadnt根据上下文我们可以看出这里需要使用过去完成时。7. 将American改为Arab。根据上文，我们可以看出，这里讲述的是赴“阿拉伯”传统宴会的“美国人”的故事，而不是赴“美国”传统宴会的“美国人”的故事。8. 将as 改为like 介词as意思为“作为”，like意思为“像”。9. 将falls改为fell 这里要使用一般过去时。10. 将第一个of删掉。 say作为及物动词，后面可直接跟名词作宾语。TEXT 9A 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 largeorrich 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 BombayorBrasilia, just as though there were on the edge of _3_seventeenth-century Londonorearly 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.:Key:1. 在new one前加a,这里one指代上下文中的可数名词purpose，因此该词前要有限定词。2. 将filling改为filled在这里，非谓语动词fill与句子的who（poor immigrants）之间是逻辑动宾关系，因此要使用过去分词来表示被动意义。3. 去掉though4. 将this改为what,根据句子结构，我们可以看出这里需要一个关系代词，它既能引导主语从句，同时也可以在从句中作主语，这个关系代词就是what。如：What I like in a good author is not what he says，but what he whispers。5. 将was改为were.that引导定语从句，其先行词是descriptionsand the enormous contrasts,因此谓语动词be要用复数。6. 将dissimilar 改为 similar,这里要表示的是“共同，相似”之处。7.将lies 改为lie behind it lie two myths 是个倒装句，主语为two myths，可见谓语动词要使用复数。8. 将that改为which 这里是一个非限制性定语从句，因此不可用that，而要用which。9. 将it改为them 复数名词immigrants的代词，所以要用复数形式。 10. 将late改为laterTEXT 10Artists use caricature to distort the human faceorfigure for comic affect, _1_while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence _2_of the personalityorcharacter 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