专八模拟试题改错篇

专八模拟试题(改错篇1) Ancient man attempted to change the weather by using magic. While experience taught him this was impossible, _1_ he tried to forecast weather conditions. Even earlier in _2_ 1000 B.C.there were weather seers in Babylon-andpriests clever enough to denounce as frauds those predicted _3_ the weather a year in the advance. Some forecasters used _4_ methods that seemed to take no connection with the actual _5_ factors controlled the weather. Chickens and other animals _6_ were sacrificed and their intestines poked to find signs indicating rain and drought. Somewhat more scientific were _7_ predictions based on vegetation:Onions skin very thin ,mild weather coming in. Onions skin thick and tough, coming weather is cold and rough. Insects and animals were also _8_ favorite weather clues: Before the glowworm lights his _9_ lamp , then the air is always damp . If spiders their cobwebs forsake , the weather will for certain break . If frogs remained in pools , the weather will be fine . If they were seen on rocks, _10_ rain and cold were due. Its difficult to say whether this rhyme should be taken seriously : Hark , I hear the asses bray . Me thinks well have some rain today . 答案详解： 1.WhileWhen或Ahan 3.those之后加who4. 删除advance前的the5. takehave 6. controlledcontrolling或在controlled前加that/which 7. andor8. 删除is9. beforewhen/if10. willwould 专八模拟试题(改错篇2)It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to thinkof as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain _1_ Britannia and the United States Columbia, and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our _2_ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed _3_ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be _4_ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually _5_ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband.After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United _6_States was knownfor Brother Jonathan. Jonathan was a biblical _7_ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since _8_American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to _9_ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originated with President George Washington, who would _10_often say, when faced with a hard problem, Let us consult Brother Jonathan, referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.来源：考试大答案详解：1. of和as之间加上it 2.itboth 3.thatwhich4.sufficientsufficiently 5. indicatedindicating 6.beganended7. foras8. iswas 9.towith10. 删掉name和originated之间的was第三篇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 _1pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking University. _2The 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 _4families 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 Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high risk categories. _6The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of _7maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of _8pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the _9mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart._10答案详解：1. 将 had used 改为 used。2. 将 publishing 改为 published3. 将 theirs 改为 their 4. 将 among 改为 between5. 将过去分词 excluded 改为介词 excluding6. 将 respectably 改为 respectively7. 将 evidences 改为 evidence8. 将ill改为illness9. 将 year 改为 years10. 将 lesser 改为 less第四篇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 _1has 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 _2for ones family, and started a farm. These small households were _3portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children, even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _4support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _5of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _6is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S soldiers came home before World War, for example, _7they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _8a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _9a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._101. 将 no 改为 not 2. 将 place 改为 land 3. 将 started 改为 start4. 将 working 改为 work5 将 anyone 改为 everyone6. 将 but 删除7. 将 before 改为 after8. 将 But 改为 And9 将 it 改为 they10 在house the中间加入介词 as第五篇We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _1that 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 _2with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computershow to buildthem, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3them to explain about the rinciples of physics that have gone into creating the _4computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _6creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _7technology. Lots of people dont differ between the two. Science is the production of _8new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application 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. _9Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,its not necessarily harmful. No society has yet earned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous._101. 在 which 前加 in，或将 which 改为 where2. 将 as 改为than 3. 将 So 改为 But 或者 However 或者 Nevertheless4. 将 about 去掉5. 将 you 改为 they6. 将 like 改为 as7. 将 takes 改为 gives8. 将 differ 改为 distinguish 9. 将 others 改为 other10. 将 harmful 改为 harmless 第六篇For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the _1_words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and _2_knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a _3_popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it _4_flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the _5_confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass _6_media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear _7_and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this _8_philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent _9_president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One mans mediocrity _10_is another mans good program”.参考答案：1 将have改为has2 将like改为as3 将late改为later4 将by改为of或者from5 将him改为them6 在same前加the7 将decide改为decides8 将pure改为purely9 将most改为more10 将from去掉第七篇For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the _1_words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and _2_knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a _3_popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it _4_flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the _5_confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass _6_media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear _7_and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this _8_philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent _9_president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One mans mediocrity _10_is another mans good program”.答案：1 将have改为has2 将like改为as3 将late改为later4 将by改为of或者from5 将him改为them6 在same前加the7 将decide改为decides8 将pure改为purely9 将most改为more10 将from去掉第八篇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. 参考答案：1. with 改为 without2. fast 前面加the 3. than on ourselves 改为than things on ourselves4. differs 改为distinguishes5. inquire改为acquire6. we前面加上 do 7. combination改为relationships8. like 改为as9. a 去掉 10. assured 改为 assumed第九篇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 and make-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 that they 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_.答案：1 strucked改为struck或者stricken2 dat