专业英语八级模拟改错

1、专八模拟试题（改错篇10）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_since _are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is _2 _a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothi

2、ng 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 onlyspaceor thus we think. How can this happen? _5_ The theory is that some stars explode when their density increasesto a particular point; they “collap

3、se” 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_whose _its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking maybe so intense that a black hole

4、 results in. Imagine the earth reduced to the _7_size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger _8_mass _gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. _9pull _And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. _10_what _答案：1 将as 改为since或者because。在表示原因的连接词中

5、，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”。

6、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

7、洞附近的东西都会被吸进去。专八模拟试题（改错篇9）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

8、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

9、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

10、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dif

11、ferent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。专八模拟试题（改错篇8）We use language every day. We live in a w

12、orld 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

13、_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 logi

14、c, 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, m

15、uch 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

16、 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。在这里比较的是两件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我们周围的事物和我们自身的东西)。第二个things

17、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relatio

18、nships.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，要表达的意思是“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。 专八模拟试题（改错篇7）For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or ap

19、preciation 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 subj

20、ect 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. Un

21、der 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 w

22、ants 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 hear

23、ing 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has。该句的主语 the fashion是单数.2 将like改为as。such as 是固定搭配.3 将late改为later。later和上文first对应.4 将by改为of或者from。relieve sb of/ from sth 是固定搭配, 意思为 “减

24、轻某人(的负担等)”5 将him改为them。因为其先行词为 the empty-minded,而 “the+adj/p.p” 表示一类人时,通常表示复数概念.6 在same前加the。the same 表示 “唯一,独一无二”的概念,因此必须加定冠词.7 将decide改为decides。该句的主语 the public 表示的是单数概念.,这一点从后面的代词it 可以看得出来.8 将pure改为purely。在这里purely作状语,修饰谓语动词,因此应使用副词.9 将most改为more。more than 搭配,引导出比较状语从句.10 将from去掉。escape在作 “被某人情不自

25、禁地说出来”讲时,是及物动词,而只在作 “逃跑”讲时,才时不及物动词. 专八模拟试题（改错篇5）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

26、 _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 don

27、t 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

28、 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 soo

29、n 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._10 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,当然也可以用关系副词where引导定语从句,并在从句中作状语,例如:Money is a bottomless

30、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 givesgive rise to表示“引起，导致”之意。8. 将 differ 改为 distinguish牵着表示“有区别”。后者表示“区分，找出的差别”。9. 将

31、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。专八模拟试题（改错篇4）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 _1ha

32、s 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 _3portra

33、its 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 fa

34、rms, 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, typicall

35、y 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._10 1. 将 no 改为 not2. 将 place 改为 landplace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

36、.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 startstart应使用不定式，以和前面的find, build一致。4. 将 working 改为 workwork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

37、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 they10 在house the中间加入介词 asregard.as 作“把当作”讲。专八模拟试题（改错篇3）About half of the infant and maternal deaths in dev

38、eloping 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

39、 if women chose to have theirs children _3within 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

40、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 speci

41、fic 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。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 themsel

42、ves 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

43、分词 excluded 改为介词 excludingexcluding意为“不包括”6. 将 respectably 改为 respectivelyrespectively 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 evidenceevidence是不可数名词。8. 将ill改为illness9. 将 year 改为 years10. 将 lesser 改为 less专八模拟试题（改错篇2）专八模拟试题（改错篇2） It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstr

44、act 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

45、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 ind

46、icated 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

47、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,

48、 when faced with a hard problem, Let us consult Brother Jonathan, referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.答案详解：1. of和as之间加上it.代替前文的a nation 2.itboth指代上文的US和Great Britain 3.thatwhich 4.sufficientsufficiently修饰形容词用副词 5. indicatedindicating6.beganended根据历史知识，美国独立战争开始于1776年7月4日（独立宣言发表），直到1783年英国正式承认美国独立才结束。 7. forasbe known for意为“因.而众所周知”8. iswas美国过去曾是一个rural and unsophisticated的国家 9.towithcompare to 意为“把.比作.”compare with意为“与.比较，与.匹敌，与.竞争” 10. 删掉name和originated之间的was 专八模拟试题（改错篇1）专八模拟试题（改错篇1） Ancient man attempte