大学英语四级改错题12篇

1、大学英语四级改错题12篇Passage 1Error Correction（15 minutes）Directions： This part consists of a short passage. In this passage， there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line。 You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks pr

2、ovided。 If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark （) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word， cross it out and put a slash （) in the blank。Example：Television is rapidly b

3、ecoming the literatures of our periods.1。 time/times/periodMany of the arguments having used for the study of literature2。 _as a school subject are valid for study of television.3。 the_One major decision which faces the American student ready tobegin higher education is the choice of attending a lar

4、geuniversity or a small college。 The large university provides awide range of specialized departments, as well numerous71. _courses within such departments. The small college， therefore,72。 _generally provides a limited number of courses andspecializations but offer a better studentfaculty ratio， th

5、us73。 _permit individualized attention to student. Because of its large74。 _student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many75。 _people from different countries the university exposes itsstudents to many different culture, social and outofclass76. _programmes. On the other hand， the smaller,

6、 morehomogeneous(同性质的） student body of the big college77。 _affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, theuniversity closely approximates the real world and which78。 _provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate79。 _atmosphere

7、 of the small college allows the student four years ofstructural living in which to expect and preparing for the real80. _world. In making his choice among educational institutions thestudent must， there fore, consider a great many factors。71。 （well) à （well） as72。 therefore à however73。 o

8、ffer à offers74. permit à permitting75. in à of76. culture à cultural77。 big à small78。 and à / 或 and à which, this79. contrast à contrary80. preparing à preparePassage 2Thomas Malthus published his ”Essay on the Principleof Population” almost 200 years a

9、go。 Ever since then,forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine wasS1. _just around the next corner。 The fast-growing populationsdemand for food， they warned， would soon exceed theirS2. _supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation。But in reality， the worlds total grain harve

10、st has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated troubleS3。 _spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, the world's food crisis has remained justS4. _around the corner. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid2

11、1st century，S5。 _although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. OptimistsS6。 _point to concrete examples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa， by instance, improved seed， moreS7. _fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thando

12、uble corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere,S8。 _rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with fewS9. _stems and more seeds。 There is no guarantee that plantbreeders can continue to develop new， higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reasonS10.

13、 _for hope。S1. beingàbeenS2。 theiràits S3. relativeàrelatively S4。 goodàbad S5。 asà去掉S6。 politicsàpoliticalS7。 byàfor S8. doubleàdoubled S9。 fewàmore S10. reasonàthe reasonPassage 3The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized th

14、e need for change and done something aboutit。 In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information。It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1. _losing their readers interest and their advertisers' support。Operatin

15、g within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2。 _minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce。 TheS3。 _underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective， it should be reported by theS4。 _sa

16、me kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors， andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'S5. _content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition， the paper instituted a contentS6. _audit （审查) th

17、at evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in photographs。S7. _Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles。 The audit results fromS8。 _improvement in the frequency

18、of majority representation andS9. _their portrayal in neutral or positive situations。 And, with aS10. _result， the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing c

19、hange。S1. it à theyS2。 percents à percentS3。 maintain à maintainingS4. subjective à objectiveS5。 value à evaluateS6。 an à /S7. woman à womenS8. from à inS9. majority à minorityS10. with à asPassage 4A great many cities are experiencing difficulties w

20、hichare nothing new in the history of cities， except in their scale。Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1。 _immigrants， who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2. _which are then often disappointing. There

21、 are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia， just as though there wereS3. _on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4。 _written by eighteenthcentury travelers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts tha

22、t was to be found there,S5。 _are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City todaytheS6. _poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7。 _promised land， that attracts immigrants from rural

23、 povertyS8. _and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9。 _country as a Garden of Eden， which, a few generations late,S10. _sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.S1。 new à a newS2. filling à filledS3。 though à ifS4. This à WhatS5. was à wereS6. dis

24、similar à similarS7。 lies à lieS8。 that à whichS9. it à themS10. late à laterPassage 5Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modernS1. _footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack。 His killing weapon

25、 has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is inaccurate and heS2. _scores a goal, enjoys the hunters triumph of killing his prey.To understand how this transformation has taken place weS3。 _must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors。 They spent over aS4。 _milli

26、on year evolving as cooperative hunters。 Their very survivalS5。 _depended on success in the hunting-field。 Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies， became radicailyS6. _changed。 They became chasers, runners, jumpers， aimers，throwers and prey-killers。 They co-operate as skill

27、ful male-groupS7。 _attackers.Then， about ten thousand years ago, when this immenselyS8。 _long formative period of hunting for food， they becamefarmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new usethat of penning (把S9. _关在圈中）, controlling and domesticating the

28、ir prey. Thefood was there on the farms， awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival。S10。_S1. Viewing à ViewedS2。 inaccurate à accurateS3。 （enjoys） à he (enjoys）S4. up à backS5. year à yearsS6。 (even） if à (even） /S7

29、. co-operate à cooperatedS8. when à afterS9。 were à wasS10. farming à huntingPassage 6More people die of tuberculosis (结核病） than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while。 During the early stages of71. _the industrial revolution

30、, perhaps one in every seventh72。 _deaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by the73。 _disease. From now on， though， western eyes， missing the74。 _global picture， saw the trouble going into decline。 Withoccasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped

31、steadily75. _through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics (抗菌素） strengthened thetrend in rich countries， and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers76。 _declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the f

32、requency of77. _infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in78. _many places where it had never been away, it grew better.79。 _The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people （a third of the earths population) sufferfrom

33、 tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling， population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around80。 _3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries。71。 in à for72。 seventh à seven73。 were à was74. now à

34、 then75。 the à /76。 imported à exported77. are à were78. vanished à had 79. better à worse80. constantly à constant Passage 7When you start talking about good and bad manners youimmediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannotagree what they mean. We aske

35、d a lady， who replied that shethought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they71。 _occupied the space around themfor example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of72。 _others. Such people never bump into other people。However, a second person thought that

36、 this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners。 Instead, this73。 _other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known，74。 _about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at75。 _one of the countries of the Middle East。 The American hasnt76. _been told very much abou

37、t the kind of food he might expect。 Ifhe had known about American food， he might have behaved77. _better。Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread thatlooked， to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾). Picking it78. _up, he put it into his collar， so that it falls across his shirt。79。 _His Arab

38、host， who had been watching， said of nothing, but80. _immediately copied the action of his guest.And that, said this second person， was a fine example ofgood manners。71。 (on the way） à in the way72。 unaware à aware73。 as à than74。 it à which75. at à in76. hasn't à h

39、adnt77。 American à Arab78。 as à like79. falls à fell80. of à /Passage 8Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has beenbound to the planet on which he originated and devel-oped。 Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move 71。 _out into the universe to those

40、 worlds which he has knownpreviously only directly。 Men have explored parts of the moon。72. _put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within the decade will land into another planet and explore it。 Can we be73. _too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other 74。 _plan

41、et within the not-toodistant future？ Some have advocated75。 _such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship theexcess people off to the moon。 But we must keep in head the76. _billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project. Tomaintain the earth's population at its

42、present level, we would haveto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.Why are we spending so little money on space ex-77。 _ploration? Consider the great need for improving many aspects78. _of the global environment, one is surely justified in his concern for the money

43、and resources that they are poured into79. _the space exploration efforts。 But perhaps we should look atboth sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions.80。 _71。 had à has72。 directly à indirectly73. into à on74。 too à so75. planet à planets / worlds76。 head à m

44、ind77. little à much78。 Consider à Considering79. they à /80。 (arriving） à (arriving） at 或 arriving à reaching/drawing/makingPassage 9Most people work to earn a living and they Produce goods and services. Goods are either agricultural （like maize） or manufactured (like cars）

45、。 Services are such things like education, 1。_ medicine， and commerce. These people provide 2。_ goods； some provide services. Other people provide both goods or services。 For example， in the same 3。_ garage a man may buy a car or some service which helps him maintain his car. The work people do is c

46、alled as economic 4._ activity. All economic activities taken together make up the economic system of a town, a city， a country， or the world. Such economic system is the sumtotal 5。_ of what people do and what they want。 The work people do either provides what they need or provides the money with t

47、hat they can by essential 6。_ commodities。 Of course， most people hope to have enough money to buy commodities and services which are essential but which provide some particular 7。_ personal satisfaction, such as toys for children， visits 8。_ the cinema, and books。 The science of economics is basic

48、upon the facts 9。_ of our everyday lives。 Economists study our every day lives and the general life of our communities in order to understand the whole economic system of which we are a part. They try to describe the facts of the economy in which we live, and to explain how it works。 The economist m

49、ethods should of course be 10._ strictly objective and scientific。1like > as2these some3or > and4as 去掉as5Such economic system Suchan economic system 6that which 7are essential > arenot essential 或者essential > non-essential8visits the cinema > visitsto the cinema9basic based10The econo

50、mist methods The economists methods The economists methodsPassage 10Parents can be supportive of suspicions。 Theycan be helpful to the teacher, or are in need of help1. themselves。 Sometimes， I think parents are too hardto their children。 I have seen many parents of this2. kind。 I often have the pro

51、blem of parents coming inand telling me what they really treat their kids。 They3。 tell me that they usually stand over their kinds whenthey do their homework。 They check their work andmake big fuss over the grades. They criticize the kids4。 over everything having to do with school。 My response usual

52、ly is： ”well, you know， he is really a good kid. He is fine in my class. Maybe you shouldnot be too strict with them。”5。 We want parents to realize the fact that teachers are professors at working with children。 They have6. observed many children and many parents. Becauseof this， and because of their specialized training,teachers can be realistic about children。 Teachersknow whether parents want their children to do well7. and to behave well。 But teachers know less what8. child