专八改错习题

1、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 m

2、illion 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 mate

3、rnaldeaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _ 5_the United Nations Children s Fund Canednttehres UfoSr 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 s

4、hows 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, sw

5、eet home ” is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the realityof 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 his

6、tory of nineteenth centuryEuropean settlers of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house2for one s 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 t

7、ogether to _4_support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _5_of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in theUnited 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

8、.S. soldiers came home before World Warn, 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 orless identical, but it satisfied _9_a deep need. Many regarded the

9、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 understandscientific reasoning. We are more ignora

10、nt of science as people_2_ with comparable education in WesternEurope.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 _3_them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creatin

11、g the _ 4_computer, you don t 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 t_h_e_t_w8o_._S_c_iencenew

12、 knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of is the production of knowledge tothe production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have thefaculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others.9Science in itself is ha

13、rmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it s not necessarilyharmful. 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 no

14、rmally use to describea 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

15、black hole is _2_ a region of space which matter has fallen and fromwhich nothing can _3_ escape not even light. But we can t see a black hole. A black hole _4_exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is onlyspace or thus we think. How can this happen? _5_ The theory is that s

16、ome stars explode when theirdensity increases to a particular point; they “ collapse ” and sometimes a supernova occurs.The collapse of a star may produce a“ White Dwarf ” of a “ neutronstara star which matter is so dense that if continually shrinks by the force of _6_ its own gravity. But if the st

17、ar isvery large, this process of shrinking may be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the earth reduced tothe _7_ size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger _8_ gravitational pull, and youhave some ideas of the force of a black hole. _9_And no matter near the blac

18、k hole is sucked in. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题 （五 ） The great whales are among the mostfascinating 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

19、occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People _3_ found the adventure wasrewarding, too, for the oil and meat from one 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 whalebeachin

20、g along the coasts of Englandwas designated“ the King s fish ” because it automgeadtically belonto the Crown.Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of _5_ wonder mixed with an intense desire tocapture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions.

21、_6_ Even though somespecies are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whalehunting is regulated, but the earth s 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. I

22、f thishappens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and _9_ awe-inspiringcreature that always fed man s 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 ina world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someo

23、ne talking, writing or reading. Indeed, _1_languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend on 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 t

24、hat differs human from _4_ animals. However, we do notknow yet how exactly we inquire language _5_ and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; norwe _6_ understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, _7_language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how

25、 and when language started. One reason for thisinadequate knowledge of language is 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

26、it. Language is far more complex than most people have probablyimagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branchof 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

27、 as little as ten years before,you can t help being strucked by the _1appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and make-up look date; their skirts look either too long ortoo _2_ short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous. The men taking part, on other hand, areclea

28、rly recognizable. _3_ There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entiredifferent 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

29、 same cannot besaid for women. Each year, a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down _7_ on the law andwomen 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 w

30、ill be height; hips are in and buttonsare out. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题 （八 ） Demographic indicators show thatAmericans 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 c

31、enturyheight after more _2_ than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the_3_“ babyboom. ” These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went formore than two decades _4_ and caused a major but temporary reversal of long-term demographicpatterns

32、. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans marriedat a high rate and at a younger age than their European counterparts. _5_ Less noted but equally moresignificant, the men and women who formed _6_ families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced thedivorce rate after a _7_ postwar peak;

33、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 itsdubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the temporary decline in divorce did not occurin the same ex

34、tent in Europe. _10_ Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemakerwas not abandoned.英语专业八级改错练习题 （九 ）When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately start meeting difficulties. Many peoplejust cannot agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that s

35、he thought you could tell awell-mannered person on the _1_ way they occupied the space around them for example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never _2_ bump into otherpeople.However, a second person thought that this was more a question

36、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 hadbeen invited _4_ to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American _5_ hasn tbeen told very much about the kind of food he might expe

37、ct. If he had _6_ known about American food, hemight 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_ sai

38、d 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 experiencingdifficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their

39、 originalpurpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is _1_ going to attract poor immigrants, whoflood in, filling with hopes of _2_ prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns onthe edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of _

40、3_ seventeenth-century London orearly nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is _4_ the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-centurytravelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very _5_dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today the poor ca

41、n still be numbered _6 in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies _7_ two myths; the myth of thecity 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 o

42、f 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 capturingan identifiable likeness and suggests the essence _2 of the personality or charac

43、ter beneath the surface. Thehumor 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 nineteenthcentury, becoming enormously popular in _5_ the United States early in this century. In 1

44、920s and 1930sespecially, this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and _6_ magazines throughout thecountry. The caricaturists in this era drew his _7_ portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirittheir work was _8_ close to the humor of the fast-developing comic s

45、trip 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 likea colorless liquid. They _1_ would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid called ice and tha

46、twhen heating on a fire it becomes a vapor called steam. _2_ However, water, they would say, is a liquid. Wehave learned that water consists of molecules composed with two atoms of hydrogen _3_ and one atom ofoxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O. This is equally true of the solid called ice

47、and the gas calledsteam. Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, and the solid, all of which is made up ofmolecules 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

48、a solid, but if we will heat it in a furnace, it willmelt and become a _5_ liquid, and at very high temperatures it will become a gas. Nothing very permanentoccurs when a gas changes into a liquid or a solid. Everyone knows that ice, which has been made by freezingwater, can be melted again by warme

49、d and that steam can be condensed _6_ on a cold surface to becomeliquid water. In fact, it is only because water 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 thetemperatures requiring to

50、 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 havegiven three different names. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题 （十三 ）Classic Intention MovementIn social situations, the cla

51、ssic Intention Movement is“ thechair-grasp ” . Host and guest have been talking for some time, but now the host has an appointment to keepand 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 guest s feelings he would simply get up

52、 out of his chair _3_and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, _4_ therefore his politeness glues his bodyto 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

53、 him, but leans forward and grasps the arms of thechair as about to push himself upwards. _7_ This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he werenot _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 l

54、onger. He holds his“ read-tion-ersise ” post and keeps on holding it. It isas 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

55、 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 rema in acquired kno wledge.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

56、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 evidenee。evidenee 是不可数名词。8 将 ill 改为 illness。9 将 year 改为 year&10 将 lesser 改为 less（二）参考答案及解析 :1 将 no 改为 not2 将 place 改为 Iand;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 pla

57、ce 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 every one 这里是要用 ever

58、y one 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 that s 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 as;regardas 作“把. 当作.讲。（三）参考答案及解

59、析 :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 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

60、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;牵着表示有区别。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。（四） 参考答案及解析 : supernova 名词， 天超新星1.将 as 改为 since 或者 beca