英语专八 判断对错 附答案

1、英语专八 判断对错 附答案改错1Ancient 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-and priests clever enough to denounce as frauds those predicted _

2、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

3、 _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 fo

4、rsake , 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 . 2It is

5、difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of 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_

6、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

7、 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

8、 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

9、Washington, who would _10_often say, when faced with a hard problem, Let us consult Brother Jonathan, referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull. 3About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk

10、 _1pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the JohnsHopkingUniversity. _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 _3within the safest years with adequate intervals among bir

11、ths 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 _5the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was exc

12、luded 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

13、 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart._10 4Home, 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

14、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: th

15、e 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 h

16、ome 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

17、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._105We 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,

18、 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 _3th

19、em 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 _7technolo

20、gy. 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 ver

21、y 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._10 6For the last fifteen or twenty years the

22、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 an

23、d 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 co

24、mforts 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

25、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

26、 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”. 7We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly anymoment passes with someone talking, writing or readi

27、ng. 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_ani

28、mals. 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 whenlanguage started. One

29、 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 thenecessity to study it. Language is far more complex

30、 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. 8Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years before, you cant help

31、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 thei

32、r 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

33、 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

34、_. 9What 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_escapen

35、ot 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 “collapse” and sometimes a

36、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 maybe so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the ea

37、rth 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_ 答案详解：一.WhileWhen或After.本句的this指代的是to change the weather by using magic. when/af

38、ter 引导时间状语2.inthan.earlier是early的比较级，其后应有than 3.those之后加who.who引导定语从句4. 删除advance前的the.in advance为习语 5. takehave.have connection with 为习语6. controlledcontrolling或在controlled前加that/which.controlling the weather 或that/which controlled the weather做定语修饰the actual factors7. andor.rain和draught只能是二者之一 8. 删

39、除is.与上文平衡，均为省略句9. beforewhen/if.条件句10. willwould.if引导的是条件句用的是remained一般过去时二1. 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 Britain3.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.

40、 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 三1. 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 publishe

41、dreport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 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“不包括”6. 将 respectably 改

42、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 evidence evidence是不可数名词。8. 将ill改为illness9. 将 year 改为 years 10. 将 lesser 改为 less 四1. 将 no 改为 not 2. 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

43、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

44、 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 regard.as 作“把当作”讲。五1. 在 which 前加 in，或将 which 改为 where在这里which引导限制性从句,

45、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是及物动词。5. 将 you 改为 they 6. 将 like 改为 as 因为such as 是固定搭配。7. 将 t

46、akes 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。六1 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fr

47、om。relieve sb of/ from sth 是固定搭配, 意思为 “减轻某人(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

48、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.七1. 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 ou

49、rselves。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

50、“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”的意八1 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