郸城一高自主招生英语短文改错12篇.docx

1、郸城一高自主招生英语短文改错12篇2013年郸城一高自主招生英语短文改错12篇2013年郸城一高自主招生英语短文改错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

2、 mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. 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 sla

3、sh () in the blank.Example: Television is rapidly becoming 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 tobeg

4、in higher education is the choice of attending a largeuniversity 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 andspecial

5、izations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus73. _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 out-o

6、f-class76. _programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, 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)

7、existence, on the contrast, the intimate79. _atmosphere 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.Passa

8、ge 2 Thomas Malthus published his Essay on the Principleof Population almost 200 years ago. 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

9、to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the worlds total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated troubleS3. _spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, the worlds food crisis has remained justS4. _around the corner.

10、 Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st 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 instanc

11、e, improved seed, moreS7. _fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble 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 n

12、ew, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reasonS10. _for hope.Passage 3 The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities

13、to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1. _losing their readers interest and their advertisers support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2. _minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and

14、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. _same kind of population that reads it. A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, andphotographers meets regularly to val

15、ue the Seattle TimesS5. _content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a contentS6. _audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in photographs.S7. _Early audits showed that minor

16、ities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results fromS8. _improvement in the frequency of majority representation andS9. _their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with aS10. _result, the Seattle Times has i

17、mproved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing change.Passage 4 A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale

18、.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 are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as thoug

19、h there wereS3. _on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4. _written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5. _are very dissimilar to descriptions

20、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 povertyS8. _and brings it flooding into city centers, and the m

21、yth of theS9. _country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,S10. _sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.Passage 5 Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modernS1. _footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting

22、pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. 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. T

23、hey spent over aS4. _million year evolving as co-operative 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-killer

24、s. They co-operate as skillful 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), contr

25、olling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.S10._Passage 6 More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the cas

26、e in quite a while. During the early stages of71. _the industrial revolution, 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

27、 for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped 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 research

28、ers76. _declared victory and withdrew. They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency 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 tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases