英语专八改错练习8.docx

1、英语专八改错练习8英语专八改错练习8In the United States there are， strict speaking， _1_no national holiday， for each state must， through legislative enactment or executive proclamation， _2_appoint the day which each holiday is celebrated. Congress and the president may establish legal holidays_3_for the District of

2、Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and territories;and by long custom，days that receive nationwide observation， such as Christmas， Thanksgiving， _4_Labor Day， Independent Day， and New Years Day， are uniformly set _5_apart by all states as legal， or public holidays. In 1968， fed

3、eral legislation established Columbia Day _6_as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at 1971. _7_The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees would be granted_8_three-days weekends by observing Washingtons Birthday on the third Monday in Febr

4、uary， _9_Memorial Day on the last Monday in May， Columbus Day on the second Monday in October，and Veteran Day on the forth Monday on October. By 1971， most of the states also adopted the new dates. _10_答案：1.strict改为strictly2.holiday改为holidays。因为原句的谓语动词为复数are，所以holiday必须使用复数。另外no后面可以用复数也可以用单数。3.which

5、前面加上on。因为先行词the day在关系从句钟做状语，还原回去应为：each holiday is celebrated on the day，所以必须加on。4.obsevation改为observance。observation意思为“观察，观测”，observance则表示“遵守，庆祝”。5.Independent改为Independence。独立日的说法是“Independence Day”。6.apart改为aside。set apart 指“使分离，使分开”，语义不同，set aside表示“留出，保留”的意思。7.at改为in8.begun改为beginning。9.thre

6、e-days 改为three-day。10.also前面加had。专八模拟改错(9)：黑洞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 black hole is _2_a region of space which matter has fal

7、len and from which nothing 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 particula

8、r point; they “collapse” 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_its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking maybe so intense tha

9、t a black hole results in. Imagine the earth 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_ 参考答案(反白可见)：1 将as 改为since或者because。在表示原

10、因的连接词中，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

11、只是空间”。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

12、知，任何在黑洞附近的东西都会被吸进去。We use language every day. We live in a world 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

13、 things around us than on ourselves. For example, language _3_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

14、 combinations between language and thought, _7_language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and whenlanguage 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 nat

15、urally 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 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_

16、takes language as its object of investigation.参考答案：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 ourselves。在这里比较的是两件事：things

17、 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“询问”的意思。6. we前面加上 do 副词no

18、r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”的意思。We live in a societ

19、y 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 _2with comparable education in Western Europe. There are a lot of

20、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 principles of physics that have gone into creating the _4computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5The failure to understand science leads t

21、o 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 can be applied or not, and technology is the application of know

22、ledge 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 soon as it can provide technology, its not necessarily harmful. No s

23、ociety has yet earned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous._10答案详解: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.

24、 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 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.

25、将 harmful 改为 harmless，只有这样才可以表达上下文的对比关系。For the last fifteen or twenty years the 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 to

26、ld, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and _2_knowledge and 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

27、of disciplines, it _4_flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts 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 eff

28、ectively by the producers of mass _6_media who insist that it is the public, not 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_philosop

29、hy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent _9_president of 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”.参考答案：4 将by改为of或者from。relieve sb of/ from

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

31、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 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 c