英语专业八级改错终稿版.docx

1、英语专业八级改错终稿版英语专业八级改错（1）It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to thinkof 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

2、masculine symbols in our _2_ 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 gener

3、ally, combined the most common 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 b

4、iblical _7_ name associated with 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

5、originated with President George Washington, who would _10_often say, when faced with a hard problem, Let us consult Brother Jonathan, referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.英语专业八级（1）答案和解析:1. of和as之间加上it.代替前文的a nation2. itboth.指代上文的US和Great Britain3. thatwhich4. sufficientsufficiently.修饰形容词

6、用副词5. indicatedindicating来源：考试大6. 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. foras.be known for意为“因.而众所周知”8. iswas.美国过去曾是一个rural and unsophisticated的国家9. topare 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英语专业八级改错（2）About half of the infant and mat

7、ernal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk _1pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking University. _2The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be

8、prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children _3within the safest years with adequate intervals among births 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

9、for this year by _5the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded 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 hi

10、ghest in four specific types of _8pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the _9mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart._10英语专业八级（2）答案和解析: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 i

11、f 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 publishedreport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 their4. 将 among 改为 between在两次怀孕

12、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 excludingexcluding意为“不包括”6. 将 respectably 改为 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 years10. 将 lesser 改为 less英语专业八级改错（3）From what has been said, it must

13、be clear that no one can make very positive statements about how language originated. There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1) andor records of ancient languages show us language in a new and (2) showshowingemerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3)

14、the originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4) andbutnecessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of such cries ( 5) largelager than we find in English. It is true that the abs

15、enceof such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in (6) inonother grounds too the theory is not very attractive. People of all races and languages make rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that (7) returnresponsesuch noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different, serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference （8）on between these noises and language proper. We maysay