专八改错习题及答案解析.docx

1、专八改错习题及答案解析英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 （一 ）About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be 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.

2、6 million 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 mater

3、nal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by 5 the United Nation?s Children?s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high 6 risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world

4、 shows 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.参考答案及解析 :1将had used改为used。因为此句是虚

5、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 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 remain acquired knowledge. 任何可能的发现，不管多么微不

6、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 evidence。 evidence 是不可数名词。8将 ill 改为 illness。9将 year 改为 yea

7、rs。10将 lesser 改为 less英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 （二 ）“ Home, 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 1 has great importance for many people.This ideal is a vital part of th

8、e 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 2 for one?s family, and started a farm. These small households were 3 portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,e

9、ven grandparents-live in a small house and working together to 4 support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance 5 of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership 6 is just as strong in the tw

10、entieth century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S. soldiers came home before World War n , 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 or less identical,

11、 but it satisfied 9 a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their 10 way of life.参考答案及解析 :1将 no 改为 not2将 place 改为 land;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 place 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 vac

12、ant 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 every 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

13、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;regard, as作“把”当作” ”讲。英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 （三）We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say 1 that there ar

14、e 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_2_ with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers how to buildthem, how to take them a

15、part, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask 3 them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating 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 ris

16、e to blurring of the distinction between 7 science and technology. Lots of people don?t differ between the two. Science 8 new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of is the production of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery orthe like. The two ar

17、e really different, and people who have the faculty for onevery seldom have a faculty for the others. 9 Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it?s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the _10 consequences of new technology,

18、which can be enormous.参考答案及解析 :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 abo

19、ut 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。英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 （四 ）What is a black ho

20、le? 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_ escape not even light. Bu

21、t we can?t see a black hole. A black hole _4_ exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only space or 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 supernova o

22、ccurs.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 may be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the earth red

23、uced 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_参考答案及解析 :supernova 名词， 天 超新星1.将as改为since或者because在表示原因的连接词中， 只有as引导的原因状语从句不能位于主句之后，只能

24、位于句首。2 .将adequate改为in adequate，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“那只是空间一或者我们认为它只是空间” so做think的宾语,thus 只

25、能做连词，不能做宾语。6.将 which 改为 wh ose 。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。分析便知，任何在黑洞附近的东西都

26、会被吸进去。 英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 （五 ）The great whales are among the most fascinating 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 occasionall

27、y swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People _3_ found the adventure was rewarding, 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 whale beaching along

28、 the coasts of England was designated “ the King?s fish ” because it automatically belonged to the Crown.Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of _5_ wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions. _6_

29、 Even though some species are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whale hunting 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

30、f this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and _9_ awe-inspiring creature that always fed man?s imagination and _10_ made the world a more exciting place参考答案及解析 :1.将which改为that。先行词由最高修饰时定语从句的关系代词只能用 that。2.在 thought 后面加 of,或者将 thought 改为 regardedo “think o

31、f A as B ”，指“把 A 看作 B”，为 固定搭配。3.去掉 he。这句话的主语是 “to hunt a whale”, “to hunt a whale was high adventure ”。中间的 “when, ” 只是插入的状语从句。4.在referred后加to。“refer to A as B”只“把A称作B”，这句话的意思是“古人把鲸称作大鱼” 。5.在felt后加for。这句话实际的结构是 “feel a sense of wonder for whales ”指“对鲸怀有惊奇的感觉”， for 引出对象。6. 在 exploit 后加 them。 capture，

32、slaughter， exploit 都是及物动词，后面必须加宾语。7.去掉but。前面已有even though”，后面就不应该再用 but。8 .将since改为from。 “ 100 years from now ”指从现在起 100年后” si nee只能用于完成时。9.在blame前加to。 “be to blame for sth ”指对某事应负责任”，为固定搭配。10.在always前加has。这个定语从句强调对现在的影响，很明显应该用完成时，不能用过去式。英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析 （六 ）We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someone talking,