大学英语四级改错题12篇.docx

1、大学英语四级改错题12篇大学英语四级改错题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 mistakes and put the corrections in

2、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 slash () in the blank.Example: Televisio

3、n 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 tobegin higher education is the choice of

4、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 andspecializations but offer a better student-f

5、aculty 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-of-class76. _programmes. On the other

6、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) existence, on the contrast, the intim

7、ate79. _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.71. (well) ? (well) as 72. therefore ? how

8、ever73. offer ? offers 74. permit ? permitting75. in ? of 76. culture ? cultural77. big ? small 78. and ? / 或 and ? which, this79. contrast ? contrary 80. preparing ? preparePassage 2 Thomas Malthus published his Essay on the Principleof Population almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,forecasters h

9、ave 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 to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the worlds total grain harvest has risensteadily over the ye

10、ars. 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. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,S5. _although feeding I0

11、 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. OptimistsS6. _point to concrete examples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, moreS7. _fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble corn and wheat yields in an exp

12、eriment. 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 new, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reasonS10. _for hope.S1. being?been S2. their?

13、its S3. relative?relatively S4. good?bad S5. as?去掉 S6. politics?politicalS7. by?for S8. double?doubled S9. few?more S10. reason?the reasonPassage 3 The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers mus

14、t reflect the diversityof the communities 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 pl

15、ace policies andprocedures for hiring and 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, editor

16、s, andphotographers meets regularly to value 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 photo

17、graphs.S7. _Early audits showed that minorities 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, w

18、ith aS10. _result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing change.S1. it ? they S2. percents ? percentS3. maintain ? maintaining S4. subjective ? object

19、iveS5. value ? evaluate S6. an ? /S7. woman ? women S8. from ? inS9. majority ? minority S10. with ? asPassage 4 A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew o

20、ne. 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 though there wereS3. _on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early n

21、ine-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 of Mexico City todaytheS6. _poor can still be numbered in millions. T

22、he 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 myth of theS9. _country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations

23、late,S10. _sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.S1. new ? a new S2. filling ? filledS3. though ? if S4. This ? WhatS5. was ? were S6. dissimilar ? similarS7. lies ? lie S8. that ? whichS9. it ? them S10. late ? laterPassage 5 Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behav

24、ior. Viewing biologically, the modernS1. _footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. 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 underst

25、and how this transformation has taken place weS3. _must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They 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, b

26、ecame radicailyS6. _changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,throwers and prey-killers. 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 intell

27、igence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new usethat of penning (把S9. _关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.S1. Viewing ? Viewed S2. inaccurat

28、e ? accurateS3. (enjoys) ? he (enjoys) S4. up ? backS5. year ? years S6. (even) if ? (even) /S7. co-operate ? co-operated S8. when ? afterS9. were ? was S10. farming ? huntingPassage 6 More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case 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 decli