英语专业八级改错真题(1999-2012)完整含答案版本

99年改错

Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Example

When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an

it never／buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never

them on the wall. When a natural history museum

wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit

The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric

1.______

human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing

2._____

with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter- gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one

half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds

and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______

studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of

London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4.______

edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240.

5.______

Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung

6._______

diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care.

7._______

They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average American 8._______

adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life 9.________

style, we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for 10.________

healthier diet.

2000改错

The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1._______

from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may

seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2._______

“empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary.

3.________

But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction.

4._________

Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,

it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5._________

difference in meaning between “man is vile and” “the man is

vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning.

6.________

Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among

themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.________

lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been

“little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8._________

distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we

consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.________

from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some

people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity