专业八级考试改错练习题及答案解析

专业八级考试改错练习题及答案解析

练习题1：

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 University. ____2

The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths 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 maternal 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 risk categories. ____6The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of____7maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9mother is 35 years old; px.wangxiao.soti shi nin:pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart.____10

答案：

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。中小学辅导网wangxiao.so提示您: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 years

10. 将 lesser 改为 less

练习题2：

'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 the 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,even 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 twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, 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, but it satisfied _____9

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._____10

答案：

1. 将 no 改为 not

2. 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 vacant 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。