专四专八改错题复习汇总

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.

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 10.________ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of

Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.