改错专项练习(2)

PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN.)
Directions: 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 the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
6.
Whenever you see the old film, even on made as early
as ten years before, you can't help being strucked
by the appearance of the woman taking part. Their
hair-styles and make-up look dated; their shirts look
either too long nor too short; their general appearance
is, in fact, slightly ludicrous. The men taking part, on
the other hand, are clearly recognizable. There is
something about their appearance to suggest they belong
to an entirely different age. This illusion is created
by changed fashions. Over the years, the great
majority of men has successfully resisted all attempts
to make them to change their style of dress. The
same cannot be said for women. Each year a few
so-call top designers in Paris and London lay down
on the law and women the whole world over run to
obey. The decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial. Sometimes they decide arbitrarily that skirts will be short and waists will be height; hips
are in and buttons are out.
7.
When Zhou liang answered the doorbell recently, he was rather astonished to see what he had purchased on the Internet only two days before sitting on his doorstep.
"I never expected to get my books so quickly," he told Business weekly.
Li Qiang, an employee of a Beijing-based electronics company
shared Zhou's experience. He said online shopping was very good
and always offered comparatively lower prices than ordinary retailer stores.
Along with China's rapidly developing IT industry, online
shopping is attracting the interest of more and more people.
Wang Juntao, general manager of the Electronic Business Department
of Beijing-based Federal Software Co Ltd, said online
shopping had tremendous market potential giving China's large population.
In mid-March, Wang's company established an online shopping
center for Internet surfers.
More than 14,000 kinds of goods are available on the Federal
website, including computers, software, books and daily necessity.
Its online service cover 13 cities in China including Beijing,
Shanghai and Nanjing. "We have achieved great success in the
three months since we launched the service," he said.
Figures from the company show that by mid-June, the sales
volume of the website reached more than 2 million Yuan (US
'240,000).Daily visitors to the site surged from 10,000 in March
to30,000 in June. With the increase in the number of China's
Internet users, that figure is likely to multiple," Wang said.
Industry experts say that because of the lack of appropriate
payment tools, online shopping is still at a primitive stage.
The Federal site is reportedly the first Chinese website that
combines online shopping with online payment.
Sources from the company say that customers can use credit
cards from several banks including Bank of China and the Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China.
"The application of online payment marks up a milestone for
the development of the online industry," Wand said.
However, problems such as a limited pot of Internet users,
comparatively high charges on Internet surfing and traditional views
on shopping have hindered the development of online shopping. "There is still a long way to go for us to become a competent online shopping company both in and outside China," Wang said. He said the company planned to invest 200 million Yuan (US
' 24 million) on its shopping website by the end of 2000.
"We are going to seek cooperation with domestic and oversea companies to extend the variety of our online products," he said.
8.
The old-age paternalism of southern Canadians over Eskimos
has died more slowly in the rural villages where Eskimos have been more reluctant to voice their opinions aggressively. This
has been a frustration in government officials trying to develop
local leadership among the Eskimos, however a blessing to
other departments whose plans have been received without
local obstruction. In rural areas the obligations of kinship
often ran counter the best interests of the village and potential
leaders were restrained from making positive contributions
to the village council. More recently, therefore, the educated
Eskimos have been voicing over the interests of those in
the rural areas. They are trying out to persuade the government
to recognize the rights of full-time hunters, by protecting their territories from mining and oil prospectors, for example. The efforts of this active minority is percolating through to the
remoter villages whose inhabitants are becoming increasingly vocal.
Continuing change is inevitable but future development policy
must recognize that most Eskimos retain much of its traditional
outlook on life. New schemes should focus on resources that the Eskimos are used to handling, rather than enterprises such as Mining.
9.
As suburbs grew, businesses moved into the new areas. Large shopping centres containing a great kind of
stores changed consumer patterns. The number of these centers rose from eight in the end of World War
II to 3,840 in 1960.With easy parking and convenient evening time, customers could avoid city shopping
entirely.
New highways created a better access to the suburbs and
its shops. The Highway Act of 1956 provided '26,000 million, the largest public work expenditure in U.S.
history, to build more than 64,000 kilometers of federal roads to link together all parts of the country. Television, consequently, had a powerful impact on
social and economic patterns. Developing in the 1930s,
it was not widely marketed until after the war. In 1946 the country had about fewer than 17,000 TV sets. Three
years later, consumers were buying 250,000 sets a month, and by 1960 three-quarters of all families owned at least one set. In middle of the decade, the average family
watched television four to five hours a day. Americans
of all ages grew exposed to increasingly sophisticated
advertisements for products said to be necessary for the good life.
10.
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 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
"empty" words as opposed in the "full" words of vocabulary. But
this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 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 difference in
meaning between "man is vile" and "the man is vile", yet
the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning.
Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in the
lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been "little words". But size is by no mean a good criterion for
distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider
that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from
this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.。