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英语专业八级改错(终稿版)
英语专业八级改错（1）It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain __1__ "Britannia" and the United States "Columbia", and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our __2__ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed __3__ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be __4__ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually __5__ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband.After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United __6__States was knownfor "Brother Jonathan". Jonathan was a biblical __7__ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since __8__American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to __9__ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originated with President George Washington,who would __10__often say, when faced with a hard problem, "Let us consult Brother Jonathan", referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.英语专业八级（1）答案和解析:1. of和as之间加上it.代替前文的a nation2. it—both.指代上文的US和Great Britain3. that—which4.sufficient—sufficiently.修饰形容词用副词5. indicated—indicating来源：考试大6. began—ended.根据历史知识，美国独立战争开始于1776年7月4日(《独立宣言》发表)，直到1783年英国正式承认美国独立才结束。
专八改错习题及答案解析
英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(一)About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries couldbe avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1____ pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking ____2____University.The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternalDeaths 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 maternaldeaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7____maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8_____pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9____mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than ____10____two years apart.参考答案及解析:1 将had used 改为used。
专八改错真题及答案
v .. . ..2000 年-2015年专八短文改错试卷2015年3月21日专业八级考试改错When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round a the luxury of the 1.______rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2. ______ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation。
that 3.______much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4.______started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, andso are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’t they? Myfriend’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5.______expression that I had not got the word quite right.Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6.______new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7.______own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should haveasked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the 8.______aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9.______speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly,but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10.______2014改错There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) ______have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) ______l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in thesame sense one acquires a first language? (3) ______l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) ______more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?l What motivates people to acquire additional language?l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) ______acquisition of additional languages?l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying thelearning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) ______the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far haveone thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiringof an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (7) ______ so. Whether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additionallanguage, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ______focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of anindividual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ______ or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in theclassroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (10) ______2013 专八短文改错试卷．Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) _____ listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually (2) ______ happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. (3) ______Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page, (4) ______you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptionalcircumstances we might become aware of the complexity (5) ______involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it。
英语专业八级改错真题(1999-2012)完整含答案版本解析
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.ExampleWhen∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) anit never／buys things in finished form and hangs (2) neverthem on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibitThe 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 onehalf emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishingand only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirdsand more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University ofLondon, showed that gathering is a more productive source of foodthan 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, ifthey escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporaryaborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7._______ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dentaldecay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their bloodcholesterol 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 Englishgrammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1._______ from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which mayseem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ lessmeaning”, 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 isvile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.________ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably amongthemselves 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 weconsider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.________ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what somepeople say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.________ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry ofRobert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.2001改错During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as thevery lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watchedthe yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if 1._______ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2._______ favorite topic of conversation.War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketingthe western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grainselling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could 3._______ not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often thatthey sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts 4.________ were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5._______ On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, 6._______ but the government had no wish to become involving, at 7.______ least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to runwild.Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.______ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal withdeliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchangetrading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by theboard. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government appointed 9.______ the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to 10.______ buy, sell, and set prices.2002改错There are great impediments to the general use of a standardin pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography).One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt “naturally”and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 1__________ deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact,remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech 2.__________ sounds like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock 3.__________ when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we 4._________ recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is somethingwhich we almost always know. We begin the natural learning 5.__________ of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write,and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 6.__________ practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many morehours per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our 7.___________ difficult English spelling. This is “natural”, therefore, that our 8.__________ speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle; after all,as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community 9.__________ and giving a sense of 'belonging'. We learn quite early torecognize a “stranger”, someone who speaks with anaccent of a different community-perhaps only a few miles far. 10.__________2003改错Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwarperiod were more eager than ever to establish families. They quicklybrought down the age at marriage for both men and women and broughtthe birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)______ years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young(2)_______ adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively largefamilies that Went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)_______ but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. Fromthe 1940S through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)________ and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts. (5)________ Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)________ formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)________ divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact toa greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)________ as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)_________ distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, thetemporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)_________ Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner andhomemaker was not abandoned.2004改错One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S Congressis the power to investigate. This power is usually delegated to committees - either standing committees, special committees set for a specific (1)________ purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of both houses. (2)________ Investigations are held to gather information on the need forfuture legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members andofficials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)________ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, committeesrely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings (4)_________ and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)_________ There are important corollaries to the investigative power. Oneis the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most (6)_________ committee hearings are open to public and are reported (7)__________ widely in the mass media. Congressional investigationsnevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers (8)__________ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues.(9)________ Congressional committees also have the power to compeltestimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contemptof Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjurythese who give false testimony. (10)_________2005改错The University as BusinessA number of colleges and universities have announced steeptuition increases for next year much steeper than the current,very low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed becauseof a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common 1 stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizesits net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the 2 outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of 3 business firms. The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty 4 increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of beingin the school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a factor in 5 graduate and professional-school tuition); the poor one's job prospects, 6 the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,in order to make oneself more marketable.The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students 7 include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving studentsa governance role, and eliminate required courses. 8 Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the 9 rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlierfrom professional teams. And until they were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purelyof need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best 10 customer.We use language primarily as a means of communication withother human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which welive a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as 1_______ to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular 2______ message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a3_______ set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his4______ thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English 5_______ speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses activelyand that which he recognizes, increases in size as he growsold as a result of education and experience. 6______ But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the systemremains no more, than a psychological reality for tike inpidual, unlesshe has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another 7_______ member of his linguistic community; he bas to give tile system aconcrete transmission form. We take it for granted rice’ two m ost8_______ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by ourvocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are 9___ ___ among most striking of human achievements. 10_______From what has been said, it must be clear that no one canmake very positive statements about how language originated.There is no material in any language today and in the earliest 1records of ancient languages show us language in a new and 2emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language 3 ___ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the 4 necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remotetribes, no ancient records, providing evidence ofa language with a large proportion of such cries 5than we find in English. It is true that the absenceof such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in 6other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.People of all races and languages make rather similarnoises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that7such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmenand Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference8__________ between these noises and language proper. We maysay that the cries of pain or chortles of amusementare largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, 9whereas language proper does not consist of signsbut of these that have to be learnt and that are10__________ wholly conventional.2008年改错The desire to use language as a sign of national identityis a very natural one，and in result language has played a 1__________ prominent part in national moves．Men have often felt the need 2__________ to cultivate a given language to show that they are distinctive 3____________ from another race．whose hegemony they resent．At the time the 4.___________ United States split off from Britain，for example，therewere proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by 5._________ the use of a different language from those of Britain． 6.__________ There was even one proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew．Others favoured the adoption of Greek，though，as one man put it，things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to 7.___________ English and made the British learn Greek．At the end，as everyone 8.___________ knows，the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactorysolution of carrying with the same language as before．Sincenearly two hundred years now，they have shown the 9.____________ world that political independence and national identity can be 10.___________ complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language．2009年改错The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passesfrom one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)__ ___ between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learntin early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)__ ___ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)___ __ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmittingIt may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)__ ___ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)__ ___ it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)___ __ same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in agebetween playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playgroundrhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)___ __ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting overand over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)__ ___ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)___ __ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)__ __ original wording.2012PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) The passage contains TEN errors．Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error．In each case, only ONE word is involved．You should proof-read 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 "L" 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.EXAMPLEWhen A art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) anit never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) neverthem on the wall．When a natural history museumwants an exhibition, it must often build it．(3) exhibitProofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely．The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______ century B.C．Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writersfavoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not t he letter; the (2) _______ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______ the manner．This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______ wanted the truth to be read and understood．Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______ was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______ gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _____ literal as possible．This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______ extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, thenature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed．Toooften, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified witheach other．Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains．(10)_____答案部分改错部分:1999年1. 答案：as → like2. 答案：supplementing → supplemented3. 答案：and → or4. 答案：in → on5. 答案：as → while / whereas6. 答案：删去for，或改成about7. 答案：删去第一个of8. 答案：half ∧→ that9. 答案：if → While / Although / Though10. 答案：for ∧→ aPart Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction1.答案：as→like【详细解答】as our prehistoric human ancestors意为“作为人类史前的祖先那样”，但是根据上下文，此处应表达的意思是“像人类史前的祖先那样”，故应该将as改为介词like。
专八改错_历届(2000年-2011年)真题及答案
2000 年-2011 年专八短文改错试题，参考答案以及答案分析By 兰银清以下答案以上外教师给出的答案为参考答案2011年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1，在grow后加up, 考固定短语2，改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”3，改soon为sooner，sooner or later是固定短语4，在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。
英语专业八级改错(终稿版)
英语专业八级改错（1）It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain __1__ "Britannia" and the United States "Columbia", and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our __2__ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed __3__ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be __4__ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually __5__ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband.After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United__6__States was knownfor "Brother Jonathan". Jonathan was a biblical__7__ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since__8__American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to __9__ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originated with President George Washington, who would__10__often say, when faced with a hard problem, "Let us consult Brother Jonathan", referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.英语专业八级（1）答案和解析:1. of和as之间加上it.代替前文的a nation2. it—both.指代上文的US和Great Britain3. that—which4. sufficient—sufficiently.修饰形容词用副词5. indicated—indicating 来源：考试大6. began—ended.根据历史知识，美国独立战争开始于1776年7月4日(《独立宣言》发表)，直到1783年英国正式承认美国独立才结束。
(完整word版)英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析
英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries couldbe avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk ____1____ pregnancies， according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking ____2____ University。
The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2，000,000 maternalDeaths 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 maternaldeaths in developing countries， excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____the United Nation's Children's Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7____maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8_____ pregnancy； pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9____mother is 35 years old； pregnancies after four births； and those lesser than ____10____two years apart.参考答案及解析：1 将had used 改为 used。
专八改错题及答案
2012年3月专八真题：改错部分The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally orfreely．The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______century B。
C．Up to the beginning of the 19th century，many writers favoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit，not the letter; the (2) _______sense not the word; the message rather the form；the matter not （3）_______the manner．This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who （4）_______wanted the truth to be read and understood．Then in the turn of the 19th （5）____ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6）_______was entirely the product of culture，the view translation was impossible （7) _____ gained some currency, and with it that，if was attempted at all, it must be as （8) __ literal as possible．This view culminated the statement of the (9）_______extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vlad imir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the natureof the readership，the type of the text，was not discussed．Too often,writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other．Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains．(10）_____参考答案:1．going后加on2．certain改为a certain3．rather改为not4．is 改为was5．in 改为at6．去掉第二个the7．view后面加that8．去掉was9．culminated后面加in10．and 改为but2011年3月专八真题：改错部分From a very early age， perhaps the age of five or six， I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty—four (1）I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience (2)that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3）settle down and write books。
历年英语专业八级改错真题
2010年真题So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfectas instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well 1 equipped as any other to say the things their speakers want to say. 2 There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or 3 cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people areequally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice orthe engraving of Benares brass. Whereas this is not the fault of their language. 4 The Eskimos can speak about snow with a great deal further precision and 5 subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language(one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise andsubtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect in English, 6a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviouslythat the Eskimos and the English live in similar environments. The English 7 language will be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, 8 presumably, if the environments in which English was habitually used madesuch distinction as important. 9 Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could beas precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if thesetopics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. For obvious historical reasons, 10 Englishmen in the nineteenth century could not talk about motorcars with theminute discrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of theirculture. But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicles which send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we are reading Scott or Dickens. Howmany of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham,a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton,and a clarence ?2009年真题The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passesfrom one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)_____ between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learntin early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)__ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)_____The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmittingIt may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)_____ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)_____ it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)_____same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in agebetween playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playgroundrhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)_____ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting overand over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)_____hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)____ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____ original wording.2008年真题The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is avery natural one, and in result language has played a prominent (1)__________ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate (2)__________a given language to show that they are distinctive from another (3)__________ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States (4)___________ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals thatindependence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a (5)__________ different language from those of Britain. There was even one (6)__________ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favouredthe adoption of Greek, thought, as one man put it, things wouldcertainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English (7)__________ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone (8)__________ know, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactorysolution of carrying with the same language as before. (9)__________ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world (10)_________ That political independence and national identity can be completeWithout sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a commonlanguage.2007年真题From what has been said, it must be clear that no one canmake very positive statements about how language originated.There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1)_____________ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and (2)_____________ emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3)_____________ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4)_____________ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remotetribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with alarge proportion of such cries than we find in English. Ti is true that the (5)__________ absence of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in (6)____________ other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.People of all races and languages make rather similarnoises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that such noises are (7)____________ similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians whose languagesare utterly different, serves to emphasize on the fundamental (8)___________ difference between these noises and language proper. We maysay that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are largelyreflex actions, instinctive to large extent, whereas language (9)___________ proper does not consist of signs but of these that have to be learnt (10)___________ and that are wholly conventional.2006年真题We use language primarily as means of communication withother human beings. Each of us shares with the community in whichwe live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conven- (1)___________ tions as to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a (2)____________ particular message; the English speaker has in his disposal a vocabu- (3)____________ lary and a set of grammatical rules which inables him to communi- (4)___________ cate his thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other (5)____________ English speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which heuses actively and that which he recognizes, increases in size as hegrows old, as a result of education and experience. (6)___________ But, whether the language store is relatively small or large,the system remains no more than a psychological reality for the indi-vidual, unless he has a means of expressing it in terms able to beseen by another member of his linguistic community; he has to give (7)__________ the system a concrete transmission form. We take it for granted the (8)____________ two most common forms of transmission—by means of sounds pro-duced by our vocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And (9)____________ these are among most striking of human achievements. (10)___________ 2005年真题A number of colleges and universities have announced steep tu-ition increases for next year—much steeper than the current,very low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed be-cause of a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing (1)__________ in common stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the pricethat maximizes its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in in- (2)__________ come; and increasingly tihe outlook of universities in the UnitedStates is indistinguishable from those of business firms. The rise in (3)__________ tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty increases the de- (4)__________ mand for education. The biggest cost of being in the school is fore- (5)___________ going income from a job (this primarily a factor in graduate—andprofessional—school tuition): the poor one’s job prospects, the more (6)__________ sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,in order to make oneself more marketable.The ways which universities make themselves attractive to (7)_________ students include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, givingstudents a governance role, and eliminate required courses, Sky- (8)__________ high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students ascustomers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the (9)_________rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost tothem of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumnidonations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education inorder to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And untilthey were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy Leagueschools colluded to limit competition for the best students, byagreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather thanpurely of need—just like business firms agreeing not to give dis-counts on their best customer. (10)________ 2004年真题One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S.Congress is the power to investigate. This power is usually delegatedto committees—either standing committees, special committees set (1)_________ for a specific purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of (2)_________ both houses.Investigations are held to gather information on the need forfuture legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members andofficials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)_________ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, committeesrely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings (4)_________ and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)_________ There are important corollaries to the investigative power. Oneis the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most commit- (6)________ tee hearings are open to public and are reported widely in the mass (7)________ media. Congressional investigations nevertheless represent one im- (8)_______ portent tool available to lawmakers to inform the citizenry and to (9)________ arouse public interests in national issues.Congressional committees also have the power to compel testi-mony form unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contempt of Con-gress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury these who give (10)_______ false testimony.2003年真题Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post-warperiod were more eager than ever to establish families. They quicklybrought down the age at marriage for both men and women andbrought the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than (1)_________ a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom”.(2)_________ These young adults established a trend of early marriage and rela-tively large families that went for more than two decades and caused (3)________ a major but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns.From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high (4)________ rate and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts. (5)________ Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women (6)_______ who formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced (7)_______ the divorce rate after a post-war peak; their marriages remained in-tact to a greater extent than did that of couples who married in ear- (8)_______ lier as well as later decades. Since the United States maintained its (9)_______ dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)_______ Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinnerAnd homemaker was not abandoned.2002年真题There are great impediments to the general use of a standard inpronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography).One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and uncon-sciously, and orthography is learnt deliberately and consciously. (1)____________ Large members of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite un-conscious with what our speech sounds like when we speak (2)_____________ out, and it often comes as a shock when (3)_____________ we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. (4)_____________ It is not a voice we recognize at one, whereas our own hand-writing is something which we almost always know. We begin the (5)____________‘natural’ learning of pronunciation long before we start learning toRead or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imi- (6)____________ tating and practicing the pronunciation of those around us for manymore hours per every day than we ever have to spends learning even (7)____________ our difficultEnglish spelling. This is ‘natural’, therefore, that our speech- (8)_____________ sounds should be those of our immediate circle; after all, as we haveseen, speech operates as a means of holding a community and to (9)____________ give a sense of ‘belonging’. We learn quite early to r ecognize a‘stranger’, someone who speaks with an accent of a different com-munity—perhaps only a few miles far. (10)___________ 2001年真题During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as thevery lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched theyields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if they (1)____________ were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing favor- (2)____________ ite topic of conversation.War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketingthe western crop. For years, farmer mistrusted speculative grainselling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheatprices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could not wait (3)___________ for markets to improve. It had happened too often that they soldtheir wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts were coming (4)__________ due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. (5)__________On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, (6)___________ but the government had no wish to become involving, at least not (7)___________ until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wild.Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal gov- (8)___________ ernment appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliver-ies form the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading wassuspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with (9)______ the crop 1919, the government appointed the first CanadianWheat Board, with total authority to buy, sell, and set prices. (10)_________ 2000年真题The grammatical words which play so large a part in Englishgrammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different fromthe lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the (1)__________ most obvious is that grammatical words have “less meaning”, but(2)___________ in fact some grammarians have called them “empty” words asopposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather(3)____________ misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like “the”(4)___________ is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being (5)___________ meaningless; there is a sharp difference in meaning between “manis v ile” and “the man is vile”, yet “the” is the single vehicle of this(6)___________ difference in meaning.Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among them-selves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the lexical (7)____________ sense. An other name for the grammatical words has been “littlewords”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing(8)__________ the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we havelexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from this, however, (9)___________ there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainlydo create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is il- (10)__________lustrated not only in the poetry of Robret Browning but in the proseof telegrams and newspaper headlines.1999年真题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 modern hunter-gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed thatone-half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate onfishing, and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories co me from plants. (3)_____________ Detailed studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the Universityof London, showed that gathering is a more productive source offood 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 di- (6)_____________ er, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, ifthey escape fatal infections or accidents, theses contemporary abo-rigines live to old ages despite of the medical care. They (7)_____________ experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay,no high blood pressure, no heart disease, and their blood cholesterollevels are very low (about half of the average American adult). (8)_____________ If no one is suggesting that we return to an aboriginal life style, we (9)_____________ certainly could use their eating habits as a model for healthier diet. (10)_____________ 1998年真题When a human infant is born into any community in any part ofthe world it has two things in common with any infant, provided (1)____________ neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or dur- (2)_____________ ing birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children are com-pletely helpless. Apart form a powerful capacity to pay attention to (3)_____________their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing the new bornchild can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some oth-er human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or humangroup, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of hu-man infants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many newborn animals to get on their feet within minutes of birth and run (4)_____________ with the herd with in a few hours.Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for (5)_____________ weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infantthey very quickly grow the capacity to fend for them. (6)____________ It is during this very long period in which the human infant istotally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature (7)____________ which it shares with all other undamaged human infants, a capacityto learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest that lan-guage be ‘species specific’ to the human race, that is to say, they (8)____________ consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in (9)____________ such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that (10)___________ just as human beings are designed to stand upright rather than tomove on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language aspart of their normal development as well-formed human beings.1997年真题In soci al situations, the classic Intention Movement is ‘thechair-grasp’. Host and guest have been talking for some time, butnow the hose has an appointment to keep and can get away. His urge (1)___________ to go is held in check by his desire not be rude to his guest. (2)____________ If he did not care of his guest’s feelings he would simply get up(3)___________ out of his chair and to announce his departure. This is what his body (4)___________ wants to do, therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and (5)___________ refuses to let him raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair- (6)___________如有你有帮助，请购买下载，谢谢！grasp Intention Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and lis-ten to him, but leans forward and grasps the arms of the chair as about (7)__________ to push himself upwards. This is the first act he would make if he (8)___________ were rising. If he were not hesitating, it would only last a fractionof the second. He would lean, push, rise, and be up. But now, in- (9)____________ stead, it lasts much longer. He holds his ‘readiness-to-rise’ post(10)___________ and keeps on holding it. It is as if his body had frozen at eh get-ready moment.11页。
历年专八改错(2000年-2014年)真题及答案
历年专八短文改错试题2014年英语专八改错真题答案There is widespread consensus among scholars that second languageacquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s toearly 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions ( a 前面加also)have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (possessed 改为captured)Is it possible to acquire an additional language in thesame sense one acquires a first language? (one前面加as )What is the explanation for the fact adults have (fact后面加that)more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?What motivates people to acquire additional languages?What is the role of the language teaching in the (language前面去掉the) acquisition of an additional language?What socio-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying thelearning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (去掉the)the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far haveone thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiringof an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (attempts改为attempting)so. W hether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additionallanguage, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (or 改为and)focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of anindividual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (involving改为involved) or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in theclassroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (touch改为contact) 2013英语专八改错真题答案Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processesinvolved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) _____listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually (2) ______happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. (3) ______Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page, (4) ______you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptionalcircumstances we might become aware of the complexity (5) ______involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it;if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced (6) ______their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if (7) ______we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; orif we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meetanyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples (8) ______of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstances”reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, (9) ______listening, writing and reading. But given that language processeswere normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful (10) ______experiments to get at what is happening.1. production改成producing2. 去掉the3. 去掉accurately前面的so4. looking改为look5. we前面加that6. 去掉colleague后面的has7. their改成his8. anyone改成pure老师someone9. evolved改成involved10. were改成are2012年专八真题改错部分The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. Theargument has been going since at least the first (1) ______century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writersfavoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, thenature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Toooften, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified witheach other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____参考答案：1.going后加on2. certain改为a certain3. rather改为not4. is 改为was5. in 改为at6. 去掉第二个the7. view后面加that8. 去掉was9. culminated后面加in10. and 改为but2011年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1.在grow后加up, 考固定短语2. 改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”3.改soon为sooner，sooner or later是固定短语4. 在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。
专业英语八级(改错)历年真题试卷汇编1(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语八级（改错）历年真题试卷汇编1(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 3. LANGUAGE USAGEPART III LANGUAGE USAGEThe previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes fromone schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference 【M1】______between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse learnt inearly childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener 【M2】______has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. 【M3】______The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it maybe something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground lore,【M4】______therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour it is【M5】______learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children of the same age,【M6】______or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground rhymecan be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or even just 【M7】______for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over; very 【M8】______possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three hundred younghearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live after so much【M9】______handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the original wording.【M10】______1．【M1】正确答案：the further→a further解析：冠词错误。
专业英语八级(改错)历年真题试卷汇编4(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语八级（改错）历年真题试卷汇编4(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 3. LANGUAGE USAGEPART III LANGUAGE USAGEWhen I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round at the luxury of the【M1】______rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my【M2】______vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”wasclearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation: that much I【M3】______could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I started to use【M4】______the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and so are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’t they? My friend’s motherwas very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her expression that【M5】______I had not got the word quite right. Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both new【M6】______words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our own first【M7】______language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have asked for【M8】______plush, and this is particularly true in the aspect of a foreign language.【M9】______If you are continually surrounded by speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly, but often this opportunity does notexist for the learner of English. So dictionaries have been developed to【M10】______mend the gap.1．【M1】正确答案：Looked—Looking解析：非谓语动词错误。
(完整word版)专八改错_历届(2000年-2013年)真题及答案解读
PART IV PROOFREADING&ERRORCORRECTION [15 MIN]The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated 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 bemissing 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.EXAMPLEWhen ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) anIt never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) neverthem on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition it must often build it. (3) exhibit2013年Psycholinguistics is the name given to the study of the psychologicalprocesses involved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1)listening, reading, speaking, writing, and the memory for language.One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually (2)happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. (3)Indeed, when you listen to someone speaking, looking at this page, (4)You normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptionalcircumstances we might become aware of the complexity. (5)involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it;if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced (6)their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if (7)we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; orif we are visually impaired or hearing- impaired or if we meetanyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples (8)of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstance”reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, (9)listening, writing and reading. But given that language processeswere normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful (10)experiments to get at what is happening.2013参考答案：1. production改producing2. 去掉the3. of 后加the most of time 意为时常most of the time 绝大多数时间4. looking5. we 前加that 强调句6. influenced改affected, influence 强调人或物对某人的影响，affect强调因为某种作用对某人或某物产生的影响，本句中指中风这一动作行为对语言的影响7. acquire 改acquiring observe sb. Doing sth.8. anyone 改someone9. evolved 改involved10. were 改are2012年The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely.The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writersfavored certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th(5) _______century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, thenature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Toooften, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified witheach other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____2012参考答案：1．going∧since－加入on 题解：go on的意思是“继续”，符合句子表达的含义“争论一直在继续”。
历年专八英语试题改错练习及答案
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(完整版)专八改错(2000年-2015年)真题及答案
2000 年-2015 年专八短文改错试题，参考答案以及答案分析2005年3月21日专业八级考试改错When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round a the luxury of the 1. ______rink, my friend 's mother remarked on the “plush ”seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2. ______ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ______much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ______started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and so are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren't they? Myfriend 's mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ______ expression that I had not got the word quite right.Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7.own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should haveasked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the 8.aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9.speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly,but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10. _______1.looked 改成looking2. she 后面加had3. 去掉第二个a4. 去掉it5. polite 改成politely6. which 改成that7. specially 改成especially8. this 改成it9. continually 改成often10. m end 改成narrow2014 改错There is widespread consensusamong scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) _____have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) _____l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the same sense one acquires a first language? (3) _______________________________l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) _____more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?l What motivates people to acquire additional language?l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) _____acquisition of additional languages?l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying the learning of additionallanguages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) _____the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have one thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiring of an additional language is that of anindividual attempts to do (7) ____________________________________so. Whether one labels it “learning ” or “ acquiring ” an additional language, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ___________________focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of an individual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities are involving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ____________________________________________or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in the classroom or acquiredthrough social touch with native speakers. (10) ________________________1. 把of 去掉。
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（完整版）英语专八真题改错含答案..docx2005 The University as BusinessA number of colleges and universities have announced steeptuition increases for next year much steeper than the current, very low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed becauseof a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common 1 stock.I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizesits net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the 2 outlookof universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of 3 business firms.The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty 4 increases the demandfor education. The biggest cost of beingin the school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a factor in 5 graduate and professional-school tuition; the poor one's job prospects, 6 the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,in order to make oneself more marketable.The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students 7 includesoft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving studentsa governance role, and eliminate required courses. 8 Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the 9 rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize thecost to them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so thebest athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlierfrom professional teams. And until they were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purelyof need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best10 customer.2006 We use language primarily as a means of communication withother human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which welive a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as 1to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular 2message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a 3set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his 4thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English 5 speakers.His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses actively and that which he recognizes, increases in size as he grows old as a result of education and experience. 6But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the systemremains no more, than a psychological reality for tike inpidual, unlesshe has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another 7member of his linguistic community; he bas to give tile system aconcrete transmission form. We take it for granted rice? two most 8common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by ourvocal organs (speech or by visual signs (writing. And these are 9among most striking of human achievements. 102007 From what has been said, it must be clear that no one canmake very positive statements about how language originated.There is no material in any language today and in the earliest 1 __ _ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and 2 _ emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language 3 _ ______ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the 4 _ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remotetribes, no ancient records, providing evidence ofa language with a large proportion of such cries 5 _than we find in English. It is true that the absenceof such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in6_other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.People of all races and languages make rather similarnoises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that7such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmenand Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference8between these noises and language proper. We maysay that the cries of pain or chortles of amusementare largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, 9whereas language proper does not consist of signsbut of these that have to be learnt and that are10wholly conventional.08The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent ____1____ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate ____2____ a given language to show that they are distinctive from another ____3____ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States ____4____ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a ____5____ different language from those of Britain. There was even one ____6____ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favouredthe adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things wouldcertainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English ____7____ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone ____8____ knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactorysolution of carrying with the same language as before. ____9____Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown theworld ____10____ that political independence and national identity can be completewithout sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a commonlanguage.9专八改错原题Proofreading & Error Correction:The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference(1___________ between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learntin early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener(2___________ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3____________ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmittingIt may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground(4_____________ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour (5___________it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6________________same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in agebetween playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playgroundrhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7__________ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting overand over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8___________ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live(9_______________ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10____________2010 年专八真题改错原文So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be as well equipped as any other to say the things its speakers want to say. It may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice or the engraving of Benares brass. But this is not the fault of their language. The Eskimos can speak about snow with a great deal more precision and subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled ?primitive? is inherently more precise and subtle t han English. This example does not bring to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected ?primitiveness?. The position is simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in different environments. The English language would be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which English was habitually used made such distinction important.Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formed part of the Eskimos? life. For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the nineteenth century could not talk about motorcars with the minutediscrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture. But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicleswhich send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we are reading Scott or Dickens. How many of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham, a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence ?2005 答案解析 :1. investing 应改为invested。
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2000 年-2011 年专八短文改错试题，参考答案以及答案分析 By 兰银清 以下答案以上外教师给出的答案为参考答案2011年专八真题改错部分 From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________ I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________ the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________ in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1， 在grow 后加up, 考固定短语2， 改consience 为consciousness 考词语区别，consience 翻译为“良心，道德心”, consiousness 翻译为“意识”3， 改soon 为sooner ，sooner or later 是固定短语4， 在child 前加middle, 考上下文理解。
专八改错_历届(2000年-2012年)真题及答案
2000 年-2011 年专八短文改错试题，参考答案以及答案分析2012改错The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writersfavoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested thatthe linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, thenature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Toooften, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified witheach other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____改错部分1. going 后加on2. cerain 改成some3. rather 后加than4. is 改为was5. in 改为at6. 去掉the7. view 后加that8. 删掉was9. statement 改为statements 10.and 改为but2011年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________ seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________ schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1，在grow后加up, 考固定短语2，改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”3，改soon为sooner，sooner or later是固定短语4，在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。
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历年英语专八改错真题
.历年专八短文改错试题XXXX年英语专八改错真题答案Thereiswidespreadconsensusamongscholarsthatsecondlanguageacquisitio n(SLA)emergedasadistinctfieldofresearchfromthelate1950stoearly1960s. Thereisahighlevelofagreementthatthefollowingquestions(a前面加also)havepossessedthemostattentionofresearchersinthisarea:(possessed改为
captured)Isitpossibletoacquireanadditionallanguageinthesamesenseoneacq uiresafirstlanguage?(one前面加as)Whatistheexplanationforthefactadultshave(fact后面加that)moredifficultyinacquiringadditionallanguagesthanchildrenhave?What motivatespeopletoacquireadditionallanguages?Whatistheroleofthelanguag eteachinginthe(language前面去掉the)acquisitionofanadditionallanguage?Whatsocio-culturalfactors,ifany,ar erelevantinstudyingthelearningofadditionallanguages?Fromacheckofthelit eratureofthefielditisclearthatall(去掉the)theapproachesadoptedtostudythephenomenaofSLAsofarhaveonethingi ncommon:Theperspectiveadoptedtoviewtheacquiringofanadditionallangu ageisthatofanindividualattemptstodo(attempts改为attempting)so.Whetheronelabelsit“learning”or“acquiring”anadditionallan guage,itisanindividualaccomplishmentorwhatisunder(or改为and)focusisthecognitive,psychological,andinst-省略部分
-6.___imitatingandpracticingthepronunciationofthosearoundusformanym orehourspereverydaythanweeverhavetospend7.___learningevenourdifficu lt Englishspelling.Thisis…natural‟,8.___therefore,thatourspeech-soundssho uldbethoseofourimmediatecircle;afterall,aswehaveseen,speechoperatesasa meansofholdingacommunity9.___andgivingasenseof'belonging'.Welearnq uiteearlytorecogniz ea…stranger‟,someonewhospeakswithanaccentofadiffer entcommunity-perhapsonlyafewmilesfar.10——1.
【详细解答】
前半句意为“发音是在无意识之中学成的”，后半句意为“拼写是有意识地学成的”，它们之间是对比关系，故应该用连词while 来连接。
2.答案：
【详细解答】
beunconsciousof是固定搭配，意为“无意识地，未意识到”。
即“我们之中很多人一辈子都不知道自己的话听起来是什么样的”。
3.答案：
speak后加it
【详细解答】
speakout意为“大胆地说出”，在这里句意不通。
在speakout 中加上it，指代前面的speech，意为“当我们说出话后，自己听起来像什么”。
4.答案：
【详细解答】
firstly表示顺序中的“第一”，first则表示时间上的“第一次，首次”。
这里是说“当我们第一次听到自己的录音时，通常会震惊”。
故应将firstly改为first才合乎句意。
5.答案：
【详细解答】
在定语从句中，如果先行词是代词something，everything，nothing，little，few等时，关系词应用that而不是which，故此处应将which改为that。
6.答案：
【详细解答】
本文通篇用的都是一般现在时，所以此处也应用一般现在时，使上下文保持时态一致。
7.答案：
删除per或
【详细解答】
per和every都是“每”的意思，在此属重复错误，故将两者去掉一个即可。
8.答案：
【详细解答】
根据句子结构，句中缺少一形式主语，而作形式主语的只能是代词it，this是“这”的意思，不能用做形式主语，所以应将this
改为it。
9.答案：
community后加
【详细解答】
hold意为“抓住，占据，包含”。
此处想表达的意思是“语言用作使社区具有凝聚力、给人归属感的一种方式”，用holdacommunity 不能表达此意；
holdsth．together表示“使结合在一起不破，使团结一致”的意思，符合句意。
10.答案：
【详细解答】
要表达距离上的远近，在英语中通常用副词away。
far表示“远，从（到）很远距离”，不合句意。
word教育资料达到当天最大量API KEY 超过次数限制。