英语专业八级改错模拟题

Proof –reading (10%) (A)

The following passage contains TEN error, 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 according to the following example:

When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] an

it never buys things in finished form and hang them on the wall [2] never

when a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. [3] exhibit

英语专业八级改错模拟题(1)

Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful political pressures to

in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as __2__

power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than __3__

those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing__4__.

If there were no poor people to scrub floors and empty bedpans,

their jobs will have to be __5__ rewarded with high incomes before anyone

would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as

police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats.

Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers __6__,

gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy __7__

more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods __8__

and service, such as day-old bread, run down automobiles, or the advice of competent __9__ physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system,

in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. __10__

Vitamins, like minerals, are chemicals. There is absolutely not difference (1)

in the chemical structure of the nature vitamin C and the chemical structure (2)

of the synthetic vitamin C. Also, while most substances are harmless at very low (3)

level of intake, all substance -- even the elements that are essential to life -- can be dangerous if you overdo them. Take water for example. Six or eight glasses a day will keep your body in good fluid balance. But you can also be drown (4)

in it. Some people argue that individuals vary greatly (5)

their need for nutrients, it cannot necessarily be stated any given (6)

amount is too much; that is all relative. But since there is little solid information on what is the optimal intake of any essential nutrient in healthy individuals, it would be impossible to give guidelines that take these proportional needs into the (7)

account. Just as with other drugs, the relation to (8)

different vitamin dosages varies, with some people better able than others to tolerate large amounts. While we do know that very specifically what the toxic level (9)

is for vitamins A and D, we are far less sure about vitamin E, even though it, too, is fat-soluble, and we still don’t understand the water-soluble vitamin, the C (10)

and the B groups, which the body cant store.