2020年专八英语改错练习题

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专八改错练习

专八改错练习PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 MIN.)Directions: The following passage contains 17 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error, and three are free from 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 inthe blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ʌ”signand write the word you believe to be missing in the blankprovided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash ―/‖ and putthe word in the blank provided at the end of the line.If the line is correct, place a tick “✓”in the blank provided at the end of theline.Air quality in Britain has improved considerably in thelast thirty years. Total emissions of smoke in the air have risen by 1_____ over 85 per cent since 1950. The domestic smoking control grogram 2_____ has been particularly important in achieving this result. London and 3_____ other major cities are no longer have the dense smoke-laden 4_____ ―smogs‖ of the 1950s but in central London winter sunshine has5_____ increased about 70 per cent since 1958. 6_____ Since 1990, everyday air pollution data from the British 7_____ monitoring network has been made available to the public by 8_____ the Department of the Environment‘s Air Quality Bulletins.9_____ These give the concentrations on three main pollutants--ozone, 10____ nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide--and grade air quality on 11____ a scale between ―very weak‖ and ―very good‖. The information12____ features in television and radio weather reports appears 13____ in many national and local newspapers. Therefore, the data are also 14____ available on the special free telephone number and on videotext systems. 15____A comprehensive review of the issue of urbanized air 16____ quality was announced in January 1992. Three independent committees 17____ of which experts have been established to advise in different 18____ aspects of the problem, ad will set guidelines and targets for air 19____ quality. The network also being extended and upgraded at a cost 20____of 10 million pounds.---THE END---PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 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 inthe blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ʌ”signand write the word you believe to be missing in the blankprovided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash ―/‖ and putthe word in the blank provided at the end of the line.Classic Intention MovementIn social situations, the classic Intention Movement is―the chair grasp‖. Host and guests have been talkingfor some time, but now the host has an appointmentto keep and can get away. His urge to go is 1_____ held in check by his desire not be rude to his guest. 2_____ If he did not care of his guest‘s feelings he would3_____ simply get up out of his chair and to announce his 4_____ departure. This is what his body wants to do, therefore 5_____ his politeness glues his body to the chair and refusesto let him raise. It is at this point that he 6_____ performs the chair-grasp Intention Movement. He continuesto talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans forwardand grasp the arms of the chair as about to push 7_____ himself upwards. This is the first act he wouldmake if he were rising. If he were not hesitating, 8_____ it would only last a fraction of the second. He would 9_____ lean, push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lastsmuch longer. He holds his ―readiness-to-rise‖ post and 10____ keeps on holding it. It is as if his body had frozenat the get-ready moment.---THE END---PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 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 inthe blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ʌ”signand write the word you believe to be missing in the blankprovided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash ―/‖ and putthe word in the blank provided at the end of the line.When a human infant is born into any community in any part of theworld it has two things in common with any infant, provided neither of them 1_____ have been damaged in any way either before or during birth. Firstly, and 2_____ most obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from apowerful capacity to pay attention to their helplessness by using sound, there 3_____ is nothing the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Withoutcare from some other human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, orhuman group, a child is very likely to survive. This helplessness of humaninfants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new born animals toget on their feet within minutes of birth and run with herd within a few4_____ hours. Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for weeks 5_____ or even months after birth, compared with the human infant they very quicklygrow the capacity to fend for them. 6_____ It is during this very long period in which the human infant is totallydependent on the others that it reveals the second feature which it shares 7_____ with all other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. Forthis rea son, biologists now suggest that language be ―species specific‖ to the8_____ human race, that is to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic 9_____ programmed in such way that it can acquire language. 10____ This suggestion implies that just as human beings are designed to seethree-dimensionally and in colour, and just as they are designed to standupright rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn anduse language as part of their normal developments as well-formedhuman beings.---THE END---PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 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 inthe blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ʌ”signand write the word you believe to be missing in the blankprovided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash ―/‖ and putthe word in the blank provided at the end of the line.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 3_____ more of the hunter-gatherer‘s calories come from plants. Detailed studiesof the Kung by the food scientists at the University of London, showedthat gathering is a more productive source of food than is hunting. Anhour of hunting yields in average about 100 edible calories, 4_____ as an hour of gathering produces 240. 5_____ Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung diet, 6_____ and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails, interestingly, if they escapefatal infections or accidents, these contemporary aborigines live to oldages despite of the absence of medical care. They experience no obesity, 7_____ and no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, noheart disease, and their blood cholesterol level are low (about half of8_____ the average American adult.) If no one is suggesting that we return to 9_____ an aboriginal life, we certainly could use their eating habitsas a model for healthier diet. 10____ ---THE END---PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 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 inthe blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ʌ”signand write the word you believe to be missing in the blankprovided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash ―/‖ and putthe word in the blank provided at the end of the line.About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countriescould be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent 1_____ high risk pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the 2_____ Johns Hopking University.The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000maternal deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs 3_____ children within the safest years with adequate intervals among births 4_____ and limited their families to moderate size.This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370,000maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for 5_____ this year by the United Nation‘s Children‘s Fund and the US Centers forDisease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births 6_____ occur in the high risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world shows the 7_____ risk of maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific8_____types of pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those 9_____ after the mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and thoselesser than two years apart. 10____ ---THE END---答案:1 将had used 改为used; 因为此句是虚拟语气,表示与现在事实相反,故条件从句中应使用一般过去时2 将publishing改为published: report和publish时逻辑动宾关系,故应使用publish的过去分词短语来修饰report。

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。

2020年英语专业8级考试改错模拟测试题及答案1完整篇.doc

2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案1One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising (26)is the possibility of unraveling the complicated writing (27)of the brain. A mechanic gets valuable insight how an (28)automobile works by rebuilding car engines; similarly, neuroscientists can learn how the brain functions from (29)the way it is put together. The next step pursuing the (30)goal is to find out how the blueprint genes, the home box genes, control the expression of other genes that create the valves and piston of the working cerebral engine. The protein encoded by the latter genes could change the (31)stickiness of the cell surface, the shape of the cell or its metabolism to create the characteristic peculiar to, say, neurons or neural-crest cell. Surface proteins may be the (32)mechanism, whereby similar programmed cells stick together to form specific structures; they might also sense (33)the local environment to help the cell decide what is to do. Clarifying those mechanisms will engage the best talents in (34)embryology and molecular biology for some times to come.(35)What is perhaps the most intriguing question of all is if the brain is powerful enough to solve the puzzle of its own creation.答案:26.preventing改为prevent27plicated改为complexion28.sight后加into29.neuroscientist改为a neuroscientist30.pursuing后加inter改为latter32.similar改为similarly33.去掉is34.times改为time35.if改为whether2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案2Because the air in the country is really clean, we ought to live there much as is possible. Since, however, a great deal of the worlds (26)work must be done indoor in cities, it is important that we take every (27)precaution to ventilate our houses properly. Some people have thought that night air is injurious. But careful study shows that night air is identical with that which we breath during the day. In face the (28)proper ventilation of a bedroom is one of the first necessity for good (29)health. Since the exhaled air is usually warmer and lighter than the inhaled air, it rises to the top of the room. Therefore it is better to open a window both at the top to let the warm up air out and also at (30)the bottom to admit the fresh air in. Of course, this does not mean (31)that one should sleep in a strong draft. In many places it is feasible to sleep out-of-the-doors on a sleeping porch and so to secure perfect (32)ventilation. In recent years we have seen steady progress made in the development of equipments to supply proper conditioned air not only in large (33)auditoriums, class-rooms, and factories, but also in railroad trains and in private homes. This equipment cleans the air off dust, keeps (34)the temperature comfortable, holds the humidity at the right point, and keeps the air in the motion. Such a condition is conductive to (35)efficiency as well as good health.答案：26.much前加as27.indoor改为indoors28.breath改为breathe29.necessity改为necessities30.up改为upper31.去掉in32.out-of-the-doors改为out-of-doors33.equipments改为equipment34.off改为of35.去掉the2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案3Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also 26)a London magistrate, once madea night raid to two known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven men,women, and children packed away in a few tiny 27)stinking rooms. All of these people,included little children of five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, were wantedfor crime. Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the 28)typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an 29)apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it because he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon 30)found it was easy to make more money by thieving 31)as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work. 32)In Shepard’s day highwaymen committed robberies at broad daylight, in sight of a crowd, and rode solemnly and 33)triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready34)to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair, 35)and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers.答案：26.to * on27.included * including28.Jack * of Jack29.respectful * respectable30.was easy * easy31.as * than32.at * in33.with * without34.a * an35.from * of2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案4The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure (26)who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, (27)explores this in one of his recent books. Sometimes around1880, a (28)language catastrophe occurred in Hawaii when thousands of emigrant (29)workers were brought to the islands to work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke in Pidgin English -- the sort of thing such mixed language (30)populations have always done. A pidgin is not really a language at all. It is more like a set of verbal signals used to name objects and (31)without the grammatical rules needed for expressing thought and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the whole mass of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian Creole. The (32)new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed form all the (33)original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the (34)predecessors in the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as primitive language, Hawaiian Creole (35)had a highly sophisticated grammar.答案:26. sure前加for27.linguistic改为linguistics.28. sometimes改为sometime.29.emigrant改为immigrant30.去spoke后的in31.and改为but.32. people改为peoples.33. 去speech后的was.34. beared改为bore.35. as前加a2017年英语专业八级考试改错模拟测试题及答案5I think it is true to saying that, in general, language teachers(26)have paid little attention to the way sentences are used in combination to form stretches of disconnected discourse. They have tended to take (27)their cue from the grammarian and have concentrated to the teaching (28)of sentences as self-contained units. It is true that these are often represented in "contexts" and strung together in dialogues and (29)reading passages, but these are essentially setting to make the formal properties of the sentences stand out more clearly, properties which are then established in the learners brain(30)by means of practice drill and exercises. Basically, the language teaching unit is the (31)sentence as a formal linguistic object. The language teachers view of what that constitutes knowledge of a language is essentially the same (32)as Chomskys knowledge of a syntactic structure of sentences,(33)and of the transformational relations which hold them. Sentences are seen as paradigmatically rather than syntagmatically related. Such a knowledge "provides the basis for the actual use of language by the speaker-hearer". The assumption that the language appears to make (34)is that once this basis is provided, then the learner will have no difficulty in the dealing with the actual use of language.(35)答案：26.saying改为say27.disconnected改为connected28.to改为on29.represented改为presented30.brain改为mind31.drill改为drills32.去掉what后面的that33.去掉knowledge后的anguage后加teacher35. 去掉dealing前面的the。

专八-改错

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About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk 1__ pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking University. __2__ The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children __3__ within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited 4__ their families to moderate size.
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We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1_____ that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _____2_____ with comparable education in Western Europe. There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3_____ them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4_____ computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5_____

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 could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk __________________________________________________ 1 _____pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking _________ 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 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _______________________________________________________ 5 ____the United Nation?s Children?s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high _______________________________________________________ 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。

专业英语八级TEM考试改错部分训练题

专业英语八级TEM考试改错部分训练题专业英语八级TEM考试改错部分训练题学习是把知识能力思维方法等转化为你的私有产权的重要手段，是“公有转私”的重要途径。

你的一生，无法离开学习，学习是你最忠实的朋友，它会听你的召唤，它会帮助你走向一个又一个成功。

以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的专业英语八级TEM考试改错部分训练题，希望对正在关注的您有所帮助!Humankind’s future safety and longevity of life on Earth largely depend on the environment which we live. Keeping the air we __1breathe free of pollution is a major priority towards making this earth a safe place. Other areas of concern are water, land, the ozone layer, and the preservation of flora and fauna of the planet.Every country has ecological issues to deal. In South America, __2the rain forests are rapidly disappearing as people burn and cut down trees to make for farmland. Many Middle-Eastern and Asian countries __3have a battle to fight with air, water, and land pollution. Lakes and swamps are spread with debris. __4Mass chemical spraying is used to kill pests on trees and plants. Abundant __5use of water in countries as China has caused major water shortage. __6Rivers become polluted by factories and the populations that live on their banks. Global warming is considered a major factor caused __7the droughts in eastern China, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya.The reduction of the ozone layer is blamed for the global warming trends in variant countries of this globe, and the spread of disease like skin __8cancer. Societies at large need to pay attention to the existing problems in order to get of the imminent danger of famine, drought and diseases __9that rise from the damage that pollution causes. __10【答案】1. ^which-in此处的介词其实是和live连用的.，live in the environment.2. deal^-withdeal with是固定搭配，意思是“解决，处理”。

专八改错训练附讲解100篇

专八改错训练附讲解100篇============================导言：专八考试是全国范围内的英语专业八级考试，对于想要进一步提升自己英语水平和获取更高学历的人来说，是一个重要的里程碑。

本文将带领大家通过100篇改错训练，并附上详细讲解，帮助大家更好地备考专八。

1. "Their football team plays good."改正：Their football team plays well.解析：在英语中，用来描述动词的方式有两种，一种是用副词，一种是用形容词。

在这个例子中，我们应该用副词well来修饰动词play，而不是用形容词good。

所以正确的句子应该是"Their football team plays well."2. "I have went to the supermarket yesterday."改正：I went to the supermarket yesterday.解析：在英语中，过去时态需要使用动词的过去式形式。

所以在这个例子中，我们应该用went来表示过去式，而不是have went。

所以正确的句子应该是"I went to the supermarket yesterday."3. "She is very interesting to talk with."改正：She is very interesting to talk to.解析：在英语中，用来描述与某人交谈的方式通常是用介词to。

所以在这个例子中，我们应该用to来表示与她交谈的方式，而不是用with。

所以正确的句子应该是"She is very interesting to talk to."4. "The book is too easy, I can finish it in an hour."改正：The book is too easy; I can finish it in an hour.解析：在英语中，当两个句子有逻辑关系时，通常需要使用逗号或分号来连接。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案英语专业八级改错练习题及答案「篇一」英语专业八级改错练习题Successful aging is a psychological feat. Fear for__1__death, for example, may sometimes oppress you。

even when this is successfully overcome, there is stillsomething for you to deal with-loneliness. Lonelinesscanspeed your demise no matter conscientiously __2__you care for your body. “We go through lifesurroundedby protective convoys of others,” says Robert Kahn, a psychologist of the Universityof Michiganwho studied the health effects of companio nship. “People __3__who manage to maintain a network of social support do best.” One study of elderlyheart-attack patientsfound that those with two or more close associations __4__enjoyed twice the one-year survival rate of those whowere completely alone。

Companionship aside, healthy oldsters seem toshare a knack for managing stress, poison that contributes __5__ measurably to heart disease, cancer and accidents。

专八_改错_练习15篇带答案解析

专八_改错_练习15篇带答案解析Error-correction Exercise 16NASA is about to launch a large satellite that will monitorthe health of Earth's atmosphere in unprecedented detail, and 1____________ keeping daily track of everything from the upper ozone layer,that guards against solar radiation, to the air near the 2____________ ground that people breathe. The $785 million missionis to be launched Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A Boeing Delta II rocket will send the 6,542-poundspacecraft into a 438-mile-high polar orbit. That is to scan the 3____________ atmosphere for at least six years.The craft, naming Aura, is the third and final addition to a series 4____________ of major satellites making up NASA's Earth Observing System,an initial set of spacecraft that designed to study all of the processes 5____________ that affect the Earth's climate and weather. Terra, which monitorsland-based processes, was launched in 1999; Aqua, which observesthe oceans and water cycle of Earth, sent up in 2002. These flagship 6____________ spacecrafts, joined by more than a dozen of other satellites launched by 7____________ the United States and several other nations, allow long-term studiesof the factors that influence climate change, using many differentinstruments. The launching is fundamentally a mission tounderstandand protect the very air we breathe. In conjunction with the 8____________ climate observatories, Aura should make a major contribution todetermine the causes, extent and consequences of global change. 9____________ The spacecraft carries four instruments that will survey theatmosphere from top to bottom, including monitoring ozone in its good and bad forms. In the upper atmosphere, ozone in thestratosphere provides a protective barrier for harmful ultraviolet 10___________ radiation from the Sun. In the troposphere, the atmospheric layerthat goes from the ground up to about six miles, ozone producedby combustion is a major pollutant in smog.Error-correction Exercise 17Mars has provoked much speculation on the possibilities 1___________ of life on Earth than any other planet in the Solar System. 2___________ The presence of water is a prerequisite for existing of life. Therefore, “follow the water” has 3___________ been NASA’s chief guideline for the exploration of 4___________ a red planet. Although Mars experiences seasons like on Earth an has polar caps which composed of 5___________ carbon dioxide and water ice, today it is bone-dry and frigidly cold. But evidence is rapidly accumulating thatMars is once much wetter, with a more clement climate. 6___________This evidence comes from orbiting satellites and fromdata collected by roving landers.Since the 1970’s, sp ace probes of Mars have revealed 7___________ numerous features apparent carved by flowing water, 8___________ such as winding, branched valleys resembling driedout streambeds and giant outflow channels gougedby catastrophic floods. Recent high-resolution imageryfrom the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Orbiter Cameraand the Mars Odyssey Themis reveal numerous examples 9___________ of branched valleys that form tightly-packed integrateddrainage system. There channels origins at topographichigh points; the va lleys widen “downstream”, someeven displaying inner valleys. The valley networksexhibit morph metric characteristics, including networksdensities, comparative to those of terrestrial drainage basins. 10__________ These features were most likely produced by rainfall, duringwetter, warmer periods in the past.Error-correction Exercise 18The word petroleum has its root in the Latin word oleum, 1___________ which means oil, and the Greek word petra, which means rock..The word petrified shares with the same Greek root. As the 2___________ price of oleum has soared up, the links between fear and petroleum 3___________ have become clear to economists as well as etymologists.Fears of heating-oil shortage this winter helped to push the benchmark price of crude over $55 per barrel, a new record, onMonday October 18th. The spike in oil prices, up by over60% since the start of the year, is by turn, raising fears for the4___________ global recovery. Even oil exporters are worried. The high pricesthey currently enjoy will slow economic growth next year,warned the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) on Monday. If oil remains expensive, cartel 5___________ Pointed out, people will by less of it. The last week, for the 6___________ first time since June, American motorists paid more than $2average for a gallon of petrol. To fill their tank these days,they must shell out almost 30% more than last year. Therefore 7___________ the anxiety is not confined to the petrol pump. About 7.7mAmerican households, most of whom in the north-east, rely 8___________ on oil to warm their homes. In a cold snap, they draw onstockpiles of heating oil, amassed at various points around thecountry.Inflation remains at bay, for the moment, most workers 9___________ expect it to stay that way. There is a little sign yet that higher 10___________oil prices are feeding into higher wage demands. 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Indeed, patent 6___________ experts often advise anyone wishing to avoid the highcost of conducting a search through live patent that theone sure of avoiding violation of any other inventor’sright is to plagiarize a dead patent. Likely, because 7___________ publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patent on that idea, it is traditionally8___________ safe to take ideas from other areas of print. Much moderntechnological advance is based on these presumptions oflegal security.Anyone closely involved in patents and inventionssoon learn that most “new” ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills. It is their reduction to commercial practice, neither 9___________ through necessity or dedication, or through the availabilityof new technology, which makes news and money. 10___________ Error-correction Exercise 20How can an organization’s sales operation beimproved? One of the key to becoming more effective 1___________ is to first determine the type of “selling process” whichneeds to be used. With other words, the role the salesperson 2___________ must play has to be identified. There are three differentprocesses sales staff can adapt: narrative, suggestive and 3___________ consultative.The narrative approach depends on the salespersonmove quickly into a standardized presentation. Every buyer 4___________ receives the same presentation. Emphasis is to highlighting 5___________ benefits and how the product or services can help the buyer.This is an effective approach if the buying motive for allcustomers is basically the same. This process is well suited which there are a great number of prospects to be called on. 6__________ The suggestive approach depends on the seller being in a position to offer alternated recommendations.7__________ This is quite different from the narrative approach as thepresentation is tailored to the individual customer. 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Thus the formulating of generalizationabout culture and the drawing of comparisons inevitablybecomes components of ethnography. 5___________ Modern anthropologists usually identify theestablishment of ethnography as a professional field and 6___________ the pioneering work of the Polish-born British anthropologistBronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islangs of Melanesia.Ethnographic field word has since become a sort of rite of passage into the profession of cultural anthropology. Many ethnographers reside above the field for a year or more, learning 7___________ the local language or dialect and, to the greatest extentpossible, participating in everyday life while at the sametime maintain an observer’s objective detachment. 8___________ Contemporary ethnographies usually adhere to a community, rather than individual, focus and concentrateon the description of current circumstance ratherthan historical event. 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Droves of men from ages 18 to 34, one ofthe groups most coveted by advertisers, had seemly stopped 2___________ watching television, according to the sole ratings arbiter, NielsenMedia Research. Commentary abounded that a significant culturalshift had taken place and that a generation of men were steadily 3____________ quitting television-viewing, forsook both network and cable 4____________ programs in favor of video games, DVD's and the Internet.Nielsen stands by its ratings, therefore in a development that several 5___________Nielsen critics call utterly it predictable, the most recentevidence indicates 6___________ that the young men are back, watching television in pretty much thesame numbers they were two years before. 7___________ In July, one year after the falloff was detected, an average of 25.8 percent of men from ages 18 to 34 were watching television at anygiving moment in prime time. That figure was up from the 24.7 8___________ percent that Nielsen reported a year ago - and virtually the same as the25.9 percent that it reported for the group in July 2002."It kind of went right back to what God intended it to be," the president 9___________ for research for NBC, Alan Wurtzel, said. Mr. Wurtzel's facetiousness wasmatched by a real sense of vindication. He was among the most vocalof the critics who took on Nielsen last year, saying its numbers - whichin September showed a drop in viewing by young men of more than10 percent - could possibly be accurate because they were so inconsistent 10__________ with viewing patterns established over years of measurement.Error-correction Exercise 23The stunningly slow pace of job creation, which sank to growthof just 32,000 in July, has provided new ammunition in an intense politicaldebate in job quality. For months, Democrats have said that the 1___________ long-delay employment recovery was concentrated in low-wage jobs 2___________ that paid far less thanthose that lost. White House officials replied 3___________ that the available data failed to settle the matter one way or the other.The data is still inconclusive. But the weakness in job creation andthe apparent weakness in high-paying jobs may be opposite sides ofa coin. Companies still seem cautiously, relying on temporary workers 4___________ and anxious about rising health care costs associating with full-time workers. 5___________ Many economists say that over the long term, the most vulnerable positions are those at the low end of the wage scale that requires fewer skills and are 6___________ easily replicated. Even now, at a time when a proportionate number of 7___________ new jobs appear to be lower-paying ones, there has been growth in some high-income occupations like accounting, architecture and software.Yet the earnings gap between the highest-paid employees and the rest ofthe work force is still widening, as it was over most of the last 30 years. 8___________ The trend is most striking in factories, which accounted for the bulk of joblosses in the last three years and tending to pay above-average wages. 9___________ In contrast with previous recoveries, when companies rehired a large 10___________ proportion of laid-off workers, manufacturers have added only 91,000jobs this year, having eliminated more than two million jobs in the previousthree years.Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to the generalpublic and to sociologists that modern society has changed people’snatural relations, loosed their responsibilities to 1_____________ kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place 2_____________ for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. 3_____________ However, in recent years a growing body of research has re-ve aled that the “obvious” is not true. It seems that if you are a cityresident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighborsthan you if you are a resident of a smaller community. 4_____________ But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant 5_____________ consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you knowfew of your neighbors you will know no one else.Even in very large cities, people maintain close social tieswithin small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality ofmeaningful relationship do not differ between more and less urban 6____________ people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than do 7____________ big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friend-ships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanismmay produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does notdiffer between town and city. 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In cases where he cannot be 7___________ protected, the society is responsible for committing punishment. 8___________ In a state controlling legal system, individuals are removed 9___________ from the circle of revenge motivated by acts of violence, and the 10___________ state assumes responsibility for their protection.Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad 1____________ influence of this or that individual writers. But an effect can become 2____________ a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect 3____________ in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink 4____________ because he feels himself to be a failure, and thenfail all the most 5____________ completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that ishappening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccuratebecause our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our language makes 6____________ it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the processis irreversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of 7____________ bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if oneis willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets ride of these habitsone can think more clearly, and think clearly is a necessary first 8____________ step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against badEnglish is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning of pro- 9____________ fessional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope that by 10____________ that time the meaning of what I have said here will have becomeclearer.Error-correction Exercise 27This brings us to a seeming paradox. Acutely aware of the smallestconstitution particles of time, industrialized man has to a great 1____________ extent lose the old awareness of time in its larger divisions. The 2____________ time which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time. 3____________ Natural, cosmic time, as is measured out by the sun and the moon, 4____________ we are for the most part almost wholly unconscious. Pre-industrialpeople know time in its daily, monthly and seasonal rhythms. Theyare aware of sunrise and of spring and summer, autumn and winter.All the old religions, including Catholic Christianity, has insisted on 5____________ this daily and seasonal rhythm. Pre-industrial man was never allowedto forget the majestic movement of cosmic time.Industrialism and urbanism have changed all this. One can liveand work in a town without aware of the daily march of the sun 6____________ across the sky. Broadway and Piccadilly are our Milky Way；ourconstellations are outlined in neon tubes. Even changes of seasonaffect the townsman very a little. He is the inhabitant of an artificial 7____________ universe that, to a great extent, walled off from the world of nature. 8____________ Outside the walls, time is cosmic and moves with the motion ofthe sun and stars. Within, it is an affair of revolving wheals and ismeasured by seconds and minutes----at its longest, in eight-hour days 9____________and six-day weeks. We have a new conscience, but it has been pur- 10____________ chased at the expense of the old.Error-correction Exercise 28Culture in general is concerned about beliefs and values on the 1___________ basis of which people interpret experiences and behave, individuallyand in groups. Broadly an d simply putting, “culture” refersto a 2___________ group or community with that you share common experiences that 3___________ shape the way how you understand the world. Culture is the “lens” 4___________ through which you view the world. It is central to what you see, how you make sense of what you see, and how you express your-self. Culture is often at the root of communication challenges. Explo-ring historical experiences and the ways in which various culturalgroups have related to each other is key to open channels for cross- 5___________ cultural communication. Becoming more beware of cultural differ- 6___________ ences, as well as exploring cultural similarities, can help you com-municate with the others more effectively. Next time you find your- 7___________ self a confusing situation, ask yourself how culture may be shap- 8___________ ing your own reactions, and try to see the world from the other’spoint of view. Anthropologists discovered that, when faced by inter-action that we do not understand, people tend to interpret the othersinvolved as “abnormal”, “weird” or “wrong”. 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The New Jersey Department 4___________ of Education, they argue, wants to eliminate the community-based,most nonprofit private preschool programs like the one that the 5___________ Puerto Rican Action Board runs.The group, which started offering preschool in 1973, maintains thatthe state is refusing to cover raising costs in violation of a 1998 6___________ state Supreme Court ruling mandating that 30 poor districts will receive 7___________everything they need to create "well-planned, high-quality" preschools.Without the money, it says, it will have to close its three preschools here.The Department of Education says the Puerto Rican Action Boardreceives plenty of money - about $9,700 for each of its 225 children,close to $1,000 on average than the state's public preschools,and 8___________ more than twice what public preschools receive in New York.At the heart of the battle, however, it lies a much larger debate about 9___________ the role of private nonprofit agencies in a public system. The Puerto RicanAction Board and other social service agencies have been offering preschoolfor decades, and the court decision explicitly states that any schoolunable to meet the court's education standard "should be supplied with 10__________ the necessary funding to be able to do so."Error-correction Exercise 30For many materials the process of turning them back into usefulraw materials are straightforward: metals are shredded into pieces, 1____________ paper is reduced to pulp and glass is crushed into cullet. Metalsand glass can be remelted almost indefinitely without any lossof quality, while paper can be recycled up to six times. 2____________ Plastics, which are made of fossil fuels, are somewhat different. 3____________ Because they have many useful properties—they are flexible, 4____________ lightweight and can be shaped into any form—there are manydifferent types, most of them need to be processed separately. 5____________ In 2005 less than 6% of the plastic from America's municipalwaste stream was recovered. And of that small fraction, the onlytwo types recycling in significant quantities were PET and HDPE. 6____________ For PET, food-grade bottle-to-bottle recycling exists. But plasticis often “down-cycled” into other products such as plastic lumber,drain pipes and carpet fibres, which tend to end up in landfills and 7___________ incinerators at the end of their useful lives.And so, plastics are being used more and more, not just for packaging, 8___________ but also in consumer goods such as cars, televisions and personalcomputers. Because such products are made of a variety of materialsand can contain multiple types of plastic, metals and glass, they areespecially difficult and expensive to dismantle and recycle.Europe and Japan have initiated “take back” laws that requireelectronics manufacturers recycle their products. But in America 9___________ only a handful of states have passed such legislation. That has causedproblems for companies that specialise in recycling plastics fromcomplex waste streams and dependent on take-back laws for getting 10___________ the necessary feedstock.Key to Error-correction Ex. 161．答案：去掉and，语法辨析题。

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Other areas of concern are water, land, the ozonelayer, and the preservation of flora and fauna of the planet.Every country has ecological issues to deal. In South America, __2__ the rain forests are rapidly disappearing as people burn and cut downtrees to make for farmland. Many Middle-Eastern and Asian countries __3__ have a battle to fight with air, water, and land pollution. Lakesand swamps are spread with debris. __4__ Mass chemical spraying is used to kill pests on trees and plants. Abundant __5__ use of water in countries as China has caused major water shortage. __6__ Rivers become polluted by factories and the populations that liveon their banks. Global warming is considered a major factor caused __7__ the droughts in eastern China, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya.The reduction of the ozone layer is blamed for the global warming trendsin variant countries of this globe, and the spread of disease like skin __8__ cancer. Societies at large need to pay attention to the existing problemsin order to get of the imminent danger of famine, drought and diseases __9__ that rise from the damage that pollution causes. __10__（4）More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a singleagent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the __1__ early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh __2__ deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From __3__ now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble __4__ going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__ 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to __6__ poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths __7__ started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came __8__ back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World __9__ Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population)suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling,population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 __10__ million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.（5）One of America’s most important export is her modern music. __1__ American popular music is playing all over the world. It is enjoyed __2__by people of all ages in all countries. Because the lyrics are English, __3__ nevertheless people not speaking English enjoy it. The reasons for its popularityare its fast pace and rhythmic beat. The music has many origins in the United States. Country music, coming from the suburban areas in the southern United States, is one __4__ source. Country music features simple themes and melodies describing day-to-day situations and the feelings of country people.Many people appreciate this music because the emotions expressed by country __5__ music songs. A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It depicted __6__ mostly sad feelings reflecting the difficult lives of American blacks.It is usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is not popular with __7__all Americans.Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style, featuring fast andrepetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and country music.It is first known as rock-and- roll in the 1950’s. Since then there __8__ have been many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock, discomusic and others. Many performers of popular rock music are young musicians.American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day.Some songs become popular all over the world. People hear these songs sing __9__in their original English or sometimes translated into other languages.The words may coincide but the enjoyment of the music is universal. __10__（6）For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciationof the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the __1__ words “good”or “bad”irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and __2__ Knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a __3__ popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and thepublic by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it __4__ Flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the __5__ confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which ourforefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?”This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass __6__ media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear __7__ and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program isgood is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this __8__ Philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent __9__president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One man’s mediocrity __10__ is another man’s good program”.（7）Halloween’s origins dated back to the ancient Celtic _1_ Festival of Samhain (pronouncing sow-in).The Celts, who _2_ lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, United _3_ Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated its new year on November 1.This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning ofthe dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.Celts believed that at the night before the new year, the boundary_4_ between the worlds of the live and the dead became blurred. _5_On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, it was _6_ Believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops,Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made easier for _7_ The Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important sourceof comfort and direction during the long, dark winter. To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, which the people gathered to burn crops and animals _8_As sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts worecostumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and skins,and attempted to assume each other’s fortunes. When the _9_ celebration was over, they lit their hearth fires, which they had _10_ extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protectthem during the coming winter.（8）The first real organized effort to uniting Europe came _1_ With the creation of the Council of Europe, was established in 1949. _2_ While not as influential as the EuropeanCommunity in term of public awareness and promotion of European _3_ Political unity, the Council produced, in November 1950,one of the most politically and social important documents. Seen this _4_ millennium—the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms On conjunction with the Statute of the Council of Europe, _5_ Convention provides a common set of guaranteed freedoms and rights for enters _6_ into citizen whose every government. An agreement to rectify and enforce the _7_ specifics articulated in the Convention. However, mere putting pen to paperand producing an official document is far enough to actually _8_ Guarantee these freedoms—by outlining the rights and freedoms of citizens,Europe vocalizes its concerns to its people, but to physically pledge protection _9_of these ideals requires a strict and specific system of enforcement. Onlyby enabling the physical the citizens of Europe be assured about their liberty. _10_9.People learn Languages all the time, and for all kinds of reasons. For example,you probably have various reasons to study English than your classmates. (1)____But have you ever thought about creating entirely new language from scratch? (2)____ There's been a boom in made-up languages recently, driving by the epic (3)____ "Lord of the Rings' and other fantasy movies and books. The trend hasalso fueled as more and more people venture online. There are websites, (4)____ discussion boards, and chat rooms that teach how to build a language, othersthat share new languages, and some that seek collaborators.Made-up languages aren't restricted on Star Trek fans and Esperanto speakers. (5)____It spends time and determination to create a new language. A creator needs (6)____to do more than substitute existing words with invented ones. There' s rhythmand intonation to consider-how does the language sound when spoken?If it's invented for humans in a movie or book, how does biology change (7)____the sound? How does it represent the culture of the people who speak it? Thenthere are grammar rules, such as masculine and feminine nouns or verbs, word order,or the use of irregular verbs. Even if a simple language can take years to develop. (8)____Yet the new languages don't have the same sticking power as real languages likeEnglish. As for the made-up languages of today,there are an infinite number of reason behind their creation. Some people (9)____do it as a hobby, another as a way to relax. Some just like the challenge. (10)____ 10Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly thatwe human beings now move through a cloud of messages as densely as a locust-storm. (1)____ Every new device increases the speed and the outreach of the last, and young peopleare now governed by the gadgets in their hands,which don't merely contain their lives and also to a great extent dictate them. (2)____ Of course, the print media still exist. There are old-fashioned people like myselfwho make a living by writing things, and old-fashioned people like you,who support us by reading, or at any rate buy, what we write. (3)____ But maybe it's only people like us who are able really to regret for the changes (4)___ that are sweeping away so much that we depended upon.The rest of the world is caught up in the torrent of gadgets, each new model is (5)____ designed to relieve its owner of one more source of spiritual exercise or one (6)____ more obstacle to fun. Memory now exists behind a screen.Very few is stored in our heads, and our recollections drift in cyberspace like asteroids, (7)____ unconnected to the orbit in which we move. Written letters are a thing of past, (8)____ and essays are downloaded from the sites devoted to them. Research means surfing the web,and as for social life-this is a matter of tweeting and twittering as one drifts through cyberspace. Facebook friendships bubble up in a moment, and consist of a mutual agreement (9)____ between strangers to put themselves on display. More and more does it seemthat putting on display yourself is what it is all about,which there is nothing more to love and friendship than being mutually visible. (10)____。

2020年专八模拟试题及答案：改错

2020年专八模拟试题及答案：改错2020年专八模拟试题及答案：改错The telephone system is a circuit-switched network. For much of the history of the system, when you placed (26)a call, you were renting a pair of copper wires that ran continuously from your telephone to the other party’s phone. You had excluding use of those wires during the (27)call; when you hung up, they were rented to someone else. Today the transaction is more complicated. ( your call may well possess a fiber-optic cable or a satellite with hundreds of other calls), but more conceptually the system (28)still works the same way. When you dial the phone, youget a private connection of one other party. This is an alternative network architecture called (29)packet switching, in which all stations are always connected to the network, but they receive only the messages addressed to them. It is as if your telephone was always tuned in to (30)thousands of conversations going on the wire, but you (31)heard only the occasional word intended to you. Most (32)computer networks employ packet switching, because it is more efficient than circuit switching when traffic is heavy. It seems reasonable the existing packet-switched (33)network will grow, and new one may be created; they could (34)well absorb traffic that would otherwise go to the telephone system and thereby reduce the need for telephone numbers. (35)答案：26.much改为most27.excluding改为exclusive?28.more?29.This改为There30.was改为were?31.going后加by32.to改为for33.reasonable后加that34.one改为ones35.need改为demand??更多推荐： | |。

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2020年专八英语改错练习题
Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. __1__
The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. __2__
Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, __3__
nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. __4__
Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. __5__
People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help.
So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and __6__for anything
slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. __7__
The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the is advantages of being cut off. __8__
The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that __9__ you are at the centre of things and that life doesn’t come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two： they expressed their preference for the
quiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the
__10__country within commuting distance of the large city.
参考答案：
1.把frightened改为frightening。

frightened是“受到惊吓的”，表明心理状态，而frightening表示“令人害怕的”，表示事
物性质。

2.把appear改为disappear。

“当你住在摩天大厦的三十层里”，能够推测这里要表达的是归属感的消失，而不是产生归属感。

3.把Strange改为Strangely。

Strangely enough，是固定短语，经常用作插入语，意思是“说也奇怪，最奇怪的是”。

4.在say前面加上don’t。

此处说的是，现在住在同一层楼的人
甚至见面都不打招呼。

5.把keep改为keeps。

in that 引导的句子主语应该是 a sense，故谓语应为单数。

本句的意思是，农村生活与这种隔绝孤立的生活不同，因为一种归属感把小村里的居民联系在一起。

6.把so 改为but/yet。

上文提到了乡村生活的好处，下文是转折，要用but或者yet。

7.把for改为on。

“去远征”应该用go on a expedition，而go for 的意思是“去找，努力获取，拥护”。

8.把peaceful改为peace。

of 后面不应该用形容词，所以应该改为peace。

这里需要注意的是quiet既是名词又是形容词，不要被迷惑。

9.把their改为its。

此处的代词应该指代上文的 the city。

10.删除leaving后面的for，或者把for改为from。

leave表示“离开某地”，而leave for表示“离开某地去另外一个地方”，for
后面接的是目的地。

本句说的是离开城市，搬到乡村，所以for是多余的。