专八改错习题

英语专业八级改错练习

英语专业八级改错练习题(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 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 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.

英语专业八级改错练习题(二)

“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essential

attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the

family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _____1_____

has great importance for many people.

This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,

dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers

of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _____2_____

for one’s family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3_____

portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,

even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _____4_____

support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5_____

of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the

United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6_____

is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S. soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7_____

they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8_____

a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in

the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9_____

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _____10_____

way of life.

英语专业八级改错练习题(三)

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_____

The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6_____

creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between ____7____

science and technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science ____8____

new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of

is the production of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or

the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one

very seldom have a faculty for the others. _____9_____

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,

it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the ___10_____

consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.

英语专业八级改错练习题(四)

What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon __1__are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists thi ...

What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,

as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon __1__

are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is __2__

a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can __3__

escape—not even light. But we can’t see a black hole. A black hole __4__

exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only