英语专业八级改错真题(1999-2004)完整含答案版本

99年改错

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 modem hunter- gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one

half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing

and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds

and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of

London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food

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 6._______

diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if

they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary

aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7._______ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental

decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood

cholesterol 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 English

grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1._______

from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may

seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less

meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 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 is

vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.________ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among

themselves 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 we

consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.________ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some

people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.________ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of

Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.