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可可英语专八改错练习第一期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. ____2The 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 ____3within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their ____4families 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 ____5the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and the US Center s for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high risk categories. ____6 The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of ____7maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of ____8pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the ____9mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart.____10第二期'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 _____1has 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 _____2for one's family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to ___4support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._____10第三期We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1that 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 _____2with 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 _____3them to explain about the rinciples of physics that have gone into creating the _____4computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7tec hnology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application 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. _____9Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet earned to forecast the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous._____10第四期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 __1are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is __2a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can __3escape—not even light. But we can’t see a black hole. A black hole __4exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is only space—or thus we think. How can this happen? __5 The theory is that some stars explode when their density increases to a particular point; they “collapse” and sometimes a supernova occurs.The collapse of a star may produce a “White Dwarf” of a “neutronstar”—a star which matter is so dense that if continually shrinks by the force of __6its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking may be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine the earth reduced to the __7size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger __8gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. __9And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. __10第五期The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which __1have ever lived on the earth, and one of them, the blue whale, is the largest. People in ancient times thought whales as fearsome __2monsters of the ocean depths. So to hunt a whale, when one occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People __3found the adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat from one whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole winter.Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred by the ancients as __4“great fish,” and any whale beaching along the c oasts of England was designated “the King’s fish” because it automatically belonged to the Crown.Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of __5 wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions. __6Even though some species are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whale hunting is regulated, but the earth's stock of whales is still being __7depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now __8there may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and __9awe-inspiring creature that always fed man's imagination and made the world a more exciting place__10第六期We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, __1languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know __2more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language __3is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from __4animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language __5and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we __6understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, __7language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. __8 Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few __9of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which takes language as its object of investigation.__10第七期Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years before, you can’t help being strucked by the __1 appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too short__2 ;their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created __4by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7on the law and women around the world run to obey. The __8decrees of the designers are unpredictable anddictatorial.Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10 第八期Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height __1after more than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the "baby boom." __2These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary __3reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a ounger age than their __4Europe counterparts. __5Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed__6families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a __7postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of __8couples who married in earlier as well as later decades. Since the United States __9maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. __10 Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.第九期When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately startmeeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked alady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the __1way they occupied the space around them—for example, when such a personwalks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never __2bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this was more a question ofcivilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other person told us a story, __3it he said was quite well-known, about an American who had been invited __4 to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American __5hasn't been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had __6known about American food, he might have behaved better. __7Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, tohim, very much as a napkin. Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that __8it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been watching, __9said of nothing, but immediately copied the action of his guest. __10And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.第十期A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is __1going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of __2prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of __3seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is __4the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very __5 dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the poor can still be numbered __6in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies __7two myths; the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants __8from rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the __9country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them flood __10-ing out again to the suburbs.第十一期Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect__1while at the same time capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the essence __2of the personality or character beneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact __3the caricature is recognizable, and yet exaggerated.From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, caricature grew through __4the eighteenth and nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular in __5the United States early in this century. In 1920s and 1930s especially, this lively form of illustration was appeared in newspapers and __6magazines throughout the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his __7portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In spirit their work was __8close to the humor of the fast-developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the __9string of political satire. Their subjects were more often amusing than offended __10by amiable attacks.第十二期Most people would describe water like a colorless liquid. They __1would know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid calledice and that when heating on a fire it becomes a vapor called steam. __2However, water, they would say, is a liquid. We have learned thatwater consists of molecules composed with two atoms of hydrogen __3and one atom of oxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O.This is equally true of the solid called ice and the gas called steam.Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, andthe solid, all of which is made up of molecules with the formula H2O. __4This is true of other chemical substances; most of them can exist asgases or as liquids or as solids. We may normally think of iron as asolid, but if we will heat it in a furnace, it will melt and become a __5liquid, and at very high temperatures it will become a gas. Nothingvery permanent occurs when a gas changes into a liquid or a solid.Everyone knows that ice, which has been made by freezing water,can be melted again by warmed and that steam can be condensed __6on a cold surface to become liquid water. In fact, it is only becausewater is so a familiar substance that different names are used for __7the solid, liquid and gas. Most substances are only familiar with __8us in one state, because the temperatures requiring to turn them __9into gases are very high, or the temperatures necessary to turn theminto solids are so low. Water is an exception in this respect, whichis another reason why its three states have given three different names. __10第十三期Classic Intention MovementIn social situations, the classic Intention Movement is “the chair-grasp”. Host and guest have been talking for some time, but now the host has an ppointment to keep and can get away. His urge __1to go is held in cheek by his desire not be rude to his guest. If he did __2not care of his guest’s feelings he would simply get up out of his chair __3and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, __4therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses to let him __5raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair-grasp Intention __6Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans forward and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. __7This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he were not __8hesitating, it would only last the fraction of the second. He would lean, __9push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer. He holds his “readiness-to-rise” post and keeps on holding it. It is as if his __10body had frozen at the get-ready moment.第十四期The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric human __1ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing with animal foods __2An analysis of 58 societies of modern hunter-gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed thatone-half emphasize gathering plants 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 __3plants. Detailed 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 edible __4 calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. __5Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung diet, and no __6one 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 __7of medical care. They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, no heart disease, and their blood cholesterol levels are very low (about half of the average American adult). __8If no one is suggesting that we return to an aboriginal life style, we certainly __9could use their eating habits as a model for healthier diet. __10第十五期There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronun-ciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt ‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography __1is learnt deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds __2like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when we __3firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, __4whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We __5begin the "natural" learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and __6practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every __7day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult English spelling.This is "natural", therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our im- __8mediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates a means of holding a community and to give a sense of "belonging". We learn quite early to recognize a __9 "stranger", someone who speaks with an accent of a different community—perhaps only a few miles far. __10 第十六期Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior.Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised __1hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal, __2enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. __3To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a million __4year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival depended on success __5in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even if their __6bodies, became radically changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group __7attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long formative __8period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence,so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning, __9controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on the farms,awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer __10essential for survival.第十七期In addition to learn how to cope with daily__1work, I've also know to handle study sessions for__2big tests. My all-night study sessions in high school are experiment in self-torture. Around __32:00A.M., My mind, as a soaked sponge, simply__4 stopped absorb things. Now, I space out exam__5study sessions over several days. That way, the night before can be devoted to a overall review__6rather than raw memorizing. Most important,though, I've changed my attitude toward tests. In high school, I thought tests were mysterious things with completely predictable questions. Now, I ask __7teachers the kinds of questions that will be on the __8 exam, and I try to "psych out" which areas or facts teachers are like to ask about. These practices really__9work, and for me they've taken many of the __10fear and mystery out of tests第十八期For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of 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 the public 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 our forefathers 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 is good 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”.第二十期The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__“empty”words as opposed in the “full”words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile”and “the man is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.”__8__of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.第二十一期More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a single agent. 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 and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened the trend 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.tuberculosis n.肺结核antibiotics n.抗生素, 抗生学第二十二期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 popularity are 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 and repetitious 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,disco music 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__第二十三期Cities can be frightened places. The majority of __1__the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear __2__ when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange __3__enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each __4__other.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 __6__ country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expe- dition__7__to the nearest large town. The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the __8__isadvantages of being cut off. The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that you are at the centre of __9__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.第二十四期Planning is a very important activity in our lives. It can give pleasure, even excitement, and it can cause quite severe headaches. __1The most significant the task ahead, the more careful the planning __2required. Getting to school or to work on time is a task requiring few __3or no planning, it is almost routine. A month’s touring holiday abroad,or better still, getting married, is a different matter altogether. If the matter involve a church wedding, a reception, a honeymoon in Venice, __4and returning a new home, this requires even more planning to make __5sure that it is successful. Planning is our way of trying to ensure success and of avoiding costly failures we can not suffer. It is equally essential __6to individual nations and families; the scale may be vary, but the degree __7of importance does not. In the essence, a nation planning its resources __8and needs do not differ from the familiar weekly shopping or monthly __9household budget. Both are designed to ensure an adequate supply of essentials, and if improperly carried out, will avoid shortages, wastage __10and over-expenditure.第二十五期Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a special kind of "private eye" can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by studying the clues。

专八改错知识点总结

专八改错知识点总结专八考试改错题目一直是考生们的重点复习内容，因为它考察了考生对语法、用词、搭配、逻辑、修辞和语义等多个方面的综合能力。

因此，考生在备考专八的时候，需要系统地学习相关知识点，通过大量的练习来提高自己的改错能力。

下面将对专八改错知识点进行总结，希望能给考生们在备考过程中提供帮助。

一、冠词1．没有冠词：错误：I went to bookstore yesterday.改正：I went to the bookstore yesterday.2．错用冠词：错误：He is strong as the lion.改正：He is as strong as a lion.3．误加冠词：错误：He is a one of the best player.改正：He is one of the best players.4．错用冠词表泛指意义：错误：A honesty is the best policy.改正：Honesty is the best policy.5．名词前误用冠词：错误：He is a Mr. Smith.改正：He is Mr. Smith.二、名词1．单数名词误用成复数名词：错误：I have two childrens.改正：I have two children.2．不可数名词误用成可数名词：错误：We need some advices to help us.改正：We need some advice to help us.3．名词前缺少形容词：错误：She is a worker.改正：She is a hard-working worker.4．名词前误用成形容词：错误：I bought three furnitures for the new house.改正：I bought three pieces of furniture for the new house.三、代词1．误用主格代词和宾格代词：错误：Me and my friend went to the movie.改正：My friend and I went to the movie.2．误用主格代词和形容词性物主代词：错误：He is a friend of my.改正：He is a friend of mine.3．不定代词误用：错误：Does anyone disagree with me?改正：Does anyone disagree with what I say?4．人称代词误用：错误：Mary and me were at the party.改正：Mary and I were at the party.5．没有用it作形式主语：错误：To see is to believe.改正：It is to believe that is to see.四、动词1．时态误用：错误：I am knowing the truth for a long time.改正：I have known the truth for a long time. 2．语态误用：错误：The house built a few years ago.改正：The house was built a few years ago. 3．情态动词误用：错误：He can to speak English fluently.改正：He can speak English fluently.4．动词单复数误用：错误：The people in the classroom is playing.改正：The people in the classroom are playing. 5．动词后缺少宾语：错误：She enjoys.改正：She enjoys reading books.五、形容词1．错误把副词写成形容词：错误：You did so good in the test.改正：You did so well in the test.2．缺少形容词：错误：It is a idea.改正：It is a good idea.3．误用比较级：错误：He is more fatter than her.改正：He is fatter than her.【成语的替换与考查专项】要把成语说成是一个新的造词技术，也是中国人的特长，这就是成语。

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。

英语专八改错题技巧总结

英语专八改错题技巧总结Title: Mastering the Craft of Error Correction in English Proficiency Exams: A Guide for the TEM-8 Candidate.English proficiency exams, particularly the Test for English Majors – Level 8 (TEM-8), require a high level of linguistic accuracy and precision. One of the most challenging sections of the exam is the error correction segment, which tests the examinee's ability to identify and rectify grammatical, vocabulary, and syntactic errors in written English. Mastering this skill requires a meticulous approach and a thorough understanding of English grammarand usage. Here are some techniques and strategies that can help TEM-8 candidates excel in the error correction section.1. Understand the Error Types:Familiarize yourself with the common types of errorsthat appear in the TEM-8 error correction section. This includes errors in subject-verb agreement, prepositionusage, tense consistency, article usage, comma splices, and more. By recognizing the patterns of these errors, you can quickly identify and correct them.2. Practice with Sample Questions:Utilize practice materials and sample questions to familiarize yourself with the format and difficulty level of the TEM-8 error correction section. This will help you gain confidence and identify your weak areas, which you can then focus on improving.3. Read Carefully and Slowly:When presented with a sentence containing errors, take your time to read it carefully. Do not rush through the sentence as this may lead to overlooked mistakes. Reading slowly allows you to focus on each word and its context, making it easier to detect errors.4. Prioritize Errors:Not all errors in a sentence are created equal. Some errors may be more significant than others in terms of affecting the meaning or grammar of the sentence. Learn to prioritize the more serious errors, such as those that affect the overall meaning or structure of the sentence, over minor errors like typos or punctuation mistakes.5. Use Your Intuition:Sometimes, your gut feeling can be a powerful tool in error correction. If a phrase or sentence sounds awkward or off, there's a good chance there's an error somewhere. Trust your intuition and double-check those areas for potential mistakes.6. Review Your Work:After correcting the errors in a sentence, take a moment to review your work. This step is crucial as it helps you catch any missed errors or correct any incorrect corrections. It's also a good idea to read the corrected sentence aloud to check for flow and naturalness.7. Seek Feedback:Practicing error correction alone can be limiting. Seek feedback from teachers, peers, or online communities to validate your corrections and learn from alternative perspectives. This feedback loop will help you identify and correct any blind spots in your error correction skills.8. Stay Current with Language Changes:English is a constantly evolving language, and new usages and grammar rules emerge over time. Stay updatedwith the latest language trends and developments to ensure that your error correction skills are relevant and accurate.9. Develop a Systematic Approach:Create a system or strategy for approaching error correction questions. This could involve marking potential errors, classifying them by type, and then making the necessary corrections. Having a consistent and organizedapproach will improve your efficiency and accuracy.10. Maintain a Positive Mindset:Error correction can be challenging, but it's also a valuable skill that can be improved with practice and dedication. Maintain a positive mindset and approach each practice question with confidence, knowing that every mistake is an opportunity for growth and improvement.In conclusion, mastering error correction in the TEM-8 exam requires a combination of knowledge, practice, and strategic thinking. By understanding the common error types, practicing with sample questions, reading carefully, prioritizing errors, trusting your intuition, reviewingyour work, seeking feedback, staying current with language changes, developing a systematic approach, and maintaininga positive mindset, candidates can significantly improve their chances of success in the error correction section of the TEM-8 exam.。

(2021年整理)英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析

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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 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。

(完整word)专八改错

专八改错知识总结：特点：近年题目每行必定有错，每行错误只有一处且只能改一个词。

作题步骤：第一步：通读全文了解大意同时改正明显错误;第二步：逐句开始改错但是不要把目光只是盯在要改的这一句。

要前后结合，有的错误在前句（上一行埋下伏笔）,错误出现在要改的这一行。

需要特别注意的就是介词、动词、平行结构、一副一形修饰名词，两形修饰名词。

不会做的先空着第三步:整体最后把握,对实在不会的行，针对考点来猜。

常见错误:1，从语篇的角度判断逻辑衔接词是否有误；2，分析句子结构，判断句子成分是否有误；3，结合上下文判断动词的时态是否有误；4，区分动词的及物、不及物性质；5，判断动词或者分词的主被动情况；6，判断冠词是否有误;7，判断介词搭配是否有误;8，判断代词是否有误；9，判断词性是否有误;10,判断比较结构是否有误；11，排查名词.动词单复数的问题；12，判断词义表达是否准确；名词：1，可数名词永远不能单独使用，前面要有限定词，或者后面要有复试形式。

2，名词可以做定语，但是一般用单数形式。

3，Poetry 诗歌总称 poem 一首诗歌复数:poems4，Person复数是people,但是当表示郑重或者贬义时,可以出现persons。

5，Human being（单) human beings（复）动词:1，及物动词：Inhabit sp。

Approach sp (当作……的方法讲时，用介词to）Remove 作迁移、移居，不及物；作去除、排除,及物;Date sb。

与……约会2，如果动词出现在句尾，一定要注意这个动词后面是否缺少介词.3，当一个句子从头到尾都似乎正确,这时可以把注意力集中到动词上面。

看动词到底是及物动词还是不及物动词。

不及物动词就要借助介词来表达意思。

4，Keep/have/make 后面要接形容词做宾语补足语，而不是接副词。

5，注意有些动词为或者可以做系动词，其后面加的是形容词，而不是副词。

这些动词有：Be，keep，remain，stay，lie,stand，seem，appear，look，feel，smell，sound，taste，become，grow，turn,fall,get,go，come，run，prove，turn out；6，return back home back要去掉形容词：1，遇到形容词最高级时，注意该形容词是单音节还是多音节.如果有了most，形容词后面就不要加-est或者去掉most。

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。

专八改错训练及答案.docx

改错练习1.Before 1973, abortion was illegal in America unless the woman's health was threatened・ In March of 1970, Jane Roe, a single woman, instituted this federal action against the District Attorney of the country・ The original idea was that women who truly did not want a baby should not have to have it. _1_ Since pregnacy may be a blessed act when planned or wanted, _2_ forced pregnacy, like any force bodily invasion, is anathema to American values and traditions. As legalized abortion has become an everyday part of American life, a different side to it has emerged out. —3— Where women once were aborting because they did not want a child, the reasons being given now were becoming very different. _4_ Abortion has turned into something that women are being coerced from boyfriends^usbands* unwilling to be fathers, out of fear _5_ of the financial pressure, out of the panic from losing their jobs, out of panic from having to quit the school, or becoming —6— homeless, or out of fear of their parents kicking them out into the street. Abortion for these reasons can lead to problems which develop when a woman is unable to get round her emotional responses _7_ from the trauma of an abortion. There are women who abort and do so completely of her own free will. These women have no _8_ regrets, no remorse, but are happy they had this choice available・ _9—But a growing number of women are speaking up about how abortion effected them adversely. —10—2.Several years ago, we began construction on a new church building・ In the beginning, the workmen dug a big pit in the ground and then they began to pour footings. Footings are cement piers under —1— which the entire building rests. They are crucial to the strength of the finished structure ・ After the foundation hole is dug, the footings must be poured quickly, before the composition of the soil is changed by the wind, air, or water; With a similar way in these brief early _2_ years, parents of young children have the challenging job of lying _3_ the foundation that will support family friendships in later years.Physical affectation and verbal affirmation are necessary in laying _4— a strong foundation for friendship. Hug, hug, hug. Even if you are not —5— raised in a hugging family, hug your kids anyway・ They need the warmth of physical contact and so do you need・ A young child will try to _6_ manipulate and be in the charge・ He will attempt to get his own way. _7_ Since the child may not be consciously trying to control, this is _8_ what he is doing. A wise parent must not permit to happen. —9— When a child respects his parents, he will also respect the others. —10—3.Thirty or forty years ago, when most mothers in the United States didn't have jobs, homes were busier places. Children went to school from 9 A.M to 3 PM. and spent the most of the time in the house under their_1— mother's watchful eyes. Children played, watched TV, and did homework, and while they weren't in the house, —2— they were outside in the front or backyard or playing nearly with other neighborhood children. Though this situation still exists in some communities today, it is becoming rarer and rarer as more and more mothers have work inside the home. These "two-income—3— families11 create a different kind of home— ne that is a place to stop temporarily in the midst of a busy schedule _4— of activities. Because working parents often leave the house by 8 A.M and return at 5 or 6 P.M, children go to school and then a series of highly-programmed after-school activities._5_ So when school lets out for two or three weeks at New Year's time, many parents may face with a troubling situation._6—Some researches show the kind of child-care problem the holidays can have for busy parents- Even in those families _7_ in which the mother is home, there is often many active —8— neighborhood full of children playing since most of the other children are involved in activities. This result from the irony _9_ of both parents and children anxiously look forward to the end—10_ of their vacation.4.Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one^ and there are powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in _1_ come 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. If there _4_ were no poor people to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there 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 and _8_ 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 in fluence or change ・—10—5・ Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and —butl—few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign languages・ Now there are many reasons about this, —for2_ some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious・ But 1 suggest that the fundamental reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very () better than they do is that _3much_ they fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize —nature4—that pronounce a foreign language is a skill; one that_pronounce_5— needs careful training of a special kind、and one that cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of himself. _itself6_ I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the—concerned?_ language. So the first point I want to make is that English pronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to —should8— devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel that here is a matter worth of receiving his close ttention.—去掉9— So, there should be occasions where other aspects of English, _when _10_ such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to take a secondary place・改错【答案】1l.it——one. it和one用来指代时，it通常用于特指，one通常用于类指。

2024年英语专业八级改错

2024年英语专业八级改错Alright, here are a few examples of paragraphs that adhere to the given requirements for the 2024 TEM-8 (Test for English Majors-Band 8) error correction section:---。

Oh, I'm so annoyed with this report. I just noticed a typo on the second page. It's supposed to be "they're" not "their." You know, the difference between possessive and contraction.---。

Gosh, I'm not sure about this sentence. It seems to be missing a comma somewhere. Maybe after "however"? I'm not a grammar expert, but it just doesn't sound right.---。

I was reading through this article and came across a weird phrase. It says "he had went to the store" instead of "he had gone to the store." It's the past perfect tense, so it should be "gone."---。

专八改错_历届(2000年-2013年)真题及答案

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”。

二十篇专业八级改错练习

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DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known,exposed nature’s vulnerability. Unlike most pesticides, which effect- __1__ tiveness is limited to destroy one or two types of insects, DDT is __2__ capable of killing hundreds of different kinds at once. Developed in 1939, it first distinguished itself during the World War II, cleaning __3__ South Pacific islands of malaria-caused insects for U.S. troops, while __4__in Europe being used as an effective de-lousing power. Its inventor was awarded by the Nobel Prize. __5__ When DDT became available for civilian use in 1945, there were only a few people who expressed the second thought about this __6__ new miracle compound. One was nature writer Edwin Way Teale,who warned, “A spray as discriminate as DDT can upset the economy __7__ of nature of all insects are good, but if they are killed, things __8__ go out of kilter right away.” Another was Rachel Carson, who wrote to the Reader’s Digest to propose an article about series of __9__ tests on DDT being conducted not far from which she lived in Maryland. __10__

英语专业八级改错技巧

英语专业八级改错技巧英语专业八级改错技巧改错是一道基础性题目，考查的是基础语言能力，因为专八没有单项选择题（语法、词汇），所以对基础能力的考查都放在改错这一道题目上。

以下是店铺整理的英语专业八级改错技巧，欢迎阅读。

1.短语搭配错误（大部分为介词错误）carry/get with things –> carry/get on with thingsto let alone –> let alonein return to –> in return forthe need of –> the need forsubstitute A with B –> substitute A for Baccount 70% --> account for 70%under the grounds of/that –> on the grounds of/thatattitude on life –> attitude towards/to lifein a quick speed –> at a quick speedwith many respects –> in many respectsat the face of –> in the face(s) ofconsiderations to… –> considerations for…become victims of … --> become victims to …ride in a train –> ride on a trainthe problems with the government –> the problems for the government resistive against –> resistive toresistance of –> resistance toembark sth –> embark on sthwith the belief that –> in the belief thatat advance of sth –> in advance of sthinterpret… to –> interpret… asin line to –> in line withto varing degrees –> in varing degreestake pride of –> take pride inleap out to me –> leap out at meinject them lethal strains –> inject them with lethal strains –> charge him the same priceimbalance of A and B –> imbalance between A and Bshortage of protein with them –> shartage of protein among them fortify sb for sth –> fortify sb against sth (加强…以抵御…) shed light to sth –> shed light on sthin proportion with –> in proportion topay for it with dollars –> pay for it in dollarsbe in liberty to –> be at liberty tobegin at doing –> begin with doingbe contrasted to –> be contrasted withcommit an offence to –> commit an offence againstmodern time –> modern timesability of (doing) sth –> ability in (doing) sthdefend sth against –> defend sth fromat the first place –> in the first placepay money in doing –> pay money for doingtake to do –> take to doing (―求助于，开始‖，to为介词)yearn to –> yearn forat average –> on averageidentify oneself to –> identify oneself withbe successful on doing –> be successful at/in doingget one’s teeth on –> get one’s teeth into(埋头做，认真做) the action of formation –> the action of forming (of后应接动名词而非名词) approach to do … –> approach to doing …one contributor of –> one contributor toconsumers demand of luxury goods –> consumers demand for luxury goods on one’s 30s –> in one’s 30sbalk to –> balk at (回避，绕过)differ A from B –> distinguish A from B suit to sb/sth –> suit for sb/sthvary by – vary withemphasis of – emphasis on2.易混词错误(1)形近异义词imaginative – imaginaryadapt – adoptconfirm – conformformer – formaldiary – dairypersonal – personnelbeside – besidesprincipal – principleintelligent – intelligibleconscious – conscientious stationary – stationeryconsiderate – considerableaffect(影响) – effect(致使、达成) contact – contractmoral – moraleindustrious – industrialdesert – dessertrequire – acquire – inquirepresence – presentationsensible – sensitivetransformation – transmissionvalue – evaluatetense – tensionanything – somethingcooker – cookcomplexity(复杂性) – complex(合成体)insurance – assuranceprovide(提供) –provided/providing(假设，如果) perceive –conceiveeffective(有效的) – affective(受…影响的，由…引起的)(2)形近(形异)近义词latter – laterlate(迟的，已故的) – latest(最晚的，最新的)farther(距离更远) – further(程度更进一步)healthy(健康的') – healthful(有益健康的)effective – efficientcontinual(连续的) – continuous(持续不断的)respectable – respectfulhistoric – historicalrise – arise – raise – arousesure – insure – ensure – assurein return to – in response toopposite – oppositionproducing – productivelonely – aloneacross – crossimpressed -- impressivepermit(n.通行证) – permissionrelating – relatedmemorizing – memorablenormal(n.常态,通常标准,一般水平) –norm(规范,行为标准) favorite – favorableacceptability – acceptance economical – economic few – littlea few – few little – a little invent – discover before – ago another – otheragent(代理人) – agency(代理机构) reward(回馈) – award(奖赏) special – specific(3)兼有两种形式的副词firstly –first (firstly用于列举条目或者表示顺序，first表示时间上―第一次、首次‖) hardly(几乎不) – hard(努力地) sure – surely late – latelyclear(完全地、径直地) – clearly(显然、清楚地) high(高度高地) –highly(程度高地、非常) close(接近地、紧密地) – closely(紧密地、严密地) most(最) – most(大部分) (4)反义词 with – without possible –impossible subjective – objective import – export better – worse employee –employer employment –unemployment modifiable –unmodifiable natural –unnatural discernable –indiscernable lent – borrowed exclusive – inclusive independency – dependency willing – unwillingnothing more than – nothing less than agree – disagreerarely – frequently / often specific – generalless –more (still more–still less) most –least known –unknownrespective –irrespective (irrespective of表示―不管…‖) majority –minority result in –result from fortunately -- unfortunately powerful –powerless easiness –uneasiness professional – amateur aware – unaware include – exclude(5) 名词单复数异义moral – morals(作名词时用复数形式,表示―道德、伦理‖)collection(不可数名词表示―各种因素集合体‖) – collections(可数名词表示―收藏品‖) manner(方法,方式) – manners(礼仪,礼节) saving – savings(复数表示―存款‖)specie(硬币) – species(种类)（species只有单数） mean(n.平均值) – means(方法)(6) 易混短语live with(同…一起生活,忍受) – live by(靠…过活)go about (doing) sth(开始做某事,四处走动,流传,经常从事于) –go around(四处走动,绕道走)tend to – intend toin next week(以当下时间为基准点) – in the next week(以过去的时间为基准点) spend… in doing sth –spend… on sth die of(内部) – die from(外部) rather than – other than have sb do sth – have sth donetake on(从事，开始对付，呈现) – go on(继续) take place – take the place of consist in(在于) – consist of(包括) in all(总共) – after all(毕竟)in return(作为报答) – in turn(反过来，轮流) one reason for +短语– one reason why +句子bring out(使显露，使显现) – bring up(教育，培养，提出，(船)抵达目的地) be worth doing – be worthwhile to doreact to(对…作出反应) –react with(以…作出反应) apply… to(将…应用于) – apply for(请求，申请)3.逻辑关系错误（连词使用错误）therefore – nevertheless/however (大部分therefore都要改为however,反之亦然) and –but / while or –and but –because moreover – however after – before since – althoughthere is no…–there is also… that – iffrom now on –from then on all –none besides –yet if –unless besides – except therefore – because so – because so does he… –nei ther/nor does he… that’s why +结果–that’s because +原因 as if – even if whether – if4.代词错误（一致错误）their – itsthat – those (需要特别注意)which – that (有些情况下关系代词只能用that) which – whatit – itself (主宾相同，宾语用反身代词) that/this – it (只有it可作形式主语) his –one’s (泛指时用one) you – yourself it – they this – suchXX is less sophisticated than what they are today – XX is less sophisticated than they are today5.冠词错误(1)定冠词多余on the either side –> on either side in the Europe –> inEuropein the winter –> in winter (季节前不加定冠词)Kaufman, the/an author of a recent book – Kaufman, author of a recent book(同位语间完全对等关系，不必使用冠词) take the issue –> take issue(对…持异议，不同意)(2)定冠词缺漏among most –> among the most one of first –> one of the firstatmosphere –> the atmosphere(表示独一无二的事物)（另外还有如：the Equator, the Outerspace）between us and rest –> between us and the rest in minority –> in the minority around floor –> around the floorpiano –> the piano (西洋乐器的前面要有定冠词) English language –> the English language at heart of –> at the heart of world –> the world(表示―地球‖这种独一无二的事物要加定冠词) in long run –> in the long run(3)定冠词与不定冠词之间的误用illustrate the further difference –> illustrate a further difference (diference第一次提及)注意以下短语的区别 in church – in the church at college – atthe college in court – in the court in hospital – in the hospital in office – in the office in prison – in the prison at sea – at the sea in school – in the school at table – at the table6.形容词与副词使用错误have been currently –> currentbe well equipped as –> be as well equipped as heavy industrialized –> heavily-industrialized spread colossal –> spread colossally similar strong –> similarly strongkeep the number constantly at X a year –> keep number constant at X a year feel hopeless thwarted –> feel hopelessly thwartedcomparative high proportion –> comparatively high proportion (quakes) start deeply in the earth –> start deep in the earth in the passed 5 years –> in the past 5 yearsculture embedded attitudes –> culturally embedded attitudes as much as –> as often asfrom one meter afar –> from one meter away increasing –> increasingly simple –> simply pure –> purely much –> many many –> more large –> larger early –> earlier7.成分残缺或多余(单复数错误)a world which I could get… –> a world in which I could get…shows –> that shows (先行词在定语从句中作主语，关系代词不可省略) take for granted that –> take it for grated that 1980 –1980sone of the most glaring form –> one of the mist glaring formstheir jobs engage in their interest –> their jobs engage their interest (engage单独使用表示―占用（某人时间），吸引（某人注意力）‖) complain about sth –> complain sth work sth –> work out sthbelieve in –believe (believe单独使用表示一般的―相信‖，believe in表示―信任某人，信仰…‖) point sth –> point out sth 20 percents –> 20 percent eyes contact –> eye contact seven –sevenththe process which it function –> the process by which it function communication service –> communications service (通信服务、通讯服务) average incomes –> average income (income 为不可数名词) the like of –> the likes of(诸如此类的) be referred to XX –> be referred to as XXbe viewed as work of are –> be viewed as a work of art(work 作为―作品‖讲时，为可数名词)8.时态或语态错误went – go agreeing – agreed consisted – consisting bored –boring favoring – favoredif she was –> if she were(非真实条件句)involves – involving will – would (虚拟语气中)delaying – delayed (已完成概念或者被动概念)the promise of improving quality of life –> the promise of improved quality of life (已完成概念或者被动概念)assure – assures (第三人称单数) have – has (要看清句子真正的主语) developing – developed confronting – confronted the least understanding –> the least understood what the have told – what they have been toldif circumstances become favorable – if circumstances should become favorable。

英语专业八级最强改错题20篇error correction

Error Correction class：name：要求：运用语法、词汇、修辞等语言知识识别短文内的语病并改正错误类型：1.词法错误——掌握常用词汇的词形、词性、含义、搭配和用法2.句法错误——时态错误、语态错误、非谓语动词误用、固定句型误用、关系代词或副词的误用、主谓不一致、句子主语（谓语、宾语）的多余3.篇章错误——指代错误、衔接错误、上下文语义矛盾Passage 1Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in (1)__________ noisy massive tower blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear (2)________ when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange enough, whereas in the past (3)_________ the inhabitants of some street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floorin 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 senseof community generally keep the inhabitants of small village together. People have (5)__________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, (6) ______ and for anything 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 disadvantages (8)_________ of being cut off. The city has noise and pollution which do harm to human health. But one oftheir main advantages is that you are at the center of things and that life doesn’t(9)_______ come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise between the two:they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city and (10)___________ moving to the country within commuting distance of the large city.改错答案Passage 11.把frightened改为frightening。

2021英语专业八级考试短文改错真题解析

2021英语专业八级考试短文改错真题解析2021英语专业八级考试短文改错真题解析去年的短文改错有确定的难度。

原材料选自很多年前的一本书，而且不是完全照搬，真题对原材料做了较大的改编和补充。

个别几个地方设计很有区分度。

我们先来看看2021年短文改错真题的来源，直接上图PARTIII LANGUAGE USAGE [15 MIN] 10%The passage contains TEN errors.Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case only ONE wordis involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the followingway.Fora wrong word, underline the wrong word and write thecorrect on in the blankFor a missingword, mark the position ofthe missing word with "^' sign and write the correct on in the blankFor an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word the slash"/' and out the word in the blankProofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET THREEas instructed.2021 年英语专业八级统一考试真题及解析PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [15 MIN] 10%The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In eachcase only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the followingway.For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct on in the blankFor a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with "^' sign and write thecorrect on in the blankFor an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word the slash "/' and out the word in the blankProofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET THREE as instructed.The ability to communicate is the primary factor that distinguish humanbeings from animals. And it is the ability to communicate well whichdistinguishes one individual from another.The fact is that apart from the basic necessi t ies, one needs tobe equipped with habits for good communication skills, thus this iswhat will make one a happy and successful social being.In order to develop these habits, one need to first acknowledgethe fact that they need to improve communication skills from time to time.They need to take stock of the way how they interact and the directionin which their work and personal relations are going. The only constantin l ife is change, the more one accepts ones strengths and workstowards deal ing wi th their shor tcomings, special ly in the area ofcommunica t ion ski l l s , the be t ter wi l l be the i r interact ions andthe more their social popularity.To dominated quest ion that comes here is: How to improvec ommu n i c a t i o n s k i l l s ? Th e a n swe r i s s imp l e . On e c a n f i n dplenty of l i terature on this. There are also exper ts, whoconductworkshops and seminar s based on communicat ion ski l ls of menand women. In fact , a large number of companies are bringing int ra ine r s to regula r ly make se s s ions on the subject , in order tohelp their work force maintain better interpersonal work relat ions.Today effective communication skills have become a predominant factoreven whi le recrui t ing employees . Whi le interviewing candidates,most interviewers judge them on the basis of the skills they communicate with.They believe that some skills can be improvised on the job; but ability tocommunicate wel l is impor tant , as every employee becomes therepresenting face of the company.There are trainers, who special ized in del ivering custom-madeprograms on the subject. Through the sessions they not only facilitatebet ter communicat ion ski l ls in the workplace, but also look intothe problems in the manner of being able to convey messages effectively.(1) _______(2) ______(3) ______(4) ______(5) ______(6) _______(7) ______(8) ______(9) ______(10) ______【解析与参考答案】1. 将 which改为that。

英语专八改错部分真题及答案

英语专八改错部分真题及答案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 than 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 minute discrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture. 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. How many of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, abrougham, a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury,a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence ?1 be后插入 as;2 their改为its;3 There改为It;4 Whereas改为But;5 further 改为much6 come改为bring;7 similar改为different;8 will改为would;9 as important去掉as;10 the part去掉the。

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Tip 1 当either，neither作主语时，表示的是单数的意义．其谓语动词应当用单数形式。【例】When a human infant is born into any community in any part of the world, it has two things in common with any other infant, provided neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or during birth．【答案】have→has Tip 2 当主语后面跟有由as much as，rather than， more than．no less than，as well as，in addition to ，with，along with，together with, except等引导的词组时，其后的谓语动词形式依主语本身的单复数而定。
• Tip 2 动词不定式作后臵定语时，其标志性符号to不可以省略。 • 【例]]His urge to go is held in check by his desire not^be rude to his guest. • 【答案】not^be→添加to
• Tip 3 在由that引导的主语从句、同位语从句及表语从句中，that虽不充当任何句子成分，但不能省略。 • 【例】The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact^economic uncenainty increases the demand for educatio [真题05] • 【答案】fact /\ecnomics→添加that
1. When a human infant is born into any community in any part of the world, it has two things in common with any other infant, provided neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or during birth． 2. The English speaker has at his disposal a vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his thoughts and feelings in a variety of styles, to the other English speakers．
1.语法一致语法一致指用作主语的名词词组中心词和谓语动词在单、复数形式上的一致。如果名词中心词是复数，动词就该用复数形式；如果名词中心词是单数名词或不可数名词，动词便用单数形式。
• Few students are really lazy. • Each boy has his own book. • Much money is wasted.
Tip 3 关系代词who，which，that在定语从旬中作主语时．从句中的谓语动词的人称和数应与先行词一致。【例】The English speaker has at his disposal a vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his thoughts and feelings in a variety of styles, to the other English speakers．【答案】enables→enable Tip 4 "either．．.or”，“neither．．.nor”， “not only…but also”或者“or”连接两个主语时，通常采用就近原则，即谓语动词的单复数形式取决于最靠近它的主语。
• 二、成分多余 • 成分多余指句子结构的某个语法成分与句子的其他成分在语法形式、搭配等方便产生重复或不一致，成为赘余。成分多余常体现在用词重复上，即用两个意义相同的词作修饰成分，造成不必要的重复；有时也表现在句子成分的多余，如出现多余的主语、谓语或宾语等成分。 The earth’s supply of water probably remains quite fairly constant in quantity. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts were coming due，…
Examples:
• Frequently，committees rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings. • His urge to go is held in check by his desire not be rude to his guest. • The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty increases the demand for education. • As we know, life would only be possible on the surface of a planet had temperatures somewhere within this range.
Lecture 2
语法错误
语法错误 • • • • • • • • 一、成分残缺二、成分多余三、主谓一致错误 1.语法一致 2. 意义一致 3. 就近原则四、时态错误五、语态错误
语法错误
一、成分残缺 • 成分残缺指句子成分不完整，缺乏主语、谓语动词等句子的主要成分，或相关句型所要求的其他成分。 • 构成一个英语句子最基本的成分是主语和谓语。在比较复杂的句子里，还有宾语、补足语和状语等连带成分或附加成分。在一般情况下，句子成分，特别是主干部分，是不能随意省掉的。如果省掉了不该省略的成分，句子就残缺不全，不合乎语法规范，意思也不能表达清楚。
• Tip 4 在限定性定语从句中，如果关系代词做主语，关系代词不可以省略。 • 【例】As we know, life surface of a planet^had temperatures somewhere within this range. • 【答案】a planet^had→添加which/that
3. 就近原则
有时，谓语动词的单复数形式取决于最靠近它的词语(主要指名词)的单复数形式，这种一致关系所依据的原则就叫做“就近原则”。 • Either your students or William knows this． • Only one out of five were present． • Neither you nor I am going．
• Tip 1 不及物动词后面若带宾语，其后必须加上一个相应的介词，否则句子成分就不完整。 • 【例】Frequently，committees rely^outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings • 【答案】rely^outside→添加on
Tip 2 及物动词后面可直接带宾语，其后无须使用介词。
【例】．．．serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference between those noises and language proper. 【答案】on→删除on
三、主谓一致错误一致指句子成分或词语之间的在语法形式上的协调关系。主谓一致是主语和谓语动词之间在“人称”和“数”方面的一致关系。主谓一致须遵循三个指导原则：语法一致原则，意义一致原则和就近原则。
四、时态错误
动词时态是我们英语学习的重点，也是改错题中经常出现的错误之一。英语中一共分为16种时态，，其中最常用的5种时态是：一般现在时、现在进行时、一般过去时、一般将来时和现在完成时。还有些时态用得也比较多，如：过去进行时、过去完成时、过去将来时等。
• Tip 1 每种时态都有相应的时间状语，动词时态的使用要与句中的时间状语相一致例如，当句中有often，usually，sometimes等时问状语时，谓语动词一般用一般现在时态；句中有last week，yesterday，in 2000等时间状语，谓语动词多用一般过去时态；又如，当句中有tomorrow，next year等时间状语，谓语动词多用将来时态；再如，当句中有already，yet, for, since等时间状语时，谓语动词多用完成时态。
Tip 5 主语是集合名词时，如果代表一个整体，谓语动词就用单数形式；如果代表整体中的每个成员，谓语动词则用复数形式。这类名词有：family，group, committee，army， team，class，public，government，majority， club，staff, crew，association，board，jury， faculty等。 Tip 6 不定式、动名词或从句作主语时，谓语动词通常用单数。 Tip 7 在It is／was…that(who)强调句中，若强调的是主语，that(who)后的谓语动词的人称和数须与被强调部分的人称和数一致。
2. 意义一致
• 意义一致是说谓语动词的单、复数要取决于主语所表达的概念，而不取决于表面上的语法标记。如果主语形式为单数，但意义为复数，谓语动词用复数；如果主语形式为复数，而意义上却是单数，谓语动词用单数。 • The government have asked the country to decide by a vote． • Fifteen miles seems like a long walk to me． • Eighty pounds was stolen from the cash register．