2016年英语专业八级改错

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专业八级54篇改错练习与答案解析

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。

英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析

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 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 Controlrespectably. 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。

英语专业八级试题改错加分练习

英语专业八级试题改错加分练习英语专业八级试题改错加分练习Lotic brave person can appreciate the wonders of the rivers.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理英语专业八级试题改错加分练习，希望能给大家带来帮助!Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents,heis fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is improbable that he will ever again in his life __1__be given so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, life is always presenting __2__new things to the child—things that have lost their interesting for older people because __3__they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow.His first visit to the seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:He is not so free to do__4__as he wishes as he thinks old people do; he is continually being told not to do things,or being punished for that he has done wrong. His life is therefore __5__not longer perfectly happy. When the young man starts to earn his own living, __6__he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;but at the same time heis forced to accept responsibilities.He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes,and his room,but has to work if he wants to live comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing about in __7__the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. __8__ And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to breakthe laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, __9__he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making steady progress in his job __10__and of building up for himself his own position in society. 答案：1.what改为whatever。

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。

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【专八】2016专八改错、翻译新题型大揭秘！▼▼▼先说改错现行的《全国高校英语专业八级考试大纲》（以下简称《考纲》）对改错题型基本没有调整，so大家可以放松一下啦！改错属于主观试题，要求考生在15分钟内在一篇约250个单词的短文中找出10处错误（每行不超过一处错误，但不包括拼写或标点错误），并根据上下文，在错误的地方增加、删除或改变某一单词或短语，使短文语意连贯、结构正确。

下面就从考纲要求、错误类型分析和解题技巧三方面揭秘专八改错题型！考纲要求测试要求：能运用语法、词汇、修辞等语言知识识别所给短文内的语病并提出改正方法。

测试形式：本部分由一篇约250个单词的短文组成，短文中有10行标有题号。

该10行内均含有一个语误。

要求学生根据“增添”“删除”或“改变其中的某一单词或短语”三种方法中的一种改正语误。

考试时间15分钟，共10题，满分10分，占考试总分的10%。

测试目的：测试学生运用语言知识的能力。

错误类型分析从历年考试结果看，改错部分对考生来说并不容易。

当然，作为英语专业高年级学生，绝大多数考生的语法和语感都非常好，可以在阅读改错文章时迅速辨认出大多数错误，但总会有两三个错误让人感觉无法判断。

要培养超强的纠错能力，至关重要的就是合理归纳考题的错误类型。

只要掌握了错误的规律，注意力就可以集中在容易出错的地方，从而发现错误。

专八考试改错部分出现的错误通常分为三大类：词法错误、句法错误和篇章错误。

纵观近年考试真题可以发现：▎7大词法错误1. 名词数的混淆；2. 介词(误用或缺失)；3. 动词误用；4. 形容词或副词比较级误用；5. 冠词误用（冗余）；6. 固定短语误用；7. 词义、词类混淆。

▎7大句法错误1. 时态错误；2. 语态错误；3. 非谓语动词误用；4. 固定句型误用；5. 关系代词或副词的误用；6. 主谓不一致；7. 主要成分(主语、谓语或宾语)多余。

▎3大篇章错误1. 指代错误；2. 衔接错误；3. 上下文语义矛盾。

【精选】专八改错_2016年-2016年）真题及答案

2000 年-2011 年专八短文改错试题，参考答案以及答案分析By 兰银清以下答案以上外教师给出的答案为参考答案2011年专八真题改错部分　From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knewthat when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.1，在grow后加up, 考固定短语2，改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德心”, consiousness翻译为“意识”3，改soon为sooner，sooner or later是固定短语4，在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。

[全]专业英语八级-改错-提升训练含解析

专业英语八级-改错-提升训练含解析Schools throughout the world are experiencing a period of rapid change and, in many cases, are finding that extremely difficult to achieve a balance among a number of critical concerns.(1)____ Some of the issues that educators and schools are facing include certainty aboutwhat academic (2)___and cultural knowledge and skills will be needed by students in the future, wholesale revisionsofcurricula experimentation in teaching strategies, the need for teachers and (3)____students to become aware and competent in using new technologies,dramatic changes in bureaucraticand legislating policies and regulations,and increased demands on teachers.(4)____With the exception of the education system in the United States, perhaps no education system has been studied more intensively than of Japan.(5)____In 2001, in a well-balanced presentation of the Japanese (6)____model of schooling including its similarities to and fro (7)____ differences with that in the United States, Tsuneyoshi characterized theAmerican approach to education as one that placesan emphasis on competitiveness, individual attention from teachers along with individual accomplishment on the part, of students,development of cognitive abilities, and separation of teachers in terms of (8)___their disciplines.In contrary, the Japanese approach (particularly at the elementary school level) focuses on the "whole child"; close interactions between teachers and pupils for long periods of timein cooperative settings with attention to collected goals, tasks, and rewards;(9)____ and efforts to provide the same or very similar treatment for all students. One advantage of the American approach that is seriously missed in the (10)____Japanese approach is the former's attention to diversity and a sensitivity and concern for minority rights. 参考答案及解析:1．that→it语法错误。

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。

1995-2016英语专八改错题及答案

20162005年3月21日专业八级考试改错When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular showon ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round a the luxury of the 1. ______rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had beengiven. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2______ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ______ much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ______started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and so are the ice rink and the cos tumes of the skaters, aren’t they? Myfriend’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ______ expression that I had not got the word quite right.Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughlymeans, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. ______new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7. ______own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should haveasked for Plush, and this is particularly true in the 8. ______ aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9______ .speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly, but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10. ______2014改错There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerge d as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.There is a high level of agreement that the following questions (1) ______have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: (2) ______l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in thesame sense one acquires a first language? (3) ______l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) ______more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?l What motivates people to acquire additional language?l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) ______acquisition of additional languages?l What social-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying thelearning of additional languages?From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all (6) ______the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have one thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiringof an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do (7) ______so. Whether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additionallanguage, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under (8) ______focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of an individual. That is, the spotlig ht is on what mental capabilities areinvolving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning (9) ______or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in theclassroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. (10) ______2013 专八短文改错试题．Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in langu age. Psycholinguistics study understanding,production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) _____listening, reading, speaking, writing, and 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 to speaking, or 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; or if 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 circumstances”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.2012Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. The arg ument 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) _____参考答案：2011年专八真题改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did sowith the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that2___________soon or later I should have to settle down and write books.3___________I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. Forthis and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developeddisagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my5_____________ schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories andholding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of7________being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with wordsand a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________ intended —writing which I produced all through my childhood andboyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my firstpoem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.2010年专八真题改错部分So far as we can tell, all human languages are equallycomplete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is,every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say 1________________the things their speakers want to say. 2________________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive 3________________ peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not allgroups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics orpsychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereas this is not the 4_____________fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak aboutsnow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in 5______________ English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of thosesometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise andsubtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect 6______________in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position issimply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar 7____________ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms 8____________for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in whichEnglishwas habitually used made such distinction as important. 9_____________ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo languagecould be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufactureor cricket if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. 10____________2010年专八真题改错参考答案以及分词09专八改错原题The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passesfrom one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)___________ between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse,learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the (2)___________ little listener has grown up, and has children of their own, or even (3)____________ grandchildren. The period between learning a nursery rhyme andtransmitting it may be something from twenty to seventy years. With (4)_____________ the playground lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed (5)___________ on within the very hour it is learnt; and in the general, it passes (6)_____________ between children of the same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommonfor the difference in age between playmates to be more than fiveyears. If ,therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have beencurrently for a hundred years, or even just for fifty, it follows that it (7)__________has been retransmitted over and over; very possibly it has passed (8)___________ along a chain of two or three hundred young hearers and tellers, andthe wonder is that it remains live after so much handling, (9)____________to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____________答案分析：2008年专八真题短文改错The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is avery natural one, and in result language has played a prominent ____1____part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate ____2____a given language to show that they are distinctive from another ____3____race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States ____4____split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals thatindependence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a ____5____different language from those of Britain. There was even one ____6____proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favouredthe adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things wouldcertainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English ____7____and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone ____8____knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactorysolution of carrying with the same language as before. ____9____Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world ____10____that political independence and national identity can be completewithout sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language.07专八真题短文改错From what has been said, it must be clear that no one canmake very positive statements about how language originated.There is no material in any language today and in the earliest 1__________ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and 2__________emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language 3_________ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the 4__________ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remotetribes, no ancient records, providing evidence ofa language with a large proportion of such cries 5__________than we find in English. It is true that the absenceof such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in 6__________other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.People of all races and languages make rather similarnoises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that 7___________such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmenand Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference 8___________between these noises and language proper. We maysay that the cries of pain or chortles of amusementare largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, 9____________ whereas language proper does not consist of signsbut of these that have to be learnt and that are 10___________wholly conventional2006专八短文改错We use language primarily as a means of communication withother human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which welive a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as 1_______to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular 2_______ message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a 3_______set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his 4_______ thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English 5_______speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses active-ly and that which he recognises, increases in size as he growsold as a result of education and experience. 6_________But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the systemremains no more than a psychological reality for the individual, unlesshe has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another 7_________ member of his linguistic community; he bas to give the system aconcrete transmission form. We take it for granted the two most 8____________ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by ourvocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are 9_____________ among most striking of human achievements. 10____________2005年专八真题短文改错The University as BusinesA number of colleges and universities have announced steep tuition increases for next year much steeper than the current,very low rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed becauseof a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common 1 ________ stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizesits net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the 2 _________ outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of 3 ___________ business firms. The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty 4__________ increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of beingin the school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a factor in 5 __________ graduate and professional-school tuition); the poor one's job prospects, 6 ___________ the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,in order to make oneself more marketable.The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students 7 ___________ include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving studentsa governance role, and eliminate required courses. 8 _________Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students ascustomers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the 9 ___________ rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom t hey recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And until they were stoppe d by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best st udents, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purelyof need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best 10 ____________ customer20042003改错Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwarperiod were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and broughtthe birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)__years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young (2)__adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively largefamilies that went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)__but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. Fromthe 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)__and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts. (5)__Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who (6)__formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)__divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact toa greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)__as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)__ distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, thetemporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)__ Europe. Contr ary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned2002改错There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation comparable to th at existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact thatpronunciation is learnt…naturally‟ and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 1._____ deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remainthroughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds 2______like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when 3______we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, 4_______ whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. 5_____We begin the …natural‟ learning of pronunciation long before we start learningto read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously 6.___imitating and practicing the pronunciation of those around usfor many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend 7.___learning even our difficult English spelling. This is …natural‟, 8.___therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle;after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community 9.___and giving a sense of'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a …stranger‟,someone who spe aks with an accent of a different community-perhaps only a few miles far. 1020011.20001999年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-thirdsand more of the hunter-gatherer‟s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University ofLondon, showed that gathering is a more productive source of foodthan 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 a ccidents, these contemporaryaborigines 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, o n heart disease, and their bloodcholesterol 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.1998hen a human infant is born into any community in any part of the world it has two things in com mon with any infant, provided (1)_____neither of them have been damaged in any way either before (2)_____ or during birth. Firstly, a nd most obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to their helplessness lay using sound, there is nothing (3)_____the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some other human bein g or beings, be it mother,grandmother, or human group, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human infa nts is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet (4)_ _____within minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few hours. Although young animals are cer tainly in risk, sometimes (5)______for weeks or even months after birth, compared with the humaninfant they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. (6)______ It is during this very lo ng period in which the human infantis totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature (7) ______which it shares with all other undamaged human infants, acapacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggestthat language be "species specific" to the human race, that is (8) ______to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed (9) ______in such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies (10)that just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in colour, and just as they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as part of their normal developments as well-formed human beings1997Classic 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 appointment to keepand 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 would 3______simply get up out of his chair and to announce his4______departure. 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This is only a tiny range compared with the low temperatures of some other pla nets and the hot interior of the earth, let the temperatures (1) of the sun.As we know, life would only be possible on the face of a (2)planet had temperatures somewhere within this range. (3)The earth's supply of water probably remains quite fairly (4)constant in quantity. A certain number of hydrogen atoms, which are one of the main c onstituents of water, are lost by escaping from theatmosphere to out space, but they are probably just (5)about replaced by new water rising away from the depths of the (6)earth during volcanic action. The total quantity of water is not known,and it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe (7)to a depth of about two and three-quarter kms. Most of it -97% - is in the form of the salt waters of the oceans. The rest is fresh,but three quarter of this is in the form of ice at the Poles (8)and on mountains, and cannot be used by living systems when (9)melted. 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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。

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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。

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The only constantin life is change, the more one accepts one’s strengths and works 4._______towards dealing with their shortcomings, specially in the area of 5.________ communication skills, the better will be their interactions andthe more their social popularity.The dominated question that comes here is: How to improve 6.________ communication skills? The answer is simple. One can findplenty of literature on this. There are also experts, who conductworkshops and seminars based on communication skills of menand women. In fact, a large number of companies are bringing intrainers to regularly make sessions on the subject, in order to 7.________help their work force maintain better interpersonal work relations.Today effective communication skills have become a predominantfactor even while recruiting employees. 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I knew that I had a facilitywith words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I 8._____________felt that this created a sort of private world which I could get 9._____________my own back for my failure in everyday life. Therefore, the 10.____________volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended —writing whichI produced all through my childhood and boyhood would notamount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poemat the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.2010年改错真题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?well?equipped?as?any?other?to?say1____________ the?things?their?speakers?want?to?say.2____________There?may?or?may?not?be?appropriate?to?talk?about?primitive3_____________peo ples?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?.?Whereas?this?is?not?the4____________ fault?of?their?language.?The?Eskimos?,?it?is?said,?can?speak?about?snow?with?further?more?precision?and?subtlety?than?we?can?in5_____________ 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?come?to?light?a?defect6____________ in?English,?a?show?of?unexpected?'primitiveness'.?The?position?is?simply?and?obviously?that?the?Eskimos?and?the?English?live?in?similar??7___________ environments.?The?English?language?will?be?just?as?rich?in?terms8____________ for?different?kinds?of?snow,?presumably,?if?the?environments?in?which? Englishwashabituallyusedmadesuchdistinctionasimportant.9___________ 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?the?part?of?the?Eskimos'?life.10____________ For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the nineteenth centurycould not talk about motorcars with the minute discriminationwhich is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture.But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicleswhich send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when weare reading Scott or Dickens. How many of us could distinguishbetween a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham, a coupe, a gig,a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence?2009年改错真题The?previous?section?has?shown?how?quickly?a?rhyme?passes?from?one?school?child?to?the?next?and?illustrates?the?further?difference1.__________ betweenschoolloreandnurserylore.Innurseryloreaverse,learntinearly?childhood,?is?not?usually?passed?on?again?when?the?little listener ?2.__________ has?grown?up,?and?has?children?of?their?own,?or?even?grandchild 3.___________ The?period?between?learning?a?nursery?rhyme?and?transmitting?it?may?be?something?from?twenty?to?seventy?years.With?the?playground?lore,? 4.__________ therefore,?a?rhyme?may?be?excitedly?passed on?within?the?very?hour?it?is?5._________ learnt;?and?in?the?general,?it?passes?between?children?of?the?same?age,?6.___________ or?nearly?so,?since?it?is?uncommon??for?the?difference?in?age?between?playmates?to?be?more?than?five?years.?If, therefore,?a?playground?rhyme?can?be?shown?to?have?been?currently?for?a?hundred?years,?or?even?just?7.___________ for?fifty,?it?follows?that?it?has?been?retransmitted?over?and?over;?very? 8.___________ possibly?it?has?passed?along?a?chain?of?two?or?three?hundred?young?hearers?and?tellers,?and?the?wonder?is?that?it?remains?live?after?so?much?9.__________ handling,?to?let?alone?that?it?bears?resemblance?to?the10.______ _____2008年改错真题The?desire?to?use?language?as?a?sign?of?national?identity?is?a?very?natural?one,?and?in?result?language?has?played?a?prominent1.__________ part?in?national?moves.?Men?have?often?felt?the?need?to?cultivate2.__________ a?given?language?to?show?that?they?are?distinctive?from?another3.__________ race?whose?hegemony?they?resent.?At?the?time?the?United?States??????? ?4.__________ split?off?from?Britain,?for?example,?there?were?proposals?that?independence?should?be?linguistically?accepted?by?the?use?of?a5.__________ different?language?from?those?of?Britain.?There?was?even?one?????????? ?6.__________ proposal?that?Americans?should?adopt?Hebrew.?Others?favoured?the?adoption?of?Greek,?though,?as?one?man?put?it,?things?would?certainly?be?simpler?for?Americans?if?they?stuck?on?to?English7.__________? andmadetheBritishlearnGreek.Attheend,aseveryone 8.__________ knows,thetwocountriesadoptedthepracticalandsatisfactorysolution?of?carrying?with?the?same?language?as?before. 9.__________ Since?nearly?two?hundred?years?now,?they?have?shown?the?world 10.__________ that?political?independence?and?national?identity?can?be?complete?without?sacrificing?the?enormous?mutual?advantages?of?a?common?language.?2007年改错真题From?what?has?been?said,?it?must?be?clear?that?no?one?can??make?very?positive?statements?about?how?language?originated.??There?is?no?material?in?any?language?today?and?in?the?earliest 1.__________? records?of?ancient?languages?show?us?language?in?a?new?and ?2.__________ emergingstate.Itisoftensaid,ofcourse,thatthelanguage 3._________? originated?in?cries?of?anger,?fear,?pain?and?pleasure,?and?the 4.__________? necessary?evidence?is?entirely?lacking:?there?are?no?remotetribes,?no?ancient?records,?providing?evidence?of??a?language?with?a?large?proportion?of?such?cries ? 5.__________? than?we?find?in?English.?It?is?true?that?the?absenceof?such?evidence?does?not?disprove?the?theory,?but?in?other?grounds 6.___________ too?the?theory?is?not?very?attractive.??People?of?all?races?and?languages?make?rather?similar??noises?in?return?to?pain?or?pleasure.?The?fact?that7.___________?such?noises?are?similar?on?the?lips?of?Frenchmen??and?Malaysians?whose?languages?are?utterly?different,??serves?to?emphasize?on?the?fundamental?difference ?? 8.___________ betweenthesenoisesandlanguageproper.Wemaysay?that?the?cries?of?pain?or?chortles?of?amusement??are?largely?reflex?actions,?instinctive?to?large?extent, 9.____________? whereas?language?proper?does?not?consist?of?signs?but?of?these?that?have?to?be?learnt?and?that?are wholly?conventional. 10.___________ 2006年改错真题We?use?language?primarily?as?a?means?of?communication?with? otherhumanbeings.Eachofusshareswiththecommunityinwhichwe liveastoreofwordsandmeaningsaswellasagreeingconventionsas1.________ to?the?way?in?which?words?should?be?arranged?to?convey?a?particular2.________ message:?the?English?speaker?has?in?his?disposal?vocabulary?and?a3._________?setofgrammaticalruleswhichenableshimtocommunicatehis4._________ thoughts?and?feelings,?in?a?variety?of?styles,?to?the?other?English5._________ speakers.Hisvocabulary,inparticular,boththatwhichheusesactivelyand?that?which?he?recognises,?increases?in?size?as?he?grows?old?as?a?result?of?education?and?experience. ?6. _________But,?whether?the?language?store?is?relatively?small?or?large,?the?systemremains?no?more?than?a?psychological?reality?for?the?individual,?unless?he?has?a?means?of?expressing?it?in?terms?able?to?be?seen?by?another7._________??? member?of?his?linguistic?community;?he?has?to?give?the?system?a?concrete?transmission?form.?We?take?it?for?granted?the?two?most8.___________ common?forms?of?transmission-by?means?of?sounds?produced?by?our?vocal?organs?(speech)?or?by?visual?signs?(writing).?And?these?are 9.___________ among?most?striking?of?human?achievements.10.___________2005年改错真题The?University?as?BusinesA?number?of?colleges?and?universities?have?announced?steep?tuition?increases?for?next?year—much?steeper?than?the?current,?very?low?rate?of?inflation.?They?say?the?increases?are?needed?because?of?a?loss?in?value?of?university?endowments?heavily?investing?in?common?stock.?I?am?skeptical.?1._______A?business?firm?chooses?the?price?that?maximizes?its?net?revenues,?irrespective?fluctuations?in?income;?and?increasingly?the?outlook?of? 2._________ universities?in?the?United?States?is?indistinguishable?from?those?of? 3._________ business?firms.?The?rise?in?tuitions?may?reflect?the?fact?economic? 4._________ uncertainty increases?the?demand?for?education.?The?biggest?cost?of?being?in?the?school?is?foregoing?income?from?a?job?(this?is?primarily?a? 5._________ factor?in?graduate?and?professional-school?tuition);?the?poor?one's?job?prospects, the?more?sense?it?makes?to? 6.__________ reallocate?time?from?the?job?market?to?education,?in?order?to?make?oneself?more?marketable.??Thewayswhichuniversitiesmakethemselvesattractivetostudents7._________ include?soft?majors,?student?evaluations?of?teachers,?giving?students??a?governance?role,?and?eliminate?required?courses.?Sky-high?tuitions?8.____________ have?caused?universities?to?regard?their?students?as?customers.?Just?as?business?firms?sometimes?collude?to?shorten?the?rigors?of?competition,?9.___________ universities?collude?to?minimize?the?cost?to?them?of?the?athletes?whom?they?recruit?in?order?to?stimulate?alumni?donations,?so?the?best??athletes?now?often?bypass?higher?education?in?order?to?obtain?salaries?earlier?from?professional?teams.?And?until?they?were?stopped?by?the?antitrust?authorities,??the?Ivy?League?schools?colluded?to?limit?competition?for?the?best?students,?by?agreeing?not?to?award?scholarships?on?the?basis?of?merit?rather?than?purely?of?need—just?like?business?firms?agreeing?not?to?give?discounts?on?their?best?customer.? 10?___________One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S. Congressis the power to investigate. The power is usually delegtated tocommittees —either stading committees,special committees set for a specific purpose, 1.___________or joint committees consisted of members of both houses. 2.___________ Investigations are held to gather information on the need forFuture legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,to inquire into the qualification and performance of members andofficials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the 3.___________ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, committeesrely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings 4.___________and to make out detailed studies of issues. 5.____________ There are important corallaries to the investigative power.One is the power to publicize investigations and its results. 6.___________most committee hearings are open to public and are reported 7.___________widely in the mass media. Congressional investigationnevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakes 8.___________to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issuses.9.__________ Congressional committees also have the power to compeltestimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite fro contemptof Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjurythese who give false testimony. 10.__________2003年改错真题Demographic?indicators?show?that?Americans?in?the?postwarperiod?were?more?eager?than?ever?to?establish?families.?They?quicklybrought?down?the?age?at?marriage?for?both?men?and?women?and?broughtthe?birth?rate?to?a?twentieth?century?height?after?more?than?a?hundred1.________ years?of?a?steady?decline,?producing?the?“baby?boom.”?These?young2.________ adults?established?a?trend?of?early?marriage?and?relatively?largefamilies?that?went?for?more?than?two?decades?and?caused?a?major3.___________but temporaryreversaloflong-termdemographicpatterns.Fromthe?1940s?through?the?early?1960s,?Americans?married?at?a?high?rate4.__________and atayoungeragethantheirEuropecounterparts. ??5.__________? Less?noted?but?equally?more?significant,?the?men?and?women?who6._________???? formed?families?between?1940?and?1960?nevertheless?reduced?the7._________?? divorce?rate?after?a?postwar?peak;?their?marriages?remained?intact?toa?greater?extent?than?did?that?of?couples?who?married?in?earlier?as?well8.__________as?l ater?decades.?Since?the?United?States?maintained?its?dubious?????????? ?9.__________ distinction?of?having?the?highest?divorce?rate?in?the?world,?thetemporary?decline?in?divorce?did?not?occur?in?the?same?extent?in10.________ _Europe.?Contrary?to?fears?of?the?experts,?the?role?of?breadwinner?and homemaker?was?not?abandoned.There?are?great?impediments?to?the?general?use?of?a?standard?in?pronunciation??comparable?to?that?existing?in?spelling?(orthography).?One?is?the?fact that?pronunciation?is?learnt“naturally”?and?unconsciously,?and?orthography?is?learnt 1.____________ deliberately?and?consciously.?Large?numbers?of?us,?in?fact,?remain?throughout?our?lives?quite?unconscious?with?what? 2.____________our?speech?sounds?like?when?we?speak?out,?and?it?often? 3.____________ comes?as?a?shock?when?we?firstly?hear?a?recording?of?ourselves.? 4.____________It?is?not?a?voice?we?recognize?at?once,?whereas?our?own?handwriting?is?something?which?we?almost?always?know.?We?begin?the?“natural” 5.___________ learning?of?pronunciation?long?before?we?start?learning?to?read?or?write,?and?in?our?early?years?we?went?on?unconsciously?imitating?and? 6.___________ practicing?the?pronunciation?of?those?around?us?for?many?more?hours?per?every?day?than?we?ever?have?to?spend?learning?even?our?difficult? 7.__________ English?spelling.?This?is?“natural”?therefore,?that?our?speech-sounds? 8.__________ should?be?those?of?our?immediate?circle;?after?all,?as?we?have?seen,?speech?operates?as?a?means?of?holding?a?community?and? 9.__________ giving?a?sense?of “belonging”.?We?learn?quite?early?to?recognize?a?“stranger”, someone?who?speaks?with?an?accent?of?a?different? Community—perhaps?only?a?few?miles?far. 10.__________ 2001年改错真题During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the verylifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yieldsand the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if they were growers. 1.________The marketing of wheat became an increasing favorite topic of conversation.2.______ War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing thewestern crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain sellingas carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat priceswere generally low in the autumn, so farmers could not wait for 3.____________markets to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheatsoon shortly after harvest when farm debts were coming due, 4.____________just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. On various occasions,5.________ producer groups, asked firmer control, but the government had no wish to 6.________become involving, at least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened7.________to run wild.Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.___________ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveriesfrom the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended,and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of 9._________1919, the government appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board,with total authority to buy, sell, and set prices. 10.___________2000年改错真题The grammatical words which play so large a part in Englishgrammar are for the most part sharply and obviously differentfrom the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which mayseem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less 1.___________ 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 isvile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this diff erence in meaning. 6.___________ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably amongthemselves 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 weconsider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.___________ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what somepeople say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.__________ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry ofRobert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.1999年改错真题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 onehalf emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate onfishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirdsand more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.__________ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University ofLondon, showed that gathering is a more productive source of foodthan 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, ifthey escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporaryaborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7.___________ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dentaldecay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their bloodcholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average 8.__________ American adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to 9.___________an aboriginal life style, we certainly could use their eating habitsas a model for healthier diet.1998年改错真题When a human infant is born into any community in any partof the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided 1.____________ neither of them have been damaged in any way either before 2.___________or during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born childrenare completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to。

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。

2016年英语专八改错

2016年英语专八改错原句：The new employee's enthusiasm and dedication were highlycommended by his colleagues.答案：recommended原句：The restaurant has a reputation for serving the finest cuisine in town.答案：cuisine原句：I'm sorry, but we don't have any vacant table for you at the moment.答案：vacant原句：The bookstore owner was pleasant and helpful, which iswhy I always enjoy visiting the store.答案：which原句：The man had a strong desire to become a successfulwriter.答案：successful原句：The playwright was so inspired by the story that he wrotea play based on it.答案：inspired原句：The company is known for its commitment to high ethicalstandards in business.答案：ethical原句：The police are still investigating the cause of theaccident, but it appears to be the result of careless driving.答案：careless原句：The scientist is conducting a thorough investigationinto the causes of the disease.答案：thorough原句：The student's essay was well-written and contained awealth of information.答案：wealth原句：The new employee has a strong work ethic and isalways eager to learn more.答案：eager原句：The book's cover is attractively designed with vibrantcolors.答案：attractively原句：The team's performance was disappointing, but I'mconfident that they will improve in the future.答案：confident原句：The teacher's explanation was clear and easy tounderstand.答案：clear原句：The restaurant's menu is extensive and offers a varietyof dishes to choose from.答案：variety原句：The actor's performance in the play was so convincingthat it left the audience in awe.答案：convincing原句：The company has a reputation for providing exceptionalcustomer service.答案：exceptional原句：The newly-published book has already received acclaimfrom critics and readers alike.答案：readers原句：The writer's imagination is limitless, and his storiesare always captivating.答案：limitless原句：The city's skyline is dominated by skyscrapers, givingit a modern and urban feel.答案：modern。

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2016年英语专业八级改错
All social units develop a culture. Even in two-person relationships,
a culture develops in time. In friendship and romantic relationships, f o r e x a m p l e,p a r t n e r s d e v e l o p t h e i r o w n h i s t o r y,s h a r e d experiences, language patterns, habits, and customs give that relationship a special character﹘a character that differs it in various ways from other relationships. Examples might include special dates, places, songs, or events that come to have a unique and important symbolic meaning for the two individuals. Thus, any social unit﹘whether a relationship, group, organization, or society﹘develpos a culture with the passage of time. While the defining charateristics of each culture are unique, all cultures share certain sam e funct i ons. Th e rel at i onshi p bet ween com m uni cat i on a n d c u l t u r e i s a v e r y c o m p l e x i n t i m a t e o n e.
C u l t u r e s a r e c r e a t e d t h r o u g h c o m m u n i c a t i o n;t h a t i s, communication is the means of human interaction, through it c u l t u r a l c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s a r e c r e a t e d a n d s h a r e d. It is not so much that individuals set out to create a culture when they interact in relationships, groups, organizations, or societies, but rather than that cultures are a natural by-product of social interaction. In a case, cultures are the “residents”of social communication. Without communication and communication media, it would be impossible to have and pass along cultural characteristics from one place and time to another. One can say, furthermore, that culture is created, shaped, t r a n s m i t t e d,a n d l e a r n e d t h r o u g h c o m m u n i c a t i o n. (1)________
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1.in→over
2.∧give→that /which
3.differs→differentiates或it→it
4.the→the
5.same→common
6.∧intimate→and
7.it→which 8.than→than 9.base→preserve
10.furthermore→therefore。