大学英语-短文改错练习及答案

Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after they start speaking,

1.________and the late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate like a discrption of the eager and

2._____delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by making

3._____ questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words lead to considerable

4._____ difficulties. It is agree that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noise sort themselves out as

5.____ particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since

6.___ these can be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can

7._____ hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, from

8.______ about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds making or words spoken to

9.______ them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point which one 10._____ can say that these imitation can be considered as speech.

1. after -> before

根据上下文逻辑，此处显然指孩子学会说话之前的听力，而非之后。

2.like -> as

like和as都有“像”的意思，但是此处要求填入一个具有“作为”之意的词，故将like改为as

3.in -> by

4. lead -> leads

此处句子的主语是上一行的attempt，所以要用动词的第三人称形式。

5.noise -> noises

One or two 后修饰的名词按复数对待。

6. particular -> particularly

修饰形容词indicative应该使用副词particularly。

7. can be said -> can not be said

8. from前加that

it是句子的形式主语，而后面的from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment才是真正的主语，too是插入语，由于是主语从句，故引导词that不能省略。

9. making -> made

此处指“发出的声音和说的话”，sound与make之间是被动关系。

10. which前加at

定语从句的关系代词指代先行词point，可知从句中缺少的时状语，因此在which前加at。

A “typical”British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, and in recent years there have been many changes in family 1.____ life. Some of these have been caused by new laws and other 2. _____ are the result of changes in society. For example, for the law 3.___ made easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has increased. 4. ______ In fact, one marriage in every three now end in divorce. This means that 5. ______ there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is now more tolerant than it used to be with unmarried people, unmarried couples and single parents. 6._____ Another change has been caused by the fact people are living longer 7. ____ nowadays, and many old people lives alone following the death of their partners. As a cause of these changes in the pattern of people’s lives, there 8.____ are many families consist of only one person or one person and children. .9._____ You might think that marriage and the families are not so popular as they once are. However, the majority of divorced people marry again and they 10._____ sometimes take responsibility for a second family.