专八改错练习

专八改错专项练习

改错专项练习一

Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar 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 he ight 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 large families that went for more than two decades and caused a major(3)but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From the 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 to a 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, the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)_Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.

改错专项练习二

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 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 learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously (6) imitating and practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend (7) learning even our difficult English spelling. Th is 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 speaks with an accent of a different community-perhaps only a few miles far. (10)

改错专项练习三

During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if (1) they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing (2) favorite topic of conversation. War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could (3 )not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts (4) were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. (5) On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, (6) but the government had no wish to become involving, at (7) least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to runwild.Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal (8) government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from 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 1919, the government (9) appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to (10)_ buy, sell, and set prices.

改错专项练习四

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 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 is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning (6) Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the (7) lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words”. But size is by no mean a g ood criterion for (8) distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart (9) from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity(10) when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

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