大学英语5改错题总结

Unit2

VI

Dear Student,

We the faculty take no pride in our educational achievements with you. We have prepared you for

a world that does not exist, indeed, that must not

exist. You have spent four years supposing that

failure leaves no record. You have learned that

when your work goes poorly, the painless solution

is to drop out. But start now, in the world

which you go, failure marks you. Confronting difficulty by quitting leaves you changed. Outside the college,

quitters are no heroes.

With us you could argue about why your errors were not errors, why mediocre work really

was excellent, why you could take pride in routine

and slipshod(不严谨的)presentation. Most of

you, after all, can look back on honor grades for

most of what you have done. So, here grades can

have meant little in distinguishing the excellent

from the ordinary. But tomorrow, in the world to

which you go, you had best not defend errors but

learn them. You will ill-advised to demand

praise for that does not deserve it, and abuse those who do not give it.

For years we created an altogether forgiving world, in which whatever slight effort you gave

was all that was demanded. When you did not keep appointments, we made new ones. When your

work came in beyond the deadline, we pretended

not to care.

Worse still, when you were boring, we acted

as if you are interesting. When you were garrulous (喋喋不休的) and talked to hear yourselves talk, we listened as you were saying something important. When you were dull, we pretended you were

smart. When you were predictable, imaginative

and routine, we listened as if to new and wonderful things. And all this why?

Inspite your fantasies, it was not even that we wanted to be liked by you. It was that we did not

want to be bothered, and the easy way was pretense: smile and easy Bs.

Unite4

21.薛磊，杨晨----课本90页改错题

I strongly disagree with some people’s assessment of the disadvantages

of children growing up without access to computers and the internet. Somehow, generations of people if all races and economic backgrounds

Tried to succeed without computers.

I am a child of the’50s and graduated from college in mid 1970s, without the aid of a computer or even a calculator. We used our brains to

add and abstract and slide rules(计算尺) for more complicated math. We learned to spell words, not use spell-check; we learned to diagram(用

图解法分析) sentences, not click on the grammar-check. We learned penmanship so out handwriting papers could be read.

I grew up with two sisters on the “wrong side” of my hometown (you know, the poor side ).My parents graduated during the Great Depression

with eighth grades of education and worker hard for meager wages. We had a telephone, but we did not have television until 1968.I guess we were deprived.

Did it affect me? No. My sister and I are successful because our parents struggled to scrape up for the tuition to send us to private schools. They cared enough to make sure we learned out factions, our spelling words an our sentence diagrams .They instilled in us the love of books and reading.

I became computer illiterate at 30,.I an a curious soul, so I learn new

applications that improve my work and home environments. I am not in the dark ages when it comes to technology. I embraced it.

But computers and software are simple tools. The are not answers to

a deeper problem. Don’t blame the lack of computer and/or Internet access

to poor student performance. Computers and software will not make a

student better if the basic skills and parenting involvement are not part if the equation.

Get a grip(请冷静)，folks. Teach children to add subtract. Teach them to

live education, to be curious about what’s around the bend(转弯处)，over the horizon.Teach them respect for our country’s values,

the history. Teach them a sense between right and wrong.

An old saying goes something like this: Give a man a fish and he eats

today; teach him to fish and he will eat for life. Why not change it to read:

Give a child a computer and she learns to double click. Teach her to read,

write, spell and subtract, and the doors for knowledge open wide.

Unit7

24.臧坤，姚海龙----课本185页改错题

Without his wife Jane, Hawking has always emphasized,

his career might never soared, She married him shortly

after he had diagnosed with ALS, fully aware of the dreadful ,

progress nature of the disease, giving him hope and the will to

carry with his studies. They had three children in the early stages of their marriage, and later, as he became increasingly disabled,

she devoted herself to satisfy his every need.

After years of apparent harmonious marriage, however, serious disagreements began appearing. As the awards poured

in for Stephen ,Jane----competent and intelligent herself ----

began to resent living in his shadow. Deeply religious, she was

also offended by his belief in the existence of God. Particularly

annoyed to her was his concept that the universe might be

completely self-contained, have no boundary or edge, no

beginning or end. If that were true, he asked provocatively,

“What place, then, for a creator?” Still, friends were shocked

In 1990 when Hawking abruptly ended their 25-year marriage,

moving in with one of his nurse.

答案：1.had后^been 2.progress→progressive 3.with→on

4.satisfy→satisfying

5.apparent→apparently

6.去掉the

7.belief→disbelief

8.annoyed →annoying

9.have→having 10.nurse→nurses

Unit8

26.张明星，张正孝----课本214页改错题

The United States has a major racial problem on its

hands. The only way to solve is through education .

Blacks should know about the contribution that black individuals and groups have done towards building America. This is of vital importance for there self-respect;

and it is perhaps even more important for white

people to know. Yet if you believe that a man has no

history worth mentioning, it is difficult to conclude

that he has no value as a man.

Many people believe that, since the achievements

of the blacks do not appear in historical books, they did not have any. Little has been written about the 5,000 American blacks who fought in the Revolution against

The British ,and they were in every important battle. In

the Civil War , for example more then 200,000 black

troops fought in the United States forces . How , then ,

did the image of the blacks as brave fighting people appear? To justify the institution of slavery , slaveholders

Had to create the myth of the slow- witted black , incapable

of self-improvement ,and even dissatisfied with his

lot . Nothing could be further from the true .The slave fought for his freedom at every chance he got , and

there was a great number of risings.

答案：

1. is前加it

2.done改为made

3.Yet改为For

4.difficult改为easy

5.historical 改为history

6.and改为but

7.appear 改为disappear 8. dissatisfied改为satisfied 9.true改为truth

10.was改为were

Test

28.朱朝旭，代永霞----课本236页改错题

I’m a great admirer of the Japanese because they

know where they’ve come from, they know where

they’re at, and they know where they’re going. And

most important ,they have a national strategy to get

them there.

They also know to make good cars. During the

1970s, their cars were actually better than ours. That’s

not true any longer, but many Americans still believe it.

How did Japanese cars get so good? It starts with

the workers. To begin , labor costs over there are much

higher than ours. Japanese workers earn about 60

percents of what American counterparts take home.

They don’t have automatic cost-of-living increases tie

to the Consumer Price Index, as American workers do.

And th ey don’t have the same array of company-paid

medical benefits that saved the consumer several

hundred dollars a car.

Japan’s workers are also more productive than

ours. I don’t mean that they are better ,merely that they

operate by a different set of rules.

There are really only two job classification s

in Japan: skilled and unskilled. Depending on that needs

to be down on a given day, a worker may perform a

variety of job. If the floor is clean , he’ll pick up a

broom and sweep it without worrying about that’s part

of his job definition. Naturally this sense of

responsibility leads to much great efficiency.

答案：26. (know)how 27. (begin)with 28. higher→lower

29.percents→percent

30.tie→tied 31.saved→cost 32.that→what

33.clean→dirty

34.(about)whether that’s35.great→greater