专八改错_(1999年-2011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 knew

that when I grew I should be a writer.Between the ages of about1__________

seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea,but I did so

with 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 years4__________

on either side,and I barely saw my father before I was eight.For

this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely,and I soon developed

disagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my5_____________

schooldays.I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and

holding conversations with imaginative persons,and I think from6_________

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 words

and a power of facing in unpleasant facts,and I felt that this created8________

a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure9________

in everyday life.Therefore,the volume of serious—i.e.seriously10________

intended—writing which I produced all through my childhood and

boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages.I wrote my first

poem 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。作者是三个孩子句中的那位

5，改disagreeing为disagreeable，disagreeing只能作动名词，不能作形容词。disagreeable mannernisms 令人讨厌的习惯

6，改imaginative为imaginary,考词语区别imaginative翻译为“有想象力的”，imaginary翻译为“想象的，虚构的”

7，改literal为literary,考词义区别，literal翻译为“字面的”，literary翻译为“文学方面的”

8，去掉face后的in，face接宾语时是及物动词。考动词的基本用法

9，在world后加in或者改which为where,考定语从句

10，改Therefore为However或者Nevertheness,考语境。

感悟：11专八改错相对前几年专八改错要简单一点。本人认为词义区别考得过多了。

2010年专八真题改错部分

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________________

peoples or cultures,but that is another matter.Certainly,not all

groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or

psychology or the cultivation of rice.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 similar7____________ environments.The English language will be just as rich in terms8____________

for different kinds of snow,presumably,if the environments in which

Englishwas habitually used made such distinction as important.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____________

2010年专八真题改错参考答案以及分词

1be后插入as;as…as引导的比较级

2their改为its;its代替every language

3There改为It;It此处作为形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式

4Whereas改为But；语境需要表示转折的连词，whereas表示对比

5further改为much further不能修饰比较级

6come改为bring;(sth)come to light,bring sth to light

bring to light the defect of English=bring the defect of english to light揭示英语的缺陷

7similar改为different;根据语境应该用different

8will改为would;虚拟语气

9as important去掉as;

10the part去掉the或者改the为a be/become/form(a)part of是固定短语

09专八改错原题

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes

from 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 and

transmitting 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 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 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,and

the 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：

(1)the further difference改为a further difference（此次应该用不定冠词表示泛指）

(2)改when为until,结构not...until翻译为“直到……才”

(3)their改为his（代词与前文a little listener在单复数上保持一致）

(4)something改为anything此处指二十到七十的任何时段

(5)therefore改为however（根据上下文逻辑关系）

(6)in the general去掉the（习惯用法in general表示总的来说，一般不用冠词）

(7)currently改为current（这里起的是表语的作用，需要形容词而不是副词）

(8)it has passed改为it has been passed（与分号前的被动保持一致）

(9)live改为alive alive翻译为“鲜活的”，一般作补语；live翻译为“现场转播的；活的”，一般作定语

(10)to let alone改为let alone(let alone为习惯搭配，意思是“更不用说

2008年专八真题短文改错

The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a

very 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 that

independence 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 favoured

the adoption of Greek,though,as one man put it,things would

certainly 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 satisfactory

solution 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.

2008

1.in result改成in consequence，

2moves改成movements.

3distinctive改成distinct或different

4在time后加when

5accepted改成realized

6those改成that

7删除on,

8At改成In

9carrying with改成carrying on with

10now改成ago

07专八真题短文改错

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 earliest1__________

records of ancient languages show us language in a new and2__________

emerging state.It is often said,of course,that the language3_________

originated in cries of anger,fear,pain and pleasure,and the4__________

necessary evidence is entirely lacking:there are no remote

tribes,no ancient records,providing evidence of

a language with a large proportion of such cries5__________

than we find in English.It is true that the absence

of such evidence does not disprove the theory,but in6__________

other grounds 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 difference8___________

between these noises and language proper.We may

say 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 are10___________

wholly conventional.

1,改and为or,any languagages today or recordsof ancient languages是并列成分，在否定句中用or 2,改show为showing,现在分词作定语

3，删除the,表示泛指

4，改and为but,根据语境此处是转折

5，改large为larger,后面有than,应该用比较级

6，改in为on,on other grounds“基于其它理由”，为固定搭配

7，改return为response,in response to“对……作出反应”

8，删除on,emphasize sth emphasize是及物动词

9，在large前加a,extent是可数名词，前面要加冠词。"to a large extent"翻译为“在很大程度上”10，改these为those those that/who为固定形式

2006专八短文改错

We use language primarily as a means of communication with

other human beings.Each of us shares with the community in which we

live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as1_______

to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular2_______

message:the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a3_______

set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his4_______

thoughts and feelings,in a variety of styles,to the other English5_______

speakers.His vocabulary,in particular,both that which he uses active-

ly and 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 system

remains 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 bas 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 are9_____________

among most striking of human achievements.10____________

1,改agreeing为agreed agreed conventions翻译为“习俗”

2，words前加the,此处为特指

3，改in为at at one’s disposal为固定短语，翻译为“由某人做主”

4，改enables为enable，定语从句与先行词vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules保持一致

5，删除the,此处需要泛指

6，改old为older,此处需要比较级

7，改seen为understood，system应该是被理解

8．，删除it take sth for granted take it for granted that…

9,改or为and,语境需要并列关系而不需选择关系

10，most前加the,形容词最高级中that一般不能省略

2005年专八真题短文改错

The University as Busines

A 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 common1________

stock.I am skeptical.A business firm chooses the price that maximizes

its net revenues,irrespective fluctuations in income;and increasingly the2_________

outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of3___________

business firms.The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty4__________

increases the demand for education.The biggest cost of being

in the school is foregoing income from a job(this is primarily a factor in5__________

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 students7___________

include soft majors,student evaluations of teachers,giving students

a governance role,and eliminate required courses.8_________

Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as

customers.Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the9___________

rigors of competition,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 best10____________ customer.

1.investing应改为invested，过去分词作定语

2.在irrespective和fluctuations之间加上介词of。irrespectiveOf是一固定用法，意指“不论，不管，不顾，”

等，此处指公司不顾收入的波动变化。

3.把those改为that，that此处代替outlook

4．在fact和economic之间力口上关系代词that。这是一个同位语从语，that在同位语从句中是不能省略的.

5．把定冠词the去掉,in school表示上学这个抽象意义

6．把形容词poor改为其比较级poorer。这句中的poor与后面的more形成一对比较关系，表示“越……越……”

7．在ways和which之间加上一个介词in。

8．这里应该用动词的—lng形式，即eliminating，以便使句型结构与前面的giving(students a governance role)保持一致，否则句子结构和意思都显得不正确。

9．将shorten(缩短；使变短)改为reduce/lesson/weaken。此处属于用词不当。

10．将to give discounts on改为to give discounts to their best customer。意为实业公司给最好的客户提供优惠。Give discounts to sb为固定短语

2004改错

One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S Congress

is the power to investigate.This power is usually delegated to committees-either

standing committees,special committees set for a specific(1)____

purpose,or joint committees consisted of members of both houses.(2)____

Investigations are held to gather information on the need for

future legislation,to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,

to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members and

officials of the other branches,and in rare occasions,to lay the(3)____

groundwork for impeachment proceedings.Frequently,committees

rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings(4)____

and to make out detailed studies of issues.(5)____

There are important corollaries to the investigative power.One

is the power to publicize investigations and its results.Most(6)____

committee hearings are open to public and are reported(7)____

widely in the mass media.Congressional investigations

nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers(8)____

to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues.

(9)____

Congressional committees also have the power to compel

testimony from unwilling witnesses,and to cite for contempt

of Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury of

these who give false testimony.(10)____

1.,在set后加up,set up“建立、成立”是固定短语

2.答案：consisted→consisting/composed

3.答案：in→on

【详细解答】固定搭配on...occasions

4.答案rely后加on

【详细解答】固定搭配rely on sb.to do something

5.答案：make out→make

【详细解答】make out意思是“辨认出”，而此处意思是“对...做详细的研究”，故用“make detailed studies of...”即可。

6.答案：its→their

【详细解答】此处指代的是“investigations”,故用复数。

7.答案：public→the public

【详细解答】the+adj.可表示某一类人，此处意思是“面向公众”，故应用“the public”。

8.答案：nevertheless→therefore/thus

【详细解答】此处不是表示意思的转折，而是与前文构成因果关系，故可改为therefore或thus。

9.答案：interests→interest

【详细解答】此处看成不可数名词为佳

10.答案：these→those

【详细解答】those指代witnesses,即指代名词复数做定语从句的先行词，而these不行

2003改错

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 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 large

families that went for more than two decades and caused a major(3)__

but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns.From

the1940s through the early1960s,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 between1940and1960nevertheless 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.

1.答案：height→high，high作为名词翻译为“最高水平”，又如reach an all-time high

2．答案：删除a

【详细解答】此处steady decline指稳定下降的行为、过程而不是其结果，为不可数名词，故应去掉定冠词a。

3．答案：went后加on

【详细解答】go on为固定搭配，意为“持续”。

4．答案：high→higher

【详细解答】后面有than，此处应为比较级。

5．答案：Europe→European

【详细解答】根据上下文，此处应用形容词作定语修饰名词counterparts。

6．答案：more

【详细解答】由上下文可知，more与equally矛盾，故应去掉。

7．答案：nevertheless→also

【详细解答】由上下文可知，此处讲的内容与前部分内容之间为递进关系，而非转折关系。

8．答案：that→those

【详细解答】由上下文可知，此处所指代的应为前面复数形式的marriages，故指示代词也应该用复数形式。

9．答案：Since→Although（或While）

【详细解答】从逻辑上讲，此处应表达让步关系，而非因果关系。

10．答案：in→to

【详细解答】to．．．extent为固定搭配，意为“到……程度”

2002改错

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 https://www.wendangku.net/doc/b2664551.html,rge numbers of us,in fact,remain

throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech sounds2______

like when we speak out,and it often comes as a shock when3______

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 spend7.___

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 community9.___

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.___

答案与详解

1.答案：and→while/whereas

【详细解答】前半句意为“发音是在无意识之中学成的”，后半句意为“拼写是有意识地学成的”，它们之间是对比关系，故应该用连词while来连接。

2.答案：with→of

【详细解答】be unconscious of是固定搭配，意为“无意识地，未意识到”。即“我们之中很多人一辈子都不知道自己的话听起来是什么样的”。

3.答案：speak后加it

【详细解答】speak out意为“大胆地说出”，在这里句意不通。在speak out中加上it，指代前面的speech，意为“当我们说出话后，自己听起来像什么”。

4.答案：firstly→first

【详细解答】firstly表示顺序中的“第一”，first则表示时间上的“第一次，首次”。这里是说“当我们第一次听到自己的录音时，通常会震惊”。故应将firstly改为first才合乎句意。

5.答案：which→that

【详细解答】在定语从句中，如果先行词是代词something，everything，nothing，little，few等时，关系词应用that而不是which，故此处应将which改为that。

6.答案：went→go

【详细解答】本文通篇用的都是一般现在时，所以此处也应用一般现在时，使上下文保持时态一致。

7.答案：删除per或every

【详细解答】per和every都是“每”的意思，在此属重复错误，故将两者去掉一个即可。

8.答案：This→It

【详细解答】根据句子结构，句中缺少一形式主语，而作形式主语的只能是代词it，this是“这”的意思，

不能用做形式主语，所以应将this改为it。

9.答案：community后加together

【详细解答】hold意为“抓住，占据，包含”。此处想表达的意思是“语言用作使社区具有凝聚力、给人归属感的一种方式”，用hold a community不能表达此意；hold sth．together表示“使结合在一起不破，使团结一致”的意思，符合句意。

10.答案：far→away

【详细解答】要表达距离上的远近，在英语中通常用副词away。far表示“远，从（到）很远距离”，不合句意。

2001改错

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,at7.___

least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run

wild.

Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs,the federal8.___

government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with

deliveries from the crops of1917and1918.Grain Exchange

trading was suspended,and farmers sold at prices fixed by the

board.To handle with the crop of1919,the government9.___

appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board,with total authority to10.___

buy,sell,and set prices.

1.答案：as→so

此处不是比较，so翻译为“如此”

2.答案：increasing→increasingly

【详细解答】increasing可用来修饰名词，表示“正在增加”，修饰名词topic不合题意。本句中应该用副词作状语修饰形容词favorite，所以应该改用副词increasingly。

3.答案：so→but

【详细解答】根据上下文判断，小麦价格在秋天不断下降，但是农民不能等着市场提升价格。这里应该是转折关系，而不是因果关系。

4.答案：soon或shortly

【详细解答】要表达“不久以后”，要么用soon after，要么用shortly after，就是没有soo n shortly after 这种搭配。

5.答案：rich→richer

【详细解答】根据上下文，这里是说由于价格上涨，投机商们变得更加富有，故应该改用形容词的比较级形式。

6.答案：asked后加for

【详细解答】ask for为固定搭配，意为“要求，请求”。

7.答案：involving→involved

【详细解答】be involved in为一固定搭配，意为“被卷入…”，这里的be为连系动词，可用become 替换。

8.答案：1ife→living

【详细解答】根据上下文，这里要表达的意思是“生活费用”，应为living costs。life则意为“生命”，不能修饰costs。

9.答案：删除with

【详细解答】handle为及物动词，应直接带宾语。

10.答案：total→full

【详细解答】total意为“总体的，全体的”，指一种整体的概念。而这里要表达的是“全部的权威”，英语中常用full authority。

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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 the7.___

lexical sense.Another name for the grammatical words has been

“little words”.But size is by no mean a good criterion for8.___

distinguishing the grammatical words of English,when we

consider that we have lexical words as go,man,say,car.Apart9.___

from this,however,there is a good deal of truth in what some

people say:we certainly do create a great number of obscurity10.___

when we omit them.This is illustrated not only in the poetry of

Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

1.答案：删除seem后的the

【详细解答】本句中的most为副词，不是最高级形式，故不用定冠词the。翻译为“极其”

2.答案：but→and

【详细解答】根据文章内容判断，but后面的陈述与前文并不是相反之意，而是并列关系。

3.答案：in→to

【详细解答】as opposed to为固定搭配，意为“与……对照，与……相比”。

4.答案：misled→misleading

【详细解答】根据句意，这里的方式（way）是对他人有误导，不是被他人误导。所以应该用m islead 的现在分词表示主动的含义。

5.答案：away

【详细解答】far away from意为“距离某处很远”，而far from being则意为“远不是，远够不上”。

根据上下文，这里是说“远非毫无意义”，故应该用短语far from being。

6.答案：single→only

【详细解答】此处用only修饰vehicle比用single更符合习惯用法。

7.答案：as→in

【详细解答】本句中的介词in表示“在……方面”，as则无此意。

8.答案：mean→means

【详细解答】by no means为固定搭配，意为“丝毫不，绝不”。

9.答案：have后加such

【详细解答】such…as是常见表达方式，用来举例说明。

10.答案：number改为deal/amount

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The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric1.______

human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing2._____ with animal foods.An analysis of58societies 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-thirds

and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants.Detailed3.______ 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 about1004.______ edible calories,as an hour of gathering produces240.5.______

Plant foods provide for60percent to80percent of the Kung6._______

diet,and no one 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 of medical care.7._______ They experience no obesity,no middle-aged spread,little dental

decay,no high blood pressure,on heart disease,and their blood

cholesterol levels are very low(about half of the average American8._______ adult),if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life9.________ style,we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for10.________ healthier diet.

1999年

1.答案：as→like

2.答案：supplementing→supplemented

3.答案：and→or

4.答案：in→on

5.答案：as→while/whereas

6.答案：删去for，或改成about

7.答案：删去第一个of

8.答案：half∧→that

9.答案：if→While/Although/Though

10.答案：for∧→a

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