英语专业八级改错

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 nation

2. it—both.指代上文的US和Great Britain

3. that—which

4.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。

7. for—as.be known for意为“因......而众所周知”

8. is—was.美国过去曾是一个rural and unsophisticated的国家

9. to—https://www.wendangku.net/doc/ea13261851.html,pare to 意为“把......比作.......”com pare with意为“与......比较，与.......匹敌，与......竞争”

10.删掉name和originated之间的was

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.

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The 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 ____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 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 ____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 two years apart.____10

英语专业八级（2）答案和解析:

1.将had used 改为used。

因为此句是虚拟语气,表示与现在事实相反,故条件从句中应使用一般过去时。例如: Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. 许多人原本会成为聪明人-如果他们不自以为聪明的话。

2. 将publishing 改为published

report和publish时逻辑动宾关系,故应使用publish的过去分词短语来修饰report。例如: Any discovery that we may make, however small, will remain acquired knowledge. 任何可能的发现,不管多么微不足道,都将成为知识宝库中的一部分。

3. 将theirs 改为their

4.将among 改为between

在两次怀孕期间留出足够的间隔时间,故用between。

5. 将过去分词excluded 改为介词excluding

excluding意为“不包括……”

6. 将respectably 改为respectively

respectively 意为“分别地”，符合句子的意思。而respectably意为“可敬的，值得尊敬地”。

7.将evidences 改为evidence。evidence是不可数名词。

8.将ill改为illness

9.将year 改为years

10.将lesser 改为less

英语专业八级改错（3）

Ancient man attempted to change the weather by using magic. While experience taught him this was impossible, __1__ he tried to forecast weather conditions. Even earlier in __2__ 1000

B.C.there were weather seers in Babylon----and priests clever enough to denounce as frauds those predicted __3__ the weather a year in the advance. Some forecasters used __4__ methods that seemed to take no connection with the actual __5__ factors controlled the weather. Chickens and other animals __6__ were sacrificed and their intestines poked to find signs indicating rain and drought. Somewhat more scientific predictions were __7__ based on vegetation:"Onion’s skin very thin ,mild weather coming in. Onion’s skin thick and tough, coming weather is cold and rough." Insects and animals were also __8__ favorite weather clues: "Before the glowworm lights his __9__ lamp , then the air is always damp ." "If spiders their forsake cobwebs, the weather will for certain break ." "If frogs remained in pools , the weather will be fine . If they were seen on rocks, __10__ rain an d cold were due." It’s difficult to say whether this rhyme should be taken seriously : " Hark , I hear the asses bray . Me thinks we’ll have some rain today ."

英语专业八级（3）答案和解析:

1. While—When或After.本句的this指代的是to change the weather by using magic.

when/after 引导时间状语

2. in—than.earlier是early的比较级，其后应有than

3. those之后加who.who引导定语从句

4.删除advance前的the.in advance为习语

5. take—have.have connection with 为习语

6. controlled—controlling或在controlled前加that/which.controlling the weather 或

that/which controlled the weather做定语修饰the actual factors

7. and—or.rain和draught只能是二者之一

8.删除is.与上文平衡，均为省略句

9. before—when/if.条件句

10. will—would.if引导的是条件句用的是remained一般过去时

英语专业八级改错（4）

"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 _____1 has 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 _____2

for one’s family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3

portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to ___4

support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _____5

of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _____6

is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, for example, _____7

they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _____8

a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life._____10

英语专业八级（4）答案和解析:

1.将 no 改为 not

2.将 place 改为 land

place是可数名词，作“地方”讲,而land意为“土地，田地”是不可数名词。例如: Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

当你偶尔光顾时，独处是一个美妙的境地，但是如果久留，它却是一个糟糕的地方。

There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.

3.将 started 改为 start

start应使用不定式，以和前面的find, build一致。

4. 将 working 改为 work

work应该用第三人称复数，和live一致。另外，family在这里作“家人”讲，是复数。

5.将 anyone 改为 everyone

这里是要用everyone 指每个人，而不是要用anyone泛指。

6.将 but 删除

7.将 before 改为 after

根据上下文判断，这里要表达的是二战之后。

8. 将 But 改为 And

根据语意，这里要表达的是递进关系，而不是转折关系。例如：

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.

当我行善事，我感到坦然;当我行恶时，我感到内疚。这就是我的人生之道。

9.将 it 改为 they

10.在house the中间加入介词 as

regard...as 作“把……当作……”讲。

英语专业八级改错（5）

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _____1

that 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 _____2 with 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 _____3 them to explain about the rinciples of physics that have gone into creating the _____4

computer, you don’t have faintest idea. _____5

The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6

creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _____7 technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8 new 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. _____9

Science 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

英语专业八级（5）答案和解析:

1. 在which 前加in，或将which 改为where

在这里which引导限制性从句,修饰先行词the society。in which 在从句中作状语,当然也可以用关系副词where引导定语从句,并在从句中作状语,例如:Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

2.将as 改为than

3.将So 改为But 或者However 或者Nevertheless

因为这里上下文是转折关系。

4.将about 去掉

因为explain是及物动词。

5.将you 改为they

6. 将like 改为as

因为such as 是固定搭配。

7.将takes 改为gives

give rise to表示“引起，导致”之意。

8.将differ 改为distinguish

牵着表示“有区别”。后者表示“区分，找出……的差别”。

9.将others 改为other

这样the other就和上文的one构成固定搭配，表示在两个中“一个……;另外一个……”

10. 将harmful 改为harmless，只有这样才可以表达上下文的对比关系。

英语专业八级改错（6）

Before 1973, abortion was illegal in America unless the woman's

health was threatened. In March of 1970, Jane Roe, a single

woman, instituted this federal action against the District

Attorney of the country. The original idea was that women who

truly did not want a baby should not have to have it. __1__

Since pregnacy may be a blessed act when planned or wanted, __2__

forced pregnacy, like any force bodily invasion, is anathema to

American values and traditions. As legalized abortion has become

an everyday part of American life, a different side to it has

emerged out. __3__

When women once were aborting because they did not want a

child, the reasons being given now were becoming very different. __4__

Abortion has turned into something that women are being coerced

from boyfriends/husbands unwilling to be fathers, out of fear __5__

of the financial pressure, out of the panic from losing their

jobs, out of panic from having to quit the school, or becoming __6__

homeless, or out of fear of their parents kicking them out into

the street.

Abrotion for these reasons can lead to problems which develop

when a woman is unable to get round her emotional responses __7__

from the trauma of an abortion. There are women who abort and

do so completely of her own free will. These women have no __8__

regrets, no remorse, but are happy they had this choice availble. __9__

But a growing number of women are speaking up about how abortion

effected them adversely. __10__

英语专业八级（6）答案和解析:

1.it--one

it和one用来指代时，it通常用于特指，one通常用于类指。结合上下文，此处应当指代前文的a baby，是类指，所以应当用one。

2.Since--While

这里考的是根据上下文的逻辑关系判断连接词的使用。前后两个分句是对比pregnancy和forced pregnancy这两个方面，所以应该选用表示对比的连用词while。

3.out--/

emerge一词后面不要受到中文的影响加上out；但是可以说come out。emerge可以和介词from搭配，表示“从……中浮现出来”。

4.were--are

虽然这一句从句中是过去时态，但是主句中谈的是“现在”的情况，所以应当用现在时态。

5.^from--into

动词coerce要和介词into搭配。coerce somebody into something，意思是“胁迫某人做某事”。

6.the--/

school 前带定冠词时通常是特指，不带冠词通常是类指。这里说“辍学”，应当是类指，所以不能带定冠词。

7.round--through

get through 的意思是“度过（经济，感情等的）难关”，get round有“说服”的意思，原文是说“客服流畅造成的情感创伤”，应当用get through。

8.her--their

这里的代词是指前文提到的women，所以应该是复数。

9.but (are)--and

从逻辑关系来看，这一句“很高兴有这个选择”和前文“没有遗憾、不后悔”是一致的、并列的，所以不能用转折连词。

10.effected--affected

effect和affect两个词形近，而词性不同，容易混淆。前者通常作为名词，后者是动词。英语专业八级改错（7）

It is difficult for an American to understand soccer.

I learned the hard way. When I was in Glasgow,

going to the school, I had to choose which of the —1—

city's two mighty teams I would back, Celtic in

green, Rangers in blue. Because of a boy I had —2—

cheered for the Boston Celtics basketball team,

I decide in my lot with their namesakes. One—3—

winter afternoon before Celtic had won a brutal—4—

game at the Ranger's park, I was walking home,

wearing my green ribbon, while a Ranger fan—5—

leaped out of the shadows and punched me in

mouth so hard I feel backward. Other Ranger fans—6—

picked me up and apologized, "He doesn't mean

nothing personal. He just hates Celtic." A fan's—7—

loyalty lasts for life. In several football countries,

it has noted, factory production goes up or down,—8—

depending upon the home team's win and loss.—9—

After England's 1966 victory in the Word Cup,

immigration to Australia from England dropped

for 18 percent. "That victory made Englishmen—10—

feel that Britain still has a future." an Australian

official explained.

英语专业八级改错（7）答案及解析：

1.删除school之前的the

此处指本文主人翁在那儿上学，并非具体指上哪个学校，因此无需用定冠词

2. of—as或when

从句法分析看，because引导一个原因状语从句。because as a boy I had cheered for the Boston Celtics basketball team，从句中也有状语as a boy（=as/when I was a boy）

3. decided—cast/threw

cast/threw in one's lot with sb.为固定搭配，意义为“与某人祸福与共”

4. before—after/when

从时间顺序来看下文发生在本文主人翁身上，即遭到袭击是发生在比赛结束后

5. while—when

用when引导的状语从句与主语由逗号分开，有“突然”的含义

6. 在mouth之前加the

定冠词the置于人体器官之前以表示身体之一部分或私人之所有。如to hang the head in shame

7. nothing—anything

本句中已经有一个否定词doesn't，如果再用否定词nothing，双重否定则为肯定，那么与本文意义相矛盾

8.在has和noted之间插入been

it为形式主语，真正的主语是 factory production goes up or down,depending upon the home team's win and loss.该现象是人们注意到的，故为被动语态较合理

9.and—or

与上文的factory production goes up or down相协调，depending upon the home team's win or loss

10.for—by

一般用by引导表示程度的状语

英语专业八级改错（8）

There’s a dirty little secret in many American homes —

couples fight about the housework. It’s a No. 1 issue my husband and I argue about. We argue over who is doing more, who should be doing which chores, and why my standards are unrealistic. There is always too much to take care with and, with two kids, neither one of us has the energy to keep top of it all. When the laundry, dirty dishes, and dust pile out, I feel stressed and resentful and the fighting begins. Most couples are trying to split three full-time jobs —his, her, and managing the house---between two people. There [1]

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just aren’t enough hours in the day. The current arrangement is leading to a nation of tired, angry couples with no time to

relax with each other and their children. It is estimated that the first child triggers an increase of 21 hours of chores per week, not included childrearing, while each additional child adds 6 hours of chores. The average American mother, whether she works out of the home or not, spends 35 hours a week doing housework. When you think about the time has spent on cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, the yardwork, and laundry, it’s clear that managing a home is no small feat. So many of our parents got along without household help, the amount of hands-on parenting time at home has increased dramatic in the past 20 years. It’s no longer safe in most areas to let children play in the front yard or out in the neighborhood unsupervised. [6]

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英语专业八级改错（8）答案及解析：

1. a →the 冠词错误。序数词前须加定冠词，“这是我与丈夫争论的首要问题”。

2.第一个with → of 固定搭配错误。take care of 为固定短语词组，意思是“照顾，

料理”，在此处是作定语修饰too much,逻辑上的动宾关系，介词不可以用with，这句话意思是“总是有太多的事要料理”。

3. top→ on 介词遗漏。此处意为：我们谁都没有力气持续保持精力充沛的状态，此处

需加介词on，与keep一起表示“持续”这种状态。

4.out→up 固定搭配错误。pile out 表示“挤出，走出”；pile up 意为“堆积，积累，

搁浅”；

5.her→ hers 物主代词错误。根据上下文，应该用名词性物主代词，hers 代指“她的

工作”；此句意为“大多数夫妻都试图两个人分摊三份全职工作，这三份工作就是他们各自的工作及家务料理”。

6.and→ or 连词误用。此句中有否定词no time,故应用连词or,表示选择，此句意为

“没有时间相互之间或与孩子一起放松”。

7.included→ including 非谓语动词错误。Include 与前面21 hours之间是逻辑上的

主谓关系，故用include的现在分词形式作伴随状语。

8.has→去掉 has 非谓语动词错误。

9.So→ While 逻辑错误。

10.dramatic→ dramatically 词性错误。

英语专业八级改错（9）

One of the strangest things about dispute over advertising is that the greater the fuss the much of a mystery the industry itself seems to become. Advertising is a passionate area. It seems to affect those who attack it and

those who defend it in remarkable similar ways. Before long both are exhibiting the same compulsive urge to overstate their case to that it is difficult to believe that the critics and the defenders of advertising are even arguing for the same thing. But just as it seemed sensible for us to regard advertising without go to either extreme, so it also seemed logical to try and find as cold-bloodedly as if we could, what advertising in the Britain of the sixties really was.

We knew that they consumed around＄950 million a year, or roughly 2 percent of the national income. We knew that it employed something over 200,000 individuals, the majority of which were paid salaries considerably above the national average. And we knew that it was supposedly run in accordance certain rather vague and often complex rules and professional orders.

Therefore once we tried finding out exactly what all this money went on, what these highly paid individuals did for it (and with it), and how the rules and orders influenced them, a curious thing happened. This strange animal called advertising, so disliked by its supporters and so beloved by its defenders, began to disappear. In its place were advertising men and advertising agencies ---all working in different ways and to different rules and all showed quite [1]

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英语专业八级改错（9）答案及解析：

3. g o→going

1. remarkabl e→remarkably

2. arguing fo r→arguing

on/about/over

4. as i f→去掉if

5. the y→it

6. whic h→whom

7. accordance ∧→with8. Therefor e→But9. supporter s→critics

10. showe d→showing

试题解析

1. remarkable→remarkably

词性错误。remarkable 是形容词，而其后修饰的是另一个形容词similar,修饰形容词的应该是副词，故改为remarkably。

2. arguing for→arguing on/about/over

介词错误。argue on/about/over意为“就某事进行争论”。

3. go→going

非谓语动词错误。介词without后面需跟名词形式，将动词go改为动名词。

4. as if→去掉if

语义错误。这里使用了as + adj +as这一结构，we could后省略了前面提到的动词try和find,表示“尽可能冷静地处理”之意。As if 意为“好像，似乎”，用在此处不合适。

5. they→it

代词错误。由上下文得知，此处consumed 的主语应是前一段末句中的advertising of Britain of the sixties,其代词应为单数的it。

6. which→whom

关系代词错误。Which 是来代指“物”，此处定语从句中的先行词individuals 是人，且关系代词前有介词of,所以应使用whom。

7. accordance ∧→with

固定搭配错误。In accordance with 是固定搭配，意为“和……一致”。

8. Therefore→But

逻辑错误。

9. supporters→critics

语义错误。此句前面的动词是dislike,既然不喜欢，就不会是supporters。前面多次提到critics 和defenders,此处改为critics合适。

10. showed→showing

非谓语动词错误。all working in different ways…and all showing quite startling differences…是两个并列的状语结构，因为主语和动词之间是主动关系，故动词应为现在分词形式。

英语专业八级改错（10）

It was market day so people and traffic had been pouring into the town since early morning. There was not enough room for all the pedestrians on the pavements and

they overflowed into the road, endangered their lives from passing vehicles, the drivers which were constantly blowing their horns to convince people to get out of the way. Yet it was a colorful scenery. Peasants swayed along the street, their heads piled highly with baskets or beautifully woven blankets which they hoped to sell to the townsfolk. Men with barrows forced way along shouting their wares at the top of their voices. They were selling peaches, melons and grapes —the harvest in their fields. Through it all, women in bright summer cloth threaded their way, laughing and chatting while children darted in and out of the people laughing or sobbing with fear because they were missing. The noise went on all day. People did not even stop for a meal. The rubbish from all the activities of the day began to collect in the street. Finally, when night came, the street emptied and only the rubbish remained sadly blowing in the cool night wind. [1]

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英语专业八级（10）答案

1. endangered→endangering

2. drivers of which (add ‘of’)

3. convince→persuade

4. scenery→scene

5. highly→high

6. forced their wa y (add ‘their’)

7. in→of

8. cloth→clothes

9. people→crowds

10. missing→lost

英语专业八级改错（11）

It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidences of the depressing state of literacy. These sums from the Depression of Education are sufficient: 27 million [1]

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Americans cannot read at all, a further 35 million read on a level that is less than sufficient to survive in our society.

But my own worry today is more that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford these spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentrating,

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1.evidences—evidence. evidence 为不可数名词，不能使用复数形式。

2.sums—改成figures。sums 表示“总和”，但后面列举了一些具体数字，与总和并无多大

关系。因此sums应改为figures。figures意即“数字”。

3. on—at。表示“在……水平上”时，level 前须用介词at。

4. more—less。more A than B意即“与其说B，倒不如说A”而less A than B则表示与其说A，倒不如说B”。根据上下文，此处more应改为less。

5. concentrating—concentration。and前后成分应对等，由于and前面是名词，其后面也应该用名词。因此concentrating应改为concentration。

6. that—which。这儿which用来指代前面的整个句子。

7.flickered—flickering，flicker为不及物动词，不宜使用过去分词形式作定语，故用现在分词形式作定语。

8. dealt—deals。该文章主要采用一般现在时，因此dealt应改为得deals。

9. impossibly —impossible。render sth + adj为一常用结构，表示“使……如何”。如果其中宾语太长，可将其后置。显然impossibly 应改为impossible

10.on—to。pay tribute to s b／sth，系常用短语，意即“称赞某人?某物”。故on应改为to。英语专业八级改错（12）

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 records of ancient languages show us language in a new and emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of such cries than we find in English. It is true that the absence of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.

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1. and→or

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4. and→but

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6. in→on

7. return→response

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