大学英语四六级考试改错专项训练题.doc

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大学英语四六级考试改错专项训练题
（1）
Heavy falls of ash and rock fragments occurred over all of the inhabited parts of Montserrat. The ashfall deposit was 115 mm in thick at Lime Kiln Bay. The ash burden 1.____
resulted from the collapse of several wooden buildings in 2.____
the Salem area. Vegetation damage was extensively with 3.____
downed trees and branches broken from many others. 
Many birds were killed by the ash or trapped live in it. 4.____
Ashfall fromthis event was reported on the islands of
Nevis, St Kitts, Anguilla, and St Maarten, and resulted in
the close of several airports. At 09:10 on 13 July an 5.____
explosive eruption occurred, followed 2 hours of very 6.____
low seismic activity. The Washington VAAC estimated a cloud height of ~12 km a.s.l.
During a helicopter reconnaissance flight in the morning 7.____
of 14 July, a large collapse scar was seen in the lava
dome directed down the Tar River Valley. The Tar River
Valley was extensively modified also eroded with a deep 8.____
canyon gouged the pyroclastic flows. The fan had been 9.____
extended eastwards into the sea and northwards along the
coast. The area the north of the Tar River Valley 10.____
extending to Killyhawk Ghaut was devastated.

（2）
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities
to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he
is fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is 11. ____
improbable that he will ever again in his life be given
so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, 12. ____
life is always presenting new things to the child—things
that have lost their interesting for older people because 13. ____
they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing
in the rain, or in the snow. [JP+2]His first visit to the
seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:
He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks old 14. ____
people do; he is continually being told not to do things,
or being punished for that he has done wrong. 15. ____
His life is therefore not perfectly happy. 16. ____
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he
becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;
but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities.
He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his
clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live
comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing about in 17. ____
the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. 18. ____
And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break
the laws of his parents, he may . If, therefore, 19. ____
he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,
he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making 20. ____
steady progress in his job and of building up for himself
his own position in society.

（3）
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is
expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and 21. ____
few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing
foreign languages. Now there are many reasons about this, 22. ____
some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest
that the fundamental reason why people in general do not
speak foreign languages very better than they do is that 23. ____
they fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning
to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling
it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize 24. ____
that pronounce a foreign language is a skill, one that 25.____
needs careful training of a special kind, and one that
cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of himself. 26. ____
I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the
importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical
teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the 27. ____
language. So the first point I want to make is that English
pronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to 28. ____
devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole
attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel
that here is a matter worth of receiving his close attention. 29. ____
So, there should be occasions where other , 30. ____
such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to
take a secondary place.

（4）
People often dream of living in a perfect place where no
one would be poor, and everyone would be considerable of 31. ____
everyone else. Such a place, however, is very good to be true: 32. ____
such a place is nowhere, and that's what the word "Utopia"
means. It is made up two Greek words meaning "not a place". 33. ____
The word was first used by Thomas More, a sixteen century 34. ____
English writer whose book Utopia, published in 1516,
describing a perfect island country. More's idea for tale came 35. ____
from Plato. Plato's The Republic described what would be a
perfect state. Early legends told a perfect place existing 36. ____
somewhere in Atlantic. These legends were no longer believed 37. ____
when the explorations of Americans began, but after More's
time they became common for there places 38. ____
Utopia, if is effected, would not suddenly make everything 39. ____
perfect because people are of nature imperfect. 40. ____

改错专项训练题参考答案
（1）
1. 去掉in。“多宽多厚”一般用“×××meter wide /thick”表示。
2. 把from改成 in。result from 后接原因，而result in 后才接结果。
3. 把extensively 改成extensive。extensive在这里做was的表语，故用形容词形式。
4. 把live改成alive。alive, live都有“活的，活着”之义，但alive一般做表语或后置
定语，live一般只做前置定语。Alive在本句中做主语的补语。
5. 把close改成closure。the …of 结构中间应该用名词。
6. 把followed改following。following在此做伴随状语，如果用followed做并列谓语必须
在此词前加and 。
7. 把in改成on。表示具体的一天的早上，下午，晚上用介词on。一般用in。
8. 把also改成and。also只是副词，不能连接两个谓语，而and是连词，可以起连词作用。
9. 在gouged 的后面加 by，表被动，“被火山熔岩凿出一个大峡谷”。
10. 去掉 north前的the。north在这里用作副词。
（2）
11.what改为whatever。whatever引导让步状语从句，相当于no matter
what，意思是“无论什么”，“不管什么”，whatever在从句中作宾语。
12.turn改为return。短语in turn表示“轮流地; 挨个, 依次; 反过来”，而在这里是指孩子对父母的回报。
13.interesting改为interest。在形容词性物主代词their的后面应跟名词性成分。
14.do改为 are。与前面的is相对应。
15.that改为what。that引导的是定语从句，在本句中应该使用关系代词what，相当于the thing/ things
that。
16.not改为no。固定搭配的副词短语“no longer”
fortable改为comfortably。修饰动词live应为副词而不是形容词。
18.suffer改为go或become或be。或把hungry改为hunger。
19.therefore改为however。此处的条件状语从句表示转折。
20.making 改为 make。
（3）
21.and→but。and表示递进并列关系；but表示转折关系。根据上下文应用but。
22. about→for。reason与介词for搭配，表示“……的原因”。
23. very better→very much better。very不能修饰形容词的比较级，只能用much,far, very
much, a lot, any, no, rather, a little, a bit修饰。
24. by→in。by the way：顺便说一下；in the right way：以正确的方式，又如：in your own
way：以自己的方式。
25. pronounce→pronouncing。在that 引导的宾语从句中主语是动名词短语pronouncing a
foreign language,原形动词（这里为pronounce）不能作主语。
26. himself→itself。one在本句中不是指人，所以其反身代词可用itself，而不用himself。
27. concerning→concerned。be concerned with：关于，如：The book is chiefly concerned with history。concerning作分词用，意为“涉及到”，此处不仅词义不当，而且concering后绝不能加with。
28.may→should。may表示推测、请求、允许或祝愿：should表示义务、建议、惊奇、推测等。这里讲的是老师的义务，故应该为should。
29. worth→worthy。 worth可用在两个结构中，后面跟ing形式。1)用先行词it作主语，如：it isn'tworth getting upset。2)用名次或代词作主语，如：The book is not worth reading.
worthy 多用于worthy of + n. or be worthy to + v. 结构中，也可用作定语，如：a cause worthy of support/ a man who is worthy to have a place in the team/ a worthy winner。
30. where→when。occasion是指动作发生的时机而不是地点，故应用表示时间的副词引导的定语从句修饰occasion。
（4）
31. considerable → considerate
32. very → too
33. made up → made up of
34. sixteen → sixteenth
35. describing → described
36. told → told of/about
37. Atlantic → the Atlantic
38. they → it
39. is effected → effected 或 it is effected
40. of nature → by nature
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