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专八改错练习资料精品文档专八改错练习第一篇：More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the _1_early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh _2_deaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by the disease. From _3_now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble _4_going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and _5_20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to _6_poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths _7_started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came_8_back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World_9_Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earthspopulation)suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling,population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 _10_million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries.参考答案(反白可见):1 将in改为for; for quite a while 作 “相当长时间”讲.2 将seventh改为seven3 将were改为was这个谓语动词的主语是单数短语 one in every seven deaths, 因此要使用单数.4将now 改为then5将Europe前的the 去掉6 将imported改为exported根据上下文,应该是向穷国出口抗生素,而不是从这些国家进口抗生素.7 将are 改为were8 在vanished 前加had这里要表达的是 “结核病原来消失的地方,又爆发了结核病”,所以要使用过去完成时.9 将better改为worse在结合病没有消失的地方,这种病更加严重了,因此要用worse.10 将constantly改为constant在 “keep sb/ sth adj”结构中的形容词作补语.专八改错练习第二篇：One of Americas most important export is her modern music. _1_American popular music is playing all over the world. It is enjoyed _2_by people of all ages in all countries. Because the lyrics are English, _3_nevertheless people not speaking English enjoy it. The reasons forits popularity are its fast pace and rhythmic beat.The music has many origins in the United States. Country music,coming from the suburban areas in the southern United States, is one _4_source. Country music features simple themes and melodies describingday-to-day situations and the feelings of country people. Many peopleappreciate this music because the emotions expressed by country _5_music songs.A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It depicted _6_mostly sad feelings reflecting the difficult lives of American blacks. Itis usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is not popular with _7_all Americans.Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style, featuringfast and repetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and countrymusic. It is first known as rock-and- roll in the 1950s. Since then there _8_have been many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock,disco music and others. Many performers of popular rock music areyoung musicians.American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. Somesongs become popular all over the world. People hear these songs sing _9_in their original English or sometimes translated into other languages.The words may coincide but the enjoyment of the music is universal. _10_参考答案(反白可见):1 改export为exportsexport作可数名词时指出口商品,同时根据one of 结构也可以知道这里export要用复数结构2 改playing为played动词play和句子主语American popular music是逻辑动宾关系,必须用被动语态.3 改Because为Though或者Although此句为让步状语从句4 改suburban为rural这里属于词义用错,suburban为城市郊区,乡村音乐显然来自乡村地区.5 改为because of6 改depicted为depicts本句错在时态.句意为 “blues大多抒发哀伤情感,反映美国黑人的艰难生活.”为与全文主导时态一致,不能用过去时.此外,blues现在的风格依旧,故用现在时7 将not去掉8 改is为was此句有过去时间状语 in the 1950s, 陈述过去的一个事实,故用一般过去时态9 改sing为sungsung 引导过去分词短语作宾语补足语,表被动意思10 改coincide为differ（在may后加not也可以）此句含有连词but,整个句意含有转折语气专八改错练习第三篇：Cities can be frightened places. The majority of_1_the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. Thesense of belonging to a community tends to appear_2_when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange_3_enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of onestreet all knew each other, nowadays people on thesame floor in tower blocks even say hello to each _4_other.Country life, on the other hand, differs from thiskind of isolated existence in that a sense of communitygenerally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. _5_People have the advantage of knowing that there isalways someone to turn to when they need help. So _6_country life has disadvantages too. For example,shopping becomes a major problem and for anythingslightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expe- _7_dition to the nearest large town. The country has theadvantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the _8_disadvantages of being cut off. The city has noise andpopulation which do harm to human health. But one oftheir main advantages is that you are at the centre of _9_things and that life doesnt come to an end even at tenat night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two: they expressed their preference for thequiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the _10_country within commuting distance of the large city.参考答案及解析(反白可见):1.把frightened改为frighteningfrightened是“受到惊吓的”，表明心理状态，而frightening表示“令人害怕的”，表示事物性质。2.把appear改为disappear“当你住在摩天大厦的三十层里”，可以推测这里要表达的是归属感的消失，而不是产生归属感。3.把Strange改为StrangelyStrangely enough，是固定短语，经常用作插入语，意思是“说也奇怪，最奇怪的是”。4.在say前面加上dont此处说的是，现在住在同一层楼的人甚至见面都不打招呼。5.把keep改为keepsin that 引导的句子主语应该是 a sense，故谓语应为单数。本句的意思是，农村生活与这种隔绝孤立的生活不同，因为一种归属感把小村里的居民联系在一起。6.把so 改为but/yet上文提到了乡村生活的好处，下文是转折，要用but或者yet。7.把for改为on“去远征”应该用go on a expedition，而go for 的意思是“去找，努力获取，拥护”。8.把peaceful改为peaceof 后面不应该用形容词，所以应该改为peace。这里需要注意的是quiet既是名词又是形容词，不要被迷惑。9.把their改为its此处的代词应该指代上文的 the city。10.删除leaving后面的for，或者把for改为fromleave表示“离开某地”，而leave for表示“离开某地去另外一 专八改错练习第四篇：Planning is a very important activity in our lives. Itcan givepleasure, even excitement, and it can cause quitesevere headaches. _1_The most significant the task ahead, the more carefulthe planning _2_required. Getting to school or to work on time is a taskrequiring few _3_or no planning, it is almost routine. A months touring holiday abroad,or better still, getting married, is a different matter altogether. If thematter involve a church wedding, a reception, a honeymoon in Venice, _4_and returning a new home, this requires even more planning to make _5_sure that it is successful. Planning is our way of trying to ensure successand of avoiding costly failures we can not suffer. It is equally essential _6_to individual nations and families; the scale may be vary, but the degree _7_of importance does not. In the essence, a nation planning its resources _8_and needs do not differ from the familiar weekly shopping or monthly _9_household budget. Both are designed to ensure an adequate supply ofessentials, and if improperly carried out, will avoid shortages, wastage _10_and over-expenditure.参考答案及解析(反白可见):1 将and 改为 oror表示“或者”，因为前后是两种截然不同的可能性，所以应该用or。2 将most改为 more3 将few改为little4 将involve 改为 involves因为主语 the matter 为单数，例如：Although planning involves material investment, even more important is theinvestment in man.虽然作机会应该包括物资投资，但最重要的是对人的投资。5 在returning后加介词to6 将suffer改为afford7 去掉be。vary是动词，可与助动词或者情态动词构成谓语，也可以独立构成谓语，例如：The weather varies from hour to hour in some mountain districts.8 去掉thein essence 是固定习语，意为“本质上，实质的9 将do改为 does主语是动名词复合结构 a nation planning its resources and needs, 应视为单数，例如：Looking after children requires patience.10 将improperly改为 properly. 专八改错练习第五篇：Tracing missing persons can take much patientdetective work. But a special kind of “private eye” cantrace the missing ancestors of whole peoples bystudying the clues buried by words. _1_These philologists, such as the language detectives arecalled, have traced _2_the word trail back from peoples in Europe, India,South Africa, the Americas,and the Pacific islands in a tiny nameless, and forgotten tribe that roamed central_3_Eurasia 5000 to 6000 years ago, before the dawn of writing history. _4_Since a long time scholars have been puzzled over the striking _5_difference of words in different languages. In Dutch, vader; in Latin, pater;in _6_old Irish, athir; in Persian, pidar;in the Sanskrit of distant India, pitr.These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing“father” _7_Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such _8_close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. The more so_9_because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the endof the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed_10_from some common language.参考答案及解析(反白可见)：1. 将by改为in(be) buried in 意思为 “被所掩盖,掩蔽于”2. 将such去掉在这里as是连词,引导状语从句.3. 将第一个and改为to (这个句子长,小心上当呀)以便和前文的from构成搭配 “fromto”,表示 “从到”.4. 将writing改为written“有文字记载的历史”英语为 “written history”.5. 将Since改为 For因为since做介词, 表示 “自从起” 之意时,后面一般不跟表示一段时间的名词.6. 将difference改为similarity从后面的例子我们可以看出,作者在这里讲述的是文字的惊人的相同之处,而不是不同之处.7. 将likely改为alikelikely 意思为 “很可能的”,不做 “相同的,相似的”解.8. 将where改为why这里不是问地点而是问原因,从后面的because也可以看出.9. 将close改为副词closely因为形容词close不能修饰过去分词related.10. 将18改为 18th.The more so because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences.这句话的the more so because是什么意思呢, 以为人家出版社错了,不过看两本资料都这么写. 有谁看得懂么?还是说真的是出错了.原来the more so because意思为: 更何况. 专八改错练习第六篇：Why does the idea of progress loom so large in themodern world? Surely because progress of particularkind is actually taking place around us and is more andmore manifesting. Although mankind has underg- _1_one no general improvement in intelligence or morali-ty, it has made extraordinary progress in theaccumulation ofknowledge. Knowledge begins to increase as _2_soon as the thoughts of one individual could be com-municated to another by mean of speech. With the in- _3_vention of writing, knowledge could be communicatedand stored. Libraries made education possible, andeducation in turn added libraries: the growth of knowl- _4_edge followed a kind of compound-interest law,which was greatly enhanced by the invention of print-ing. All this was comparatively slow until, with thecoming of science, the tempo was suddenly risen. _5_then knowledge began to be accumulated according toa systematic plan. However, as soon as new knowl- _6_edge is acquired, it is now turned to practical ac-count. What is called “modern civilization” is not theresult of a balanced development of all mans nature,but not of accumulated knowledge applied to practical _7_life. The problem now facing humanity is: what is go-ing to be done with all this knowledge? Like is often _8_pointed out, knowledge is a two edged weapon whichcould be used equally for good or evil. It is now being _9_used indifferently for both. Could any spectacle, forinstance, be more grimly whimsical than that gunners _10_using science to shatter mens bodies while, close athand, surgeons use it to restore them.参考答案及解析(反白可见)：1.把manifesting改为manifestmanifesting不能做形容词,而如果把它理解成现在进行词,后面又缺乏宾语,所以应该改为形容词manifest,表示 “显然的,明显的”.2.把begins改为began根据下一行出现的could可以判断本句是过去时.3.把mean改为means. by means of 是固定用法.4.在added后面加上to如果add后面不加to,此句就表示 “把图书馆加到某个事物上去”,加上to,表示给图书馆增加了内容,符合句义.5.把risen改为raisedrise是不及物动词,不能用于被动语态.6.把However改为Moreover此句的意思是:新知识一经获得,马上就得到实际应用.这是对上文的追加,不存在转折关系,因此应该用moreover.7.删除but后面的not8.把Like改为As9.把could改为can主句为现在时,而从句也不表示虚拟,所以应该用现在时.10.在that后面加上of.为了避免重复,这里用that指代spectacle,后面的gunner using是that 的内容.因此应该用介词of引出. 专八改错练习第七篇：You will think about what kind of saving instru- _1_ment to use or what kind of investment to make. Byputting your money in some kind of savings instrumentor investment, you can set aside small amount of mon- _2_ey regularly and the money will earn interest or divi-dends. Interest refers to the amount what your money_3_earns when it is kept in a savings instrument. Divi-dends are payments of part of a companys earnings topeople hold stock in the company. A savings instru- _4_ment has an “interest rate ” associated with it; this re-fers to the rate which the money in the instrument in- _5_creases during a certain period of time. Principal re-fers to the facial value or the amount of money you _6_place in the savings instrument on which the interest isearned.Every type of savings or investment has some riskthat the return will be less than needed or expected.Federally insured savings accounts are safe and guar-anteed up to $100,000 by the U.S. Government.Therefore, they may have lower interest rates, making _7_it hard to save large amounts of money for college. _8_Bonds and stocks often have higher returns than sav-ings accounts or EE saving bonds but are more riskier. _9_You can reduce the risks of these kinds of investmentsby starting to save early. The earlier we begin the less _10_money you will have to put aside each month and themore total savings you will accumulate.参考答案及解析(反白可见):1.把saving改为savingssaving表示“节约的”，和其复数形式savings意义不同。savings的意思是“存款，储蓄”。2.在small前面加上aa small amount of 表示“少量的”，冠词不可缺。3.把what改为which或者thatamount在此是先行词，后面是一个定语从句，这个从句显然应该由关系代词that或者which引导。4.在hold前面加who先行词people后面是一个定语从句，因此需要有引导词。5.在which前面加上at关系代词which在此引导的同样是一个定语从句，并且在此应该用“介词关系代词”这个形式，因为前面的rate往往用于短语at a rate，此处的介词可以提前。6.把facial改为face票面价值应是：face value。7.把Therefore改为However。此处根据上下文来看，表达的是转折的含义，而不是因果关系。8.把hard改为harder这里存在一个隐含的比较，所以应该用hard的比较级形式。9.删除more，或者把more改为muchriskier本身已经是比较形式了，再加上more是多余的。把more改为much，表示一种程度也可以。10.把we改为you补充：第二题将amount改为amounts也是正确的第四题把hold改为holding也是正确的a small amount of 和small amounts of 用法的区别a large（great，good）amount of 不可数名词，谓语动词一般用单数；但（large，great，good）amounts of 不可数名词，作主语时，谓语动词要用复数。A large amount of damage has beendone by the earth quakeLarge amounts of money werespent on the bridge这就是为什么第二题也可以把amount改为amounts而第八题不用改amount的原因啦. 专八改错练习第八篇：One of our main arguments is that we in Western countries actually have part to play in causing the _1_problems of the Third World. Many Third Worldcountries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for _2_example. They were lent money with low interest rates _3_in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banksfrom the oil-producing countries and was lent out tothe Third World. The interest rates have then been risen _