专升本三年级改错练习答案.doc

专升本三年级改错练习答案

英语专升本、本科毕业班改错练习答案
1. When a consumer finds out that an item she or he bought is faulty or in some other way does not live up to the manufacturer’s claim for it, the first step is to present the warranty, or any other records which might help, at the store of purchase. On most cases, this action will produce results. However, if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction.
A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager. In general, the higher up the consumers take his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect ^to be settled. In such a case, it is usually settled in the consumer’s favor, on condition that he or she has a just claim.
Consumers should complain by person whenever possible, but if they cannot get to the place of purchase, this is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter.
Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can prove what is wrong with the item of question. If this cannot be done, the consumer will succeed best by presenting specific informations as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements. For example, “The left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of the right one is unclear” is worse than “This stereo does not work”.
The store manager may advise the consumer to write to the manufacturer. If so, the consumer should do it, stating the complaint as politely and as firmly as possible. But if a polite complaint does not achieve the desirable result, the consumer can go a step further. She or he can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a private or public organization responsible for protecting consumer’s right.
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2. Newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly from their ways of carrying the news. There are serious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both at home and abroad, and foreign news. There are popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment with information.
The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probably The Times. It began in 1785, and had a high reputation for reliable news and serious opinions on the news. It calls itself an independent paper, it means that it does not give its support to a particular political party. Its leading articles give the opinions of the editors, not that of the owners of the paper.
Letters to the editor are printed in parts of the newspaper. These parts of The Times are always interested. Most of the letters are on serious subjects, but from time to time there will be long letters on the subject which are not at all serious, perhaps on a new fashion of dress, or the bad manners of the young people compared to the manners of thirty years ago.
In addition to the London daily newspapers, there are other papers. The two London evening papers, the Evening News and the Evening Standard, ＾sold not only at the ordinary news-agents shops, but always stay by their piles of papers; however, the newspaper sellers sometimes go away and leave his papers. Passersby help themselves to the paper they want, and leave the price of the paper in a box. There are dishonest people in London, and no one thinks it is worth robbing a newspaper-seller of a few coins.

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3. I’d like to begin by giving you a brief run-down of the services
what we offer here at our center. First of all, we have a wide range 1) _that/which _
of language classes. In the first semester we run a conversation class
for students of non-English-speaking backgrounds who wish to improve
on their fluency, grammar and pronunciation in English. This is 2) _/________
held in Room W5A 209 – that’s on the level two of the Branson Block 3) _/_______
– on Tuesdays between 12.30 and 1.30. So that’s one hour once a
week. If you’d like to participate ^ this class, please enroll with the 4) _in____
secretary before Friday, August 25th. For those interested in developing
his writing skills we have a six-week course which runs for two hours 5) _their_____
on Wednesday afternoons beginning in week one. It concentrates
on the writing skills needed for assignments in the Departments of
Economics and Social Sciences. Students must enroll in either
department. Some of you may feel the need for more individual
attention, specially when you’ve got assignments to write. 6)especially _
The language advisers are available for consultation and you can book
an appointment by contacting 666-0933 between 9.30 and midday, 7) ringing____
Monday to Friday. Remember that the service doesn’t operate
during vacation – only in term-time. Don’t leave it all until the
last day just before you ^got an assignment to hand in. Also we 8) _have _ ___
hope you’ll take advantage of the Independent Learning Centre, it 9) _which____
offers grammar books, audio and video-cassettes, word-processing
facilities and other study skills aids to all students at the university.
You can borrow all books and tapes except for master copies and 10) _/________
reference works for up to a week but you must get a special ILC
borrowing card.

4. Whenever you see the old film, even one made as 1) _an_________ __
recently as ten years before, you can’t help being
struck by the appearance of the women taking part in. 2) /
Their hair-styles and make-up look out-of-date; their
skirts look either too long nor too short; their 3) _or____________
general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.
The men taking part, on ^ other hand, are clearly 4) the____________
recognizable. There is nothing about their appearance
to suggest they belong to an entire different age. 5) entirely
This illusion was created by changing fashions. Over the 6) _is____________
years, ^ great majority of men have successfully resisted 7) _a_________ ___
all attempts to make themselves change their style 8) them____ ___
of dress. The same cannot be said for woman. 9) women____ __
Each year a few so-called top designers
in Paris and London lay down on the law 10) ____/________
and women the whole world over run to obey.
The decrees of the designers are unpredictable
and dictatorial. Sometimes they decide arbitrarily,
that skirts will be short and waists will be
high; hips are in and buttons are out.

5. We live in a society where there is a lot of talk about science, but I would
say that there is not 5% of the people who are equipped with 1) are_________
schooling, including college, ^understand scientific reasoning. We 2) to____ ____
are more ignorant of science than people 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, how
to write programs for games. But ^ you ask them to explain 3) ____if______
about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the 4) /_______ _
computer, you don’t have the faintest idea. The failure to 5) they_______
understand science leads to such things like the neglect of the 6) as________
human creative power. It also takes rise to a blurring of the 7) gives______
distinction between science and technology. Lots of people
don’t distinguish between the two. Science is the production of new
knowledge that can be applied, when technology is the 8) while________
application of knowledge to the production of some products,
machinery or ^like. The two are really very different, and people 9) the_______
who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for another. 10) the other__
Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can
provide technology, it is not necessarily harmless. No society has
yet learned how to forecast the consequences of new technology,
which can be enormous.

6. We all know the computer is coming into our home and work
environments. But how many of us thought it would
effect our marriages? One of my friends reports that at her 1) affect____
evening computer course, more than a third of ^people there 2) the______
came only because their spouse had bought a home computer. It
can certain be the third party that upsets the delicate balance of 3) certainly__
a marriage. In connection with our national economy, it is important
now not to get depressed about the latest gloomy business
statistics, which they are strictly industrial-based measures of 4) ___/______
economic well-being. The information economy and the other
sunrise sectors are going well. They are the ones to invest ^now. 5) _in______
Small sunrise stocks versus large sunset stocks; buying Computer
Software, Inc., selling U. S. Steel. If, as predict, electronics 6) __predicted______
replaces the automobile like the most important industry in our 7) _as______
economy, will we have to buy a home computer before buying a car?
We need cars now because we organize our society around them 8) organized
fifty years ago when we decided that since the economy was going to
be built on cars, everyone from age 16 up should want and need one.
But what did the automobile ever contribute to society except 9) besides___
transportation? Without it, would we have moved so far apart and
created such poor public transportation? Of course, we need cars.
But, three-car families? Who live in cities? In addition
to transportation, the automobile has brought us air pollution, an
average of 50,000 highway casualties each year, automobile insurance,
and parking tickets. So far the computer looks relatively modest.
The whole orientation of the computer are getting you to expand
your brainpower through growth, education, and learn. 10) learning_______

7. If it were only necessary to decide whether to teach elementary
science to everyone on a mass basis or finding the gifted few and 1) to find_ _
take them as far as they can go, our task will be fairly simple. 2) would____
Then public school system, however, has no such choice, for the
jobs must be carried on at the same time. Because we depend so
heavy upon science and technology for our progress, we must 3) heavily_
produce specialists on many fields. Because we live in a 4) in___ __
democratic nation, which citizens make the policies for the nation, 5) where/whose_
large numbers of us must educate to understand, to support, 6) be educated
and if necessary, to accept the work of experts. Thus the public
schools must educate all the producers and users of scientific services.
In education, there should be a good balance among the branches
of knowledge that contribute to effective thoughts and wise judgment.
Such balance is defeated by too much emphasis on any one field.
This question of balance involves in not only the relation of the 7) ___/_______
natural sciences, the social sciences, and arts but relative emphasis
among the natural sciences themselves. Similarly, we must
keep a balance between current and classical knowledge.
The attention of the public is continually drawn ^the new 8) to_____ _
possibilities in scientific fields and the discovery of new
knowledge; these should not be allowed to turn our
attention ^from the sound, established materials that form the 9) away_____
base of the courses for beginners. 10) basis_____

8. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,
when people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the 1) where___
world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can
preserve their history is to recount it as sagas – legends handed over 2) down____
from one generation of story-tellers to other. These legends are 3) another___
useful because they can tell us something about migration of people
who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did.
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the
Polynesian peoples now live in the Pacific Islands came from. 4) living_____
The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from
Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. But the first people who were
like ourselves lived so long ago which even their sagas, if they had 5) that_ ___
any, are forgotten. Therefore archaeologists have neither history nor
legends to help them to find ^where the first ‘modern men’ came 6) out______
from. Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone,
specially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds. 7) especially_
He may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. 8) They_____
Stone does not decay, and so the tools made long before have 9) __ago_____
remained when even the bones of the men who made it have 10) them_____
disappeared without trace.

9. We think of climate as the unchanging weather patterns of the area. Year 1) an__ _
in and year out, the climate stays more and less the same. For example, the 2) or____
climate of much of northern and central Africa is hot and dry. That of much
of southeastern Asia is hot and wet. Northern Europe has clear season 3) seasons
with long winters. The North and South Poles have cold climates.
We think of the climate of these regions as never changing. However,
there is proof that the climate does change. Tree rings prove it.
Each year a tree grows at least a little bit. If there is a lot of rain and
a long summer, the tree produces a new light-color band. In cold or 4) light-colored
dry years, it does not grow much. The ring is a thin dark line. There
are some very old trees that show that there have been changes.
The bristle cone pine trees that grow in the White Mountains of California
are some of the oldest living things on earth. The chronologists, the
scientists who figure ^ the life of trees from their rings, have found one 5) out____
4,800-year-old tree. The tree is still living and appears to be healthy.
By matching the rings of this tree to the rings of an older dead tree, 6) with______
the scientists have discovered a record of the climate for the last 9,000
years