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大学英语四级改错题12篇

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大学英语四级改错题12篇
Passage 1
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.
Example:

Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.

1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature

2. ／___________
as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.

3. the___________

One major decision which faces the American student ready to

begin higher education is the choice of attending a large

university or a small college. The large university provides a

wide range of specialized departments, as well numerous

71. __________
courses within such departments. The small college, therefore,

72. __________
generally provides a limited number of courses and

specializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus

73. __________
permit individualized attention to student. Because of its large

74. __________
student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many

75. __________
people from different countries the university exposes its

students to many different culture, social and out-of-class

76. __________
programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, more

homogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college

77. __________
affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, the

university closely approximates the real world and which

78. __________
provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous

(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate

79. __________
atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years of

structural living in which to expect and preparing for the real

80. __________
world. In making his choice among educational institutions the

student must, there fore, consider a great many factors.

71. (well) à (well) as 72. therefore à however
73. offer à offers 74. permit à permitting
75. in à of 76. culture à cultural
77. big à small 78. and à / 或 and à which, this
79. contrast à contrary 80. preparing à prepare

Passage 2

Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle

of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,

forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was

S1. _____
just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's

demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their

S2. _____
supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.

But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen

steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble

S3. _____
spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of

good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just

S4. _____
around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue

even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,

S5. _____
although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for

politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists

S6. _____
point to concrete examples of continued improvements

in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more

S7. _____
fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than

double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere,

S8. _____
rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few

S9. _____
stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant

breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding

crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason

S10. _____
for hope.

S1. beingàbeen S2. theiràits
S3. relativeàrelatively S4. goodàbad
S5. asà去掉 S6. politicsàpolitical
S7. byàfor S8. doubleàdoubled

S9. fewàmore S10. reasonàthe reason

Passage 3

The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that

has recognized the need for change and done something about

it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity

of the communities to which they provide information.

It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk

S1. _________
losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support.

Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial

S2. _________
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and

procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The

S3. _________
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be

fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the

S4. _________
same kind of population that reads it.

A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and

photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’

S5. _________
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about

diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content

S6. _________
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of

representation of woman and people of color in photographs.

S7. _________
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too

infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate

number of negative articles. The audit results from

S8. _________
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and

S9. _________
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a

S10. _________
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.

The diversity training and content audits helped the

Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal

Optimas Award for excellence in managing change.

S1. it à they S2. percents à percent
S3. maintain à maintaining S4. subjective à objective
S5. value à evaluate S6. an à /
S7. woman à women S8. from à in
S9. majority à minority S10. with à as

Passage 4

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which

are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.

Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found

new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor

S1. __________
immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity

S2. __________
which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns

on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were

S3. __________
on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-

teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions

S4. __________
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico

City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,

S5. __________
are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the

S6. __________
poor can still be numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-

ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a

S7. __________
promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty

S8. __________
and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the

S9. __________
country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,

S10. __________
sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.

S1. new à a new S2. filling à filled
S3. though à if S4. This à What
S5. was à were S6. dissimilar à similar
S7. lies à lie S8. that à which
S9. it à them S10. late à later

Passage 5

Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of

hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern

S1. __________
footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting

pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football

and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he

S2. __________
scores a goal, enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey.

To understand how this transformation has taken place we

S3. __________
must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a

S4. __________
million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival

S5. __________
depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure

their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicaily

S6. __________
changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,

throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group

S7. __________
attackers.

Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely

S8. __________
long formative period of hunting for food, they became

farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old

hunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning (把

S9. __________
……关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. The

food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and

uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.

S10.__________

S1. Viewing à Viewed S2. inaccurate à accurate
S3. (enjoys) à he (enjoys) S4. up à back
S5. year à years S6. (even) if à (even) /
S7. co-operate à co-operated S8. when à after
S9. were à was S10.. farming à hunting

Passage 6

More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any

other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably

been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of

71. __________
the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh

72. __________
deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the

73. __________
disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the

74. __________
global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With

occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and

infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily

75. __________
through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the

introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the

trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed

to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers

76. __________
declared victory and withdrew.

They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of

77. __________
infections and deaths started to pick up again around the

world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in

78. __________
many places where it had never been away, it grew better.

79. __________
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7

billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer

from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was

falling, population growth kept the number of clinical

cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around

80. __________
3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor

countries.

71. in à for 72. seventh à seven
73. were à was 74. now à then
75. the à / 76. imported à exported
77. are à were 78. vanished à had ~
79. better à worse 80. constantly à constant

Passage 7

When you start talking about good and bad manners you

immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot

agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she

thought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they

71. __________
occupied the space around them—for example, when such a

person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of

72. ___
others. Such people never bump into other people.

However, a second person thought that this was more a

question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this

73. __________
other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known,

74. __________
about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at

75. __________
one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasn’t

76. __________
been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If

he had known about American food, he might have behaved

77. __________
better.

Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that

looked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking it

78. __________
up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt.

79. __________
His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but

80. __________
immediately copied the action of his guest.

And that, said this second person, was a fine example of

good manners.

71. (on the way) à in the way 72. unaware à aware
73. as à than 74. it à which
75. at à in 76. hasn’t à hadn’t
77. American à Arab 78. as à like
79. falls à fell 80. of à /

Passage 8

Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has been

bound to the planet on which he originated and devel-

oped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move

71. __________
out into the universe to those worlds which he has known

previously only directly. Men have explored parts of the moon.

72. __________
put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within

the decade will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be

73. __________
too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other

74. __________
planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated

75. __________
such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship the

excess people off to the moon. But we must keep in head the

76. __________
billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project. To

maintain the earth’s population at its present level, we would have

to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the

year.

Why are we spending so little money on space ex-

77. __________
ploration? Consider the great need for improving many aspects

78. __________
of the global environment, one is surely justified in his

concern for the money and resources that they are poured into

79. __________
the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should look at

both sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions.

80. __________

71. had à has 72. directly à indirectly
73. into à on 74. too à so
75. planet à planets / worlds 76. head à mind
77. little à much 78. Consider à Considering
79. they à /
80. (arriving) à (arriving) at 或 arriving à reaching/drawing/making

Passage 9

Most people work to earn a living and they
Produce goods and services. Goods are either
agricultural (like maize) or manufactured (like
cars). Services are such things like education, 1.________
medicine, and commerce. These people provide 2.________
goods; so