英语专业八级改错真题(1999-2004)完整含答案版本

99年改错

The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1.______

human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2._____ with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter- gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds

and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of

London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food

than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4.______ edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. 5.______

Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung 6._______ diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary

aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7._______ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood

cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average American 8._______ adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life 9.________ style, we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for 10.________ healthier diet. 2000改错

grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1._____

meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2._______ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3._______ But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4._______

it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5.________

vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.______

themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7._______

“little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8._______

consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.______

people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10._______ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in th

Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

2001改错

the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if 1.______ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2.______

the western crop. For years, fa

Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could 3._______

they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts 4._______ were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5._______On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, 6._____ but the government had no wish to become involving, at 7._____

Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8._____

deliver

board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government appointed 9.______ the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to 10._____ buy, sell, and set prices. 2002改错

There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt “naturally” and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 1__________ deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech 2._____________ sounds like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock 3.__________when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we 4._________recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We begin the natural learning 5.__________of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 6.____________practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our 7.______________difficult English spelling. This is “natural”, therefore, that our 8.______________speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community 9._______________and giving a sense of 'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a “stranger”, someone who speaks with an accent of a different community-perhaps only a few miles far. 10.________________

2003改错

Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar

period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought

the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)______ years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young (2)_______ adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large

families that Went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)_______ but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From

the 1940S through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)________ and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.(5)________

Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)________ formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)________ divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to

a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)________ as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)___________ distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the

temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)___________ Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned. 2004改错

One of the most important non-

is the power to investigate. This power is usually delegated to committees - standing committees, special committees set for a specific (1)________

purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of both houses. (2)________

officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)_______

rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings (4)_______ and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)________

is the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most (6)________ committee hearings are open to public and are reported (7)________ widely in the mass media. Congressi

nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers (8)_______ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues. (9)________

testimony f

these who give false testimony. (10)_________

答案部分 改错部分:

2004年

1. 答案：set ^for → up

2. 答案：consisted → consisting/composed 3. 答案：in → on

4. 答案：rely ^ outside → on 5. 答案：删去out 6. 答案：its → their

7. 答案：^ public → the

8. 答案：nevertheless → therefore / thus 9. 答案：interests → interest 10. 答案：these → those 2003年

1. 答案：height → high

2. 答案：a steady decline → steady decline 3. 答案：went^ for → on或把went改成lasted 4. 答案：high → higher

5. 答案：Europe → European 6. 答案：删去more

7. 答案：把nevertheless 改成also,thus或therefore 8. 答案：that → those

9. 答案：Since → Although / While/though 10. 答案：in → to 2002年

1. 答案：第二个and → while / whereas / but / yet 2. 答案：with → of 3. 答案：删去out

4. 答案：firstly → first 5. 答案：which → that 6. 答案：went → go

7. 答案：删去per或every 8. 答案：This → It

9. 答案：community ∧ → together 10. 答案：far → away 2001年

1. 答案：in → with

2. 答案：increasing → increasingly 3. 答案：so → but

4. 答案：删去soon或shortly 5. 答案：just → only 6. 答案：asked ∧ → for

7. 答案：involving → involved 8. 答案：life → living

9. 答案：handle → deal 或 删去with 10. 答案：total → full/complete/absolut

2000年

1. 答案：删去 the

2. 答案：but → and/thus 3. 答案：in → to

4. 答案：misled → misleading 5. 答案：删去away 6. 答案：single → only 7. 答案：as → in

8. 答案：mean → means

9. 答案：∧ lexical → such 或在words后加such，或把改成like 10. 答案：number → deal / amount 1999年

1. 答案：as → like2. 答案：supplementing → supplemented3. 答案：and → or 4. 答案：in → on5. 答案：as → while / whereas 6. 答案：删去 for，或改成about 7. 答案：删去第一个of8. 答案：half ∧→ that

9. 答案：if → While / Although / Though10. 答案：for ∧→ a