1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷159及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodiesgrow and muscles develop with the input of adequate nutritious 1food. Otherwise, we should keep learning day by day to maintai
2、n 2our keen mental power and expand our intelligent capacity. 3Constant learning supplies us inexhaustible fuel for driving us to 4sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment. Learningincessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the time in the 5information age, and an infallible warra
3、nt of success in times of uncertainty. Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition ofknowledge. On contrary, learning should be a never-ending 6process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world ever changed 7so fast, t
4、he cease from learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. Whats worse, the animalistic instinct deep inour subconsciousness will come to life, and weakening our will to 8pursue our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success, even killing our desire
5、for the refinementof our characteristic. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the 9stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization, Therefore,to stay mentally younger, we have to take learning as a lifelong 10career.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_I
6、 have been teaching for longer than I care to say, and always offer a course for entering freshmen. And Ive discovered something quite elemental: all young people have knowledge-thirsty minds that can be awakened and encouraged to examine the world they inhabit in. 1 So why do we hear so many profes
7、sors describe theirpupils so hostile to learning? Ill stipulate the obvious: 2colleges want good students. Because by that, they 3generally mean highly SATs and GPAs. Sadly, this 4expectation continues at college where, as Harvards Harvey Mansfield states, professors believe that whattheyre doing th
8、e research on is exactly what students 5need to know. How best to get more students into college and get them thinking? A start would be to abandon theconstrictions of academic fields. I know of a class that a 6professor invites the students to ponder human nature.They cites Alexander Hamilton, who
9、wrote that human 7beings are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. And then Thomas Jefferson, who held that morality, compassion, and generosity are innate elements in thehuman constitution. This is a discussion worth of a 8college course, in which every one of us can bring information and insights
10、to the analysis. This can also happen in the sciences. Thus theres a geology course thatstarts the professor saying, After this semester, you 11 9never look at a rock in the same way again. Of course,the students are expecting to put in a lot of hard work. But 10teachers like that make them willing
11、to do it.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_I came to Africa with one purpose: I wanted to see the world outside the perspective of European egocentricity. I could have chosen Asia or South America. I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest.
12、I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I have lived off andon Mozambique. Time has passed, and Im no longer young; in 1fact, Im approaching to old age. But my motive for living this 2straddled existence, with one foot in African sand and the another 3in European snow, in the melancholy region of N
13、orrland inSweden that I grew up, has to do with wanting to see clearly, to 4understand. The simplest way to explain what Ive learned from my life in Africa is through a parable about why human beings have two earsand only one tongue. Why is this? Probably so that we have to 5listen twice as much as
14、we speak. In Africa listening is a guided principle. Its a principle that 6has lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one 7seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. From my own experience, Ive noticed how much faster I have toanswer a question during a
15、TV interview than what I did 10, 8maybe even 5, years ago. Its as if we have complete lost the 9ability to listen. We talk and talk, and we end up frightening by 10silence, the refuge of those who are at a loss for an answer.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_For m
16、any, the pursuit of happiness is also the pursuit ofprosperity. Part of the American dream is the ability to provide 1your family, have a job that pays the bills, and puts a roof overyour head. The last few years of economical uncertainty have 2made this dream harder to attain for millions of U.S. c
17、itizens andlegal immigrants. Twenty-four million Americans are employed or 3underemployed. Meanwhile, there are 7 million illegal workers with jobs in the U.S. We could open up millions of jobs forcitizens and legal immigrants even if we simply enforced worksite 4immigration laws. E-Verify is a prog
18、ram that helps preserve rare jobs for U.S. 5citizens and legal immigrants. It allows employers to check what 6prospective employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S. The program is free, quick, and easy to usepersons eligible towork immediately confirmed 99.5 percent of the time. More than
19、7270,000 employers across the U.S. voluntarily use E-Verify, andthe average of 1,300 new businesses sign up each week. Ive 8introduced the Legal Workforce Act to require all U.S. employers to use E-Verify. This bill is one of the most significant steps wecan make to preserve the pursuit of happiness
20、 for millions of U.S. 9citizens and legal immigrants while curbing incentives for future illegal immigrants. The U.S. has been and will continue to be a nation ofimmigrants. And we are also a nation of laws. And we must 10enforce our laws to protect and preserve the rights and freedoms that make Ame
21、rica so great.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_专业英语八级（改错）-试卷159答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_解析：As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodiesgrow and muscles develop with the input
22、of adequate nutritious 1food. Otherwise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain 2our keen mental power and expand our intelligent capacity. 3Constant learning supplies us inexhaustible fuel for driving us to 4sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment. Learningincessantly is the
23、surest way to keep pace with the time in the 5information age, and an infallible warrant of success in times of uncertainty. Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition ofknowledge. On contrary, learning should be a never-
24、ending 6process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world ever changed 7so fast, the cease from learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. Whats worse, the animalistic instinct deep inour subconsciousness will come to life, and weakening our will to 8pursue our noble ideal, sapp
25、ing our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success, even killing our desire for the refinementof our characteristic. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the 9stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization, Therefore,to stay mentally younger, we have to take learning as a lif
26、elong 10career.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：inputintake）填空项1:_（正确答案：Otherwise一Likewise或Similarly）填空项1:_（正确答案：intelligent一intellectual）填空项1:_（正确答案：inexhaustible一with）填空项1:_（正确答案：timetimes）填空项1:_（正确答案：contrary一the）填空项1:_（正确答案：changed一changing）填空项1:_（正确答案：and一去掉and）填空项1:_（正确答案：characteristic一character）填空项1:_（
27、正确答案：younger一young）解析：解析：语篇错误。此处并没有比较的意思，只是表示“保持心理年轻”这一状态，所以不用比较级，而用原级。I have been teaching for longer than I care to say, and always offer a course for entering freshmen. And Ive discovered something quite elemental: all young people have knowledge-thirsty minds that can be awakened and encouraged
28、to examine the world they inhabit in. 1 So why do we hear so many professors describe theirpupils so hostile to learning? Ill stipulate the obvious: 2colleges want good students. Because by that, they 3generally mean highly SATs and GPAs. Sadly, this 4expectation continues at college where, as Harva
29、rds Harvey Mansfield states, professors believe that whattheyre doing the research on is exactly what students 5need to know. How best to get more students into college and get them thinking? A start would be to abandon theconstrictions of academic fields. I know of a class that a 6professor invites
30、 the students to ponder human nature.They cites Alexander Hamilton, who wrote that human 7beings are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. And then Thomas Jefferson, who held that morality, compassion, and generosity are innate elements in thehuman constitution. This is a discussion worth of a 8coll
31、ege course, in which every one of us can bring information and insights to the analysis. This can also happen in the sciences. Thus theres a geology course thatstarts the professor saying, After this semester, you 11 9never look at a rock in the same way again. Of course,the students are expecting t
32、o put in a lot of hard work. But 10teachers like that make them willing to do it.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：in一去掉in）填空项1:_（正确答案：so一as）填空项1:_（正确答案：BecauseBut）填空项1:_（正确答案：highly一high）填空项1:_（正确答案：the一去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：that一where）填空项1:_（正确答案：They一HeShe）填空项1:_（正确答案：worth一worthy）填空项1:_（正确答案：starts一with）填空项1:_（
33、正确答案：expecting一expected）解析：解析：语法错误。根据上下文，此处主语students与expect之间应该是被动关系，表示“被期望”，整句的意思是“当然学生也被寄予期望投入许多努力”。I came to Africa with one purpose: I wanted to see the world outside the perspective of European egocentricity. I could have chosen Asia or South America. I ended up in Africa because the plane tic
34、ket there was cheapest. I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I have lived off andon Mozambique. Time has passed, and Im no longer young; in 1fact, Im approaching to old age. But my motive for living this 2straddled existence, with one foot in African sand and the another 3in European snow, in th
35、e melancholy region of Norrland inSweden that I grew up, has to do with wanting to see clearly, to 4understand. The simplest way to explain what Ive learned from my life in Africa is through a parable about why human beings have two earsand only one tongue. Why is this? Probably so that we have to 5
36、listen twice as much as we speak. In Africa listening is a guided principle. Its a principle that 6has lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one 7seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. From my own experience, Ive noticed how much faster I have toans
37、wer a question during a TV interview than what I did 10, 8maybe even 5, years ago. Its as if we have complete lost the 9ability to listen. We talk and talk, and we end up frightening by 10silence, the refuge of those who are at a loss for an answer.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：onin）填空项1:_（正确答案：to一去掉to）填空项1
38、:_（正确答案：another一other）填空项1:_（正确答案：that一where）填空项1:_（正确答案：andbut）填空项1:_（正确答案：guided一guiding）填空项1:_（正确答案：lost一been）填空项1:_（正确答案：what一去掉what）填空项1:_（正确答案：complete一completely）填空项1:_（正确答案：frightening一frightened）解析：解析：语法错误。由介词by可以看出，此处并非end up doing sth结构。根据句意，frightening在此应作伴随状语。由于frighten跟主语we之间存在逻辑上的被动关系
39、，故需要将frightening改为frightened。介词by也印证了这一点。For many, the pursuit of happiness is also the pursuit ofprosperity. Part of the American dream is the ability to provide 1your family, have a job that pays the bills, and puts a roof overyour head. The last few years of economical uncertainty have 2made this
40、 dream harder to attain for millions of U.S. citizens andlegal immigrants. Twenty-four million Americans are employed or 3underemployed. Meanwhile, there are 7 million illegal workers with jobs in the U.S. We could open up millions of jobs forcitizens and legal immigrants even if we simply enforced
41、worksite 4immigration laws. E-Verify is a program that helps preserve rare jobs for U.S. 5citizens and legal immigrants. It allows employers to check what 6prospective employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S. The program is free, quick, and easy to usepersons eligible towork immediately
42、confirmed 99.5 percent of the time. More than 7270,000 employers across the U.S. voluntarily use E-Verify, andthe average of 1,300 new businesses sign up each week. Ive 8introduced the Legal Workforce Act to require all U.S. employers to use E-Verify. This bill is one of the most significant steps w
43、ecan make to preserve the pursuit of happiness for millions of U.S. 9citizens and legal immigrants while curbing incentives for future illegal immigrants. The U.S. has been and will continue to be a nation ofimmigrants. And we are also a nation of laws. And we must 10enforce our laws to protect and preserve the rights and freedoms that make America so great.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：providefor或provide一support）填空项1:_（正确答案：economicaleconomic）填空项1:_（正确答案：employedunemployed）填空项1:_（正确答案：even一去掉even）填空项1:_（正确答案：rarescarce）填空项1:_（正确答案：whatwhetherif）填空项1:_（正确答案：immediatelyare）填空项1:_（正确答案：the一an）填
