1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷174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）_Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence, sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said.Arts education, on the other hand, does not solve problems. 1Years of research s
2、hows that its closely linked to almostanything that we as a nation say we want for our children and 2demand to our schools: academic achievement, social and 3emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity. Involvement in the arts is associated with gains in math, reading, cogniti
3、ve ability, critical thinking, and verbal skill. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork. A report by the Rand Corporationabout the visual arts argue that the intrinsic pleasures and 4stimulation of the art experience have more than sweeten an 5individuals
4、lifeaccording to the report, they can connectpeople more deeply to the world and open them in new ways 6of seeing, creating the foundation to forge social bonds and community cohesion. And strong arts programming in schoolshelps close a gap that has left many child behind: From 7Mozart for babies to
5、 tutus for toddlers to family trips to themuseum, the children of affluent, aspired parents generally get 8exposed to the arts whether or not public schools provide it. 9Low-income children, often, do not. Arts education enables those children from a financially challenged background to have a more
6、level playing field with children who have hadthose enrichment experience, says Eric Cooper, president and 10founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.（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:_While many nations have aging populations, Japans demograp
7、hic crisis is truly dire, with forecasts showing that 40percent of the population will have been 65 and over in 2055. 1Some of the consequences have been long foreseen, like deflation: as more Japanese retire and live off their savings, theyspend more, further depressing Japans anemic levels of dome
8、stic 2consumption. So a less anticipated outcome has been the 3appearance of generational inequalities. These disparities manifest itself in many ways. There are 4corporations that hire all too many young people forlow-paying jobsin effect, forcing them to shoulder the costsof preserving cushier job
9、s to older employees. Others point to 5an underfinanced pension system so skewed in the favor of 6older Japanese that many younger workers simply refuse topay; a silver democracy that spends far more on the elderlythan education and child carean issue that is familiar to 7Americans; and outdated hir
10、ing practices that have created a new lost generation of disenfranchised youths. Nagisa Inoue, a senior at Tokyos Meiji University, said she was considering paying for a fifth year at her university rather than graduate without a job, an outcome that in Japans rigid 8job market might permanently tai
11、nt her chances of ever gettinga higher-paying corporate job. That is why Japanese 9companies, even when they do offer stable, regular jobs, preferto give them only to new graduates, which are seen as the 10more malleable candidates for molding into Japans corporateculture.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:
12、_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:_It was not so long ago that parents drove a teenager tocampus, said a tearful goodbye and returned back home to 1wait a week or so for a phone call to the dorm. Mom or Dad, 2in turn, might write lettersyes, with pens. On stationary. But 3going to college th
13、ese days means never have to say goodbye, 4thanks to near-saturation of cellphones, email, instant messaging, texting, Facebook and Skype. Researchers are looking at how new technology may be delaying the pointwhich college-bound students truly become independent from 5their parents, and how phenome
14、na such as the introduction of unlimited calling plans have changed the nature of parent-child relationships, and not always for the better. Some research suggests that todays young adults are close 6to their parents than their predecessors. And its complicated. 7Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Ma
15、ssachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is technology and relationships, calls thisa particular sort of Huck Finn moment, in which Huck takes her 8parents with him. We all sail down Mississippi together. From the 9electronic grade monitoring many high schools offer parents, it seems a sm
16、all leap to keep electronic track of their(adult)childrens schedules or to send reminders about deadlines or assignments. Professors have figured out that some kids areemailing papers home to parents to edit. And Skype and 10Facebook might be more than just chances to see a face thats missed at home
17、; parents can peer into their little darling s messy dorm room or his messy social life.（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:_Apprenticeships have long been popular in Europe, butworkforce-oriented high school training is nearly as common in 1U.S. schools. One reason
18、is that such programs sound dangerouslysimilar to tracksorting students by ability level, a practice 2repeatedly rejected in U.S. culture, by which the dominant 3philosophy is that all students should have opportunity to meet their full potential. If high schools were to advise students that some ed
19、ucationbeyond high school is not necessary for everyone, theres little bit 4of a concern that. we re saying a lesser goal is OK for the populations of students who have been historically leastwell-served by high education, says Jane Wellman, executive 5director of Delta Project, which studies higher
20、 education spending. In recent years, male college-going and completion rates haveraised concerns. But those least well-serving historically are 6low-income and underrepresented majority students, who are less 7likely than their peels to pursue two- and four-year degrees, and 8most at risk of not co
21、mpleting college if they do enroll. Some evidence suggest, though, that students already are being 9held to different standards. A recent national survey of high school teachers by ACT Inc., the educational testing company, found 71% agreed completely or a great deal that high school graduatesneed t
22、he same set of skills and knowledge if they plan to go to 10college or enter the workforce, yet 42% said teachers reduce academic expectations for students they perceive as not being college-bound.（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174答案解析 (总分：100.00，做
23、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：Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence, sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said.Arts education, on the other hand, does not solve problems. 1Years of research shows that its closely linked to
24、 almostanything that we as a nation say we want for our children and 2demand to our schools: academic achievement, social and 3emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity. Involvement in the arts is associated with gains in math, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking,
25、and verbal skill. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork. A report by the Rand Corporationabout the visual arts argue that the intrinsic pleasures and 4stimulation of the art experience have more than sweeten an 5individuals lifeaccording to the report, th
26、ey can connectpeople more deeply to the world and open them in new ways 6of seeing, creating the foundation to forge social bonds and community cohesion. And strong arts programming in schoolshelps close a gap that has left many child behind: From 7Mozart for babies to tutus for toddlers to family t
27、rips to themuseum, the children of affluent, aspired parents generally get 8exposed to the arts whether or not public schools provide it. 9Low-income children, often, do not. Arts education enables those children from a financially challenged background to have a more level playing field with childr
28、en who have hadthose enrichment experience, says Eric Cooper, president and 10founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：not-去掉not）填空项1:_（正确答案：anything-everything）填空项1:_（正确答案：to-from）填空项1:_（正确答案：argue-argues）填空项1:_（正确答案：havedo）填空项1:_（正确答案：into）填空项1:_（正确答案：ch
29、ildchildren或manya）填空项1:_（正确答案：aspiredaspiring）填空项1:_（正确答案：it-them）填空项1:_（正确答案：experience-experiences）解析：解析：词汇错误。此处指“家境富裕的孩子比穷人家的孩子所拥有的丰富经历”，experience作“经历”讲时，是可数名词，作“经验”讲时。才是不可数名词，根据前面的修饰词those可知此处要把experience改成experiences作“经历”讲。While many nations have aging populations, Japans demographic crisis is
30、 truly dire, with forecasts showing that 40percent of the population will have been 65 and over in 2055. 1Some of the consequences have been long foreseen, like deflation: as more Japanese retire and live off their savings, theyspend more, further depressing Japans anemic levels of domestic 2consump
31、tion. So a less anticipated outcome has been the 3appearance of generational inequalities. These disparities manifest itself in many ways. There are 4corporations that hire all too many young people forlow-paying jobsin effect, forcing them to shoulder the costsof preserving cushier jobs to older em
32、ployees. Others point to 5an underfinanced pension system so skewed in the favor of 6older Japanese that many younger workers simply refuse topay; a silver democracy that spends far more on the elderlythan education and child carean issue that is familiar to 7Americans; and outdated hiring practices
33、 that have created a new lost generation of disenfranchised youths. Nagisa Inoue, a senior at Tokyos Meiji University, said she was considering paying for a fifth year at her university rather than graduate without a job, an outcome that in Japans rigid 8job market might permanently taint her chance
34、s of ever gettinga higher-paying corporate job. That is why Japanese 9companies, even when they do offer stable, regular jobs, preferto give them only to new graduates, which are seen as the 10more malleable candidates for molding into Japans corporateculture.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：in一by）填空项1:_（正确答案：
35、more一less）填空项1:_（正确答案：So一But）填空项1:_（正确答案：itself一themselves）填空项1:_（正确答案：(jobs)to一for）填空项1:_（正确答案：the一去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：education一on）填空项1:_（正确答案：graduate一graduating）填空项1:_（正确答案：why一because）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichwho）解析：解析：语法错误。本题考查的是非限制性定语从句引导词which和who的区别，此处指代的不是“日本公司”，而是“新毕业生”，所以应该用指代人的who。It was not so l
36、ong ago that parents drove a teenager tocampus, said a tearful goodbye and returned back home to 1wait a week or so for a phone call to the dorm. Mom or Dad, 2in turn, might write lettersyes, with pens. On stationary. But 3going to college these days means never have to say goodbye, 4thanks to near-
37、saturation of cellphones, email, instant messaging, texting, Facebook and Skype. Researchers are looking at how new technology may be delaying the pointwhich college-bound students truly become independent from 5their parents, and how phenomena such as the introduction of unlimited calling plans hav
38、e changed the nature of parent-child relationships, and not always for the better. Some research suggests that todays young adults are close 6to their parents than their predecessors. And its complicated. 7Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is tec
39、hnology and relationships, calls thisa particular sort of Huck Finn moment, in which Huck takes her 8parents with him. We all sail down Mississippi together. From the 9electronic grade monitoring many high schools offer parents, it seems a small leap to keep electronic track of their(adult)childrens
40、 schedules or to send reminders about deadlines or assignments. Professors have figured out that some kids areemailing papers home to parents to edit. And Skype and 10Facebook might be more than just chances to see a face thats missed at home; parents can peer into their little darling s messy dorm
41、room or his messy social life.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：back去掉back）填空项1:_（正确答案：to一from）填空项1:_（正确答案：stationary一stationery）填空项1:_（正确答案：have一having）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichat）填空项1:_（正确答案：close一closer）填空项1:_（正确答案：And一But）填空项1:_（正确答案：her一his）填空项1:_（正确答案：Mississippithe）填空项1:_（正确答案：(home)to一for）解析：解析：词汇错误。句末的to edit是
42、parents的动作，应该是学生发邮件给父母，让父母帮他们校订论文，应该用email sthfor sbto dosth的形式，第一个to要改成for。Apprenticeships have long been popular in Europe, butworkforce-oriented high school training is nearly as common in 1U.S. schools. One reason is that such programs sound dangerouslysimilar to tracksorting students by ability
43、 level, a practice 2repeatedly rejected in U.S. culture, by which the dominant 3philosophy is that all students should have opportunity to meet their full potential. If high schools were to advise students that some educationbeyond high school is not necessary for everyone, theres little bit 4of a c
44、oncern that. we re saying a lesser goal is OK for the populations of students who have been historically leastwell-served by high education, says Jane Wellman, executive 5director of Delta Project, which studies higher education spending. In recent years, male college-going and completion rates haveraised concerns. But those least well-serving historically are 6low-income and underrepresented majority students,
