1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷179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）_English is one of the worlds most widely spoken languages. This is partly because it was the language of the British Empire.The empire once controlled so much of the world when it was said
2、 1that the Sun never set on the British Empire. England, the birthplace of English, takes on most of the island 2of Great Britain. It is one of the four land that form the United 3Kingdom. The English that people speak there today is quitediffered from the English that was spoken long ago. If you we
3、re 4read a book by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the early writers of 5English, someone would have to explain it to you what many 6words mean. England has product many famous writers since Chaucer. 7They include such poets as John Milton and Percy Bysshe Shelley and such novelists as Jane Austen and Char
4、les Dickens. England is also known for its theater. That art has remained important since the time of playwright William Shakespeare some 400 years ago. Englands Oxford and Cambridge are two of the oldest universitiesin the world. The country s contributions of classical and folk 8music, as well as
5、to rock and roll, are also important. Its not hard 9to imagine what rock would be like if there hadnt been English performers such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and DavidBowie. The English also discovered two of the world s most 10popular sports: football(known as soccer in the United States)a
6、nd cricket.（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:_Poetry can be compared to painting. When you look at a work of art, you first see it for what it isa depiction of a person, an animal, a place, or a thing. You 11 notice the colors and thetextures, and maybe how the lig
7、ht shines across a window or 1highlights a patch of flowers. These are the things what you see on 2the surface. Then you look a little close at some of the fine details. 3How did the painter make white paint to look silver against blue 4drapery? How did the artist catch that sad look in the eyes of
8、thechild? How on earth did it actually make an apple look so real that 5you could always reach out and grab it off the table? 6 Now what about abstract art? What do you see in thesepaintings? Strange shapes and imagesare they recognized? Do 7they make you feel a certain way? When you look at abstrac
9、t art, maybe you don t necessary see as much as you are actually feeling. To some people, poetry is like abstract art. Some people feelthat poetry is too objective to the artist for the reader to be able to 8fully understand it. How can you make the sense of words that 9dont necessarily say a story?
10、 To appreciate art, you must first 10appreciate your own sensibilities, and then you must appreciate form and texture. With poetry, you start with an appreciation of and trust for your own feelings, and then you examine your appreciation of words and the magic they make when theyre used together.（分数
11、：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:_Arabic language is one of the worlds most widely usedlanguages. It is the officer language of many Arab nations in the 1Middle East and northern Africa. There are two types of Arabic,spoken and written. Spoken Arabic comprises of dia
12、lects in 2different areas of the Arabic-speaking world. These dialects can berough divided into Gulf, Iraqi, Levantine, Maghrebi, North 3Egyptian, Saudi, South Egyptian and Sudanese, and Tunisian.These dialect areas can be subdivided farther. Written Arabic 4serves as the standard written language o
13、f all Arab nations. It is thedescendant of the language of the Quran, the scared book of the 5Islamic religion. Arabs use a spoken form of written Arabic for radio and TV news broadcasts, and in plays and motion pictures. This form also serves as a common spoken language for Arabswho speaks differen
14、t dialects. Arabic belongs to the Semitic 6language groups, and is thus related to Hebrew and Ethiopia The Arabic alphabet has 28 symbols. The alphabet is written from right to left or from the top of the page to the bottom. The alphabet appears in the ALPHABET article. No one knows when Arabic orig
15、inally developed, and people 7of the Arabian Peninsula were the first use it. During the A.D. 8600s, Islam spread throughout southwestern Asia and northern Africa, and the Arabic language was introduced in these areas.Since the mid-1900s, many Arab countries have played 9increasingly important role
16、in world affairs. In a result, Arabic has 10become a major language in international business and politics.（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:_More than 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Socrateswandered around Athens asking questions, an approach to find 1truth that
17、 thinkers venerated ever since. In modern times, the 2Socratic method was adapted for use in universities and became the dominant form of instruction for students learning philosophyand the law. The most recently national survey on the subject 3found that 97% of law-school professors use the Socrati
18、c methodin first-year classes. Socratic dialogues seem to work for the 4ancient Greeks. Are they efficient for people today? Recently, a 5group of researchers decided to find out. In a study published in the December 2011 issue of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education, four cognitive scientists fro
19、m Argentina describe what happened when they asked contemporaryhigh school and college students a series of questions identified to 6those posed by Socrates. In one of his most famous lessons,Socrates showed a young slave boy with a square, then led him 7through a series of 50 questions intended to
20、teach the boy how to draw the second square with an area twice as large as the first. Students in the 2011 experiment, led by researcher Andrea Goldin,gave answers astonishing similar to those offered by Socrates 8pupils, even making the same mistakes he made. Our results 9show that the Socratic dia
21、logue is built on a strong intuition ofhuman knowledge and reasoning which persist more than 10twenty-four centuries after its conception, the researchers write. Their findings, Goldin and his co-authors add, demonstrate the existence of human cognitive universals traversing time and cultures.（分数：20
22、.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179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：English is one of the worlds most widely spoken languages. This is partly because it was the language of the British Empir
23、e.The empire once controlled so much of the world when it was said 1that the Sun never set on the British Empire. England, the birthplace of English, takes on most of the island 2of Great Britain. It is one of the four land that form the United 3Kingdom. The English that people speak there today is
24、quitediffered from the English that was spoken long ago. If you were 4read a book by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the early writers of 5English, someone would have to explain it to you what many 6words mean. England has product many famous writers since Chaucer. 7They include such poets as John Milton a
25、nd Percy Bysshe Shelley and such novelists as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. England is also known for its theater. That art has remained important since the time of playwright William Shakespeare some 400 years ago. Englands Oxford and Cambridge are two of the oldest universitiesin the world. The
26、 country s contributions of classical and folk 8music, as well as to rock and roll, are also important. Its not hard 9to imagine what rock would be like if there hadnt been English performers such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and DavidBowie. The English also discovered two of the world s most
27、 10popular sports: football(known as soccer in the United States)and cricket.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：when一that）填空项1:_（正确答案：on一up）填空项1:_（正确答案：landlands）填空项1:_（正确答案：differed一different）填空项1:_（正确答案：read一to）填空项1:_（正确答案：it一去掉it）填空项1:_（正确答案：product一produced）填空项1:_（正确答案：of一to）填空项1:_（正确答案：not一去掉not）填空项1:_（正确答案
28、：discovered一invented）解析：解析：词汇错误。discover指以前存在的东西被人发现了，用于此不符合句意。根据常识，足球和板球是之前没有的，是新发明的，故将discovered改为invented。Poetry can be compared to painting. When you look at a work of art, you first see it for what it isa depiction of a person, an animal, a place, or a thing. You 11 notice the colors and thetex
29、tures, and maybe how the light shines across a window or 1highlights a patch of flowers. These are the things what you see on 2the surface. Then you look a little close at some of the fine details. 3How did the painter make white paint to look silver against blue 4drapery? How did the artist catch t
30、hat sad look in the eyes of thechild? How on earth did it actually make an apple look so real that 5you could always reach out and grab it off the table? 6 Now what about abstract art? What do you see in thesepaintings? Strange shapes and imagesare they recognized? Do 7they make you feel a certain w
31、ay? When you look at abstract art, maybe you don t necessary see as much as you are actually feeling. To some people, poetry is like abstract art. Some people feelthat poetry is too objective to the artist for the reader to be able to 8fully understand it. How can you make the sense of words that 9d
32、ont necessarily say a story? To appreciate art, you must first 10appreciate your own sensibilities, and then you must appreciate form and texture. With poetry, you start with an appreciation of and trust for your own feelings, and then you examine your appreciation of words and the magic they make w
33、hen theyre used together.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：acrossthrough）填空项1:_（正确答案：what一thatwhich或what一what）填空项1:_（正确答案：close一closer）填空项1:_（正确答案：to一去掉to）填空项1:_（正确答案：it一he）填空项1:_（正确答案：alwaysalmost）填空项1:_（正确答案：recognized一recognizable）填空项1:_（正确答案：objectivesubjective）填空项1:_（正确答案：the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：say一tell）解析：解
34、析：词汇错误。tell意为“告诉、讲述”，指某人把某一件事、一条信息告诉别人或讲述一件事。say着重说话的内容，后面一般接具体的话。tell a story为固定搭配，意为“讲故事”，故将say改为tell。Arabic language is one of the worlds most widely usedlanguages. It is the officer language of many Arab nations in the 1Middle East and northern Africa. There are two types of Arabic,spoken and wr
35、itten. Spoken Arabic comprises of dialects in 2different areas of the Arabic-speaking world. These dialects can berough divided into Gulf, Iraqi, Levantine, Maghrebi, North 3Egyptian, Saudi, South Egyptian and Sudanese, and Tunisian.These dialect areas can be subdivided farther. Written Arabic 4serv
36、es as the standard written language of all Arab nations. It is thedescendant of the language of the Quran, the scared book of the 5Islamic religion. Arabs use a spoken form of written Arabic for radio and TV news broadcasts, and in plays and motion pictures. This form also serves as a common spoken
37、language for Arabswho speaks different dialects. Arabic belongs to the Semitic 6language groups, and is thus related to Hebrew and Ethiopia The Arabic alphabet has 28 symbols. The alphabet is written from right to left or from the top of the page to the bottom. The alphabet appears in the ALPHABET a
38、rticle. No one knows when Arabic originally developed, and people 7of the Arabian Peninsula were the first use it. During the A.D. 8600s, Islam spread throughout southwestern Asia and northern Africa, and the Arabic language was introduced in these areas.Since the mid-1900s, many Arab countries have
39、 played 9increasingly important role in world affairs. In a result, Arabic has 10become a major language in international business and politics.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：officer一official）填空项1:_（正确答案：of一去掉of或comprisesconsists）填空项1:_（正确答案：rough一roughly）填空项1:_（正确答案：farther一further）填空项1:_（正确答案：scaredsacred）
40、填空项1:_（正确答案：speaksspeak）填空项1:_（正确答案：and一but）填空项1:_（正确答案：first一to）填空项1:_（正确答案：played一an）填空项1:_（正确答案：InAs）解析：解析：词汇错误。as a result为固定搭配，意为“作为结果，因此”，故将In改为As。此处意为“因此，阿拉伯语已经成为目前国际经济和政治中使用的一门主要语言。”More than 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Socrateswandered around Athens asking questions, an approach to fin
41、d 1truth that thinkers venerated ever since. In modern times, the 2Socratic method was adapted for use in universities and became the dominant form of instruction for students learning philosophyand the law. The most recently national survey on the subject 3found that 97% of law-school professors us
42、e the Socratic methodin first-year classes. Socratic dialogues seem to work for the 4ancient Greeks. Are they efficient for people today? Recently, a 5group of researchers decided to find out. In a study published in the December 2011 issue of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education, four cognitive s
43、cientists from Argentina describe what happened when they asked contemporaryhigh school and college students a series of questions identified to 6those posed by Socrates. In one of his most famous lessons,Socrates showed a young slave boy with a square, then led him 7through a series of 50 questions
44、 intended to teach the boy how to draw the second square with an area twice as large as the first. Students in the 2011 experiment, led by researcher Andrea Goldin,gave answers astonishing similar to those offered by Socrates 8pupils, even making the same mistakes he made. Our results 9show that the Socratic dialogue is built on a strong intuition ofhuman knowledge and reasoning which persist more than 10twenty-four centuries after its conception, the researcher
