1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷214及答案解析 (总分：80.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：4，分数：80.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_For the longest time, I couldnt get worked up about privacy: my right to it; how its dying; how were headed for an even more wired, under-regulated, over-intrusive, privacy-deprived age. I s
2、hould also point out that as news director and a guy who 1makes his life on the Web, I know better than most people that were 2hurtling toward an even more intrusive world. Were all beingwatched by computers when we visit Websites; by the mere act of 3browsing , were going to public in a way that wa
3、s unimaginable a 4decade ago. I know this because Im a watcher, either. When 5people come to my Website, without ever knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders, recording what they look at, timinghow long they stay on a particular page, followed them around the 6sprawling Webpages. None o
4、f this would bother me in least, I suspect, if a few 7years ago, my phone, like Marleys ghost, hadnt given me aglimpse of the nightmares to come. In Thanksgiving weekend in 81995, someone forwarded my home telephone number to an out-of-state answering machine, which unsuspecting callers trying to re
5、ach 9me heard a male voice identify himself as me and say some extreme 10rude things. Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their messages. This went on for several days until my wife and I figured out that something was wrong and got our phone service restored.（分数：20
6、.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:_Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like mostjournalists, I cant deny that one of my private joys are seeing my 1byline in print. Now the internet is allowing me t
7、o feed this vanity toever greater extent, and the occasional sneaky web search has grown 2into a full-blown obsession for how high up Googles ranking my 3articles appear where I put my name into the search box. When I 4lastly looked, my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th place. 5You know you
8、have a problem how you find yourself competing for 6ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s. Not that Im lonely for suffering from a dysfunctional techno- 7habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems; think crackberry, power-pointle
9、ssness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar in sending 8an e-mail to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead talking 9to them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleaguesor even the first dates. More of us than ever reveal highly personal 10information on blogs or My Spac
10、e entries. A few will even use internet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs?（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
11、项1:_After the horror became public in his hometown, Sylacauga, Alabama, city council president George Carlton told a reporter,This is not the type of place that this happens. A week ago, few 1people could have pointed out Sylacauga on a map. A tiny city of 13,000, halfway between Birmingham and Mont
12、gomery, Sylacaugawas known as for its white marble quarries, textile mills and ice- 2cream factories. And last week Sylacauga became a chapter in the 3recent history of hatred. According to police, Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler Jr. , 21, plotted for two weeks to murder Billy Jac
13、kGaither, 39. In Feb. 19, they arranged to meet him at a Sylacauga 4bar and lured him to secluded area. There they beat him and 5dump him into the trunk of his car. They then drove about 15 miles 6to Peckerwood Creek. There, says Sheriffs Deputy Al Bradley, they took him out of the trunk, took an ax
14、 handle and beat him todeath. They set two old tires flame, says Bradley, then they put 7the body on the fire. They did it all, the deputy says, while 8Gaither was gay. Gaithers death has become a rallying point for gay-rightsorganizations and state legislators pushing a bill that would extend 9Alab
15、amas three-year-old hate-crimes law beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexualorientation as well. Its fortunate that somebody had to lose his life 10in order for this legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama, says state Representative Alvi
16、n Holmes, who failed to get the original law amended when it was passed in 1996.（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214答案解析 (总分：80.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：4，分数：80.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_解析：For the longest time, I couldnt get wo
17、rked up about privacy: my right to it; how its dying; how were headed for an even more wired, under-regulated, over-intrusive, privacy-deprived age. I should also point out that as news director and a guy who 1makes his life on the Web, I know better than most people that were 2hurtling toward an ev
18、en more intrusive world. Were all beingwatched by computers when we visit Websites; by the mere act of 3browsing , were going to public in a way that was unimaginable a 4decade ago. I know this because Im a watcher, either. When 5people come to my Website, without ever knowing their names, I can pee
19、r over their shoulders, recording what they look at, timinghow long they stay on a particular page, followed them around the 6sprawling Webpages. None of this would bother me in least, I suspect, if a few 7years ago, my phone, like Marleys ghost, hadnt given me aglimpse of the nightmares to come. In
20、 Thanksgiving weekend in 81995, someone forwarded my home telephone number to an out-of-state answering machine, which unsuspecting callers trying to reach 9me heard a male voice identify himself as me and say some extreme 10rude things. Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people t
21、o leave their messages. This went on for several days until my wife and I figured out that something was wrong and got our phone service restored.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：as一a）填空项1:_（正确答案：lifeliving）填空项1:_（正确答案：whenwhenever）填空项1:_（正确答案：to一去掉to）填空项1:_（正确答案：eithertoo）填空项1:_（正确答案：followedfollowing）填空项1:_（
22、正确答案：in一the）填空项1:_（正确答案：InOn）填空项1:_（正确答案：which一where）填空项1:_（正确答案：extreme一extremely）解析：解析：词性混用。这里的extreme修饰形容词rude，因此应该使用其副词形式。Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like mostjournalists, I cant deny that one of my private joys are
23、 seeing my 1byline in print. Now the internet is allowing me to feed this vanity toever greater extent, and the occasional sneaky web search has grown 2into a full-blown obsession for how high up Googles ranking my 3articles appear where I put my name into the search box. When I 4lastly looked, my b
24、est effort was a rather humiliating 47th place. 5You know you have a problem how you find yourself competing for 6ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s. Not that Im lonely for suffering from a dysfunctional techno- 7habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto uns
25、uspected personality problems; think crackberry, power-pointlessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar in sending 8an e-mail to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead talking 9to them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleaguesor even the first dates. More of us than
26、 ever reveal highly personal 10information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even use internet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs?（分数：
27、20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：areis）填空项1:_（正确答案：everan）填空项1:_（正确答案：for一with）填空项1:_（正确答案：wherewhen）填空项1:_（正确答案：lastlylast）填空项1:_（正确答案：howwhen）填空项1:_（正确答案：lonelyalone）填空项1:_（正确答案：inwith）填空项1:_（正确答案：instead一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：the一去掉the）解析：解析：冠词冗余。first date意为“初次约会”，这里是泛指，而不是特指，无需加定冠词the。After the horror became public
28、in his hometown, Sylacauga, Alabama, city council president George Carlton told a reporter,This is not the type of place that this happens. A week ago, few 1people could have pointed out Sylacauga on a map. A tiny city of 13,000, halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery, Sylacaugawas known as for i
29、ts white marble quarries, textile mills and ice- 2cream factories. And last week Sylacauga became a chapter in the 3recent history of hatred. According to police, Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler Jr. , 21, plotted for two weeks to murder Billy JackGaither, 39. In Feb. 19, they arra
30、nged to meet him at a Sylacauga 4bar and lured him to secluded area. There they beat him and 5dump him into the trunk of his car. They then drove about 15 miles 6to Peckerwood Creek. There, says Sheriffs Deputy Al Bradley, they took him out of the trunk, took an ax handle and beat him todeath. They
31、set two old tires flame, says Bradley, then they put 7the body on the fire. They did it all, the deputy says, while 8Gaither was gay. Gaithers death has become a rallying point for gay-rightsorganizations and state legislators pushing a bill that would extend 9Alabamas three-year-old hate-crimes law
32、 beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexualorientation as well. Its fortunate that somebody had to lose his life 10in order for this legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama, says state Representative Alvin Holmes, who failed to get the ori
33、ginal law amended when it was passed in 1996.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhere）填空项1:_（正确答案：as一去掉as）填空项1:_（正确答案：AndBut）填空项1:_（正确答案：InOn）填空项1:_（正确答案：secludeda）填空项1:_（正确答案：dumpdumped）填空项1:_（正确答案：flameaflame）填空项1:_（正确答案：whilebecause）填空项1:_（正确答案：organizationsorganizations）填空项1:_（正确答案：fortunateunfortunate）解析：解析：语义错误。这句话的意思是“州议员阿尔文福尔摩斯认为非得用某人的死来使这项法律在阿拉巴马州得以通过的动力实在是件令人遗憾的事。”所以应该使用unfortunate。
