1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 94及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING undoubtedly the earliest “wheels“ were smooth logs which were used for moving weights over the earths surface. It is a mystery so as to who 【 M3】 _ invented the first wheel. No one recorded who was or when it 【 M4】 _ happened; but when the first invent
2、or has placed a wheel on an axle, mankind began to roll on one place to another. This type of wheel 【 M5】 _ have been found among Egyptian relics dating back due to 2,000 B.C, 【 M6】 _ and earlier Chinese civilizations are credited with independent invention of the same mechanism. The wheel so fascin
3、ated man that he has spent centuries building machines around them; yet in over 4,000 years he has not 【 M7】 _ changed its basic design. All about us we see the spinning shafts, gears, flywheels, and rotors are the descendants of the first wheel. 【 M8】 _ The roaring propeller of an aircraft engine,
4、the whirling wheel of a giant steam turbine, and the hairspring of a tiny watch are examples of the motorized motion which characterizes our 【 M9】 _ mechanism world. It is hard to conceive of continuous motion 【 M10】 _ without the wheel. 1 【 M1】 2 【 M2】 3 【 M3】 4 【 M4】 5 【 M5】 6 【 M6】 7 【 M7】 8 【 M8
5、】 9 【 M9】 10 【 M10】 10 Most people have typewriters and can type well prefer to type 【 M1】 _ their letters nowadays. There was a feeling a generation ago that typewriting was not quite proper in social correspondence, but, in the United States at least, the prejudice of typewriting much social 【 M2】
6、 _ correspondence has disappeared. Many people, as a matter of fact, prefer that letters written to them to be prepared on the typewriter, 【 M3】 _ since it makes them easier to read. Typewriting becomes fashionable with the development of social patterns. Mark Twain is reputed to being the worlds fi
7、rst 【 M4】 _ author to use a typewriter. His manuscript for Life on the Mississippi arrived at the publisher neatly set down in typewritten form. On the 【 M5】 _ other hand, the objections to the typewriter are that it is less personal and that it suggests that the writer was too much of a hurry to si
8、t 【 M6】 _ down and write in longhand. Ones handwriting is in some ways as much an expression of his personality like his voice, and in 【 M7】 _ correspondence between friends a great deal of the writer is missing if he uses a typewriter. Therefore, the typewriter is often avoided in letters which exp
9、ress friend and personal sentiments. 【 M8】 _ However, the typewriter had become so popular that the Remington Company received a letter from Mark Twain, which today seems most ironic: “I have stopped using the Type-Writer, for the reason that I never could write a letter with it to anybody with 【 M9
10、】 _ receiving a request by return mail that I would not describe the 【 M10】 _ machine but also state what progress I had made in using it, etc. I dont like to write letters, so I dont want people to know that I own this curiosity breeding little joker.“ 11 【 M1】 12 【 M2】 13 【 M3】 14 【 M4】 15 【 M5】 1
11、6 【 M6】 17 【 M7】 18 【 M8】 19 【 M9】 20 【 M10】 20 Shopping habits in the United States have changed in the last quarter of the 20th century. Early in the 1900s, most American towns and cities had a Main Street, which was always in the heart of the town. This street was lined both sides with many varie
12、d 【 M1】 _ businesses where shoppers can find all sorts of merchandises: 【 M2】 _ clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. In addition, some shops offer services like drugstores, restaurants, shoes-repair stores, barber or 【 M3】 _ hairdressing shops. But in 1950s, a change began to take place. Too ma
13、ny 【 M4】 _ automobile had crowded into Main Street. Too few parking places were available for shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, 【 M5】 _ merchants began to look with interest in the open spaces outside the 【 M6】 _ city limits. Open space is what their car-driven customers needed and 【 M7】 _
14、 open space is what they got when the first shopping centers were built. Shopping centers started as to a collection of small new stores 【 M8】 _ built away from congested city centers. Attracted by hundreds of free parking spaces, customers were drawn away from downtown areas to the outlaying malls.
15、 And the growing popularity of shopping centers led to turn to the building of bigger and better-stocked stores. By the 【 M9】 _ late 1970s, shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to provide the convenience of one-shop 【 M10】 _ shopping, malls were transformed i
16、nto landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment. 21 【 M1】 22 【 M2】 23 【 M3】 24 【 M4】 25 【 M5】 26 【 M6】 27 【 M7】 28 【 M8】 29 【 M9】 30 【 M10】 专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 94答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contain
17、s TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: (1)For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. (2)F
18、or a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ “ sign and write t 【知识模块】 改错 1 【正确答案】 know 一 it 【试题解析】 句法错误。从句子意思来看，作者想表达的是 “没有轮子，世界就不会像我们今天所看到的那样 ”。从语法上来看， as weknow在句中作状语。后面缺少宾语，应添加 it来指代 the world。 【知识模块】 改错 2 【正确答案】 which although 【试题解析】 句 法错误。从语法上来看， “ ， which” 是一个典型的非限定性定语从句。
19、但是分析 “which”后面的成分我们可以看出，这个从句里并不缺少名词性成分，无法构成定语从句。因此，本句中的两个句子应该是并列或从属关系，应该填人一个适当的连接词。 【知识模块】 改错 3 【正确答案】 so一去掉 so 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 so as to的意义是 inorder to，与句子的意义不符。 as to可以表示 with regard to的意义，与句子意义吻合。 【知识模块】 改错 4 【正确答案 】 who 一 he 【试题解析】 句法错误。从句子结构看， who was应该是一个宾语从句，很显然这个从句缺少一个成分。 【知识模块】 改错 5 【正确答案】 on f
20、rom 【试题解析】 介词错误。结合后面的成分 oncplace to another可以看出，这里应该用 from。 【知识模块】 改错 6 【正确答案】 due一去掉 due 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 date back to是一个固定搭配，表示 “回溯到某个时间 ”。 【知识模块】 改错 7 【正确答 案】 them it 【试题解析】 代词错误。从句子意义来看，这里的代词 them应该指代的是 the wheel，所以应该用 it。 【知识模块】 改错 8 【正确答案】 rotors 一 which 【试题解析】 句法错误。从句子结构看， are the descendants of
21、the first wheel是一个从句，缺少关系代词。 【知识模块】 改错 9 【正确答案】 motorized rotary 【试题解析】 语义错误。句中举出的例子与 motorized无关， 而是用来说明像轮子一样的旋转运动在机械中的运用，应该改为 rotary 【知识模块】 改错 10 【正确答案】 mechanism mechanical 【试题解析】 形近词错误。 mechanism是机械装置的总称，这里应该改为mechanical。 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 11 【正确答案】 people 一 who 【试题解析】 句法错误。从句子结构看， have typewr
22、iters and can type well是一个定语从句，缺少关系代词。 【知识模块】 改错 12 【正确答案】 of against 【试题解析】 介词错误。 prejudice后常用 against而不用 of。 【知识模块】 改错 13 【正确答案】 to(be)一去掉 to 【试题解析】 句法错误。从句子结构看， prefer后面是一个宾语从句， that是从句的关系代词。从句中缺少一个谓语成分，因此应将 be前的 to删除， be prepared构成从句的谓语。 prefer接从句时，我们常用虚拟语气，这里省略了should。 【知识模块】 改错 14 【正确答案】 being
23、 be 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。 be reputed to通常接动词原形，而不是 -ing分词。这里的 to是不定式符号，不是介词。 【知识模块】 改错 15 【正确答案】 publisher publishers 【试题解析】 搭配错误。介词 at和名词构成的词组通常用来表示地点、时间等，在本句中， the publisher指人，不能和 at搭配，所以我们改用名词所有格，表示地点， thepublishers。类似的还有 the barbers， thebutchers等。 【知识模块】 改错 16 【正确答案】 too in 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 hurry通常和 in搭配构
24、成词组，如 in a hurry。 【知识模块】 改错 17 【正确答案】 like as 【试题解析】 搭配错误。从句子结构可以看出，这里是一个 as muchas 的结构。 【知识模块】 改错 18 【正确答案】 friend friendly 【试题解析】 词性错误。句子中，同 friend并列的是 personal，用来修饰sentiments，因此这里需用形容词 friendly。 【知识模块】 改错 19 【正确答案】 (anybody)with without 【试题解析】 语义错误。根据上下文，这句是 never和 without构成的双重否定句，表示强调。 【知识模块】 改错
25、 20 【正确答案】 not 一 only 【试题解析】 句法错误。从句子结构可以看出， describe the machine与 state what pro-gress I had made是并列关系，应该用 notonly but also 的结构。 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 21 【正确答案】 both on 【试题解析】 介词错误。本题难点在于对 both sides with many varied businesses的理解上。通常，我们可以把这个部分看做插入成分，作句子状语。但是在做句子的插入成分时，通常用两个逗号隔开。在本句中，我们需要在 both sides
26、前加上一个介词，构成介词词组作句子状语。 【知识模块】 改错 22 【正确答案】 merchandises merchandise 【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。 merchandise是一个集体名词，不可数。类似的还有 furniture， equipment等。 【知识模块】 改错 23 【正确答案】 Shoes-repair shoe-repair 【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。名词在作定语时通常用单数形式，所以改为shoe-repair。 【知识模块】 改错 24 【正确答案】 1950s the 【试题解析】 冠词错误。表示年代通常用 in the 1950s，而表示具体年份用 in
27、 1950。 【知识模块】 改错 25 【正确答案】 for to 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 available后常用的介词是 to，类似接 to的词组还有subsequent to， indifferent to， prior to等。 【知识模块】 改错 26 【正确答案】 in at 【试题解析】 搭配错误。本题难点在对 with interest的理解上。通常情况下，interest后常用介词 in。但是在本句中，通过分析句子成分我们可以看出， with interest是动词 look的状语，后面的介词是和 look搭配，所以改为 at。 【知识模块】 改错 27 【正确答案】 Ca
28、r-drivencar -driving 【试题解析】 分词错误。本题涉及过去分词和现在分词构成复合词的用法。cardriven customers的意思是 customersdriven by cars，与句子意思不符，应改为 cardriving customers，意思是 customers drivingcars。 【知识模块】 改错 28 【正确答案】 to一去掉 to 【试题解析】 介词错误。 as a collection of smallnew stores构成介词词组，在句子中作状语。 【知识模块】 改错 29 【正确答案】 to(turn)一 in 【试题解析】 搭配错误。该句中 led是句子的谓语动词，而 turn在句中作名词，所以必须要和介词 in搭配构成介词词组作状语。 【知识模块】 改错 30 【正确答案】 provide providing 【试题解析】 动词错误。 in additionto中， to是介词，而不是不定式符号。 【知识模块】 改错
