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1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷210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）_Many of the most flexible examples of tool use in animals come from primates(the order that includes humans, apes, and monkeys). For example, many wild primates use objects tothreaten outsid

2、ers. Or there are many examples of tool use by 1the other mammals, as well as by birds and other types of animals. 2 Tools are used by many species in the capture or preparation offood. Chimpanzees use sticks and poles to bring up ants and termites 3(白蚁)from their hiding places. Among the most compl

3、ex tool useobserving in the wild is the use of stones by Ivory Coast chimpanzees 4to crack nuts open. They select a large flat stone as anvil(a heavy 5block on which to place the nuts)and a smaller stone as a hammer.Stones suitable for use as anvils are not easy to find, but thus often a 6chimpanzee

4、 may carry a haul of nuts more than 40 meters to find a suitable anvil. The use of tools in chimpanzees is especiallyinteresting while these animals sometimes modify tools to make them 7better suited their intended purpose. To make a twig more effective 8for digging out termites, for example, a chim

5、p may first strip it of its leaves. Surprisingly, there is also a species of bird that use sticks to 9probe holes in the search for insects. One of the species of Galapagos finch(雀类), the woodpecker finch, picks up or breaks off a twig, cactus spine, or leaf stem. This primitive tool is thenheld in

6、their beak and used to probe for insects in holes in trees that 10the bird cannot probe directly with its beak. Birds have been seen to carry twigs from tree to tree searching for prey.（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:_The last two tornado seasons have been the de

7、adliest in a decade, with 206 deaths. Everyone from the insurance industry toAl Gore worry that global warming may be causing more tornado 1activity. But theres no baseline for comparison. Thats why we have 2no accurate record of tornadoes before the 1950s, back when it was possible for these brief,

8、 freakish funnels of air to blow over the unpopulated areas without a notice. 3 Tornado warnings have improved over the years; forecasterscan now issue warnings about 18 minutes after touchdown for 75 4percent of twisters. As longer-term forecasts, the science isnt there 5yet, despite that you hear

9、on the nightly news. Television 6forecasters cater with the publics curiosity about extreme weather, 7says Michael H. Glantz, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Their goal, of course, is to be first with a forecast of trouble ahead. The number of deaths per tornado is greater in t

10、he South than in Tornado Alley(the Great Plains and part of the Midwest)adisparity that cant be explained for storm frequency or severity. 8Experts say things like terrain, population density, and the numberof mobile homes play a role. And the biggest factor might be timing: 9In the Plains, explains

11、 Schaefer, we have a many more clearly 10defined period of tornado activity, generally from March to late June. In the Southeast, tornadoes can happen all year long, so there may be less vigilance. Research also shows that the South may have a climatological propensity(倾向)for nighttime storms, which

12、 catch people unawaresasleep in bed. Last years two killer tornado outbreaks in North Carolina landed between 11: 30 p. m. and 3: 30 a. m.（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:_It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling

13、 and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. The Americans divide these areas somewhatrigidly into the spirit and flesh, the two being in opposition in the 1life of a human being. Ideally, spirit should prevail but all too oftenit is the flesh which does prevail. 2 The Japanese make

14、 no this division, at least between one as 3good and the other as evil. They believe that a person has twosouls, each necessary. One is the gentle soul; other is the 4rough soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul;sometimes he must use his rough soul. He does not favor his gentlesoul, neither

15、 he fight his rough soul. Japanese philosophers insist 5human nature in itself be good, and a human being does not need to 6fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soulproperly at the appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists of 7fulfilling ones obligations to other

16、s. Happy endings, either in life orin fiction, are neither necessary nor expected, while the fulfillment 8of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts.And duty includes a persons obligations to these who have conferred 9benefits upon him and to himself as an individual of ho

17、nor. Hedevelops through this double sense of duty, a self-discipline whichis at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area which it is 10functioning.（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210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)

18、1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_解析：Many of the most flexible examples of tool use in animals come from primates(the order that includes humans, apes, and monkeys). For example, many wild primates use objects tothreaten outsiders. Or there are many examples of tool use by 1the other mammals, as w

19、ell as by birds and other types of animals. 2 Tools are used by many species in the capture or preparation offood. Chimpanzees use sticks and poles to bring up ants and termites 3(白蚁)from their hiding places. Among the most complex tool useobserving in the wild is the use of stones by Ivory Coast ch

20、impanzees 4to crack nuts open. They select a large flat stone as anvil(a heavy 5block on which to place the nuts)and a smaller stone as a hammer.Stones suitable for use as anvils are not easy to find, but thus often a 6chimpanzee may carry a haul of nuts more than 40 meters to find a suitable anvil.

21、 The use of tools in chimpanzees is especiallyinteresting while these animals sometimes modify tools to make them 7better suited their intended purpose. To make a twig more effective 8for digging out termites, for example, a chimp may first strip it of its leaves. Surprisingly, there is also a speci

22、es of bird that use sticks to 9probe holes in the search for insects. One of the species of Galapagos finch(雀类), the woodpecker finch, picks up or breaks off a twig, cactus spine, or leaf stem. This primitive tool is thenheld in their beak and used to probe for insects in holes in trees that 10the b

23、ird cannot probe directly with its beak. Birds have been seen to carry twigs from tree to tree searching for prey.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：OrBut）填空项1:_（正确答案：the一去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：upout）填空项1:_（正确答案：observingobserved）填空项1:_（正确答案：anvilan）填空项1:_（正确答案：butand）填空项1:_（正确答案：while一because）填空项1:_（正确答案：suited一for）

24、填空项1:_（正确答案：useuses）填空项1:_（正确答案：theirits）解析：解析：代词误用。这里的代词指代的是单数名词the woodpecker finch，所以应使用its。The last two tornado seasons have been the deadliest in a decade, with 206 deaths. Everyone from the insurance industry toAl Gore worry that global warming may be causing more tornado 1activity. But theres

25、 no baseline for comparison. Thats why we have 2no accurate record of tornadoes before the 1950s, back when it was possible for these brief, freakish funnels of air to blow over the unpopulated areas without a notice. 3 Tornado warnings have improved over the years; forecasterscan now issue warnings

26、 about 18 minutes after touchdown for 75 4percent of twisters. As longer-term forecasts, the science isnt there 5yet, despite that you hear on the nightly news. Television 6forecasters cater with the publics curiosity about extreme weather, 7says Michael H. Glantz, a professor at the University of C

27、olorado at Boulder. Their goal, of course, is to be first with a forecast of trouble ahead. The number of deaths per tornado is greater in the South than in Tornado Alley(the Great Plains and part of the Midwest)adisparity that cant be explained for storm frequency or severity. 8Experts say things l

28、ike terrain, population density, and the numberof mobile homes play a role. And the biggest factor might be timing: 9In the Plains, explains Schaefer, we have a many more clearly 10defined period of tornado activity, generally from March to late June. In the Southeast, tornadoes can happen all year

29、long, so there may be less vigilance. Research also shows that the South may have a climatological propensity(倾向)for nighttime storms, which catch people unawaresasleep in bed. Last years two killer tornado outbreaks in North Carolina landed between 11: 30 p. m. and 3: 30 a. m.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：

30、worryworries）填空项1:_（正确答案：why一because）填空项1:_（正确答案：a去掉a）填空项1:_（正确答案：afterbefore）填空项1:_（正确答案：As一for）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhat）填空项1:_（正确答案：withtofor）填空项1:_（正确答案：forbywith）填空项1:_（正确答案：AndBut）填空项1:_（正确答案：many一much）解析：解析：近义词误用。many不能修饰比较级，而much则可以。It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences i

31、n the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. The Americans divide these areas somewhatrigidly into the spirit and flesh, the two being in opposition in the 1life of a human being. Ideally, spirit should prevail but all too oftenit is the flesh which does

32、prevail. 2 The Japanese make no this division, at least between one as 3good and the other as evil. They believe that a person has twosouls, each necessary. One is the gentle soul; other is the 4rough soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul;sometimes he must use his rough soul. He does not f

33、avor his gentlesoul, neither he fight his rough soul. Japanese philosophers insist 5human nature in itself be good, and a human being does not need to 6fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soulproperly at the appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists of 7fulfilli

34、ng ones obligations to others. Happy endings, either in life orin fiction, are neither necessary nor expected, while the fulfillment 8of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts.And duty includes a persons obligations to these who have conferred 9benefits upon him and to hi

35、mself as an individual of honor. Hedevelops through this double sense of duty, a self-discipline whichis at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area which it is 10functioning.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：第一个the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichthat）填空项1:_（正确答案：thissuch）填空项1:_（正确答案：otherthe）填空项1:_（正确答案：neither一does）填空项1:_（正确答案：beis）填空项1:_（正确答案：ofin）填空项1:_（正确答案：whilesinceforbecause）填空项1:_（正确答案：thesethose）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichin或whichwhere）解析：解析：定语从句关系词误用。area是后面定语从句的先行词，并在从句中作状语，表示“在这个领域里起作用”，因此应该使用where或者in which。