[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷145及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷 145及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contains 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
2、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)For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ “ sign and write t 0 English is one of the worlds most widely spoken languages. This is partly be
3、cause it was the language of the British Empire. The empire once controlled so much of the world when it was said【 M1】 _ that the Sun never set on the British Empire. England, the birthplace of English, takes on most of the island【 M2】 _ of Great Britain. It is one of the four land that form the Uni
4、ted【 M3】 _ Kingdom. The English that people speak there today is quite differed from the English that was spoken long ago. If you were【 M4】 _ read a book by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the early writers of【 M5】 _ English, someone would have to explain it to you what many【 M6】 _ words mean. England has
5、product many famous writers since Chaucer.【 M7】 _ They include such poets as John Milton and 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 ye
6、ars ago. Englands Oxford and Cambridge are two of the oldest universities in the world. The country s contributions of classical and folk【 M8】 _ music, as well as to rock and roll, are also important. Its not hard【 M9】 _ to imagine what rock would be like if there hadnt been English performers such
7、as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and David Bowie. The English also discovered two of the world s most【 M10】 _ popular sports: football(known as “soccer“ in the United States) and cricket. 1 【 M1】 2 【 M2】 3 【 M3】 4 【 M4】 5 【 M5】 6 【 M6】 7 【 M7】 8 【 M8】 9 【 M9】 10 【 M10】 10 Poetry can be compared t
8、o painting. When you look at a work of art, you first see it for what it is a depiction of a person, an animal, a place, or a thing. You 11 notice the colors and the textures, and maybe how the light shines across a window or【 M1】 _ highlights a patch of flowers. These are the things what you see on
9、【 M2】 _ the surface. Then you look a little close at some of the fine details.【 M3】 _ How did the painter make white paint to look silver against blue【 M4】 _ drapery? How did the artist catch that sad look in the eyes of the child? How on earth did it actually make an apple look so real that【 M5】 _
10、you could always reach out and grab it off the table?【 M6】 _ Now what about abstract art? What do you see in these paintings? Strange shapes and images are they recognized? Do【 M7】 _ they make you feel a certain way? When you look at abstract art, maybe you don t necessary see as much as you are act
11、ually feeling. To some people, poetry is like abstract art. Some people feel that poetry is too objective to the artist for the reader to be able to【 M8】 _ fully understand it. How can you make the sense of words that【 M9】 _ dont necessarily say a story? To appreciate art, you must first【 M10】 _ app
12、reciate 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. 11 【 M1】 12 【 M2】 13 【 M3】 14 【 M4】 15 【 M
13、5】 16 【 M6】 17 【 M7】 18 【 M8】 19 【 M9】 20 【 M10】 20 Arabic language is one of the worlds most widely used languages. It is the officer language of many Arab nations in the【 M1】 _ Middle East and northern Africa. There are two types of Arabic, spoken and written. Spoken Arabic comprises of dialects i
14、n【 M2】 _ different areas of the Arabic-speaking world. These dialects can be rough divided into Gulf, Iraqi, Levantine, Maghrebi, North【 M3】 _ Egyptian, Saudi, South Egyptian and Sudanese, and Tunisian. These dialect areas can be subdivided farther. Written Arabic【 M4】 _ serves as the standard writt
15、en language of all Arab nations. It is the descendant of the language of the Quran, the scared book of the【 M5】 _ Islamic 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 Arab
16、s who speaks different dialects. Arabic belongs to the Semitic【 M6】 _ language 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
17、 one knows when Arabic originally developed, and people【 M7】 _ of the Arabian Peninsula were the first use it. During the A.D.【 M8】 _ 600s, Islam spread throughout southwestern Asia and northern Africa, and the Arabic language was introduced in these areas. Since the mid-1900s, many Arab countries h
18、ave played【 M9】 _ increasingly important role in world affairs. In a result, Arabic has【 M10】 _ become a major language in international business and politics. 21 【 M1】 22 【 M2】 23 【 M3】 24 【 M4】 25 【 M5】 26 【 M6】 27 【 M7】 28 【 M8】 29 【 M9】 30 【 M10】 30 More than 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Soc
19、rates wandered around Athens asking questions, an approach to find【 M1】 _ truth that thinkers venerated ever since. In modern times, the【 M2】 _ Socratic method was adapted for use in universities and became the dominant form of instruction for students learning philosophy and the law. The most recen
20、tly national survey on the subject【 M3】 _ found that 97% of law-school professors use the Socratic method in first-year classes. Socratic dialogues seem to work for the【 M4】 _ ancient Greeks. Are they efficient for people today? Recently, a【 M5】 _ group of researchers decided to find out. In a study
21、 published in the December 2011 issue of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education, four cognitive scientists from Argentina describe what happened when they asked contemporary high school and college students a series of questions identified to【 M6】 _ those posed by Socrates. In one of his most famous
22、 lessons, Socrates showed a young slave boy with a square, then led him【 M7】 _ through a series of 50 questions 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
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