[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷43及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷 43及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING speakers make a contact with the eyes of their listener (1)_ for about one second, then glances away as they talk; in a few moments they (2)_ reestablish eye contact with the listener or ensure the selves that their audience (3)_ is still tentative, th
2、en shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, furthermore, (4)_(5)_ keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allow themselves (6)_ to glance only briefly. It is important that they be looking at the speaker (7)_ at the precise moment the speaker reestablishes eye contact; if they are not (8)_ lo
3、oking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and will pause until (9)_ eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow become (10)_ evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses; there may b
4、e a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses. 1 (1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 (7) 8 (8) 9 (9) 10 (10) 10 While Americans have no reason to be terrified to sit down at the dinner table, they have each reason to demand significant improvements i
5、n food and (1) _ water safety. They unconsciously and unwillingly take too much of too many (2)_ dangerous chemical. If food already contains natural carcinogens, (3)_ this does not make much sense to add dozens of (4)_ newly man-made ones. Though most people will withstand the (5)_ small amounts of
6、 contaminants generally find in food and water, (6)_ but at least a few individuals will probably get cancer (7)_ one day because of what they eat and drink. To make good food and water supplies even better, the Government needs to narrow its regulatory standards, stiffen its inspection program and
7、(8)_ loosen its enforcement policies. (9)_ The food industry should modify some long-accepted practices or turn to fewer hazardous alternatives. Perhaps most important, consumers will have (10)_ to do a better job of learning how to handle and cook food properly. 11 (1) 12 (2) 13 (3) 14 (4) 15 (5) 1
8、6 (6) 17 (7) 18 (8) 19 (9) 20 (10) 20 Christians have generally regarded Christmas as both a holy day and holiday. (1)_ Customs of all lands have been added up through the centuries, making (2)_ Christmas today as the greatest folk festival in the world. (3)_ Log was adopted to the English custom fr
9、om the ancient Scandinavian (4)_ practice of kindling huge bonfires in the honor of the winter solstice. The (5)_ idea of using evergreens at Christmas time also came to England from pre-Christian northern European beliefs. Celtic and Teutonic tribes hon ored these plants at their winter solstice fe
10、stivals as symbolic for eternal (6)_ lives. The custom of the Christmas tree believes to have begun by Martin (7)_ Luther in Germany. The sight of an evergreen tree on Christmas eve, with stars blazing above, is said to have made a great impression on him, and he puts a (8)_ similar tree, decorated
11、with lit candles, in his home. (9)_ A well-loved Christmas custom is the singing of Christmas carols. Thir teenth century Italy is considered the birthplace of the real Christmas carol, and St. Francis of Assisi was thought to be the father of this custom. (10)_ 21 (1) 22 (2) 23 (3) 24 (4) 25 (5) 26
12、 (6) 27 (7) 28 (8) 29 (9) 30 (10) 30 Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called “footwear for yuppies“. They content that Reebok shoes appeal to diverse (1)_ market segments, though now that the company offers basketball and chil- (2)_ drens shoes for the under-18 set
13、and walking shoes for older customers not interested in aerobics and running. The executives also point out that (3)_ through recent acquisitions they have added hiking boots, dress and casual shoes, and high-performance athletic footwear to their product lines, all of them should attract new and va
14、ried groups of customers. (4)_ Still, despite of its emphasis on new markets, Reebok plans few changes (5)_ in the upmarket retailing network that helped pushing sales to $1 billion an- (6)_ nually, ahead of all sports shoe marketers. (7)_ Reebok shoes, which price from $27 to $85, will continue to
15、be sold (8)_ only in better specialization, sporting goods, and department stores, in ac- (9)_ cordance to the companys view that consumers judge the quality of the (10)_ brand by the quality of its distribution. 31 (1) 32 (2) 33 (3) 34 (4) 35 (5) 36 (6) 37 (7) 38 (8) 39 (9) 40 (10) 40 During the pa
16、st quarter century the power for man to alter the nature of his world has not only been increased to one of disturbing magnitude but it (1)_ has changed in character. The most alarming of all mans assaults upon the environment is contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous (2)_ and e
17、ven lethal materials. This pollution is for most part irrecoverable; the (3)_ chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is reversible. In this now universal contamination of the envi- (4)_ ronment, chemicals is the sinister and little-recognized pa
18、rtner of radiation (5) in changing the very nature of the world and its life. Strontium 90, releasing (6)_ through nuclear explosions into the air, comes to earth in rain or drifts down as fallout, lodges in soil, enters into the corn or wheat growing there, and in (7)_ time takes up its abode in th
19、e bones of a human being. Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lying long in soil, entering into (8)_ living organisms, passing from one to the other in a chain of poisoning and (9)_ death. Or they pass mysteriously by underground streams until they emerge and combine into
20、 new forms that kill vegetation, sicken cattle, and make un- (10)_ known harm on those who drink from once pure wells. As Albert Schweitzer has said,“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.“ 41 (1) 42 (2) 43 (3) 44 (4) 45 (5) 46 (6) 47 (7) 48 (8) 49 (9) 50 (10) 专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷 4
21、3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 following way: (1)
22、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 【知识模块】 改错 1 【正确答案】 a / 【试题解析】 to make contact with是一个短语,意为 “接触、联系 ”,在 contact前不加任何冠词,如: How did
23、you make contact with the terrorists?其他类似短语还有 lose contact with,如: Mother and son lost contact when Nicholas was in his early twenties 【知识模块】 改错 2 【正确答案】 glances glance 【试题解析】 这里犯了主谓不一致的错误:主语 speakers为复数,而主动词却用单数第三人称形式 glances。因此应将 glances改为 glance。对于较长、较复杂的句子,一定要善于找出它的主干即主谓宾来。 【知识模块】 改错 3 【正确答案】 en
24、sure reassure 【试题解析】 这里用 ensure犯了近义词混淆的错误: ensure和 assure都有 “保证,使 放心 ”的意思,但 ensure后面不接人,而是 ensure sth或 ensure that,如: to ensure the supremacyof the National Party,ensure that it is written into your contractassure 后面往往接人,常接 assure sb that of这样的结构,如: He hastened to assure me that there was nothingtra
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