专业英语八级（改错）-试卷213及答案解析.doc

1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷213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）_A trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline; Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals. The announcement, from the Wine and Spir

2、its Wholesalers ofAmerica, received widely media attention. On NBCs Today Show, 1Lea Thompson said, According to a new online survey, one in 10teenagers has an underage friend who has ordered beer, wine or 2liquor over the Internet. More than a third think they can easily doit but nearly half think

3、they wont get caught. Several newspapers 3mentioned the study, including USA Today and the Record of New Jersey. The news even made Australias Gold Coast Bulletin. Are millions of kids really buying booze online? To arrive that 4shocking headline, the group used some questioning logic to pump 5up th

4、e results from a survey that was already tilted in favor of finding 6a large number of online buyer. For starters, consider the source. The trade group that commissioned the survey has long fought efforts to expand onlinesales of alcohol; its members are local distributors which compete 7with online

5、 liquor sellers. Some of the news coverage pointed outthat conflict of interest, though reports didnt delve more deeply 8on how the numbers were computed. 9 The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America hired Teenage Research Unlimited, a research company, to design the study.Teenage Research, in retu

6、rn, hired San Diego polling firm Luth 10Research to put the questions to 1,001 people between the ages of 14 and 20 in an online survey. Luth gets people to participate in its surveys in part by advertising them online and offering small cash awardstypically less than $5 for short surveys.（分数：20.00）

7、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:_Gypsies, nomads arriving in Europe in the 1400s, endured expulsions, forcible removal of children, servitude in galleys ormines, death sentences as being Gypsy, and absolute slavery in the 1Balkans from 16th century onward. Persecution stem

8、med from the 2highest authorities in State and Church. Followed the murder of 3200,000 to 500,000 gypsies in the Holocaust, persecution persists,especially in Central and Eastern Europe that Gypsies form up to 410% of population(Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania). Discriminating 5against under communism,

9、their plight has dramatically worsened since 1990s. Thus, they have survived to become Europes largest minority. 6Moreover, they have succeeded to preserving their culture and their 7way of life in the face of genocide, political persecution and poverty. In other cases, where minorities have survive

10、d similar persecutionslike Jews during World War II, or blacks in SouthAfricaits cause has received international support. By contrast, 8the gypsies success at preserving their culture is not regarded as anachievement at all. Instead of, it is viewed as proof they are both 9unwilling and unable to c

11、hange, and therefore irredeemable.Indeed, recently the president of Slovak Republic praised their way 10of life and said steps should be taken to limit the extension of this socially unacceptable and mentally backwards population.（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:_

12、The House is expected to pass a piece of legislation Thursday that seeks to significantly rebalance the playing field for unions and employers and could possibly reverse decades of declining membership among private industries. The Employee Free Choice Act would allow the union to 1be recognized aft

13、er collecting a majority of vote cards, instead 2waiting for the National Labor Relations Board to oversee asecret ballot election, that can occur more than 50 days after 3the card vote completed. 4 Representatives of business on Capitol Hill oppose the bill.They oppose the shift away from secret ba

14、llots said the change could 5threaten the privacy of the workers. This isnt about preventing increased unionization, its about protecting rights, said the National Association of Manufacturers Jason Straczewski, of hisorganizations opposition against bill. Straczewski says eliminating 6the secret-ba

15、llot step would open up to employees to coercion from 7unions. Samuel of the AFL-CIO contends the real coercion comes fromemployers. Workers talking to workers are equals, because 8managers talking to workers arent, Samuel said. He cites the31,358 cases of illegal employer discrimination acting on b

16、y the 9National Labor Relations Board in 2005. Samuel also points out that counter to claims from the business lobby; the secret ballot would not be eliminated. The change would only take the control of the timing of the election out of the hands of the employers. On the ground, the difference betwe

17、en having thislegislation or not would be the difference between night and day, 10said Richard Shaw of the Harris County Central Labor Council, who says it would have a tremendous impact on the local level.（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213答案解析 (总分

18、：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：A trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline; Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals. The announcement, from the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers ofAmer

19、ica, received widely media attention. On NBCs Today Show, 1Lea Thompson said, According to a new online survey, one in 10teenagers has an underage friend who has ordered beer, wine or 2liquor over the Internet. More than a third think they can easily doit but nearly half think they wont get caught.

20、Several newspapers 3mentioned the study, including USA Today and the Record of New Jersey. The news even made Australias Gold Coast Bulletin. Are millions of kids really buying booze online? To arrive that 4shocking headline, the group used some questioning logic to pump 5up the results from a surve

21、y that was already tilted in favor of finding 6a large number of online buyer. For starters, consider the source. The trade group that commissioned the survey has long fought efforts to expand onlinesales of alcohol; its members are local distributors which compete 7with online liquor sellers. Some

22、of the news coverage pointed outthat conflict of interest, though reports didnt delve more deeply 8on how the numbers were computed. 9 The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America hired Teenage Research Unlimited, a research company, to design the study.Teenage Research, in return, hired San Diego po

23、lling firm Luth 10Research to put the questions to 1,001 people between the ages of 14 and 20 in an online survey. Luth gets people to participate in its surveys in part by advertising them online and offering small cash awardstypically less than $5 for short surveys.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：widelywide

24、）填空项1:_（正确答案：第一个hashave）填空项1:_（正确答案：butand）填空项1:_（正确答案：arrive一at）填空项1:_（正确答案：questioningquestionable）填空项1:_（正确答案：the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichwho）填空项1:_（正确答案：interestinterests）填空项1:_（正确答案：oninto）填空项1:_（正确答案：returnturn）解析：解析：固定搭配错误。in return表示“作为报答”，在这里讲不通，而应该是in turn，表示“反之，反过来”。Gypsies, nomads arriving

25、 in Europe in the 1400s, endured expulsions, forcible removal of children, servitude in galleys ormines, death sentences as being Gypsy, and absolute slavery in the 1Balkans from 16th century onward. Persecution stemmed from the 2highest authorities in State and Church. Followed the murder of 3200,0

26、00 to 500,000 gypsies in the Holocaust, persecution persists,especially in Central and Eastern Europe that Gypsies form up to 410% of population(Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania). Discriminating 5against under communism, their plight has dramatically worsened since 1990s. Thus, they have survived to beco

27、me Europes largest minority. 6Moreover, they have succeeded to preserving their culture and their 7way of life in the face of genocide, political persecution and poverty. In other cases, where minorities have survived similar persecutionslike Jews during World War II, or blacks in SouthAfricaits cau

28、se has received international support. By contrast, 8the gypsies success at preserving their culture is not regarded as anachievement at all. Instead of, it is viewed as proof they are both 9unwilling and unable to change, and therefore irredeemable.Indeed, recently the president of Slovak Republic

29、praised their way 10of life and said steps should be taken to limit the extension of this socially unacceptable and mentally backwards population.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：as一for）填空项1:_（正确答案：16ththe）填空项1:_（正确答案：FollowedFollowing）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhere）填空项1:_（正确答案：DiscriminatingDiscriminated）填空项1:_（正确答案：T

30、husYetHowever）填空项1:_（正确答案：to一in）填空项1:_（正确答案：itstheir）填空项1:_（正确答案：of一去掉of）填空项1:_（正确答案：praisedattackedcriticized）解析：解析：语义错误。斯洛伐克的总统说应该采取措施限制这些不被社会所接受且智力发展迟缓的吉普赛人的扩张。由此可见他是批评或者是攻击吉普赛人的生活方式，而不是夸奖他们，因此改为attacked或者criticized比较合适。The House is expected to pass a piece of legislation Thursday that seeks to s

31、ignificantly rebalance the playing field for unions and employers and could possibly reverse decades of declining membership among private industries. The Employee Free Choice Act would allow the union to 1be recognized after collecting a majority of vote cards, instead 2waiting for the National Lab

32、or Relations Board to oversee asecret ballot election, that can occur more than 50 days after 3the card vote completed. 4 Representatives of business on Capitol Hill oppose the bill.They oppose the shift away from secret ballots said the change could 5threaten the privacy of the workers. This isnt a

33、bout preventing increased unionization, its about protecting rights, said the National Association of Manufacturers Jason Straczewski, of hisorganizations opposition against bill. Straczewski says eliminating 6the secret-ballot step would open up to employees to coercion from 7unions. Samuel of the

34、AFL-CIO contends the real coercion comes fromemployers. Workers talking to workers are equals, because 8managers talking to workers arent, Samuel said. He cites the31,358 cases of illegal employer discrimination acting on by the 9National Labor Relations Board in 2005. Samuel also points out that co

35、unter to claims from the business lobby; the secret ballot would not be eliminated. The change would only take the control of the timing of the election out of the hands of the employers. On the ground, the difference between having thislegislation or not would be the difference between night and da

36、y, 10said Richard Shaw of the Harris County Central Labor Council, who says it would have a tremendous impact on the local level.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：thea）填空项1:_（正确答案：instead一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhich）填空项1:_（正确答案：completedis）填空项1:_（正确答案：saidsaying）填空项1:_（正确答案：againstto）填空项1:_（正确答案：第一个to一去掉to）填空项1:_（正确答案：becausewhile）填空项1:_（正确答案：actingacted）填空项1:_（正确答案：orand）解析：解析：连词误用。此处是betweenand的搭配，不是or not的搭配，并且根据后面的平行结构between night and day也可以判断此处应该使用and。