1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷198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）_Yoga, the ancient practice of postures, breathing and meditation, is gaining a lot of attention from the material world that its serious practitioners are trying to escape. Yoga practitioner
2、s aretrying to keep themselves away from the material world. But no 1wonder Americans who practice yoga are often well-educated, havehigher-than-average household incomes and are willing to spend a 2bit more on so-called green purchases seen as benefited the 3environment or society. Its kind of grow
3、ing out of the crunchy stage of yoga to theStarbucks stage, said Bill Harper, a publisher of Yoga Journal. 4From the videos and the clothes and the toe socks. people arepursuing after this market with a vengeance. 5 A glance through recent issues of his month magazine, whose 6readership has doubled
4、in the past four years to 325,000, illustrate 7the point. There are four-color ads from the like of Asics athletic 8shoes, Eileen fisher apparel and Ford Motor Co. Yoga Journal is now licensing a Russian edition and preparing to expand in other international markets. Americans spend some $2. 95 bill
5、ion a year for yoga classes, 9equipment, clothing, holidays, videos and more, according to a study commissioned by the magazine, fuelled in part by aged baby boomers seeking less aggressive ways to stay fit. Roughly 16. 5 million people were practising yoga in the United States early lastyear, in st
6、udios, gyms or home, up 43 percent from 2002, the 10study found. Established sellers of yoga gear such as Hugger Mugger and Gaiam have been flooded with competition in the market for yoga mats, incense, clothing and fancy accoutrements ranging from designer yoga bags to eye pillows.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填
7、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 newborn can see the difference between various shapes andpatterns from birth. He prefers patterns for dull or bright solid colors 1and looks longer at stripes and angles than at circular patterns.Within three weeks, however, his preference shi
8、fts dramatic to the 2human face. Why should a baby with so little visual experience attend moreto human face than to any other kind of pattern? Some scientists 3think this preference represents a built-in advantage for the humanspecies. The object in prime importance to the physically helpless 4infa
9、nt is a human being. Babies seem to have a natural tendency tothe human face as potentially awarding. Researchers also point out 5that the newborn wisely relies more on pattern than on outline, size,or color. Pattern remains stable, and outline changes with point of 6view; size, with distance from a
10、n object; and brightness and color, with lighting. Mothers have always claimed that they could see theirnewborns looking at them as they held them, despite what they have 7told. The experts who thought that perception had to await physical development and the consequence of action were wrong for sev
11、eral reasons. Earlier research techniques were less sophisticated thanwhat they are today. Physical skills were once used to indicate 8perception of objectsskills like visual tracking and reaching for anobject, both of them the newborn does poorly. Then, too, 9assumptions that the newborns eyes and
12、brain was too immature for 10anything as sophisticated as pattern recognition caused opposing data to be thrown away. Since perception of form was widely believed to follow perception of more basic qualities such as color and brightness, the possibility of its presence from birth was rejected.（分数：20
13、.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:_Education gives us the knowledge of the world around us. Itdevelops with us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build 1opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debateover the subject of whether education is t
14、he only thing which gives 2knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge issomething very different. They are partly right. And then, 3information cannot be converted into knowledge without the catalyst called education. Education ma
15、kes us capable of interpreting things right. Education is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. The words cultivate and civilize are antonymous with 4educate. That says it! Education is important as it teaches usright behavior, good manners, thus makes us civilized. I
16、t teaches us 5about how to lead a life. Education is the basis of culture and 6civil. It is instrumental in the development of our values and 7virtues. Education cultivates us into mature individuals, individuals capable of planning our future and taking the right decisions. Education arms us with a
17、n insight into our lives and teaches us tolearn from experience. The future of the nation is safe in the hands 8of educated individuals. Education is important for the economical 9growth of a nation. It fosters principles of equality and socialism.Education forms a support system for talents excel i
18、n life. It is the 10backbone of society.（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198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）_解析：Yoga, the ancient practice of postures, breathing and meditation, is gaining a
19、 lot of attention from the material world that its serious practitioners are trying to escape. Yoga practitioners aretrying to keep themselves away from the material world. But no 1wonder Americans who practice yoga are often well-educated, havehigher-than-average household incomes and are willing t
20、o spend a 2bit more on so-called green purchases seen as benefited the 3environment or society. Its kind of growing out of the crunchy stage of yoga to theStarbucks stage, said Bill Harper, a publisher of Yoga Journal. 4From the videos and the clothes and the toe socks. people arepursuing after this
21、 market with a vengeance. 5 A glance through recent issues of his month magazine, whose 6readership has doubled in the past four years to 325,000, illustrate 7the point. There are four-color ads from the like of Asics athletic 8shoes, Eileen fisher apparel and Ford Motor Co. Yoga Journal is now lice
22、nsing a Russian edition and preparing to expand in other international markets. Americans spend some $2. 95 billion a year for yoga classes, 9equipment, clothing, holidays, videos and more, according to a study commissioned by the magazine, fuelled in part by aged baby boomers seeking less aggressiv
23、e ways to stay fit. Roughly 16. 5 million people were practising yoga in the United States early lastyear, in studios, gyms or home, up 43 percent from 2002, the 10study found. Established sellers of yoga gear such as Hugger Mugger and Gaiam have been flooded with competition in the market for yoga
24、mats, incense, clothing and fancy accoutrements ranging from designer yoga bags to eye pillows.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：ButAnd）填空项1:_（正确答案：incomesincome）填空项1:_（正确答案：benefitedbenefiting）填空项1:_（正确答案：a一去掉a）填空项1:_（正确答案：after一去掉after）填空项1:_（正确答案：monthmonthly）填空项1:_（正确答案：illustrate一illustrates）填空项1:_（正确答案：li
25、kelikes）填空项1:_（正确答案：foron）填空项1:_（正确答案：home一at）解析：解析：介词缺失。本句是说“去年美国约有1 650万人在瑜伽馆、健身房或家里练习瑜伽”。“在家里”应用at home表达。The newborn can see the difference between various shapes andpatterns from birth. He prefers patterns for dull or bright solid colors 1and looks longer at stripes and angles than at circular
26、patterns.Within three weeks, however, his preference shifts dramatic to the 2human face. Why should a baby with so little visual experience attend moreto human face than to any other kind of pattern? Some scientists 3think this preference represents a built-in advantage for the humanspecies. The obj
27、ect in prime importance to the physically helpless 4infant is a human being. Babies seem to have a natural tendency tothe human face as potentially awarding. Researchers also point out 5that the newborn wisely relies more on pattern than on outline, size,or color. Pattern remains stable, and outline
28、 changes with point of 6view; size, with distance from an object; and brightness and color, with lighting. Mothers have always claimed that they could see theirnewborns looking at them as they held them, despite what they have 7told. The experts who thought that perception had to await physical deve
29、lopment and the consequence of action were wrong for several reasons. Earlier research techniques were less sophisticated thanwhat they are today. Physical skills were once used to indicate 8perception of objectsskills like visual tracking and reaching for anobject, both of them the newborn does poo
30、rly. Then, too, 9assumptions that the newborns eyes and brain was too immature for 10anything as sophisticated as pattern recognition caused opposing data to be thrown away. Since perception of form was widely believed to follow perception of more basic qualities such as color and brightness, the po
31、ssibility of its presence from birth was rejected.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：forto）填空项1:_（正确答案：dramaticdramatically）填空项1:_（正确答案：humana）填空项1:_（正确答案：in一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：awardingrewarding）填空项1:_（正确答案：andwhile）填空项1:_（正确答案：have一been）填空项1:_（正确答案：what去掉what）填空项1:_（正确答案：themwhich）填空项1:_（正确答案：waswere）解析：解析：主谓不一致。系动
32、词的主语the newborns eyes and brain是复数意义，谓语也应该使用复数形式。Education gives us the knowledge of the world around us. Itdevelops with us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build 1opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debateover the subject of whether education is the only thing w
33、hich gives 2knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge issomething very different. They are partly right. And then, 3information cannot be converted into knowledge without the catalyst called education. Education makes us capable
34、of interpreting things right. Education is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. The words cultivate and civilize are antonymous with 4educate. That says it! Education is important as it teaches usright behavior, good manners, thus makes us civilized. It teaches us 5a
35、bout how to lead a life. Education is the basis of culture and 6civil. It is instrumental in the development of our values and 7virtues. Education cultivates us into mature individuals, individuals capable of planning our future and taking the right decisions. Education arms us with an insight into
36、our lives and teaches us tolearn from experience. The future of the nation is safe in the hands 8of educated individuals. Education is important for the economical 9growth of a nation. It fosters principles of equality and socialism.Education forms a support system for talents excel in life. It is t
37、he 10backbone of society.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：within）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichthat）填空项1:_（正确答案：AndBut）填空项1:_（正确答案：antonymoussynonymous）填空项1:_（正确答案：makesmaking）填空项1:_（正确答案：aboutabout）填空项1:_（正确答案：civilcivilization）填空项1:_（正确答案：第一个thea）填空项1:_（正确答案：economicaleconomic）填空项1:_（正确答案：excelto）解析：解析：动词不定式符号to缺失。本句的谓语为forms，如果excel也使用动词原形形式，则句子有两个谓语，为病句。根据句意可推知，此处为不定式结构作目的状语，故在excel前加to。
