1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷199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）_We use language every day. We live in a world of words.Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or 1reading. Indeed, language is most essential to mankind. Our lifeincreasingly
2、 depends on fast and successful use of language. 2Strangely enough, we know more about things around us than that of 3ourselves. For example, language is species-specific, that is, it islanguage that differs human from animals. However, we do not 4know yet how exactly we inquire language and how it
3、is possible for 5us to perceive through language; so do we understand precisely the 6relationships between language and thought, language and logic, orlanguage and culture; still more, how and when language started. 7One reason why this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, 8language users, t
4、ake too many things for granted. Language comesto every normal person so naturally that a few of us stop to question 9what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it.Language is far more complex than most people have probablyimagined and the necessity to study it is much greater tha
5、n somepeople may have assumed. Linguistics is a branch of science whichtakes language like its object of investigation. 10（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:_Emboldened by newfound profits and eager to shake off federal control, a growing number of banks are resisti
6、ng the Obama administrations proposals for fixing the financial system. Lenders that skirted disaster only months ago with the help of taxpayer dollars are now balking to government prescriptions. 1 Despite pressure from federal regulators, industry executivesare taking the issue with major elements
7、 of the presidents bank 2plan. Administration officials characterize each part of their three-pronged approach as crucial to supporting banks and restarting theeconomy. And bankers are increasingly eager to extricate themselves 3from the governments grasp, and worry what Washington will 4impose new
8、restrictions on their businesses if the governmentsalready considerate role in the industry grows. 5 The pushback has been prettily hard, said Frederick 6Cannon, the chief equity strategist of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods anda specialist in banking stocks. If we dont address these issues, it 7could have
9、a negative effect on economic growth, which in return 8makes the banks problems worse. As the Obama administration marks its first 100 days, the banks resistance is complicating the governments effort to solve some of the thorniest problems of the financial crisis. Opposition is building on several
10、fronts. Citigroup,together with Bank of America and other big banks are disputing so- 9called stress tests being conducted by federal examiners to determinehow these institutions would withstand a deep, prolonged recession.The banks contend they are in better shape than the early findingssuggest, al
11、though it is likely that several will need raise capital. 10（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:_Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on strike. I just couldnt get going in the morning, she says. Id get depressed and gain 1
12、0 poundsevery winter and lose it again in spring. Then she read about 1seasonal effective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in 2the fall and winter, and she saw the lightliterally. Every morning 3now she turns in a specially constructed light box for half an hour 4and sits in front of it to
13、 trick her brain into thinking shes still enjoying those long summer days. It seems to work. Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 millionAmericans suffer seasonal depression and 25 million more develop 5milder versions. But theres never been definitive proof which 6treatment with very br
14、ight lights makes a difference. In all, its hard 7to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. Thats why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy with placebo(安慰剂)effects. 8 Until now, in three separate studies published last m
15、onth, researchers report not only that light therapy works better than aplacebo and that treatment is usually more effective in the early 9morning than in the evening. In two of the groups, the placeboproblem was resolved by telling patients what they were comparing 10light boxes to a new anti-depre
16、ssant device that emits negatively charged ions. The third used the timing of light therapy as the control.（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199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：We use lang
17、uage every day. We live in a world of words.Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or 1reading. Indeed, language is most essential to mankind. Our lifeincreasingly depends on fast and successful use of language. 2Strangely enough, we know more about things around us than that of 3our
18、selves. For example, language is species-specific, that is, it islanguage that differs human from animals. However, we do not 4know yet how exactly we inquire language and how it is possible for 5us to perceive through language; so do we understand precisely the 6relationships between language and t
19、hought, language and logic, orlanguage and culture; still more, how and when language started. 7One reason why this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, 8language users, take too many things for granted. Language comesto every normal person so naturally that a few of us stop to question 9wha
20、t language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it.Language is far more complex than most people have probablyimagined and the necessity to study it is much greater than somepeople may have assumed. Linguistics is a branch of science whichtakes language like its object of investigation. 1
21、0（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：withwithout）填空项1:_（正确答案：on一the）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatthose）填空项1:_（正确答案：differsdistinguishes）填空项1:_（正确答案：inquireacquire）填空项1:_（正确答案：sonor）填空项1:_（正确答案：moreless）填空项1:_（正确答案：whyfor）填空项1:_（正确答案：a去掉a）填空项1:_（正确答案：likeas）解析：解析：介词误用。固定搭配takeas表示“把当作”，应该将like改为as，句意为“语言学是将语言作为研究对象的一个科学分支。”Emb
22、oldened by newfound profits and eager to shake off federal control, a growing number of banks are resisting the Obama administrations proposals for fixing the financial system. Lenders that skirted disaster only months ago with the help of taxpayer dollars are now balking to government prescriptions
23、. 1 Despite pressure from federal regulators, industry executivesare taking the issue with major elements of the presidents bank 2plan. Administration officials characterize each part of their three-pronged approach as crucial to supporting banks and restarting theeconomy. And bankers are increasing
24、ly eager to extricate themselves 3from the governments grasp, and worry what Washington will 4impose new restrictions on their businesses if the governmentsalready considerate role in the industry grows. 5 The pushback has been prettily hard, said Frederick 6Cannon, the chief equity strategist of Ke
25、efe, Bruyette & Woods anda specialist in banking stocks. If we dont address these issues, it 7could have a negative effect on economic growth, which in return 8makes the banks problems worse. As the Obama administration marks its first 100 days, the banks resistance is complicating the governments e
26、ffort to solve some of the thorniest problems of the financial crisis. Opposition is building on several fronts. Citigroup,together with Bank of America and other big banks are disputing so- 9called stress tests being conducted by federal examiners to determinehow these institutions would withstand
27、a deep, prolonged recession.The banks contend they are in better shape than the early findingssuggest, although it is likely that several will need raise capital. 10（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：toat）填空项1:_（正确答案：第一个the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：AndBut）填空项1:_（正确答案：what一that或去掉what）填空项1:_（正确答案：considerateconsiderable）
28、填空项1:_（正确答案：prettilypretty）填空项1:_（正确答案：itthey）填空项1:_（正确答案：returnturn）填空项1:_（正确答案：areis）填空项1:_（正确答案：need一to）解析：解析：动词不定式符号to缺失。need作情态动词时，一般用于否定句和疑问句，不用于肯定句。此处need前有情态动词will，在此应该作实义动词，后跟动词不定式作宾语。need to do sth表示“需要做某事”。Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on
29、 strike. I just couldnt get going in the morning, she says. Id get depressed and gain 10 poundsevery winter and lose it again in spring. Then she read about 1seasonal effective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in 2the fall and winter, and she saw the lightliterally. Every morning 3now she
30、turns in a specially constructed light box for half an hour 4and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking shes still enjoying those long summer days. It seems to work. Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 millionAmericans suffer seasonal depression and 25 million more develop
31、 5milder versions. But theres never been definitive proof which 6treatment with very bright lights makes a difference. In all, its hard 7to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. Thats why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light th
32、erapy with placebo(安慰剂)effects. 8 Until now, in three separate studies published last month, researchers report not only that light therapy works better than aplacebo and that treatment is usually more effective in the early 9morning than in the evening. In two of the groups, the placeboproblem was
33、resolved by telling patients what they were comparing 10light boxes to a new anti-depressant device that emits negatively charged ions. The third used the timing of light therapy as the control.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：itthem）填空项1:_（正确答案：effectiveaffective）填空项1:_（正确答案：第一个the一去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：inon）填空项1:_（正确答案：suffer一from）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichthat）填空项1:_（正确答案：InAfter）填空项1:_（正确答案：withfrom）填空项1:_（正确答案：andbut）填空项1:_（正确答案：whatthat或去掉what）解析：解析：从句引导词误用。telling patients后面的句子是宾语从句，且从句中的成分完整，不需要引导词在句中作任何成分，因此将what改为that或直接删去。
