1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷209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）_Here in the United States, before agricultural activities destroyed the natural balance, there were great migrations of Rocky Mountain locusts(蝗虫). Great migrating hordes of these insectsonc
2、e darken the skies on the plains east of the Rockies where crops 1were often destroyed; the worst years were those between 1874 to 21877. One of these migrating swarms was estimated to contain 1. 24billion locusts. During the another migration in Nebraska it was 3estimated that the swarm of locusts
3、averaged half a mile high and was 100 miles wide and 300 miles long. Usually, these swarms takeup from the ground against the wind, but, once airborne, they turn 4and fly with it. Warm convection currents(对流)help to lift them,often at great heights. During the great locust plagues the situation 5in
4、Nebraska became so serious that the original state constitutionhad to be rewritten to take care the economic problems. The new 6document was known as The Grasshopper Constitution. It is now believed that these locusts were a migratory form or phase of thelesser migratory locust, that is still common
5、 there. In this respect, 7the North American migratory locusts resemble their Africanrelatives. In both regions the migratory forms rise as a result of 8crowding and climatic factors. Migratory forms are apparently natural adaptations which bring about dispersal when locustpopulations become too cro
6、wded. Unfortunately for our farmers, the 9migratory form no longer seems to occur regularly, although there was a serious outbreak as late as 1938 in midwestern United States and Canada. Actually, there is no reason why the destructivemigratoiy form might not again appear if circumstances become 10f
7、avorable.（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:_Shop-lifters can be divided into three main categories; the professionals, the deliberate amateurs, and the people who justcant help them. The professionals do not pose much of a problem 1for the store detectives, which,
8、assisted by closed circuit television, 2two-way mirrors and various other technological device, can usually 3cope with them. The professionals tend to go high value goods in 4parts of the shops where security measures are tightest. And, in anyother case, they account for only a small percentage of t
9、he total 5losses due to shop-lifting. The same applies for the deliberate amateur who is, so to 6speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught sooner orlater, and they are dealing with severely by the courts. 7 The real problem is that the person who gives way to a suddentemptation are
10、in all other respects an honest and law-abiding 8citizen. Contrary to that one would expect, this kind of shop-lifter is 9rarely poor. He does not steal because he needs the goods but cannot afford to pay for them. He steals because he simply cannot stop himself. And there are countless others who,
11、because of age,have sick or plain absent-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what 10they take from the shops. When caught, all are liable to prosecution, and the decision about whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the store manager.（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
12、空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_The term print has several meanings, so it is important to understand exactly what is meant by the artistic terminology. A printin the artistic sense is not a reproduction of a work of art doing in 1some other medium, such as painting or drawing. That can in nosense be conside
13、red as work of art, since the artist had no 2involvement with it. A print is an original work of art created by anindirect method. Instead for making an image directly on a surface, 3as in drawing or painting, the artist works on a master surface, that 4may be a sheet of metal, a block of stone, a w
14、ood, plastic, or 5linoleum(油布). From this master surface, numerous impressions may be made by inking the surface, laying a sheet of paper on it,and then subjected both surface and paper to pressure, generally by 6means of a printing press. A print may exist in several versions. Sometimes theprintmak
15、er alters the image between impressions, so each print is 7slightly different from the others. Any series of such prints is referred to as multiples. The number of impressions(known as theedition)that are possible from a single original varies by the 8material. Prints made from linoleum, which wears
16、 readily, will befewer than that made from a metal plate, which is capable of striking 9fine-quality prints in the thousands. It is customary to number printsas they come off the press, the earlier impressions being the finer 10and therefore the most desirable.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:_填空项1:
17、_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209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：Here in the United States, before agricultural activities destroyed the natural balance, there were great migrations of Rocky Mountain locusts(蝗虫). Great mig
18、rating hordes of these insectsonce darken the skies on the plains east of the Rockies where crops 1were often destroyed; the worst years were those between 1874 to 21877. One of these migrating swarms was estimated to contain 1. 24billion locusts. During the another migration in Nebraska it was 3est
19、imated that the swarm of locusts averaged half a mile high and was 100 miles wide and 300 miles long. Usually, these swarms takeup from the ground against the wind, but, once airborne, they turn 4and fly with it. Warm convection currents(对流)help to lift them,often at great heights. During the great
20、locust plagues the situation 5in Nebraska became so serious that the original state constitutionhad to be rewritten to take care the economic problems. The new 6document was known as The Grasshopper Constitution. It is now believed that these locusts were a migratory form or phase of thelesser migra
21、tory locust, that is still common there. In this respect, 7the North American migratory locusts resemble their Africanrelatives. In both regions the migratory forms rise as a result of 8crowding and climatic factors. Migratory forms are apparently natural adaptations which bring about dispersal when
22、 locustpopulations become too crowded. Unfortunately for our farmers, the 9migratory form no longer seems to occur regularly, although there was a serious outbreak as late as 1938 in midwestern United States and Canada. Actually, there is no reason why the destructivemigratoiy form might not again a
23、ppear if circumstances become 10favorable.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：darkendarkened）填空项1:_（正确答案：betweenfrom）填空项1:_（正确答案：the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：upoff）填空项1:_（正确答案：atto）填空项1:_（正确答案：care一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhich）填空项1:_（正确答案：risearise）填空项1:_（正确答案：UnfortunatelyFortunately）填空项1:_（正确答案：become一should）解析：解析：虚拟语气错误。此
24、处是if引导的条件句，表示对将来的虚拟，主句是might not形式，从句应使用should+动词原形，should不可以省略。Shop-lifters can be divided into three main categories; the professionals, the deliberate amateurs, and the people who justcant help them. The professionals do not pose much of a problem 1for the store detectives, which, assisted by clo
25、sed circuit television, 2two-way mirrors and various other technological device, can usually 3cope with them. The professionals tend to go high value goods in 4parts of the shops where security measures are tightest. And, in anyother case, they account for only a small percentage of the total 5losse
26、s due to shop-lifting. The same applies for the deliberate amateur who is, so to 6speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught sooner orlater, and they are dealing with severely by the courts. 7 The real problem is that the person who gives way to a suddentemptation are in all other re
27、spects an honest and law-abiding 8citizen. Contrary to that one would expect, this kind of shop-lifter is 9rarely poor. He does not steal because he needs the goods but cannot afford to pay for them. He steals because he simply cannot stop himself. And there are countless others who, because of age,
28、have sick or plain absent-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what 10they take from the shops. When caught, all are liable to prosecution, and the decision about whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the store manager.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：themthemselves）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichwho）填空项1
29、:_（正确答案：devicedevices）填空项1:_（正确答案：go一for）填空项1:_（正确答案：other去掉other）填空项1:_（正确答案：forto）填空项1:_（正确答案：dealingdealt）填空项1:_（正确答案：areis）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhat）填空项1:_（正确答案：sicksickness）解析：解析：词性混用。or连接的成分应保持形式上的一致，且have后缺少名词作宾语，故应该用sickness。The term print has several meanings, so it is important to understand ex
30、actly what is meant by the artistic terminology. A printin the artistic sense is not a reproduction of a work of art doing in 1some other medium, such as painting or drawing. That can in nosense be considered as work of art, since the artist had no 2involvement with it. A print is an original work o
31、f art created by anindirect method. Instead for making an image directly on a surface, 3as in drawing or painting, the artist works on a master surface, that 4may be a sheet of metal, a block of stone, a wood, plastic, or 5linoleum(油布). From this master surface, numerous impressions may be made by i
32、nking the surface, laying a sheet of paper on it,and then subjected both surface and paper to pressure, generally by 6means of a printing press. A print may exist in several versions. Sometimes theprintmaker alters the image between impressions, so each print is 7slightly different from the others.
33、Any series of such prints is referred to as multiples. The number of impressions(known as theedition)that are possible from a single original varies by the 8material. Prints made from linoleum, which wears readily, will befewer than that made from a metal plate, which is capable of striking 9fine-qu
34、ality prints in the thousands. It is customary to number printsas they come off the press, the earlier impressions being the finer 10and therefore the most desirable.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：doingdone）填空项1:_（正确答案：worka）填空项1:_（正确答案：for一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhich）填空项1:_（正确答案：a一去掉a）填空项1:_（正确答案：subjectedsubjecting）填空项1:_（正确答案：so一that）填空项1:_（正确答案：bywith）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatthose）填空项1:_（正确答案：finerfinest）解析：解析：形容词比较级错误。比较级用于两者之间的比较，这里没有比较连词than，也没有比较对象。而最高级在表示“极，非常”等意义时可以没有比较范围，且and后面使用的是最高级，所以finer应改为最高级finest。
