1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 104及答案与解析 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
2、following way: (1)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 0 Farmers in the developing world would hate price fluctuations. It makes them
3、 hard to plan ahead. But most of them have little 【 M1】 _ choice: they sell at the price the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the US and Japan are luckier: they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteeing prices or direct handout. 【 M2】 _ Agricultural production in most poor coun
4、tries accounts up to 【 M3】 _ 50% of GDP, compared to only 3% in rich countries. But most farmers in poor countries grow just enough for themselves and their families. These who try exporting to the West find their goods 【 M4】 _ whacked with huge tariffs or competed against cheaper subsidized 【 M5】 _
5、 goods. Agriculture is one of the few areas in which the Third World can compete with. Land and labor are cheap, and as farming 【 M6】 _ methods develop, new technologies should improve output. This is a 【 M7】 _ pie-in-the-sky speculation. The biggest success in Kenyas economy over the past decade ha
6、s been the boom in exports of cut flowers and vegetables to Europe. Poor countries have long suspected that the rich world urges trade liberalization only so it can wangle their way into new markets. 【 M8】 _ And now Kenya is considered to be slightly over rich to qualify for 【 M9】 _ the least-develo
7、ped country status that allows African producers to avoid paying stiff European import duties on selected agricultural products. With trade barriers in the place, the horticulture industry in【 M10】 _ Kenya may shrivel as quickly as a discarded rose. 1 【 M1】 2 【 M2】 3 【 M3】 4 【 M4】 5 【 M5】 6 【 M6】 7
8、【 M7】 8 【 M8】 9 【 M9】 10 【 M10】 10 Its only an arguably very willful misinterpretation of the ancient Mayan calendar to conclude the world ends on 21 December 2012. The question is why so many people are drawn by these tales 【 M1】 _ of impending destruction? Theres more reason to think it will 【 M2】
9、 _ immediately lead to a planet-wide liquidation sale than if your desk calendar reaches the end of the year before youve bought a new one. Why are we so determined to think our days are numbered, and so willing to bend the facts to fit our delusions? My whole 【 M3】 _ unscientific theory is what ste
10、ms from our understandable difficulty 【 M4】 _ grasping the walk-on part we all hold amid the sprawling enormity 【 M5】 _ of deep time. It is not easy to get our head round the Earth having 【 M6】 _ existed for billions of years, and with our own life in comparison 【 M7】 _ being an almost insignificant
11、 instant in the middle of it all. Thus 【 M8】 _ fleeting and so far from either end of the story that many of us behave like individual black holes, mentally warping time to write ourselves into the grand finale. Sooner or later, those who are convinced of our imminent doom will inevitably be proved
12、right. The planet cant last forever astronomers predict the planet only has around another 7.5 billion years when it is engulfed by the Sun and humans will likely have 【 M9】 _ disappeared much earlier. If we do have only the briefest lines in a seemingly interminable epic, shouldnt we make most of i
13、t while we 【 M10】 _ are on stage? 11 【 M1】 12 【 M2】 13 【 M3】 14 【 M4】 15 【 M5】 16 【 M6】 17 【 M7】 18 【 M8】 19 【 M9】 20 【 M10】 20 Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. Being bilingual makes you smarter. It can have a profound ef
14、fect on your brain, improve your cognitive skills and even shielding against 【 M1】 _ dementia in old age. Bilinguals seem to be more adapted than monolinguals at 【 M2】 _ solving certain kinds of mental puzzles. The bilingual experience improves the brains so-called executive functions, a command 【 M
15、3】 _ system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanded 【 M4】 _ tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully on one thing to another and holding 【 M5】 _ informati
16、on in mind. The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basical: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. 【 M6】 _ Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often. It requires keeping track of changes around in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.
17、 The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age and there is reason to believe that it may also apply to those who learn the second 【 M7】 _ language later in life. Bilingualisms effects also extend into the twilight years. Individuals with a higher degree of bilingua
18、lism are less resistant 【 M8】 _ than others the onset of dementia and other symptoms of 【 M9】 _ Alzheimers disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset. Nobody ever doubts the power of language. But who would 【 M10】 _ have imagined that the words we hear and the sentenc
19、es we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint? 21 【 M1】 22 【 M2】 23 【 M3】 24 【 M4】 25 【 M5】 26 【 M6】 27 【 M7】 28 【 M8】 29 【 M9】 30 【 M10】 专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 104答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN) Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contains TEN errors. Each indi
20、cated 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)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
21、 the position of the missing word with a “ “ sign and write t 【知识模块】 改错 1 【正确答案】 them it 【试题解析】 句法错误。这里应该用 it来代指 farming，而不是指 farmers本身很难提前计划。 【知识模块】 改错 2 【正确答案】 guaranteeing guaranteed 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。这里指的是政府保护价，应该用 guaran teed prices来表述。 【知识模块】 改错 3 【正确答案】 up for 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 account for是固定搭配。 【知识模
22、块】 改错 4 【正确答案】 these those 【试题解析】 代词错误。能做先行词后接定语从句的复数指示代词只有 those，该语法点在 2004年和 2007年真题中出现过。 【知识模块】 改错 5 【正确答案】 competed competing 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。这里应该是主动态，而非被动态。 【知识模块】 改错 6 【正确答案】 with一去掉 with 【试题解析】 句法错误。 compete with需要加宾语，而这句话中没有 with的宾语。 【知识模块】 改错 7 【正确答案】 a no 【试题解析】 逻辑错误。从下文可以看出，这种看法是正确的，所以本句应该
23、是否定的。 【知识模块】 改错 8 【正确答案】 their its 【试题解析】 代词错误。这里 指的是 the richworld，应该用单数。 【知识模块】 改错 9 【正确答案】 over too 【试题解析】 搭配错误。这里用的是 tooto 结构。 【知识模块】 改错 10 【正确答案】 the一去掉 the 【试题解析】 in place是一个短语，指存在或在适当的位置，而 in the place则指一个确定的地方。 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 11 【正确答案】 by to 【试题解析】 介词错误。 these tales并不是施动 者，不能用 by。 【知识模块
24、】 改错 12 【正确答案】 more no 【试题解析】 逻辑错误。从下文可以看出，这种想法毫无根据。 【知识模块】 改错 13 【正确答案】 whole wholly 【试题解析】 句法错误。这里是指这个理论完全不科学，而不是指完整的理论。 【知识模块】 改错 14 【正确答案】 what this 【试题解析】 代词错误。这里指的是上一句提出的问题，用 this就可以代替。 【知识模块】 改错 15 【正确答案】 hold have 【试题解析】 动词错误。从句完整的结构是 have difficulty grasping。 【知识模块】 改错 16 【正确答案】 head heads
25、【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。 head在这里虽然是抽象意义，但仍然是可数名词。 【知识模块】 改错 17 【正确答案】 with一去掉 with 【试题解析】 这里 our own life in comparison being an almost insignificant instant与 the Earth having existed for billions of years是并列关系。 【知识模块】 改错 18 【正确答案】 Thus So 【试题解析】 搭配错误。这是一个典型的 sothat 结构。 【知识模块】 改错 19 【正确答案】 when until 【试题解析】
26、逻辑错误。这里指在地球被太阳吞噬之前。 【知识模块】 改错 20 【正确答案】 most the 【试题解析】 比较级和最高级错误。这里指最大程度的，形容词和 the一起用，表 示名词性意义。 most作代词用时，指大多数、大部分。 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 21 【正确答案】 improve improving 【试题解析】 句法错误。 improveyour cognitive skills应该与 even shieldingagainst dementia并列。 【知识模块】 改错 22 【正确答案】 adapted adept 【试题解析】 形近词错误。 adept at
27、用来表示擅长于。 【知识模块】 改错 23 【正确 答案】 functions function 【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。从下文看， a command system，这里应该用单数。 【知识模块】 改错 24 【正确答案】 demanded demanding 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。这里指这些任务需要较高的决策力，不应该用过去分词。 【知识模块】 改错 25 【正确答案】 on from 【试题解析】 介词错误。 attention的确常与 on连用，但是这里的介词是用来与switch搭配，构成 switch attention fromto 。 【知识模块】 改错 26 【正
28、确答案】 basical basic 【试题解析】 构词法错误。 basical这个单词不存在。 【知识模块】 改错 27 【正确答案】 the a 【试题解析】 冠词错误。 second language在文中第一次出现，不是特指，应该用 a。 【知识模块】 改错 28 【正确答案】 less more 【试题解析】 句意理解错误。从下文的冒号后可以看出，能灵活运用双语者可以延缓老年问题的出现，因 此原句恰好相反。 【知识模块】 改错 29 【正确答案】 the onset to 【试题解析】 句法错误。 resistant通常与介词 to连用。 【知识模块】 改错 30 【正确答案】 doubts doubted 【试题解析】 时态错误。从下一句的虚拟语气 would have imagined可以判定，这里应该用一般过去时。 【知识模块】 改错
