1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 28及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING their marriages remained intact to a great extent than did those of couples who married in earlier as well as (7)_ later decades. Although the United States maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, but the (8)
2、_ temporary decline in divorce did not occur to the same extent in the Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of (9)_ breadwinner and homemaker is not abandoned. (10)_ 1 (1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5 (5) 6 (6) 7 (7) 8 (8) 9 (9) 10 (10) 10 A number of colleges and universities have announced st
3、eep tuition increases for next year more steeper than the current, very (1)_ low rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because of a loss in value of university endowments heavy invested in common (2)_ stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizes its pure rev
4、enues, irrespective of fluctuations in income; (3)_ and increasingly the outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from that of business firms. The arise in tuitions (4)_ may reflect the fact economic uncertainty increases the demand for (5)_ education. The biggest cost of be
5、ing in school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a factor in graduate-and professional-school tuition); poorer ones job prospects, the (6)_ more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education, in order to make oneself more marketable. The ways in which universities
6、 make themselves attractive to students include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving students a governance role, and eliminating requiring courses. (7)_ Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as if business firms sometimes collude to le
7、ssen (8)_ the rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And until they were sto
8、pped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best students, by agreeing not to reward scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purely (9)_ of need just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on (10)_ their best customers. 11 (1) 12
9、 (2) 13 (3) 14 (4) 15 (5) 16 (6) 17 (7) 18 (8) 19 (9) 20 (10) 20 There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation comparable to those existing in spelling (orthography). (1)_ One is the fact pronunciation is learnt “naturally“ and unconsciously, (2)_ and orthography is l
10、earnt deliberately and consciously. Large numbers (3)_ of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious of that our (4)_ speech sounds like when we speak, and it often comes like a shock (5)_ when we first hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once, whereas ou
11、r own handwriting is something which we (6)_ almost always know. We begin the “ natural“ learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we go on unconsciously imitating and practice the pronunciation of (7)_ those around us for many more hours every
12、day that we ever have (8)_ to spend learning even our difficult English spelling. It is “natural“, therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding together a community and giving a sense of “belonging“. We l
13、earn quite early to recognize a “stranger“, someone speaks with (9)_ an accent of a different community perhaps only a few miles far away. (10)_ 21 (1) 22 (2) 23 (3) 24 (4) 25 (5) 26 (6) 27 (7) 28 (8) 29 (9) 30 (10) 30 Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has been bound to the planet o
14、n which he originated and developed. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move (1)_ out into the universe to those worlds which he has known previously only directly. Men have explored parts of the moon, (2)_ put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within the decade
15、will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be (3)_ too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other (4)_ planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated (5)_ such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship the excess people off to the moon. But we m
16、ust keep in head the (6)_ billions of dollars we might spend in carrying the project. (7)_ To maintain the earths population at its present level, we would have to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year. Why are we spending so little money on space (8)_ exploration? Co
17、nsidering the great need for improving many aspects of the global environment, one is surely justified in his concern for the money and resources that they are poured into (9)_ the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should look at both sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions. (10)
18、_ 31 (1) 32 (2) 33 (3) 34 (4) 35 (5) 36 (6) 37 (7) 38 (8) 39 (9) 40 (10) 专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 28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 wo
19、rd 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 the position of the missing word with a “ “ sign and write t 【知识模块】
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23、han 【知识模块】 改错 29 【正确答案】 someonesomeone who 【知识模块】 改错 30 【正确答案】 去掉 far 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 31 【正确答案】 hadhas 【知识模块】 改错 32 【正确答案】 directlyindirectly 【知识模块】 改错 33 【正确答案】 intoonto 【知识模块】 改错 34 【正确答案】 tooso 【知识模块】 改错 35 【正确答案】 planet planets 【知识模块】 改错 36 【正确答案】 headmind 【知识模块】 改错 37 【正确答案】 carryingcarrying out 【知识模块】 改错 38 【正确答案】 littlemuch 【知识模块】 改错 39 【正确答案】 去掉 they 【知识模块】 改错 40 【正确答案】 arrivingarriving at 【知识模块】 改错
