1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 30及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his
2、desire to find new things for himself. (3)_ Parents vary greatly on their degree of strictness towards their children. (4)_ Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In the general, the (5)_ controls imposed represen
3、t the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the childs own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the grown child, (6)_ consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it next is no foundation for morality. Also,
4、 parents (7)_ should realize that “Example is better than precept“. If they are not sincere and do not practice what that they preach, their children may grow confused (8)_ and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for them, (9)_ and realize they have been in some extent fooled. A
5、sudden awareness of a (10)_ marked difference between their parents principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment. 11 (1) 12 (2) 13 (3) 14 (4) 15 (5) 16 (6) 17 (7) 18 (8) 19 (9) 20 (10) 20 The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure who does the changing. One
6、 possibility is mat children are (1)_ responsible. A professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, (2)_ explores this in one of his recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a (3)_ language catastrophe occurred in Hawaii when thousands of emigrant (4)_ workers were brought to the islands to work f
7、or the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke in Pidgin English the sort of thing such mixed language (5)_ populations have a
8、lways done. A pidgin is not really a language at all. It is more like a set of verbal signals used to name objects and (6)_ without the grammatical rules needed for expressing thoughts and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the whole mass of mixed peoples began speaking a total new tongue:
9、 Hawaiian Creole. The (7)_ new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed from all the (8)_ original tongues, but bore little and no resemblance to the (9)_ predecessors in the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as primitive language, Hawaiian Creole (10)_ h
10、ad a highly sophisticated grammar. 21 (1) 22 (2) 23 (3) 24 (4) 25 (5) 26 (6) 27 (7) 28 (8) 29 (9) 30 (10) 30 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of the language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, (1)_ unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds
11、to express thought (2)_ and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and mat latter they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, (3)_ which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether be spoken or written
12、 in letters, (4)_ we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations the things they take up before our minds. Words become filled with meanings (5)_ for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more w
13、e read and learn, the more the number of words mat mean something to us increase. Great (6)_ writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. (7)_ This charming use of words is that we call literary style. Above
14、all, the (8)_ real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men with tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and (9)_ use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and du
15、lly. (10)_ 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 30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, on
16、ly 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 the position of the missing word with a “ “ sign and write
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