1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 33及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING others think of them as dangerous. Then what is the sensible attitude toward drugs? I think the first thing to think (2)_ is the difference between drugs and wonder drugs. The antibiotics can really treat certain (3)_ bacterial diseases. On the other h
2、and, the major diseases threatening Americans today are cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, coronary disease, etc. Against them, the doctors bag of tricks is limited. He has wonder drugs. (4)_ So the first important lesson is not to expect too many from drugs. (5)_ If you can accept the fact that t
3、he war against many of our most devastating diseases is, at best, a holding operation more than an inevitable triumph, (6)_ they will do a great deal to ease your own life as well as that of your doctor. (7)_ Too many patients exert great pressure on doctors to describe for every symptom, (8)_ even
4、when such treatment is unwarranted or dangerous. Unfortunately, the medical profession is guilty of taking part, to a certain extent, in the wrongful action. The patient who demands a short of penicillin for every sniffle and sneeze may be given an injection (9)_ by a reluctant physician because he
5、is certain that if he does not, the patient will not search until he finds a doctor who will. (10)_ 21 (1) 22 (2) 23 (3) 24 (4) 25 (5) 26 (6) 27 (7) 28 (8) 29 (9) 30 (10) 30 During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched
6、 the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if (1)_ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing (2)_ favorite topic of conversation. War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain se
7、lling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could (3)_ not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts (4)_ were coming due, just to see prices risi
8、ng and speculators getting rich. (5)_ On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, (6)_ but the government had no wish to become involving, at (7)_ least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wild. Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal (8)_ gov
9、ernment appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government (9)_ appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to (10)_ buy, sell, and set prices. 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 33答案与解析
