1、专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷 95及答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFREADING by 【 M2】 _ the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to think of them as just 【 M3】 _ “mental noise“ the random byproducts of the neural-repair work goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams 【 M4】 _ are part of the minds emotional therm
2、ostat, regulating moods while the brain is “off-line.“ And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful metal events can be not only harnessed 【 M5】 _ but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better. Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the nig
3、ht, progressing toward happier before awakening, suggesting 【 M6】 _ that they are working through negative feelings that generated 【 M7】 _ during the day. Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we dont always think about the emotional significance of the days events until, as it was,
4、 we begin to dream. 【 M8】 _ At end of the day, theres probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unless they keep us from sleeping or we wake up in panic. Terrorism, economic uncertainties and general feelings of insecurity have increased peoples anxiety. Those suffer from persiste
5、nt nightmares should seek help from a 【 M9】 _ therapist. For the rest of us, the brain has its ways of working through bad feelings. Sleep or rather dream it and 【 M10】 _ youll feel better in the morning. 11 【 M1】 12 【 M2】 13 【 M3】 14 【 M4】 15 【 M5】 16 【 M6】 17 【 M7】 18 【 M8】 19 【 M9】 20 【 M10】 20 M
6、any things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel badly. This wasnt 【 M1】 _ always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited to expressing joy. B
7、ut somewhere in the 19th 【 M2】 _ century, more artists began seeing happiness as phony, worst of 【 M3】 _ all, boring as we went from Wordsworths daffodils to Baudelaires flowers of evil. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But its n
8、ot as that earlier times didnt know perpetual war, disaster and the 【 M4】 _ massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just opposite: 【 M5】 _ there is too much damn happiness in the world today. People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of miseries. They worked until exhausted, liv
9、ed with few 【 M6】 _ protections and died very young. In the history of the west, before mass communication and literature, the most powerful 【 M7】 _ mass media was the church, which reminded worshippers that 【 M8】 _ their souls were in peril. Today the messages everyone is bombarded are not religiou
10、s but commercial. Our magazines 【 M9】 _ feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes, while these messages are to lure us to open our wallets and make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. What we forget is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. Today, surrounded
11、 by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us which religion once did: remember 【 M10】 _ that happiness comes not in denying misery but in living with it. 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 95答案与解析 一、 PART IV PROOFRE
12、ADING & 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 following way: (1)For a wrong word, underli
13、ne 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】 改错 1 【正确答案】 lives life 【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。本题涉及 life作可数名词和不可数名词时意义上的区分。从句子意思上来看,此处指的是 “生活方式 ”,是不可数名词,故改为life。 【知识模块】 改错
14、 2 【正确答案】 brought bought 【试题解析】 形近词错误。从上下文来看, Lots of Americans brought that nonsense指的是很多美国人相信这一点。我们通常用 buy ones opinion来表示 “相信某人的观点 ”,所以把 brought改为 bought。 【知识模块】 改错 3 【正确答案】 of一去掉 of 【试题解析】 介词错误。 hundred, thousand, million等直接修饰名词时不需要用复数形式,而当构成 of词组时则需要用复数形式,如 hundreds of, thousands of, millions o
15、f。 【知识模块】 改错 4 【正确答案】 against to 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 awaken通常和 to搭配构成词组,如 awaken sb to,awaken tothe necessity of。 【知识模块】 改错 5 【正确答案】 National the 【试题解析】 National Academy of Sciences是一个机构名称,前面需要用定冠词。 【知识模块】 改错 6 【正确答案】 us ourselves 【试题解析】 代词错误。从句子意思看, us应该改为 ourselves。 【知识 模块】 改错 7 【正确答案】 complete incomplet
16、e 【试题解析】 语义错误。从后一句 This is a dangerous game,我们可以看出,上一句应该是指 “由于证据不足造成的一些影响 ”,所以 complete应该改为incomplete。 【知识模块】 改错 8 【正确答案】 they it 【试题解析】 代词错误。从句子意义来看,这里的 they指代不明。对比上一句, its OK tokeep pouring fumes into the air until weknow for sure,这里应该用it来指代 to stoppouring fumes into the air。 【知识模块】 改错 9 【正确答案】 in
17、suring insurance 【试题解析】 形近词错误。购买保险一般用 insurance policy。 【知识模块】 改错 10 【正确答案】 Instead 一 of 【试题解析】 介词错误。 instead后通常接 of来构成短语。 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 11 【正确答案 】 which where 【试题解析】 句法错误。如果用 which,那么它在这里引导定语从句,替代的是aworld,但把这个中心词带入后面的从句中,我们可以发现 logic is suspended and dead people speak与 a world无法构成完整的句子。其实,这里的
18、关系词在从句中作状语,所以改为 where。 【知识模块】 改错 12 【正确答案】 disguising disguised 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。从句子意义来看,这里并不是指 shadows of ourunconscious desires and fears were disguising,而是指 our unconscious desires and fears weredisguised in those shadows,所以改为 disguised。 【知识模块】 改错 13 【正确答案】 think thinking 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。 switchto中的
19、 to是介词,不是不定式符号。 【知识模块】 改错 14 【正确答案】 work 一 that 【试题解析】 句法错误。 “mental noise”一 the random byproducts这里的破折号指的是一种同位语关系,后面应该是一个名词性短语,而不是一个句子,所以加上 that,构成定语从句。 【知识模块】 改错 15 【正确答案】 metal mental 【试题解析】 形近词错误。句子中应该指的是 “思想 ”而不是 “金属 ”, mental与metal只有一个字母的差别,容易混淆。 【知识模块】 改错 16 【正确答案】 happier 一 ones 【试题解析】 句法错误。
20、 towards是介词,后面应该加上名词构成词组,所以加上 ones。 【知识模块】 改错 17 【正确答案】 that(generated)一去掉 that 【试题解析】 句法错误。 generated在这里是过去分词作后置定语的用法,故删除 that。 【知识模块】 改错 18 【正确答案】 was were 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 as it were是固定搭配,意思是 “可以说,在某种程度上 ”。 【知识模块】 改错 19 【正确答案】 suffer suffering 【试题解析】 非谓语动词错误。 Thosesuffer from persistent nightmares sh
21、ould seekhelp一句中有两个没有连词连接的谓语成分,与语法规则不符,应将 suffer改为 suffering,用一 ing分词作定语。 【知识模块】 改错 20 【正确答案】 it on 【试题解析】 介词错误。 it在这里同时作 sleep和 dream的宾语, sleep是不及物动词,需要添加介词。 【知识模块】 改错 【知识模块】 改错 21 【正确答案】 badly bad 【试题解析】 词性错误。 feel是感官动词,后面加形容词作表语。 【知识模块】 改错 22 【正确答案】 to for 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 suit通常接介词 for。 【知识模块】 改错 23
22、 【正确答案】 phony 一 or 【试题解析】 句法错误。 seeing happinessas phony, worst of all, boring as we wentfrom一句中, worst of all是插入语, phony和 boring应该是并列的关系,所以加上 or。 【知识模块】 改错 24 【正确答案】 that if 【试题解析】 句法错误。 But its not as thatearlier times didnt know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents一句从意义上来看,并不是 as
23、引导的表语从句,而是 it is as if 这个结构。 【知识模块】 改错 25 【正确答案】 opposite the 【试题解析】 冠词错误。 opposite可以作形容词、介词或名词,这里指的是后面的一句话,作名词,所以要加上 the。 【知识模块】 改错 26 【正确答案】 miseries misery 【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。 miseries指的是具体的事情,而这里 “泛指痛苦 ”,是不可数名词。 【知识模块】 改错 27 【正确答案】 literature literacy 【试题解析】 形近词错误。这里涉及对西方文化的了解,在宗教之前,西方已经有文学作品出现。而宗教之
24、后出现的各社会阶层的融合带 来的是教育的普及,所以 literature应该改为 literacy。 【知识模块】 改错 28 【正确答案】 media medium 【试题解析】 名词单复数错误。 media是 medium的复数形式。 【知识模块】 改错 29 【正确答案】 bombarded 一 with 【试题解析】 搭配错误。 the messages everyone is bombarded是一个定语从句修饰名词。在这个定语从句中,先行词 themessages作句子的宾语,因此从句中缺少介词 with。 【知识模块】 改错 30 【正确答案】 which as 【试题解析】 句法错误。这句话可理解为 asreligion once did作方式状语从句。 【知识模块】 改错