1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 50（无答案）一、PART IV PROOFREADING it is to appeal to the students emotions rather than their (8)_intellectuals. Thus the ideal lecture is one filled with facts and (9)_reads in an unchanged monotone. (10)_1 (1)2 (2)3 (3)4 (4)5 (5)6 (6)7 (7)8 (8)9 (9)10 (10)10 For to be a woman is to have
2、interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub ofa wheel. The pattern of our lives is essentially circling. We must be (1)_opened to all points of the compass, husband, children, friends, home, com- (2)_ munity; we must be stretched out, exp
3、osed, sensible like a spiders web to (3) _ each breeze that blows, to each call that comes. How difficult it is for us,then, to achieve a balance in the mid of these contradictory tensions, and yet (4)_how necessary for the proper function of our lives. (5)_With a new awareness, both painful and hum
4、orous, I begin to understand why saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherent to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do (6)_primarily with distractions. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thous
5、and details; human relationships with their myriads pullswomans normal occupations in general run (7)_against to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. The problem is (8)_not merely one of Woman and Career, Woman and the Home, Woman andIndependence. It is more basically how to remain
6、 wholly in the midst of (9)_the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal forces tent to pull one off the center; and how to remain strong, no matter whatever shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel. (10)_11 (1)12 (2)13 (3)14 (4)15 (5)16
7、(6)17 (7)18 (8)19 (9)20 (10)20 Many students today display a disturbing willingness to choose academic institutions, fields of study and careers in the basis of earning potential. In (1)_ an extensive 1989 survey of college students nationwide, 72 percent of studentsreported that their primary objec
8、tive to attending college was to make more (2)_money upon graduation. This state of mind came with the present generation. Studies show that the majority of baby boomers attended college todevelop themselves, their critically thinking skills and their personal phi- (3)_losophies of life.Nationally,
9、the number of students going into business-related fields hassharply increased, and this rise has attributed primarily to the shift in edu- (4)_cational and career priorities. At Duke, economy is now the most popular (5)_major, attracting nearly 15 percent of undergraduates, and history majors (6)_c
10、omprise only 5 percent of the undergraduate population. Thirty years ago the situation was reversed, with economic and business administration majors together consisting 8.7 percent of undergraduates and almost 12 percent (7)_of undergraduates declared themselves history majors. The number of Eng- (
11、8)_lish majors has also decreased, from 9 percent in 1969 to 5.5 percent today.Degrees in economics are marketed and likely to garner their (9)_holders of high salaries without the added effort of medical or law school. (10)_And given the objectives of current college students, such options are attr
12、active.21 (1)22 (2)23 (3)24 (4)25 (5)26 (6)27 (7)28 (8)29 (9)30 (10)30 We are living in what we call the second great change in the state of man. The first is the change from pre-civilized to civilized societies. The first five hundred thousand years or so of mans existence on the earth were relativ
13、ely eventful. (1)_Comparing with his present condition, he puttered along in an astonish- (2)_ingly stationery state. There may have been changes in language and culture (3)_which are not reflected in artifacts, but if there were, these changes are lost for us. (4)_The evidence of the artifacts, the
14、refore, is conclusive. Whatever chang- (5)_es they were, they were almost unbelievably slow. About ten thousand years ago, we begin to perceive an acceleration in the rate of changes.This becomes very noticeable five thousand years ago as the develop- (6)_ment of the first civilization. The details
15、of this first great change areprobably past our recovery. However, we do know that it depended on two (7)_phenomena: the development of agriculture and the development of exploitation. Agriculture, which is the domestication of crops and livestocks and the (8)_plantation of crops in fields, gave man
16、 a secure surplus of food from the (9)_food producer. In a hunting and fishing economy it seems to take the food producer all his time to produce enough food for himself and his family. Themoment we have agriculture, with its superior production of this form of (10)_employment of human resources, th
17、e food producer can produce more food than he and his family can eat.31 (1)32 (2)33 (3)34 (4)35 (5)36 (6)37 (7)38 (8)39 (9)40 (10)40 Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-product of industrialisma sort of psychologic
18、al analogy of synthetic perfumes and aniline dyes. (1)_Time is our tyrant. We are chronologically aware of the moving minute (2)_hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be.There are trains to be caught, tasks to be done in specified periods, records to be broken by factions of a second, mac
19、hines that set the pace and (3)_have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of the smallest units of time isnow big. To us, for example, the moment 8.17 A.M. means something (4)_something very important, if happens to be the starting time of our daily (5)_train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentri
20、c instant was with signifi- (6)_cancedid not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.Another time-emphasized entity is the factory and its dependent, the (7)_office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantity of goods (8)_made in a cer
21、tain time. The artisan worked as it suited him with the result that consumers generally had to wait for the goods they had ordered from him. The factory is a device for making workman hurry. The machine revolves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so manypieces produce each hour. Result: the factory worker is compelled to know (9)_time in its smallest fractions. In the hand-work age there was no such a com- (10)_pulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds.41 (1)42 (2)43 (3)44 (4)45 (5)46 (6)47 (7)48 (8)49 (9)50 (10)
