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1、专业英语八级改错练习题及答案解析专业英语八级改错练习题及答案解析(6)We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, language is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know
2、 more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we understand precisely the
3、combinations between language and thought, language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. Language comes to every normal person so naturall
4、y that a few of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which takes lan
5、guage as its object of investigation. 1 _2 _ 3 _4 _ 5 _ 6 _ 7 _8 _ 9 _10 _参考答案及解析： 1. with 改为 without。 “hardly any moment passes without someone” , 两个 否定: without 和 hardly，意思是“每一时刻有人” 。 2. fast 前面加 the 因为 fast and successful use 这个词组后边有一个前置词短语 of language 修饰 use，所以被修饰的词前面加定冠词。 3. than on ourselves 改
6、为 than things on ourselves。在这里比较的是两件事： things around us and things on ourselves(我们周围的事物和我们自身的东西)。第 二个 things 不能省略，否则引起误解。 4. differs 改为 distinguishes。语言区分人与动物，differ 是不及物动词，后面不能带宾语，只能用介词，如：Man differs from animals in that man possesses language。 5. inquire 改为 acquire“习得语言”应该是 acquire language，名词短语是
7、language acquisition。 Inquire 是“询问”的意思。 6. we 前面加上 do 副词 nor 放在句首表示强调，应用倒装句，一般现在时强调 句是在主语前面加助动词 do。 7. combination 改为 relationships.语言和思维的关系，不是结合；语言和思维的 关系是当代语言学研究的重要领域。 8. like 改为 as。根据上下文，要表达的意思是“作为语言的使用者” ，不是“像 语言的使用者” 。 9. a 去掉 这里是否定的意思：“我们没有多少人”而不是“我们一些人. ” 。 10. assured 改为 assumed. 这句的后半部分意思是“研究语言的必要性比我们 想象的要大得多” 。Assure 译为“确保” ；assume 译为“假设”或者“想象”的 意思。
