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1、英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk _1_ pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking _2_ University. The report indicates th
2、at 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children _3_ within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their _4_ families to moderate size. This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 37
3、0.000 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _5_ the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high _6_ risk categories. The report says that evidences from ar
4、ound the world shows the risk of _7_ maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of _8_ pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the _9_ mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than _10_ two years apart.参考答案及解析: 1
5、 将 had used 改为 used。 因为此句是虚拟语气，表示与现在事实相反，故条件从句中应使用一般过去时。例如： Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. 许多人原本会成为聪明人如果他 们不自以为聪明的话。2 将 publishing 改为 published report 和 publish 时逻辑动宾关系，故应使用 publish 的过去分词短语来修饰 report。例如： Any discovery that we may make, however small, will remain acquired k
6、nowledge. 任何可能的 发现，不管多么微不足道，都将成为知识宝库中的一部分。3 将 theirs 改为 their4 将 among 改为 between 在两次怀孕期间留出足够的间隔时间，故用 between。5 将过去分词 excluded 改为介词 excluding。 excluding 意为“不包括”6 将 respectably 改为 respectively respectively 意为 “分别地 ”，符合句子的意思。而 respectably 意为 “可敬的，值得尊敬地 ”。7 将 evidences 改为 evidence。 evidence 是不可数名词。8 将
7、ill 改为 illness。9 将 year 改为 years。10 将 lesser 改为 less “Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _1_ has great importance for many people. This ideal is a vit
8、al part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _2_ for ones family, and started a farm. These small households were _3_ portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, fa
9、ther, children, even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _4_ support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _5_ of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _6_ is j
10、ust as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S soldiers came home before World War, for example, _7_ they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _8_ a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and
11、more or less identical, but it satisfied _9_ a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _10_ way of life.参考答案及解析: 1 将 no 改为 not2 将 place 改为 land place 是可数名词，作“地方”讲，而 land 意为“土地，田地”是不可数名词。例如： Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. 当你偶尔光顾时，独处是一个美妙的境地，但是如
12、果久留，它却是一个糟糕的地方。 There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.3 将 started 改为 start start 应使用不定式，以和前面的 find，build 一致。4 将 working 改为 work。 work 应该用第三人称复数，和 live 一致。另外，family 在这里作“家人”讲，是复数。5 将 anyone 改为 everyone 这里是要用 everyone 指每个人，而不是要用 anyone 泛指。6 将 but 删除7 将 before 改为 after 根据上下
13、文判断，这里要表达的是二战之后。8 将 But 改为 And 根据语意，这里要表达的是递进关系，而不是转折关系。例如： When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And thats my religion. 当我行善事，我感到坦然；当我行恶时，我感到内疚。这就是我的人生之道。9 将 it 改为 they10 在 house the 中间加入介词 as regardas 作“把当作”讲。 We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I
14、 would say _1_ that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _2_ with comparable education in Western Europe. There are a lot of kids who know everything about computershow to
15、build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3_ them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _4_ computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5_ The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _6_ creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _7_ technology. Lots of people dont differ between the two. Science is the production of _8_ new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of knowle
