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1、英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(一)About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries couldbe 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 that 5.6 million in
2、fant deaths and 2,000,000 maternalDeaths 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 370.000 maternal deaths
3、 in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _5_the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high _6_risk categories.The report says that evidences from around the world shows the
4、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 将had used 改为 used。因为此句是虚拟语气,表
5、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 knowledge. 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
6、theirs改为their;4 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ill改为illness。9将year改为years。10将lesser改为less英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(二)“Home, s
7、weet 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 vital part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the hi
8、story of nineteenth century European settlersof 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, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working
9、 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 just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.Whe
10、n 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 more or less identical, but it satisfied _9_a deep need. Many regarded
11、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
12、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.
13、 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。英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析(三)We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _1_that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college
14、, 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 build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3_them to explain ab
15、out 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 _7_science and technology. Lots of people dont differ between the two. Science _8_new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the applicati