大学英语六级改错题12篇.doc

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-date大学英语六级改错题12篇Passage 1大学英语六级改错题12篇Passage 1Error Correction(15 minutes)Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark () in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash () in the blank.Example:Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.1. time/times/periodMany of the arguments having used for the study of literature2. _as a school subject are valid for study of television.3. the_One major decision which faces the American student ready tobegin higher education is the choice of attending a largeuniversity or a small college. The large university provides awide range of specialized departments, as well numerous71. _courses within such departments. The small college, therefore,72. _generally provides a limited number of courses andspecializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus73. _permit individualized attention to student. Because of its large74. _student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many75. _people from different countries the university exposes itsstudents to many different culture, social and out-of-class76. _programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, morehomogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college77. _affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, theuniversity closely approximates the real world and which78. _provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate79. _atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years ofstructural living in which to expect and preparing for the real80. _world. In making his choice among educational institutions thestudent must, there fore, consider a great many factors.71. (well) à (well) as72. therefore à however73. offer à offers74. permit à permitting75. in à of76. culture à cultural77. big à small78. and à / 或 and à which, this79. contrast à contrary80. preparing à preparePassage 2Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principleof Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine wasS1. _just around the next corner. The fast-growing population'sdemand for food, they warned, would soon exceed theirS2. _supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated troubleS3. _spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, the world's food crisis has remained justS4. _around the corner. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,S5. _although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. OptimistsS6. _point to concrete examples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, moreS7. _fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere,S8. _rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with fewS9. _stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plantbreeders can continue to develop new, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reasonS10. _for hope.S1. beingàbeenS2. theiràits S3. relativeàrelatively S4. goodàbad S5. asà去掉S6. politicsàpoliticalS7. byàfor S8. doubleàdoubled S9. fewàmore S10. reasonàthe reasonPassage 3The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1. _losing their readers interest and their advertisers support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2. _minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. TheS3. _underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by theS4. _same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle TimesS5. _content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a contentS6. _audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in photographs.S7. _Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results fromS8. _improvement in the frequency of majority representation andS9. _their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with aS10. _result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing change.S1. it à theyS2. percents à percentS3. maintain à maintainingS4. subjective à objectiveS5. value à evaluateS6. an à /S7. woman à womenS8. from à inS9. majority à minorityS10. with à asPassage 4A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1. _immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2. _which are then often disappointing. There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3. _on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4. _written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5. _are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City todaytheS6. _poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7. _promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural povertyS8. _and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9. _country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,S10. _sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.S1. new à a newS2. filling à filledS3. though à ifS4. This à WhatS5. was à wereS6. dissimilar à similarS7. lies à lieS8. that à whichS9. it à themS10. late à laterPassage 5Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modernS1. _footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and heS2. _scores a goal, enjoys the hunters triumph of killing his prey.To understand how this transformation has taken place weS3. _must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over aS4. _million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survivalS5. _depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicailyS6. _changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-groupS7. _attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immenselyS8. _long formative period of hunting for food, they becamefarmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new usethat of penning (把S9. _关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.S10._S1. Viewing à ViewedS2. inaccurate à accurateS3. (enjoys) à he (enjoys)S4. up à backS5. year à yearsS6. (even) if à (even) /S7. co-operate à co-operatedS8. when à afterS9. were à wasS10. farming à huntingPassage 6More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stages of71. _the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh72. _deaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by the73. _disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the74. _global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. Withoccasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily75. _through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers76. _declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of77. _infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in78. _many places where it had never been away, it grew better.79. _The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people (a third of the earths population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around80. _3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries.71. in à for72. seventh à seven73. were à was74. now à then75. the à /76. imported à exported77. are à were78. vanished à had 79. better à worse80. constantly à constant Passage 7When you start talking about good and bad manners youimmediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannotagree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that shethought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they71. _occupied the space around themfor example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of72. _others. Such people never bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this73. _other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known,74. _about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at75. _one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasnt76. _been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. Ifhe had known about American food, he might have behaved77. _better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread thatlooked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking it78. _up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt.79. _His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but80. _immediately copied the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fine example ofgood manners.71. (on the way) à in the way72. unaware à aware73. as à than74. it à which75. at à in76. hasnt à hadnt77. American à Arab78. as à like79. falls à fell80. of à /Passage 8Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has beenbound to the planet on which he originated and devel-oped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move 71. _out into the universe to those worlds which he has knownpreviously only directly. Men have explored parts of the moon.72. _put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within the decade will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be73. _too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other 74. _planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated75. _such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship theexcess people off to the moon. But we must keep in head the76. _billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project. Tomaintain the earths population at its present level, we would haveto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.Why are we spending so little money on space ex-77. _ploration? Consider the great need for improving many aspects78. _of the global environment, one is surely justified in his concern for the money and resources that they are poured into79. _the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should look atboth sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions.80. _71. had à has72. directly à indirectly73. into à on74. too à so75. planet à planets / worlds76. head à mind77. little à much78. Consider à Considering79. they à /80. (arriving) à (arriving) at 或 arriving à reaching/drawing/makingPassage 9Most people work to earn a living and they Produce goods and services. Goods are either agricultural (li