英语专业八级改错真题及答案-持续更新(部分详解)文字答案校对版.docx

1995-2017年英语专业八级改错真题及答案（文字/答案校对版）2017年改错真题The ability to communicate is the primary factor that distinguishes human beings from animals. And it is the ability to communicate well which 1. distinguishes one individual from another.The fact is that apart from the basic necessities, one needs to be equipped with habits for good communication skills, thus this is2.what will make one a happy and successful social being.In order to develop these habits, one needs to first acknowledge the fact that they need to improve communication skills from time to time. They need to take stock of the way how they interact and the direction 3. in which their work and personal relations are going. The only constant in life is change, the more one accepts one's strengths and works4,towards dealing with their shortcomings, specially in the area of5.communication skills, the better will be their interactions and the more their social popularity.The dominated question that comes here is: How to improve6.communication skills? The answer is simple, can find plenty of literature on this. There are also experts, who conduct workshops and seminars based on communication skills of men and women. In fact, a large number of companies are bringing in trainers to regularly make sessions on the subject, in order to7.help their work force maintain better interpersonal work relations.Today effective communication skills have become a predominant factor even while recruiting employees. While interviewing candidates, most interviewers judge them on the basis of the skills they communicate with. They believe that some skills can be improvised on the job; but ability to 8. communicate well is important, as every employee becomes the representing face of the company.There are trainers, who specialized in delivering custom-made 9. programs on the subject. Through the sessions they not only facilitate better communication skills in the workplace, but also look into the problems in the manner of being able to convey messages effectively. 10.2016年改错真题All social units develop a culture. Even in two-person relationships, a culture develops in time. In friendship and romantic relationships, 1. for example, partners develop their own history, shared experiences, language patterns, habits, and customs give that relationship a special 2. character-a character that differs it in various ways from3.other relationships. Examples might include special dates, places, were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could not wait for 3. markets to improve. It had happened too often that they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts were coming due, 4. just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. On various occasions,5. producer groups, asked firmer control, but the government had no wish to 6. become involving, at least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened?. to run wild.Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8. government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of 9. 1919, the government appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to buy, sell, and set prices.10.2000年改错真题The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have” less1.meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them2.“empty“ words as opposed in the “fiill" words of vocabulary.3.But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction.4.Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp5.difference in meaning between “man is vile and” "the man is vile： yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6. Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the7.lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been "little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for8.distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9. from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10. when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.1999年改错真题The huntcr-gathcrcr tribes that today live as our prehistoric1.human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2.with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter-gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirdsand more of the hunter-gatherer's calories come from plants. Detailed 3.studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240.Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average American adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to 9. an aboriginal life style, we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for healthier diet.4.5.6.7.8.1.2.3.5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1998年改错真题When a human infant is born into any community in any part of the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Withoutcare from some other human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human group, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human infants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet4.within minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few hours. Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infant they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. It is during this very long period in which the human infant is totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature which it shares with all other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest that language be nspecies specific11 to the human race, that is to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion impliesthat just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in colour, and just as they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as part of their normal developments as well-form ed human beings.1997年改错真题Classic Intention MovementIn social situations, the classic Intention Movement is "the chair-grasp'1. Host and guest have been talking for some time, but now the host has an appointment to keep and can get away. His urge to go is held in check by his desire not be rude to his guest. If he did not care of his guests feelings he would simply get up out of his chair and to announce his departure. This is what his body wants to do, therefore his politeness glues his body to the chair and refuses to let him raise. It is at this point that he performs the chair-grasp Intention Movement. He continues to talk to the guest and listen to him, but leans forward and grasps the arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. This is the first act he would make if he were rising. If he were not hesitating, it would only last a fraction of the second. He would lean, push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer. He holds his nreadiness-to-risen post andl._2._3.4.5.6.7.8._9.10.keeps on holding it. It is as if his body had frozen at the get-ready moment.1996年改错真题The second most important constituent of the biosphere is liquid water. This can only exist in a very narrow range of temperatures, since water freezes at 0 and boils at 100. This is only a tiny range compared with the low temperatures of some other planets and the hot interior of the earth, let the temperatures1.of the sun. As we know, life would only be possible on the face of a 2. planet had temperatures somewhere within this range.3.The earth's supply of water probably remains quite fairly4.constant in quantity. A certain number of hydrogen atoms, which are one of the main constituents of water, are lost by escaping from the atmosphere to out space, but they are probably just5.about replaced by new water rising away from the depths of the6.earth during volcanic action. The total quantity of water is not known, and it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe7.to a depth of about two and three-quarter kms. Most of it -97% - is in the form of the salt waters of the oceans. The rest is fresh, but three quarter of this is in the form of ice at the Poles8.and on mountains, and cannot be used by living systems when 9. melted. Of the remaining fraction, which is somewhat fewer than 10.1% of the whole, there is 10-20 times as much stored as underground water as is act ually on the surface. There is also a minor, but extremely important, fraction of the w ater supply which is present as water vapor in the atmosphere.1995年改错真题There are far too many road accidents in this country, too many deaths and too many people injured. One wonders who are most to blame, drivers and pedestrians.LSome people say that the blame cannot be put fairly with considering the state of the roads and the whole2.1transport system. In such crowed cities London,3.Birmingham or Manchester, road conditions are so chaotic that both driver and pedestrian often endanger lives through no fault of their own. Such sufficiency4as too many road signs, faulty traffic lights, suddenly narrowing of the streets, congested parking are all a sure indication of bad road conditions. On the other hand, many experts are convincing that the larger5.part of the blame for the death toll must be put on persons alone: Drivers who drive too fast and without any consideration for others; drivers who think they are safe at the wheel as though they have drunk too6much alcohol; drivers, who out of some curious sense of power, are incapable of understanding that their caris a lethal weapon if is improperly used. Pedestrians,7likewise, must share the guilt-stepping off the pavement without first looking to the left or right, crossing roads when the traffic lights are for them,8.jump off a moving bus. To be fair, pedestrians, drivers9.and road conditions are all to blame. One looks forward to day when the motor-car has been replaced by some more dangerous means of transport.10.2017年改错Key:1 .把which改为that,这里是强调句型2 .把thus改为as或because,后一句是原因而不是结果3 .去掉way后面的how,the way后面可以直接用状语从句,how已经有“the way of”的语法意义，也可以把how改为that4 .在the more前面加上and,两个小句之间缺少承接关系连词5 .把 specially 改为 especially6 .把 domininated 改为 dominating7 .把make改为conduct, have或者deliver,指上课、开会等，搭配合理8 .把some去掉,或者ability前面加the9 . 把 specialized 改为 specialize10 .把 manner 改成 way2016 年 Key：1 把in改为over2 .在give前面加which或者that3 .把 differs 改为 differentiates 或者把 it 删掉4 .把the删掉5 .把same 改为 commen 或者把certain 改为the6 .在 complex 后面力口 and7 .把it改为which8 .删掉than9 .把 have 改为 preserve10 .把 furthermore 改为 therefore2015 年 Key：1 .把 Looked 改为 Looking2 .把and改为but3 .才巴 complimentary 改为 compliment4 .把it删掉5 .把very改为too6 . which前面加in或者删掉which或者把which改为that7.specially 改为 especially8 . for 改为 about9 .把 aspect 改为 case10 .删掉 been2014 年 Key1 .把a前面加also2 .把 possessed 改为 attracted3 .在one前面加as4 .在fact后面加that5 . JE language前面的the删掉6 .把check后面的of改为on7 .attempts 改为 attempt 或者 attempting8 . or 改为 and9 .才巴 involving 改为 involved10 .把 touch 改为 interaction 或者 contact2013 年 Key:1 . 把 production 改为 producing2 .把language前面的the删掉3 .在time前面加the4 .把 looking 改为 look5 .在we前面加that6 .把has had中去掉had7 .把 their 改为 his8 . 把 anyone 改为 someone9 .把 evolved 改为 involved10 .把 were 改为 are 2012 年 Key:1. going/ since-加入on题解：go on的意思是“继续”，符合句子表达的含义 “争论一直在继续二2. certain改为a certain题解：此处要表达的意思是“很多作家喜欢一种自由 的翻译方法”，第一次出现这种方法应该加上不定冠词。3. rather改为 not ,或者 rather 后面加 than题解：根据原句的句子结构，rather应改为not。4. is改为 was题解：此句应该为过去时。5. in 一改为 at题解:at the turn of 19theentury “十九世纪之初。是固定搭配。6. 删去language前面的the题解：这里并没有特指某种语言，所以不用定冠词。7. view A translation 力口入 that题解：在 view 和 translation 之间加上 that,可将 utranslation was impossiblev看 成view的同位语。8. was一册U去 was题解：条件状语从句常可以省略主语和系动词。9. . culminated A the力口入 in题解：culminate in是“以告终”的意思，符合上下文含义。10. and 一改为 but题解：根据原句意思“现在背景变化了，但是基本问题依然存在"，两句话之间 应该是转折关系。2011 年 Key:1 .在grow后加up,考固定短语2 .改consience为consciousness 考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德 心"，consiousness翻译为“意识”3 . 改 soon 为 sooner, sooner or later 是固定短语4 .去掉either前面的the5 .改disagreeing为disagreeable , disagreeing只能作动名词，不能作形容词。 disagreeable mannernisms 令人讨厌的习惯6 .改imaginative为imaginary,考词语区别imaginative翻译为“有想象力的”， imaginary翻译为“想象的，虚构的”7 .改literal为literary ,考词义区别，literal翻译为“字面的。literary翻译为“文 学方面的”8 .去掉face后的in, face接宾语时是及物动词。考动词的基本用法9 .在world后加in或者改which为where,考定语从句10 .改 Therefore 为 However 或者 Nevertheness,考语境。2010 年 Key：1. be后加as; asas引导的比较级2. their 改为 its; its 代替 every language3. There改为It;It此处作为形式主语，真正主语是后面的个定式4. Whereas改为But ；语境需要表示转折的连词，whereas表示对比5. further改为much further不能修饰比较级6. come 改为 bring; （sth）come to light, bring sth to lightbring to light the defect of English 二bring the defect of english to light 揭示英语的 缺陷7. similar 改为 different;根据语境应该用 different8. will改为would;虚拟语气9. as important 去掉 as;10. the part 去掉 the 或者改 the 为 abe/become/form （a） part of 是固定短语2009 年 Key:l.the further difference改为a further difference （此次应该用不定冠词表示泛指，第 一次提到的新信息）2 .改when为until,结构not.until翻译为“直到才”3 .their改为his （代词与前文a little listener在单复数上保持一致）4 .