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1、历年四六级改错真题集合（00.14）6.12）00.1Until the very latest moment of his existence,manhas been bound to the planet on which he originated anddeveloped.Now he had the capability to leave that planet SI.and move out into the universe to those worlds which hehas known previously only directly.Men have explored S

2、2.parts of the moon,put spaceships in orbit around anotherplanet and possibly within the decade will land into another S3,planet and explore it.Can we be too bold as to S4.suggest that we may be able to colonize other planet S5.within the not-too-distant future?Some have advocatedsuch a procedure as

3、 a solution to the populationproblem:ship the excess people oft to the moon.Butwe must keep in head the billions of dollars we might S6.spend in carrying out the project.To maintain theearth*s population at its present level,we would haveto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour ofevery day of

4、 the year.Why arc we spending so little money on space S7.exploration?Consider the great need for improving S8.many aspects of the global environment,one is surelyjustified in his concern for the money and resourcesthat they are poured into ihc space exploration efforts.S9.But perhaps we should look

5、 at both sides of thecoin before arriving hasty conclusions.S10.00.1SI.had-hasS2.directly-*indirectlyS3.imo-*onS4.ioo-*soS5.plant-planets/worldsS6.headmindS7.little-*muchS8.Consider-ConsideringS9.they-/S10.(arriving)A(hasty)-*at00.6When you start talking about good and bad mannersyou immediately sta

6、rt meeting difficulties.Manypeople just cannot agree what they mean.We asked alady,who replied that she thought you could tell awell-mannered person on the way they occupied the SI.space around them-for example,when such a personwalks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2.others.Such p

7、eople never bump into other people.However,a second person thought that this wasmore a question of civilized behavior as good manners.S3.Instead,this other person told us a siory,it he S4.said was quite well known,about an American whohad been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countries S5.of th

8、e Middle East.The American hasnt been S6.told very much about the kind of food he mightexpect,if he had known about American food,he S7.might have behaved better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece ofbread that looked,to him,very much as a napkin（餐巾）.S8.Picking it up.he put it into his coll

9、ar,so that itfalls across his shirt.His Arab host,who had been S9.watching,said of nothing,but immediately copied S10.the action of his guest.And that,said this second person,was a fineexample of good manners.00.6SI.on-byS2.unaware-*awareS3,as-*thanS4.it-whichS5.al-inS6.hasnthadntS7.American ArabS8.

10、as-*likeS9.fells-*fellS10.o f-/01.6More 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 ihc early stages of SI.the industrial revolution,perhaps one in every seventh S2.deaths in Europes crowded cities were cause

11、d by the S3,disease.From now on,though,western eyes,missing the S4.global picture,saw the trouble going into decline.Withoccasional breaks lor war,the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily S5.through the 19th and 20th centuries.In the 1950s,theintroduction of antibio

12、tics（抗菌素）strengthened thetrend in rich countries,and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries.Medical researchers S6.declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong.In ihe mid-1980s the frequency of S7.infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld.Where tuberculosis

13、 vanished,it came back;in S8.many places where it had never been away,it grew belter.S9.The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people(a third of the earths population)sufferfrom tuberculosis.Even when the infection rate wasfalling,population growth kept the number of clinicalcases m

14、ore or less constantly at 8 million a year.Around S10.3 million of those people died nearly all of them in poorcountries.01.6SI.in-*forS2.seventh-sevenS3,were-*wasS4.now-*thenS5.the-*/S6.imported-*exportedS7.are-*wereS8.(tubcrculosis)A(vanished)-*hadS9.better-worseS10.constantly-*constant02.1Sportin

15、g activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior.Viewing biologically,the modem footballer is revealed as a 1.member of a disguised hunting pack.His killing weapon has turned into aharmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth.If his aim is inaccurate S2.and he scores a goal,enjoys

16、 the huntefs triumph of killing his prey.S3.To understand how this transformation has taken place wcmust briefly look up at our ancient ancestors.They spent over a S4million year evolving as co-operative hunters.Their very survival S5.depended on success in the hunting-field.Under this pressure thei

17、r wholeway of life,even if their bodies,became radically changed.They became S6.chasers,runners,jumpers,aimers,throwers and prey-killers.They co-operate as skillful male-group attackers.S7.Then,about ten thousand years ago,when this immensely long SX._formative period of hunting for food,they became

18、 fanners.Theirimproved intelligence,so vital to their old hunting life,were put to a new S9.use-that of penning(把.关在圈中),controlling and domesticatingtheir prey.The food was there on the farms,awaiting their needs.Therisks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.S10.02.1SI.

19、Viewing-*ViewedS2.inaccurate-*accurateS3.(,)A(enjoys)-heS4.up-*/S5.year-yearsS6.if-*/S7.co-operate-*co-operatedS8.when-*afterS9.were-*wasS10.farming 一 hunting02.6A great many cities are experiencing diflicuities whichare nothing new in the history of cities,except in their scale.Some cities have los

20、t their original purpose and have not foundnew one.And any large or rich city is going to attract poor SI.immigrants,who flood in,tilling with hopes of prosperity S2.which are then often disappointing.There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia Just as though there were S3.on the edge

21、of seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris.This is new is the scale.Descriptions S4.written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of MexicoCity,and the enormous contrasts that was to be tbund there.S5.are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today-the S6poor can

22、still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,but behind it lies two myths:the myth of the city as a S7.promised land,that attracts immigrants from rural poverty S8.and brings ii flooding into city centers,and the myth of the S9.country as a Garden of Eden,whi

23、ch,a few generations late,S10.sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.02.6SI.(fbund)A(new)-aS2.filling-filledS3.though-*/S4.This-*WhatS5.waswereS6.dissimilarsimilarS7.lies-lieS8.that-*whichS9.it-*themS10.latelater03.6The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need fo

24、r change and done something aboutit.In the newspaper industry,papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect(hat diversity with their news coverage or risk S1losing their readers*interest and their advertisers*support.Operating within Seattle,wh

25、ich has 20 percents racial S2.minorities,the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce.The S3.underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair,appropriate,and subjective,it should be reported by the S4.same kind of population that r

26、eads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters,editors,andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times,S5.content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdix ersity issues.In an addition,the paper institutcxl a content S6.audit（审查）that evaluates the frequency and manner o

27、frepresentation 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 from S8.improvement in the frequency of majority representat沁 n and S9.their por

28、trayal in neutral or positive situations.And.with a S10.result,the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped the SeattleTimes Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Awardfor excellence in managing change.03.6S l.it-theyS2.percents*percentS3.main

29、tainmaintainingS4ubjcctive-*objectiveS5.meets-*meetS6.an-*/S7.woman-womenS8.from-*inSQ.majorily-*minorityS10.with-*as03.9“Home,sweet home is a phrase that expresses an essential attitudein the United States.Whether the reality of life in the family houseis sweet or no sw eet.The cherished ideal of h

30、ome has great SIimportance for many people.This ideal is a vital part of the American dream.This dream,dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of theAmerican West was to find a piece of place,build a house for one*sfamily,and started a farm.These small households were portr

31、aits ofindependence:the entire family-mother,father,children,evengrandparents-live in a small house and working together to supporteach other.Anyone understood the life and death importance of familycooperation and hard work.Although most people in the United States no longer live onfarms,but the id

32、eal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentiethcentury as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S,soldiers came home before World War 11,for S7.example,they dreamed of buying houses and starting families.But there SS._was a tremendous boom in home building.The new houses,typicallyin the suburbs,w

33、ere often small and more or less identical,but it SM._satisfied a deep need.Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10.their way of life.03.9SI.no-notS2.place-*landS3,started-startS4.working-workS5.anyone-*everyoneS6.but-*/S7.before-*afterS8.But-*SoS9.it-*theyS10.(house)A(the)-as03.12Tho

34、mas Malthus published his HEssay on the Principle ofPopulation*almost 200 years ago.Ever since then,forecastershave being warning that worldwide famine was just around the SInext comer.The fast-growing populations demand for food,they warned,would soon exceed their supply,leading to S2widespread foo

35、d shortages and starvation.But in reality,the worlds total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years.Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3like present-day Somalia,and occasional years of good harvests,S4ihc worlds food crisis has remained just around the comer.Most experts believe this

36、can continue even as if the population S5_doubles by the mid-21st century,although feeding 10 billionpeople will not be easy for politics,economic and environmental S6_reasons.Optimists point to concrete examples of continuedimprovements in yield.In Africa,by instance,improved seed,S7_more fertilize

37、r and advanced growing practices have more thandouble com and wheat yields in an experiment.Elsewhere,rice S8experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few stems S9and more seeds.There is no guarantee that plant breeders cancontinue to develop new.higher-yielding crop,but mostresearchers

38、see their success to date as reason for hope.S10_03.12SI.being-*beenS2.their-*itsS3,relative-*relativelyS4.good-badS5.as-*/S6.politics-*politicalS7.by-forS8.double-*doubledS9.few-*moreS10.(as)A(reason)-the04.6Culture refers to the social heritage of a people-thelearned patterns for thinking,feeling

39、and acting that characterizea population or society,include the expression of these S1.patterns in material things.Culture is compose of non-material S2culture-abstract creations like values,beliefs,customsand institutional arrangemems and material culture physical object like cooking pots,computers

40、 and bathtubs.S3.In sum,culture reflects bolh the ideas we share or everything S4.we make.In ordinary speech,a person of culture isthe individual can speak another language-the person who S5.is unfamiliar with the arts,music,literature,philosophy,or S6.history.But to sociologists,to be human is to b

41、e cultured,because of culture is the common world of experience we S7.share with other members of our group.Culture is essentially to our humanness.Il provides a S8.kind of map for relating to others.Consider how you Gndyour way about social life.How do you know how to act in aclassroom,or a departm

42、ent store,or loward a person whosmiles or laugh at you?S9.Your culture supplies you by broad,standardized.S10.ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.Therefore,if we know a persons culture,we can understandand even predict a good deal of his behavior.04.6SI.include*includingSpos

43、e-*composedS3,object-objectsS4.or-*andS5.(individual)A(can)-*whoS6.unfamiliar-familiarS7.of-*ZS8.essentially-*essentialS9.laugh-*laughsS10.by-*with05.1The World Health Organization(WHO)says its ten-yearcampaign to remove leprosy(麻风病)as a world healthproblem has been successful.Doctor Brundtland,head

44、 of theWHO.says a number of leprosy cases around the world has S l.been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years.She says S2.efforts are continuing to complete end the disease.S3.Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid fromthe nose and mouth.The disease mainly eftects the skin and

45、 S4.nen es.However,if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanentdamage for the skin,nerves,eyes,arms or legs.S5In 1999,an international campaign began to end leprosy.The WHO,governments of countries most affected by thedisease,and several other groups are part of the campaign.This alliance guaran

46、tees that all leprosy patients,even they S6.are poor,have a right to the most modem treatment.Doctor Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a diseasethat requires life-long treatments by medical experts.Instead,patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy.This S7.modem treatment will cure lep

47、rosy in 6 to 12 months,depend on the form of the disease.The treatment combines S8.several drugs taken daily or once a month.The WHO hasgiven multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five S9.years.The members of the alliance against leprosy plan totarget the countries which still threatene

48、d by leprosy.Among S10the estimated 600,000 victims around the world the WHObelieves about 70%are in India.The disease also remains aproblem in Africa and South America.05.1SI.a-theS2.of-byS3,complete-completelyS4.eftects-*affectsS5.for-toS6.(even)A(they)-*i(7thoughS7.that-*whatS8.dependdependingS9.

49、freely-*freeS10.(which)A(still)-are05.12Every week hundreds of C Vs(简历)land on our desks.Weve seen it all:CVs printed on pink paper,CVs that are 10pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph.A SIgood CV is your passport to an inten iew and.ultimate,to S2the job you want.Initial impress

50、ions arc vital,and a badly presented CVcould mean acceptance,regardless of whats in it.S3Here are a few ways to avoid end up on the reject pile.S4Print your CV on good-quality white paper.CVs with flowery backgrounds or pink paper willstand out upon all the wrong reasons.S5Get someone to check for s