英语专八真题改错含答案

2000改错 The grammatical words which play so large a part in English   grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different    1.___   from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may   seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less   meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them    2.___   “empty” words as opposed in the “full” 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 sharp    5.___   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 the      7.___    lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been   “little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for      8.___   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. 2001改错 During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the  very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched  the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if     1.___  they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing     2.___  favorite topic of conversation.       War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing  the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain  selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.  Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could     3.___  not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that  they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts     4.___  were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich.  5.___  On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control,    6.___  but the government had no wish to become involving, at       7.___  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 1919, the government       9.___  appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to  10.___  buy, sell, and set prices. 2002改错 There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt‘naturally’ and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 1.___deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our 2.___ speech sounds like when we speak out, and it often comes as a 3.___shock when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a 4.___voice we recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We begin the 5.___‘natural’ learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously 6.___ imitating and practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend 7.___ learning even our difficult English spelling. This is ‘natural’, 8.___therefore, that our speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle; after all, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding a community and giving a sense of 9.___'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a ‘stranger’,someone who speaks with an accent of a different community-perhaps only a few miles far. 10.___ 2003改错 Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar    period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly    brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought    the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred     (1)__   years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young      (2)__   adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large    families that Went for more than two decades and caused a major      (3)__   but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From    the 1940S through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate    (4)__   and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.               (5)__   Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who    (6)__   formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the      (7)__   divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to    a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well    (8)__   as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious      (9)__   distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the    temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in      (10)__    Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and    homemaker was not abandoned. 2004改错 One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S Congress is the power to investigate. This power is usually delegated to committees - either standing committees, special committees set for a specific (1)____ purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of both houses. (2)____ Investigations are held to gather information on the need for future legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed, to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members and officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)____ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, committees rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings (4)____ and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)____ There are important corollaries to the investigative power. One is the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most (6)____ committee hearings are open to public and are reported (7)____ widely in the mass media. Congressional investigations nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers (8)____ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues. (9)____ Congressional committees also have the power to compel testimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contempt of Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury these who give false testimony. (10)____ 2005年 A number of colleges and universities have announced steep tuition increases for next year much steeper than the current, very low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because of a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common    1      stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizes its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and increasingly the    2      outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of  3        business firms. The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty  4        increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of being in the school is foregoing income from a job (this is primarily a factor in      5        graduate and professional-school tuition); the poor one's job prospects,      6        the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education, in order to make oneself more marketable.   The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students      7        include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving students a governance role, and eliminate required courses.                      8        Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the          9      rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And until they were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit competition for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purely of need-just like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best    10    customer. 2006年 We use language primarily as a means of communication with other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which we live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as   1            to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular    2           message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a    3        set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his      4        thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English      5        speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses actively and that which he recognizes, increases in size as he grows old as a result of education and experience.                                6          But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the system remains no more, than a psychological reality for tike inpidual, unless he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another    7          member of his linguistic community; he bas to give tile system a concrete transmission form. We take it for granted rice’ two most    8          common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by our vocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are    9          among most striking of human achievements.                           10          2007年 From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can make very positive statements about how language originated. There is no material in any language today and in the earliest        1 __  _ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and        2      _  emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language          3 _ ______ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the          4        _ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote  tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of such cries              5        _ than we find in English. It is true that the absence    of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in            6_        other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.   People of all races and languages make rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that                7          such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different, serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference          8          between these noises and language proper. We may say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent,            9          whereas language proper does not consist of signs but of these that have to be learnt and that are            10          wholly conventional. 2008年 The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent         ____1____ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate         ____2____ a given language to show that they are distinctive from another          ____3____ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States        ____4____ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a           ____5____ different language from those of Britain. There was even one           ____6____ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English         ____7____ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone             ____8____ knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solution of carrying with the same language as before.                   ____9____ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world     ____10____ that political independence and national identity can be complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language. 2009专八改错原 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 Proofreading & Error Correction: The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference           (1)___________ between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt             in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener       (2)___________ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren.             (3)____________ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting                It may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground        (4)_____________ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour      (5)___________ it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the                    (6)________________ same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or             (7)__________ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting over and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three               (8)___________ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live      (9)_______________ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the              (10)____________ 2010年专八真题改错原文 So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say 1________________ the things their speakers want to say. 2________________ There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive 3________________ peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice . Whereas this is not the 4_____________ fault of their language. The Eskimos , it is said, can speak about snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in 5______________ English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect 6______________ in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar 7____________ environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms 8____________ for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments in which Englishwas habitually used made such distinction as important. 9_____________ Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. 10____________ 2011年专八真题改错部分 From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about 1__________ seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience that I was outraging my true nature and that 2___________ soon or later I should have to settle down and write books. 3___________ I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years 4__________ on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my 5_____________ schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from 6_________ the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of 7________ being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created 8________ a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure 9________ in everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously 10________ intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. 2012年专八真题改错部分 The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. Theargument has been going since at least the first (1) ______ century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers favoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______ the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______ wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______ was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______ gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______ literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______ extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov. The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Too often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____ 2013年 Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding, production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) _____ listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language. One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually (2) ______ happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. (3) ______ Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page, (4) ______ you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptional circumstances we might become aware of the complexity (5) ______ involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it; if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced (6) ______ their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if (7) ______ we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet anyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples (8) ______ of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstances” reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, (9) ______ listening, writing and reading. But given that language processes were normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful (10) ______ experiments to get at what is happening. 2005 答案解析： 1. investing应改为invested。这里说“投资于”普通股中的捐赠金价值损失惨重，既然是投资，就是指人去投资，即endowments (that were)heavily invested in．括号内的部分是被省略的部分，本句形式上是主动，实际意义上为被动，因此应该把investing改为invested，否则逻辑上和语法上都是说不通的。 2. 在irrespective和fluctuations之间加上介词of。irrespectiveOf是一固定用法，意指“不论，不管，不顾，”等，如：irrespective Of the cost不惜工本，irrespective of the consequences不顾后果，irrespective of duty status不论职位高低。此处指公司不顾收入的波动变化。 3. 把those改为that。本句的后半部分主要强调的是大学里的“看法或观点”(outlook)与企业公司的看法或观点不一样，即着眼点在于对两种不同团体看法的对比。既然前面用的是单数形式，后面也应用单数形式，基本语法规则是前后应一致，本句为代词those的误用，所以应把those改为that。 4．在fact和economic之间力口上关系代词that。这是一个同位语从语，that在同位语从句中是不能省略的，否则就很可能出现意思所指不清的麻烦，所以此处必须加上关系代词that。 5．把定冠词the去掉。定冠词与一名词连用，表示某个或某些特定的人或物或机构等，而此处的in the school，一则意思不清，二则可能指在某人正在某个具体学校做某事。这一层意思与本文上下文不相吻合。比较之下，in school是一固定说法，表示“在上学或求学”、“在校读 书 关于书的成语关于读书的排比句社区图书漂流公约怎么写关于读书的小报汉书pdf ”正符合本文上下文的意思。因此应把定冠词去掉。 6．把形容词poor改为其比较级poorer。这句中的poor与后面的more形成一对比较关系，表示“越……越……”，根据这一思路，我们应把形容词poor改为其比较级poorer，以表达一种对称关系。 7．在ways和which之间加上一个介词in。在ways和which之间加上一个介词in，表示in these ways，即指通过前面提到的这些 方法 快递客服问题件处理详细方法山木方法pdf计算方法pdf华与华方法下载八字理论方法下载 。相似的 句子 关于阅读的唯美句子关于古风的唯美句子执行力的经典句子鼓励人努力奋斗的句子用沉默代替一切的句子 较多，如：Not all sounds made by animals serve as language，and we have only to turn to that extra ordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role．(动物发出的声音并不是都能当作语言，因此我们只好求助于蝙蝠回声定位的这种非凡的发展，探究一下语音在何种情况下起着绝对有用的作用。) 8．这里应该用动词的—lng形式，即eliminating，以便使句型结构与前面的giving(students a governance role)保持一致，否则句子结构和意思都显得不正确。 9．将shorten(缩短；使变短)改为reduce或weaken。此处属于用词不当。应将shorten(缩短；使变短)改为reduce(使精神垮下来；使身体瘦弱)或weaken(使削弱；使衰减)，可表示文中所表示的“减弱竞争的残酷性”。 10．将to give discounts on改为to give discounts to their best customer。意为实业公司给最好的客户提供优惠。而give discount on something则指就某一商品打折扣，显然与本文的上下文是相悖的。因为本文一直在讨论就如何避免为抢最好的生源而展开恶性竞争，为抢好学生捉供优厚奖学金，与公司为抢客源，给最好的客户提供优惠道理是一样的。所以应做上述改动。 2006  1. agreeing-agreed 2. 加these/ those 在words前 3. in his disposal- at his disposal 4.enables-enable 5.the other English speakers-other English speakers 6.old-older 7.seen-understood/ perceived/ comprehended 8.take it for granted- take for granted 9.or----and  10. 加the 在most 前 2007 (1)and →or (2) show →showing (3)去掉 the (4)and →but_ (5) large →lager_ (6) in →on_____ (7) return →response_ (8) 去掉on (9) __∧a____ (10) these →those_ 2008 1. in result 改成in fact，2 moves改成movements. 3 distinctive改成distinct或different 4 At改成When 5 by 改成with 6 those改成that 7 删除on, 8 At 改成In 9 carrying with 改成 carrying on with 10 Since 改成 For 2009 (1)illustrate改为illustrated（与前文的shown保持一致） (2) the 改为a （此次应该用不定冠词表示泛指） (3)their改为his（代词与前文a little listener在单复数上保持一致） (4)something 改为anything（这里anything from...to...表示大约在...之间） (5)therefore改为however （根据上下文逻辑关系） (6) in the general去掉the （习惯用法in general 表示总的来说，一般不用冠词） (7) currently 改为current （这里起的是表语的作用，需要形容词而不是副词） (8) it has passed改为 it has been passed （主动改为被动，与前文保持一致） (9) live 改为 alive （live作形容词讲为“现场直播的”意思，这样显示需要用alive) (10) to let alone改为 let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是“更不 2010年专八真题改错参考答案 1 .be后插入 as; as…as引导的比较级 2 .their改为its; its代替every language 3 .There改为It; It此处作为形式主语，真正的主语是后面的不定式 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 light bring to light the defect of English =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different 8. will改为would; 虚拟语气 9 .as important去掉as; 10 t.he part去掉the或者改the为a be/become/form (a) part of 是固定短语 2004年答案 1.答案：^ special committees → or special committees   【详细解答】多项并列用句型either...or...or。   2.答案：consisted → consisting   【详细解答】consist of 意思是“由...构成”，故该处应用现在分词短语。   3.答案：in → on   【详细解答】固定搭配on ...occasions   4.答案：rely ^ → rely on   【详细解答】固定搭配rely on sb. to do something   5.答案：make out → make   【详细解答】make out 意思是“辨认出”，而此处意思是“对...做详细的研究”，故用“make detailed studies of...” 即可。   6.答案：its → their   【详细解答】此处指代的是“investigations”, 故用复数。   7.答案：^ public → the public   【详细解答】the +adj. 可表示某一类人，此处意思是“面向公众”，故应用“the public”。   8.答案：nevertheless → therefore (thus)   【详细解答】此处不是表示意思的转折，而是与前文构成因果关系，故可改为therefore 或thus。   9.答案：citizenry → citizens   【详细解答】citizenry 为集体名词，意为“全体公民”，且为旧用法；citizens指公民，强调具体的群体。   10.答案：these → those   【详细解答】those 指代witnesses , 即指代名词复数做定语从句的先行词，而these不行 2003年答案 1. 答案： height→high   【详细解答】 height为不可数名词，意为“高度，身高，海拔，顶点”等，故此处应改为可数名词high。   2． 答案：a   【详细解答】 此处steady decline指稳定下降的行为、过程而不是其结果，为不可数名词，故应去掉定冠词a。   3． 答案：went∧→on   【详细解答】 go on为固定搭配，意为“持续”。   4． 答案：high→higher   【详细解答】 根据上下文，此处应为比较级。   5． 答案：Europe→European   【详细解答】 根据上下文，此处应用形容词作定语修饰名词counterparts。   6． 答案： more   【详细解答】 由上下文可知，more与equally矛盾，故应去掉。   7． 答案：nevertheless→also   【详细解答】 由上下文可知，此处讲的 内容 财务内部控制制度的内容财务内部控制制度的内容人员招聘与配置的内容项目成本控制的内容消防安全演练内容 与前部分内容之间为递进关系，而非转折关系。   8． 答案： that→those   【详细解答】 由上下文可知，此处所指代的应为前面复数形式的marriages，故指示代词也应该用复数形式。   9． 答案： Since→Although（或While）   【详细解答】 从逻辑上讲，此处应表达让步关系，而非因果关系。   10． 答案：in→to   【详细解答】 to．．．extent为固定搭配，意为“到……程度” 2002年答案 1.答案：and→while 【详细解答】前半句意为“发音是在无意识之中学成的”，后半句意为“拼写是有意识地学成的”，它们之间是转折而不是并列关系，故应该用连词while来连接。 2.答案：with→of 【详细解答】be unconscious of是固定搭配，意为“无意识地，未意识到”。即“我们之中很多人一辈子都不知道自己的话听起来是什么样的”。 3.答案：speak∧→out 【详细解答】speak out意为“大胆地说出”，在这里句意不通。在speak out中加上it，指代前面的speech，意为“当我们说出话后，自己听起来像什么”。 4.答案：firstly→first 【详细解答】firstly表示顺序中的“第一”，first则表示时间上的“第一次，首次”。这里是说“当我们第一次听到自己的录音时，通常会震惊”。故应将firstly改为first才合乎句意。 5.答案：which→that 【详细解答】在定语从句中，如果先行词是代词something，everything，nothing，little，few等时，关系词应用that而不是which，故此处应将which改为that。6.答案：went→go 【详细解答】本文通篇用的都是一般现在时，所以此处也应用一般现在时，使上下文保持时态一致。 7.答案：per或every 【详细解答】per和every都是“每”的意思，在此属重复错误，故将两者去掉一个即可。 8.答案：This→It 【详细解答】根据句子结构，句中缺少一形式主语，而作形式主语的只能是代词it，this是“这”的意思，不能用做形式主语，所以应将this改为it。 9.答案：community∧→together 【详细解答】hold意为“抓住，占据，包含”。此处想表达的意思是“语言用作使社区具有凝聚力、给人归属感的一种方式”，用hold a community不能表达此意；hold sth．together表示“使结合在一起不破，使团结一致”的意思，符合句意。 10.答案：far→away 【详细解答】 要表达距离上的远近，在英语中通常用副词away。far表示“远，从（到）很远距离”，不合句意。 2001年答案 1.答案： as→so   【详细解答】由于本句中的 much修饰的是名词 feeling，应改用so来修饰。   2.答案：increasing→increasingly   【详细解答】 increasing可用来修饰名词，表示“正在增加”，修饰名词topic不合题意。本 句中应该用副词作状语修饰形容词favorite，所以应该改用副词increasingly。   3.答案：so→but   【详细解答】根据上下文判断，小麦价格在秋天不断下降，但是农民不能等着市场提升价格。 这里应该是转折关系，而不是因果关系。   4.答案：soon或shortly   【详细解答】要表达“不久以后”，要么用soon after，要么用shortly after，就是没有soo n shortly after这种搭配。   5.答案：rich→richer   【详细解答】根据上下文，这里是说由于价格上涨，投机商们变得更加富有，故应该改用形容 词的比较级形式。   6.答案：asked∧→for   【详细解答】ask for为固定搭配，意为“要求，请求”。   7.答案：involving→involved   【详细解答】be involved in为一固定搭配，意为“被卷入…”，这里的be为连系动词，可用 become替换。   8.答案：1ife→living   【详细解答】根据上下文，这里要表达的意思是“生活费用”，应为living costs。life则意 为“生命”，不能修饰costs。   9.答案：handle→deal或with   【详细解答】handle为及物动词，应直接带宾语。而固定搭配deal with与handle同义，都 表示 “处理(某事)”。   10.答案：total→full   【详细解答】total意为“总体的，全体的”，指一种整体的概念。而这里要表达的是“全部 的权威”，英语中常用full authority。 2000年答案 1.答案： the   【详细解答】本句中的most为副词，修饰形容词obvious，意为“十分，非常”，由于obvious 不是最高级形式，故不用定冠词the。   2.答案：but→and   【详细解答】根据文章内容判断，but后面的陈述与前文并不是相反之意，而是并列关系。   3.答案：in→to   【详细解答】as opposed to为固定搭配，意为“与……对照，与……相比”。   4.答案：misled→misleading   【详细解答】根据句意，这里的方式（way）是对他人有误导，不是被他人误导。所以应该用m islead的现在分词表示主动的含义。   5.答案：away   【详细解答】far away from意为“距离某处很远”，而far from being则意为“远不是，远 够不上”。根据上下文，这里是说“远非毫无意义”，故应该用短语far from being。   6.答案：single→only   【详细解答】此处用only修饰vehicle比用single更符合习惯用法。   7.答案：as→in   【详细解答】本句中的介词in表示“在……方面”，as则无此意。   8.答案：mean→means   【详细解答】by no means为固定搭配，意为“丝毫不，绝不”。   9.答案：have∧→such   【详细解答】such as是常见表达方式，用来举例说明。   10.答案：obscurity→obscurities   【详细解答】a number of 意为“大量的”，应修饰可数名词复数形式。来源 2013年 1. production改成producing 2. 去掉the 3. 去掉accurately前面的so 4. looking改为look 5. we前面加that 6. 去掉colleague后面的has 7. their改成his 8. anyone改成 pure老师someone 9. evolved改成involved 10. were改成are 2012年 参考答案： 1. going后加on 2. certain改为a certain 3. rather改为not 4. is 改为was 5. in 改为 at 6. 去掉第二个the 7. view后面加that 8. 去掉 was 9. culminated后面加in 10. and 改为but 2011年 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. 在child前加middle, 考上下文理解。 作者是三个孩子句中的那位 5 。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。 感悟：11专八改错相对前几年专八改错要简单一点。本人认为词义区别考得过多了。