专八改错题及答案

2012年3月专八真题：改错部分

　　The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or

freely．The argument 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 the 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) _____

　　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3月专八真题：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 seventeen and twenty-four (1)I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience (2)that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3)settle down and write books.

  I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side(4)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(5)made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and (6) I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with(7)the feeling of 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 in everyday life (9) Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended — writing which I produced (10)all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of
five, my mother taking it down to dictation.

1. grew 后加up

2. conscience 改成consciousness

3. soon 改成sooner

4. the 和child之间加middle

5. disagreeing 改成disagreeable

6. imaginative 改成imaginary

7. literal 改成literary

8. in 去掉

9. which 前加in

10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless

改错题出自：George Orwell的《Why I Write》的前两段

第1个错误出现在 grew .解析：grow 表成长，如人和动植物的成长。如果要表“长大”就要用短语：grow up。

2 .句中conscience 有如下的释义：1.良心，良知 2.良知 1.良心 2.第三类法庭 而consciousness表示1.意识到,知道. 2.意识，觉悟 3.意识状态 4.清醒 句子的意思是：我意识到这是在违背我的本性。

3. 第三句考固定搭配：sooner or later 迟早。难点：outrage 违背 做动词。

4. 按句子意思 作者排行老二 家里上面和下面都有个小孩 因此加上 middle

5. disagreeing为disagree的ing,意思是“不同意不认同”。 改为：disagreeable表 1. 不合意的;不愉快的;讨厌的 2. 难相处的,脾气坏的

6. imaginative 改成 imaginary，解析：imaginative 表示人富有想像力的;富于想像的;有创造力的。
而imaginary表示想像中的;虚构的;幻想的 如： an imaginary friend 想像中的朋友

7 .literal表“文字的” 改成 literary 指文学作者的文学的志向与野心

8.  face sth. 直面某个事实 .不用接介词 in

9. 定语从句 ，修饰world， 有介词要用在which前，不能省略

10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless句子有转折的意思，作者说他一直沉溺在自己的内心世界，然而童年时代所写的东西数目不多。而非因此，童年所写的东西不多。

2010年3月专八真题：改错部分

So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, (1) every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say (2) the things their speakers want to say. (3) There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive 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 or the engraving of Benares brass. (4) Whereas this is not the fault of their language.

The Eskimos can (5) speak about snow with a great deal further precision and subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and subtle than English. (6) This example does not come to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviously that (7) the Eskimos and the English live in similar environments. The English language (8) will be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments (9) in which English was habitually used made such distinction as important.

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 (10) if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the 19th century could not talk about motorcars with the minute discrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture. But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicles which send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we are reading Scott or Dickens. How many of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham, a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence?

1 be后插入 as; 2 their改为its;

3 There改为It; 4 Whereas改为But

5 further 改为more 6 come改为bring;

7 similar改为different; 8 will改为would;

9 as important去掉as 10 the part去掉the

2009年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference (1) between school 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 20 to 70 years. (4) With the playground 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 (6) of the 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 retransmitted 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) original wording.

参考答案:

(1)illustrate改为illustrated (与前文的shown保持一致)

(2) the 改为a (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 (in general是习惯用法)

(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 （活跃的，仍然存在的） (live作形容词讲为“现场直播的”意思)

(10) to let alone 改为 let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是“更不用说”)

2008年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

The desire to use language

as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, (1) ___
and in result language has played a prominent part in national moves. (2) ____
Men have often felt the need to cultivate a given language to show

that they are distinctive from another race whose　 (3) ____
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 favored
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.

参考答案:
1. one改为thing
2. result改为fact
3. distinctive改为distinct

4. at the time后加when
5. by改为with
6. those改为that
7. on去掉
8. At改为In
9. carrying 后加on
10. now改为ago

2007年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

　　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) and→or
records of ancient languages show us language in a new and  (2) show→showing
emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language   (3) the  
originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the  (4) and→but 
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) large→lager
than we find in English. It is true that the absence
of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in　  　 (6) in→on 
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) return→response 
such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen
and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,
serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference　　  （8）on 
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) ∧a 
whereas language proper does not consist of signs
but of these that have to be learnt and that are　　　　 (10) these→those  

2006年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

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 iii his disposal at vocabulary and a (3)

set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his (4)

thoughts and feelings, ill a variety of styles, to the other English (5)

speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses active-

[y and that which he recognises, increases ill 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)

1.　　agreeing --------agreed

　　2.　　∧words----------these/those words

　　3.　　in the disposal --------at the disposal

　　4.　　enables--------enable

　　5.　　delete “the” before “other English speakers”

　　6.　　old------ older

　　7.　　seen ------ perceived, understood, comprehended

　　8.　　delete “it” before “for granted”

　　9.　　And ----- Yet; However

　　10.　　∧most ------ the most striking

2005年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

The University as Business
A number of colleges and universities 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 S1___________

in common stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price

that maximizes its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income: S2____________

and increasingly tile outlook of universities in the United

States is indistinguishable from those of business firms. The rise in S3____________

tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty increases the S4____________

demand for education. The biggest cost of being in the school is foregoing S5____________

income from a job (this is primarily a factor in graduate—and

professional—school tuition): the poor one’s job prospects, the more S6____________

sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,

in order to make oneself more remarkable.

The way which universities make themselves attractive to S7____________

students include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving

students a governance role, and eliminate required courses. Sky-high S8____________

tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as

customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the S9____________

rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost to

them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni

denotations, 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 collude 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 customers. S10____________

invested / irrespective of / those—that / fact that / in the school / poor—poorer / in which / eliminating / shorten---lessen / on---to

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 of
these who give false testimony.                                       (10)____

1.,在set 后加up,    set up“建立、成立”是固定短语

　　2.答案：consisted → consisting/composed
　　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：interests → interest
　　【详细解答】 此处看成不可数名词为佳
　　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3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

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 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.

1. 答案： height→high， high 作为名词翻译为“最高水平”，又如reach an all-time high
2． 答案：删除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】  后面有than，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 speech sounds             2______

like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock when                    3______

we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we recognize at once,     4_______

whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know.        5_____

We begin the ‘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            9.___

and giving a sense of “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.___

答案与详解

1.答案：and→while/whereas

【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”，它们之间是对比关系，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：删除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3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

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.
 

2000年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

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.  

专八改错模拟题1

In the United States there are, strict speaking, __1__
　　no national holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactment or executive proclamation, __2__
　　appoint the day which each holiday is celebrated. Congress and the president may establish legal holidays__3__
　　for the District of Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and territories;
　　and by long custom, days that receive nationwide observation, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, __4__
　　Labor Day, Independent Day, and New Year’s Day, are uniformly set __5__
　　apart by all states as legal, or public holidays. In 1968, federal legislation established Columbia Day __6__
　　as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at 1971. __7__
　　The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees would be granted__8__
　　three-days weekends by observing Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday in February, __9__
　　Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus Day on the second Monday in October,
　　and Veteran Day on the forth Monday on October. By 1971, most of the states also adopted the new dates. __10__
　　答案：
　　1.strict改为strictly
　　2.holiday改为holidays。因为原句的谓语动词为复数are，所以holiday必须使用复数。另外no后面可以用复数也可以用单数。
　　3.which前面加上on。因为先行词the day在关系从句钟做状语，还原回去应为：each holiday is celebrated on the day，所以必须加on。
　　4.obsevation改为observance。observation意思为“观察，观测”，observance则表示“遵守，庆祝”。
　　5.Independent改为Independence。独立日的说法是“Independence Day”。
　　6.apart改为aside。set apart 指“使分离，使分开”，语义不同，set aside表示“留出，保留”的意思。
　　7.at改为in
　　8.begun改为beginning。动词begin和分句的主语federal employees的关系是主动的，应此要用beginning。
　　9.three-days 改为three-day。用连字符连接起来的表示数量的名词的前置修饰语的复数概念仍然是单数，如：a million-pound banknote。
　　10.also前面加had。如果一个句子里面有by引导的时间状语从句则动词一般用完成体。

专八改错模拟题2

Now you've seen the ads for computers for “free” or almost _1_
　next to nothing in the Sunday papers. The offers look mightly _2_
　tempting. But how do you know the deal is a good one? The Federal _3_
　Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection championer, _4_

says there are some important facts to keep it in mind. First, find _5_
out the total，up-front cost of the computer. Then determine the

rebate situation. If rebates are involved, find out how can you get _6_
them. In most cases, you are required to sign a contract for three years

of Internet service. Before you do the rebate deal, do the math: three years

of Internet service can cost you lot more than you will get back in rebates. _7_
Second, you have to apply for the rebates can be redeemed immediately _8_
at the checkout counter. But most is the mail-in variety. You pay half the _9_
full cost of the computer at the time of purchase, then send documentation to

the manufacturer or retailer to receive your rebate in mail. In most cases, _10_

you must send the paperwork to the manufacturer or retailer within 30 days

of the purchase. You generally will receive the rebates up to 12 weeks later.

答案：
　　1. 去掉almost 　　2. mightly-mighty　　3. know + if or whether
　　4. championer-champion　　5 去掉it　　 6. 去掉can
　　7. 去掉lot或lot前加a　　8. that can be 　　9. is---are　 10. in mail-by mail

专八改错模拟题3

The first real organized effort to uniting Europe came _1_
with the creation of the Council of Europe, was established _2_
in 1949. While not as influential as the European Community

in term of public awareness and promotion of European _3_
political unity, the Council produced, in November 1950, one of

the most politically and social important documents _4_
seen this millennium—the European Convention for the Protection of

Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. On conjunction with _5_
the Statute of the Council of Europe, Convention provides a common _6_
set of guaranteed freedoms and rights for every citizen whose government

enters into an agreement to rectify and enforce the specifics articulated _7_
in the Convention. However, merely putting pen to paper and producing

an official document is far enough to actually guarantee these _8_
freedoms. By outlining the rights and freedoms of citizens, Europe

vocalizes its concerns to its people, but to physically pledge protection

of these ideals requires a strict and specific system of

enforcement. Only by enabling the physical the citizens _9_
of Europe be assured about their liberty. _10_
答案：
1. uniting-unite
2. established---made
3. term-terms
4. social-socially
5. On-In
6. Convention前加the
7. rectify-ratify
8. far + from 或far-not
9. physical + can
10. about-of

专八改错模拟题4

At the International World Summit for Social Development _1_

in Copenhagen in 1995, the Governments of 186 countries

commit themselves to the goals of eradicating poverty and _2_

achieving full employment and social integration. With

unprecedenting momentum, they adopted a Programme _3_

of Action that underscored on the importance of social _4_

development for ensuring the well-being of all. To fulfill their

commitments, some governments have formulated policies

and strategies in accordance with this Programme of Action.

Now, five years later, the Governments have agreed to review

the achievements they have made and the obstacles they

encountered in implementing the three cored issues agreed _5_

upon at Copenhagen. They intend to propose further initiatives

in order to pursue, with renewed political ends and mean, the _6_

commitments they made. The current world situation presents

a paradox. Therefore high-speed globalization is broadening __7_

opportunities for a better life for many, it has also endangered

the livelihoods of the poor, this increasing poverty and social _8_

exclusion and worsening the health of many people around the world.

Progress in communication and information technologies hold out the _9_

promise of universal access to knowledge, while half of the inhabitants

of the planet have made a telephone call. _10_

答案：

1. 去掉International

2. commit-committed

3. unprecedenting-unprecedented

4. 去掉on

5 cored-core

6. mean-means

7. Therefore-While

8. this-thus

9. hold-holds

10. made-never

专八改错模拟题5

Now set out to become European Capital of Culture in _1_
2008, Liverpool is a city bursting out energy and confidence. _2_
The Pan-American Club in Albert Dock is a stylish bar and a _3_
Restaurant, which features a breakfast martini — Cointreau, gin and

marmalade. Albert Dock is also the home to the Merseyside Maritime _4_
Museum. This gives the background to the city's extraordinary

wealth in the 18th and 19th centuries. In “Transatlantic Slavery” the

museum comes cleanly over Liverpool's role in the slave trade, _5_
with a reconstruction of a slave ship, which echoes to the

voices of actors reading from the diaries of slaves and

slave traders. This inhumane trade fuelled Liverpool's reputation as

a port. Later, over 9 million people passed through the city, on route to _6_
new lives in America and Australia. This wealth can be seen in the

grandeur of the buildings, including St George's Hall, and its priceless _7_
Minton tiles, the Royal Liver Building (which is topped by statues of the mythical Liver birds) and the Walker Art Gallery, which opened in 1877. Art has always been strong in Liverpool. Next year, the Liverpool Biennial will be held again. It's a three-months showcase for some of the world's best _8_
conceptual artists, with hundreds of sites around the city.

John Lennon and — more recently — David Gray went to Liverpool School of Art — and plenty of its graduates stay with design. The Bluecoat Centre, _9_
is housed in a 17th century former school — Liverpool's oldest _10_
building, has studios, a tranquil garden, and, at the back a shop that sells one-off jewellery and ceramics. It shouldn't be missed.

答案：

1. 去掉out
2. out-with
3.and a 去掉a
4.the home 去掉the
5. cleanly-clean
6. on-en
7. and-with
8.three-months变成three-month
9. and-but
10. 去掉is

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