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2020专八英语改错练习题（1）：

　　One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising (26) is the possibility of unraveling the complicated writing (27) of the brain. A mechanic gets valuable insight how an (28) automobile works by rebuilding car engines; similarly, neuroscientists can learn how the brain functions from (29) the way it is put together. The next step pursuing the (30) goal is to find out how the blueprint genes, the home box genes, control the expression of other genes that create the valves and piston of the working cerebral engine.

　　The protein encoded by the latter genes could change the (31) stickiness of the cell surface, the shape of the cell or its metabolism to create the characteristic peculiar to, say, neurons or neural-crest cell. Surface proteins may be the (32) mechanism, whereby similar programmed cells stick together to form specific structures; they might also sense (33)the local environment to help the cell decide what is to do.

　　Clarifying those mechanisms will engage the best talents in (34) embryology and molecular biology for some times to come. (35) What is perhaps the most intriguing question of all is if the brain is powerful enough to solve the puzzle of its own creation.

　　参考答案：

　　26.preventing改为prevent

　　27.complicated改为complexion

　　28.sight后加into

　　29.neuroscientist改为a neuroscientist

　　30.pursuing后加in

　　31.later改为latter

　　32.similar改为similarly

　　33.去掉is

　　34.times改为time

35.if改为whether

2020专八英语改错练习题（2）：

　　Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. __1__

　　The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. __2__

　　Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, __3__

　　nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. __4__

　　Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. __5__

　　People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help.

　　So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and __6__for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. __7__

　　The country has the　advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the is advantages of being cut off. __8__

　　The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of　their main advantages is that __9__ you are at the centre of things and that life doesn’t come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two: they expressed their preference for the　quiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the __10__country within commuting distance of the large city.

　　参考答案：

　　1.把frightened改为frightening。frightened是“受到惊吓的”，表明心理状态，而frightening表示“令人害怕的”，表示事物性质。

　　2.把appear改为disappear。“当你住在摩天大厦的三十层里”，可以推测这里要表达的是归属感的消失，而不是产生归属感。

　　3.把Strange改为Strangely。Strangely enough，是固定短语，经常用作插入语，意思是“说也奇怪，最奇怪的是”。

　　4.在say前面加上don’t。此处说的是，现在住在同一层楼的人甚至见面都不打招呼。

　　5.把keep改为keeps。in that 引导的句子主语应该是 a sense，故谓语应为单数。本句的意思是，农村生活与这种隔绝孤立的生活不同，因为一种归属感把小村里的居民联系在一起。

　　6.把so 改为but/yet。上文提到了乡村生活的好处，下文是转折，要用but或者yet。

　　7.把for改为on。“去远征”应该用go on a expedition，而go for 的意思是“去找，努力获取，拥护”。

　　8.把peaceful改为peace。of 后面不应该用形容词，所以应该改为peace。这里需要注意的是quiet既是名词又是形容词，不要被迷惑。

　　9.把their改为its。此处的代词应该指代上文的 the city。

　　10.删除leaving后面的for，或者把for改为from。leave表示“离开某地”，而leave for表示“离开某地去另外一个地方”，for后面接的是目的地。本句说的是离开城市，搬到乡村，所以for是多余的。

2020专八英语改错练习题（3）：

　　Successful aging is a psychological feat. Fear for death, for example, may sometimes oppress you.__1__

　　even when this is successfully overcome, there is still something for you to deal with-loneliness.

　　Loneliness can speed your demise no matter conscientiously you care for your body. __2__

　　“We go through life surrounded by protective convoys of others,” says Robert Kahn,

　　a psychologist of the University of Michigan who studied the health effects of companionship. __3__

　　“People who manage to maintain a network of social support do best.” One study of elderly

　　heart-attack patients found that those with two or more close associations enjoyed twice __4__

　　the one-year survival rate of those who were completely alone.Companionship aside,

　　healthy oldsters seem to share a knack for managing stress, poison that contributesmeasurably to heart disease, __5__

　　cancer and accidents. Researchers have also been kinked successful aging to mental stimulation.__6__

　　An idle brain will deteriorate just as sure as an unused leg, __7__

　　notes Dr. Gene Cohen, Head of the gerontology center at George ashington University.

　　But just as exercise can prevent muscle atrophy, mental challenges seem to preserve __8__

　　both the mind and the immune system. But what most impresses researchers

　　who study the oldest old is his simple drive and resilience. “People who reach 100 are not quitters,”__9__

　　says Adler of the National Centenarian Awareness Project. “They share a remarkable

　　ability to renegotiate life in every turn, to accept the inevitable losses And move on.” __10__

　　参考答案：

　　1.把for改为of。与fear搭配的介词通常是of，表示对…的恐惧。

　　2.在no matter后面加上how

　　3.在studied前面加上has。本文的基调是一般现在时，此句的主语也是现在时，定语从句介绍Roberts做过的研究项目，所以用现在完成时比较合适。

　　4.把associations改为associates。本句的意思是：一项对高龄心脏病人的研究发现，有两个或者两个以上亲密伙伴陪同的病人在一年危险期的幸存几率是完全无人陪伴的病人的两倍。

　　5.在poison前面加上a。不定冠词修饰不可数名词，该名词后面再加上定语成分对该词进一步说明。

　　6.删除been

　　7.把sure改为surely

　　8.把but改为and。本句与上一段最后一句在结构(just as)上相似，在意义上是递进关系，不应该用转折连词衔接，用and合适。

　　9.把his改为their。此处的代词应该代替the oldest old， the oldest old 表示一类人可以用单数也可以用复数，但是下文提到这些年事极高的老人都用了复数，所以此处也要改为复数，使上下文一致。

　　10.把in改为at。词组at every turn意思为“ 时时，经常”。

2020专八英语改错练习题（4）：

　　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__

　　参考答案：

　　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。

2020专八英语改错练习题（5）：

　　One of our main arguments is that we in Western countries actually have part to play in causing the __1__

　　problems of the Third World. Many Third World　countries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for __2__

　　example. They were lent money with low interest rates in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banks__3__

　　from the oil-producing countries and was lent out to the Third World. The interest rates have then been risen __4__

　　dramatically. So you have a situation where a country in many cases can’t even repay the interest, letting alone__5__

　　the capital, on the debt. And I suppose the best example from what I have come across is a country in

　　West Africa where the consumption, the local consumption of peanuts was banned, because peanuts,

　　if they are imported can bring in a great deal of foreign income. The peanut is a major source of __6__

　　protein in this country.So you have people go hungry as a result of that. __7__

　　The peanuts were exported to Great Britain and the United States to feed our cattle.Those cattle then produced

　　a surplus of milk which we do not know what to do with.We have enough milk, more milk than we can cope

　　with in the Western World.And also that milk was transformed into dried milk powder and then taken back to this country __8__

　　to help feed children who were suffering from malnutrition. So that’s the kind of insanely economic relationship__9__

　　that we have got ourselves in the Third World. __10__

　　参考答案：

　　1.在part前加上a。词组have a part to play in…的意思是“有份儿”

　　2.saddle改为saddled。此处为被动语态，应该把动词变为过去分词形式。

　　3.把with改为at。此处介词与interest rates搭配。

　　4.删除been(这里应该是把risen改为rising，答案应该错了)。rise是不及物动词，不用于被动语态。

　　5.把letting改为let。let alone 意思为“更不用提”。

　　6.把imported改为exported。下文说花生可以带来外汇收益，出口才会带来外汇，所以此处应用exported。

　　7.把have改为had。上文提到该国禁止本国消费花生这件事用的是过去时。

　　8.把also改为so。必须把与此相关的几个句子联系在一起理解，上文说：花生出口到英国和美国去喂了牛，而牛又产出了过剩的牛奶，我们不知道怎么处理这些牛奶。在西方世界，我们的牛奶够多了，多得无法处理。本句说：这些牛奶就被制成奶粉拿到该国去喂养那些营养不良的儿童。由此可见本句与上文是因果关系，不能用also来连接。

　　9.insanely改为insane。此处表达“荒唐的经济关系”insane修饰的是relationship，而非economic，因此要用形容词代替。

　　10.把in改为into。词组get in 虽然也可以表达“ 进入，陷入”，但是in为副词，后面不能跟地点，所以应该改为into。

2020专八英语改错练习题（6）：

　　One of America’s most important export is hermodern music. __1__

　　American popular music is playing all over the world.It is enjoyed __2__

　　by people of all ages in all countries. Because the lyricsare English, __3__

　　nevertheless people not speaking English enjoy it. Thereasons for

　　its popularity are its fast pace and rhythmic beat.

　　The music has many origins in the United States. Country music,

　　coming from the suburban areas in the southern United States, is one __4__

　　source. Country music features simple themes and melodies describing

　　day-to-day situations and the feelings of country people. Many people

　　appreciate this music because the emotions expressed by country __5__

　　music songs.

　　A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It depicted __6__

　　mostly sad feelings reflecting the difficult lives of American blacks. It is usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is not popular with __7__ all Americans.

　　Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style, featuring fast and repetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and country

　　music. It is first known as rock-and- roll in the 1950’s. Since then there __8__ have been many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock,

　　disco music and others. Many performers of popular rock music are young musicians.

　　American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.

　　Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. Some songs become popular all over the world. People hear these songs sing __9__ in their original English or sometimes translated into other languages.

　　The words may coincide but the enjoyment of the music is universal. __10__

　　参考答案:

　　1 改export为exports

　　export作可数名词时指出口商品,同时根据one of 结构也可以知道这里export要用复数结构。

　　2 改playing为played

　　动词play和句子主语American popular music是逻辑动宾关系,必须用被动语态。

　　3 改Because为Though或者Although，此句为让步状语从句。

　　4 改suburban为rural

　　这里属于词义用错,suburban为城市郊区,乡村音乐显然来自乡村地区。

　　5 改为because of

　　6 改depicted为depicts

　　本句错在时态.句意为 “blues大多抒发哀伤情感,反映美国黑人的艰难生活.”为与全文主导时态一致,不能用过去时.此外,blues现在的风格依旧,故用现在时。

　　7 将not去掉

　　8 改is为was

　　此句有过去时间状语 in the 1950’s, 陈述过去的一个事实,故用一般过去时态。

　　9 改sing为sung

　　sung 引导过去分词短语作宾语补足语,表被动意思。

　　10 改coincide为differ(在may后加not也可以)，此句含有连词but,整个句意含有转折语气。

2020专八英语改错练习题（7）：

　　More people die of tuberculosis than of any otherdisease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the __1__

　　early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one inevery seventh __2__

　　deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by thedisease. From __3__

　　now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble __4__

　　going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__

　　20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to __6__

　　poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.

　　They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths __7__

　　started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came__8__

　　back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World__9__

　　Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population)suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling,

　　population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 __10__

　　million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.

　　参考答案:

　　1 将in改为for; for quite a while 作 “相当长时间”讲.

　　2 将seventh改为seven

　　3 将were改为was

　　这个谓语动词的主语是单数短语 one in every seven deaths, 因此要使用单数.

　　4将now 改为then

　　5将Europe前的the 去掉

　　6 将imported改为exported

　　根据上下文,应该是向穷国出口抗生素,而不是从这些国家进口抗生素.

　　7 将are 改为were

　　8 在vanished 前加had

　　这里要表达的是 “结核病原来消失的地方,又爆发了结核病”,所以要使用过去完成时.

　　9 将better改为worse

　　在结合病没有消失的地方,这种病更加严重了,因此要用worse.

　　10 将constantly改为constant

　　在 “keep sb/ sth adj”结构中的形容词作补语.

2020专八英语改错练习题（8）：

　　You will think about what kind of saving instru- __1__ ment to use or what kind of investment to make.

　　By putting your money in some kind of savings instrument or investment, you can set aside small amount of mon- __2__ ey regularly and the money will earn interest or dividends.

　　Interest refers to the amount what your money__3__ earns when it is kept in a savings instrument.

　　Divi- dends are payments of part of a company’s earnings to people hold stock in the company. A savings instru- __4__ ment has an “interest rate ” associated with it; this refers to the rate which the money in the instrument in- __5__ creases during a certain period of time.

　　Principal refers to the facial value or the amount of money you __6__ place in the savings instrument on which the interest is earned.

　　Every type of savings or investment has some risk that the return will be less than needed or expected.

　　Federally insured savings accounts are safe and guaranteed up to $100,000 by the U.S. Government.

　　Therefore, they may have lower interest rates, making __7__ it hard to save large amounts of money for college. __8__

　　Bonds and stocks often have higher returns than savings accounts or EE saving bonds but are more riskier. __9__

　　You can reduce the risks of these kinds of investments by starting to save early. The earlier we begin the less __10__ money you will have to put aside each month and the more total savings you will accumulate.

　　参考答案及解析：

　　1.把saving改为savings

　　saving表示“节约的”，和其复数形式savings意义不同。savings的意思是“存款，储蓄”。

　　2.在small前面加上a

　　a small amount of 表示“少量的”，冠词不可缺。

　　3.把what改为which或者that

　　amount在此是先行词，后面是一个定语从句，这个从句显然应该由关系代词that或者which引导。

　　4.在hold前面加who

　　先行词people后面是一个定语从句，因此需要有引导词。

　　5.在which前面加上at

　　关系代词which在此引导的同样是一个定语从句，并且在此应该用“介词+关系代词”这个形式，因为前面的rate往往用于短语at a rate，此处的介词可以提前。

　　6.把facial改为face

　　票面价值应是：face value。

　　7.把Therefore改为However。

　　此处根据上下文来看，表达的是转折的含义，而不是因果关系。

　　8.把hard改为harder

　　这里存在一个隐含的比较，所以应该用hard的比较级形式。

　　9.删除more，或者把more改为much

　　riskier本身已经是比较形式了，再加上more是多余的。把more改为much，表示一种程度也可以。

　　10.把we改为you

　　补充：

　　第二题将amount改为amounts也是正确的

　　第四题把hold改为holding也是正确的

　　a small amount of 和small amounts of 用法的区别：

　　a large(great，good)amount of +不可数名词，谓语动词一般用单数;但(large，great，good)amounts of + 不可数名词，作主语时，谓语动词要用复数。

　　A large amount of damage done by the earth quake.

　　Large amounts of money spent on the bridge.

　　这就是为什么第二题也可以把amount改为amounts而第八题不用改amount的原因啦。

2020专八英语改错练习题（9）：

　　Eye behavior can give subtle messages which people pick up in their daily life. It tells more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another person’s eyes produce a particular effect.When two Americans __1__

　　look searchingly at each other’s eye, emotions are __2__ heightened and the relationship becomes closer.

　　However, Americans are careful about where and when to __3__ meet other’s eye. In our normal conversation, each eye-contract lasts only a few seconds before one or both individuals look away, because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and, after it happens, can generate __4__ a special kind of human-to-human awareness.

　　For instance, by simple using his eyes, a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably or uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge intimidates accused. __5__

　　In the U.S., proper street behavior requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer-by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If you look too little, __6__you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive.

　　Much eye behavior is such subtle that our reaction to it is __7__ largely instinctive.

　　Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from one culture to other. In the __8__

　　Middle East, it is impolite to look at the other person all the time during a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker with an inattentive __9__ stare and blinks eye occasionally as a sign of interest and attention.

　　In America, eye behavior functions as a kind of conversational traffic signal control the __10__ talking pace and time, and to indicate a change of topic.

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1.把produce改为produces

　　本句中两个主语meeting和failing to meet another person’s eye 用or连接，这时谓语动词应该采取就近原则，与最相邻的主语一致。

　　2.把at改为into

　　此处的动作应该是look into(注视)，而不是一般的“看”(look at)。

　　3.把where改为how

　　上下文介绍的是目光交流的方式方法。

　　4.把after改为when/if

　　5.在accused前面加上the

　　intimidate(胁迫)是一个及物动词，后面不能只接形容词，此处应该加上定冠词，与accused构成名词短语，表示一类人，即“被告”。本句的意思是：

　　例如，只要运用目光，男人就可以让女人很自在或者不舒服地感觉到他的存在;而警察或法官的长时间的注视可以威吓被告。

　　6.删除being

　　7.把such改为so

　　8.把other改为another

　　表示不定指代的“一个或者另一个”应该用one and/or another。

　　9.把inattentive改为attentive

　　10.在control前面加上to

　　control the talking pace and time 应该和to indicate a change of topic并列，作为conversational traffic signal 的定语，也要用动词不定式。

2020专八英语改错练习题（10）：

　　Eye behavior can give subtle messages which people pick up in their daily life. It tells more than words can. Meeting or failing to meet another person’s eyes produce a particular effect.When two Americans __1__

　　look searchingly at each other’s eye, emotions are __2__ heightened and the relationship becomes closer.

　　However, Americans are careful about where and when to __3__ meet other’s eye. In our normal conversation, each eye-contract lasts only a few seconds before one or both individuals look away, because the longer meeting of the eyes is rare, and, after it happens, can generate __4__ a special kind of human-to-human awareness.

　　For instance, by simple using his eyes, a man can make a woman aware of him comfortably or uncomfortably; a long and steady gaze from a policeman or judge intimidates accused. __5__

　　In the U.S., proper street behavior requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passer-by just enough to show that you are being aware of his presence. If you look too little, __6__you appear haughty; too much, inquisitive.

　　Much eye behavior is such subtle that our reaction to it is __7__ largely instinctive.

　　Besides, the codes of eye behavior vary dramatically from one culture to other. In the __8__

　　Middle East, it is impolite to look at the other person all the time during a conversation; in England, the polite listener fixes the speaker with an inattentive __9__ stare and blinks eye occasionally as a sign of interest and attention.

　　In America, eye behavior functions as a kind of conversational traffic signal control the __10__ talking pace and time, and to indicate a change of topic.

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1.把produce改为produces

　　本句中两个主语meeting和failing to meet another person’s eye 用or连接，这时谓语动词应该采取就近原则，与最相邻的主语一致。

　　2.把at改为into

　　此处的动作应该是look into(注视)，而不是一般的“看”(look at)。

　　3.把where改为how

　　上下文介绍的是目光交流的方式方法。

　　4.把after改为when/if

　　5.在accused前面加上the

　　intimidate(胁迫)是一个及物动词，后面不能只接形容词，此处应该加上定冠词，与accused构成名词短语，表示一类人，即“被告”。本句的意思是：

　　例如，只要运用目光，男人就可以让女人很自在或者不舒服地感觉到他的存在;而警察或法官的长时间的注视可以威吓被告。

　　6.删除being

　　7.把such改为so

　　8.把other改为another

　　表示不定指代的“一个或者另一个”应该用one and/or another。

　　9.把inattentive改为attentive

　　10.在control前面加上to

　　control the talking pace and time 应该和to indicate a change of topic并列，作为conversational traffic signal 的定语，也要用动词不定式。

2020专八英语改错练习题（11）：

　　Successful aging is a psychological feat. Fear for __1__ death, for example, may sometimes oppress you.

　　Even when this is successfully overcome, there is still something for you to deal with-loneliness. Loneliness

　　can speed your demise no matter conscientiously __2__ you care for your body. “We go through life surrounded by protective convoys of others,” says Robert Kahn, a psychologist of the University of Michigan

　　who studied the health effects of companionship. “People __3__ 　who manage to maintain a network of social support do best.”

　　One study of elderly heart-attack patients found that those with two or more close associations __4__ enjoyed twice the one-year survival rate of those who were completely alone.

　　Companionship aside, healthy oldsters seem to 　share a knack for managing stress, poison that contributes __5__ measurably to heart disease, cancer and accidents.

　　Researchers have also been kinked successful aging __6__ 　to mental stimulation.

　　An idle brain will deteriorate 　just as sure as an unused leg, notes Dr. Gene Cohen, __7__ 　Head of the gerontology center at George Washington University.

　　But just as exercise can prevent muscle __8__ atrophy, mental challenges seem to preserve both the mind and the immune system.

　　But what most impresses researchers who study the oldest old is his simple drive and resilience. “People who reach 100 __9__ are not quitters,” says Adler of the National Centenarian Awareness Project.

　　“They share a remarkable ability to　renegotiate life in every turn, to accept the inevitable losses __10__ And move on.”

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1.把for改为of

　　与fear搭配的介词通常是of，表示对…的恐惧。

　　2.在no matter后面加上how

　　3.在studied前面加上has

　　本文的基调是一般现在时，此句的主语也是现在时，定语从句介绍Roberts做过的研究项目，所以用现在完成时比较合适。

　　4.把associations改为associates

　　本句的意思是：一项对高龄心脏病人的研究发现，有两个或者两个以上亲密伙伴陪同的病人在一年危险期的幸存几率是完全无人陪伴的病人的两倍。

　　5.在poison前面加上a

　　不定冠词修饰不可数名词，该名词后面再加上定语成分对该词进一步说明。

　　6.删除been

　　7.把sure改为surely

　　8.把but改为and

　　本句与上一段最后一句在结构(just as)上相似，在意义上是递进关系，不应该用转折连词衔接，用and合适。

　　9.把his改为their

　　此处的代词应该代替the oldest old， the oldest old 表示一类人可以用单数也可以用复数，但是下文提到这些年事极高的老人都用了复数，所以此处也要改为复数，使上下文一致。

　　10.把in改为at

　　词组at every turn意思为“ 时时，经常”。

2020专八英语改错练习题（12）：

　　To be called beautiful is thought to name something essential to women’s character and concerns. (In contrast by men- whose __1__ essence is to be strong, or effective, or competent.)

　　It does not 　need someone in the throes of feminist awareness to perceive that __2__ the way women are taught to be involved in beauty encourages __3__ narcissism, reinforces independence and immaturity.

　　Everybody knows __4__ that. For it is “everybody”, a whole society, which has identified __5__ being feminine with caring about how one looks.

　　Giving these __6__ stereotypes, it is no wonder that beauty enjoys, at best, a rather mixed reputation.

　　It is not, of course, the desire to be beautiful is wrong but the __7__ 　obligation to be. Women are taught to see their bodies in parts, and to assess each part separately.

　　Breasts, feet, hips, waistline, neck, __8__ eyes, nose, complexion, hair, and so on–each by turn is submitted __9__ to an anxious scrutiny. Even if some pass the scrutiny, some will 　　always be found wanted. Nothing less than perfection will do. __10__

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1.by改为 to/with

　　词组 in contrast to/ with 表示“与……相比”，不能用其他介词。

　　2. need改为take

　　虽然need的汉语意思是“需要”，但英语中It takes 往往作为一个固定搭配，表示“做某事需要某物或者某种品质”。

　　3.in改为with

　　be involved in 表示“介入，参与”，后面一般跟事。

　　而 be involved with 则表示“和……有关系，有关联”，后面一般跟人。

　　如： He was involved in a car accident.

　　I never wanted to get emotionally involved with him.

　　4.independence改为dependence。

　　5.which改为that

　　句子的主干是 it is…that…表示强调。

　　6.giving改为given

　　given 一词后面接名词词组可表示“考虑到，鉴于…”。

　　7.beautiful 后面加that

　　此句同样也是一个强调句型，后面须跟that引导的从句。

　　8.assess改为evaluate

　　assess往往指对某物在金钱上的价值进行权威的评估。

　　如： We should assess an apartment on the amount for which it is likely to be rented.

　　本句话指每一个平常的女性对自己身体的每一部分进行评判，评价，应该用evaluate，因为该词表示对事物的本质或价值进行判断，如：

　　Teachers evaluate a student’s thesis for content and organization.

　　9.by改为in

　　by turns 表示“交替地，轮番地 ”。 in turn 表示一系列动作按照一定顺序发生，或者某人先后做某事。根据题意，这里要用in turn。

　　10. wanted改为wanting

　　to find something or somebody wanting 表示“(某物或某人)缺乏应有的素质，不够格”。

　　wanted往往指“被通缉”或者“被爱，被照顾的”。

2020专八英语改错练习题（13）：

　　One of America’s most important export is her modern music. __1__

　　American popular music is playing all over the world. It is enjoyed __2__ by people of all ages in all countries.

　　Because the lyrics are English, __3__ nevertheless people not speaking English enjoy it.

　　The reasons for its popularity are its fast pace and rhythmic beat.

　　The music has many origins in the United States. Country music, coming from the suburban areas in the southern United States, is one __4__source.

　　Country music features simple themes and melodies describing day-to-day situations and the feelings of country people.

　　Many people appreciate this music because the emotions expressed by country __5__ music songs.

　　A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It depicted __6__ mostly sad feelings reflecting the difficult lives of American blacks.

　　It is usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is not popular with __7__ all Americans.

　　Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style, featuring fast and repetitious rhythms, was influenced by the blues and country music.

　　It is first known as rock-and- roll in the 1950’s. Since then there __8__ have been many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock, disco music and others. Many performers of popular rock music are young musicians.

　　American popular music is marketed to a demanding audience.Now popular songs are heard on the radio several times a day. Somesongs become popular all over the world. People hear these songs sing __9__ in their original English or sometimes translated into other languages.

　　The words may coincide but the enjoyment of the music is universal. __10__

　　参考答案及解析:

　　1. 改export为exports

　　export作可数名词时指出口商品,同时根据one of 结构也可以知道这里export要用复数结构.

　　2. 改playing为played

　　动词play和句子主语American popular music是逻辑动宾关系,必须用被动语态.

　　3. 改Because为Though或者Although

　　此句为让步状语从句.

　　4. 改suburban为rural

　　这里属于词义用错,suburban为城市郊区,乡村音乐显然来自乡村地区.

　　5. 改because为because of

　　6. 改depicted为depicts

　　本句错在时态.句意为 “blues大多抒发哀伤情感,反映美国黑人的艰难生活.”为与全文主导时态一致,不能用过去时.此外,blues现在的风格依旧,故用现在时.

　　7. 将not去掉.

　　8. 改is为was

　　此句有过去时间状语 in the 1950’s, 陈述过去的一个事实,故用一般过去时态.

　　9. 改sing为sung

　　sung 引导过去分词短语作宾语补足语,表被动意思.

　　10. 改coincide为differ(在may后加not也可以)

　　此句含有连词but,整个句意含有转折语气

2020专八英语改错练习题（14）：

　　More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while.

　　During the __1__ early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh __2__ deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease.

　　From __3__ now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble __4__ going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__ 20th centuries.

　　In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to __6__ poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.

　　They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths __7__ started to pick up again around the world.

　　Where tuberculosis vanished, it came __8__ back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better.

　　The World __9__ Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population)suffer from tuberculosis.

　　Even when the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 __10__ million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.

　　参考答案及解析:

　　tuberculosis n.肺结核

　　antibiotics n.抗生素, 抗生学

　　1 将in改为for

　　for quite a while 作 “相当长时间”讲.

　　2 将seventh改为seven

　　3 将were改为was

　　这个谓语动词的主语是单数短语 one in every seven deaths, 因此要使用单数.

　　4将now 改为then

　　5将Europe前的the 去掉

　　6 将imported改为exported

　　根据上下文,应该是向穷国出口抗生素,而不是从这些国家进口抗生素.

　　7 将are 改为were

　　8 在vanished 前加had

　　这里要表达的是 “结核病原来消失的地方,又爆发了结核病”,所以要使用过去完成时.

　　9 将better改为worse

　　在结合病没有消失的地方,这种病更加严重了,因此要用worse.

　　10 将constantly改为constant

　　在 “keep sb/ sth adj”结构中的形容词作补语