英语专八改错练习及答案详解（16）

英语专八改错练习及答案详解（16）

　　英语专八校对与改错部分的测试目的是检查学生在实际语境中灵活运用语言的能力。该项目考查学生的语法和词汇知识，但更侧重评估学生的综合语言能力。校对改错部分要求学生在15分钟内找出10个错误，并根据要求用三种方法之一改正错误。这一部分要求考生掌握三种知识：(1.)语法知识(2.)词汇与搭配(3.)篇章结构，考生除了在平时要重视学习语法知识更要多做练习反思其考察点。下面是新东方在线专八频道整理的英语专八改错练习及答案详解。

　　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.

答案解析

　　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。

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