2018英语专八语言知识模拟练习及答案解析（十六）

2018英语专八语言知识模拟练习及答案解析（十六）

　　2018英语专八语言知识题这一部分是有250个单词左右组成的一篇短文，短文中有10行标有题号，10行内都有一个错误，需要运用语法、词汇、修辞、等语言知识识别短文的内的语病并提出改革方案。要求考生根据“增添”、“删除”、“改变其中某个单词或者短语”的三种方法的一种改正错误。共10题，考试时间15分钟。

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　　A number of years ago I sat down on a stone bench outside the Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique, when I worked as an artistic consulter.(1)____(2)____ It was a hot day, and we were taking a break from rehearsals. The theater's air-conditioning system had long since stopped functioning. It should have been over 100 degrees inside while we were working.(3)____

　　Two old African men were sitting on that bench, but there was a room for me, too.(4)____ In Africa people share more than just water in a brotherly or sisterly fashion. Even when it comes to shade, people are generous. I heard two men talking about a third old man who recently died.(5)____(6)____ One of them said, "I was visiting him at his home. He started to tell me an amazing story about something that had happened to him when he was young. But it was a long story. Night came, and we decided that I should come back the next day to hear the rest. But when I arrived, he was dead. "

　　The man fell silent. I decided to leave that bench until I heard what the other man would respond to what he'd heard.(7)____(8)____ I had an instinctive feeling that it would prove to be important. Finally he, too, spoke. "That's not a good way to die-after you've told the end of your story."(9)____

　　It struck me as I listened to those two men that our species might be the storytelling person What differs us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats-and they in tum can listen to ours.(10)____

　　文章大意

　　本文讨论的是聆听的艺术。多年前，作者在莫桑比克首都马普托的阿芬尼达剧院作艺术顾问。有一天，天气非常炎热，排练间隙，作者坐在剧院外的石凳子上休息，听到两位非洲朋友在谈论他们的一位朋友。这位朋友刚刚逝世，临死前，他还在给其中一位朋友讲述他年轻时的传奇故事，可故事还没讲完，他就去世了。另外一位朋友对这朋友的去世竟有些许不满，他觉得这位朋友不该没讲完故事就离去。如此反应让作者颇感意外，倾听对于他们来说竟如此重要，但这也正是人类和动物的区别所在：人类会倾听彼此的梦想、恐惧、喜悦、悲伤、欲望和挫折。

　　答案详解

　　1.when→where语法错误。此处是一个非限制性定语从句，用以修饰the Teatro Avenida in Maputo，Mozambique，而该短语是一个表示地点的短语，所以应选择表示地点的关系副词where来引导定语从句。

　　2.consulter→consultant词汇错误。consulter意为“商量者”，consultant意为“顾问”，此处要表达的意思是“我在那(莫桑比克首都马普托的阿芬尼达剧院)作艺术顾问”，故用consultant。

　　3.should→must语法锫误。should have done表示“本应该做某事而没做”，用在此处不符合上下文的语意，此处要表达的意思是“我们在工作时，室内温度一定超过100度了”，所以用must have done表示对过去情况的肯定推测。

　　4.a→a词汇错误。本句的意思是“还有我坐的地方”，此处room的意思为“空间，地方，位置”，是不可数名词，故去掉不定冠词a。

　　5.∧two→the词汇错误。此处是特指上文所提到的那两位非洲老人，不是泛指任意两位老人，故应加定冠词the。

　　6.∧recently→had语法错误。本句中，主句的谓语动词是过去时态，而从句的动作(die)显然是在主句动作(hear)之前发生的，所以从句的谓语动词应该用过去完成时态。

　　7.∧to→not词汇错误。这句话的意思是“我决定等到另外一位老人

　　对他所听到的故事作出反应后再离开”，句中应该用“not... until...”表示“直到……才……”，故应加上not，否则语义前后矛盾。

　　8.what(the)→how语法错误。在what引导的从句中，what应充当主语或宾语，而本句中既不缺少主语，也不缺少宾语，故不能用what引导。从上下文意思来看，可用how引导该从句，how在从句中作状语，意为“如何，怎样”。

　　9.after→before语篇错误。从第二段最后两句可以得知，这位朋友还没讲完故事就离去了，此句中的after不符合逻辑，需改为before，整句所表达的意思应该是“在你还没说完故事的结局前就离去不是一个好的离开方式。”

　　10.differs→differentiates词汇错误。differ通常用作不及物动词，意为“不同，相异”，如：Our hobbies differ from each other，我们的兴趣爱好不同。而differentiate可用作及物动词，意为“使有差异;构成……间的差别”，如：Coloring differentiates the sexes in many birds.许多鸟的雌雄通常可就其颜色予以区分。本句应选用一个及物动词，故此处用differentiates。

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