2014英语专业八级全真模拟试题(1)

The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash “／”and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

Example

When ∧art museum wants a new exhibit (1) an

It never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never

them on the wall. When a natural history museum (3) exhibit

wants an exhibition, it must often build it.

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately

have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad 41.______

influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become of 42._____

a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect 43._____

in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink 44._____

because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the most 45._____

completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening

to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate

because our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our language 46._____

makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the

process is irreversible. Modem English, especially written English, 47._____

is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be

avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets

rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and think clearly is a 48._____

necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight

against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning 49.____

of professional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope 50.____

by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have become clearer.

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