1、历年四六级改错真题集合改错:历年全真试题及参考答案 (00.1-06.12)00.1Until the very latest moment of his existence, manhas been bound to the planet on which he originated anddeveloped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet S1._and move out into the universe to those worlds which hehas known previously only directly.
2、Men have explored S2._parts of the moon, put spaceships in orbit around anotherplanet and possibly within the decade will land into another S3._planet and explore it. Can we be too bold as to S4._suggest that we may be able to colonize other planet S5._within the not - too - distant future ? Some ha
3、ve advocatedsuch a procedure as a solution to the populationproblem: ship the excess people off to the moon. Butwe must keep in head the billions of dollars we might S6._spend in carrying out the project. To maintain theearths population at its present level. we would haveto blast off into space 7,5
4、00 people every hour ofevery day of the year.Why are we spending so little money on space S7._exploration ? Consider the great need for improving S8._many aspects of the global environment, one is surelyjustified in his concern for the money and resourcesthat they are poured into the space explorati
5、on efforts. S9._But perhaps we should look at both sides of thecoin before arriving hasty conclusions. S10._00.6When you start talking about good and bad mannersyou immediately start meeting difficulties. Manypeople just cannot agree what they mean. We asked alady, who replied that she thought you c
6、ould tell awell-mannered person on the way they occupied the S1._space around themfor example, when such a personwalks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2._others. Such people never bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this wasmore a question of civilized beha
7、vior as good manners. S3._Instead, this other person told us a story, it he S4._said was quite well known, about an American whohad been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countries S5._of the Middle East. The American hasnt been S6._told very much about the kind of food he mightexpect. If he had
8、 known about American food, he S7._might have behaved better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece ofbread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾). S8._Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that itfalls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been S9._watching, said of nothing
9、, but immediately copied S10._the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fineexample of good manners.01.6More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stages of S1. _the
10、 industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh S2. _deaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by the S3. _disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the S4. _global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. Withoccasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Eu
11、rope and America dropped steadily S5. _through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers S6. _declared victory and withdrew.They are wr
12、ong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of S7. _infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in S8. _many places where it had never been away, it grew better. S9. _The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people (a third of the
13、 earths population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around S10. _3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries.02.1Sporting activities are essential
14、ly modified forms of huntingbehavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a S1._member of a disguised hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned intoa harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate S2._and he scores a goal, enjoys the hunters trium
15、ph of killing his prey. S3._To understand how this transformation has taken place wemust briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a S4._million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival S5._depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their wholeway
16、 of life, even if their bodies, became radically changed. They became S6._chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers.They co-operate as skillful male-group attackers. S7._Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long S8._formative period of hunting for food, they bec
17、ame farmers. Theirimproved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new S9._use-that of penning (把关在圈中), controlling and domesticatingtheir prey. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. Therisks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.
18、 S10._02.6A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor S1._immigrants, who flood in, filling with hope
19、s of prosperity S2._which are then often disappointing. There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were S3._on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions S4._written by eighteenth-century trav
20、elers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, S5._are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today the S6._poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the ci
21、ty as a S7._promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty S8._and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the S9._country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, S10._sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.03.6The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper fi
22、rm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1._losing their readers interest and their advertise
23、rs support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2._minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3._ underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be re
24、ported by the S4._same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times S5._content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6
25、._audit(审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7._Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results from S8._improvement in
26、the frequency of majority representation and S9._their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10._result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped the SeattleTimes Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Awardfor excellenc
27、e in managing change.03.9“Home, sweet home“ is a phrase that expresses an essential attitudein the United States. Whether the reality of life in the familyhouse is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1._importance for many people.This ideal is a vital part of the American dream
28、. This dream,dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of theAmerican West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for ones S2._family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3._independence: the entire family-mother, father, children, evengrandpar
29、entslive in a small house and working together to support S4._each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5._cooperation and hard work.Although most people in the United States no longer live onfarms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth S6._c
30、entury as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, for S7._example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there S8._was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typicallyin the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but i
31、t S9._satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10._their way of life.03.12Thomas Malthus published his “Essay on the Principle ofPopulation“ almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecastershave being warning that worldwide famine was just around the S1_next corner
32、. The fast-growing populations demand for food,they warned, would soon exceed their supply, leading to S2_widespread food shortages and starvation.But in reality, the worlds total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3_like present-day Somalia,
33、and occasional years of good harvests, S4_the worlds food crisis has remained just around the corner.Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population S5_doubles by the mid-21st century, although feeding 10 billionpeople will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental S6_rea
34、sons. Optimists point to concrete examples of continuedimprovements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, S7_more fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, rice S8_experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with
35、 few stems S9_and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders cancontinue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but mostresearchers see their success to date as reason for hope. S10_04.6Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - thelearned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting
36、 that characterizea population or society, include the expression of these S1._patterns in material things. Culture is compose of non-material S2._culture -abstract creations like values, beliefs, customsand institutional arrangements and material culture -physical object like cooking pots, computer
37、s and bathtubs. S3._In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything S4._we make. In ordinary speech, a person of culture isthe individual can speak another language - the person who S5._is unfamiliar with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or S6._history. But to sociologists, to
38、 be human is to be cultured,because of culture is the common world of experience we S7._share with other members of our group.Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a S8._kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you findyour way about social life. How do you know how to act in
39、aclassroom, or a department store, or toward a person whosmiles or laugh at you? S9._Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10._ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understandand even predict a good deal of his behav
40、ior.05.1The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-yearcampaign to remove leprosy (麻风病) as a world healthproblem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of theWHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world has S1._been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says S2._ef
41、forts are continuing to complete end the disease. S3._Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid fromthe nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and S4._nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanentdamage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs. S5._In 1999,
42、 an international campaign began to end leprosy.The WHO, governments of countries most affected by thedisease, and several other groups are part of the campaign.This alliance guarantees that all leprosy patients, even they S6._are poor, have a right to the most modern treatment.Doctor Brundtland say
43、s leprosy is no longer a diseasethat requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead,patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This S7._modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months,depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines S8._several drugs taken daily
44、or once a month. The WHO hasgiven multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five S9._years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan totarget the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among S10_the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHObelieves about 70% are in I
45、ndia. The disease also remains aproblem in Africa and South America.05.12Every week hundreds of CVs(简历) land on our desks.Weve seen it all: CVs printed on pink paper, CVs that are 10pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph. A S1 _good CV is your passport to an interview and ,ultimat
46、e , to S2_the job you want.Initial impressions are vital, and a badly presented CVcould mean acceptance, regardless of whats in it. S3_Here are a few ways to avoid end up on the reject pile. S4_Print your CV on good-quality white paper.CVs with flowery backgrounds or pink paper willstand out upon al
47、l the wrong reasons. S5_Get someone to check for spelling and grammaticalerrors, because a spell-checker will pick up every S6_mistake. CVs with errors will be rejectedit showsthat you dont pay attention to detail.Restrict your self to one or two pages, andlisting any publications or referees on a separate sheet. S7_If you are sending your CV electronically, check theformatting by sending it to yourself first. keep up S8_the format simple.Do not send a
