1、中华英语学习网 官方网站：圣才学习网 专业八级改错练习80Before 1973, abortion was illegal in America unless the womans health was threatened. In March of 1970, Jane Roe, a single woman, instituted this federal action against the District Attorney of the country. The original idea was that women who truly did not want a baby
2、should not have to have it. _1_ Since pregnacy may be a blessed act when planned or wanted, _2_ forced pregnacy, like any force bodily invasion, is anathema to American values and traditions. As legalized abortion has become an everyday part of American life, a different side to it has emerged out.
3、_3_ Where women once were aborting because they did not want a child, the reasons being given now were becoming very different. _4_ Abortion has turned into something that women are being coerced from boyfriends/husbands unwilling to be fathers, out of fear _5_ of the financial pressure, out of the
4、panic from losing their jobs, out of panic from having to quit the school, or becoming _6_ homeless, or out of fear of their parents kicking them out into the street.Abrotion for these reasons can lead to problems which develop when a woman is unable to get round her emotional responses _7_ from the
5、 trauma of an abortion. There are women who abort and do so completely of her own free will. These women have no _8_ regrets, no remorse, but are happy they had this choice availble. _9_ But a growing number of women are speaking up about how abortion effected them adversely. _10_专业八级改错练习79Several y
6、ears ago, we began construction on a new church buliding. In the beginning, the workmen dug a big pit in the ground and then they began to pour footings. Footings are cement piers under _1_ which the entire buliding rests. They are crucial to the strenth of the finished structure. After the foundati
7、on hole is dug, the footings must be poured quickly, before the composition of the soil is changed by the wind, air, or water. With a similar way in these brief early _2_ years, parents of young children have the challenging job of lying _3_ the foundation that will support family friendships in lat
8、er years.Physical affectation and verbal affirmation are necessary in laying _4_ a strong foundation for friendship. Hug, hug, hug. Even if you are not _5_ raised in a hugging family, hug your kids anyway. They need the warmth of physical contact and so do you need. A young child will try to _6_ man
9、ipulate and be in the charge. He will attempt to get his own way. _7_ Since the child may not be consciously trying to control, this is _8_ what he is doing. A wise parent must not permit to happen. _9_ When a child respects his parents, he will also respect the others. _10_专业八级改错练习78Thirty or forty
10、 years ago, when most mothers in the United States didnt have jobs, ,homes were busier places. Children went to school from 9 A.M to 3 P.M. and spent the most of the time in the house under their_1_ mothers watchful eyes. Children played, watched TV, and did homework, and while they werent in the ho
11、use, _2_ they were outside in the front or backyard or playing nearly with other neighborhood children. Though this situation still exists in some communities today, it is becoming rarer and rarer as more and more mothers have work inside the home. These “two-income_3_ families“ create a different k
12、ind of homeone that is a place to stop temporarily in the midst of a busy schedule _4_ of activities. Because working parents often leave the house by 8 A.M and return at 5 or 6 P.M, children go to school and then a series of highly-programmed after-school activities._5_ So when school lets out for
13、two or three weeks at New Years time, many parents may face with a troubling situation._6_ Some researches show the kind of child-care problem the holidays can have for busy parents. Even in those families _7_ in which the mother is home, there is often many active _8_ neighborhood full of children
14、playing since most of the other children are involved in activities. This results from the irony _9_ of both parents and children anxiously look forward to the end_10_ of their vacation.专业八级改错练习77Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful political pressures to keep
15、 it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in _1_ come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as _2_ power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect
16、 their interests than _3_ those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the nonpoor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If there _4_ were no 中华英语学习网 官方网站：圣才学习网 poor people to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will
17、have to be _5_ rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the nonpoor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers, _6_ gardeners, and other workers to per
18、form basic chores when their employers enjoy _7_ more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and _8_ service, such as dayold bread, rundown automobiles, or the advice of competent _9_ physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
19、the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. _10_专业八级改错练习76Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and
20、_1_ few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. Now there are many reasons about this, _2_ some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest that the fundamental reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very better than they do is that _3_ th
21、ey fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize _4_ that pronounce a foreign language is a skill, one that_5_ needs careful training of a special kind, and one that cannot be ac
22、quired by just leaving it to take care of himself. _6_ I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the_7_ language. So the first point I want to make is that English p
23、ronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to _8_ devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel that here is a matter worth of receiving his close ttention._9_ So, there should be occasions where other aspects of Engl
24、ish, _10_ such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to take a secondary place.专业八级改错练习75It seems that every country, race, and religion observe some type of holiday or festival. The two most celebrating holidays _1_ in the North and South America, Australia and Eueope, and in the most
25、of Christian world are Christmas and Easter. _2_ Christians celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas. The _3_ exchange of gifts rises from the birthday tradition. The _4_ winter holiday season is time for bright colored lights to _5_ appear in and out the houses, on Christmas trees, and on _6_ bui
26、ldings and storefronts, At Easter, Christians celebrate the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. This is also a time for celebration with family.A non-religious celebration in North America is Thanksgiving.Similarly, National Day and Labour Day Holidays are among the non-religious holidays in
27、China. A common tradition is the observance of the New Year as celebrated around the world on January 1st. Therefore, various religious groups celebrate the _7_ New Year on the spring or fall. One common thread that _8_ goes through all these holidays is the celebration of the _9_ occasion with fami
28、ly, food, new clothing, lights, and festivity.They are set apart as special times to be celebrated happily with family and friends. Religious or not religious, each festival or holiday has its own legend or origin behind. _10_专业八级改错练习74Exercise is one of the few factors with a positive role in long
29、term maintenance of body weight. Unfortunately, that message has not gotten through to the average American, that would rather try _1_ switching to “light“ beer and low-calorie bread than increase physical exertion. The Centers for Disease Control, for example, found that fewer than one-fourth of ov
30、erweight adults were trying to shed _2_ pounds said they were combining exercise with their diet.In rejecting exercise, some people may be discouraged too much by calorie-expending charts; for example, one would have to _3_ briskly walk three miles just to work the 275 calories in one _4_ delicious
31、Danish pastry. Even exercise professionals concede half a point here. “Exercise in itself is a very tough way to lose weight,“ _5_ says York On nen, the program director of the Presidents Council on _6_ Physical Fitness and Sports.Therefore, exercises supporting role in weight reduction is vital. _7
32、_ A study at the Boston University Medical Center of overweight police officers and other public employees confirmed that those who diet _8_ without exercise regained almost 中华英语学习网 官方网站：圣才学习网 all their old weight, while those who worked exercise into their daily routine maintained their new weight
33、.If you decide to start walking one mile a day, the added exercise could burn an extra 100 calories daily. In a years time, assumed no _9_ increase in food takein, you could lose ten pounds. By increasing the _10_ distance of your walks gradually and making other dietary adjustments,you may lose eve
34、n more weight.专业八级改错练习73Today we take for granted that the mail will be delivered _1_ daily at our door. But many years ago it might have been placed in a tree trunk and underneath a rock. In the early _2_ days of the mail no one could be sure about where or when it will arrive. _3_ At the southern
35、tip of Africa there was once a post office under a rock. At the old days the route from England to _4_ India was around the Cape of Good Hope. The journey was stormy and danger. It took six long months. Sailors often _5_ wished to send mail home, but they seldom met ships bound back to England. So a
36、t the cape the sailors would go on ashore. They headed for a certain large stone. On the _6_ stone scratched the words “Look here under for letters.” _7_ They would leave their letters there, knowing that the next homeward ship would stop and pick it up. _8_ There was another post office like this a
37、t the southern tip of South America. During the golden rush days, boats _9_ sailed around Cape Horn to California. At Cape Horn was a keg（小桶） nailed to a post. Boats coming from the east coast would send some sailors to this post office. They picked up any letters in the keg. At the same time they m
38、ailed letters home that boats sail east could pick up. _10_专业八级改错练习72Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is _1_ improbable that he will ever again in his life be given so mu
39、ch without having to do anything in turn. In addition, _2_ life is always presenting new things to the childthings that have lost their interesting for older people because _3_ they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside is a
40、 marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains: He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks old people do; he is continually being told not to do things, _4_ or being punished for that he has done wrong. _5_ His life is therefore not longer perfectly happy. _6_ When the young man starts to ea
41、rn his own living, he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents; but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities.He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortable. If he spends most of his time pl
42、aying about in _7_ the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. _8_ And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, _9_ he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of seei
43、ng himself making _10_ steady progress in his job and of building up for himself his own position in society.专业八级改错练习71We use language primarily as a means of communication with other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which we ive a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing
44、 conventions as _1_ to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular _2_ message: the English speaker has in his disposal a vocabulary and a _3_ set of grammatical rules which enables him to communicate his _4_ thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English _5
45、_ speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses activetly and that which he recognises, increases in size as he grows old as a result of education and experience. _6_ But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the system remains no more than a psychological real
46、ity for tike inpidual, unless he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another _7_ member of his linguistic community; he has to give the system a concrete transmission form. We take it for granted two most _8_ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by our vocal
47、organs （speech ） or by visual signs （writing）. And these are _9_ among most striking of human achievements. _10_专业八级改错练习70中华英语学习网 官方网站：圣才学习网 Many students today display a disturbing willingness to choose academic institutions, fields of study and careers in the basis of _1_ earning potential. In an
48、 extensive 1989 survey of college students nationwide, 72 percent of students reported that their primary objective to attending college was to make more money upon graduation. _2_ This state of mind came with the present generation. Studies show that the majority of baby boomers attended college to develop themselves, their critically thinking skills and their personal _3_ philosophies of life.Nationaly, the number of students going in
