1、专八模拟试题（改错篇 10）What is a black hole? Well, it is difficult to answer the question,as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon _1_are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is _2_a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can
2、_3_escapenot even light. But we cant see a black hole. A black hole _4_exerts a strong gravitational pull and yet it has no matter. It is onlyspaceor thus we think. How can this happen? _5_The theory is that some stars explode when their density increasesto a particular point; they “collapse” and so
3、metimes a supernova occurs.The collapse of a star may produce a “White Dwarf” of a “neutronstar”a star which matter is so dense that if continually shrinks by the force of _6_its own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking maybe so intense that a black hole results in. Imag
4、ine the earth reduced to the _7_size of a marble, but still having the same masses and a stronger _8_gravitational pull, and you have some ideas of the force of a black hole. _9_And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. _10_答案：1 将 as 改为 since或者 because。在表示原因的连接词中，只有 as引导的原因状语从句不能位于主句之后，只能位于句首。
5、2 将 adequate 改为 inadequate，或者在 are后加 not。从逻辑上分析，因为我们拥有的科学术语“不充足”，所以才无法回答这个问题，所以用否定形式。3 在 which 前加 into。这是一个定语从句，意思是“黑洞是太空中物质可以掉进去的地方”，所以定语从句应该为“into which matter has fallen”。4 将 but 改为 so。 上文已提到“连光都无法从黑洞中逃出”，所以我们根本无法看到黑洞。这里应该是因果关系，而不是转折关系。5 将 thus改为 so。这句话的意思是“那只是空间或者我们认为它只是空间”。so 做 think 的宾语，thus 只
6、能做连词，不能做宾语。6 将 which 改为 whose。这个定语从句的意思是“它是一颗星，其密度非常大，由于自身的引力，它在不断地收缩”。matter 属于 star，所以关系代词应该用 whose。7 去掉 in。result 为不及物动词，意为“形成了”，而“result in sth。”意为“导致某结果”。8 将 masses 改为 mass。mass 可指“大量的物质”，而“the masses”特指“劳动群众”，用在此处不妥。9 将 ideas 改为 idea。“idea”在表达“印象”时，为不可数名词，不可以用复数。10 将 no改为 any。分析便知，任何在黑洞附近的东西都会
7、被吸进去。专八模拟试题（改错篇 9）Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years before, you cant help being strucked by the _1_appearance of the women taking part. Their hair styles and make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too _2_short; their general appearance is, in fact, s
8、lightly ludicrous.The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. _3_There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entire different age. This illusion is created _4_by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men _5_ have successfully resiste
9、d all attempts to make it change their _6_style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year,a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down _7_on the law and women around the world run to obey. The _8_decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.Sometime they de
10、cide arbitrarily,that skirts will be short and _9_waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. _10_.答案：1 strucked改为 struck或者 stricken。过去分词形式有误。strike的过去式是 struck，过去分词为 struck或者 stricken。2 date改为 dated或者 outdated，3 on other hand 改为 on the other hand4 entire改为 entirely，副词修饰形容词 different，并与d
11、ifferent一起修饰 age。5 minority改为 majority。 从上下文以及常识判断，多半男性成功地抵制了改变他们服装款式的企图，即多年来，男性大服装款式跟女性服饰相比没有多大的变化。6 it改为 them，them 指代 the great majority of men。7 fewer改为 few，此处没有比较的意味。8去掉 on。lay down 为习语，表示“规定(规则，原则，法规等)”。9 sometime改为 sometimes。10 height改为 high。形容词作 be 的表语。专八模拟试题（改错篇 8）We use language every day.
12、We live in a world of words. Hardly anymoment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, _1_languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly dependon fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know _2_more about things around us than on ourselves. For examp
13、le, language _3_is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from _4_animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language _5_and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we _6_understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, _7
14、_language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of languageis that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. _8_Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few _9_of us stop to question w
15、hat language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most peoplehave probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater thansome people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which _10_takes language as its object of investigatio
16、n. 参考答案：1. with 改为 without。”hardy any moment passes without someone” , 两个否定: without 和 hardly，意思是“每一时刻有人”。2. fast 前面加 the因为 fast and successful use 这个词组后边有一个前置词短语 of language 修饰 use，所以被修饰的词前面加定冠词。3. than on ourselves 改为 than things on ourselves。在这里比较的是两件事：things around us and things on ourselves(我们周
17、围的事物和我们自身的东西)。第二个 things不能省略，否则引起误解。4. differs 改为 distinguishes。语言区分人与动物，differ 是不及物动词，后面不能带宾语，只能用介词，如：Man differs from animals in that man possesses language。5. inquire改为 acquire“习得语言”应该是 acquire language，名词短语是 language acquisition。 Inquire 是“询问”的意思。6. we前面加上 do 副词 nor放在句首表示强调，应用倒装句，一般现在时强调句是在主语前面加
18、助动词 do。7. combination改为 relationships.语言和思维的关系，不是结合；语言和思维的关系是当代语言学研究的重要领域。8. like 改为 as。根据上下文，要表达的意思是“作为语言的使用者”，不是“像语言的使用者”。9. a 去掉 这里是否定的意思：“我们没有多少人”而不是“我们一些人.”。10. assured 改为 assumed. 这句的后半部分意思是“研究语言的必要性比我们想象的要大得多”。Assure 译为“确保”；assume 译为“假设”或者“想象”的意思。 专八模拟试题（改错篇 7）For the last fifteen or twenty y
19、ears the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the _1_words “good” or “bad” irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such thing, we are told, like a set of standards first acquired through experience and _2_kno
20、wledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This has been a _3_popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it _4_flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-mind
21、ed, it comforts the _5_confused. Under the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did no mean, it says, in effect, “Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?” This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the producers of mass _6_media who insist that it is the pub
22、lic, not they, who decide what it wants to hear _7_and to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of personal taste. Nobody recently has expressed this _8_ philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, the highly intelligent _9_pr
23、esident of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under questioning: “One mans mediocrity _10_is another mans good program”.答案： 1 将 have改为 has。该句的主语 the fashion 是单数.2 将 like改为 as。such as 是固定搭配.3 将 late改为 later。later 和上文 first对应.4 将 by改
24、为 of或者 from。 relieve sb of/ from sth 是固定搭配, 意思为 “减轻某人(的负担等)”5 将 him改为 them。因为其先行词为 the empty-minded,而 “the+adj/p.p” 表示一类人时,通常表示复数概念.6 在 same前加 the。the same 表示 “唯一,独一无二”的概念,因此必须加定冠词.7 将 decide改为 decides。该句的主语 the public 表示的是单数概念.,这一点从后面的代词 it 可以看得出来.8 将 pure改为 purely。在这里 purely作状语,修饰谓语动词,因此应使用副词.9 将
25、most改为 more。more than 搭配,引导出比较状语从句.10 将 from去掉。escape 在作 “被某人情不自禁地说出来”讲时,是及物动词,而只在作 “逃跑”讲时,才时不及物动词. 专八模拟试题（改错篇 5）We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _1that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understan
26、d scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _2with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computershow to buildthem, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3them to explain about the rinciples of physics that have gone into creating the _4computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5
