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改错&完型填空讲义 Passage 1 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. ／___________ as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ One major decision which faces the American student ready to begin higher education is the choice of attending a large university or a small college. The large university provides a wide range of specialized departments, as well numerous 71. __________ courses within such departments. The small college, therefore, 72. __________ generally provides a limited number of courses and specializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus 73. __________ permit individualized attention to student. Because of it6s large 74. __________ student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many 75. __________ people from different countries the university exposes its students to many difference culture, social and out-of-class 76. __________ programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, more homogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college 77. __________ affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, the university closely approximates the real world and which 78. __________ provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous (隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate 79. __________ atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years of structural living in which to expect and preparing for the real 80. __________ world. In making his choice among educational institutions the student must, there fore, consider a great many factors. 71. (well) ( (well) as 72. therefore ( however 73. offer ( offers 74. permit ( permitting 75. in ( of 76. culture ( cultural 77. big ( small 78. and ( / 或 and ( which, this 79. contrast ( contrary 80. preparing ( prepare Passage 2 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1. _____ just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _____ supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _____ spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4. _____ around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5. _____ although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _____ point to concrete examples of continued improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _____ fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, S8. _____ rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9. _____ stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _____ for hope. S1. being(been S2. their(its S3. relative(relatively S4. good(bad S5. as(去掉 S6. politics(political S7. by(for S8. double(doubled S9. few(more S10. reason(the reason Passage 3 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that has recognized the need for change and done something about it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity of 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 advertisers’ support. Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. _________ minorities, the paper has put into place policies and procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3. _________ underlying reason for the change is that for information to be fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4. _________ same kind of population that reads it. A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ S5. _________ content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6. _________ audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7. _________ Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _________ improvement in 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 Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal Optimas Award for excellence in managing change. S1. it ( they S2. percents ( percent S3. maintain ( maintaining S4. subjective ( objective S5. value ( evaluate S6. an ( / S7. woman ( women S8. from ( in S9. majority ( minority S10. with ( as Passage 4 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor S1. __________ immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2. __________ which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on 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 travelers of the poor of Mexico City, 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 prosper- ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city 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. S1. new ( a new S2. filling ( filled S3. though ( if S4. This ( What S5. was ( were S6. dissimilar ( similar S7. lies ( lie S8. that ( which S9. it ( them S10. late ( later Passage 5 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern S1. __________ footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he S2. __________ scores a goal, enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. To understand how this transformation has taken place we S3. __________ must 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 whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicaily S6. __________ changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group S7. __________ attackers. Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely S8. __________ long formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning (把 S9. __________ ……关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival. S10.__________ S1. Viewing ( Viewed S2. inaccurate ( accurate S3. (enjoys) ( he (enjoys) S4. up ( back S5. year ( years S6. (even) if ( (even) / S7. co-operate ( co-operated S8. when ( after S9. were ( was S10.. farming ( hunting Passage 6 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of 71. __________ the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh 72. __________ deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the 73. __________ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the 74. __________ global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily 75. __________ through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers 76. __________ declared victory and withdrew. They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of 77. __________ infections and deaths started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in 78. __________ many places where it had never been away, it grew better. 79. __________ The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around 80. __________ 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries. 71. in ( for 72. seventh ( seven 73. were ( was 74. now ( then 75. the ( / 76. imported ( exported 77. are ( were 78. vanished ( had ~ 79. better ( worse 80. constantly ( constant Passage 7 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they 71. __________ occupied the space around them—for example, when such a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of 72. __________ others. Such people never bump into other people. However, a second person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this 73. __________ other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, 74. __________ about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at 75. __________ one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasn’t 76. __________ been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had known about American food, he might have behaved 77. __________ better. Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking it 78. __________ up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt. 79. __________ His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but 80. __________ immediately copied the action of his guest. And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners. 71. (on the way) ( (on the way) that 72. unaware ( aware 73. as ( than 74. it ( which 75. at ( in 76. hasn’t ( hadn’t 77. American ( Arab 78. as ( like 79. falls ( fell 80. of ( / Passage 8 Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. ／___________ as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________ Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has been bound to the planet on which he originated and devel- oped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move 71. __________ out into the universe to those worlds which he has known previously only directly. Men have explored parts of the moon. 72. __________ put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within the decade will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be 73. __________ too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other 74. __________ planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated 75. __________ such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship the excess people off to the moon. But we must keep in head the 76. __________ billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project. To maintain the earth’s population at its present level, we would have to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year. Why are we spending so little money on space ex- 77. __________ ploration? Consider the great need for improving many aspects 78. __________ of the global environment,