1、专八改错习题 标准化管理部编码-99968T-6889628-J68568-1689N专八改错习题英语专业八级改错练习英语专业八级改错练习题(一)About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries couldbe avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk _1_pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking
2、_2_University.The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternalDeaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children _3_within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their _4_families to moderate size.This amounts to about half
3、 of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _5_the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high _6_risk categories.The repor
4、t says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of _7_maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of _8_pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the _9_mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than _10_t
5、wo years apart.英语专业八级改错练习题(二)“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home _1_has great importance for many people.This ideal is a vital part of the American dr
6、eam. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlersof American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _2_for ones family, and started a farm. These small households were _3_portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandpare
7、nts-live in a small house and working together to _4_support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _5_of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _6_is just as strong in the twentieth ce
8、ntury as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S. soldiers came home before World War, for example, _7_they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _8_a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it sat
9、isfied _9_a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _10_way of life.英语专业八级改错练习题(三)We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _1_that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand
10、scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people_2_with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a lot of kids who know everything about computershow to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3_them to explain about the principl
11、es of physics that have gone into creating the _4_computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5_The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _6_creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between _7_science and technology. Lots of people dont dif
12、fer between the two. Science _8_new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of is the production of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty fo
13、r the others. _9_Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, its not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the _10_consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.英语专业八级改错练习题(四)What is a black hole Well, it is difficult to answer
14、 the question,as the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon _1_are adequate here. Astronomers and scientists thi .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. As
15、tronomers and scientists think that a black hole is _2_a region of space which matter has fallen and from which nothing can _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 only spaceor thus we think. How can th
16、is happen _5_The theory is that some stars explode when their density increasesto a particular point; they “collapse” and sometimes 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_i
17、ts own gravity. But if the star is very large, this process of shrinking may be so intense that a black hole results in. Imagine 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.
18、_9_And no matter near the black hole is sucked in. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题(五)The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which _1_have ever lived on the earth, and one of them, the blue whale, is the largest. People in ancient times thought whales as fearsome _2_monsters of the ocean depths. S
19、o to hunt a whale, when one occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People _3_found the adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat fromone whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole winter.Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred by the ancients as _4_“great fi
20、sh,” and any whale beaching along the coasts of England was designated “the Kings fish” because it automatically belonged to the Crown.Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of _5_wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reac
21、hed alarming proportions. _6_Even though some species are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whalehunting is regulated, but the earths stock of whales is still being _7_depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now _8_ there
22、 may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and _9_awe-inspiring creature that always fed mans imagination and _10_ made the world a more exciting place英语专业八级改错练习题(六) We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly an
23、ymoment 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 example, language _3_is species specific, t
24、hat 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_language and logic, or language and c
25、ulture; 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 what language is, much less do we feel
26、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 investigation. 英语专业八级改错练习题(七)Whenever you see an o
27、ld 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 andmake-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too _2_short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.The men taking part, o
28、n other hand, are clearly recognizable. _3_There is nothing about their appearance to suggest thatthey 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 resisted all attempts to make it change their _6_
29、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 decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be sho
30、rt and _9_waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. _10_英语专业八级改错练习题(八)Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period were more eager than ever to establishing families. They quickly _1_brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate
31、 to a twentieth century height after more _2_ than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby _3_ boom.” These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades _4_ and caused a major but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans mar
