英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析
技巧:1. 下划线在哪就改平行线对应的哪一句
2. 主要考察语法、单词词性、以及是否错用动词、区分形近词。
2008年专八改错真题解析
The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a
very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent ____1____
part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate ____2____
a given language to show that they are distinctive from another ____3____
race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States ____4____
split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that
independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a ____5____
different language from those of Britain. There was even one ____6____
proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured
the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would
certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English ____7____
and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone ____8____
knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory
solution of carrying with the same language as before. ____9____
Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world ____10____
that political independence and national identity can be complete
without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common
language.
Key:
1. in result →in fact,
2. moves→ movements.
3. distinctive→distinct或different
4. At the time 后加when
5. by →with
6. those→that
7. 删除 on
8. At →In 注: in the end = at the end of....
9. carrying with →carrying on with
10. Since →For
注意符号:
①替换词用→ 箭头,
②删除多余词用斜线,
③加词用︿ 或者﹀,把你要加词的短句写下来,然后进行加词。
作者:诗涵carol
著作: 自编
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