英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be 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____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 of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by ____5____the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and the US Centers for Disease Controlrespectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high ____6____risk categories.The report 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____two years apart.参考答案及解析:1 将had used 改为 used。
因为此句是虚拟语气，表示与现在事实相反，故条件从句中应使用一般过去时。
例如：Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. 许多人原本会成为聪明人－如果他们不自以为聪明的话。
2 将publishing改为publishedreport和publish时逻辑动宾关系，故应使用publish的过去分词短语来修饰report。
例如：Any discovery that we may make, however small, will remain acquired knowledge. 任何可能的发现，不管多么微不足道，都将成为知识宝库中的一部分。
3 将theirs改为their4 将among改为between在两次怀孕期间留出足够的间隔时间，故用between。
5 将过去分词excluded改为介词excluding。
excluding意为“不包括…”6 将respectably改为respectivelyrespectively 意为“分别地”，符合句子的意思。
而respectably意为“可敬的，值得尊敬地”。
7将evidences改为evidence。
evidence是不可数名词。
8将ill改为illness。
9将year改为years。
10将lesser改为less“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essentialattitude 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 dream. 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 one’s family, and started a farm. These small households were _____3_____portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children, even grandparents-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 century as it was in the nineteenth. When U.S soldiers came home before World WarⅡ, 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 inthe suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied _____9_____a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their _____10_____way of life.参考答案及解析:1 将no改为 not2 将place改为landplace是可数名词，作“地方”讲，而land意为“土地，田地”是不可数名词。
例如：Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.当你偶尔光顾时，独处是一个美妙的境地，但是如果久留，它却是一个糟糕的地方。
There is a vacant piece of land near the house; we can build there.3 将started改为startstart应使用不定式，以和前面的find，build一致。
4 将working改为work。
work应该用第三人称复数，和live一致。
另外，family在这里作“家人”讲，是复数。
5 将anyone改为everyone这里是要用everyone指每个人，而不是要用anyone泛指。
6 将but删除7将before改为after根据上下文判断，这里要表达的是二战之后。
8 将But改为 And根据语意，这里要表达的是递进关系，而不是转折关系。
例如：When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.当我行善事，我感到坦然；当我行恶时，我感到内疚。
这就是我的人生之道。
9 将it改为they10 在house the中间加入介词asregard…as 作“把……当作……”讲。
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,includingcollege, to understand 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 computers—how 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 principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4_____computer, you don’t 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 science and _____7_____technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the production of _____8_____new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application ofknowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two arereally different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have afaculty for the others. _____9_____Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences of _____10_____new technology, which can be enormous.参考答案及解析:1.在which前加in，或将which改为where在这里which引导限制性从句，修饰先行词the society。