英语专业八级改错模拟题(1)Proof –reading (10%) (A)The following passage contains TEN error, each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case only ONE word is involved. Y ou should proof-read the passage and correct it according to the following example:When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] anit never buys things in finished form and hang them on the wall [2] neverwhen a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. [3] exhibitPoverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerfulpolitical pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in __1__come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as __2__power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than __3__those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing__4__.If there were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans,there jobs will have to be __5__ rewarded with high incomes before anyonewould touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such aspolice officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats.Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers __6__,gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy __7__more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods __8__and service, such as day old bread, run down automobiles, or the advice of competent __9__ physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. __10__答案：1.redistributing改为redistribute。
attempt to 后面一般接动词原型，而不接动名词，因为这里的to是不定式符号，而不是介词，即attempt to do sth.。
2.you 改为others。
此句是说，如果一部分相对比较穷，那么一部分人就会相对比较富。
将人群分为两部分，此处就不能用you，others才可以表示人群的一部分。
3.在interests和than中间加上rather。
此句不是表示比较（than），而是表示转折（公众政策反映他们的利益，而不是穷人的利益），所以应该用rather than （而不是）代替than。
4.doing改为done。
此句是被动语态，表示―脏活被完成‖，get 是系动词，所以应用do 的过去分词形式done。
5.will改为would。
此句使用了虚拟语气，表示对现在情况的假设，所以主句应用would。
6.cookers改为cooks。
厨师是cook，而不cooker。
cooker指炊具，与后面的―gardener （园丁）and other workers‖不一致，所以应改为厨师（cook）。
7.when改为while。
此处不是表示时间上的同时性，而是表示两种情形的对比，―一些人在做……，而另一些人在做……‖。
表示对比的连词一般用while。
8.去掉more。
inferior本身就表示―低级的‖，已经构成了比较形式，所以前面一般不能再加more。
petent 改为incompetent。
此句讲的是穷人所能享受的服务，过期的面包、报废的汽车，还有不合格的医生和律师所提供的建议。
如果是competent，则成了合格的医生和律师所提供的建议，那么与整句意思不符。
10.去掉in。
此句中的which引导非限定性定语从句，作influence和change的直接宾语，因为influence和change均为及物动词，所以不能加in。
转贴于：TEM考试_考试大英语专业八级改错模拟题(2)Vitamins, like minerals, are chemicals. There is absolutely not difference (1)in the chemical structure of the nature vitamin C and the chemical structure (2)of the synthetic vitamin C. Also, while most substances are harmless at very low (3)level of intake, all substance -- even the elements that are essential to life -- can be dangerous if you overdo them. Take water for example. Six or eight glasses a day will keep your body in goodfluid balance. But you can also be drown (4)in it. Some people argue that individuals vary greatly (5)their need for nutrients, it cannot necessarily be stated any given (6)amount is too much;that is all relative. But since there is little solid information on what is the optimal intake of any essential nutrient in healthy individuals, it would be impossible to give guidelines that take these proportional needs into the (7)account. Just as with other drugs, the relation to (8)different vitamin dosages varies, with some people better able than others to tolerate large amounts. While we do know that very specifically what the toxic level (9)is for vitamins A and D, we are far less sure about vitamin E, even though it, too, is fat-soluble, and we still don‘t understand the water-soluble vitamin, the C (10)and the B groups, which the body cant store.答案:26.not改为no27.nature改为natural28.at后加a29.去掉be30.that后加31.stated后加that32. 去掉the33. relation改为reaction34.去掉that35. vitamin改为vitamins英语专业八级改错模拟题(3)Literature is a means by which we know ourselves. By it we (1) _________meet future selves, and recognize past selves; against it we match our present self. Its primary function is to validate and re-create the self in all its individuality and distinctness. In doing so, it cements a sense of relationship between the self and the otherness of the book, and allows us a notion of ourselves as sociable. Its shared knowledge is vicarious experience; by this means we enlarge our understandings (2)_________of what it means to be human, of the corporate and independent (3) ___________nature of human society. The act of reading the book marks both our difference in and our place in the human fabric. The more we read, (4)______________the more we are. In the act of reading silently we are alone from the (5) book,separate from ones own immediate surroundings. Yet in the (6)__________act of reading we enter other minds and other places, enlarge our (7)_________dialogue with the world. Thus paradoxically, while disengaging from the immediate we are increasing its scope. In silence, reading activates a deeply creative function of consciousness. We are deeply committed to the narrative which we coexist while engaged in 8) _________ reading. All kinds of present physical discomfortness may be (9)__________unnoticed while we are reading, and actual time is replaced by narrative time. To imaginatively enter a fictional world by reading it (10)___________is then both a liberation from self and an expansion of self.答案:1.By改为In2.understandings改为understanding3.independent改为interdependent4.去掉in5.from改为with6.ones改为our7.enlarge前加and8.which前加with9.discomfortness改为discomfort10.去掉it英语专业八级改错模拟题(4)Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern women tend to have the opposite effect, so they simply __1__ change the nature of work instead of eliminting it. Machines have a certain novelty value, as toys for adults __2__.It is certainly less tired to put clothes in a washing machine__3__,but the time saved does not really amount too much__4__:the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out, stains removed by hand, water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberal to __5__ pack it all off to a laundary and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Nevertheless, if you really want to save time you do not make __6__cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of the woman in the women's magazine to the goods advertised __7__by those periodicals, one realizes how useful a projected image can be commercially.A careful balance has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving device, follow it upwith a complex recipe on the next page__8__;on any account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job__9__,but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, emphasize __10__ the creative aspect of her funtion as a housewife.答案：1.so--because．第一句话里两个分句之间的关系应该是主句为结果，从句为原因，所以so改为because。