99年改错
Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min)
The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Example
When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an it never／ buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never
them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit
The hunter-gatherer tribes that today live as our prehistoric 1.______ human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable diet supplementing 2._____ with animal foods. An analysis of 58 societies of modem hunter- gatherers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one half emphasize gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing and only one-sixth are primarily hunters. Overall, two-thirds
and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come from plants. Detailed 3.______ studies of the Kung by the food scientists at the University of
London, showed that gathering is a more productive source of food
than is hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 4.______ edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. 5.______ Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the Kung 6._______ diet, and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections or accidents, these contemporary
aborigines live to old ages despite of the absence of medical care. 7._______ They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high blood pressure, on heart disease, and their blood
cholesterol levels are very low( about half of the average American 8._______ adult), if no one is suggesting what we return to an aboriginal life 9.________ style, we certainly could use their eating habits as a model for 10.________ healthier diet.
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The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different 1._______ from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less
meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2._______ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. 3.________
But this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. 4._________ Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is,
it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 5._________ difference in meaning between “man is vile and” “the man is
vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. 6.________ Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among
themselves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.________ lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been
“little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for 8._________ distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we
consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart 9.________ from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some
people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity 10.________ when we omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of
Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
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During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched
the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if 1._______ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2._______ favorite topic of conversation.
War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.
Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could 3._______ not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that
they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts 4.________were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5._______ On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, 6._______ but the government had no wish to become involving, at 7.______ least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wild.
Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.______ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the
board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government appointed 9.______ the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to 10.______ buy, sell, and set prices.
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