1995-2017英语专业八级改错真题及答案（部分详解）文字/答案校对版
1995-2017年英语专业八级改错真题及答案
（文字/答案校对版）
2017年改错真题
The ability to communicate is the primary factor that distinguishes human
beings from animals. And it is the ability to communicate well which 1.________ distinguishes one individual from another.
The fact is that apart from the basic necessities, one needs to
be equipped with habits for good communication skills, thus this is 2.________ what will make one a happy and successful social being.
In order to develop these habits, one needs to first acknowledge
the fact that they need to improve communication skills from time to time.
They need to take stock of the way how they interact and the direction 3.________ in which their work and personal relations are going. The only constant
in life is change, the more one accepts one’s strengths and works 4._______ towards dealing with their shortcomings, specially in the area of 5.________ communication skills, the better will be their interactions and the more their social popularity.
The dominated question that comes here is: How to improve 6.________ communication skills? The answer is simple. One can find plenty of literature on this. There are also experts, who conduct workshops and seminars based on communication skills of men and women. In fact, a large number of companies are bringing in
trainers to regularly make sessions on the subject, in order to 7.________ help their work force maintain better interpersonal work relations.
Today effective communication skills have become a predominant factor even while recruiting employees. While interviewing candidates,
most interviewers judge them on the basis of the skills they communicate with.
They believe that some skills can be improvised on the job; but ability to 8.________ communicate well is important, as every employee becomes the representing face of the company.
There are trainers, who specialized in delivering custom-made 9._______ programs on the subject. Through the sessions they not only facilitate better communication skills in the workplace, but also look into
the problems in the manner of being able to convey messages effectively. 10._______
2016年改错真题
All social units develop a culture. Even in two-person relationships,
a culture develops in time. In friendship and romantic relationships, 1._________ for example, partners develop their own history, shared experiences,
language patterns, habits, and customs give that relationship a special 2._________ character—a character that differs it in various ways from 3._________ other relationships. Examples might include special dates, places,
1995-2017英语专业八级改错真题及答案（部分详解）文字/答案校对版
songs, or events that come to have a unique and
important symbolic meaning for the two individuals. Thus, any 4._________ social unit—whether a relationship, group, organization, or society—develops a culture with the passage of time.
While the defining characteristics of each culture are unique,
all cultures share certain same functions. The relationship between 5.__________ communication and culture is a very complex intimate one. 6.__________ Cultures are created through communication; that is, communication is
the means of human interaction, through it cultural characteristics 7.__________ are created and shared. It is not so much that individuals set out to create a culture when they interact in relationships, groups, organizations, or societies,
but rather than that cultures are a natural by-product of social interaction.8._________ In a sense, cultures are the “residue” of social communication.
Without communication and communication media, it would be impossible to
have and pass along cultural characteristics from one place and time to 9.__________ another. One can say, furthermore, that culture is created, shaped, 10._________ transmitted, and learned through communication. 2015年改错真题
When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular show
on ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round at the luxury of the 1. ________ rink, my friend’s mother remarked on the “plush” seats we had been
given. I did not know what she meant, and being proud of my 2.________ vocabulary, I tried to infer its meaning from the context. “Plush”
was clearly intended as a complimentary, a positive evaluation; that 3. ________ much I could tell it from the tone of voice and the context. So I 4. ________ started to use the word. Yes, I replied, they certainly are plush, and so are the ice rink and the costumes of the skaters, aren’t they? My
friend’s mother was very polite to correct me, but I could tell from her 5. ________ expression that I had not got the word quite right.
Often we can indeed infer from the context what a word roughly
means, and that is in fact the way which we usually acquire both 6. ________ new words and new meanings for familiar words, specially in our 7. ________ own first language. But sometimes we need to ask, as I should have
asked for plush, and this is particularly true in the 8.________ aspect of a foreign language. If you are continually surrounded by 9________ speakers of the language you are learning, you can ask them directly, but often this opportunity does not exist for the learner of English.
So dictionaries have been developed to mend the gap. 10. _________
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2014年改错真题
There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language
acquisition (SLA) emerged as a distinct field of research from the late 1950s to early 1960s.
There is a high level of agreement that the following questions 1.__________ have possessed the most attention of researchers in this area: 2.__________
◆Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the
same sense one acquires a first language? 3.__________
◆What is the explanation for the fact adults have 4.__________ more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?
◆What motivates people to acquire additional languages?
◆What is the role of the language teaching in the 5.___________ acquisition of an additional language?
◆What socio-cultural factors, if any, are relevant in studying the learning of additional languages?
From a check of the literature of the field it is clear that all 6.__________ the approaches adopted to study the phenomena of SLA so far have one thing in common: The perspective adopted to view the acquiring
of an additional language is that of an individual attempts to do 7.___________ so. Whether one labels it “learning” or “acquiring” an additional
language, it is an individual accomplishment or what is under 8.___________ focus is the cognitive, psychological, and institutional status of an individual. That is, the spotlight is on what mental capabilities are
involving, what psychological factors play a role in the learning 9.___________ or acquisition, and whether the target language is learnt in the
classroom or acquired through social touch with native speakers. 10.___________
2013年改错真题
Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguistics study understanding,
production and remembering language, and hence are concerned 1.__________ with listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language.
One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually 2.__________ happens so effortlessly, and most of time, so accurately. 3.__________ Indeed, when you listen to someone to speaking, or looking at this page, 4.________ you normally cannot help but understand it.
It is only in exceptional circumstances we might become aware of 5._________ the complexity involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot
remember it; if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has 6._________ influenced their language; if we observe a child acquire language; 7._________ if we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if we
are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meet anyone else 8._________ who is. As we shall see, all these examples of what might be called “language in exceptional circumstances” reveal a great deal about the