1995-2016专八改错题及答案

2016

1. in

→

over

2.

∧

give

→

that /which

3. differs

→

differentiates

it

→

it 4. the

→

the

5. same

→

common 6.

∧< /p>

intimate

→

and 7. it

→

which 8. than

→

than 9. base

→

preserve

10. furthermore

→

therefore

2005

年

3

月

日专业八级考试改错

When I was in my early teens, I was taken to a spectacular show

on ice by the mother of a friend. Looked round a 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 cos

tumes 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. ______

改成

looking

后面加

had 3.

去掉第二个

a 4.

去掉

it

改成

politely

改成

that

lly

改成

especially

改成

it

ually

改成

often

改成

narrow

2014

改错

There is widespread consensus among scholars that second language acquisition (SLA) emerge

d 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) ______

l Is it possible to acquire an additional language in the

same sense one acquires a first language? (3) ____

__

l What is the explanation for the fact adults have (4) ______

more difficulty in acquiring additional languages than children have?

l What motivates people to acquire additional language?

l What is the role of the language teaching in the (5) ______

acquisition of additional languages?

l What social-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 spotlig

ht 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) ______

1.

把

of

去掉。

2.

把

possessed

改成

attracted

，

3.

把

a

改成

the

4.

在

facts

和

adults

之间加个

that

，

5.

把第二个

the

去掉。

6.

把第二个

of

改成

in

7.

把

attempts

改成

a ttempt

8.

把

or

改成

and

9. what

改成

how

10.

把

touche

改成

< br>touches

2013

专八短文改错试题

．

Psycho-linguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in langu

age. Psycholinguistics study understanding,

production and remembering language, and hence are concerned with (1) _____

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 the complexity (5) ______

involved: if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it;

if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced (6) ______

their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if (7) ______

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 who is. As we shall see, all these examples

(8) ______

of what might be called

“language

in exceptional circums

tances”

reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking,

(9) ______

listening, writing and reading. But given that language processes

were normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful

(10) ______

experiments to get at what is happening.

1.

p roduction

改成

producing

2.

去掉

the

3.

去掉

accurately

前面的

so 4. looking

改为

look 5. we

前面加

that

6.

去掉

colleague

后面的

改成

his

8. anyone

改成

pure

老师

someone 9. evolved

改成

involved 10. were

改成

are

2012

Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.

The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. The arg

ument has been going since at least the first

(1) ______

century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers

favored certain kind of

“free”

translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______

sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______

the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______

wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______

century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that

the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______

was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______

gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______

literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______

extreme

“literalists”

Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.

The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the

nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Too

often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with

each other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____

参考答案：

1

．

going

∧

since

－加入

on

题解：

go on

的意思是“继续”< /p>

，符合句子表达的含义“争论一直

在继续”

。

2

．

certain

－改为

a certain

< br>题解：

此处要表达的意思是

“很多作家喜欢一种自由的翻 译方法”

，

第一次出现这种方法应该加上不定冠词。