谓语错误(主谓一致、时态、语态)
1) Business today whether it is running a little gas-station or a big factory take good management.[takes]
2) Advances in technology has also changed people’s lives.
3) But if 98 percent of us doesn’t need to work, what are we going to do with ourselves? [don’t]
4) Whether women who have started a career will attain pay equality with men rest on at least two factors. [rests]
5) In some places all the trees have cut down. [have been]
二、词汇错误(搭配错误、用词错误)
三、逻辑错误(肯定否定乱用)
1) Blood pressure drugs definitely help some people live after a heart attack, but these same drugs may be both necessary and harmful for those with only mild blood pressure problems. [unnecessary]
2) In every case, the influential person may consciously notice the imitation but he will feel comfortable in its presence. [unconsciously]
四、多词少词(介词、冠词、形式宾语)
1)When two Americans meet for first time, it is normal for them to call each other by their given name immediately. [the first]
2)In fact, until recently seawater has almost be considered to be useless and no value. [of no]
Passage 2
Until the very latest moment of his existence, man
has been bound to the planet on which be originated and
developed. Now he had the capability to leave that planet 1. has
and move out into the universe to those worlds which he
had known previously only directly. Men have explored 2. indirectly
parts of the moon. put spaceships in orbit around another
planet and possibly within the decade will land into anoth-3. on
er planet and explore it. Can we be too bold as to sug-4. so
gest that we may be able to colonize other planet5. planets
within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocat-
ed such a procedure as a solution to the population
problem: ship the excess people off to the moon. But
we must keep in head the billions of dollars we might6. mind
spend in carrying out the project. To maintain the
earth‘s population at its present level, we would
have to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of
every day of the year.
Why are we spending so little money on space 7. much
exploration? Consider the great need for improving8. Considering
many aspects of the global environment, one is surely
justified in his concern for the money and resources
that they are poured into the space exploration ef- 9. 去掉
forts. But perhaps we should look at both sides of the
coin before arriving hasty conclusions. 10. arriving at/reaching
Passage 3
Most people work to earn a living and they
Produce goods and services. Goods are either
agricultural (like maize) or manufactured (like
cars). Services are such things like education, 1. as
medicine, and commerce. These people provide 2. Some
goods; some provide services. Other people provide
both goods or services. For example, in the same 3. and
garage a man may buy a car or some service which
helps him maintain his car.
The work people do is called as economic 4. 去掉
activity. All economic activities taken together make
up the economic system of town, a city, a country,
or the world. Such economic system is the sum-total 5. 之前加an
of what people do and what they want. The work
people do either provides what they need or provides
the money with that they can buy essential 6. which
commodities. Of course, most people hope to have
enough money to buy commodities and services which
are essential but which provide some particular7. nonessential
personal satisfaction, such as toys for children, visits 8. 之后加to
the cinema, and books.
The science of economist is basis upon the facts9. based
of our everyday lives. Economists study our everyday
lives and the general life of our communities in order
to understand the whole economic system of which we
are a part. They try to describe the facts of the
economy in which we live, and to explain how it
works. The economist methods should of course be 10. economist’s
strictly objective and scientific.
Passage 4
British people don’t drink as many tea as they 1. much
used to, but Great Britain still takes almost twenty-
five per cent of all world exports of the commodity.
The world largest producers of tea are India, China 2. world’s
and the Sri Lanka. 3. 去掉
The quantity of tea is affected by the climate, 4. quality
by the latitude at which it is grown and also by
that part of the tea bush is plucked. In fact, as 5. which
Dominic Beddard, a tea taster, tells us, favour can6. flavour
even depend on which day the leaf is plucked:
”There are very considerable differences between teas
from the same estate made on different day,” he says. 7. days
Processing tea is a complicated procedure. After
the green leaf has been plucked, it is processed in a
factory. Quickly and carefully, the tea is reduced to8. slowly
a small brittle particle, which is then dried and looks
like the tea you see in a packet. The tea companies
then rely on tasters as Donimic to value the tea. This 9. 之前加such
hasto be done on a day-to-day basis because of
fluctuations in quality. Having to taste up to six
hundred cups of tea a day certainly causes Dominic’s 10. makes
job an unusual one!
Passage 5
Parents can be supportive of suspicions. They
can be helpful to the teacher, or are in need of help 1. be
themselves. Sometimes, I think parents are too hard
to their children. I have seen many parents of this 2. on
kind. I often have the problem of parents coming in
and telling me what they really treat their kids. They3. how
tell me that they usually stand over their kinds when
they do their homework. They check their work and
make big fuss over the grades. They criticize the kids 4. 之前加“a”
over everything having to do with school. My
response usually is: ”well, you know, he is really a
good kid. He is fine in my class. Maybe you should
not be too strict with them.”5. him
We want parents to realize the fact that teachers
are professors at working with children. They have 6. professional
observed many children and many parents. Because
of this, and because of their specialized training,
teachers can be realistic about children. Teachers
know whether parents want their children to do well7. that
and to behave well. But teachers know less what 8. better
children should be able to do at different ages and
stages. They don’t expect the 8-year-olds to do the
work that can only be done by the 12-year-olds.
Parents, in the contrary, often expect their children 9. on
to do what is usually beyond their age and ability.
Obviously, this may make great harm to the 10. do
children’s development.
Passage 6
Thus you experience success as you complete
each chapter. While you have completed the overall 5. have not
goal, you know you have progressed toward it.
Passage 7
although the tremendous amounts of money, time3. despite
and energy giving over to oral health.
Critics, on the other hand, slam the profession.
It can be conservatively estimated that at least
15 percent of United States dentists are
incompetent, honest, or both, says a former10. dishonest
Passage 8
All these tokens of success are in a sense merely bribes
provided by another person. Therefore, they can be10. However“But
effective and useful.
Passage 9
It is not just in academy that children are been pushed 4. being
too far and too fast. Some parents start their preschool
We need to abandon the false notions that we can
create exceptional children by early instruction and
such children are symbols of our competence as 8. 之前加“that”
parents.