Error Correction (10%)
In the following passage there are 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. Read the passage and correct the mistakes. If you change a word, cross it out and write the substitute in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put the inrtion mark (^) in the right place and write the word you want to add in the corresponding blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank. Make your answers clear on the Answer Sheet.
1. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. His couragement and idealism were bad (1) _________on Knowledge. He probably knew more than any other man of his age. He is an expert in agriculture, archaeology, and medicine. He practiced crops rotation (2)_________and soil conrvation a century before the became standard practice. He invented a plow superior than (3) _______any other in existence. He influenced in architecture (4)_________throughout America, and he was constantly producing devices for making the tasks of ordinary life more (5)_______easier to perform.
Of all Jefferson’s many talents, one is central. He was above all a good or tireless writer. His (6) _______completed works, now being published for the first (7) ________time will fill more than fifty volumes. His talent as the author was soon discovered, and when the time (8) ________came to writing the Declaration of Independence in (9) ________1776, the task of writing it was his. Millions have thrilled to his words: “We hold the truths to be lf-evidence that all men are created equal…” (10) ________
2. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruir through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s 1._________endless summer of freedom and adventure. Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was a bit as adventurous , patriotic, romantic, and humorous 2. ______as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well---one whotrims
growth cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life3. _________dealt him., a man who became obsd in the frailties of the human 4. ________race, who saw clearly in ahead a black wall of night. 5.游泳的英文 _______Tramp printer, river pilot, Confedera
te guerrilla, prospector, starry-eyed cynic: The man who became Mark Twain born Sammuel Langhorne 6._______Clemens and he arranged across the nation for more than a third of his life,7. _______digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms of water --- a navigable deep.8. _______His popularity is tested by the fact that more than a score of his books 9. ___________remain out of print, and translations are still read around the world.10. _______
3．the king is always luckyFaulkner gained enormous reputation abroad 口译天下（1）----------before achieving recognition in the united states; he（2）----------awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 and the French Legion of Honor in 1951 but hadn’t win the Pulitzer（3）----------Prize until 1955. American indifference with Faulkner （4）----------Resulted, in part, in a lack of interest in the rural Southern tting of his major works. In addition, his stylistics—den and poetic—was extremely experiment （5）---------for his time with a subjective narrative （6）---------was difficult for the average reader. In the 1930s and （7m j）---------1940s financial con
cerns drove Faulkner accept work（8愚公移山故事）--------as a ‘film doctor’ in Hollywood. He rewrote the ninth （9）--------scripts in 1932. he never stopped writing stories and
novels, and by the time of his death in 1962 his fame in America equaled with his reputation abroad. （10）---------
4. In spite of the law providing for equality, the ratio of women’s earnings to mens’ has stayed about the（1）---------- same for the pasd quarter-century. Yet the （2）----------importance if paid work about women’s well-being has（3英语偏旁部首）---------become recognized. A recent study has shown that a woman’s n of pride and power is most strongly （4）----------related to her paid work than to her personnel life. （5）---------With women working, there are advantages besides incread income for the two-wage-earners family. （6）---------There is the opportunity for a more equalitarian relationship between a husband an wife, a n of integrity（7）---------for the woman as she develops his potential, （8）---------and the chance for both partners to function in family
and career roles. Yet this style of life also gives （9）---------stress for the family; there
are many demands in juggling career and home, and few role models exist to help women work out solutions. Some approach towards the problem by hiring help in home chores,（10）---------taking advantage of community resources, and eking support from family and friends.
5. Impressionist art was different from traditional art. Traditional painters were interested in form of （1）---------object. The impressionists were interested in light or（2）--------color. The impressionist painters wanted to paint nature light which was live and bright. They tried to （3）----------express the feeling of pure sunshine in their paintings. When traditional artists mixed paints, they do not （4李阳口语宝典）green leaf---------create the feeling of bright, natural light. However, the impressionists ud small dots of pure colors. The viewers’ eyes never put the unmixed colors together （5）---------the same way they add colors in light together. When you look at an impressionist painting, you feel the same when you look at an object in live, natural sunlight. （6）---------Monet made ries of paintings of a haystack. 北大青鸟培训机构（7）---------The painters did not look the same becau sunlight （8）---------had different effects on objects in different （9）---------
