99年改错
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, the contemporary
aborigines live to old ages despite of the abnce of medical care. 7._______
They experience no obesity, no middle-aged spread, little dental
decay, no high blood pressure, on heart dia, 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 u their eating habits as a model for 10.________
healthier diet.
1999年
1. 答案：as → like
2. 答案：supplementing → supplemented
3. 答案：and → or
4. 答案：in → on
5. 答案：as → while / whereas
6. 答案：删去 for，或改成about
7. 甑答案：删去第一个of
8. 答案：half ∧→ that
9. 答案：if → While / Although / Though
10. 答案：for ∧→ a
2000改错
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
em the most obvious is that grammatical words have“ less
meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them 2._______
“empty” words as oppod 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
themlves as the amount of meaning they have, even in the 7.________
lexical n. 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 pro of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
2000年
1. 答案：删去明天情人节 the
2. 答案：but → and/thus
3. 答案：in → to
4. 答案：misled → misleading
5. 答案：删去away
6. 答案：single → only
7. 答案：as → in
8. 答案：mean → means
9. 答案：∧ lexical → such 或在words后加such，或把改成like
10. 答案：number → deal / amount
2001改错
During the early years of this century, wheat was en 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 t the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing
the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain
lling 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 e 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
英语短篇故事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, ll, and t prices.
2001年
1. 答案：in → with
2. 答案：increasing → increasingly
3. 答案：so → but
4. 答案：删去soon钢笔楷书字帖或shortly
5. 答案：just → only
6. 答案：asked ∧ → for
7. 答案：involving → involved
8. 答案：life → living
9. 答案：handle → deal 或 删去it运维with
10. 答案：total →不如重新开始 full/complete/absolute
2002生日祝福语闺蜜改错
There are great impediments to the general u of a standard in pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling (orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt “naturally” and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 1__________ deliberately
and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech 2._____________ sounds like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock 3.__________when we firstly hear a recording of ourlves. It is not a voice we 4._________recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is something which we almost always know. We begin the natural learning 5.__________of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 6.____________practicing the pronunciation of tho around us for many more hours per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our 7.______________difficult English spelling. This is “natural”, therefore, that our 8.______________speech-sounds should be tho of our immediate circle; after all, as we have en, speech operates as a means of holding a community 9._______________and giving a n of 'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a “stranger”, someone who speaks with an accent of a different community-perhaps only a few miles far. 10.________________
2002年
1. 答案：第二个and → while / whereas / but / yet
2. 答案：with → of
3. 答案：删去out
4. 答案：firstly → first
5. 答案：which → that
6. 答案：went → go
7. 答案：删去per或every
8. 答案：This → It
9. 答案：community ∧ → together
10. 答案：far → away
2003改错
去血渍
Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar
period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly
brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought
the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)______
years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” The young (2)_______
adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
families that Went for more than two decades and caud a major (3)_______
but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From
the 1940S through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)________
and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.(5)________
Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)________
formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)________
divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to
a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)________
as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)___________
distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the
temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)___________
Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and
homemaker was not abandoned.
