Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a special kind of “private eye” can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by studying the clues buried by words. __1__ These philologists, such as the language detectives are called, have traced __2__ the word trail back from peoples in Europe, India, South Africa, the Americas,and the Pacific islands in a tiny nameless, and forgotten tribe that roamed central __3__ Eurasia 5000 to 6000 years ago, before the dawn of writing history. __4__ Since a long time scholars have been puzzled over the striking __5__ difference of words in different languages. In Dutch, vader; in Latin, pater;in __6__ old Irish, athir; in Persian, pidar;in the Sanskrit of distant India, pitr.
These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing—“father” __7__ Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such __8 close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. The more so __9__ because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the end of the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed __10__ from some common language.
【答案】
1 將by改為in.（be） buried in 意思為 “被…所掩蓋,掩蔽于…”
2 將such去掉。在這里as是連詞,引導狀語從句.考試大
3 將第一個and改為to （這個句子長,小心上當呀）。以便和前文的from構(gòu)成搭配 “from…to…”,表示 “從……到……”.
4 將writing改為written`.“有文字記載的歷史”英語為 “written history”.
5 將Since改為 For.因為since做介詞, 表示 “自從……起” 之意時,后面一般不跟表示一段時間的名詞.
6 將difference改為similarity.從后面的例子我們可以看出,作者在這里講述的是文字的驚人的相同之處,而不是不同之處.
7 將likely改為alike.likely 意思為 “很可能的”,不做 “相同的,相似的”解.
8 將where改為why.這里不是問地點而是問原因,從后面的because也可以看出.考試大
9 將close改為副詞closely.因為形容詞close不能修飾過去分詞related.
10 將18改為 18th..The more so because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences.
這句話的the more so because是什么意思呢, 以為人家出版社錯了,不過看兩本資料都這么寫. 有誰看得懂么?還是說真的是出錯了.原來the more so because意思為: 更何況。
These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing—“father” __7__ Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such __8 close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. The more so __9__ because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the end of the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed __10__ from some common language.
【答案】
1 將by改為in.（be） buried in 意思為 “被…所掩蓋,掩蔽于…”
2 將such去掉。在這里as是連詞,引導狀語從句.考試大
3 將第一個and改為to （這個句子長,小心上當呀）。以便和前文的from構(gòu)成搭配 “from…to…”,表示 “從……到……”.
4 將writing改為written`.“有文字記載的歷史”英語為 “written history”.
5 將Since改為 For.因為since做介詞, 表示 “自從……起” 之意時,后面一般不跟表示一段時間的名詞.
6 將difference改為similarity.從后面的例子我們可以看出,作者在這里講述的是文字的驚人的相同之處,而不是不同之處.
7 將likely改為alike.likely 意思為 “很可能的”,不做 “相同的,相似的”解.
8 將where改為why.這里不是問地點而是問原因,從后面的because也可以看出.考試大
9 將close改為副詞closely.因為形容詞close不能修飾過去分詞related.
10 將18改為 18th..The more so because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences.
這句話的the more so because是什么意思呢, 以為人家出版社錯了,不過看兩本資料都這么寫. 有誰看得懂么?還是說真的是出錯了.原來the more so because意思為: 更何況。