2008年英語專業(yè)八級改錯(cuò)練習(xí)題及答案解析(20)

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The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for
    the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough
    and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__
    words have “l(fā)ess meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__
    “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__
    misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__
    of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__
    sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the
    is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__
    differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__
    the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “l(fā)ittle words.”
    But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” __8__
    of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__
    Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:
    we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__
    illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams
    and newspaper headlines.
     參考答案及解析:
    1 刪掉the
    此處的most并不表示obvious的級,而是用作副詞修飾obvious,表示程度很高,因此前面不能加the。
    2 將but改為and
    根據(jù)文章的意思,這里要用并列關(guān)系的and。
    3 將in改為to
    as apposed to 是固定搭配,意思是“與……相比”。
    4 將misled改為misleading
    5刪掉away
    此處考查固定用法。 far from being...意思為“遠(yuǎn)非”“遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不怎么樣”,符合這里的意思。而far away from 表示離某處很遠(yuǎn)。
    6 將single改為only或者sole
    這里要表達(dá)“的”。
    7 在as后面加to或者將as 改為in
    聯(lián)系上下文,此處的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相當(dāng)?shù)牟町悾盿s to 有“關(guān)于”或者“在某某方面的意思”;將as改為in,用differ from something in…也可表達(dá)這個(gè)意思。
    8 將mean改為means
    9 將as改為like,或者在as前面加such
    10 將number改為deal或者amount
    obscurity是不可數(shù)名詞,不能用a number of 來修飾。