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六级模拟题：改错部分20篇
第十一篇： Error Correction (15 minutes)
More people die of tuberculosis(结核病)than of any other disease caused by
a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the --71.
early stages of the industrial revolution. Perhaps one in every seventh --72.
deaths in Europe's crowded cities were caused by the disease. From --73.
now on, Though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble going --74.
into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and --75.
20th centuries. In the 1950s,the introduction of antibiotics(抗菌素)
strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed
to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and --76.
withdrew. They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of infections and deaths --77.
started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it --78.
came back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The --79.
World Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the
earth's population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate
was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or
less constantly at 8 million a year. Around 3 million of those people --80.
died, nearly all of them in poor countries. 答案：71. in→for
72. seventh→seven
73. were→was
74. now→then
75. 去掉Europe前的the
76. imported→exported
77. are→were
78. tuberculosis∧vanished→had
79. better→worse
80. constantly→constant 第十二篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Most studies suggest that when women and men do the
same job and have the experience, pay rates tend to be
similar. Most of the dollar differences stem from fact that --71.
women tend to be more recently employed and have more --72.
years on the job. Whether women who have started a career
will attain pay equality with men rest on at least two factors. --73.
First, will most of them continue part time at their jobs after --74.
they have children? A break in its employment, or a decision --75.
to work part time, will slow its raises and promotions
because it would for men. Second, will male-dominated --76.
companies elevate women to higher-paid jobs at the different --77.
rate as they elevate men? On some fields, this had clearly not --78.
happened. Many men, for example, have committed their --79.
lives to teaching careers, yet relative few have become --80.
principals or headmasters. 答案：71. from fact -> from the fact
72. recently -> frequently
73. rest -> rests
74. part -> full
75. its -> their
76. because -> as
77. different -> same
78. On -> In
79. men -> women
80. relative -> relatively 第十三篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) When you start talking about good and bad manners you
immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot
agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she
thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the way they --61.
occupied the space around them-for example, when such a
person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of --62.
others. Such people never bump into other people.
However, a second person thought that this was more a
question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this --63.
other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, --64.
about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at --65.
one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasn't --66.
been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If
he had known about American food, he might have behaved --67.
better.
Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that
looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾） Picking it --68.
up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt. --69.
His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but --70.
immediately copied the action of his guest.
And that, said this second person, was a fine example of
good manners. 答案：61. on→by
62. unaware→aware
63. as→than
64. it→which
65. at→in
66. hasn't→hadn't
67. American→Arab
68. as→like
69. falls→fell
70. of→删 第十四篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) When you start talking about good and bad manners you
immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot
agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she
thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the way they --71.
occupied the space around them - for example, when such a
person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of --72.
others. Such people never bump into other people.
However, a second person thought that this was more a
question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this --73.
other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, --74.
about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at --75.
one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasn't --76.
been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If
he had known about American food, he might have behaved --77.
better.
Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that
looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾） Picking it --78.
up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt. --79.
His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but --80.
immediately copied the action of his guest.
And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners. 答案：71. on→by
72. unaware→aware
73. as→than
74. it→which
75. at→in
76. hasn't→hadn't
77. American→Arab
78. as→like
79. falls→fell
80. of→删
第十五篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Most studies suggest that when women and men do the
same job and have the experience, pay rates tend to be
similar. Most of the dollar differences stem from fact that 71.
women tend to be more recently employed and have more 72.
years on the job. Whether women who have started a career
will attain pay equality with men rest on at least two factors. 73.
First, will most of them continue part time at their jobs after 74.
they have children? A break in their employment, or a decision 75.
to work part time, will slow its raises and promotions
because it would for men. Second, will male-dominated 76.
companies elevate women to higher-paid jobs at the different 77.
rate as they elevate men? On some fields, this had clearly not 78.
happened. Many men, for example, have committed their 79.
lives to teaching careers, yet relative few have become 80.
principals or headmasters. 答案：
71. from fact -> from the fact
72. recently -> frequently
73. rest -> rests
74. part -> full
75. its -> their
76. because -> as
77. different -> same
78. On -> In
79. men -> women
80. relative -> relatively 第十六篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) When you are facing with a large audience, you may get --81--.
nervous, you may forget what you want to say, you may stumble
over words, you may talk too long, and you may bore your
audience. Later you think, "Thank goodness, it's over. I'm just
no good in public speaking. I hope I never have to do that --82--.
again." Cheer up! It doesn't have to be that bad. Here is some --83.--
simple steps to take the pain out of speech making. First of all, it
is important to do your homework. Find out everything you can
about your subject. And, at the same time, find out much as you --84--.
can about your audience. Who are they? What do they know about your subject?
Ask you the purpose of your speech. What is the occasion? --85--.
Why are you speaking? Are you introducing another speaker?
Giving a lecture? Or convince someone? There are many possible --86--.
speaking roles, and each one has its own special characteristics.
Make sure you know by which category you fit. Don't spoil your --87--.
speech by confusing one speaking role to another. --88--.
Let us suppose that you have asked to introduce the main --89--.
speaker at a conference. First, find out the most important and
interesting things about the speaker. Then, summarize this
information in a few remarks. It is all right to tell a joke or an
anecdote if it is in good taste and will not embarrass the speaker.
Remember: Be brief, you are the man speaker. --90--. 答案：
81. with - to
82. in - at
83. is - are
84. much as - as much as
85. you - yourself
86. convince - convincing
87. by - in
88. to - with
89. have asked - have been asked
90. you - and you
第十七篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities
to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he
is fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is --71--
improbable that he will ever again in his life be given
so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, --72--
life is always presenting new things to the child—things
that have lost their interesting for older people because --73--
they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing
in the rain, or in the snow. [JP+2]His first visit to the
seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:
He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks old --74--
people do; he is continually being told not to do things,
or being punished for that he has done wrong. --75-- His life is therefore not perfectly happy.--76--
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he
becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;
but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities.
He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his
clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live
comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing about in --77--
the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. --78--
And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break
the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, --79--
he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,
he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making --80--
steady progress in his job and of building up for himself
his own position in society. 答案：
71.what改为whatever。whatever引导让步状语从句，相当于no matter what，意思是“无论什么”，“不管什么”，whatever在从句中作宾语。
72.turn改为return。短语in turn表示“轮流地; 挨个, 依次; 反过来”，而在这里是指孩子对父母的回报。
73.interesting改为interest。在形容词性物主代词their的后面应跟名词性成分。
74.do改为 are。与前面的is相对应。
75.that改为what。that引导的是定语从句，在本句中应该使用关系代词what，相当于the thing/ things that。
76.not改为no。固定搭配的副词短语“no longer”
77.comfortable改为comfortably。修饰动词live应为副词而不是形容词。
78.suffer改为go或become或be。或把hungry改为hunger。
79.therefore改为however。此处的条件状语从句表示转折。
80.making 改为 make。 第十八篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Today we take for granted that the mail will be delivered --71--
daily at our door. But many years ago it might have been
placed in a tree trunk and underneath a rock. In the early --72--
days of the mail no one could be sure about where or when it will arrive. --73-- At the southern tip of Africa there was once a post office --74--
under a rock. At the old days the route from England to
India was around the Cape of Good Hope. The journey was
stormy and danger. It took six long months. Sailors often --75--
wished to send mail home, but they seldom met ships bound
back to England. So at the cape the sailors would go on
ashore. They headed for a certain large stone. On the --76--
stone scratched the words “Look hereunder for letters.” --77--
They would leave their letters there, knowing that the
next homeward ship would stop and pick it up. --78-- There was another post office like this at the southern
tip of South America. During the golden rush days, boats --79--
sailed around Cape Horn to California. At Cape Horn was
a keg(小桶) nailed to a post. Boats coming from the east
coast would send some sailors to this post office. They
picked up any letters in the keg. At the same time they
mailed letters home that boats sail east could pick up.--80-- 答案：
71.take for granted 改为take it for granted. take it for granted that: 想当然认为…，在该结构中，it为形式宾语，that引导的从句才是真正宾语。如：Don’t take it for granted that you are bond to win. 别想当然地以为你注定会赢。
72.and 改为or,根据句意知，此处应是选择关系，而非并列关系。
73.will改为would。根据句中In the early days和could 知此句主句时态为一般过去时，故其宾语从句中的将来时应为过去将来时，用would。
74.At改为In。at表时间点，如几时几刻：at five o’clock, at 10∶30表一段时间用in, 如：in two years, in a week, in a few days,自然此处the old days 前应用in。
75.danger 改为dangerous. 由于本句是系数结构，故应用形容词；况且从修辞上看既然stormy 有“风暴的”是形容词，后面and 并列的词性也应是形容词。故应将danger 名词改为其形容词dangerous。
76.go on ashore 改为go ashore 或go on shore, ashore 是副词，意为“上岸，在岸上”。此处“上岸”可用go ashore或go on shore来表达。
77.scratched 改为were scratched或they scratched。若用were scratched，则此句为倒装句，主语是words,用过去时和被动语态。若用they scratched，则words是宾语，该句缺主语，根据上下文，加上they即可。
78.it改为them。句中的pick it up 中“it”指的是主句中的letters。根据单复数一致的原则，应用them指代letters。
79.golden改为gold。golden 是形容词，意为“金色的”，“黄金般的”，gold 作名词，意为“黄金”，作形容词，意为“全制的”。故“淘金热”应为“gold rush”。
80.sail 改为sailing。根据boats sail east could pick up 中could为谓动词，到sail 应变为现在分词，作定语，修饰boats。若无字数限制，改成boats which sailed east 这样的定语从句也可以。 第十九篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is
expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and --71--
few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing
foreign languages. Now there are many reasons about this, --72--
some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest
that the fundamental reason why people in general do not
speak foreign languages very better than they do is that --73--
they fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning
to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling
it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize --74--
that pronounce a foreign language is a skill, one that --75--
needs careful training of a special kind, and one that
cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of himself. --76-- I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the
importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical
teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the --77--
language. So the first point I want to make is that English
pronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to --78--
devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole
attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel
that here is a matter worth of receiving his close attention. --79--
So, there should be occasions where other aspects of English, --80--
such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to
take a secondary place.
【参考答案】
71.and→but。and表示递进并列关系；but表示转折关系。根据上下文应用but。
72. about→for。reason与介词for搭配，表示“……的原因”。
73. very better→very much better。very不能修饰形容词的比较级，只能用much,far, very much, a lot, any, no, rather, a little, a bit修饰。
74. by→in。by the way：顺便说一下；in the right way：以正确的方式，又如：in your own way：以自己的方式。
75. pronounce→pronouncing。在that 引导的宾语从句中主语是动名词短语pronouncing a foreign language,原形动词（这里为pronounce）不能作主语。
76. himself→itself。one在本句中不是指人，所以其反身代词可用itself，而不用himself。
77. concerning→concerned。be concerned with：关于，如：The book is chiefly concerned with history。concerning作分词用，意为“涉及到”，此处不仅词义不当，而且concering后绝不能加with。
78. may→should。may表示推测、请求、允许或祝愿：should表示义务、建议、惊奇、推测等。这里讲的是老师的义务，故应该为should。
79. worth→worthy。 worth可用在两个结构中，后面跟ing形式。1)用先行词it作主语，如：it isn't worth getting upset。2)用名次或代词作主语，如：The book is not worth reading. worthy 多用于worthy of + n. or be worthy to + v. 结构中，也可用作定语，如：a cause worthy of support/ a man who is worthy to have a place in the team/ a worthy winner。
80. where→when。occasion是指动作发生的时机而不是地点，故应用表示时间的副词引导的定语从句修饰occasion。 第二十篇： Error Correction (15 minutes) Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful
political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in 71.____
come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper
class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as 72.____
power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than 73.____
those of the poor.
As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the
point of view of the nonpoor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If there 74.____
were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have to be 75.____
rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs
for many of the nonpoor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government
bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers, 76.____
gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy 77.____
more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and 78.____
service, such as dayold bread, rundown automobiles, or the advice of competent 79.____
physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American
economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. 80.____ 答案：
71.redistributing改为redistribute。attempt to 后面一般接动词原型，而不接动名词，因为这里的to是不定式符号，而不是介词，即attempt to do sth.。
72.you 改为others。此句是说，如果一部分相对比较穷，那么一部分人就会相对比较富。将人群分为两部分，此处就不能用you，others才可以表示人群的一部分。
73.在interests和than中间加上rather。此句不是表示比较（than），而是表示转折（公众政策反映他们的利益，而不是穷人的利益），所以应该用rather than （而不是）代替than。
74.doing改为done。此句是被动语态，表示“脏活被完成”，get 是系动词，所以应用do的过去分词形式done。
75.will改为would。此句使用了虚拟语气，表示对现在情况的假设，所以主句应用would。
76.cookers改为cooks。厨师是cook，而不cooker。cooker指炊具，与后面的“gardener（园丁）and other workers”不一致，所以应改为厨师（cook）。
77.when改为while。此处不是表示时间上的同时性，而是表示两种情形的对比，“一些人在做……，而另一些人在做……”。表示对比的连词一般用while。
78.去掉more。inferior本身就表示“低级的”，已经构成了比较形式，所以前面一般不能再加more。
79.competent 改为incompetent。此句讲的是穷人所能享受的服务，过期的面包、报废的汽车，还有不合格的医生和律师所提供的建议。如果是competent，则成了合格的医生和律师所提供的建议，那么与整句意思不符。
80.去掉in。此句中的which引导非限定性定语从句，作influence和change的直接宾语，因为influence和change均为及物动词，所以不能加in． |
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