历年专八改错(2000年-2014年)真题及答案解析

2014年真题改错部分Thereiswidespreadconsensusamongscholarsthatsecondlanguageacquisition(SLA)emergedasadistinctfieldofresearchfromthelate1950stoearly1960s.Thereisahighlevelofagreementthatthefollowingquestions1.___________havepossessedthemostattentionofresearchersinthisarea:2.___________·Isitpossibletoacquireanadditionallanguageinthesamesenseoneacquiresafirstlanguage?3.__________·Whatistheexplanationforthefactadultshavemoredifficultyin4.__________acquiringadditionallanguagesthanchildrenhave?·Whatmotivatespeopletoacquireadditionallanguages?·Whatistheroleofthelanguageteachingintheacquisitionofan5.__________additionallanguage?·Whatsocioculturalfactors,ifany,arerelevantinstudyingthelearningofadditionallanguages?Fromacheckoftheliteratureofthefielditisclearthatallthe6.__________approachesadoptedtostudythephenomenaofSLAsofarhaveonethingincommon:Theperspectiveadoptedtoviewtheacquiringofanadditionallanguageisthatofanindividualattemptstodoso.Whether7.__________onelabelsit“learning”or“acquiring”anadditionallanguage,itisanindividualaccomplishmentorwhatisunderfocusisthecognitive,8.__________psychological,andinstitutionalstatusofanindividual.Thatis,thespotlightisonwhatmentalcapabilitiesareinvolving,whatpsychological9.___________factorsplayaroleinthelearningoracquisition,andwhetherthetargetlanguageislearntintheclassroomoracquiredthroughsocialtouchwith10.__________nativespeakers.2014年真题改错部分答案：1.is添加alsoa2.possessed改为attracted词汇搭配attractone’sattention3.thesamesense后添加asone固定搭配(介词)：thesameas4.thefact后添加thatadults从句：同位语从句，关系代词that不可省略5.thelanguage去掉the,此处泛指不特指，非特指6.check改为review词汇：纵览，回顾，综述7.attempts改为attempting介词后+名词/动名词短语8.or改为and连词：顺应关系9.involving改为involved非谓语动词：被动关系，用过去分词10.touch改为interaction词汇interaction指交流，互动；touch触碰，指身体接触2013年专八真题改错部分2013年专业八级改错答案及解析：1.production改为producing。结构与understanding和remembering保持一致，后面修饰的都是language,productionlanguage的表述不正确，producinglanguage才是正确的。2.去掉takethelanguageforgranted里面的the。本文并没有具体指定哪一门语言，是对“语言”这一概念来说的，所以不需要the。另外，通篇的language前面都没有the。3.mostoftime变成mostofthetime。mostofthetime系错误的英语表达。只有Mostofthetime和mosttime的表述。4.looking改为look。构成whenyoulistento和orlook的对仗。5.在wemight前面加上that，构成It'sonly...that的强调句型。6.hashadastroke改为hadastroke。表示这是过去发生的事情。7.theirlanguage改为hislanguage。句子的主语是arelativeorcolleague，这里的主语是单数，所以用his，为什么一般不用her呢？男权社会嘛，一说他，基本都是he。8.anyone改为someone。固定表达：someoneelse9.evolved改为involved。evolve表示“进化”，involve才表示“涉及，关于”。这里明显是说“有关speaking,listening,writing,andreading的processes”，不是processes进化为speaking,listening,writing,andreading10.were改为are。虽然前面有个giventhat表让步，不过，giventhat后面不接虚拟语气，所以直接保持整篇文章现在时的时态。2012年专八真题改错部分Thecentralproblemoftranslatinghasalwaysbeenwhethertotranslateliterallyorfreely.Theargumenthasbeengoingsinceatleastthefirst(1)______centuryB.C.Uptothebeginningofthe19thcentury,manywritersfavouredcertainkindof“free”translation:thespirit,nottheletter;the(2)_______sensenottheword;themessagerathertheform;thematternot(3)_______themanner.Thisistheoftenrevolutionarysloganofwriterswho(4)_______wantedthetruthtobereadandunderstood.Thenintheturnof19th(5)_______century,whenthestudyofculturalanthropologysuggestedthatthelinguisticbarrierswereinsuperableandthatthelanguage(6)_______wasentirelytheproductofculture,theviewtranslationwasimpossible(7)_______gainedsomecurrency,andwithitthat,ifwasattemptedatall,itmustbeas(8)_______literalaspossible.Thisviewculminatedthestatementofthe(9)_______extreme“literalists”WalterBenjaminandVladimirNobokov.Theargumentwastheoretical:thepurposeofthetranslation,thenatureofthereadership,thetypeofthetext,wasnotdiscussed.Toooften,writer,translatorandreaderwereimplicitlyidentifiedwitheachother.Now,thecontexthaschanged,andthebasicproblemremains.(10)_____改错部分1.going后加on2.cerain改成some3.rather后加than4.is改为was5.in改为at6.去掉the7.view后加that8.删掉was9.statement改为statements10.and改为but2011年专八真题改错部分Fromaveryearlyage,perhapstheageoffiveorsix,IknewthatwhenIgrewIshouldbeawriter.Betweentheagesofabout1__________seventeenandtwenty-fourItriedtoabandonthisidea,butIdidsowiththeconsciencethatIwasoutragingmytruenatureandthat2___________soonorlaterIshouldhavetosettledownandwritebooks.3___________Iwasthechildofthree,buttherewasagapoffiveyears4__________oneitherside,andIbarelysawmyfatherbeforeIwaseight.ForthisandotherreasonsIwassomewhatlonely,andIsoondevelopeddisagreeingmannerismswhichmademeunpopularthroughoutmy5_____________schooldays.Ihadthelonelychild'shabitofmakingupstoriesandholdingconversationswithimaginativepersons,andIthinkfrom6_________theverystartmyliteralambitionsweremixedupwiththefeelingof7________beingisolatedandundervalued.IknewthatIhadafacilitywithwordsandapoweroffacinginunpleasantfacts,andIfeltthatthiscreated8________asortofprivateworldwhichIcouldgetmyownbackformyfailure9________ineverydaylife.Therefore,thevolumeofserious—i.e.seriously10________intended—writingwhichIproducedallthroughmychildhoodandboyhoodwouldnotamounttohalfadozenpages.Iwrotemyfirstpoemattheageoffourorfive,mymothertakingitdowntodictation.1，在grow后加up,考固定短语2，改consience为consciousness考词语区别，consience翻译为“良心，道德心”,consiousness翻译为“意识”3，改soon为soone