精编专业英语八级改错模拟题13则.pdf

英语专业八级改错模拟题(1) Proof –reading (10%) (A) The following passage contains TEN error, each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it according to the following example: When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] an it never buys things in finished form and hang them on the wall [2] never when a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. [3] exhibit Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerfulpolitical pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in __1__ 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 __2__ power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than __3__ those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing __4__. If there were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have to be __5__ rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers __6__, gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy __7__ more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods __8__ and service, such as day old bread, run down automobiles, or the advice of competent __9__ physicians and lawyers. Poverty als