大学英语六级：短文改错(四十三)

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, F; G% Q, M' W. CWhen some 19th New Yorkers said “Harlem”, they meant almost
all of Manhattan above 86th Street. Toward the end of the century,
however, a group of citizens in upper Manhtattan want, perhaps, to ___1___
shape a closer and more precise sense of community designated a
" o9 C/ I# y4 p6 a$ l- S4 \2 ?section that they wished to have known as Harlem. The choosen area
was the Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the ___2___
new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and lower
( ~+ C: Q3 }7 m- w7 b4 Xblocks of the West Side.
As the community became predominantly Black, the very word
: }: r# o4 p1 k( k. \2 S- l- I“Harlem” seemed to lose its old mean. At times it was easy to forget ___3___
that “Harlem” was originally the Dutch name “Harlem”, the ___4___
community it described had been found by people from Holland,
and that for most of its three centuries ---- it was first settled in the
sixteen hundreds ---- it had been preoccupied by White New Yorkers. ___5___
& e4 S2 h5 B  D: n! N“ Harlem” became synonymous to Black life and Black stytle in ___6___
Manhattan. Blacks living there used the word as though they had
coined it on themselves --- not only to designate their area of residence ___7___
but to express their sense of the various qualities of its life and
atmosphere. As years passed, “Harlem” assumed an even large ___8___
2 T: j# q) w& Q" Imeaning. In the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr, the pastor of the
7 ~+ k9 Y% ?  y' ~5 EAbyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem “ became the symbol of the liberty
and the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere.
+ j8 U5 g9 T9 lBy 1919, Harlem’s population had grown by several thousand. It
had received its share of wartime migration form the South, the
: a3 C6 w2 G" uCaribbean, and parts of colonial Africa. Some of the new arrivals
merely lived in Harlem; it was New York they come to, looking ___9___
for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities of life in the city.
1 O  f7 h+ O" X& uTo others who migrated to Harlem, New York was merely the city
in which they found themselves: Harlem was exactly what they ___10___
wished to be.



答案及解析:
1. want -> wanting
本句的谓语是designated，want….community应该是修饰citizens的定语，因此需要将动词want变成分词形式，且为主动关系，故将want改为wanting。

2. which -> where或which前加to
which引导的是修饰Harlem的定语从句，从句中moved（搬家）是不及物动词，所以要在which前面加上介词to，或者将which改为where。

" X$ t7 [% z- q7 a8 ~9 u3. mean -> meaning
5 E" i" P' Z/ a2 nmean作名词时意为“平均数，中间，中庸”，不符合题意；而meaning意为“意义，含义”，lose its old meaning意为“失去了昔日的意义”，符合题意。
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4. 第二个the前加that
& P' d" E& B  j# w1 @. O本句中forget后面引导的是三个并列的宾语从句。在一个词引导两个或多个宾语从句时，第一句宾语从句的that可省可不省，但第二句或从第二句以后的that都不可以省略。
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, s+ w* q: K" ^: Z! u5. preoccupied -> occupied
2 V2 G) L& x$ u! d: `3 B这里的 hundreds没有错，in the sixteen hundreds 相当于in the 1600s。preoccupy意为“使全神贯注，使入神”， be preoccupied with意为“忙于做某事”，不符合题意；而occupy意为“居住，占用”，符合题意。
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+ L; B  C* h0 {% K0 D+ C; u6. to -> with
( F' B  |- w% abe synonymous with意为“与…等同，与…意义相同”。

/ p3 S, z6 ]# e0 B) s7. on -> by
6 D! N( \. U* yby themselves表示“他们自己”，本句中的coin“杜撰（单词）”，结合句意可知，应该将on改为by。
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8. large -> larger
2 t, y" x1 X7 D( leven修饰的形容词要用比较级。

. w$ B0 _4 X& E+ l( q+ U% c. l9. they前加that
这里是it is …that…的强调句型，该句型中的that不可以省略。
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  y* ?% V! ~3 y& l7 D% W10. what -> where
) F8 H* x+ ~- K% g$ v  c3 V如果用what，则最后一句的意思就成了“哈莱姆区正是他们希望成为的地方了”，不符合题意。正确的意思应该是“哈莱姆区正是他们希望居住的地方”，所以应该将what改为where。