2012年大学英语六级改错提升练习五

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Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous
ages in knoeledge, there has been not corresponding increase in ___1___
wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define “wisdon”
and consider means of promoting them. There are several factors ___2___
+ N& f) J5 g. u; I" athat contribute to wisdon. Of there I should put first a sense of
$ b. @; W$ C  Apromotion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors
in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become
more difficult than it used to owing to the extent and complexity of the ___3___
2 X1 t2 w- a9 g0 t8 uspecial knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for
4 A5 E  ?8 z2 z' T+ D! Dexample, that you are engaging in research in scientific medicine. The ___4___
4 t# O" ]( G0 d# L4 X' Vwork is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You
have no time to consider the effect what your discoveries or inventions ___5___
, T+ @+ z) o6 g: Wmay have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as
modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lower the infant ___6___
death rate, not only in the Europe and America, but also in Asia and
___7___
Africa. This has the little entirely unintended result of making the food
supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the
7 l. z+ k. o7 f, f' i/ x9 y  Sworld that has the greatest populations. ___8___
6 @1 t/ K  h% h4 n$ [, F; ^& q7 YTherefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom
% |" u: D' g3 `7 Fbecomes less necessary, for every such increase augments（增强）our ___9___
capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity
' S: y9 h8 l- ~" V2 h8 h: t. mfor evil, unless our purposes are unwise.___10___
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答案及解析:
3 H* q; K% }. x3 w% Y6 [5 k3 y1. not -%26gt; no
Not和no都有否定意义，但not强调“不是”，而no强调“没有”；no修饰名词，not则修饰形容词或情态动词或助动词。此处corresponding increase为名词性短语，所以要用no。

2. them -%26gt; it
& L. {4 f$ {3 C* k此处的代词指代上一行的wisdom，所以要把them改为it。
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3.. used to -%26gt; used to be
# g# A- {& n: _. j6 Downing to为固定短语，意为“由于，因为”，后接名词、动名词或名词性从句；used to用于表示过去的状态或常做的动作，后接动词原形。通读全句可知，本句为含有that引导的比较状语从句的复合句。在比较状语从句中，如果从句的谓语与主句的谓语为同一动词时，从句的谓语可以省略。本句中，主句的谓语是has become而从句的谓语是used to be，因此此处的be不能省略。
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0 {& l  X' @, U: p9 g& J6 K5 y4. engaging -%26gt; engaged
8 a+ K( a5 S# j" u% A: ^5 }, V6 c% Pbe engaged in sth / doing sth为习惯用法，意为“参加，忙于”，强调状态；engage in sth / doing sth同样意为“参加，忙于”，但强调动作，一般不使用现在进行时。
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5. what -%26gt; that / which或 /
% O' V; d* c$ }- s- D+ T; X3 @$ ^5 J) `此处是定语从句，先行词the effect在从句中作have的宾语，所以这里要用that或which。而what只引导名词性从句。
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1 }! g; c1 G/ s6. lower -%26gt; lowering
此处是suceed in sth / doing sth，这里要把lower改为动名词形式作介词in的宾语，in (enormously) lowering。
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6 o: {6 }# x& w5 s$ S* u7. the -%26gt; /
; ?9 D* y0 X6 m洲和国家简称前不加定冠词。

8 h: R. m$ @( J# R/ p, D; o8. has -%26gt; have
本句中，that引导的是定语从句，先行词为the parts，of the world是作后置定语，所以从句中的谓语要用复数形式。
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9. less -%26gt; more
& A8 x9 m" e8 Z$ O9 Hless与for引导的原因状语从句在语意上矛盾。从句是在解释“如果我们的目的是不明智的，那么随着知识不断增长的能力只能被用于邪恶”。
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( t$ w1 S$ |$ {* u- ^' d10. unless -%26gt; if
if意为“如果”，unless意为“除非”，若unless正确，那么就与前面的therefore augments our capacity for evil在语意上矛盾。