2012年大学英语六级改错提升练习五

会计考友

Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous
ages in knoeledge, there has been not corresponding increase in ___1___
/ c8 L/ B; w) swisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define “wisdon”
4 n6 J& h- f; t/ |3 B8 n+ dand consider means of promoting them. There are several factors ___2___
that contribute to wisdon. Of there I should put first a sense of
promotion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors
in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become
" I$ {7 n$ @( h3 }0 hmore difficult than it used to owing to the extent and complexity of the ___3___
special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for
example, that you are engaging in research in scientific medicine. The ___4___
work 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___
: V* \0 J& C  M1 ^8 qmay have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as
0 r( W# a+ [3 g+ s# omodern 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
, b: l1 a$ o. ~. t! U; d" Hsupply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the
world that has the greatest populations. ___8___
' S' w+ A% ^3 L8 k4 GTherefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom
becomes less necessary, for every such increase augments（增强）our ___9___
- T4 @1 b3 W# _capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity
6 a0 r: C) N* C5 ?for evil, unless our purposes are unwise.___10___


答案及解析:
& j' Z$ h1 Q# @1. not -%26gt; no
3 Y3 V+ E" [$ M/ \9 LNot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。
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2. them -%26gt; it
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
owning 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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4 e1 V$ M/ A; M. W0 O0 w( Z' K! ~1 b+ g4. engaging -%26gt; engaged
be 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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9 a4 _3 I: S! X: a5. what -%26gt; that / which或 /
* F' u9 n) H! _0 g! P/ {+ ]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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6. 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。

. ?) j7 K% L8 M# c7. the -%26gt; /
洲和国家简称前不加定冠词。

8. 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。

9. less -%26gt; more
7 {+ P9 H0 w4 {0 \8 d6 k- X6 j; C/ d% Yless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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10. 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。