The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for
8 F* s6 Y" T6 i the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough
: b) [: R* O' z4 T f8 v V( @ and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__4 E) M( {7 b9 f
words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__! d* t6 ]! C+ r1 A$ X1 \$ A
“empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__: G X9 R$ ^! z/ n
misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__' ]/ }- J1 \ m* r8 e
of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__
! t! u+ M1 J4 }( Q3 V" p& P sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the6 Z. L: f2 K3 T) D" Y
is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__/ I2 F- ~# {5 `1 I- M
differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__
0 z& p) D6 w+ D5 @/ i! ^6 T5 e the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”
$ x+ Y7 N- n C, N8 J* O But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” __8__
2 Z+ U6 X/ X2 D1 B of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__
& q, n) K7 F0 [ Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:
, F+ p& E3 V+ T) E( x ~5 ]! K we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__
/ B* Z1 f, i2 B illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams" v3 C k. r T! p( ^
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参考答案及解析:
" I. P, S0 a8 u. F 1 删掉the
- ^1 L3 U1 a& c# ~ g 此处的most并不表示obvious的最高级,而是用作副词修饰obvious,表示程度很高,因此前面不能加the。
# g; E1 w& N9 p: s+ y9 y, u 2 将but改为and! i% v! l6 M. n+ {# m
根据文章的意思,这里要用并列关系的and。
) C4 {3 I+ |( I- {/ M9 q 3 将in改为to# M o! z' j: t/ a$ e
as apposed to 是固定搭配,意思是“与……相比”。
: g( w$ P, e- U3 L$ w0 E! A, r; ` 4 将misled改为misleading
* x0 Q" |( f+ Z; o+ D 5删掉away
- {* t' \4 h- K! {4 ~: v 此处考查固定用法。 far from being...意思为“远非”“远远不怎么样”,符合这里的意思。而far away from 表示离某处很远。
. j* d0 V' } j2 K* T8 A9 Y( F 6 将single改为only或者sole8 T7 m$ }7 s4 |
这里要表达“唯一的”。
& j! C/ I( b5 _( } 7 在as后面加to或者将as 改为in
# O# O+ U8 [, v6 X 联系上下文,此处的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相当的差异,”as to 有“关于”或者“在某某方面的意思”;将as改为in,用differ from something in…也可表达这个意思。
4 h7 |( t; j* b: u3 J. ` 8 将mean改为means2 |) W. W5 y+ ]: s3 ?
9 将as改为like,或者在as前面加such
, c) L/ e5 k. A* J2 }) n 10 将number改为deal或者amount9 h* ^2 I* R7 D6 ^7 P) ~
obscurity是不可数名词,不能用a number of 来修饰。
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