专八英语考试自测冲刺题-改错篇18

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　　There are three main groups of oils: animal, vegetable and mineral.
! p; m: k+ k: Y; _  t　　Great numbers of animal oil come from whales, those enormous __1__ creatures of the sea which are the largest remaining animals in the world. To protect the whale from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick cover of fat called blubber. When the __2__ whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either board the ship or on shore. It produces a great quantity of oil which __3__ can be made into food for human consumption. A few other creatures yield oil, and none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and __4__ the halibut, two kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil.
- ~" ~$ I" w9 S& s　　Both cod liver oil and halibut liver oil are given to sick children and other invalids who need certain vitamins. These oils may be
! {* W( D' x+ E1 n0 S9 T5 ~6 G. Z　　bought at any chemist. Vegetable oil has been known from antiquity. __5__ No household can not get on without it, for it is used in cooking. To __6__ the ordinary man, one kind of oil may be as important as another.
; H' ^2 {/ N- w3 u　　But when the politician or the engineer refers to oil, one almost always __7__ means mineral oil, the oil that drives tanks, aeroplanes and warships,motor-cars and diesel locomotives; the oil that is used to lubricate all kinds of machineries. This is the oil that has changed the life __8__ of the common men. To it we owe the existence of the motor-car, __9__ which has replaced the private horse-drawing carriage. __10__
　　答案：
0 K& l) s# ~- H' r; q　　1.numbers改为quantities.animal oil 是不可数名词，不能用number of 来修饰。可以修饰不可数名词的限定词有：a bit of，a large amount of，a great deal of，a lot of，plenty of，a large quantity of。
" k/ _8 h" ]; i# K　　2.cover改为covering.cover和covering虽然都是名词，意思却不一样。前者是“封面，盖子”，后者是“遮盖物，覆盖物”，可以说蓝鲸的脂肪是它防寒的遮盖物，而不能说是“盖子”。
　　3.board前面加on.board可以作为名词和介词on连用表示“在（船，飞机，车）上”，如：on board the ship 就是“在船上”。
: Q0 U8 h0 Q, _" G+ Y; C  g$ V4 N　　4.and改成but.前后两个分句是转折的关系。
　　5.chemist改为chemists.文中要表达的是“在药店”，那么应该“介词＋名词属格”表示地点。所以应该是at any chemist’s.
3 r7 Q8 L) A4 }3 m$ H　　6.去掉not 　　7.one改为he/he or she.代词的先行此是politician和engineer，这是一类通性名词，既可以是男性也可以是女性，这类名词以单数形式表示类指时，通常用相应的阳性代词he，有时也用he or she。
　　8.machineries改为machinery/machines.machinery是不可数的集体名词，没有复数形式。
7 |/ f- a8 I* k5 X) B0 F0 ?　　9.men改为man或者the（common men）的the去掉.the common man 是类指，既然有定冠词，那么应该用man的单数形式，或者保留复数men而去掉定冠词。
　　10.horse－drawing改为horse－drawn.“用马拉的车”，draw和carriage是被动关系。