全国大学生英语竞赛改错训练（附答案）

1、1 改错 历年全真试题及参考答案 00 1 06 12 00 1 Until the very latest moment of his existence man has been bound to the planet on which he originated and developed Now he had the capability to leave that planet S1 and move out into the universe to those worlds which he has known previously only directly Men have explored S2 parts of the moon put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within the decade will land into another S3 planet and explore it Can we be too bold as to S4 suggest that we ma

2、y be able to colonize other planet S5 within the not too distant future Some have advocated such a procedure as a solution to the population problem ship the excess people off to the moon But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we might S6 spend in carrying out the project To maintain the earth s population at its present level we would have to blast off into space 7 500 people every hour of every day of the year Why are we spending so little money on space S7 exploration Consider the g

3、reat need for improving S8 many aspects of the global environment one is surely justified in his concern for the money and resources that they are poured into the space exploration efforts S9 But perhaps we should look at both sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions S10 00 6 When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately start meeting difficulties Many people just cannot agree what they mean We asked a lady who replied that she thought you could tell a well mannere

4、d person on the way they occupied the 2 S1 space around them for example when such a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2 others Such people never bump into other people However a second person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners S3 Instead this other person told us a story it he S4 said was quite well known about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countries S5 of the Middle East The American hasn t b

5、een S6 told very much about the kind of food he might expect If he had known about American food he S7 might have behaved better Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked to him very much as a napkin 餐巾 S8 Picking it up he put it into his collar so that it falls across his shirt His Arab host who had been S9 watching said of nothing but immediately copied S10 the action of his guest And that said this second person was a fine example of good manners 01 6 More people die o

6、f tuberculosis 结核病 than of any other disease caused by a single agent This has probably been the case in quite a while During the early stages of S1 the industrial revolution perhaps one in every seventh S2 deaths in Europe s crowded cities were caused by the S3 disease From now on though western eyes missing the S4 global picture saw the trouble going into decline With occasional breaks for war the rates of death and 3 infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily S5 through the 19th and

7、 20th centuries In the 1950s the introduction of antibiotics 抗菌素 strengthened the trend in rich countries and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries Medical researchers S6 declared victory and withdrew They are wrong In the mid 1980s the frequency of S7 infections and deaths started to pick up again around the world Where tuberculosis vanished it came back in S8 many places where it had never been away it grew better S9 The World Health Organization estimates that 1 7 bill

8、ion people a third of the earth s population suffer from tuberculosis Even when the infection rate was falling population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year Around S10 3 million of those people died nearly all of them in poor countries 02 1 Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior Viewing biologically the modern footballer is revealed as a S1 member of a disguised hunting pack His killing weapon has turned into a har

9、mless football and his prey into a goal mouth If his aim is inaccurate S2 and he scores a goal enjoys the hunter s triumph of killing his prey S3 To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors They spent over a S4 million year evolving as co operative hunters Their very survival S5 depended on success in the hunting field Under this pressure their whole way of life even if their bodies became radically changed They became S6 chasers runners

10、 jumpers aimers throwers and prey killers They co operate as skillful male group attackers S7 4 Then about ten thousand years ago when this immensely long S8 formative period of hunting for food they became farmers Their improved intelligence so vital to their old hunting life were put to a new S9 use that of penning 把 关在圈中 controlling and domesticating their prey The food was there on the farms awaiting their needs The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival S10

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