1、第 1 页 共 9 页大学英语六级改错题 12 篇Passage 1Error Correction (15 minutes)Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in
2、 the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark () in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash ( ) in the blank.Example:Televisi
3、on is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/periodMany of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. _as a school subject are valid for study of television. 3. the_One major decision which faces the American student ready tobegin higher education is the choice
4、of attending a largeuniversity or a small college. The large university provides awide range of specialized departments, as well numerous 71. _courses within such departments. The small college, therefore, 72. _generally provides a limited number of courses andspecializations but offer a better stud
5、ent-faculty ratio, thus 73. _permit individualized attention to student. Because of its large 74. _student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many 75. _people from different countries the university exposes itsstudents to many different culture, social and out-of-class 76. _programmes. On t
6、he other hand, the smaller, morehomogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college 77. _affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, theuniversity closely approximates the real world and which 78. _provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast
7、, the intimate 79. _atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years ofstructural living in which to expect and preparing for the real 80. _world. In making his choice among educational institutions thestudent must, there fore, consider a great many factors.71. (well) (well) as 72. ther
8、efore however73. offer offers 74. permit permitting75. in of 76. culture cultural77. big small 78. and / 或 and which, this79. contrast contrary 80. preparing preparePassage 2Thomas Malthus published his “Essay on the Principleof Population“ almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,forecasters have bein
9、g warning that worldwide famine was S1. _just around the next corner. The fast-growing populationsdemand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.But in reality, the worlds total grain harvest has risen第 2 页 共 9 页steadily over th
10、e years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, the worlds food crisis has remained just S4. _around the corner. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5. _although fee
11、ding I0 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _point to concrete examples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble corn and wheat yields
12、in an experiment. Elsewhere, S8. _rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9. _stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plantbreeders can continue to develop new, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _for hope.S1. beingbeen
13、 S2. theirits S3. relativerelatively S4. goodbad S5. as去掉 S6. politicspoliticalS7. byfor S8. doubledoubled S9. fewmore S10. reasonthe reasonPassage 3The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers mu
14、st reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1. _losing their readers interest and their advertisers support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. _minorities, the paper has put into
15、 place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3. _underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4. _same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, ed
16、itors, andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times S5. _content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6. _audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in
17、 photographs. S7. _Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9. _第 3 页 共 9 页their portrayal in neutral or positiv
18、e situations. And, with a S10. _result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing change.S1. it they S2. percents percentS3. maintain maintaining S4. subj
19、ective objectiveS5. value evaluate S6. an /S7. woman women S8. from inS9. majority minority S10. with asPassage 4A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew o
20、ne. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor S1. _immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2. _which are then often disappointing. There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were S3. _on the edge of seventeenth-century London or earl
21、y nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions S4. _written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, S5. _are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City todaythe S6. _poor can still be numbered in milli
22、ons.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a S7. _promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty S8. _and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the S9. _country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few gene
23、rations late, S10. _sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.S1. new a new S2. filling filledS3. though if S4. This WhatS5. was were S6. dissimilar similarS7. lies lie S8. that whichS9. it them S10. late laterPassage 5Sporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing
24、 biologically, the modern S1. _footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he S2. _scores a goal, enjoys the hunters triumph of killing his prey.To understand how thi
25、s transformation has taken place we S3. _第 4 页 共 9 页must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a S4. _million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survivalS5. _depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies,
26、 became radicaily S6. _changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group S7. _attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely S8. _long formative period of hunting for food, they becamefarmers. Their improved in
27、telligence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new usethat of penning (把 S9. _关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival. S10._S1. Viewing Viewed S2.
28、inaccurate accurateS3. (enjoys) he (enjoys) S4. up backS5. year years S6. (even) if (even) /S7. co-operate co-operatedS8. when afterS9. were was S10 farming huntingPassage 6More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quit
29、e a while. During the early stages of 71. _the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh 72. _deaths in Europes crowded cities were caused by the 73. _disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the 74. _global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. Withoccasional breaks for
30、war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily 75. _through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers
31、76. _declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of 77. _infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in 78. _many places where it had never been away, it grew better. 79. _The World Health Organization es
32、timates that 1.7billion people (a third of the earths population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around 80. _3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountri
33、es.第 5 页 共 9 页71. in for 72. seventh seven73. were was 74. now then75. the / 76. imported exported77. are were 78. vanished had 79. better worse 80. constantly constantPassage 7When you start talking about good and bad manners youimmediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannotagree w
34、hat they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that shethought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they 71. _occupied the space around themfor example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of 72. _others. Such people never bump into other people.However, a se
35、cond person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this 73. _other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known, 74. _about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at 75. _one of the countries of the Middle East. The American hasnt 7
36、6. _been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. Ifhe had known about American food, he might have behaved 77. _better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread thatlooked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking it 78. _up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls a
37、cross his shirt. 79. _His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but 80. _immediately copied the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fine example ofgood manners.71. (on the way) in the way 72. unaware aware73. as than 74. it which75. at in 76. hasnt hadnt77. Amer
38、ican Arab 78. as like79. falls fell 80. of /Passage 8Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has beenbound to the planet on which he originated and devel-oped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move 71. _out into the universe to those worlds which he has knownpreviously o
39、nly directly. Men have explored parts of the moon. 72. _put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly within the decade will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be 73. _too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other 74. _planet within the not-too-distant future
40、? Some have advocated 75. _such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship the第 6 页 共 9 页excess people off to the moon. But we must keep in head the 76. _billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project. Tomaintain the earths population at its present level, we would hav
41、eto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.Why are we spending so little money on space ex- 77. _ploration? Consider the great need for improving many aspects 78. _of the global environment, one is surely justified in his concern for the money and resources that they a
42、re poured into 79. _the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should look atboth sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions. 80. _71. had has 72. directly indirectly73. into on 74. too so75. planet planets / worlds 76. head mind77. little much 78. Consider Considering79. they /80. (arri
43、ving) (arriving) at 或 arriving reaching/drawing/makingPassage 9Most people work to earn a living and they Produce goods and services. Goods are either agricultural (like maize) or manufactured (like cars). Services are such things like education, 1._ medicine, and commerce. These people provide 2._
44、goods; some provide services. Other people provide both goods or services. For example, in the same 3._ garage a man may buy a car or some service which helps him maintain his car. The work people do is called as economic 4._ activity. All economic activities taken together make up the economic syst
45、em of a town, a city, a country, or the world. Such economic system is the sum-total 5._ of what people do and what they want. The work people do either provides what they need or provides the money with that they can by essential 6._ commodities. Of course, most people hope to have enough money to
46、buy commodities and services which are essential but which provide some particular 7._ personal satisfaction, such as toys for children, visits 8._ the cinema, and books. The science of economics is basic upon the facts 9._ of our everyday lives. Economists study our every day lives and the general life of our communities in order to understand the whole economic system of which we are a part. They try to describe the facts of the economy in which we live, and to explain
