四、多词少词
Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literature
of our periods. Many of the arguments 1.time/times/age
having used for the study for literature as a 2. /
school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the
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一、 语法错误
1、平行结构(not only...but also\\both...and\\either...or\\and)
1) A professor?s salary is higher than a secretary.[secretary?s]
2) One of these is informative, interesting, and is easy to understand.[去掉]
3) Defining a problem is easier than to provide a solution.[providing]
2、连词错误
1) Candle will later be replaced by lamp, that could burn longer and lighter. [which]
2) The children attended a small elementary school (often of just one room) to that they had to walk every day, possibly for a few miles. [which，that前只能有except和in。except that除此以外；in that因为，体现在]
3) It will be interesting to discover how many young people go to universities without any idea of that they are going to do afterward. [what，what相当于the thing that]
4) It appears that we all find company in sound, if we demand a little quiet from time to time. [but或yet]
5) They are likely to travel more and to want more education. Nevertheless, many more jobs are available in these services. [Therefore或So]
3、分词错误
1) Police?s records show a surprised link between changes in the seasons and crime patterns. [surprising]
2) Deciding how much discomfort and risk we are preparing to put up with in the name of better health is a high personal matter, not a decision we should remain to doctors alone.
3) Even the quiet of our careful protected wilderness areas can be invaded at any moment by a passed jet. [passing]
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4) So a sportsman?s individual way of walking with raised shoulders is imitated by an admired fan. [admiring]
4、指代错误
1) A break in their employment, or a decision to work part time, will slow its raises and promotions-because it would for men. [their]
2) Clearly some risks worth taking, especially when the rewards are high: a man surrounded by flames and smoke generally considers that jumping out of a second-floor window is an acceptable risk to save its life. [his]
3) The modern light-house also identifies it in a code known to all ships. [itself]
5、形容词、副词（略）
6、谓语错误（主谓一致、时态、语态）
1)Business today whether it is running a little gas-station or a big factory take good management.[takes]
2) Advances in technology has also changed people?s lives.
3) But if 98 percent of us doesn?t need to work, what are we going to do with ourselves? [don?t]
4) Whether women who have started a career will attain pay equality with men rest on at least two factors. [rests]
5) In some places all the trees have cut down. [have been]
二、词汇错误(搭配错误、用词错误)
三、逻辑错误（肯定否定乱用）
1)Blood pressure drugs definitely help some people live after a heart attack, but these same drugs may be both necessary and harmful for those with only mild blood pressure problems. [unnecessary]
2) In every case, the influential person may consciously notice the imitation but he will feel comfortable in its presence. [unconsciously]
四、多词少词（介词、冠词、形式宾语）
1)When two Americans meet for first time, it is normal for them to call each other by their given name immediately. [the first]
2）In fact, until recently seawater has almost be considered to be useless and no value. [of no]
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Passage 2
Until the very latest moment of his existence, man
has been bound to the planet on which be originated and
developed. Now he had the capability to leave that planet 1. has
and move out into the universe to those worlds which he
had known previously only directly. Men have explored 2. indirectly
parts of the moon. put spaceships in orbit around another
planet and possibly within the decade will land into anoth- 3. on
er planet and explore it. Can we be too bold as to sug- 4. so
gest that we may be able to colonize other planet 5. planets
within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocat-
ed 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 6. mind
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 7. much
exploration? Consider the great need for improving 8. Considering
many aspects of the global environment, one is surely
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justified in his concern for the money and resources
that they are poured into the space exploration ef- 9. 去掉
forts. But perhaps we should look at both sides of the
coin before arriving hasty conclusions. 10. arriving at/reaching
Passage 3
Most 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. as
medicine, and commerce. These people provide 2. Some
goods; some provide services. Other people provide
both goods or services. For example, in the same 3. and
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. 去掉
activity. All economic activities taken together make
up the economic system of town, a city, a country,
or the world. Such economic system is the sum-total 5. 之前加an
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 buy essential 6. which
commodities. Of course, most people hope to have
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enough money to buy commodities and services which
are essential but which provide some particular 7. nonessential
personal satisfaction, such as toys for children, visits 8. 之后加to
the cinema, and books.
The science of economist is basis upon the facts 9. based
of our everyday lives. Economists study our everyday
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 how it
works. The economist methods should of course be 10. economist?s
strictly objective and scientific.
Passage 4
British people don?t drink as many tea as they 1. much
used to, but Great Britain still takes almost twenty-
five per cent of all world exports of the commodity.
The world largest producers of tea are India, China 2. world?s
and the Sri Lanka. 3. 去掉
The quantity of tea is affected by the climate, 4. quality
by the latitude at which it is grown and also by
that part of the tea bush is plucked. In fact, as 5. which
Dominic Beddard, a tea taster, tells us, favour can 6. flavour
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even depend on which day the leaf is plucked:
”There are very considerable differences between teas
from the same estate made on different day,” he says. 7. days
Processing tea is a complicated procedure. After
the green leaf has been plucked, it is processed in a
factory. Quickly and carefully, the tea is reduced to 8. slowly
a small brittle particle, which is then dried and looks
like the tea you see in a packet. The tea companies
then rely on tasters as Donimic to value the tea. This 9. 之前加such
has to be done on a day-to-day basis because of
fluctuations in quality. Having to taste up to six
hundred cups of tea a day certainly causes Dominic?s 10. makes
job an unusual one!
Passage 5
Parents can be supportive of suspicions. They
can be helpful to the teacher, or are in need of help 1. be
themselves. Sometimes, I think parents are too hard
to their children. I have seen many parents of this 2. o
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