英语专业八级改错模拟题

英语专业八级改错模拟题(1)

Proof –reading (10%) (A)

The following passage contains TEN errors, each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it according to the following example:

When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] it never buys things in finished form and hang them on the wall [2]

Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerfulpolitical pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in __1__

come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as __2__

power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than __3__

those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing__4__.

If there were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans,

there jobs will have to be __5__ rewarded with high incomes before anyone

would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as

police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats.

Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers __6__,

gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy __7__ more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods __8__

and service, such as dayold bread, run down automobiles, or the advice of competent __9__ physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. __10__