英语专业八级改错模拟题(19)

tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of

a language with a large proportion of such cries ? (5) large→ larger?

than we find in English. it is true that the absence

of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in ? (6) in→on?

other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.

People of all races and languages make rather similar

noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that (7) return→response?

such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen

and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,

serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference （8）on

between these noises and language proper. We may

say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement

are largely reflex actions, instinctive to∧large extent, (9) ∧a?

whereas language proper does not consist of signs

but of these that have to be learnt and that are ? (10) these→those?

2008年英语专业八级改错练习题及答案解析

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The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for

the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough

and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__ words have ―less meaning‖, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__ ―empty‖ words as opposed in the ―full‖ words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__ misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__

of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__ sharp difference in meaning between ―man is vile‖ and ―the man is vile‖, yet the