英语专业八级改错模拟题(4)

英语专业八级改错模拟题(3)

Literature is a means by which we know ourselves. By it we (1) _________

meet future selves, and recognize past selves; against it we match our present self. Its primary function is to validate and re-create the self in all its individuality and distinctness. In doing so, it cements a sense of relationship between the self and the otherness of the book, and allows us a notion of ourselves as sociable. Its shared knowledge is vicarious experience; by this means we enlarge our understandings (2)_________

of what it means to be human, of the corporate and independent (3) ___________

nature of human society. The act of reading the book marks both our difference in and our place in the human fabric. The more we read, (4)______________

the more we are. In the act of reading silently we are alone from the (5) book,

separate from ones own immediate surroundings. Yet in the (6)__________

act of reading we enter other minds and other places, enlarge our (7)_________

dialogue with the world. Thus paradoxically, while disengaging from the immediate we are

increasing its scope. In silence, reading activates a deeply creative function of consciousness. We are deeply committed to the narrative which we coexist while engaged in 8) _________ reading. All kinds of present physical discomfortness may be (9)__________

unnoticed while we are reading, and actual time is replaced by narrative time. To imaginatively enter a fictional world by reading it (10)___________

is then both a liberation from self and an expansion of self.

答案:

1.By改为In

2.understandings改为understanding

3.independent改为interdependent

4.去掉in