大学英语四级改错题12篇

大学英语四级改错题12篇

Passage 1

Error 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 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:

Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.1.

time/times/period

Many 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 to

begin higher education is the choice of attending a large

university or a small college. The large university provides a

wide range of specialized departments, as well numerous 71. __________ courses within such departments. The small college,

therefore,

72. __________

generally provides a limited number of courses and

specializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus 73. __________

permit individualized attention to student. Because of its

74. __________ large

student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many 75. __________ people from different countries the university exposes its

students to many different culture, social and out-of-class 76. __________ programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, more

homogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college 77. __________ affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, the

university closely approximates the real world and which 78. __________ provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous

(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate 79. __________ atmosphere of the small college allows the student four

years of

structural living in which to expect and preparing for the real 80. __________ world. In making his choice among educational institutions

the

student must, there fore, consider a great many factors.

71. (well) → (well) as 72. therefore → however

73. offer → offers74. permit → permitting

75. in → of 76. culture → cultural

77. big → small 78. and → / 或and → which, this

79. contrast → contrary 80. preparing → prepare

Passage 2

Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle

of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,

forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1. _____ just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's

demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _____ supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.

But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen

steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _____ spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of

good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4. _____ around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue

even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5. _____ although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for

politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _____ point to concrete examples of continued improvements

in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _____ fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than

double corn and wheat yields 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 plant

breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding

crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _____ for hope.

S1. being→been S2. their→its

S3. relative→relatively S4. good→bad

S5. as→去掉 S6. politics→political

S7. by→for S8. double→doubled

S9. few→more S10. reason→the reason

Passage 3

The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm

that

has recognized the need for change and done

something about

it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the

diversity

of the communities to which they provide information.

It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or

S1. _________ risk

losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’

support.

Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2. _________ minorities, the paper has put into place policies and

procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce.

S3. _________ The

underlying reason for the change is that for information

to be

fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported

S4. _________ by the

same kind of population that reads it.

A diversity committee composed of reporters,

editors, and

S5. _________ photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle

Times’

content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff

about

S6. _________ diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a

content

audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of

S7. _________ representation of woman and people of color in

photographs.

Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too

infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate

number of negative articles. The audit results from S8. _________

S9. _________ improvement in the frequency of majority

representation and

S10. _________ their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with

a

result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.

The diversity training and content audits helped the

Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal

Optimas Award for excellence in managing change.

S1. it → they S2. percents → percent

S3. maintain → maintaining S4. subjective → objective

S5. value → evaluate S6. an → /

S7. woman → women S8. from → in

S9. majority → minority S10. with → as

Passage 4

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties

which

are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their

scale.

Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not

found

new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract

S1. __________ poor

immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2. __________ which are then often disappointing. There are backward

towns

on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there

S3. __________ were

on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early

nine-

teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. S4. __________