英語專業八級的改錯練習精選
Beware people preaching that we live in special times. People __1__ have preached that message before, and those listened sold their __2__ furniture and climbed up on rooftops to await for ascension, or __3__ built boats to float out the coming flood, or laced up their Nikes and poisoned themselves in some California Subdivision. These prophets are the one with visions of the seven-headed beast, with a __4__ taste to the hairy shirt and the scourge, with twirling eyes. No, it’s __5__ no use listening to them.
And yet, for all that, we may live in a special time. We may live in the strangest, most thoroughly different moment since human being __6__ took up farming 10,000 years ago. Since then time has flowed at one __7__ direction—toward more, which we have taken to be progress. At first Tte momentum was gradual, almost imperceptible, checking by wars __8__ and the Dark Ages and plagues and taboos; but in recent centuries it has accelerated, the curve of every graph steepens like the Himalayas __9__ rising from the Asian steppe. We have climbed quite highly. __10__
答案：
1.beware後加of。beware of sb/sth為固定搭配，意思是“提防否認或者某物”。
2.those後加who/that 。這是一個定語從句，修飾those，意思是“那些聽他們話的人”，who/that在定語從句中做主語，不能省略。
3.去掉for 或者把await改為wait。“await”相當於“wait for”，都是等待的.意思。
4.將one改為ones。主語these prophets是複數。
5.將to改為for。Taste意思是“對……的品位”時，後面一般接介詞for。
6.將being改為beings
7.將at改為in。derection前面通常與in 搭配。
8.將checking改為checked。現在分詞表示主動，過去分詞表示被動。這裡是“被”戰爭等因素制約。
9.將steepens改為steepening。這是一個獨立主格，邏輯主語動作為主動。
10.將highly改為high。highly為副詞，相當於very，fairly，這裡用形容詞high。high既可以做形容詞也可以做副詞。
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