英語專8練習(xí)題目

　　專八改錯(cuò)練習(xí)

　　Tracing missing persons can take much patientdetective work. But a special kind of “private eye” cantrace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by

　　studying the clues buried by words. __1__

　　These philologists, such as the language detectives arecalled, have traced __2__

　　the word trail back from peoples in Europe, India,South Africa, the Americas,

　　and the Pacific islands in a tiny nameless, and forgotten tribe that roamed central__3__

　　Eurasia 5000 to 6000 years ago, before the dawn of writing history. __4__

　　Since a long time scholars have been puzzled over the striking __5__

　　difference of words in different languages. In Dutch, vader; in Latin, pater;in __6__

　　old Irish, athir; in Persian, pidar;in the Sanskrit of distant India, pitr.

　　These words all sounded likely and meant the same thing—“father” __7__

　　Where did it happen that widely separated peoples used such __8__

　　close related sound symbols? The problem baffled linguists for years. The more so__9__

　　because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences. Towards the end

　　of the 18 century it dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words stemmed__10__

　　from some common language.

　　參考答案及解析(反白可見)：

　　1. 將by改為in

　　(be) buried in 意思為 “被…所掩蓋,掩蔽于…”

　　2. 將such去掉

　　在這里as是連詞,引導(dǎo)狀語從句.

　　3. 將第一個(gè)and改為to (這個(gè)句子長,小心上當(dāng)呀)

　　以便和前文的from構(gòu)成搭配 “from…to…”,表示 “從……到……”.

　　4. 將writing改為written`

　　“有文字記載的歷史”英語為 “written history”.

　　5. 將Since改為 For

　　因?yàn)閟ince做介詞, 表示 “自從……起” 之意時(shí),后面一般不跟表示一段時(shí)間的'名詞.

　　6. 將difference改為similarity

　　從后面的例子我們可以看出,作者在這里講述的是文字的驚人的相同之處,而不是不同之處.

　　7. 將likely改為alike

　　likely 意思為 “很可能的”,不做 “相同的,相似的”解.

　　8. 將where改為why

　　這里不是問地點(diǎn)而是問原因,從后面的because也可以看出.

　　9. 將close改為副詞closely

　　因?yàn)樾稳菰~close不能修飾過去分詞related.

　　10. 將18改為 18th.

　　The more so because “father” was but one of a host of such coincidences.

　　這句話的the more so because是什么意思呢, 以為人家出版社錯(cuò)了,不過看兩本資料都這么寫. 有誰看得懂么?還是說真的是出錯(cuò)了.

　　原來the more so because意思為: 更何況.

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